Lost Ark

Lost Ark

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Card System
By Metsushiro
Understanding the card system
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CARD CATALOG
Cards are tools that can be combined into decks to unlock extra stats, such as damage reduction from darkness and fire, increased max HP and much more. Cards drop from bosses, quests and specialty chests. The cash shop and login rewards occasionally has bundles as well.

To view our collection, open the menu: roster > card catalog.





🃏 Equip
This tab is where we get to use our cards. Simply click or drag one from the left-panel onto the middle area to create a deck. Card effects and bonuses can be activated by equipping 2 or more cards from the same set. The panel on the right shows what is currently activated.

Completing a full set early on is pretty hard, so it's best to start by equipping whatever cards we have to form 3 pairs of 2 cards. And simply tweak things to our preferences as we unlock new cards.




📚 Books
The cards here may differ from the ones listed under the equip tab so it's important to look at both to see what is new. Cards in this section are grouped into small books. Once a book is complete, permanent stats will be added to our entire roster. The panel on the right shows all the stats we've unlocked so far.



Having the base cards will unlock the normal stat increase. It's possible to unlock even more by leveling up the cards. Which brings us to the next section:


✨ Enhance
The purpose of enhancing cards is to unlock more bonuses within the [books] tab; which gives extra stats to our entire roster. Sadly, there are more cards than the quantity of slots available.... Extra slots can be purchased with blue diamonds. Doing so unlocks one full row.


ENHANCE
The enhancement process consumes "Card XP Enhancement Points" which can be obtained by deleting unwanted cards; ship, stronghold and special merchants; chaos dungeon reward after resonance is depleted; login rewards and many other various events.

To enhance: select any card to view its current enhancement information in the panel to the far right. Using the - and + buttons to adjust how much XP we want to allocate, and then confirm by pressing [Enhance]. The option to awaken will become available once the enhancement meter is full.





AWAKEN
The awakening process consumes silver and cards. In a nutshell, this means we'd need a total of 15 copies of a single card to get it fully awakened.

To awaken: simply click the [Awaken] button in the information panel whenever the requirements are met (full enhance meter + whatever quantity of cards and silver).

Let's pretend we are upgrading Neria's card:
  • Awakening 0 to 1 requires: XP + silver + Neria (x1)
  • Awakening 1 to 2 = XP + silver + Neria (x2)
  • Awakening 2 to 3 = XP + silver + Neria (x3)
  • ...Neria (x4)
  • ...Neria (x5)


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5 Comments
Metsushiro  [author] 23 Jul, 2022 @ 1:56am 
:UltimateStar: UPDATE
+ Changed wording here and there to make guide easier to read.
+ Reworked the whole [enhance] section, to add more details, some step-by-steps and how to unlock additional card slots in the catalog
vaaaaal 14 Mar, 2022 @ 5:27pm 
pog
🅼🆁. 🅳 10 Mar, 2022 @ 11:38am 
FYI legendary card sets are OP as fk i.e. grind years or become a whale OR gitgud
Spooky Scary Skeleton 10 Mar, 2022 @ 1:07am 
I must be lucky then. I unlocked a full set and I only have like 50 hours lol
Vemix 7 Mar, 2022 @ 6:31pm 
Good guide but you should add another subforum such as "How to add more cards once your catalog is full" and maybe "Awakening and what is it?". You can add more cards in the Enhance tab at the bottom and the awakening certain cards have certain effects for a set.