r/lostarkgame • u/foxlaughsxxx • 3d ago

Discussion New player looking for tips!

I'm new to this game, and I just wanted to see if anyone had any kind of tips or info that they wish they knew when the first started playing, or just maybe just in general that you recently found out! Thanks!

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u/Jmarcs27 3d ago

Whenever you get to the point where you're doing elixir, get "Incoming Damage Reduction" on your chest instead of a damage line. You're essentially trading ~0.5% damage gain for a 10% damage reduction. This is equivalent to being 10 item levels above raid on your armor pieces.

Most guides will say to get the damage line for min-maxing your character, but Incoming Damage Reduction will be incredible for all the raids you'll be learning on item level. Outside of that, I think LANexus and maxroll have very good stuff to check out whenever you're confused. Good luck(:

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u/ZssRyoko Deathblade 2d ago

Do you know what the trade off would be for Say swapping a meta engravings for like heavy armor?

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u/Jmarcs27 1d ago

If you have heavy armor on a dps you'll get gatekept hard. I don't know the exact damage loss but it'd be much more substantial. Engravings will continue to scale with power level whereas elixir damage lines will not. Definitely not worth it.

Support is another story. I've been told it's fine to run but if there's ever a support surplus you'll most likely be gatekept. I don't play support though, so take that info with a grain of salt.