[Lost Ark] The Math behind Gearing! Progression guide for Serca

the real math behind gear progression - honing strategy, gold efficiency, and what to prioritize at every item level range. timestamps 0:00 intro 0:32 gold per 1% damage 2:23 serca recommendations 3:16 honing 4:52 karma 5:40 bracelet 7:05 ark grid 7:59 accessories 9:02 gems 9:51 engravings 10:50 serca recommendations & closing Combat Power recommendations - These will vary a LOT depending on your class and skill level. Some classes are stronger than others, and RC/MI/S2 paradise orb can inflate your combat power. the 3500/5000 numbers are also high estimates so don't be discouraged if you are a bit below. Honing - prices are higher than when I was making the video, make sure you check maxroll for more accurate math! Gear transferring is MUCH cheaper than honing right now, so if you can I would recommend not honing right now. Legendary Skins - worth paying ~180k per piece for hard mode. Definitely buy them for nightmare (worth 900k per piece). Karma - The gold per 1% damage should be 43k for enlightenment rank 6, 56k for evolution rank 6, and 72k for leap rank 6. You can also keep enlightenment at lvl 5 if you want. Rank 6 enlightenment is 4.7%, not evolution. Finally, you can consider lv 26 on leap as well for nightmare. I would recommend spending less on karma if you can because you can get it for free from paradise and events. Gems/Accessories - keep in mind that Speedrun will be ending just before Serca, and I expect prices to come down after that. Ark Grid - working on the new video but for now, cut all blues and purples. Fuse all greens, and use https://airplaner.github.io/lostark-a... to optimize your astrogems. It's worth cutting all the blues and purple you get naturally. Don't reset anything other than epics that have 2 damage lines by default, blue crystals are too expensive. Really excited to start making more lost ark content so look forward to the astrogem video soon. huge thanks to my editor enma. he's from SEA so some of the numbers use periods and commas flipped from what you might be used to. twitch: twitch.tv/shizukaziye discord: @shizukaziye feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or want advice!