Lost Ark is bringing the big August update next week – everything you need to know

On August 24th, the August update starts in Lost Ark, which, among other things, brings the legendary pets into play. We at MeinMMO have summarized all the important information about the big update for you.

When is the update coming? The August update will be rolled out to the Lost Ark live servers on August 24th. This has now been confirmed via the official Twitter account. Thus, the MMORPG continues to adhere to the new Wednesday as a patch day.

We can’t tell you an exact time at the moment. However, it is likely that the servers will go offline on the 24th for the weekly reset at the usual time at 9 a.m. However, we cannot currently estimate how long they will remain down.

The exact patch notes will probably not be available until August 23, but there is already a rough overview of what to expect in Lost Ark in the August update. We explain these features to you in this article.

What’s in the update? In August you can expect a comparatively small update compared to the previous monthly updates. Nevertheless, you can look forward to the following things:

• The pet ranch comes to Arkesia. There you can earn a new currency and get legendary pets for the first time. These offer enormous playful advantages.
• A new event is also starting: The Mahakara Festival: Blossoming Mokokos
• New skins
• Otherwise, some bug fixes and “Quality of Life” improvements should come into play, but they have not yet been officially announced.

The Arcanist came into play with the last monthly update:

Your own ranch and biscuit factory

What is the Pet Ranch? With the ranch for your companions, your own island expands by another aspect. There you can not only let your little animals play and relax with each other, but also unlock tangible and game-relevant bonuses.

This is mainly because you can raise your pets to the legendary level with the ranch. This gives them a larger inventory and more buffs that strengthen your character. But until then, your animal must first earn experience, which also happens in the ranch.

To unlock them, you need to get your Stronghold to level 15 and then accept the quest “Yay, a Companion Ranch” given to you by your House Manager. After that you can start.

How does the ranch work? Your pet ranch is basically split into two different aspects that serve different purposes. On the one hand you have a leisure facility for your little animals. There they play and rest to boost their morale.

On the other hand there is the biscuit factory. Your companions work there and produce delicious jelly biscuits, which consumes this morale again. If a companion’s morale is exhausted, he can no longer produce jelly biscuits and must go back to the playground.

These cookies then serve as a new currency in Lost Ark, with which you can get new and exclusive items and even boost your pets.

How can you improve pets? The longer your pets work in the cookie workshop, the more skills they will learn. They level themselves up from rare to epic to legendary. Also, your companions can make more cookies the higher their proficiency level.

If a pet has reached maximum competence, you can upgrade it to a legendary companion. To do this, you need to feed it Pet Growth Tokens, which you can get for Jelly Cookies from the appropriate vendor.

Legendary pets improve your character

What do legendary pets bring? The new legendary pets bring you all kinds of benefits that are useful on your journeys through Arkesia. For one, you unlock the ability to purchase the third inventory page of your pet inventory once the pet reaches legendary level.

Second, it can gain another combat buff on top of the two an epic pet can already use. However, this third ability works a little differently and isn’t permanently active like the existing two.

Leveling up your companion to “legendary” will automatically unlock one of the five skills. If you want to change them, it will cost you 20 crystals from the companion trainer. These abilities each have 3 different effects, one of which you activate randomly in battle.

These are the skills:

• rejoicing of the heart
  • 20% chance to heal 8% of your maximum HP
  • 40% chance to generate a 5 second shield equal to 10% of your maximum HP
  • 40% chance to heal 3% of your maximum HP
• jubilation of serenity
  • 20% chance to reset the cooldown of stand up and movement skills and reduce all your cooldowns by 40% for 8 seconds
  • 40% chance to generate a 5 second shield equal to 10% of your maximum HP
  • 40% chance to heal 3% of your maximum HP
• rejoicing of heaven
  • 20% chance for 3% more attack speed for 8 seconds
  • 40% chance to generate a 5 second shield equal to 10% of your maximum HP
  • 40% chance to heal 3% of your maximum HP
• jubilation of courage
  • 20% chance to increase your movement speed by 5% for 8 seconds
  • 40% chance to generate a 5 second shield equal to 10% of your maximum HP
  • 40% chance to heal 3% of your maximum HP
• jubilation of resonance
  • 20% chance to generate 10% more Special Action Energy over 8 seconds
  • 40% chance to generate a 5 second shield equal to 10% of your maximum HP
  • 40% chance to heal 3% of your maximum HP

Change appearance: Furthermore, legendary pets can change their appearance. You can change your pet’s visual appearance to any other pet you have unlocked. However, this requires you to purchase a Companion Customization Potion, which you can get from the vendor for Jelly Cookies.

However, once you have fed your pet this potion, you can change its appearance as often as you like without incurring any additional costs.

Maharaka Festival: Flowering Mokokos

What is this event? The Maharaka Festival: Blooming Mokokos will start together with the update on August 24th and is intended to expand the current summer festival. So it’s just a summery event where you can compete in hilarious mini-games and earn rewards.

It will presumably just be about new ways to earn the leaves of the Maharaka tree and use them to buy rewards like mounts and skins. We don’t know yet whether the purchasable items will change or what new mini-games await you.

New skins to match the pet ranch

What new skins are there? What the new skins are called exactly is currently hardly known. Only the Achatemiau sweater is mentioned by name in the preview and equips you with little wings and a tail. However, these are attached to a cozy sweater and are not necessarily summery.

Also attached to the current blog post is an image showing various cat ears and more summery skins that we can expect in the next update. We’ll show you both below.

What do you think of the August update in Lost Ark? Are you looking forward to the pet ranch and can you get the update back into the game? Many active fans are looking forward to the quieter August as they have time to catch up on the current content, what do you think? Write it to us in the comments here at MeinMMO.

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