Lost Ark weekly gold limit Reddit

It might be confusing but thats how weekly gold limit works: You do any abyss dungeon with that character then that character can get gold from every dungeon as long as item level is not high enough for that dungeon. 5 other character can do the same. But if you try do abyss dungeon with a 7th character then you wont get gold nomatter what.

I think the confusion coming from ppl who did say there is weekly 3 abyss dungeon limit per character which is an outdated info.

Not knowing how much money your roster is making can be a big factor in why players quit. Oftentimes players spend gold as it comes in and don’t really have a good understanding of exactly how much they can reliably make.

Then when they are attempting to upgrade some part of their character (either ilvl, engravings, accessories) they find they don’t have the funds to get there, and worst of all they don’t know how long it might take to get there. Other players hoard a lot of their funds and don’t get to the correct parking spots for their alts, losing out on a lot of gold over time in the process.

Obviously there’s no correct way to play the game, just have fun they say. But when you can’t join your friends in content because your item level is too low, or when you don’t get into groups because everyone else seems to be about 25 item levels higher than what you are applying for, with much better engravings you start to worry. It's hard to understand how long it will take to get there. This leads to FOMO and eventual burnout due to the fact you are in the dark and the game seems just unfair.

Your roster in Lost Ark makes an extremely predictable amount of gold per week. It is phenomenally powerful to know how much this is rather than being in the dark about it.

I’ve made a calculator on Google sheets where you can see your current gold income and the breakdown of where the gold is coming in from.

Calculator

For example this is my current roster below. You need to change the no. of characters you have in the red outlined boxes.

I need to then input the prices on my server:

From inputting in how many characters I have at the various item levels and server prices the calculator will do the rest, and output your income:

Then there is the breakdown of how much money is coming in at the various item levels:

And finally you can see the breakdown in easy to see charts:

Why is this useful?

Well from this you can see that I am making around 57k gold a week. Right now on my main character I am going for igniter legendary books, each of them cost around 6.5k gold on my server. Now instead of being in the dark, I know exactly how long it might be until I get there:

Cost of igniter books / Total weekly income

= (6.5*20) / 57

= 2.28 weeks to acquire all igniter legendary books.

Another cool thing is that I am able to get 44.5% of my weekly gold from just doing weeklies! Therefore if I have a super busy week at work, and lots of plans on the weekends I know that if I prioritise my weekly activities and get a good chunk of the gold my roster would have made. The lower the unbound prices, the bigger this “weekly” raid proportion becomes. As you push more characters to weekly raids and the prices of unbound materials gets lower and lower, there will come a point when you stop doing dailies completely on many of your characters!

What is extremely powerful about this calculator is that you can compare and contrast how much your roster would make if you made some changes. For example what would happen if I pushed my 5 alts parked at 1385 to 1415? Or even 1430? I can see the exact numbers, see much more money my roster would make. There is also the ability to see how much your roster makes if you stop opening certain chests, for example how much more gold you make by not opening the abyss hard chests.

(make a copy and edit, full link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oycQMTuvfhI9XO_-DKHKardu4cjtD_w6xh-IuHkdrck/edit?usp=sharing )

Other questions:

• Why have you only included unbound materials and raid gold in this?

Unbound materials and gold from raids are the sources of fixed income which you can reliably get from doing dailies/weeklies. It gives you an upper bound of what you can achieve is you choose to do all your dailies/weeklies. Other sources of semi-reliable gold include unas token and selling gems from boss rush. Although the gold from this differs from roster to roster and therefore aren’t included.

• I want to use my unbound materials to tap, why is this included?

Using unbound materials that you acquire to tap is the same as buying them from the auction house (minus the 5% tax). Since they are unbound you “could” have sold it for gold, therefore it is an asset that you could liquify to gold if you were so inclined.

• Why don’t you push your alts past 1385?

I currently barely have time to do my dailies/weeklies. If I had more time to play I would.

EDIT: Fixed values for Argos hard and Vykas normal to correct values. Thanks u/TicklesTheMighty

How many abyssal dungeons can you do per week Lost Ark?

How much gold is in Oreha's well?

Can you do abyssal dungeons more than once a week?

How much gold does each Abyssal Dungeon give Lost Ark?