Master Summoner Guide for Lost Ark

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Strengths

• High damage ceiling
• High Identity generation for constant Ancient summons
• Hit Master class and does consistent DPS

Weaknesses

• Expensive in the late game to maximize late game
• Susceptible to rotation bottlenecks without high level cooldown gems
• Little to no mobility / Swiftness

You can use the raid build and use Preemptive Strike, which is enough to clear dungeons in a timely manner. You can swap-in other skills like Shurdi or Fleeting Gale Bird for additional AOE. Using Phoenix & Jahia helps with room cleaning mobs.

Master Summoner has a slower, but heavy hitting burst with higher Identity orb generation than its counterpart Communication Overflow. Though this build of Summoner is a late bloomer, not being able to stretch its legs until at least having full relic gearset. On top of that, having high stats and heavy investment in gems really makes the class feel significantly smoother. You'll have options for your 8th skill depending on your preference. Flash Explosion is a low cooldown skill good for upkeeping Adrenaline. Steed Charge gives you more stagger damage and generates a moderate amount of Identity gauge. Lastly, Pauru who is now a kamikaze pet that grants an Attack Power buff when he goes away.

The main focus with Master Summoner is to build your Identity orbs and use Ancients within buff windows for high burst damage. With reduced orb cost (by one) of your Ancients along, you'll be generating a lot of orbs to use on Ancients. A majority of your damage stems from placing these summons inside your self buffs. While you should try to prioritize placing them underneath buff windows, therein lies a potential bottleneck in your rotation if one of two things should happen. If you generate orbs faster than your buffs' cooldown, you'll have to sit on the summon and wait for buffs to be ready. If your buffs are up before the required orbs for a summon, you'll have to use and/or wait on skills that generate more gauge. This is why high level cooldown gems are advised for an overall more fluid gameplay loop. However, this shouldn't take away from the stat and skill rune requirement either. Early game or even mid-game you'll have to play around the specifics that your build can allow.

Akir is your thunderous version of Doomsday, having a bit of delay before the final big hit. You can apply the buff from Sticky Moss Swamp after casting Akir and still manage to buff the final hit due to the animation delay on the summon. The end goal is to fit Akir in every buff window, but this is not always feasible. Cooldowns of skills that build your orbs may not align properly to allow for this along with other factors aforementioned. The following example assumes you're able to start an encounter with full gauge already:

• Casting Electric Storm will help us gain meter and top us off after using our first Akir and Bagron's Wrath.
• Summon Akir and buff up with Sticky Moss Swamp. Use Bagron's Wrath to fill your meter in conjunction with the last ticks of Electric Storm.
• Summon the second Akir and buff it with Elcid.
• Use your third Akir within Elcid and build meter again with Ancient Spear. Cancel it's animation with Earth Collapse.

After your opener you'll just follow the priority of building orbs and trying to get two summons within your 5.0s buff windows. Additionally you can use either Steed Charge for extra meter gain or take Pauru for an extra buff that you can optimize around. Alimaji is a good option if the boss is staggered as it gains +50% damage and has a lower cost to summon than other Ancients. You'll be keeping skills on cooldown while following the priority of Ancients in buffs. Make sure to have near 100% uptime on Shurdi for extra Critical Rate.