Empress's Grace Arcanist Raid Build Guide - Lost Ark Maxroll.gg (2023)

Introduction

This build guide assumesyou have a Character at Level 50 before transitioning to it. Check out the Arcanist Levelingand 1-50 Leveling guides to reach Level 50.

Raid Skill Build

Gameplay & Skill Rotation

The Gameplay of an Empress's Grace Arcanist revolves around their Skill Rotation and Identity Card usage, which needs to be managed simultaneously to maximize their damage output and survivability.

Make sure that your Crit and Movement Speed (if you use Raid Captain) buffs are always active before you use your Main Damaging skills.

Four of a Kind Skill Animation can be cancelled by moving while casting. This makes it easier to utilize the Judgment window.
Check video below!

Awakening Opener:

To increase the damage of your Awakening Skill Deathbound, use the rotation down below. This will guarantee that the damage is amplified by the effect of Barricade. To do so, it is mandatory to have Protection on Celestial Rain.

1. Use Scratch Dealer
2. Call of Destiny
3. Use Deathbound and use “Spacebar” to cancel the animation.
4. Use Celestial Rain.

Skill Rotation:

1. Scratch Dealer
2. Call of Destiny
3. Celestial Rain
4. Quadra Accelerate
5. Spiral Edge (first usage)
6. Return
7. Secret Garden
8. Spiral Edge (second usage)
9. Call of Destiny
10. Four of a Kind

Since you want to stay in “Boundless MP” state with your Nightmare Flower Set effect, avoid having long downtimes if possible. If unavoidable, use Four of a Kind with only 2 Ruin Stacks to keep your Mana low.

Identity Cards & Combos:

Every time you fill up your Deck Meter or trigger Quick Draw, you draw a random card from your Identity Card Deck. You can draw and hold up to 2 Identity Cards in your hand. Below is a list of all available Identity Cards.

Try to memorize the usage and combos of the most important Identity Cards listed below, to maximize your damage output.

1. Corrosion, Mayhem, Three-Headed Snake, Balance, Ghost and Royal can be activated as soon as you pull those, since these cards provide you with a long duration buff which is beneficial for the fight.
   • In the case of Three-Headed Snake, use some Auto Attacks in between your Stacking Skills to apply on your target the maximum Stack of 4 sooner.
2. Cull is one of the best cards to multiply your damage output. You should combine it with the cards listed below to maximize its efficiency of it.
   • Judgment allows you to maximize the damage of all your Ruin Skill cards regardless of how many Stacks are applied on the target. Debuff your target and buff yourself first. Afterwards, use all your Ruin Skill cards within the 4 seconds time frame of the Judgment card's buff. You can use the following rotation to maximize your Damage.
     1. Four of a Kind
     2. Celestial Rain
     3. Four of a Kind
     4. Secret Garden
     5. Four of a Kind
   • After activating Wheel of Fortune, the next skill you use will have its Cooldown reset. This includes your Awakening skills. So make sure to use it before you use your awakening, which allows you to use your awakening twice in a row. If your Awakening is already on Cooldown, use it to reset Celestial Rain.
   • Use Twisted Fate before you use your Ruin Skills, since it has a chance to increase your damage by 40% for 4 seconds.
3. Use Joy while Celestial Rain and your other Ruin Skills are on Cooldown.
4. Moon should be used before you use your main Damage skills.
5. Clown is great to copy the following cards: Cull, Judgment, Wheel of Fortune or Twisted Fate.
6. Use Star only if you expect a huge downtime on skills before a major boss mechanic or if you are about to use a high Damage combo. Since you want to stay in “Boundless MP” state with your Nightmare Flower Set effect, avoid using this card incorrectly.

Stats Priority

The Empress's Grace Arcanist build mainly focuses on Specialization, which increases the damage of your Ruin Skills/Awakening and also increases the Deck Meter gain. You need Crit only on your necklace, since Arcanist has several buffs that increase Crit Chance and Damage.

Engravings

Class Engravings provide powerful benefits that can significantly change play style. Battle Engravings are generally used to increase damage. Below are the recommended Engravings for this build.

Starter Engravings

• Empress's Grace increases the damage dealt by your Ruin Skills and restores mana.
• Barricade synergizes well with all your Ruin Skills once they have the Protection attached to them.

Add-On Endgame Engravings

• Grudge* increases damage done while also increasing damage received. The engraving is a highly effective damage increase that does not require specific positioning, making it worthwhile even with the penalty.
• Adrenaline increases your Attack Power and Crit Rate and can be easily kept at max stack with the low Cooldown skills of Arcanist.
• Hit Master is great for Arcanist, since the damage of all Ruin Skills is separated into normal damage and stack damage. Your main damage comes from triggering the stacks (stack damage), which doesn't rely on Back or Front Attack.
• Raid Captain benefits from the various Movement Speed buffs you gain as an Arcanist and increases your Damage accordingly.
• Cursed Doll* provides a significant Attack Power increase at the cost of 25% healing penalty. The healing penalty can be punishing for inexperienced players not familiar with boss mechanics.

(*)These Engravings should only be used at Engraving Level 3.

Optimal Setups

Engravings are listed in order of priority from left to right.

Standard

Alternative

Gear Sets

These are the specific gear sets for each tier.
Check out the Gear Set Guide for more details.

"Play at your own pace" Route

Runes

Runes enhance Skills with extra bonuses. All Rune drops are account bound and have limited availability, so placement of Runes on the correct Skills is important. Below are the recommended pairings.
Check the Rune Guide for more details.

Gear Skill Tree

While Gems add benefits to skills, you can also increase the effects of Skill Tree themselves. Skill Tree levels go up to 5 and each level can increase the damage, cooldown reduction or buff that they provide.

For more information on how to add equipment Skill Tree and how to get them, please visit our Skill Tree System Guide.

If you use Dealer's Flip, you can level up additional Skill Trees of Scratch Dealer and Spiral Edge. Hover over the skills to see which Skill Trees you should level up.

Gems

Gems grant bonus damage and cooldown reduction to specific skills. You can only equip 11 of these Gems at a time so it is recommended that you prioritize the Gems for your most important skills.

Please visit our Gem System Guide for more information on how to create higher tier Gems.

Card Sets

Cards are an endgame system for maximizing your character. Below are the recommended sets for this class.
Check out the Card Guide for more details on how to obtain them.

Budget Damage Card Set

Optimal Damage Card Set

Summary

• The Arcanist is a high mobility and damage class with low survivability.
• Specialization is the main Combat Stat of the Empress's Grace Arcanist.
• Normal Skills deal solid damage and fill up the Deck Meter faster.
• Stacking Skills provide useful buffs, mobility and add at least one Stack to the targets hit the skill.
• Ruin Skills consume all Stacks applied on the target and deal high damage based on the Stack count.
• Skill Rotation and Identity Cards usage, need to be managed simultaneously to maximize the damage output and survivability of Arcanist.