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What'due south A Guardian Raid?

How To Unlock Guardian Raids

Hunting A Guardian

Daily Limits And Grab-Upwardly Mechanic

Guardian Raid Rewards

Progressing through Lost Ark'south endgame is no easy task. A plethora of activities and progression systems can confuse newcomers and downright frustrate veterans. Fortunately, one of the nearly reliable sources of jewelry and upgrade materials is Guardian Raids, ane of Lost Ark's staple endgame activities.

If you lot similar Monster Hunter or whatsoever dominate-hunting game modes in MMOs, Guardian Raids are for you. You and upwards to 3 other players will hunt downwardly a deadly boss for rewards. They're varied, rewarding, and fairly quick to consummate if yous take a good team. Permit'southward dive into what Guardian Raids work, how to unlock them, and some of the rewards you lot can expect to earn.

What's A Guardian Raid?

Guardian Raid Overview
Tiers	1-iii
Players	1-4
Daily Cap	two runs per grapheme
Catch-Up Mechanic	Raids grant double boodle for each twenty-four hour period you miss. Caps out at v runs.

A Guardian Raid is an endgame activity where upwardly to iv players work together to take down a Guardian dominate. Players have 20 minutes to find and kill the Guardian, and each Guardian boss comes with unique mechanics. This is ane of Lost Ark's daily endgame activities, much in the same vein as Chaos Dungeons.

Unlike Chaos Dungeons, this activity highly encourages players to find a team. Immigration a Guardian Raid solo is not recommended. Build some flares from your Stronghold, bring your best gear, and prepare to hunt a giant monster.

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How To Unlock Guardian Raids

Guardian Raids are unlocked upon reaching level 50 and completing the "Guardian Raid Qualification Certificate" guide quest. You tin can find the quest in North Vern. If it'southward not available to you, be sure you lot've finished the Chaos Dungeon guide quest. To queue for a Guardian Raid, head to the minimap icon that looks similar a crimson banner in any major city.

If you can't open the Guardian Raid bill of fare while on the quest to hunt a Guardian, open your journal and browse to the guide section. You should encounter the "Guardian Raid Qualification Certificate" quest. Accept that quest to speak to an NPC who will unlock the Guardian Raid UI. If that doesn't work, abandon and reacquire the quest. Alternatively, use the LFG button nether your minimap to look for a Guardian Raid group.

Starting out, you'll merely be able to clear the first raid level of Guardians. To unlock additional raid levels, you'll need to complete all subsequent Guardian Raids. For example, to unlock raid level two, yous'll need to consummate all four Guardian Raids at raid level one. Tiers are cleaved downwardly as follows:

Raid Tier	Gear Tier	Item Level
Tier one	T1	320-420
Tier 2	T1	460-580
Tier 3	T2	802-920
Tier 4	T2	960-i,080
Tier v	T3	1,302-ane,385

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Hunting A Guardian

Hunts will vary depending on the Guardian you're facing, but most hunts consist of finding the dominate and defeating the boss. Before you lot begin, you lot'll be given the option to harvest the boss' soul or non. Doing so will give yous much more loot, but y'all can only practise this twice per day (ignoring the catch-up mechanic). In-game, your first task is to notice the dominate. Finding the boss is significantly easier if you bring flares, a battle item that will reveal the location of the boss on your map for a brusque time. You can craft them at your stronghold.

As for defeating the boss, your grouping volition need to coordinate to counter the Guardian'due south mechanics and beat out the boss. The commencement tier of Guardians is fairly uncomplicated, utilizing high-damage attacks and very simple mechanics to ease you into the game blazon. Further tiers involve vitrify and debuff management, one-shot mechanics, and more than. Be sure that your team is prepared before diving into the later tiers of Guardian Raids. Once the boss is slain, y'all'll exist able to harvest its soul to claim your boodle.

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Daily Limits And Grab-Up Mechanic

Guardian Raids let you to harvest a Guardian's soul upon completing, granting you a shower of boodle. You tin simply harvest a Guardian's soul twice per day per graphic symbol. Similar to Chaos Dungeons, it's possible to farm Guardian Raids more twice per twenty-four hours, but your subsequent clears won't give as much loot unit of measurement the weekly reset.

For each Guardian Soul you don't harvest in a given twenty-four hour period, you'll exist given a +10 rest bonus. At 20 rest bonus, your next Guardian Soul extraction volition grant twice equally much loot. Yous can but accept 100 rest bonus on your account at any given moment. Bear in mind that this catch-upward mechanic merely works for your two daily clears, so a residual bonus of 100 volition take more than two days to cash out.

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Guardian Raid Rewards

Successful completion of a Guardian Raid will give your graphic symbol valuable upgrade materials, jewelry with randomly-rolled Engravings, and a chance of obtaining some other goodies. Guardian Raids are a great source of jewelry for most players, and they can even drop power stones you can facet for boosted Engraving progress. Some Guardian Raids likewise drop Runes, powerful buffs to your cadre skills. Full general rewards are broken down below:

Raid Tier	Rewards
Tier 1	(All T1) Jewelry, Stone Fragments, Ability Stones, Class Engraving Books (Uncommon and Rare), Galewind Rune (Uncommon)
Tier 2	(All T1) Jewelry, Stone Fragments, Power Stones, Class Engraving Books (Uncommon and Rare), Galewind Rune (Rare)
Tier 3	(All T2) Jewelry, Stones, Ability Stones, Class Engraving Books (Rare and Epic), Galewind Rune (Rare)
Tier iv	(All T2) Jewelry, Stones, Power Stones, Class Engraving Books (Rare and Epic), Galewind Rune (Ballsy)
Tier 5	(All T3) Jewelry, Stones, Ability Stones, Class Engraving Books (Ballsy and Legendary), Galewind Rune (Epic)

Upgrade materials for each Guardian Raid Tier (stones and leapstones) match that tier's corresponding item level band. For instance, T1 and T2 Raid Tiers have Stone Fragments and Harmony Leapstones as upgrade material rewards.

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