Lost Ark Death Blade Build

Introduction

Deathblades accept two viable raid builds centered around each of their Class Engravings, Remaining Energy and Surge. This article focuses on theSurge build.

Deathblades have an Identity Gauge called Death Orb Meter that is charged by using whatever skill. Your meter is divide into 3 Death Orbs. You can enter Decease Trance as long as 1 Death Orb is filled, immediately reducing the cooldowns of all your skills and gaining access to a new big damage skill Bract Surge. Once used, Decease Trance ends.

Normally a Deathblades gameplay is focused around gaining Decease Orb Meter equally quickly equally possible, unleashing Bract Surge and and so repeating the same procedure all over once more. But Surge changes things. Surge replaces Blade Surge with Zippo, providing a flat harm boost and introduces vitrify stack proceeds during Decease Trance. The stacks allow the Deathblade to recover Death Orbs once Bract Surge is used.

Because yous can regain Expiry Orbs, your gameplay will focus around multi-hit skills for vitrify stacking before unleashing Bract Surge for your biggest nuke. With instant Death Orb regeneration, your skills will constantly have low cooldowns, which contributes to the vitrify stacking loop and you lot will exist able to employ Blade Surge relatively quickly again.

Deathblades, no matter the Form Engraving, are heavily reliant on Back Attacks and landing your skills. You desire to brand full use of your buff from applying Open Weakness and the Back Attack +10% Crit Charge per unit. When Deathblades miss their big Expiry Orb Meter gain skills, it is extremely punishing. Your skills accept longer to recharge, your damage rotation is slowed, and as a issue your overall damage uptime is lowered.

This build guide assumes you have a Character at Level l earlier transitioning to it. Cheque out the Deathblade Leveling and ane-50 Leveling guides to accomplish Level l .
Check out the Remaining Energy Deathblade guide for an culling playstyle. Bank check out the Guardian Raids and Abyssal Dungeons guides for an introduction to their content.

High Mobility ✔
Low Skill Reanimation ✔
Team Synergy Buffs ✔
Piece of cake Expiry Orb Direction ✔

❌ Requires Dorsum Assault
❌ Eggs All In One Basket
❌ Punishing if Skills Miss
❌ Some Long Skill Cast Times

Raid Skill Build

Wind Cut and Spincutter are your principal stack builders for Surge as they are multi-hitting skills.
Soul Cushion and Void Strike are your two highest Death Orb Meter generators and deal high harm.
Blitz Rush is another high damage skill.
Earth Cleaver is your Counter skill. Information technology tin can also exist used to generate a couple Surge stacks.
Dark Axel is a dandy repositioning tool, as High Axel allows you lot to spring over bosses to Back Attack.
Maelstrom increases Expiry Orb Meter gain for a short fourth dimension and provides an Attack Speed buff for political party members.
Flash Blink is used over Blade Assault due to its utility. It generates a decent amount of Death Orb Meter with a much faster animation fourth dimension. Wink Glimmer besides allows y'all to phase through bosses for repositioning.

Use the Scroll Bar to see the minimum Skill Indicate resource allotment

Alternatives

If Surge stack generation feels too boring, consider Death Sentence, Moonlight Sonic and Blade Trip the light fantastic. These skills can supersede Void Strike and/or Blitz Blitz.

Gameplay & Skill Rotation

At the beginning of the fight, y'all want to start off by generating 3 Expiry Orbs. That begins your entire rotation. Subsequently, yous want to ideally focus on accumulating 20 buff stacks during Death Trance before using Blade Surge. Each stack increases Blade Surge damage by five/five.5/6%(100/110/120% total)
Stacks accumulate on each hit of a skill with a 0.4 second cooldown, then use Wind Cut and Spincutter often.

Starting Rotation:

Spincutter applies Open Weakness
Maelstrom
Soul Absorber
Blitz Blitz
Void Strike or Moonlight Sonic
Flash Glimmer
Generated 3 orbs.

Main Damage Rotation:

Pre-emptively use Wind Cutting so information technology starts building stacks when Death Trance is activated.
Use Death Trance with 3 Death Orbs to refresh skill cooldowns by 50%.
Spincutter applies Open up Weakness
Wind Cut
Globe Cleaver
Soul Absorber
Maelstrom
Blitz Rush
Spincutter
Void Strike or Moonlight Sonic
Use Bract Surge at 20 Surge stacks to regain 3 Death Orbs. This is your hardest hitting skill, so make certain you Back Attack.
You should be at three Death Orbs once again to repeat the Master Impairment Rotation.

Blade Surge is your principal source of impairment output, so make sure you lot Back Assault with information technology for +x% Crit Rate, Open up Weakness and Master of Deadfall. If yous have to unleash Bract Surge early due to dominate mechanics or situations difficulties , 17 stacks is the "salve signal" equally it refunds 2orbs to exist easier to generate back the i orb with but Void Strike or Moonlight Sonic when you have high Specialization. But Ideally you don't want to always unleash your Blade Surge at 17stacks since it is massive damage loss to the skill.

Stats Priority

Surge Deathblades prioritize high Specialization and Crit. The impairment from Blade Surge scales with Specialization. It also increases the Cooldown Reduction effect from Death Trance and increases Death Orb Meter generation from skills.

Engravings

Class Engravings provide powerful benefits that can significantly change playstyle. Boxing Engravings are generally used to increment damage. Below are the recommended Engravings for this build.

Check out the Engraving Guide for more than details.

