Barrage Enhancement Artillerist Skill Guide for Lost Ark

Barrage Enhancement Artillerist's entire purpose is generating Barrage Meter and using it to enter burst, so the Normal skills we select will all cater to that end goal.

• Flamethrower: Your main source of Barrage Meter. Load is the main priority on this skill. This has the same cooldown as Gravity Explosion and should be kept aligned with it.
• Gravity Explosion: The second highest generator of gauge. If your group is lacking stagger damage, feel free to run Stun Effect instead of Vital Point Barrage. This has the same cooldown as Flamethrower and should be kept aligned with it.
• Homing Barrage: One of your two delayed skill shots. Care should be taken to ensure this hits the enemy. There's approximately a three second delay before this explodes, use this to your advantage. Same cooldown as Air Raid, and should be paired together for a smooth rotation.
• Air Raid: The other delayed skill shot in your arsenal. Same rules apply, take care to ensure this lands on the enemy. Has a three second delay before it deals damage. Same cooldown as Homing Barrage, and should be paired together for a smooth rotation.
• Enhanced Shell: Your main filler. Use this to start your rotation and apply Armor Destruction, as well as in between each pairing of your longer cooldown actions. If you decide to take Internal Ignition, this does provide extra stagger damage.
• Summon Turret: Barrage Enhancement is more reliant on specific Tripods for Summon Turret. It's recommended you run Big Pack simply because more turrets means more gauge generation. Laser Turret is an option, depending on downtime and boss movement. This build also doesn't have the luxury of running Armor Destruction, since Level 5 on Sub Battery grants each turret an extra two autos which means faster turn around into your burst window.

These are mostly preference, try them all out and see which one you're the most comfortable with.

• Napalm Shot: Slightly more damage than the other two options, but at the cost of a longer cooldown and also a longer casting time, making quick counter reactions harder to do. The plus side to this is the Tripod Target Focus, placing a +20% stagger debuff on the target.
• Swing: Probably the best option for the average player. It's been chosen for this build to provide some much needed mobility with Advancing Hit. Has a faster animation than Napalm Shot, and the ability to add Weak Point Enhancement if needed.
• Forward Barrage: Nearly spammable. Extremely short cooldown. Not a lot of upside to this skill other than that. If you decide to use this one, you should eventually ween yourself off it for the other two options.

While Energy Field on the surface looks like a normal shield to prevent chip damage, this skill serves a greater purpose: Push-immunity. Super armor your way through boss damage and ensure your big damage skills go off uninterrupted. This is just another reason to try and line up skill pairings, as noted above. By doing so, you can super armor two of your longer cooldown skills instead of just one. Energy Increase is taken in this build since your time spent out of Barrage Mode is a lot shorter.

Each time you enter Barrage Mode the goal should be to get off two casts of Barrage: Howitzer, one Barrage: Focus Fire, and one Barrage: Energy Cannon. Each burst phase can also utilize a single usage of Bombardment: Impregnability, and it can be used at any point, even while in the middle of using other Barrage skills.

• Barrage: Howitzer: Typically how you'll start your burst windows. Applys Armor Destruction, so there's no risk of dropping your Synergy raid buff. Also a reliable source of weak point damage.
• Barrage: Focus Fire: Each window will always have one use. If an enemy is staggered when entering your burst, start with this instead of Barrage: Howitzer, as Barrage: Focus Fire deals 30% more damage against staggered enemies. Rearranging your Barrage skills like this will still allow the expected amount of usages before leaving burst.
• Barrage: Energy Cannon: This is where the damage comes from. As of the recent rework, this skill is now a holding skill, so it can be cancelled unlike before. Be wary when using this, you turn very slowly when casting this, so if the boss moves, it may just reduce you down to zero DPS.
• Bombardment: Impregnability: 30% shield, goes without saying this is somewhat useful. On top of nullifying a decent chunk of damage, this counts towards Adrenaline stacks.

Prioritize tripods that increase Barrage Meter gain above all else. Anything that directly increases resource generation ( Load) or extends a duration ( Sub Battery) falls under this.

Skill Name	Tripod 1	Tripod 2	Tripod 3
Enhanced Shell	Armor Destruction (N/A)	Load (High)	Internal Ignition (Low)
Swing	Quick Attack (N/A)	Advancing Hit (N/A)	N/A
Summon Turret	Sub Battery (High)	Enhanced Turret (Medium)	Big Pack (Medium)
Flamethrower	Load (High)	Ranged Flame (N/A)	Azure Flame (Low)
Gravity Explosion	Vital Point Barrage (Low)	Sweeping Gravity (Medium)	Planetary Gravity (Low)
Air Raid	Quickfire (Medium)	Lightning Barrage (Low)	The Big One (Low)
Homing Barrage	Guiding Enhancement (N/A)	Weak Point Detection (Low)	Power Bomb (Low)
Energy Field	Mind Concentration (N/A)	Energy Increase (Low)	Solid Shield (N/A)

• Enhanced Shell: Quick Recharge
• Summon Turret: Bleed
• Pressurized Heatbomb: Galewind
• Multi-Rocket Launcher: Galewind
• Air Raid: Galewind
• Napalm Shot: Overwhelm
• Homing Barrage: Rage
• Energy Field: Rage

• Summon Turret
• Barrage: Energy Cannon (Covers all Barrage skills)
• Gravity Explosion
• Air Raid
• Homing Barrage

• Enhanced Shell
• Flamethrower
• Gravity Explosion
• Air Raid
• Homing Barrage
• Energy Field