Lost Ark’s April Spring update will be dropping tomorrow, April 12, 2023, and we have the full list of adjustments here. The update is basically about several changes to ancient quality gear and accessories. Let’s take a look at the official patch notes for the Lost Ark Spring 2023 upcoming update.
Lost Ark April Spring Update Patch Notes
Ancient Quality Gear and Accessories
Gear
Conditions for Crafting Ancient Gear
- Reach Item Level 1540.
- The Achievement ‘Phantom Shard Remnants’ level 1, earned by equipping a full 6-set of Relic gear from the Phantom Legion Commander Raid (simultaneously, and regardless of the set bonus).
- Tier 3 Upper Relic gear is transferred to Ancient level gear. Maintain the gear’s quality and set level.
- Each additional honing level adding 5 Item Levels hones ancient level gear.
- Ancient gear shares the same set of effects and options as Relic gear.
- Added 3 New Honing Effects. Upon reaching the Ancient weapon honing level +22/+24/+25, the weapon’s effect will update automatically.
Accessories
- Added ancient accessories. Players can earn the accessories from the following activities: South Vern Chaos Dungeons: Despair Level 1 & 2
- Hanumatan Guardian Raid
- Brelshaza Hard mode Legion Raid
- Proving Grounds
- Ancient accessories Engraving Effect Points:
- First Active Engraving Effect: Max 6 – Min 4
- Second Active Engraving Effect: Max 3 – Min 3
- Negative Engraving Penalty Effect: Max 3 – Min 1
- Bracelet Upgrade function added:
- Players can upgrade Relic Grace bracelets to Ancient-grade bracelets.
Fortunespire
Entry Requirements
- Floors 1 – 5: 1490
- Floors 6 – 10: 1500
- Floors 11 – 15: 1510
- Floors 16 – 20: 1520
- Floors 21 – 25: 1530
Rewards
- First Clear rewards per floor area attained once per Roster, such as a new Masterpiece, Skill Point Potion, and Achievements.
- When clearing the floors again with other characters on the same Roster, different rewards are attained, such as honing materials. First, clear rewards are Roster bound, while additional clear rewards are character bound.
Sidereals Weapons and Quests
- Sidereal: Galatur’s Will – Guide (purple) quest that is given after using the “Sidereal: Galatur’s Will” item.
- Sidereal Energy – Guide (purple) quest given by Balthorr after completing “Sidereal: Galatur’s Will”.
- Sidereal’s Story – Available after leveling Sidereal Weapon to level 5. Prerequisites:
- All South Vern World quests
- Visit Whispering Islet
- Complete quest “Whispering Voice”, part of Nineveh’s Story
- Complete quest “To the Sound”, part of Nineveh’s Story
- Complete quest “Destiny’s Whisper”, part of Kadan’s Story
- Complete quest “Blue-Blazing Blade”, part of Kadan’s Story
- The Mysterious Blueprint – Continuation quest after completing Sidereal’s Story. Required to unlock “Sidereal Unity”
- Call of the Illusory Bird is Available after leveling Sidereal Weapon to 7.
- Level 4 Prerequisite: ‘Ancient Gears’
- Equip 6 pieces of Ancient tier gear (regardless of set level or set options).
- Divided ‘Ancient Gears’ achievement into level 1 ‘Prima Donna’, and level 2 ‘Endemic’ after superior Ancient gear is added with Akkan Legion Raid.
- Level 6 Prerequisite: ‘Ancient Weapon Honer’
- Hone an Ancient weapon to +25
- Total ingredients needed to reach Level 6:
- Sidereal Energy x 48
- Romantic Ingredient Kit x 6,310
- Phantom Intentions x 130
- Total ingredients needed Level 6 – 8:
- Sidereal Energy x 50
- Romantic Ingredient Kit x 9,000
- Phantom Intentions x 150
- Level 6: 20 Stone of Chaos, Completing a quest “The Mysterious Blueprint”
- Level 7: 20 Stone of Chaos
- Level 8: 25 Stone of Chaos, Completing a quest ‘Call of the Illusory Bird’
- The button located at the bottom of the Character Profile UI applies and checks unity.
- Sidereal Unity Skills are used with [Ctrl] + [V] & [Ctrl] + [B]
- Passive Skills are auto-activated when the conditions are met.
