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  • What Are Card Decks?
  • How To Obtain Cards
  • Upgrading And Awakening Cards
  • Decks And Books
  • Recommended Card Sets

Lost Ark'southward closed beta has just been released for western audiences. Players tin can delve into the beta to try out various classes, skills, and feel some of Lost Ark's leveling and endgame content. Gearing will accept upwardly virtually of your time one time you reach the level cap, acquiring new gear pieces and cards to enhance your character.

Cards are an underappreciated aspect of Lost Ark's gearing endgame. These collectibles can be obtained from just nigh every activity, granting everything from small stat bumps to full damage conversion when you create a deck of cards. We'll exist going over what Carte Decks are, how they differ from Card Books, where to obtain cards from, and some good Carte Sets yous should continue an eye out for.

What Are Card Decks?

Lost Ark Card Deck Menu

Card Decks are loadouts comprised of various cards that grant offensive and defensive buffs. The more cards from the same fix you have equipped in your deck, the more than buffs you'll receive. You can only have six cards equipped at a time. Similar to your standard weapons and armor, you can create and bandy between card loadouts to suit your electric current needs.

Additionally, cards are besides tied to Card Books that grant permanent stat increases when filled. Card Book bonuses are always agile, even if you aren't using cards from that set. Carte du jour Sets are only agile while they're allocated into your Card Deck—accessed by pressing "Alt + C" by default. Non every carte du jour is in a Card Set, but every carte is part of a Carte Book. In other words, y'all tin't equip every carte du jour, merely each card is function of a book that can increase your graphic symbol'southward stats.

Cards themselves come in all forms of rarities, Uncommon all the way to Legendary. Each card that can be equipped also has five ranks that you tin increase (explained here), enhancing the bonuses that gear up grants while equipped.

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How To Obtain Cards

Lost Ark Card Codex Menu

Cards can drib from merely nearly every activity in Lost Ark. As long every bit you're playing the game, you'll come up across a few of these cards. Beneath is a short list of the most common sources of cards:

  • Daily and weekly missions
  • Dungeons
  • Raids
    • Guardians can drib their own Legendary bill of fare
  • Chaos Dungeons
  • Vendors
  • Rapport Rewards

Well-nigh of your cards will come up from dailies, weeklies, dungeons, and raids. Raids are an peculiarly good spot to farm for cards, as Guardian bosses in sure raids have a small risk to drop their self-named Legendary bill of fare. Legendaries cards are the hardest of the bunch to obtain, and some of the game'south all-time sets crave multiple Legendary cards to receive their full set bonus.

Where Tin can I Find Card Drop Sources?

Lost Ark'south in-game codex lists out the driblet sources for every card in the game. Yous can notice it right under your mini-map. It's the left-most option. Open up it up, scroll down to "Cards," then look up the specific card you need. The codex will then list every drib source for that card.

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Upgrading And Awakening Cards

Lost Ark Card Upgrade Menu

Cards that you can equip each have v ranks. This rank is referred to as the card'due south Awakening Level. As you increase a menu's rank, its value within a specific Card Set increases, unlocking boosted set bonuses when the level of your deck surpasses certain thresholds. To get the most out of your deck, you'll want to level up or "Awaken" each menu to its maximum level.

Upgrading cards is done through the Raise submenu in the Carte Deck interface. At that place are two steps to this:

  1. Upgrade: Feed the bill of fare XP or duplicate cards to increase its XP gauge.
  2. Awaken: Once the carte du jour's XP estimate is total, you must feed duplicates of the same card to fully upgrade it.

Since you'll demand duplicates of the same menu to Awaken information technology, we recommend you stick to using XP cards for the kickoff step. Just like your character's level, a card's XP threshold increases with each Enkindling Level.

Each Awakening Level requires the post-obit duplicate cards:

  • Awakening Level ane: One duplicate
  • Awakening Level ii: Two duplicates
  • Awakening Level 3: Three duplicates
  • Awakening Level 4: Fourduplicates
  • Enkindling Level 5: Five duplicates

The XP cards in Lost Ark are the following:

Carte

XP Amount

Rarity

Starflower

500

Uncommon

Ardopine Canteen

1,500

Rare

Debris of Fourth dimension

3,000

Epic

Rune Liar Tome

9,000

Legendary

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Decks And Books

Lost Ark Card Book Menu

As y'all collect cards in Lost Ark, you'll be building up your roster of Menu Books and Card Decks. While like in name, both card sets do different things:

  • Carte Books: Permanent, passive bonuses that grant insignificant stat increases.
  • Card Decks: Equippable items that grant powerful set bonuses.

Think of Carte Books as a collectible hunt and Card Decks as some other means of gearing your grapheme. In that location are 27 Menu Sets in Lost Ark and 173 Carte du jour Books to complete. Decks can grant defensive or offensive bonuses to your character, while Card Books focus more than on stat increases. A listing of what each Card Book and Deck grants tin can be found on the Lost Ark Codex website.

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Lost Ark Thirain Card

Card Sets can provide some incredible defensive or offensive capabilities when used properly. While none of the 27 Menu Sets are bad on their own, some provide much more useful furnishings than others. There are two sets we highly recommend you lot employ: Forest of Giants and We'll Encounter Once again

Forest Of Giants

Lost Ark Forest of Giants Card Set

Deck

Deck Details

Set Size

  • 3

Cards In Set up

  • Caspiel (Rare)
  • Mokamoka (Epic)
  • Tir (Rare)

Set up Bonus Requirement

Set Bonus

3 Ready Bouns

  • Recovery items are 15% more constructive.

3 Fix Bonus

(9 Awakening)

  • +10% Phys. Defence.
  • +10% Mag. Defense

three Set up Bonus

(xv Awakening)

  • +xx% Phys. Defense.
  • +20% Magazine. Defense

The best office of this deck is the three-piece bonus: recovery items are 15% more constructive. This makes potions and other recovery items much more than strong, mitigating the downsides of the Cursed Doll Engravings alongside other regen-reducing effects. Pair this with some other 3-slice set to make a powerful defensive deck.

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We'll Meet Over again

Lost Ark We'll Meet Again Card Set

Deck

Deck Details

Set Size

  • three

Cards In Set

  • Madnick (Epic)
  • Vrad (Rare)
  • Sian (Rare)

Set Bonus Requirement

Gear up Bonus

3 Set Bouns

  • -12% damage taken while at fifty% or lower HP.

3 Set Bonus

(9 Awakening)

  • -16% damage taken while at 50% or lower HP.

three Set Bonus

(15 Awakening)

  • Apace restores your HP for 5s when attacked while HP is nether xx%.
    • Cooldown: 10 minutes

The 2nd iii-piece set we recommend is We'll Run across Once more, granting a sizable amount of damage resistance against enemies while you're under 50% HP. The final gear up bonus is the star of the show, regenerating your HP when y'all take harm while under 20% HP. This is a lifesaver for PvP and tough PvE encounters. You can pair this with Forest of Giants to greatly increment your character's survivability.

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