Starter Engravings

Surge is the core of this build, maxing this out profoundly increases the damage of your Blade Surge at 20stacks.
Master of Ambush synergizes with Deathblades as they should already be Back Attacking with the Open Weakness debuff from Spincutter.

Improver Endgame Engravings

Adrenaline provides an easy source of Crit Rate for Deathblades, since their skills are spammed with low cooldowns to upkeep the buff.
Sight Focus tin be used to increase Blade Surge damage.
Super Accuse works well with Rush Rush, Void Strike and Soul Absorber charging skills.
Keen Blunt Weapon * is a decent choice, not the almost optimal. It can be used if you are missing the above Engravings.

Advanced Engravings

Note: The Advanced Engravings are the Best in Slot setup for Tier three content. The penalties attached to these can exist hard to overcome for new players. Only use the following engravings if you are experienced with the boss fights!

Cursed Doll * is an like shooting fish in a barrel Attack Power increase at the cost of 25% healing penalty. The healing penalty can be punishing for inexperienced players not familiar with dominate mechanics.
Grudge * increases harm done while also increasing damage received. The engraving is a highly effective damage increase without needing specific positioning, making information technology worthwhile even with the penalty.

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

Optimal Setups

Engravings are listed in society of priority from left to correct.

Standard

Alternative

Gear Sets

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

If speedrunning your alts, you tin skip Abyss Dungeon Set to 1370 gearscore by only honing Chaos Dungeon Gear.
If yous're shut to 1445 gearscore and were already doing Valtan/Vykas Normal Mode, you can skip crafting the Legendary Legion Raid Gears.
If you have already crafted Relic Gears, agree onto them because once y'all unlock the Gear Set Conversion feature, yous will be able to freely swap between Relic Legion Raid Sets.

"Play at your ain footstep" Route

Tier one

340 gearscore
Seraphic Oath Set up

460 gearscore
Boisterous Elemental Set

Tier 2

840 gearscore
Marvelous Earth Ready

960 gearscore
Unyielding Will Set up

Early Tier 3

1302- 1370 gearscore
Twisted Dimensional Fix

Tier 3 Argos Set

1370 -1415 gearscore
Preordained Diligence Set

Tier 3 Legion Raid Set

1415 - 1444 gearscore
Preordained Diligence Gloves & Shoulders
Demon Beast Forcefulness 4 pcs

Started at 1445+ gearscore
Earth'south Entropy Fix

Legion Raid Optional Path

Verse form of Conservancy Gloves & Shoulders is preference if you take Demonic Beast's Bone to craft them early and you'll be able to convert them into Earth's Entropy Set pieces afterward you unlocked Gear Prepare Conversion.

Runes

Runes enhance Skills with extra bonuses. All Rune drops are account leap and take express availability, then placement of Runes on the correct Skills is important. Beneath are the recommended pairings.
Bank check the Rune Guide for more details.

Skills	Runes
Soul Cushion	Wealth
Blitz Blitz	Galewind
Void Strike	Wealth
Earth Cleaver	Overwhelm
Wind Cut	Rage
Maelstrom	Focus
Spincutter	Bleed Rage Quick Recharge Purify
Nighttime Axel	Protection

Rage is best used withCurrent of air Cut or Spincutter to increase the speed of the Skill Rotation.
Galewind is ideal for speeding up your all-time damage dealing skills.
Overwhelm is used with World Cleaver to further improve its Stagger.
Wealth is used with the Death Orb Meter generation skills.
Focus reduces mana toll of skills.
Bleed or Quick Recharge can exist used with a Spincutter because of its low cooldown, allowing for constant application.
Protection absorbs incoming damage while using Dark Axel.

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 v and each level can increment 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.

Soul Cushion	Swift Fingers Fist of Darkness Halve
Air current Cutting	Quick Training Sustain Enhancement
Blitz Rush	Vital Signal Strike Charge Enhancement Shadow Rush
Dark Axel	Swift Fingers

Void Strike	Orb Command Void Zone
Earth Cleaver	Weak Indicate Detection Earth Explosion
Maelstrom	Orb Control Night Order
Spincutter	Quick Grooming

Gems

Gems grant bonus damage and cooldown reduction to specific skills. Yous tin can only equip 11 of these Gems at a time then information technology is recommended that you prioritize the Gems for your near important skills.

Please visit our Gem Arrangement Guide for more information like how to create college tier Gems.

Assault Gems

Soul Cushion
Blitz Blitz
Void Strike
Bract Surge

Cooldown Gems

Soul Cushion
Blitz Rush
Void Strike
Maelstrom
Spincutter
Dark Axel
Wind Cut

Card Sets

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

Budget Carte Prepare

Optional Card Set

Optimal Damage Card Fix

Summary

Immediately activate Death Trance as Wind Cut is active to go 2-4 stacks at the beginning.
Deathblades, no affair the Class Engraving, are heavily reliant onBack Attacks and landing your skills.
Remember to not overlap skills too fast because of the 0.4 sec interval cooldown between stack generation.
Blade Surge is your hardest hitting skill, then make sure yous Dorsum Assault with information technology and don't miss!

Credits

Written past Rei
Edited by Yaen
Reviewed by Lexyu

Changelog

Jun 11th 2022

Adjusted Gearsets section to include Vykas parts.

May 18th 2022

Updated Gearsets upgrade paths to include Valtan gears. Updated Skill Rotations related to the remainder changes.