The newest class in Lost Ark is so complex that it gets its own game

The Arcanist arrived in Lost Ark in July. This is a mage class that brings chance as a central gameplay mechanic. Therefore, she is considered to be one of the most complex and difficult characters to play in the MMORPG. So hard that fans built their own game to better understand it.

What kind of game is this? The arcanist is the newest and also one of the most difficult classes in Lost Ark, but you can start your own game to practice them. That’s exactly what a user on reddit has set himself and quickly built a browser-based mini-game that can help you play your arcanist better.

The fast card magician relies on chance as the central game mechanic. You never know what cards you’ll draw next and you have to react accordingly. So that you are optimally prepared for every scenario, you can train in the browser game.

There you select a card and then have to enter your combo. You won’t see if the combination of skills you entered was correct for that card until you’ve typed it all in. You can change your key assignments both in the browser and on mobile, so that the skills also latch into your motor memory correctly.

You can try the game yourself pages.dev/arcanist.

How does the game know what is correct? In the background, the web application accesses a whole collection of guides for the arcanist. These guides are linked accordingly and you can read through them at any time if you need help or want to prepare yourself.

On the basis of these guides, the game then offers you direct optimization options and thus helps you to learn the arcanist better.

The Arcanist is one of the hardest classes in Lost Ark

Why do you need such a tool? The Arcanist is considered one of the hardest and most complex classes Lost Ark has to offer. There is a randomness underlying all of their class mechanics that needs to be understood and acted upon.

She draws on a pool of a total of 13 different cards, all of which have different effects and thus influence your next steps and determine them to a certain extent. You can’t see in advance, or only to a limited extent, which card will be the next. So you must always be ready to adapt.

It sounds difficult, but it is even more difficult: Now your class throws such a heavy mechanic at your feet, but that’s not all. An Arcanist is expected to deal a lot of damage while keeping an eye on the bosses.

So in actual combat, you don’t even have a chance to look at your skills and think about what to do next. Every combo of the 13 possible cards has to be right here, and this is exactly where the tool will help you.

We have also prepared a detailed guide for you on how to play the heavy class correctly.

In the trailer you can see the arcanist:

“That’s so damn cool”

How is the community reacting? The creator of the tool shared his browser game on reddit and quickly got a lot of attention for it. The post was able to achieve 300 upvotes and over 40 comments in just a few hours.

There the developer gets a lot of positive feedback, in addition to some bug reports. People are happy that they can now practice outside of Lost Ark and just think it’s cool that a fan puts so much work into it.

The reactions to the tool and the user’s work are consistently positive and encourage the creator to build more such tools or work on a real game.

What are the fans saying? At this point we would like to give you a few comments so that you can get an idea of ​​the mood for yourself. They are all from the reddit threadin which the inventor presents his tool.

• Shadourov writes: “You, dear sir, are insane. The whole site is insane. You deserve so much good for it!”
• Xardas says: “The tool is just amazing”
• SireDinosaurus writes: “This is so damn cool”
• WustTheShaman writes, “Thanks for doing this. That’s really really cool”

What do you think of the mini game? Do you have an arcanist and use the tool to learn in the future? Write it to us in the comments here on MeinMMO.

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