Lost Ark Stone Cutting Guide
Our Lost Ark Stone Cutting guide covers the Ability Stone system, which are powerful items that provide players with non-class specific Combat Engravings to make them more powerful.
Lost Ark has a plethora of systems, both in the main story and during the end-game, where players can upgrade their characters, improve their power, and become more generally efficient at whatever tasks they decide to take part in. Ability Stones are a major part of this that's worth learning, so check out our Lost Ark Stone Cutting guide for an explanation of how it works.
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Lost Ark Stone Cutting Guide
Click to enlargeWhen you find an Ability Stone, you won't be able to equip it until you take it to a Stone Cutter in a city. They are denoted by the blue diamond icon on the map, and can be found in every major city in the game.
Ability Stones themselves can be found from a few sources, but are mostly obtained as rewards for finishing daily or weekly activities. Here are some other sources of Ability Stones:
- Abyssal Dungeons
- Auction House
- Chaos Dungeons
- Field Bosses
- Guardian Raids
- Pirate Coin Exchange
It's worth noting that before you begin the process of cutting a stone, make sure you want to keep the stone, as once you begin the stone will be bound to you forever, meaning you cannot trade it.
The rarity of your Ability Stone is also important to how many Engraving Points you can have in total. The more points, the more powerful the Engraving, so it's always worth it to use the higher-tier stones.
Here's a breakdown of how many points you can put into different stones:
- Rare Ability Stone - 6 points
- Epic Ability Stone - 8 points
- Legendary Ability Stone - 9 points
- Relic Ability Stone - 10 points
As for the cutting process itself, once you have your Ability Stone and have found the Stone Cutter you can begin. Each initial attempt at adding a point to a stone has a 75% chance to succeed, and if it's successful, the success rate of the next attempt lowers by 10%, raising by 10% if you instead fail. Each try also consumes silver.
We suggest always focusing on your main Ability Stone and Engravings when you have a 55% chance or higher, and when it's 45% or lower, we suggest focusing on the Malus Stat instead. This ensures you can get the most powerful Engravings more consistently.
That's all for our breakdown of the Lost Ark Stone Cutting process, and now you should understand how to get Ability Stones, where to take them for cutting, and how you can make them more powerful.
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