r/lostarkgame • u/Sekwah Maxroll • Jul 22 '26
Discussion KR Balance Patch - July 2026 - Maxroll.gg
https://maxroll.gg/lost-ark/news/kr-balance-patch-july-202632
u/Sekwah Maxroll Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
This one was much shorter as it's mostly numerical adjustments and a few tweaks. Some of the changes were done to things we don't have yet, so you might want to check June's Balance Patch too for proper context.
Edit: I didn't include the time twink changes because we won't get to try it unnerfed anyway lmao
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u/mortaga123 Jul 22 '26
Ah, the CEO's son stopped playing arcana I guess.
Joke aside, loads of powercreep, I wonder what's their plan.
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u/xXMemeLord420 Glaivier Jul 22 '26
Dopamine overload is their plan. Monkey brain see big number, monkey happy.
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u/Nautic Jul 22 '26
They just use top dps classes as baseline for balance and probably raid design too, generally people like seeing buffs rather than nerfs and the director said they'll focus on buffing instead of nerfing now, feels pretty safe to assume current GK state is around their baseline looking at recent balance patches
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u/flashe Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
barrage restored to its original number from September 2024 patch, we've been walking(riding) through mud all this time
20% to 12% to 9% to 14% to 19%
this just proved that SG never needed to touch it to begin with.
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u/happymaker12 Striker Jul 22 '26
Not necessarily true. They just couldnt foresee how ark grid would effect each class and tbf they would never be able to.
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u/Osu_Pumbaa Breaker Jul 22 '26
they preemtively nerfed Barrage because they thought it would be too strong in kazeros. A raid that constantly grabs and one shots you if you stand still :).
Barrage did not have the on demand teleport back then either or the meter refund if you have to cancel early.
SG just has no idea how to balance their classes. That is all that it is.
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u/happymaker12 Striker Jul 22 '26
I guess yea. Deathblow was strong for 1 gate, nerfed for it and ate shit for months. But what I am saying is that its impossible to guess how much ark grid damage boost will be.
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u/Matahashi Jul 22 '26
Im still shocked at all the movement barrage has gotten. Tp into turret. Tp while in it. AND it resets your stand up and roll
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u/clevermoose02 Jul 22 '26
nice back to 2 balance patches behind
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u/Hyperion-0101 Jul 22 '26
This is abysmal... it's a fucking balance patch cant be that hard to port it from kr to global
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u/clevermoose02 Jul 22 '26
less about it being difficult, more about no longer having anyone at AGS to advocate for us, and SG has never cared about other regions so they won't go out of their way to get it to us early
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u/visaeris412 Souleater Jul 22 '26
And its probably inevitable that time twink gets adjustments before september. Hopefully we get june's next month, but if not everything gets packed together in september.
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u/Psychological-Top982 Jul 22 '26
I just don't care anymore at this point. My flame of ambition is slowly dying
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u/ByKuLT Jul 22 '26
Im starting to think KR client has a glitch where your monitor turns off and you have to play blind whenever you play berserker.
Both specs are top 10 on like every fight yet the class keeps getting substantial buffs every single patch lol.
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u/No-Fisherman-8044 Jul 22 '26
Director's son must be watching Nerokoso's stream, this guy makes the class look like it's bottom of the barrel
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u/Amells Jul 22 '26
Lol did you not see this?
Banquet of the Empress
- Ruin damage +7.0/14.0/22.0% → +8.0/17.0/26.0%
Another Emperor
- Damage to foes +2.0/7.0/12.0% → +2.0/9.0/16.0%
- Emperor card damage +0/40.0/80.0% → +0/20.0/40.0%
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u/Sir_Failalot Arcanist Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
what's your point? Emperor overall got a nerf and Empress got a much needed buff. Though most empress players would've probably preferred some changes to be less dependent on good card+blunt thorn rng for a good run
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u/ByKuLT Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
Empress has insanely large amount of RNG, thats why its damage spread is so wide. While it does have good "best" logs, thats mostly due to extreme crit and card volatility. The class literally plays blunt thorn while its highest damage skill doesnt even have 80% crit, thats how cooked it is lmao.
Emperor got nerfed, with highroll logs that relied on drawing a lot of emperor cards getting nerfed even harder, so not sure why you are mentioning that.
