Next Lost Ark update adds new class and faster leveling

The next Lost Ark update is coming up fast, and it’s bringing a new class and a chance to level up faster – for a limited time. The update goes live on May 10, 2023, and it adds the Slayer class to the MMO’s roster, a gender-locked female version of the Berserker class that specializes in powerful melee combos.

The Slayer has a broad range of skills that keep enemies close, launch them, knock them down, and generally make life pretty miserable for them. The downside is, of course, that you have to be near foes to use most of these abilities, which is fine during the main story or leveling, but rather more difficult in raids and endgame content. A mixed party with ranged attackers and a bard is a good idea to keep yourself alive longer.

A new Punika Powerpass and leveling event will be available for the update’s duration, from May 10, 2023, through Aug. 9, 2023. It pushes your character to Item Level 1340, but there’s a catch. New players who created their account for the free-to-play game after December 2022 have to earn trusted account status to prove they aren’t just bots farming gold. The process is straightforward – you can just use Steam Mobile Guard, for example – but just bear that in mind if you’ve got your eye on the Powerpass.

The new Hyper Express event helps take one character to the next milestone, Item Level 1460, and gives them plenty of refinement materials to keep leveling after that. Finally is a new engraving system that gives one character four engravings in the Hyper Express event. Normally, you only get two.

Amazon promised a bundle of QoL updates and new events as well, though the team is still keeping details under wraps on those for now.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF