The following isn't an invitation to stay with it. If you aren't enjoying the Lost Ark game, don't keep playing it because "it gets better".Honing systems get better at Lost Ark Gold higher levels. Most importantly, you don't care about it. You can just play the Lost Ark game on your main/alternates, and then polish it once a week or every few weeks. The requirement of 10 or 20+ attempts to win reduces randomness quite a little and reduces expectations.
Lost Ark is no longer a big deal. However, in T1/t2/early T3 it's the main reason you're not happy because each error blocks you from new content or makes you fall behind your friends.
To gain 18 weapons, I had to wait until I had 350+ bound incredible honor leaps of honor, 380 bound solar grace, and as many solar protections as I could from events/login rewards/Lost Ark pass. It took me nine attempts and it felt great since that's a bit average (around 1/2 of people get it in 8 or less 9 hits. This is roughly where 60% to 70% of people be able to get it). If I had gotten it earlier, then the leftover mats would be a part of the 19 weapon fund or 18 gloves or whatever. If I failed with my mats and I didn't succeed, it's fine, I can wait just a few weeks, and afterward, get down and dirty and improve it or concentrate on something to protect myself until my solar count is replenished. No big deal.
Honing is a consistent, predictable progress with the costs associated with higher upgrades. The difference between valtan's and vykas entry is a single upgrade for each piece.A majority Of Lost Ark is like this. The horizontal stuff becomes better when you're completely opt-in, and you are ahead of any massive gates. The honing mechanism gets better when you can do the entire current content, and perhaps even the next content release.
The game becomes more casual the further caught up or ahead you are. This is an odd design.KR tends Lost Ark because they had months between releases , so they almost assuredly caught up and hit that "ahead" mark. They also had a lot of time to develop alts, as well. With NA/EU's accelerated pace Buy Lost Ark Gold, many systems in the game became a drag or cause of concern as they didn't have the original release pace.