Pinnacle Glaivier Guide for Lost Ark

If you're looking for further information on the Pinnacle build for Glaivier, the following links will provide that for you.

Strengths

• Easy to pick up with rotation structured gameplay
• Has decent Stagger, Weak Point and burst DPS
• Flexible builds allow you to have something for any situation

Weaknesses

• Punishing if you fail to land skills, lacking meter gain
• Diminishing returns on some options given various bonuses to Critical Damage & Rate, Attack & Move Speed
• Doesn't really have big damage numbers with a lot of skills being multi-hit

Your eigth skill doesn't really need to be leveled, we take Flash Kick as a mobility skill. With Excellent Mobility, you'll be able to cover a large amount of distance.

Glaivier has several different builds dependent on how many Blue and Red skills you invest in. These all have different damage ceilings and slight variations in playstyle. Within builds are also various setups to use Conviction / Judgment with minor benefits from consistency to slightly more DPS:

• Pairing Half Moon Slash & Wheel of Blades is a consistent proc method, namely used for the increase MP regeneration when using the Nightmare gearset.
• With Raging Dragon Slash & Wheel of Blades you'll be able to utilize the rune's CDR effect better. This setup is mainly used in 3/4 builds, where Wheel of Blades is a filler DPS skill used for Judgment procs. You'll get a slight DPS increase every third damage cycle due to the slightly faster rotation.
• Raging Dragon Slash and Cutting Wind are used in a similar scenario to the one above, given the Wheel of Blades is leveled for DPS.

All raid skill builds are located within the section of the page pertaining to their rotation in an effort to make it easier to find the information.

Glaivier's rotation is based around building meter and swapping at maximum level for Pinnacle's buff. Within Shackling Blue Dragon's crit buff you'll also want to cycle through as many red skills as you can to further capitalize on the increased Critical Damage within Focus stance. Proccing Conviction / Judgment helps upkeep your Magick Addiction with the increased MP regeneration. Using additional skills to build your meter results in higher MP usage and going into Boundless Mana is a massive DPS loss. Given the amount of different skill builds, as well as Conviction / Judgment setups, rotations require several adjustments on top of the volatility of Legion Raid content. Priorities and base rotations can be followed to an extent; however class and raid knowledge should always be applied to whatever situation you come across to deal more DPS.

Assuming you don't have meter at the beginning of an encounter, you can use the following sequence below. This assumes you run the more common build of 4/3 and have Conviction / Judgment on Half Moon Slash and Wheel of Blades.

1. Use Red Dragon's Horn → Starfall Pounce → Spiraling Spear.
2. Raging Dragon Slash has high innate Critical Rate, so it's used before Shackling Blue Dragon.
3. Cycle Half Moon Slash → Wheel of Blades then use either Awakening Skill.

Note: The opener above is shown before the rotation below, so filler skills are used while waiting for cooldowns to come up again. If you already have meter, then doing the exact sequence below will actually have your red skills fit under Shackling Blue Dragon.

1. Raging Dragon Slash has high innate Critical Rate, so it's used before Shackling Blue Dragon.
2. Cycle Half Moon Slash → Wheel of Blades to fish for a Conviction / Judgment proc.
3. Use Thrust of Destruction → Red Dragon's Horn → Starfall Pounce under Shackling Blue Dragon's buff.

Note: The opener above is shown before the rotation below, so filler skills are used while waiting for cooldowns to come up again. If you already have meter, then doing the exact sequence below will actually have your red skills fit under Shackling Blue Dragon.

1. Raging Dragon Slash has high innate Critical Rate, so it's used before Shackling Blue Dragon.
2. Cycle Half Moon Slash and swap to Focus stance. Wheel of Blades is a filler Judgment skill and it's not a priority.
3. Use Thrust of Destruction → 4-Headed Dragon → Red Dragon's Horn → Starfall Pounce under Shackling Blue Dragon's buff.

1. Raging Dragon Slash has high innate Critical Rate, so it's used before Shackling Blue Dragon.
2. Cycle Half Moon Slash → Wheel of Blades to fish for a Conviction / Judgment proc.
3. Use Red Dragon's Horn → Starfall Pounce → Thrust of Destruction under Shackling Blue Dragon's buff.