Artillerist Guide for Lost Ark

Do you love the idea of playing MMO games with guns and heavy firepower? Then, the best class to use when playing Lost Ark is the Artillerist class. Wielding Launchers (a machine gun), Artillerists can turn this machine gun into rocket launchers, flamethrowers, or turrets. While they’re not as mobile as other classes, they have heavy armor, which helps protect them from heavy damage. A master of close and mid-range attacks, Artillerists are dealers of heavy damage within an AoE. If you’ll love to deal heavy damage to foes when gaming, then this Artillerist Guide for Lost Ark guide is for you.

We also have several other class guides for Lost Ark including the Sorceress, Deathblade, and Berserker!

Artillerist Characteristics and Identity Skill Guide

The Artillerist is one of the four Advanced Classes under the Gunner class. They wield Launchers which they can convert into various guns such as flame throwers. They can also set up turrets that inflict additional damage while using the Launcher to create colossal chaos. One of the tankiest classes in the game, Artillerists make up for their moderate mobility with heavy armor. They can take up good damage, without doing much damage to their HP. If you’re a beginner looking for a class that can keep you in the game long enough, Artillerists are a good choice.

Although Artillerists can deliver heavy damage, you have to be able to land these skills to actually hit your foes. This is where you might experience some difficulty with the Artillerist class. As an Advanced Class that deals mainly in AoE attacks, mobile Advanced Classes can easily predict them and dodge their attacks. Hence, you must make sure to master flawless execution of these skills.

Also, Artillerists have quite a few skills like the Air Raid or Homing Barrage which do not require attacking from the back of your foes (Frontal Attacks). While skills like this are easier to cast, the Artillerist’s time-delayed animations might be an issue. This once again reiterates the need for flawless execution with this class.

As you’d know by now, every Advanced Class in Lost Ark has an Identity Skill which gives them the potential to do more damage or give more buffs to teammates. For the Artillerist Advanced Class, their Identity Skill is the Firepower Identity. To access the Firepower Enhancement, you have to deal damage to fill up the Firepower Meter. The Firepower Meter has three parts in which the first two parts give access to the Firepower Identity. As the Firepower Meter fills up, the crit rate also increases depending on the level of the Firepower Identity skill.

However, when the last portion of the bar fills up, the Artillerist enters a special mode known as the Barrage Mode. In this mode, the Artillerist accesses 4 Specialty skills which include Bombardment: Impregnability, Barrage: Howitzer, Barrage: Energy Cannon, and Barrage: Focus Fire. However, when in the Barrage Mode, the Artillerist becomes completely immobile, hence, you need to activate this skill in a position where you don’t take too much damage. 

Another good idea when utilizing the Barrage Mode will be to weaken foes with the heavy-hitting Normal Skills and finish them off with the Barrage Mode. This way, they stand no chance of giving much damage while in an immobile state.

Unlike the Sorceress Class, you need to wait for 20 seconds after utilizing the Barrage Mode before you can start filling up the Firepower Meter again.

Artillerist’s Skills and Tripods Guide

After Levelling, your Artillerist should have unlocked 23 skills which include Normal, Specialty, and Awakening skills. Apart from unlocking these skills, you would have invested points into these skills to unlock their Tripods at this point. With these Tripods, you can do more damage and increase the AoE of your skills.

When leveling in Lost Ark, you won’t be able to unlock all of these skills at once, but once you reach max level these skills should be prioritized.

However, you only require 8 of these skills when playing the game. This section will review the best 8 skills (and their tripods) to work with while playing the game.

• Napalm Shot – Unlocked at Level 10. This skill makes the Artillerist detonate a napalm shell that launches enemies into the air. When the shell, the impact of the blast sets the ground ablaze and delivers Damage over Time (DoT) for 5 seconds. This skill is perfect for countering enemy attacks. However, you need to be within close range to use it as the napalm shell has a short-range. The best Tripods for this skill include Flash Explosion, Chain Explosion, and Target Focus. If you want to increase the damage you deal, add Weak Point Enhancement instead of Target Focus.

• Multiple Rocket Launcher – Unlocked at Level 12. This skill makes the Artillerist fire 5 missiles in random directions. The best Tripods to work with for this skill include Flame Rocket, Quick Barrage, and Access Denied. The Flam Rocket Tripods give a lasting effect to the skill by allowing the debris of the rocket to deliver Damage over Time (DoT).

• Flame Thrower – Unlocked at Level 14. This skill makes the Artillerist fire the flamethrower in a single direction while moving freely. This flame spree lasts for 4 seconds. This skill also requires you to be in close range before use. Also, this skill is a Back Attack so you have to position yourself properly behind your foes before activating it. The best Tripods for this skill include Azure Flame (which increases the duration of the skill while also increasing the damage dealt), and Shield (which increases max HP to allow the Artillerist to survive since it is limited to one direction when using this skill), and Vital Point Attack.

