Lost Ark: The complete guide to cards and cards set

Cards are an underrated aspect of the Lost Ark endgame. There is a card system, not what you use in minigames, but more collectibles. Cards can be obtained from almost anything in The Lost Ark, sources include raids, events, quests, towers, rapport. You can buy card packs from the in-game store and have a chance to get all rare cards. Below, we take a look at the complete gudie to cards and cards set in Lost Ark! Below, we take a look at the complete gudie to cards and cards set in Lost Ark!

Cards are collectible items that provide small stat bonuses for collecting them and can be equipped on the new gear tab in character info.

Cards are part of a collection in an encyclopedia, and when you complete that collection by owning all the cards in that collection, your stats will be rewarded with a tiny bonus. It's minimal and increases the premium by waking up the cards. However, you usually don't get rewarded with stats like damage to a particular type of enemy here.

It's not enough to have a card in your inventory. You have to use a card to make it part of your collection. This means that you could have to broaden your card assortment as there are plenty of cards.

As well as the collections, specific cards are a part of sets that can be outfitted towards the player. On their own, not just one card has advantages to your player, but when you equip several set cards, they grant other stats to your player. 

You could equip as many as six cards. Card sets activate their bonuses at either 2, 3, 4, or 6.

Frequently speaking, most card sets only supply defensive traits for their set bonuses, such as HP or elemental resistance. Cards can also be leveled up using an Awakening procedure. Often, they have offensive characteristics if you're able to Awaken cards ample times from a set.

When using Card Experience cards from your inventory, they will be added to a bank of card EXP that you can allocate to your cards freely.

To Awaken a card, feed it EXP from the EXP financial institution. This fees Lost Ark Silver. Then, after you have maxed out the EXP, you will need to use duplicates of the base card to Awaken it. The number of copies necessary increases with just about every Awakening stage, in addition to the required EXP. Cards might be Awakened up to 5 occasions each, demanding a complete of 15 further copies on the card to the max.

There are a few card sets at the moment which are generally pursued.

Abandoned Cliff's of Wind (12): 7% Crit Chance

This card set is pursued because Seria (blue card) can be obtained without RNG from traveling merchants in Luterra, and Solas (green card) can be obtained from running the main story on a new character to level 34 (right after defeating Kakul-Saydon in East Luterra). Darren Aman can also be obtained from 10 Ignea Token.

Esther's of Light (12 or better): Damage conversion to Light Property, Additional Light Damage

This card set is pursued because it provides a significant damage bonus relative to other sets and converts all of your damage to Light Property, which further increases the damage bonus against enemies weak to this (a few endgame encounters).

Hope to See You Again: Reduced damage is taken under 50% HP.

Sometimes used by support players in PVE and everyone in GVG for survivability.

Highly efficient on Madness Berserker.

Silent Giant's Forest: Increased healing from battle items and Additional Physical/Magical Defense.

Sometimes used by support players in PVE and everyone in GVG for survivability.

Cards come from weekly content, traveling merchants, raids, events, voyage coins, and achievements. It is possible to obtain a Legendary Selection Card Pack from Challenge Abyss Dungeon. However, it only appears in the bid, and it is not guaranteed to appear in a given week.

There is one way that you can grind cards. On the 3rd floor of both cruise liners, a luxury merchant will sell seven-card packs for 2,000 Pirate Coins each. That's a total of 28,000 Pirate Coins to buy all 14. This merchant's stock is per character so that you can burn a nearly unlimited amount of Pirate Coins on this. People who do a lot of Cooperative Sea Voyage missions to grind these cards will have an advantage in obtaining and upgrading their cards.

The cruise liners are located in the above locations.

Even though both cruise ships look the same, the weekly stock for these merchants is different.

Even now, card defensive boons shouldn't be looked down on. They're able to make an otherwise tough encounter to survive in additional manageable by providing lots of supplemental HP or resistances.

Do not throw out cards. Keep them stored in one of your characters' warehouses if you somehow run out of space in your card album.

Related: Lost Ark: The complete guide to Daily and Weekly Checklist.