Highlights

  • Lost Ark focuses on PvE gameplay over PvP, offering over 300 weapons for players to utilize in their journey.
  • Various gear sets like Betrayal, Yearning, and Destruction offer unique bonuses for different playstyles in combat.
  • From elemental damage to group healing, these gear sets provide players with strategic advantages in battles.

Lost Ark distinguishes itself as a prominent MMORPG with a distinctive approach, deeply influenced by Korean game design principles. Diverging from many Korean MMORPGs that predominantly focus on level grinding, Lost Ark emphasizes PvE gameplay, with limited PvP content.

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In keeping with its title, the storyline thrusts players into a quest for the Lost Ark immediately after completing the prologue. To aid them in their journey, players can utilize a vast arsenal of over 300 weapons, including bows. However, as most of the combat in Lost Ark is aimed at melee combat players, there is not such a large selection of bows available when compared to other types of weapons.

7 Trampled Shackling Betrayal Bow

Part Of The Betrayal Gear Set

Trampled Shackling Betrayal Bow In Lost Ark

Stats:

  • Class: Sharpshooter
  • Level: 1525 (tier 3)
  • Power: 37831
  • Bonus damage: 10% to 30%
  • How to get: Weapon upgrade

The Trampled Shackling Betrayal Bow in Lost Ark, Betrayal gear set. It can be acquired by seeking out the Gear Set Manager in any city in the game. The Betrayal gear set is aimed at players who are creating an AOE-style build.

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The bonuses for the Betrayal gear set revolve around the Powerful Ether and Enhancement Engraving Effect abilities. Specifically, building charges of Ether, that are then used to dump additional ranged DPS on enemies, and to build Transcendence charges.

6 Fragile Sooty Yearning Bow

Part Of The Yearning Gear Set

Fragile Sooty Yearning Bow In Lost Ark

Stats:

  • Class: Sharpshooter
  • Level: 1525 (tier 3)
  • Power: 37831
  • Bonus damage: 10% to 30%
  • How to get: Weapon upgrade

The Fragile Sooty Yearning Bow in Lost Ark is potentially useful to players that enjoy solo gameplay, and prefer a very mobile style of combat. This bow Yearning gear set, and is obtained from the Gear Set Manager.

The bonuses for the Yearning gear set are focused on mobility, and impact movement speed and ability cooldowns. There is also some group utility in the form of Dexterity buffs granted to part members as part of the Blessing of Battle game mechanic in this role-playing game.

5 Rotten Destructive Offering Bow

Part Of The Destruction Gear Set

Rotten Destructive Offering Bow In Lost Ark

Stats:

  • Class: Sharpshooter
  • Level: 1525 (tier 3)
  • Power: 37831
  • Bonus damage: 10% to 30%
  • How to get: Weapon upgrade

Being part of the Destruction gear set in Lost Ark, the Rotten Destructive Offering Bow is suitable for players who are taking up a group support role. It is obtained as a weapon upgrade through the Gear Set Manager.

Despite the name of this gear set, it is focused on group healing, primarily through the Seed of Life buff, and the game mechanic whereby Seed of Life can trigger the Life Activation effect. This effect applies the Endurance buff, and regenerates health over time.

4 Weak Charming Curse Bow

Part Of The Charm Gear Set

Weak Charming Curse Bow In Lost Ark

Stats:

  • Class: Sharpshooter
  • Level: 1525 (tier 3)
  • Power: 37831
  • Bonus damage: 10% to 30%
  • How to get: Weapon upgrade

Players who are looking to put together an elemental damage build in Lost Ark, might like to take a look at the Charm gear set, which the Weak Charming Curse Bow is part of. This is a great gear set that works well both solo and when playing as part of a group.

The Charm gear set bonuses are pretty simple in the way they work. These bonuses add extra damage in the form of flame attacks and electricity attacks. There is also a target debuff that can make the target more vulnerable to these elemental damage types.

3 Lured Expiring Entropy Bow

Part Of The Entropy Gear Set

Lured Expiring Entropy Bow In Lost Ark

Stats:

  • Class: Sharpshooter
  • Level: 1525 (tier 3)
  • Power: 37831
  • Bonus damage: 10% to 30%
  • How to get: Weapon upgrade

The Lured Expiring Entropy Bow in Lost Ark is for players who want to take on a purely DPS role in this RPG game. This would apply to either playing in a group, or playing solo. The Entropy gear set, which this bow is part of, has bonuses that all add damage, but only when attacks are made from certain positions.

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This bow could be a problem for some players, especially when enjoying content such as raids, as the damage bonuses from the Entropy gear set only apply to attacks made from the front or from the back.

2 Distorted Nightmarish Trajectory Bow

Part Of The Nightmare Gear Set

Distorted Nightmarish Trajectory Bow In Lost Ark

Stats:

  • Class: Sharpshooter
  • Level: 1525 (tier 3)
  • Power: 37831
  • Bonus damage: 10% to 30%
  • How to get: Weapon upgrade

The Distorted Nightmarish Trajectory Bow in Lost Ark, Nightmare gear set. Gear set names are a little strange in this game, and often don’t reflect how the gear sets are intended to work. The Nightmare set is such, as despite its name, it is actually aimed at players who are building a mana-focused character.

The set bonuses all revolve around regenerating mana, and generating automatic self buffs for movement speed and additional damage for abilities that cost mana to use.

1 Lingering Guiding Hallucination Bow

Part Of The Hallucination Gear Set

Lingering Guiding Hallucination Bow In Lost Ark

Stats:

  • Class: Sharpshooter
  • Level: 1525 (tier 3)
  • Power: 37831
  • Bonus damage: 10% to 30%
  • How to get: Weapon upgrade

The Lingering Guiding Hallucination Bow is a great choice of bow for players who want to focus on DPS. The entire Hallucination is focused on boosting damage output, and does not rely on player positioning to trigger the set bonuses.

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The Hallucination set has bonuses that boost both critical rate and also damage. These bonuses are fueled by generating charges of Hallucination, which are then used automatically when appropriate damage related abilities are used.

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Lost Ark

Platform(s)
PC
Released
December 4, 2019
Developer(s)
Smilegate RPG
Genre(s)
MMORPG