Lunar Voice Reaper Guide for Lost Ark
The highly mobile Reaper sports a dagger as it's weapon, alongside of the ability to vanish on command and even summon clones of itself to defeat enemies. Reaper can cycle through three modes of combat: Normal, Persona, and Chaos.
Lunar Voice Reaper: Skill Builds and Rotation
If you're looking for further information on the Lunar Voice Engraving build for Reaper, the following links will provide that for you.
Lunar Voice Reaper Strengths and Weaknesses
High burst damage ceiling
Plenty of mobility options
Fast skill animations and low cooldowns
Heavily punishing for inexperienced or poor play
Low effective HP
Can be expensive to build as a Spec class
Chaos Dungeon Skill Build
Opting for four Shadow skills, replacing Nightmare for
Call of the Knife for better AOE. For
Dance of Fury and
Glowing Brand, their third tripod option
changes for better crowd control and damage.
Raid Skill Build
Prioritize leveling all Swoop skills to maximize damage potential and Dagger
skills for your counter and the Swoop Activation tripod on
Shadow Vortex.
Distortion can be leveled to use the second tripod
Tailwind if
you want the extra movement speed. For your eigth skill, you have options between
Shadow Trap,
Black Mist,
Spirit Catch and
Spinning Dagger.
Shadow Trap is taken as a second counter
and also reduces your cooldown of all Shadow skills through the tripod
Activate Shadow
Lunar Voice's Playstyle
Lunar Voice revolves around a build-spend damage loop, entering Persona Mode
and cashing in on the enhanced Swoop skill damage. With a high Specialization requirement, you'll be in
need of
Wealth runes to minimize the amount of filler skills before another Swoop
finisher. Having some leeway as to what eigth skill to bring, your choice depends on how much Specialization you have
and this also affects what rarity skill
Wealth rune you want to put on each skill.
Using your awakening skill
Lunar Eclipse: Cadenza increases your gauge by one full bar. This is very useful
when starting an encounter to immediately transition into Persona Mode./p>
There's several loose rotations that vary upon your skill selection and amount of Specialization.
In general the most popular options are taking Shadow Trap or
Black Mist.
Taking
Shadow Trap does mean you have to deal with another backstep skill which you have to be
conscious of just like when entering Persona Mode. This can be a nuisance for inexperienced or inattentive players, however,
it can be taken advantage of as a movement tool. The punishment with this build comes with missing skills that are crucial to building meter.
Assuming you have at least 1600 Specialization, your damage cycle can look like this:
- Build Persona Meter with
Shadow Storm &
Shadow Vortex. Enter Persona Mode and cash in with
Rage Spear.
- Start your second cycle with
Shadow Trap, then do a mini warp combo with
Nightmare &
Distortion to reposition for Back Attacks.
- Cap your gauge with
Shadow Vortex then use
Glowing Brand.
- For your third cycle, you'll do two
Shadow Vortex & a warp combo before finishing with
Dance of Fury.
Assuming you don't have that much Specialization, you'll be forced to put in more filler Dagger or Shadow skills
to enter Persona Mode. This comes at a DPS loss and the cost of having a
wonky skill rotation in later cycles. Using Black Mist over
Shadow Trap makes things more
flexible, albeit the skill itself is a Holding skill which takes some time to get comfy with. You'll still
need high Specialization and multiple
Wealth runes to keep things consistent. Otherwise, you'll be using filler
skills all the same as the other builds. It cycles differs a bit, an example is as follows:
- Build Persona Meter with
Shadow Storm &
Shadow Vortex. Enter Persona Mode and cash in with
Rage Spear.
- Start your second cycle with
Nightmare's full combo, then move to the back of the boss while holding
Black Mist.
- Cap your gauge with
Shadow Vortex then use
Glowing Brand.
- For your third cycle, you'll do two
Shadow Vortex & a warp combo before finishing with
Dance of Fury.
Changelog
- 14 Nov. 2022: Guide Added.
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