What is the fastest way to gear up in Lost Ark? Today we're island hopping to farm tons of upgrade materials so we can get Lost Ark gear as high as we possibly can and then progress through all of the end game tiers. We are going to cover is extremely easy to do, doesn't require a high item level and gives you thousands of guardian and destruction fragments as well as a huge pile of harmony leap stones and harmony shards, all of which are going to help you upgrade gear fast in Lost Ark. 

How To Level Your Gear Score Fast In Lost Ark - Tier 1 Gearing Island Guide

There is a drawback, lots of these quests are roster quests which means they are a one and done, so you want to complete these on a character that you want to like a main and then take advantage of all the materials. There are some that are account bound, so you can just funnel them to your main if you prefer to clear them on a sorcerer and then kick them all over to your paladin. But you're not gonna be able to go to each island every single time and complete these. The best thing about this process is that it is incredibly fast, I do recommend reaching level 50 first, it just helps speed things up, you kill things more quickly. Now let’s get straight into this island guide on how to upgrade gear fast Lost Ark.

Check these 14 Lost Ark gear score leveling tips:

1. Serenity Isle

This is an island off the coast of Luterra it's super fast to complete. All you want to do is pick up the purple quests and then run those until you need to visit Morain Ruins and Tortoyk’s Heart. These are two dungeons you completed throughout the main story. You can do those dungeons now and earn some upgrade materials plus a skill potion or you can wait to complete it later on. Some people really want those extra skill points as soon as they possibly can. 

2. Toto Silver

Once you're done with serenity island and you're done with the dungeons if you go that direction, we're going to head out to Toto Silver, another very fast island to complete. The nice thing about this one is that most of the objectives are literally right where the quest giver is, so you literally grab the quest do something and turn the quest back in, so it is very fast. So pick up all the quests, run them to completion, you're going to earn more upgrade materials, a frustrated emo as well, so make sure to open that up in your inventory and add it to your emote menu. 

3. Freedom Isle

This is a kind of very low maintenance island, you do a few quests, you'll get some engraving chests, but the next thing you want to do is set sail for Blackfang’s Den.

4. Blackfang’s Den

This is an island that features the pirate black thing and her spunky sidekick. You're going to be picking up skulls, swords, you're killing rats, fending off attacks from other pirates and you're going to be completing all of these quests but you will reach a point where you cannot progress anymore and you're going to have to visit pato island. So what you want to do is go ahead and stow this quest.

5. Lullaby Island

You want to go ahead and set sail for a lullaby island. This is another place that will not allow us to finish the questline immediately. However, we can still capitalize on some really awesome materials. So lullaby island is going to send you on this journey to talk to hidden fairies. There's a trick to talking to these fairies, you have to answer in a certain order in terms of dialogue options or else it'll restart the kind of request. So for the first fairy, you need to choose 1,1,2. For the second ferry, you want to choose 2,2,1,1. For the third fairy, you want to choose 1,1,2,2,1,1. This is going to progress the story to a point where you need to complete an event. This event is going to take place every two hoursM you're going to see a ton of players here, so it's not like it's going to be something you're going to miss. You can place a bifrost teleport here and then come back when the events up, it just that makes things easier, you don't have the whole kind of sailing travel time. However, there is a hiccup, you do need the song of resonance in order to complete this quest. Luckily, that is going to be something we're going to pick up on this quest chain.

6. Astella

This is the island of the falling stars. The actual quest here really aren't that exciting, you just circle the island a bunch of times until you gather enough stars, there's a couple other things you do, but it was still worth the trip. You get tons of materials, you get some engraving books and just the view of the island is really cool. So once you're done Astella, stop in anika to repair your ship, replenish any items you need or just take a break for a little bit. 

