In this guide, we are going to be covering Soulfist build in Lost Ark. This class is very challenging to learn, it’s a very late game class, it is not very easy to play early on, you will struggle, but if you do manage to tough it out, it's just like Wardancer, you will be rewarded with one of the strongest classes in the entire game very satisfying to play fast paced and two very distinct playstyles. So take this with a grain of salt, you might not like Soulfist at first, but if you manage to get them to 1370, you will start to enjoy them especially once you get into relic gear. Now let's get straight into the build.

Lost Ark Soulfist Build Guide For Robust Spirit and Energy Overflow

The good thing about Soulfist is that as of the latest balance patch, you actually use the exact same skills for both builds, robust spirit and energy overflow. So we are going to be going over those first. 

Abilities & Skills

• Flash Step

• Belting Crash

• Energy Release

• Merciless Pummel

• Crippling Barrier

• Heavenly Squash

• Force Orb

• Energy Blast

The abilities you want are going to be flash step with excellent mobility and victory shout. Bolting Crash with violant, fighting spirit enhancement and tough shoulder. Energy release with quick prep, tenacity or any of the metal tripods are a good fit. Just pick the one that's good for the fight if you're doing valtan, the cleanse one is actually really good for lugu or the wolf boss and ready attack, this is the most important tripod. Then you have merciless pommel with hard hitter, cold hearted and double up. Crippling barrier with quick prep hard header and keen judgment, heavenly squash with hard hitter, harsh training and exquisite attack. Force orb with quick prep powerful wave and scattering wave and energy blast with tenacity weak point detection and ferocious strike.

Gems

The gems for these skills are also going to be the same for both builds and that is a cdr and a damage gem for heavenly squash, force orb, merciless pummel, crippling barrier and energy blast and a cdr gem for energy release.

Soulfist Energy Overflow Build

What this class engraving does is make it so that you cannot go below one energy. If you've played soulfist before, you know that if you actually use up all of your energy aka your spirit or your mana bar, you actually can't use any of your abilities until it fully recovers, so this is going to prevent that from happening. However, this does mean that whenever you go into hype mode, you won't get any increased energy generation. But you will have a damage increase by 5, 10 or 15% based on your class engraving level if your energy is below 30%. So basically you can't go into zero and you're always going to be spamming your skills, so that you can stay below 30% energy to get that damage buff or your stats on energy overflow, it can be a little complicated. But the general rule of thumb is essentially that if you're at 1445 or below you want to settle for a 60/40 split between swift and crit. So essentially you can go for 1200 swift and 800 grit. That means you want a swift and crit necklace, a grid earring, and the rest of your accessories are going to be swiftness. However, once you hit 1490 and you have access to a bracelet which we still don't have in the game, but once they are released and you are able to get one, you want to try to get one with grid on it and once you do that, then you can swap your stats to mainly swift and grid. So you'll have 1500+ swiftness and 500 grit which essentially means you want a grit swift necklace and swift on the rest of your accessories. 

Skill Rotations

Your rotation for a hype 3 playstyle which is what you're most likely going to be using is as follows:

• You're first going to activate hype one and two.

• Then do two flash steps to buff up your bolting crash.

• Finally, do a third flash step into height three into your awakening, so you can make use of both bolting crash and flash step buffs for it and you're just gonna instantly cancel your awakening into an energy release and then do all of your dps abilities, merciless pommel, energy blast, force orb, heavenly squash and crippling barrier.

• While the rest of your abilities come off cooldown or your tripods the most important ones are ready attack and quick prep for energy release, double up for merciless pummel, exquisite attack for heavenly squash and quick prep for crippling barrier and force orb.

Awakening Skills

• Decimation Ray: This is not even used for the damage, the main reason this awakening is used is to cancel it quickly, so that you can proc the two-piece dominion set bonus.

Runes

• Conviction

• Judgement

• Galewind

• Rage

• Quick Recharge

• Bleed

For your runes, you're going to want a conviction rune on force orb and a judgment rune on heavenly squash to proc the buff, gale wind on energy blast merciless pummel and crippling barrier, rage on energy release, quick recharge on flash step and bleed on bolting crash. 