• Air Raid – Unlocked at Level 16. This skill makes the Artillerist fire multiple huge bullets into the air which fall on foes, launching them into the air and causing huge hits to their HP.  The best Tripods to use with this skill include Ruthless Barrage, Quickfire, and Frost Barrage. This combo increases the damage dealt, and the speed of executing the skill while destabilizing the foe’s movements. 
• Summon Turret – Unlocked at Level 24. This skill makes the Artillerist summon a turret to the battlefield while still inflicting damage with the Launcher. The turret attacks surrounding enemies for 10 seconds. The best Tripods include Enhanced Turret to increase damage dealt, and Armor Destruction to help increase damage done to foes with armor. The last will be Big Pack to help increase the number of turrets summoned. 

• Plasma Storm – Unlocked at Level 28. This makes the Artillerist fire a plasma field that stuns enemies momentarily and deals damage over 5 seconds. The bets Tripods for this skill include Plasma Growth, Stun Effect, and Sustain Enhancement. This combo increases the damage dealt, and the duration of the plasma field, and increases the plasma field’s height.

•  Homing Barrage – Unlocked at Level 40. This skill makes the Artillerist plant a homing device at a specified location within 8 meters of its current location. After 4 seconds, a missile falls into the specified area, launching enemies into the air. To make sure the missile hits some foes, you have to lure them into the attack area. The best Tripods include Power Bomb, Guiding Enhancement to shorten the time between the installation of the homing device and the missile’s arrival, and Weak Point Detection.
• Energy Field – Unlocked at Level 50. This skills makes the Artillerist create a shield that absorbs damage from attacks launched by foes. The best Tripods to use include Solid Shield, Field Release, and Energy Increase. Solid Shield gives Push Immunity, Field Release helps deal damage to foes, while Energy Increase increases the duration of the Energy Field.

Artillerist’s Engravings Guide

Every Advanced Class in Lost Ark has Engravings that allow you to access special skills particular to your class. To access these Engravings, you have to complete endgame activities such as Abyss Dungeons, Chaos Dungeons, and Guardian Raids. To activate these Engravings, you need to equip Ability Stones, Accessories, and read Recipe Books.

Every Advanced Class has its Unique Engravings (peculiar to them) and General Engravings (available to other Advanced Classes). There are two types of Engravings for the Sorceress Advanced Class: the Firepower Enhancement and Barrage Enhancement classes. This section will review both Unique Engravings, their characteristics and downsides, and the best General Engravings for the Artillerist Advanced Class.

Artillerist Firepower Enhancement

The Firepower Enhancement Engraving is the more popular Engraving among Lost Ark players and it is easy to see why. This Engraving helps to reduce the damage taken from enemies while also increasing your Crit Rate. The degree to which it increases the Crit Rate depends on the level of the Firepower Meter.

At Firepower Enhancement Level 3, the Engraving reduces incoming damage by 30% while increasing the Crit Rate by 20%, 25%, or 30% depending on the Firepower Meter Level. These huge buffs will surely come in handy in tough battles.

Combat Stats

With this Engraving, Crit should get more of your Combat points for a greater critical strike rate and damage. The next best choice would be Swiftness which reduces the cooldown periods, increases damage dealt, and shortens rotations time. You could assign some points to Specialization and you’re good to go. 

Characteristics

• Reduces the Crit Rate and Incoming Damage.
• It increases the chances of surviving in battles

Downsides

• Largely immobile except for the dodge roll.

Artillerist Barrage Enhancement 

The Barrage Enhancement Engraving, just as the name implies, buffs the damage done with Barrage Skills activated in the Barrage Mode. Apart from this, this Engraving also leaves you with some Firepower Meter juice after returning to the Normal State. While this also comes in handy, it is limited to only when you activate the Barrage Mode.

Combat Stats

For Barrage Enhancement, Crit Rate should till get most of your Combat points. However, you could give Specialization more preference here since it could help get into the Barrage Mode faster. Swiftness could also get some points here.

Characteristics

• Gives extra buffs during Barrage Mode.
• Increases Firepower meter after returning to the Normal State
• Can totally eradicate the cooldown period.

Downsides

• This Engraving is mainly useful in the Barrage Mode.

General Engravings

This section will highlight the best Lost Ark General Engravings to work best with either of the Unique Engravings.

1. Grudge: This General Engraving increases damage done to higher-ranking foes or bosses. However, it also increases the damage taken from them by 20%. Damage increases by 4% at Level 1, 10% at Level 2, and 20% at Level 3. The damage taken from them increases by 20% at all levels.
2. Keen Blunt Weapon: This Engraving increases the critical damage you can cause. However, it also decreases your Damage extent by 20% at all levels. However, the critical damage extent increase with each level (10% at Level 1, 25% at Level 2, and 50% at Level 3).
3. Hit Master: This Engraving increases the damage of attacks not classified as either front or back attacks. The increase is by 3% at Level 1, 8% at Level 2, and 16% at Level 3.
4. Cursed Doll: This Engraving increases Attack Power and decreases Healing but excludes Natural Recovery from the reduction. At Level 1, increases Attack Power by 3% and decreases Healing by 25%. Then, at Level 2, increases Attack Power by 8% and decreases Healing by 25%. At Level 3, increases Attack Power by 16% and decreases Healing by 25%.
5. Barricade: This Engraving increases the damage done to foes while shielded. At Level 1, it increases the damage by 3%. At Level 2, it increases the damage by 8%, and 16% at Level 3.