7. Panda Island

Once you're ready to roll out, go ahead and head north up to panda island aka the lost ark miss of pandaria. This island has two purposes, one it gives huge amounts of materials through those roster quests, but it also has an event that hands out small amounts of materials as well as long as you continue to complete it. The quests themselves are super easy, but there is one step that does require you to find these hidden paths on the island and it's really a pain. So here's a map that's going to show where all of those hidden areas are, follow the map, avoid pulling your hair out, if you are a glutton for punishment, you can try to figure it out yourself.

8. Starlight Isle

Once all the pandas are done and your requests are complete, you want to set sail for starlight aisle. You're going to complete all of the quests until you reach a step that asks you to go to shoeshire. So what you want to do is uncheck the tracking for that one because we're going to pick up a couple other quests and those will also send us to shoeshire or around shoeshire, so make sure to knock them all out as efficiently as possible. So go ahead and uncheck the tracking for that one!

9. Peyto Island

This one has a ton of stuff that we actually need to do. So the first thing you want to head up to the upper deck and then finish the quest step for blackfang’s den and then pick up the quest's iceberg inquiry, this is going to give us a new quest line going up to glacier island which is up near shoeshire. Then complete becoming an idol which rewards the sway emote which you will need later on for dream goal island. Lastly, pick up the song of resonance from treasure hunter igram for 16,500 pirate coins. You're gonna need it for lullaby island because we need that song of resonance in order to complete that event that's on lullaby island. So if the event's coming up, you can go ahead and head back there and just knock that one out. You have to do it three times in order to get the song that we need to do dream goal island.

10. Dreamgull Island

For this one, we need a song from lullaby island the forest of minuet. So if you're missing it, you can't do too much on this island, just skip it for or if you want to you can dock and then try to complete as many of the quests as you can, it's your choice. 

11. Golden Wave Island

Golden wave has some big material chess and engraving books. This island is a little bit trippy because it has just tons of chests that are constantly spawning.Most of these are going to drop resources for the quest chain but you can also get the island token from these. So if you want to spend a little bit more time trying to get it, then go for it. 

12. Shadow Island

Shadow island reminds you of old-timey transylvanian style tower of horrors. This island is gonna send you up through multiple floors of a tower and you're gonna complete these quests against tons of enemies. Unfortunately, the questing here is literally the opposite, you have to run up to these floors multiple times to complete multiple kill quests and find multiple dead bodies and it just feels very out of place against the otherwise okay questing experience that the other islands have provided. So you have to kill a hundred enemies, turn that quest in, get another quest to kill another hundred enemies, do that and then go back and turn those in and get a quest to go fight rikdis which might be a wall for some people because he does require a high item level. So that's up to you, if you're able to take him down then continue working forward, if you're not, just stowing this one for now and continuing onward.

13. Kalthertz

Kalthertza is the prison island where a group is basically auctioning off slaves. The whole quest line here is about purchasing slaves to then release them. The first series of quests is extremely straightforward, you're literally just answering questions, but then you get into an area where you have to choose the slaves to purchase which will be released and this is where a little bit of rng comes into play. So you can buy up to five slaves per day and once you do, they're going to send you some items in the mail. Unlike other mail pieces, you actually have to go to a mail carrier in order to access these. This is still on Kalthertz, so you don't have to leave Kalthertz and go somewhere else. So open your mini map look for trey so look for trey and then you can go open up those mail items. 

Now in the mail, you're going to receive some money, some materials and a chance at the island heart, but you'll also receive the items for the quest that you need called collected information. You need to get three of these on the same day in order to proceed. If you don't get them, then the quest will reset and you have to come back the next day to try again. If you do, you can go ahead and turn that quest in and then choose white wave island as your stop.

14. White Wave Island

White wave is very fast, literally you're going to pick up one quest and then head out because it's going to send you to Rohendel. And then from here you can go up to shoeshire and complete the quest up there. Even if you've already completed the main quest, we still have to go up there to complete these roster quests to get all of those materials.

Hope this island routine has helped you get a huge kickstart for your main character and gets you as close as possible tier 2 content in Lost Ark!

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