Guide to Cards in Lost Ark – Card Books, Decks, Upgrading and more

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Late-game Lost Ark content necessitates that players bring their absolute best to each and every fight.

This means bringing optimized skills, optimized gear, optimized Ability Stones, and, to those fortunate in their RNG rolls, the best card decks available.

Lost Ark features a supplemental deck-building element that can provide players with passive statistical boosts.

These cards, depicting many of Lost Ark’s characters and varying in rarity, are often given to players as quest rewards, or in rarity-based card packs that will select a new card at random.

The statistical bonuses applied to the player through the deck change depending on the card book to which the active cards in the deck belong, and increase in strength with every book-related card added to the deck.

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Individual cards connect to other similar cards in collections known as books.

The cards in a book often carry an overarching theme that ties them together, such as the Pirate Generation book featuring six of Lost Ark’s pirate characters. Managing to collect every card in a themed book will grant a passive buff, no matter what cards a player has equipped in their active deck.

In addition, upgrading the Awakening Level of all cards in a book will provide additional buffs that increment based on how many Awakening Levels all cards have in total.

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Players will notice a series of five hollow gems at the bottoms of cards, with each gem accounting for a total of five Awakening Levels.

Under the Enhance tab of the Card Catalog, players can select the card they wish to