Should you change your main character in Lost Ark? When to switch the main is best? In this article, let’s go over the discussion about when is the best time to change your main character in Lost Ark and why.

Should You Change Your Main Character in Lost Ark?

You can create multiple characters in Lost Ark, there are many opportunities where you can easily and freely change your main character, even though you want to change it in the end game, the only thing you lose when investing in a character you do not play as your ultimate main is time and resources, the benefits you get can be shared between your characters from playing each one. When you don’t like your main or you never want to play them ever again, just swap the characters, whether it’s a main or an alt, do not play characters that you don’t like, because that is speed running a burnout.

When to Switch Main in Lost Ark?

The tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 in Lost Ark as restarts of the game, much like going up to a new expansion in other games, many folks change their main class when transitioning between expansion packs because the progression is essentially reset and they get a fresh start. It's the exact same with tier 1 tier 2 and tier 3 in Lost Ark. 

So for answering the question when is the best time to change your main character, the answer is when you transition between tiers, this is because of two main reasons. The first is that each tier has its own unique upgrade materials that can only be used in that tier, when you change tiers, you have to grind the materials again and any materials you left behind in the previous tier are no longer useful for that character at all. The second is that once you achieve a new tier, on one character, you're able to greatly improve the growth rate of any character that is in the tier that came before.

Once you get one character to tier 2, then it is easier for all the characters that come after to level up. Every time your tier up, you’ll have the success rate of all honing processes from level 1 to level 15 in tier 1 increased by 20%, you can also reduce the required XP cost, which is going to be your harmony shards or blue shards or orange shards that only are attached to your character, the cost of that also goes down overall by 20% for equipment level 1 through 15. So, you can get a fresh start in a new tier and you also make it easier for any alt characters that are behind your current main to gear up. 

Lost Ark tier progression is top-heavy, which means if you are early on in a tier progression, then it costs you little to nothing to switch characters, but once you are towards the end of a tier, you've invested so much into that character, you gain more by just finishing out the current tier and then switching characters when you tier up again. Each tier is essentially a reset on your gear progression, equalizing your characters at the start of a tier and completing a tier makes the previous tier easier to grind, whether for materials or Lost Ark gold, and you have many opportunities to change your main character as you progress through the game. In fact, you don't have to choose your main character until you are part way through tier 3, which is the current tier in the game with no tier coming after it, which comes at about item level 1340.