Lost Ark’s Witcher crossover event (opens in new tab) launches next week and brings a ton of themed items and cosmetics to the incredibly on-top Korean ARPG/MMO. Characters like Geralt, Ciri and other familiar Witchery faces will also appear to help players through a new set of stories and daily missions. The announcement was also accompanied by an image of a Lost Ark-ified Geralt and Ciri, from which I may never recover.
The event tasks players with solving the problem of a mysterious vortex that has suddenly appeared on White Wolf Haven Island, which I believe happened to be called that before Geralt and company showed up. As you progress through the island’s various missions, you’ll be rewarded with potions from the Witcher series, new Jukebox songs, a card deck featuring Witcher characters, a new fortress structure, and little bits and pieces like emoticons, selfie stickers, and a title .
The event will also bring a new set of cosmetics for you to pick up from the in-game store, consisting of pretty much everything you’d expect. There are new outfits, weapon skins and hairstyles you can use to Witcher-fy your Lost Ark character. If you’d rather not spend real money, the event will go hand-in-hand with a new Twitch Drop, featuring “Witcher-inspired Mokoko skins.” You can track when it goes live on the games Twitch Drops page (opens in new tab).
If you have no idea what a Witcher is then the event comes along with a minor update that brings a few quality of life changes to the daily grind of Lost Ark. Smilegate promises improvements to the game’s quest system and guilds, material exchange, and the option for favorite carvings.
We had a (mostly) good time with Lost Ark here at PCG: Rick Lane scored it 78% in his Lost Ark review (opens in new tab) last February praised the compelling big story events and wild screenplays. He did comment that “the loot sucks”, mind you, but if that was a short way of complaining that he couldn’t equip his character with Geralt’s signature ponytail, then I’ve got some good news.
That ponytail, plus everything else, will arrive in Lost Ark on January 18, when the crossover event kicks off. You have about a month to do the quests you want to do and pick up the cosmetics you want to adorn yourself with: the event ends on February 22.