Order of the Emperor Arcanist Skill Guide for Lost Ark

Arcanist's Normal skills build your Deck Meter and some provide Synergy for you and your party. The Order of the Emperor Engraving increases the damage each of your Normal skills do.

• Call of Destiny
  • Call of Destiny serves two functions, generating more cards and building stacks quickly. Quick Draw grants a chance of drawing a card upon hitting a target. An important thing to note is that Quick Draw can proc even when hitting invincible targets. Fake Flip actually changes this skill to be Stacking, granting two stacks upon use. Arcanist has multiple builds to choose from, taking Fake Flip makes your stack generation much quicker. Highly recommended to run a cooldown gem on this skill as you'll be using this on cooldown quite often.
• Return
  • Return provides the party with Critical Rate Synergy and gives the Arcanist an insane boost in Critical Damage for 5 seconds. Within Exposed Darkness is your main burst window, being buffed with your cards to deal great amounts of burst damage. The first part of this combo skill also serves as your Counter, just to make this already important button even more useful.
• Unlimited Shuffle
  • Unlimited Shuffle is a good filler skill outside of Emperor's burst windows. It has some movement but does not have push or paralysis immunity.
• Mysterious Stampede
  • Mysterious Stampede has high card draw potential with Quick Draw and having two charges with Mysterious Strategy. On top of having weak point and decent stagger, this skill adds a lot to Arcanist's toolkit.
• Dark Resurrection
  • Dark Resurrection can do massive amounts of damage paired with Return's buffs and the skill's own tripods.
• Evoke
  • Evoke is Emperor's most important skill in terms of damage contribution, that being said it is crucial to have the awareness and knowledge in an encounter to use effectively. Damage on this skill takes awhile to actually come out which is a bit of a double-edged sword. It allows you to use skills such as Stream of Edge and Return to capitalize on the additional Critical Rate & Damage. However if you are unable to use it properly, you lose out a lot on DPS and Deck Meter.

Stacking skills are part of Arcanist's build up to increase damage on their Ruin skills. Some of these skills also provide Arcanist with self buffs or party Synergy.

• Dancing of Spineflower
  • Dancing of Spineflower is an option that would replace Call of Destiny as a normal skill thanks to Fake Flip. While it does more damage, you'll generate less Deck Meter as a trade-off. The only other thing of note is that this skill requires you to be in melee range.
• Stream of Edge
  • Stream of Edge provides Arcanist with a Move Speed, Critical Rate and builds stacks. Your buff from Dark Edge is refreshed across the duration of the skill, enabling you to have increased Critical Rate over your burst windows. The additional Move Speed helps Raid Captain's efficiency. It's highly advised to run a cooldown gem on this skill to ensure high uptime on Dark Edge.

Ruin skills are your big money, big damage buttons that have huge bonuses attached to them detonating stacks and their tripods.

• Celestial Rain
  • Celestial Rain does immense amounts of damage with the risk attached of having no push or paralysis immunity. It does have more range than other Ruin skills, so make sure you are in a safe position before using this to avoid interruption.

Call of Destiny takes Nimble Movement, making the skill faster and harder to whiff. Quick Draw & Fake Flip are must haves, further increasing Deck Meter generation. Dark Resurrection takes Piercing Strike, Intense Card & Furious Blow. To capitalize on the large increase in Critical Damage, you'll want to be using this skill when under your buffs like Dark Edge.

Return is fairly straightforward, giving party Synergy and a self-buff. It's recommended to take Weakness Exposure, Concentrated Card & Exposed Darkness. Unlimited Shuffle runs with Shuffle of Destruction, Core of Darkness for the extra Critical Rate and Storm of Dest.. Quick Prep is an option to avoid potential bottlnecks in your rotation.

Evoke takes a 1/1/1 setup with Quick Prep, Conc. Magick Circle and Split Magick Circle. There is an option to use Overlap Magick Circle, which requires adjustments on when to use it within your rotation. Mysterious Stampede takes Quick Draw, Stampede Conc. & Chain Attack.

Stream of Edge is a very important skill, giving Move Speed & Critical Rate from Acceleration Stream and Dark Edge. Perfect Stream can be omitted if you are strapped for skill points. If you opt to take Dancing of Spineflower, you'll equip Intense Dance, Night Bloomer and Fake Flip.

You'll want to max out all of Celestial Rain's tripods for increased damage a critical rate. Those being Vital Point Hit, Enhanced Strike and Weak Point Detection.

Return's runes are player's choice between Bleed and Rage. Evoke wants Wealth for increased Deck Meter generation. As you'll be spamming Call of Destiny, Bleed is a great choice given the high uptime. Unlimited Shuffle takes Galewind for faster casting and reducing your chances of missing the skill.

Dancing of Spineflower, Dark Resurrection and Celestial Rain all can take Galewind. Though for the latter two, your options broaden with Rage, Overwhelm for Dark Resurrection. While both Celestial Rain & Dark Resurrection can take Quick Recharge. Mysterious Stampede and Stream of Edge want Quick Recharge. Keep in mind that with limited selection of runes, swapping around or using blue runes is okay. For instance, two Quick Recharge doesn't exist, so you'll have to opt for Quick Recharge.

• Emperor Card
• Evoke
• Dark Resurrection
• Unlimited Shuffle
• Celestial Rain

• Return
• Evoke
• Dark Resurrection
• Unlimited Shuffle
• Mysterious Stampede
• Stream of Edge
• Celestial Rain