Perfect Suppression Shadowhunter Guide for Lost Ark

The Shadowhunter is a hybrid and ranged DPS class. This build uses the Perfect Suppression, which disables the ability to transform into a demon but instead makes you stronger in human form. Instead of using the Shadowburst meter to transform, you use it to enhance your skills like Cruel Cutter and other skills at the cost of 20% of the meter.

Strengths

• High burst damage
• Skill diversity
• Strong stagger damage

Weaknesses

• Lacks mobility
• High cooldowns
• Not many push immunity super armors

Here are three builds, depending on your available skill points.

• 248 Skill points
• 296 Skill points
• 340 Skill points

Cruel Cutter is one of your main meter consuming skills. Taking the Encroachment Release Tripod on this skill will make it so when you have at least 20% meter, it will deal an extra 140% damage. This skill is one of your biggest damage dealers.

Howl is a skill that fears mobs in a radius around you and also applies a 12% damage increase synergy for you and your party on the target. In a Perfect Suppression build, this is your highest meter generator to help use your meter spender skills.

Demolition is also a skill that uses your Shadowburst meter to deal more damage if you take the Encroachment Release Tripod with it.

Decimate is a powerful claw swipe, and taking the Encroachment Discharge Tripod will disable meter gain but greatly increase the damage. You can also take Weak Point Detection if you want to generate meter from this skill, this does lower the damage however.

Thrust Impact is a quick skill that deals an attack with your blades followed by an explosion pushing you backwards. We take the Spectral Explosion Tripod to increase the damage and disable meter gain.

Demonic Slash is your movement skill while in human form. You should take Damage Amplification for the damage up raid buff it provides to the group. If you have extra skill points left over, you can take more Tripods like Nimble Movement and Chain Charge to further increase mobility.

Rising Claw is your counterattack skill. Naively Honest should be taken for an easier time.

Sharpened Cut is a great skill for both damage and mobility. Taking the Critical Cut Tripod will greatly increase the damage of the skill.

Perfect Suppression can use alternative skills than the ones I described above.

Demonic Slash, Cruel Cutter, Thrust Impact, Howl, Decimate, and Sharpened Cut are all core skills.

Spinning Weapon and Nimble Cut are also skills that can spend meter to enhance the damage. These can be replaced with the other meter spenders if you prefer.

Grind Chain, Brutal Cross, and Slasher are skills that do not spend the meter but are skills you can replace other skills with. Demonic Clone can be used to either do more damage or generate more meter depending on Tripod choices.

You need to be able to use your meter spender skills in a full rotation. Be sure to use your Awakening Skill, Gates Of Eruption, to generate a large amount of meter from that start.

The skill combo afterwards is: Howl > Cruel Cutter > Sharpened Cut > Decimate > Thrust Impact > Demolition.

You can use Demonic Slash first if you have Rage slotted in for the extra attack speed buff.

This build has two different stat priorities. You can aim for Crit on all accessories with Crit and Swiftness on your necklace. This ensures decent Crit rate and damage with all your skills.

You can also go for more Swiftness focused with Swiftness and Crit on your necklace. This does give you more Movement Speed, Attack Speed and Cooldown Reduction, and overall feels much better to play. However, due to your lower Crit stat, you will need to find a way to make up for the lost Crit using Engravings and gear set effects.

You should aim towards the Harsh Oath set from Argos. This gives you more Crit as you already have a decent amount from your stats alone. The two set effect gives 30% and the five set effect gives 50%. If you are playing with a party member who has five pieces of the opposite set, you also gain 25% Crit rate.

You can also go for the Preordained Dilligence Argos set for a higher Crit rate if you intend to go for more Swiftness than Crit.

• Howl > Encroaching Power.
• Thrust Impact > Deep Thrust > Spectral Explosion.
• Demonic Slash > Damage Amplification > Nimble Movement.
• Demolition > Weak Point Detection > Wave Attack > Encroachment Release.
• Decimate > Quick Prep > Encroachment Discharge > Cruel Hand.
• Cruel Cutter > Earth Attack > Encroachment Release.
• Sharpened Cut > Enhanced Slash > Vertical Slash > Critical Cut.

Perfect Suppression - A core Engraving. This disables the ability to transform but buffs all normal skills by 20%/25%/30%. Because this does not scale much with higher levels, you can choose to leave it at level 1.

Master of Ambush - An excellent Engraving for damage as it increases the amount of back attack damage you deal, and since most of your skills are back attacks, it is a direct damage boost without any catch.

Grudge - Great DPS Engraving as it provides a significant damage boost. This also increases the damage you take by 20% so be sure to only use this at level 3.

Keen Blunt Weapon - This Engraving increases the amount of Crit damage you do. Be sure to have a good Crit rate before considering this.

Cursed Doll - This Engraving is a good addition to take for more DPS. Much like Grudge, take this at level 3 only as it lowers the amount of healing you receive.

Adrenaline - A good Engraving that provides Crit rate and some extra damage. Good to take if you have low cooldowns.

Raid Captain - An Engraving that increases your damage, the faster you move.

• Use your Legendary Wealth on Howl as you need to generate meter to use your meter spender skills.
• Use an Epic Conviction on Cruel Cutter.
• An Epic Judgement Rune on Sharpened Cut is useful since its used right after Cruel Cutter.
• Use an Epic Rage on Demonic Slash since we can use this to close the gap and move towards the enemy for a chance at the Rune buff.
• Place an Epic Overwhelm on Thrust Impact for some extra stagger damage.
• Place an Epic Galewind on Decimate to reduce animation lock.
• use a Legendary Galewind on Demolition since it is a move that takes a while to finish.
• An Epic Quick Recharge should be slotted on Rising Claw since it is just a counter and we can use it as a filler skill and potentially lower cooldowns.

Damage on Cruel Cutter, Demolition, Decimate, Thrust Impact and Sharpened Cut.

Cooldown on Cruel Cutter, Demolition, Decimate, Thrust Impact, Sharpened Cut and Howl

You will want to aim for Light of Salvation, however that will take a while to complete, so in the meantime Lostwind Cliff is the way to go.

Annihilation Gemson Cruel Cutter, Demolition, Decimate, Thrust Impact and Sharpened Cut.

Crimson Flame Gems on Cruel Cutter, Demolition, Decimate, Thrust Impact, Sharpened Cut and Howl.

Perfect Suppression requires you to balance your Shadowburst meter to ensure that you can use your meter spender skills properly. Using skills out of order will affect this and you will not get the most damage out of your skills doing this.

Many of your skills have long cooldowns, which will require you to be patient for cooldowns to come back to do a full burst combo.

While this build has two meter spender skills in the skill build, if you are really having trouble generating meter, then you can swap out a meter spender skill for a non-meter spender skill.