Lost Ark - Leveling Tips

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Leveling Guide

Note: Credit goes to MalthTV

M = Map.
I = Inventory.
K = Skills.
P = Character Stats.
O = Roster level (assigning these levels will make all of your characters slightly stronger).
Y = Emotes (used for several quests).
F2 = Songs (used for travel & some quests).
ALT+V = Mounts (you will get 2 mounts while leveling that you will want to hotkey to travel faster)
ALT+P = Pets (you will need to summon a pet near the start of your journey to pickup loot for you)

If your goal is to reach level 50 in the least amount of time possible then skip all sidequests (yellow & purple quests).
Press Esc to skip any cutscenes that can be skipped.
Spam left click & G at the same time to skip quest dialogue faster than just spamming G.
While talking to a quest npc hit Esc after progressing the main questline to cancel out of the dialogue and avoid picking up any other quests.

Always use the compass button at the top-right corner of the quest tracker to navigate to the next quest.
Put all of your mobility skills + spacebar on cooldown before getting on your mount to travel somewhere. Your mount also has a spacebar dash.
Use your mobility skills before your spacebar dash (some classes mobility skills can be animation canceled by spacebar dash).
Hit Enter to confirm any popups faster (such as when you are entering an instance or trying to warp somewhere).

For weapons & armour always equip the highest level item you have (indicated by the up-arrow on the icon in the inventory).
For jewelry pay attention to the secondary stats (crit, specialisation, swiftness etc).
Item level doesn’t matter as much for jewelry, always pick the best secondary stats over base stats (refer to stat priority in each classes leveling build on the sheet).
You can auto-sort & dismantle items in your inventory by clicking the sort items/dismantle buttons in the top-left & bottom-left of your inventory.
Ignore cards while leveling if you are starting out fresh. Just click the cards to clear space in your inventory.

Keep your health potions up to date by hotkeying the highest level white-quality potion you have.
Try not to use your 30% recovery potions & resurrection feathers while leveling. Save them for endgame.
If you lack AoE spend extra time grouping up multiple packs of monsters close together. This will overall be a time save if you lack AoE.
Skills that hit multiple times are better at destroying objects. Objects have a hit-count for being destroyed rather than hitpoints.
Remember to hotkey and use the bombs that you get from quest rewards. Bombs can deal a lot of damage to bosses or clear a large area of mobs.
Use capes of swiftness that you get from quest rewards to travel faster in areas that you can’t mount (such as instances).
Some bosses have a shield that can be broken by skills that deal destruction damage. There are 4 bosses while leveling that have this shield (at levels 15, 25, 39, 41).