Esoteric Flurry Striker Build Guide for Lost Ark

The Esoteric Flurry Striker strikes fast and often. Running an agile build, attacks are plentiful and packed with good mobility, the Striker sweeps the battlefield with flashy martial arts.

Strengths

• Fast and agile
• Very quick Counter
• Constant stream of DPS

Weaknesses

• Backattack reliant
• Resource mechanic can feel clunky
• Tight burst window

The following image shows the skill build of choice and the desired stats. There are three variants below depending on your available skill points.

• 264 skill points
• 312 skill points
• 356 skill points

Striker does not have a very fixed rotation, the initial start up should ideally always be Lightning Whisper since it provides speed and 18% additional critical strike chance.

Your hard hitting abilities can be, but are not limited to:

• Esoteric Skill: Lightning Tiger Strike
• Esoteric Skill: Tiger Emerges
• Esoteric Skill: Blast Formation
• Esoteric Skill: Call of the Wind God

Your remaining skills are used to rebuild the gauge during your downtime while you are waiting for Lightning Whisper to be back up.

The main focus of Strikers is to build their elemental orbs in order to use Esoteric abilities for high burst. The key for the burst rotation is Lightning Whisper and resource builders are Moon Flash Kick and Sky Shattering Blow.

• Lightning's Blessing — Increases attackspeed of yourself and your party by 8%.
• Fatal Lightning — Increases the critical strike chance by 18% for yourself and party members, should always be the start of your damage rotation.
• Blessing of the Wind — Provides a speedboost, ideally used before your rotation to increase your execution speed and give you more room during your burst window.
• Full Moon Kick — Alters the skill to become a single hit burst skill, good damage, great resource builder.

1. Swiftness — Provides cooldown reduction and speed allowing for a steady flow of skills to be used.
2. Critical — Improves your critical strike chance, 400-500 is a good value as most of your crit is derived from sets and Engravings.
3. Specialization — Improves damage of esoteric abilities and also provides better orb gain, even as little as 200 is good enough to streamline the gameplay.

Since your highest priority stat is Swiftness, your pet should be used to boost it further. The defensive option of choice is HP increase.

Striker wants additional critical strike rate. As such, the Preordained Dilligence is an ideal pick to improve your crit rate.

Improving the Tripods on your main skills will greatly enhance your DPS. It is a mix between resource gain, cooldown reduction, speed and damage.

• Abundant Resources helps you build your elemental orbs faster.
• White Flame Kick also provides a massive resource gain.
• Quick Prep allows your rotation to be started earlier, improving not only your own but also your party members dps.
• Quick Prep streamlines your rotation allowing you to synchronise your skills with Lightning Whisper.
• Blessing of the Wind provides a speedboost that improves your execution speed for your rotation.

The core of this build is the Esoteric Flurry which changes every Esoteric ability to only consume one orb and provide a damage boost to those abilities. You can either keep it at level 1 or decide to max it out.

• Grudge is a staple for any DPS and should be taken as the second Engraving.
• Adrenaline provides the much needed crit rate alongside a small damage boost. Upkeep is very simple on Striker due to short cooldowns.
• Master of Ambush adds a massive damage boost to back attacks, a property which all Esoteric abilities have.
• Both Keen Blunt Weapon and Cursed Doll work well on both stances, making them ideal for the fourth or fifth Engraving.

Runes are integral parts to boost your combat prowess in Lost Ark. Strikers are no exeception and use Runes to further boost their combat prowess.

Overwhelm increases your stagger, pairs well with Esoteric Skill: Tiger Emerges to improve Striker's stagger damage.

Rage is ideal on Storm Dragon Kick since every activation can trigger the Rune, giving you three possible activations per skill usage.

Galewind is used to speed up hard hitters, those are Esoteric Skill: Lightning Tiger Strike, Esoteric Skill: Blast Formation, Esoteric Skill: Call of the Wind God .

Wealth provides the much needed resource gain to keep using esoteric abilities, used on Moon Flash Kick, Lightning Whisper and Sky Shattering Blow.

Damage is concentrated around the Esoteric abilities, as such those are boosted with gems. The following skills should use both damage and cooldown gems:

• Esoteric Skill: Blast Formation
• Esoteric Skill: Call of the Wind God
• Esoteric Skill: Lightning Tiger Strike
• Esoteric Skill: Tiger Emerges

The other three gems should be used for cooldown reduction on the following skills:

• Lightning Whisper
• Sky Shattering Blow
• Moon Flash Kick

The full damage rotation does take some time, make sure to line up your skills and cooldowns properly.

Learning how much orb generation you have is vital to ensure you do not end up without elemental orbs.

Lightning Whisper also improves the crit rate for your awakening skill, so use it before to increase your damage output.