Engravings 

• Lv. 3 Grudge

• Lv. 3 Keen Blunt Weapon

• Lv.3 Raid Captain

• Lv. 3 Increases Mass

• Lv. 3 Adrenaline

• Lv. 1 Energy Overflow

For your engravings at first you're going to want to journal on level 3 and energy overflow 1, then at legendary accessories, you're going to want grudge 3, adrenaline 3, raid captain 3 and energy overflow 1. At relic accessories, you're going to want to go for grudge 3, raid captain 3, beam blunt 3, increase mass or cursed all three, either one work adrenaline two and energy overflow one. However, one of the biggest problems with Soulfist is the huge lack of crit, so alternatively you could go grudge 3 raid captain, keen blunt, adrenaline 3 and energy overflow 3 if you want a clean 5 3 setup, but a perfect setup would be grudge 3, raid captain 3, keem blunt 3, adrenaline 3 increased mass or cursed all 3 and energy overflow 1. However for that, you are going to need ancient accessories or a nine seven stone and you also need two legendary engraving books. So settling on a 5 3 setup.

Gear Sets 

• 1370: 5 piece preordained crit rate argos set (Preordained Daligence Headpiece, Preordained Daligence Chestpiece, Preordained Daligence Pants, Preordained Daligence Gloves, Preordained Daligence Pauldrons)

• 1415: 4 piece demon beast and 2 piece preordained set (Demon Beast Strength Chestpiece, Demon Beast Strength Pants, Demon Beast Strength Gloves, Demon Beast Strength Pauldrons, Preordained Daligence Forcus, Preordained Daligence Headpiece)

• 1445: 6 piece domination set for energy overflow (Dominion Fang Focus, Dominion Fang Headpiece, Dominion Fang Chestpiece, Dominion Fang Pants, Dominion Fang Gloves, Dominion Fang Pauldrons)

Cards

As always, choose Lostwind Cliff early on and then later on you will want to transition into Light of Salvation.

Soulfist Robust Spirit Build 

What this class engraving does is that whenever you go into hype mode, you instantly go to level 3 hype, you instantly recover your energy and you also recover your energy 200% faster while you're inside of hype mode and your damage is increased by 10, 20 and 30% respectively based on the level of your engraving. Though this makes you into a burst class while energy overflow is constantly spamming their skills and not really relying on crit to do dps, you highly rely on doing a bunch of damage in very short bursts. So because of that, you're going to want to focus on spec for your stats, you're going to want 1500 spec and 500 crit, so that's a spec crit necklace and spec on the rest of your accessories.

Skill Rotations

Bolting crash, activate hype into energy release into all of your dps abilities, so you do energy blasts, merciless pummel, heavenly squash, force orb and then crippling barrier as a filler until the rest of your dps skills come back. Not that it doesn't do a lot of damage but because it has such a long cast time you can take advantage of that and let your abilities come off cooldown. Out of all these the most important tripods, you're going to need are ready attack and quick prep for energy release, double up for merciless pommel, exquisite attack for heavenly squash and then weak point detection and ferocious strike for energy blast.

Awakening

You can use either one, however spirit bomb is kind of a meme, it is very common to whiff it completely. The world decimation is a lot faster and a lot more reliable, you don't have to hold it all the way, so if you want to just use awakening for simple damage then you can go ahead and use that. Using the spare bomb also means that you can't really do like a full damage rotation when you're in hype mode because of the insanely long cast time. So you'd probably pop bolting crash and then go into hype 3 energy release and immediately activate spirit bomb. 

Runes 

• Quick Recharge

• Galewind

• Rage

• Bleed

• Conviction

• Judgment

You're going to want quick recharge on flash step and bolting thrash, gale wind on energy blast, crippling barrier and merciless pummel, rage on energy release and bleed on heavenly squash and force orb.

Engravings 

You're going to journal in 3 and robust spirit 1 at first, then when you get to legendary accessories, you're going to want grudge 3, adrenaline 3, robust spirit 3 and spirit absorption 1. When you have relic accessories, you're going to want to go for grudge 3, robust spirit 3, precise dagger 3, in blend 3 and cursed all 3 or adrenaline 3. A little bit lower of a ceiling for damage versus a more consistent crit.

Gear Sets

For your gear sets, at first you're going to want the 5 piece preordained diligence crit rate argo set and at 1415, you're also going to want the 4 piece demon beast and 2piece preordained set. Once you're 1445, you're gonna want to aim for the 6 piece shrieking hallucination set.

Cards

Lost One Cliff, then transition into Light of Salvation.

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