Gatekeeping

[jeyk]

I just wonder how newbies are supposed to get through Legion Raids, without buying bus or getting boosted by friends. Many people advice making your own group, which seems like literally no advice, because only few or none joins your group. From my experience... I spend almost whole night in party finder, because Im getting denied, or when Im lucky and get in group(most of the time I get in learning groups) it gets disbanded after few tries. If I werent boosted by my friends, I would just give up on this ♥♥♥♥. Its silly how dumb it is... I dont blame the game but this community is on whole another level.

[Detergent]

Its recommended to use the Lost Ark discord. https://discord.gg/lostark
Chances of 8 people looking to do a Valtan learning group at any given moment is pretty rare. It needs to be a planned activity with enough time to find/gather all the members.

https://i.imgur.com/hTs9vmd.png
The discord is the perfect place to plan groups days in advance.

[-Dare Devil/x/]

-What class? What engravings?

[FB_Destroyer_Rebecca]

Originally posted by Jacob:

Its silly how dumb it is... I dont blame the game but this community is on whole another level.

Every game gets the community it deserves.

[jeyk]

Originally posted by -Dare Devil/x/:

-What class? What engravings?

Summoner 4x3, 1440 - Communication Overflow, Keen, Adre, Grudge
Reaper 4x3 1452 - Lunar, Grudge, Keen, Ambush Master
On both lvl 5 gems

[-Dare Devil/x/]

Originally posted by Jacob:

Originally posted by -Dare Devil/x/:

-What class? What engravings?

Summoner 4x3, 1440 - Communication Overflow, Keen, Adre, Grudge
Reaper 4x3 1452 - Lunar, Grudge, Keen, Ambush Master
On both lvl 5 gems

-Hmm, that should be fine on east coast. You should be able to get into Argos easily with that. On my 1415 its a 50/50 shot if I get into Argos raid. Valtan normal tough to get into because not many people have alts at 1415 anymore. But there should be plenty of 1445 Valtan HM lobbies for you to get into. Same thing with Vykus NM vs HM.

-If you're playing catch up, I recommend a guild or even finding an active discord cross-server since party finder takes the whole region.

[jeyk]

Originally posted by -Dare Devil/x/:

Originally posted by Jacob:

Summoner 4x3, 1440 - Communication Overflow, Keen, Adre, Grudge
Reaper 4x3 1452 - Lunar, Grudge, Keen, Ambush Master
On both lvl 5 gems

-Hmm, that should be fine on east coast. You should be able to get into Argos easily with that. On my 1415 its a 50/50 shot if I get into Argos raid. Valtan normal tough to get into because not many people have alts at 1415 anymore. But there should be plenty of 1445 lobbies for you to get into. Same thing with Vykus NM vs HM.

Argos is only one I can get to. With Valtan hard sometimes even normal and vykas normal Im struggling with.

[-Dare Devil/x/]

Originally posted by Jacob:

Originally posted by -Dare Devil/x/:

-Hmm, that should be fine on east coast. You should be able to get into Argos easily with that. On my 1415 its a 50/50 shot if I get into Argos raid. Valtan normal tough to get into because not many people have alts at 1415 anymore. But there should be plenty of 1445 lobbies for you to get into. Same thing with Vykus NM vs HM.

Argos is only one I can get to. With Valtan hard sometimes even normal and vykas normal Im struggling with.

-Yeah, not many people are on Valtan Normal or Vykus Normal anymore. =[

[Magnus]

Im lvl 30 and climbing to lvl 50 explain pls gate keeping?

[-Dare Devil/x/]

Originally posted by Magnus:

Im lvl 30 and climbing to lvl 50 explain pls gate keeping?

-Essentially means that when you get to some raids where not many people are there; people starts getting kinda picky on what class/build and it makes it harder for newer players to get groups.

[jeyk]

Originally posted by Magnus:

Im lvl 30 and climbing to lvl 50 explain pls gate keeping?

Gatekeeping means getting declined in to groups for endgame content, because of your low gear, gems or just because people think your class sucks. Or because you seems as unexperienced/newbie.

[Nilin]

What server you on?

[jeyk]

Originally posted by Nilin:

What server you on?

Zinnervale

[-Dare Devil/x/]

Originally posted by Jacob:

Originally posted by Nilin:

What server you on?

Zinnervale

-US East?

[jeyk]

Originally posted by -Dare Devil/x/:

Originally posted by Jacob:

Zinnervale

-US East?

EU Central it is

[adt.Shadow]

I know its not what you wanna hear but build your own static group. Thats what I and many other have done. Those people you finally get a group with, invite them to regroup again the next week! Each week you keep re-inviting people to repeat content the next week. Eventually you will have a group of 8+ people who get back together each week. It may take some time but as you add more people to the group it gets easier and easier to make a full group the next time. Stick with it and not only will you now have a static group but you probably made some new friends as well.