Lost Ark Mechanics Guide: Counter, Stagger, Weak Point

hi my name is nov unfortunately a little lower than one week ago i could go with and i still have some symptoms but i am feeling a lot better and i can finally start making videos again so here i am today i bring you guys a video that will feature three mandatory nostalgic mechanics that you absolutely must understand if you want to be good at lost pve if you find this video helpful please do give it a like and also don't forget to subscribe for more roster content the three lost ark mechanics that i will be featuring in this video are the counter mechanic the stagger check mechanics and overall just stagger damage as well as weak point damage let us actually start with the most simple one the counter mechanic in order for a successful counter to happen there are three key things that are required first you need an enemy that can actually be countered and you can tell that an enemy can be countered if they have this blue highlight around them while they are preparing an attack when the blue highlight appears and during their next attack the enemy can be countered to plant the counter you need an ability that can counter so you will need to look at your abilities and determine which ability can be used for countering because every single class has at least one ability that can land a counter attack in my case gunslinger's counter-attack is called last request and you can tell that it's a counter because of this line in the skill interface however using the right ability in itself is not enough to successfully land the counter because you can only land the counter from right in front of the enemy that means that your positioning is going to be key in landing a counter-attack so landing the counter is not going to be easy unless you are prepared for the mechanic to make it easier to land a counter attack you can use runes that make the casting speed faster so it takes your character less time to prepare the attack and you can also look for tripods that make the animation shorter or give you more attack speed or maybe give you a dash that makes it so you can get into position much easier than without the tripod using all these tools to your advantage should make landing counters consistently much easier if even with utilizing all these things you still seem to struggle with landing counterattacks one more thing that you can do is try to stay in position when you're expecting the enemy to launch a counterable attack and also save your cooldown on your counter skill so that as soon as the enemy is launching the counterable attack you can successfully land your counter if you manage to land the counter-attack then the boss will be vulnerable for the next few seconds giving you an opening to maybe use your awakening or your burst and that's pretty much it about the counter mechanic this mechanic appears in pretty much all guardian raids and in some cases some of the episode dungeons and later on in episodes and legion raids don't be scared if it takes you time getting used to this counter mechanic because some classes counter abilities are incredibly hard to land just take your time get used to your ability and all the mechanics in the game there is absolutely no need to rush next up we have another very important mechanic and that is the stagger mechanic most of your skills have some level of stagger on them and you can check it in your skills ui in my case my class the gunslinger has most of its stagger damage on their shotgun abilities as you can see my shotgun abilities have been too high stagger damage on most of them to get more stagger damage on these abilities you can use your runes that you can obtain from various sources most both type enemies have a stagger or impairment bar under the hp bar you can deplete this bar by dealing enough stagger damage to the boss in some cases you are required to break the stagger bar of the boss enemy for example in this guardian raid before you can actually start dealing decent damage to the boss so knowing which abilities of yours the decent cycle damage is very important because later on in the game there are a bunch of staggered damage check or impairment check mechanics in raids and these have a very small window for you to deal enough standard damage to successfully complete the mechanic if you feel like your class is not providing enough stagger damage or you just want to ensure that you successfully clear the mechanic you can also use vervind grenades as they deal high stagger damage there are some cases like for example hergaia where you don't really get too much of an indication that currently there is a stagger check going on because when hagaya is trying to transform to her next phase of her three phases she actually starts collecting energy the animation looks like this and this is well it's pretty much a stagger check because if you deal enough staggered damage to stagger a gaia then you can make it so she can't actually transform into her next phase so technically this is also a stagger check if you fail in dealing enough stagger damage then she proceeds to her next phase making the fights a lot more difficult again if you're struggling with dealing enough stagger damage then you can use a vervind grenade to deal even more stagger damage and lastly we have weak points damage if you have looked at your skills you might have seen a line that says that the ability has weak point damage some classes have more abilities that can deal with point damage other classes do not in my case the gunslinger doesn't have too many abilities that can actually deal weak point damage only some of my shotgun and some of my sniper skills do and they are all level one so in my case whenever a weak point damage jack mechanic happens i should be using destruction bombs most of the time as they deal very high weak point damage and they can make you contribute towards the mechanic much more efficiently still just using the grenade will not be enough to pass these mechanics so you still need to be aware of which ones of your abilities deal weak point damage and which ones do not these mechanics appear mostly in guardian raids but also in some episode engines when a weak point damage check happens a crosshair will appear somewhere over the enemy upon successfully staggering the enemy the crosshair will appear over some of their body parts and by dealing enough weak point damage to it you can actually destroy that body part and that will make the encounter much easier to handle also just for example in this episode dungeon the boss spawns these mages and you actually need to deal weak point damage to them before you can start dealing normal damage and if you cannot deal enough big point damage to break their shield at least not in time then the boss will go ahead and vibe your entire party so again knowing which one of your abilities can deal weak point damage and using them at the right time and at the right place alongside with your destruction bombs is very important and utilizing this will make you a much better pve player in lost ark and that's pretty much it about these three mechanics if you think the time is something then please go ahead and let me know in the comment section and i will peel your comments i am sorry for my voice even though i feel a lot better now i am still kind of ill with kovid so it's a bit difficult for me to record videos but believe me when i say this i am trying my best with all that said thank you guys very much for your patience over this last two weeks a very big video regarding my overall progress so far in the game will be coming hopefully on wednesday and it will be an epic video i cannot wait for you guys to see it i am working very hard on it and it's going to be amazing i really hope you found this video helpful and if you did please give it a like it means the word to me and it helps me so much and if you already did then thank you very much if you are still struggling with tier one upgrade mats then maybe you could check out my last video where i talked about where you can get a lot of tirana bread mats and how i actually got tier 2 without needing to do much grinding at all alright thank you guys very much for watching and i will see you all next time

Channel: Nolph

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Length: 8min 1sec (481 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 01 2022