Lost Ark Arcanist advanced class arrives with Spells in Spades update

pcgamesn.com:

The Lost Ark Arcanist class is just around the corner, along with a pool party battle royale, brutally difficult Raids, and an event-exclusive power pass. It’s all part of the latest Lost Ark update, Spells in Spades, which releases July 20 and promises to be a more substantial update than we saw in June. The Arcanist uses cards for magic attacks and as physical weapons, hurling cards at enemies and slicing them into pieces, Smilegate says, but the real draw with theMMO game’s new class is its Stack and Ruin effects. Stack skills place stacks on a foe, as you’d expect from the name, and Ruin skills consume existing stacks to deal extra damage. Plan your attacks well, and you could sweep the field with the Arcanist.

Spells in Spades also adds Inferno difficulty for Lost Ark’s Valtan Raid, and while it’s naturally a step up in terms of challenge, you’re also not penalized for trying and failing – or succeeding. Running the Raid on Inferno difficulty doesn’t count towards your weekly limits, but you also don’t get the usual rewards. Inferno difficulty gives you Stronghold items, titles, and achievements instead, among other things.

If you’re after a different kind of challenge, give the Challenge Abyssal Dungeons a try. This new feature uses the Scale of Harmony to match your gear level to the enemy commander’s, and there’s a bigger selection of better rewards on offer should you succeed.

The limited-time Maharaka Festival takes things down a notch, with its pool-themed festivities and a battle royale style game where players compete to see who’s the last one standing in the pool. The Maharaka Festival comes with its own event shop and currency as well, and the in-game shop is getting a suite of summer-themed skins and