Chaos Dungeon itself consists of five different continents that take place on North Vern, Rohendel, Yorn, Feiton, and Punika. Each one also has multiple tiers called Echo and each of these all have their requirements. They can be run from any of the major cities in Lost Ark.
Every day starting a 6 AM server time you are given are granted two entries into Chaos Dungeon until it resets for full loot. Beyond that, you can keep running them it is just less rewarding. This is further talked about in a lower section of how that all works.
Before you enter into a Chaos Dungeon you should have some things set up. It is best to plan to have around 10 to 15 minutes of uninterrupted time to run a Chaos Dungeon. You can also take in normal F1 potions so bring your best just in case you find yourself taking a lot of damage. At the lower levels, you won’t need to prepare meals or anything else.
Many players will try and focus on the bare minimum to unlock the portal to the next area. For North Vern for instance the first area involves killing trash monsters to around 18% of the dungeon being finished. In the second area, you have named creatures that spawn that you need to kill till you get a boss. In the third area clearing trash spawns in pillars that you need to break open and kill the names stored inside.
It is always best to run the highest level Chaos dungeon you can. As the higher they are the more rewarding they become. While they are easier to do in groups you can also run a Chaos Dungeon solo. I prefer to play them solo.
Items like rings and necklaces can still drop. If you are just moving into a higher-tier Chaos Dungeon this allows you to continue farming for any drops you have not acquired yet.
However, not everything will still drop, and instead, it gets replaced with a new kind of currency that you can exchange at a vender. At tier one this will be Perception Shard and Disorder Crystal. You can usually expect to get around 100 or so shards and ten or so crystals per run.
The vendor Magic Scholar Jeneca that you can turn these shards and crystal into is located right next to the Chaos Dungeon itself. You can even search for her on the map. Magic Scholar Jeneca allows you to exchange for a weekly limit of items. You can acquire honing items such as Harmony Leapstone, Harmony Shard, and Guardian Stone Fragments.
Honing crafting material is not the only thing you can exchange for at Magic Scholar Jeneca. You can also get a necklace, earrings, and rings. These items however are restricted to a minimum gear score to buy them.
The gear will even continue to drop even after you have had two runs in for the day. While this might not be the most efficient manner to try and farm for extra resources opposed to doing other activities in Lost Ark. It is always nice when you get something extra.
As always before you dismantle anything. Make sure nothing that can be traded that has high value on the market place will be dismantled. Nothing worse than getting a few scraps of honing material from something of high value.
The concept behind the resting bonus for Chaos Dungeons is quite simple. Every day the player can run two dungeon runs. This is represented to the player as having 100 Aura of Resonance with each run consuming 50. For every 50 Aura of Resonance that is left unconsumed for the day the player gets a 10 resting bonus.
Once the player gets to 20 resting bonus the next time they enter a Chaos Dungeon they get double loot. It takes five days the resting bonus is maxed out and you do not collect anymore. While you won’t get as much loot by not running the Chaos Dungeon daily this make it easy for busy players to try and catch up when they can.
Just keep in mind the two daily runs reset every day at 6 AM server time. It will also take you two and a half days to fully use up a 100 resting bonus. So while this catch-up mechanic allows you to do just that. It can also become easy to get behind missing out even further.
More advanced players will take advantage of the resting bonus by having more character than they can run in a single day. They will run their main character daily but their alts only when they have a resting bonus for their runs. This allows them to only run alts when they can get double drops trying to maximize their time spent on alts.
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