You can pick any of these two alongside the Unique Engraving to work with. If you’ll be going with Grudge, it is advisable to use it only when it’s at Level 3 due to its drawbacks.

Artillerist’s Awakening Skills Guide

The Artillerist’s Awakening skills include Missile Barrage and Heavy Turret. Find out which is the better pick in this section:

1. Missile Barrage: The Artillerist summons 20 rockets that fly to the specified location and do a world of damage to foes. You unlock this skill at Combat Level 50. Apart from the huge damage this skill possess, it is aesthetically pleasing to watch and immediately refills your Firepower Meter. Unsurprisingly, it is the common choice among Lost Ark players.

• 2. Heavy Turret: The Artillerist summons a heavy turret that deals damage by launching bombs and laser shots. This attack lasts for 20 seconds. You unlock it at Level 50. 

Artillerist PvP Build

In a PvP contest, one thing you definitely want to have is the ability to deal loads of damage. That is something the Artillerist has in abundance. However, his slow movement might also lead to foes easily evading your attacks. To make sure you’re that indestructible Artillerist PvP player, these are the best tips to follow:

First, we start with the Combat Stats. You want to get your Swiftness to about 750 to help with cooldown time reduction and movement speed. Then, share the 250 points between Crit and Domination.

Then we move on to the best skills. The best skills here would include Swing, (Tripods: Quick Attack, Advancing Hit, and Stunner), Napalm Shot (Tripods: Flash Explosion, Chain Explosion, and Target Focus), Flame Thrower (Tripods: Azure Flame, Vital Point Attack, and Shield), Air Raid (Tripods: Ruthless Barrage, Quickfire, and Frost Barrage), Gatling Gun (Tripods: Push Immunity, Cooldown reduction, and, Aim Shot), Homing Barrage (Tripods: Power Bomb, Guiding Enhancement, and Weak Point Detection), Plasma Storm (Tripods; Stun Effect, Plasma Growth, and Sustain Enhancement), and  Howitzer (Tripods: Opportunist, Swift Fingers, and Firework).

The best Engravings would be Barrage Mode, Grudge, Keen Blunt Weapon, Hit Master, and Barricade. The best Awakening Skill to use here will be Heavy Turret. This would be best when you’re overwhelmed. It could help push foes back and help you get some damage in.

When playing skills like Napalm shot or Swing should be your go-to skills since they’re easier to hit. The heavy hitters like Homing Barrage or Plasma Storm should be reserved for later in the heat of battle. When hitting Homing Barrage, it is essential you make sure enemies are in the range before the missiles drop.

You can check out this YouTube video for an easy Lost Ark Artillerist PvP build.

Artillerist PvE Build

This section will focus on our PvE Artillerist guide.

In PvE, you’ll be running into hordes of enemies more times than you can count. While you can’t do much evasion with a class like Artillerist, you can do a lot of damage. To build the best Lost Ark PvE Artillerist, here are the tips to follow:

For combat stats, you should share the stats among Crit and Swiftness in an 80:20 ratio. If you’re already at Level 50, your stats board should read around 1250 Crit to 350 Swiftness.

The best skills to use here would include Napalm Shot (Tripods: Flash Explosion, Chain Explosion, and Target Focus), Multiple Rocket Launcher (Tripods: Frost Rocket, Flame Rocket, and Giant Rocket), Air Raid (Tripods: Ruthless Barrage, Quickfire, and Frost Barrage, Summon Turret (Tripods: Armor Destruction, High-speed Recharge, and Sub Battery), Flame Thrower (Tripods: Azure Flame, Vital Point Attack, and Shield), Energy Field (Tripods: Solid Shield, Field Release, and Energy Increase), Plasma Storm (Tripods; Stun Effect, Plasma Growth, and Sustain Enhancement), and Homing Barrage (Tripods: Power Bomb, Guiding Enhancement, and Weak Point Detection).

The best Engravings would be Barrage Mode, Grudge, Keen Blunt Weapon, Hit Master, and Adrenaline. The best Awakening Skill to use here will be Missile Barrage. With this, you can make it rain missiles on hordes of enemies when clearing out Dungeons or Raids.

Your go-to skills here would be Napalm Shot and Air Raid. This two have the shortest cooldown periods among the array of skills and can do considerable damage. You can reserve heavy hitters such as Homing Barrage or Plasma Storm for when you are overwhelmed.

You can check out this YouTube video to find a high DPS Lost Ark Artillerist Build for PvE content.

Conclusion

Although the Artillerist Advanced Class is not the most mobile class to play with, they make up for it with the heavy damage they can deal. With perfect execution skills and great timing, you’ll be able to score most of your attacks on foes. If you’re looking for the complete Lost Ark Artillerist Guide, then this is the article for you.