Today my great ship sailed to the continent of Vern and suddenly SO MUCH STUFF was thrust in my face. I'm now able to access Chaos Dungeons, raids, and there's an Endless Tower! And I can do quests for the Adventurer's Guild and start makin' some life-changing gold!
It's all happening!
While I was sailing towards the great continent of Vern, I also came across my first shipwreck and found a proper treasure map! Or "Sea Bounty."
Thanks to this most bounteous map, I sailed to a nearby so-called Lonesome Island and discovered how to start obtaining yet another collectable and the possible rewards for this collectable.
MORE COLLECTABLES! MORE STUFF! This makes me so happy.
But, back to discovering things on Vern!
After completing the initial introductory quests on Vern, I was guided towards a bunch of THINGS!! The first of which being the Chaos Dungeon.
Super excited to try it out for the first time, I decided to just enter by myself rather than try to find a group and prepared to lay waste to legions of demons.
The goal of this is to defeat waves upon waves of demons and if you have cleared enough before the time limit is reached a gate will open and you'll jump through to continue doing it again in the next area.
Overall, you need to clear 100% of the dungeon before the timer runs out and you'll get rewarded! Hell, you just get rewarded by killing all the things, so.
Excited by this Chaos Dungeon, I ended up doing 6 of them back-to-back. xD
In one of them, a shiny golden portal opened up and I jumped through and found what seems to be a Diablo-esque Treasure Goblin. When I killed it, it exploded in a pile of goods and there was much squealing with delight!
The gear that you find in the Chaos Dungeons is also the first lot of gear you can upgrade and "hone."
In order to upgrade your gear so that it's hone-able, you need to use the Harmony Shards that you find in the Chaos Dungeons, then hone it with Harmony Leapstones that you acquire from the raids. That made me wince a bit because I don't want to do raids just yet, BUT, I've been acquiring the things from quests and the adventurer's guild too, so woo!
After enjoying what the Chaos Dungeon had to offer (I can only do level one with my item level at the moment) I decided to go and see what this evil tower thing was that I was warned about.
Turns out it's an ENDLESS tower, and you need to complete each floor to earn rewards. You can only obtain those rewards if you leave the tower safely. And each floor has different threats.
On my first run through I stopped after completing floor 4 and won 4 packs of cards. Once again, my item level isn't quite favourable enough to continue further, but I can't wait to fly through this thing!
It's so exciting! Discovering all this, all of this content, all of this stuff to do! I'm in Grindy MMO Heaven right now. This is so fantastic!
Even better; all the quests I'm doing at the moment have gold rewards! When I started the game this morning, I only had 100 gold to my name thanks to all the stronghold stuff I've been doing. As of writing this, I have about 700. Now I can do more stronghold stuff!! Muahahaha!
This isn't going to be the actual layout of my stuff, but just a basic layout for the time being! I still have so many blueprints I need to learn. I'm going to have the most picturesque stronghold in all of Valtan!
After investigating these new things to do, I continued questing.
Vern is where it's at! In an earlier post about Lost Ark I wrote, I mentioned that I saw someone riding a dinosaur mount. Well, it's here in North Vern that I can acquire that mount. A mere 30% of the Adventurer's Tome for this region and I'll have my very own raptor to call my own!
A feat that I very, very quickly achieved! 😉
All in all, today has been a very fruitful day and I'm so pleased that there's even more stuff I can do! You truly are spoilt for choice in this game in regards to things to do, I love it.
And that concludes this mega-weekend!
Thanks for joining me on my adventures in Arkesia. I'm seriously enjoying this game. From what I'm gathering, I'm one of the few who is actually enjoying the story and progress I make. Did my first dungeon today where someone was demanding we skip the cutscenes, but pbbbtttttt, nope. 😝 I'm watching these the first time I do them, the second time I'll skip but not these ones.
Suckahhh.
Until next time!! 🎶😄✨🎵
All screenshots in this post are courtesy of me, 