Evolutionary Legacy Machinist Guide for Lost Ark

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Strengths

• Cost effective to build
• Easy to learn gameplay loop
• Consistent damage output

Weaknesses

• Low effective hp / squishy outside of transformation
• Lower damage ceiling compared to most classes
• Suffers from long downtime periods where they cannot build Core Energy

The majority of your damage is during your transformation and dealing damage with enhanced skills within that 20 second window. Once Hypersync ends naturally, 40% of the Core Energy is refunded. Machinist will want enough Specialization to ensure no more than three skills between Hypersync, accouting for the refunded Core Energy. It's very important to have maxed tripods on your gauge builders such as Command: Baby Drones, Command: Raid Missile and Command: Flare Beam. Having those along with Wealths makes building meter much easier and increases the amount of time within Hypersync. With Bracelets on the way, you'll be able to have additional Specialization making things even easier. Having above 1500 Spec is enough to do three skills between every suit-up. You'll need closer to 1800 Spec if you want to do two skills.

Within Hypersync you do have a priority system in terms of what skills to use. Comet Strike and your Spacebar enhance Slugshot, Laser Blade and Echelon Beam. Due to the engraving's effect, each time to land a skill all other cooldowns are reduced by 0.5 seconds. Given this information we can make a rotation based off damage priority. An enhanced Echelon Beam, Crimson Breaker and an enhanced Laser Blade are your top three DPS skills. You won't really be using Slugshot in a combo since it's damage isn't that spectacular. Your spacebar has a seven second cooldown and Comet Strike has a four second cooldown that can be reduced. Between enhanced skills you can opt to use filler skills, then prepare another enhanced skill with either Spacebar or Comet Strike. An example that you can follow is:

• Open with Comet Strike and use Echelon Beam in front of the boss
• Use Slugshot and Surge Blow as filler, reducing cooldowns.
• Start another combo with Comet Strike & Laser Blade.
• Finally, use Crimson Breaker.
• Loop this rotation again, starting back with Comet Strike into Echelon Beam.

You can go further and get three Crimson Breakers inside transform but it requires having a level 10 cooldown gem on your Sync skills. The rotation essentially changes depending on whether Crimson Breaker or Echelon Beam are on cooldown. The issue of obtaining a level 10 gem aside, this is assuming you're hitting your skills all the time. Obviously, this won't always be the case and you'll end up adjusting the rotation anyway. For general use cases, the rotation above is more than useable and is a good starting point for those learning Machinist.