- Sidereal Unity Skills/Effects cannot be used in:
- The Rowen Continent after selecting a faction.
- Content that adjusts a player’s stats.
- Content that involves PvP.
Thirain
- Level 1 Effect – Successful attacks after a certain time have a chance to activate Knight’s Pride. Activation chance increases with time. Upon use, increases your Strength, Dexterity, and Intelligence by 145,983 for 10s.
- Level 2 Effect – Successful attacks after a certain time have a chance to activate Light of Daybreak.
- Activation chance increases with time.
- Upon use, for 20s party members within the range of 16m are encouraged.
- Self and party member.
- Attack Power +3,946.
Wei
- Level 1 Effect – Successful attacks after a certain time have a chance to activate Shred.
- Activation chance increases with time.
- Upon use, deals heavy damage to the opponent, along with high Stagger damage.
- Level 2 Effect – Successful attacks after a certain time have a chance to activate Esoteric Skill.
- Inflicts heavy Damage on the target.
- For 10s, Stagger Damage +12% for self and party members.
Inanna
- Level 1 Effect – Successful attacks after a certain time activate Elzowin’s Blessing.
- Upon use, heals 35,500 HP for all party members.
- The target with the lowest current HP is healed for double the amount.
- Level 2 Effect – A party member receiving fatal damage has a low chance to activate Elzowin’s Miracle, granting invincibility for 3s and recovering 100% of HP. The target has a cooldown of 10 min.
Nineveh
- Level 1 Effect – After a certain time, has a chance to trigger Arrow of Perkunas to deal Damage.
- Level 2 Effect – The target hit by Arrow of Perkunas is inflicted with Punishing Strike and when an enemy with 3 or more stacks is hit, Activated Punishing Strike (Max 5 stacks). Upon use, deals additional Damage based on the number of stacks.
Balthorr
- Level 1 Effect – Successful attacks after a certain time activate Fjorgin Defense. Grant defense to Fjorgin Defense to self and party members within a range of 32m for 10s, absorbing 100,000 damage.
- Level 2 Effect – Successful attacks after a certain time have a chance to activate Galatur’s Protection. Activation chance increases with time. Granted Push Immunity Effect to self and party members for 12s upon use.
Azena
- Level 1 Effect – Successful attacks after a certain time have a chance to activate Queen’s Might. Activation chance increases with time. Ancient Spears randomly cause Damage within the range of 8m and are summoned a total of 10 times.
- Level 2 Effect – Number of Ancient Spears from Queen’s Might x2.
Shandi
- Level 1 Effect – Successful attacks after a certain time have a chance to activate Rimeria’s Secret Art. Activation chance increases with time. Created a field containing Rimeria’s Secret Art upon use, existing cooldowns -15% and within 30s and the range of 10m from the user’s location, Increased the user’s Swiftness by 300. All combat resource recovery speed +100%
- Level 2 Effect – Enhanced Rimeria’s Secret to Rimeria’s Secret Art: Transcendence. Remaining Cooldowns -15%, Crit +500.
Quests and Contents
- Added the South Vern Despair Chaos Dungeons, new achievements, and titles. Entrance Levels:
- Despair 1: 1540
- Despair 2: 1560
- Added the T3 Hall of the Sun ‘Inferno’ mode, Boss Rush. Requires Item Level 1540 to enter.
- Related Stronghold Special Dispatch, achievements, and titles added.
- Added a series of quests that take place on Wisdom Isle. These quests forward the ongoing story of Lost Ark and serve as a prerequisite for story quests that will arrive in future updates.
- The Infinite Darkness
- Waiting for the Light
- Silver Traces
- The World’s Library
- The Discovery
- Tabula Rasa
- Competitive Proving Grounds Season 2 draws to a close with this update.
Notable Bug Fixes
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The time zone labels have been removed from the top-left in EU-West and EU-Central as they were incorrect following the daylight savings change.
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Fixed an issue causing items in the Product Inventory to always appear in English.
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Fixed an issue allowing controller users to enter letters in the “Find Party” password field despite only numbers being usable with Mouse & Keyboard.
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Fixed an issue causing the Artist’s “Paint: Crane Wing” skill to only use Select Point Type 2 targeting while the tripod “Crane Ambush” is applied with a controller.
Lost Ark is available for GeForce Now and Microsoft Windows. Visit the game’s official website for more details, including Lost Ark spring update official patch notes.