Arcana is a close combat mage, she uses various card attacks whenever she fills up her identity gauge. She draws a random card from the pool. There are 12 different cards you can draw and each has different buffs and attributes. Therefore, Arcana is one of the classes that require many different decisions. Today we are going to cover the best Lost Ark Arcana Empress build.

Lost Ark Arcana (Arcanist) Class Build Guide 2022

Arcana character will need a lot of spec and support on crit. Because she lacks a lot of crit percentage. Thanks to Youtuber ATK, we have the best Lost Ark Arcana build guide. For those who don't know about Arcana's play style and identity, it's going to be hard to understand. You can go check our Lost Ark Arcana guide.  

Lost Ark Arcana Empress Class Engravings

First let's see what Empress's class engraving does the damage of red skills on four stacks increases by 20%, 25%, and 30% at each level. Also, it gives you back 30% of consumed mana from using red skills. So you can tell that the DPS heavily relies on the red skills if you use Empress class engraving. All the build will focus on increasing damage of the red skills.

Lost Ark Arcana Build Gears

For the gears, you want to run argo set that increases the crit rate. And nightmare set for the relic gears since Arcana is one of the classes that easily runs out of mana.

Lost Ark Arcana Build Stats

For the stats, Lost Ark Arcanist Empress build means specialization and subs crit. Specialization increases the damage of the red skills and also increases the restoration of the identity gauge as well.

Lost Ark Arcana Build Skills

Call of Fate

This skill is not a DPS skill but helps Arcana to draw cards frequently from the deck. Agile movement increases attack speed. Quickdraw gives you the chance to draw a card from the deck regardless of the identity gauge. At level 5, you get a 40% chance to draw a card consecutive attack allows you to hit twice with this skill. This is very important because the odd of the quick draw can be applied to all the first and second hits. For the rune, running bleed rune and for the upgrade of the tripod, a quick draw tripod is important to upgrade.

Return

This skill is a combo skill. It is not a DPS skill but has the crit rate party synergy buff and a crit damage buff for Arcana. Vital point exposure reduces the crit resistance of the bulb by 10% for 10 seconds. A focused card increases the distance of this skill and exposed darkness increases Arcana's crit damage by 77.5% at level 5 for 5 seconds. This means you most likely have to use this skill right before using the red skills which do the actual damage. For the rune, running the rage room and for the upgrade of the tripod exposed darkness is important to upgrade.

Quadra Accelerate

This skill is a blue skill that can stack up to two stacks on the mob. Agile movement increases the attack speed. Stack increase gives Arcana a 5% chance to stack up stacks by 4 instead of 2. For the rune, running galewind.

Scratch Dealer

This skill is a blue skill that can stack up to two stacks on the mob. It is a two-times combo skill that can be also used as a movement skill. For the first line, you can choose either two of these. Excellent mobility increases the distance of the movement. Vital point exposure applies crit party synergy just like the returning skill. For the second line weak spot attack that increases damage and tenacity mob. And for the third line security device makes the skill into three times combo instead of two. When used as a 3 combo, then it enables Arcana to teleport back by having attack speed and movement speed buff for a few seconds. For the rune, running galewind.

Spiral Edge

This skill is a blue skill that can stack up to two stacks on the mob. It is a chain skill that can be used twice and applies one stack for each chain. Quick preparation reduces cooldown. Ruthless shot increases stack to two stacks instead of one for each chain. This means just by using this skill will max out the stacks to four and light step which increases movement speed by 40% for two seconds for each chain. For the rune, running the galewind rune and for the upgrade, quick preparation is important to upgrade.

Celestial Rain

This skill is the strongest red skill that Arcana has. The vital point hit increases the crit rate of this skill by 45% at level 5. Enhanced strike increases damage by 60% at level 5 and weak point detection at level 5 increases the cooldown by 8 seconds but also increases damage by 176%. If you have 4 stacks on the mob and if that mob has tenacity like guardians and the bosses including the legion raid. For the rune, you have to run the protection rune to activate barricade engraving. For the upgrade, all three tripods are important upgrades.

Serendipity

The damage of this skill fluctuates a lot depending on the rng. A piercing strike has a 50% chance of ignoring 80% of the mob's armor at level 5. Lucky strike at level 5 allows you to have a 20% chance for each stack on the mob to increase credit damage by 504% which means you get 80% odd to get this crit damage. An intentional look increases the probability of the tripod of this skill by 20%. This means a piercing strike will have a 70% chance to ignore the armor instead of 50%. The lucky strike will have a 100% chance to increase crit damage instead of 80 at 4 stacks. For the rune, you have to run the protection rune to activate barricade engraving and for the upgrade, all these two tripods are important to upgrade.

Secret Garden

This skill is the second strongest red skill if you get lucky on serendipity then that will do similar damage to celestial rain. But since this skill rngs a lot, technically secret garden is the second strongest vital point hit increases crit rate by 40% at level 5. Complete secret at level 5 increases damage by 80% on bob that has 4 stacks and the secret chance increases damage by 95% at level 5. For the rune, you have to run the protection rune to activate barricade engraving. For the upgrade, all 3 tripods are important upgrades.

Lost Ark Arcana Empress Build Awakening Skills

Death Fortune

This is the second awakening skill which damage varies on the stacks on the mob. It does not remove the stacks so you can use the red skill right away after using this awakening. This awakening also can get benefit from the judgment card.

How the Stack Damage Work

There is a very important thing that you have to know about the red skills secret garden for example. If you use it without stacks, it does a single hit. But if you have the stacks, then it hits twice. The higher damage is the damage of the stack explosion where all the DPS of Lost Ark Empress Grace build comes out from. The lower damage is the damage from the pure skill which is identical to the single hit damage. By the way sacred garden is a back attack type skill the lower damage is the one that has this type and the higher one does not have any types which are why Lost Ark Empress Arcana build can run hitmaster engraving, even though most of the red skills have either back or head attack types. This is why Arcana is a position-free DPS class.

Lost Ark Arcana Build Engravings

For the engravings, level 3 grudge, cursed doll, barricade, headmaster, level 2 adrenaline, and level 1 Empress class engraving is the best DPS set. Barricades can be used by using a protection rune on all the red skills. Empress's engraving shows the highest efficiency at level 1, it increases the damage of red skills by 20% at level 1 and starts to grow just by 5% for each level. so rather than going for level 3 Empress increases the damage of the red skills by 30%, it's better to go for level 1 Empress and level 2 adrenaline. The reason for adrenaline level 2 is because it shows high efficiency even at level 2 since it increases 10% the crit rate and 4% attack. So this is the best engraving set.

Lost Ark Arcana Build Gems

Gems are simple, you want to run 3 attack gems for the red skills and 8 cooldown reduction gems on all 8 skills which will perfectly fit 11 gems.

Lost Ark Arcana Build Card Sets

There's nothing much to say about the card set as well. Like other DPS classes, if it is not 18 plus like salvation or plus 12 lost wind cliff, then you can run any other car sets.

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