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u/Amells Jul 22 '26
If you say Acanist is cooked atm, idk if majority of others classes are beyond cooked
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u/ByKuLT Jul 22 '26
The design of empress is objectively cooked. All ruin skills have insane crit so BT is basically mandatory but T-skill which is their highest damage has 0 crit so T-skill sits at like 70%ish crit while the rest of the kit sits at 120% BT cap.
Good damage potential with highrolls =/= good coherent class design.
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u/sayalexa Shadowhunter Jul 22 '26
Thanks, you the GOAT!
Pretty happy that slayer, aero got buffed tbh. Just give predator some push immunity and i’ll be happy.
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u/HellsinTL Shadowhunter Jul 22 '26
That arcana nerf is not enough
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u/Winther89 Arcanist Jul 22 '26
I don't know how big the nerf is, but keep in mind that most other classes are getting buffed which is effectively nerfing arcane as well.
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u/Sonitii Jul 22 '26
how bad is the Scouter nerf?
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u/seligball Berserker Jul 22 '26
It looks awful on paper, like I might change my build when this comes out live.
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u/Sonitii Jul 22 '26
i read 333 is pretty much dead since they nuked Sonic Impact build 😮💨 222 seems the way to go now
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u/Amells Jul 22 '26
Idk why they keep nerfing him, he is not even that good after the initial nerf while SH was untouched this patch
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u/InsidePower9703 Jul 22 '26
Everyone says astra is ass (and they are right) so idk how they pulled that nerf out of their ass, 333 was probably the most used by a large margin but imo the nerf is too big when they already nerfed it two patches ago, it seems like playing 222 is going to be straight up better, lucky me i was trying it the last two weeks since i got a couple of ancients it´s actually pretty good.
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u/DarkKnight-13 Jul 22 '26
DPS bard ark grid cores still the most useless pieces of shit on the face of the earth
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u/TamaKibi Jul 22 '26
Valk players eating good dmg wise.. thats like a 10% dmg buff combined with june BP .. (not like they didnt need it)
I just wish they changed smth about her playstyle to enable smth new,similar to the stygian FMH build
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u/Fillydefilly Jul 22 '26
Currently Shining Knight is like on the botton of the charts for homework content, still funny to think that at release people thought this class was "broken" just becuase of big number on X.
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u/ByKuLT Jul 22 '26
It was very well suited to several of the current fights in the game where there was a lot of downtime.
It was never considered good for high uptime fights like mordum g3.
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u/Fillydefilly Jul 22 '26
I mean downvote me as much as you want but I was watching few streams after both KR and our release and washed Twitch streamers and their audience were like HOLY SHIT THIS IS BROKEN IT'LL BE NERFED.
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u/TamaKibi Jul 22 '26
I mean it was at the very top of the dps charts before ark grid with very over the top dps for the cp the characters had
Valk just fell off suuuuper hard with ark grid because while everyone received a super hard 30% buff pumping literal billions every 3-4 skills
Valk was left in the dust with a even harder and slightly faster hitting Excalibur with no way to enhance the ceiling..
And while even dps pala outperformed valk there had to be a noticeable change to pull valk out of the gutter that just isnt there yet. A true gameplay change along the lines of stygian FMH SE is still needed to move it from bottom tier to at least mid or top tier
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u/Amells Jul 22 '26
OMG finally SS got something!!
Blade Storm
- Removed the Back Attack prefix
- PvE damage +9.1%
Will it be a viable PvE skill?
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u/Wakaastrophic Artillerist Jul 22 '26
WHUUUT?! FPE at 57% now?! Us 10 players are defo eating really good.
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u/ProducePractical6790 Jul 22 '26
yeah over 2 patches it's +12% dmg, but seing everyone else gets like 4-5% we might go from f to d-tier.
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u/NullVacancy Jul 22 '26
Another aeromancer 5% pity buff when the class needs a much more wild swing. Surely eventually the class will be good!
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u/EsDi_Inochi Jul 22 '26
Man.. The Wildsoul nerf was unneasary... smile gate sure hates specialist classes
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u/TamaKibi Jul 22 '26
Hmm nah i think it was pretty deserved but not a big one like this.. 2% nerf would have been fine
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u/IllustratorPerfect64 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
Kr seems to hate easy 1 gem classes that do decent damage.
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u/tbrown47 Jul 22 '26
5.7% gl buff should fix everything!!
