Gear Honing Sources

Knowing where to obtain currencies and items like: Shards, Leapstones, Guardian and Destruction Stones is crucial for progressing through item tiers. These materials are essential for the Gear Honing process. While Gear Honing Sources are scarce and easily depleted, there are ways to obtain them daily. So how does one go about farming these? Let's find out!

Clear story mode dungeons on Normal and Hard mode starting from Rohendel and onwards to get one time rewards in the form of Gherdia Elimination Rewards (Normal) and Gherdia Elimination Rewards (Hard). Utilize these to help your character growth. This can be done on all of your characters once.

The main Gear Honing sources for most of these is provided through your daily and weekly tasks. Complete them every day to help build up the foundation of your character.

Chaos Dungeons

Each day, you are given 100 Aura of Resonance that you can use to enter the Chaos Dungeon of your respective tier and item level.
Important: Guardian and Destruction stones obtained here are tradable. Share these with your other characters through the Roster Storage, or sell them on the Auction House for profit.

• Shards
• Leapstones
• Guardian Stones
• Destruction Stones

Guardian Raids

Defeat the highest accessible item level Guardian and claim their Guardian Soul for the best reward. Repeated kills after the daily Soul limit will not yield any material rewards other than a couple basic fragments.

Important: All materials are tradable. Share these with your characters through the Roster Storage or sell them on the Auction House for profit.

• Leapstones
• Guardian Stones
• Destruction Stones

Una's Tasks

Choose 3 daily and 3 weekly Una's Tasks to complete. Select ones that give Shards or Leapstones depending on which resource you're short of. Use the search function to filter out not needed options. You can choose to do tasks that reward Silver on chars/alts you don't plan to hone anymore.

• Shards
• Leapstones

Epic Raids, Legion and Kazeros Raids

Complete any of the main 3 raid contents within the game. On the victory screen, purchase the bonus reward box and obtain additional upgrade materials.

Important: Only purchase the bonus reward box if your character requires materials for progression within that tier, otherwise skip it.

• Shards
• Leapstones
• Guardian Stones
• Destruction Stones

These vendors provide upgrade materials for all item tiers within Lost Ark. It is essential to take advantage of them after obtaining your weekly reward sources. Vendors to look out for include:

• [Guild Bloodstone Shop], accessible through "ALT+U".

Accessible vendors within main cities:

• [Solo Raid Exchange] complete solo raids and exchange coins for goodies.
• [Legion Raid Exchange] exchange any unneeded Legion Raid material drops.
• [Epic Raid Exchange] exchange any unneeded Epic Raid material drops.
• [Kazeros Raid Exchange] exchange any unneeded Kazeros Raid material drops.
• [Harbor Exchange] trade Pirate Coins for honing materials in any continent's harbor.

If the daily and weekly tasks are not enough to supplement your needs, the Auction House and Mari's Shop (F4) can be used to obtain the missing materials for Gold or Purple Crystals (cash shop currency).

Utilize all daily and weekly Gear Honing sources to gain materials for a steady character growth.

• Chaos Dungeons
• Guardian Raids
• Legion, Kazeros and Epic Raids
• Una's Tasks
• First time clear of Normal and Hard mode story dungeons
• Exchange Vendors
• Auction House and Mari's Shop

Credits

Written by Choilicious
Reviewed by Starlast