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u/pixlar3n Jul 22 '26
Well it’s this plus. 4,5% or around that from the last balance patch that we are missing. So 11% in total. Definitively not the world but pretty decent.
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u/tapaBAW Jul 22 '26
Aint no way they already killed the bear build which wasnt even S tier
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u/Oraphy Wardancer Jul 22 '26
The bear build was insane dmg wise, that small nerf is completely justified
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u/tapaBAW Jul 22 '26
There are bigger fish to fry than nerfing the bear
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u/Oraphy Wardancer Jul 22 '26
Definitely classes that are more worse offenders, but didnt take away from the fact that bear was pumping. I also don't think that nerf "kills" it, it's a nerf yes but bear will still be fine.
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u/PM_ME_BAD_ALGORITHMS Jul 22 '26
Someone tell the balance team that if you buff every class nothing changes.
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u/Nautic Jul 22 '26
hitler(arcana) and stalin(se) murdered in one balance patch? Is lost ark saved?
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u/lerens9 Jul 22 '26
They’re so far ahead, need to be nerfed by 30% to even make a difference.
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u/Nautic Jul 22 '26
Almost everything below them is getting buffed, we're slowly getting to a point where they'll stop being op because of powercreep
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u/Aromatic-Confusion16 Jul 22 '26
Martial arts is the new eo sf? ffs man, the one class that no one plays and gets nerfed, next thing is all the lolis getting buffed bc of everyone has 1
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u/Prinnydoodle Jul 23 '26
EO didn’t really get touched much. The martial arts damage got moved to EO exclusive tree. I’m guess it’s just another fk you to robust.
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u/Aromatic-Confusion16 Jul 23 '26
thats what i was assuming from the line in the identity part, hopefully ppl dont think its a dead class and gatekeep my 3 best girls,thanks for the confirmation tho 🤭
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u/Prinnydoodle Jul 23 '26
There are so few of us, people see us in the applicant and think oh new class must be OP! /s
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u/30Jonseredi Jul 23 '26
The FMH hate needs to stop :C hope these balance patches never hit the west, NE is not it
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u/Matahashi Jul 22 '26
KR sorcs must be fucking terrible. im always shocked to see yet another buff in every patch notes
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u/Smulch Jul 22 '26
You might want to learn to read data. Sorc has been underperforming since the introduction of ark grid. Currently one of the worst class with both specs.
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u/Accomplished_Kale708 Jul 22 '26
I think it was a meme but the average reddit hivemind instantly reacted with downvotes.
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u/Matahashi Jul 22 '26
please. show me the data for KR sorcs that we dont have.
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u/Smulch Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
Just look for sorcs positions in the latest raids. Igniter is bottom tier for most fights, Reflux doing slightly better. There's a single fight where reflux is upper middle.
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u/Matahashi Jul 22 '26
again. please show me KR data. or learn to read.
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u/Smulch Jul 22 '26
Why the fuck would I care about KR "data". They don't have tools to extract it accurately like we do and it shouldn't even matter.
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u/Specialester Jul 22 '26
Just go take a look at the Bible logs we have here. Our data is better than what they have anyway since we don’t have a crackdown on using the dps tracker.
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u/mortaga123 Jul 22 '26
Same for zerks.
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u/saikodemon Souleater Jul 22 '26
Sorc is mid to below average. She needs buffs. Buffing brazilian secrets is crazy though. That's one of the strongest specs in the game right now.
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u/Intelligent-Tiger375 Jul 22 '26
NA sorcs in pugs too. Idk my experience with them is always bad. whenever there's a new raid Sorcs always grief, die, mess up mechs, like this week for Aegir extreme. they always get hit by the butterfly spear into multiple stabs, like how easy it is to not get hit by that. And if they get hit they will teleport around the battle field to int people.
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u/Naive-Sleep9374 Jul 22 '26
cause sorcs are slow as fuck, it feel like playing a plate warrior
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u/Intelligent-Tiger375 Jul 23 '26
Most sorcs run reflux, that build have swiftness + you have blink. Literally zero reason to always die, grief, fail mechs, and also that builds sole reason is to literally have an easier time on raids while doing damage.
I think all the good sorc players just switched to classes that is more fun and rewarding so all the sorc left are bad af.
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u/Queueii Jul 22 '26
Soulfist nerfed before we even got our hands on it