Lost Ark - Reaper Guide - PvE Focused - by @Konata

Introduction

The Chaos and Cube build heavily focuses on large Area of Effect (AoE) skills with low Cooldowns to clear the content as fast as possible. This content isn't difficult and can easily be completed by spamming skills. The Cube requires some additional teamwork and stage knowledge to complete. The Combat Stats are not as important as they are for PvP or Raid builds. Simply use the recommended Raid gear and Combat Stat distribution from the Lunar Voice Reaper Raid Guide and Hunger Reaper Raid Guide.

Chaos & Cube Skill Build

• Shadow Vortex is used on both builds to reduce Swoop skills cooldown and help up keep their Identity resources.

• Spinning Dagger provides extra AoE Clearing for Hunger build.

• Distortion is a mobility skill that can phase through mobs and bosses to reposition if needed to burst elites/bosses down with Rage Spear.

• Shadow Storm is a gauge generator for both build and it also serves as an AoE clearing skill.

• Shadow Trap provides an AoE stun while grouping up mobs around you and also reduces other Shadow Skills cooldown for Lunar Voice build.

• Glowing Brand, Rage Spear and Dance of Fury are your main burst skills.

Gameplay

Chaos Dungeon and Cube content are fairly easy to complete. A simplified rotation is used:

1. Use Distortion to speed yourself up to lure mobs around and it can be used to phase through bosses and elites to quickly burst them down with your Swoop Skills on their back.

2. You can use Lunar Eclipse: Cadenza early to get your burst cycle ready for Lunar Voice build or charge up your Persona Gauge instantly to get into Chaos Gauge faster as Hunger build.

3. Make sure to use Shadow Trap to reduce other Shadow Skills cooldowns while also gathering mobs together so you can burst down the tight pack together as Lunar Voice build.

4. Glowing Brand and Rage Spear are really high damage skills that can be used to burst down bosses.

5. Spam Shadow Vortex whenever to reduce Swoop Skills cooldown for both builds and it also serves as a gauge generator for Lunar Voice variant.

6. You don't have to be conservative with Awakening skill usage since the 40-100% Cooldown refresh from killing Elites/Bosses and 40% Cooldown Reduction buff from Rift Cores work on them as well.

The Cube is slightly more difficult than Chaos Dungeon and usually requires a party and stage knowledge to complete. Check out the Cube Guide and Chaos Dungeon Guide for more information. Combat Stats

Sub-stat priority is not important, as the content is easy as long as the player is using matching Tier Gear and accessories.

Runes

Runes enhance Skills with extra bonuses. All Rune drops are account bound and have limited availability, so placement of Runes on the correct Skills is important. Below are the recommended pairings. Check the Rune Guide for more details.

• Quick Recharge is paired with Shadow Vortex since it has extremely low cooldown with Thirst build if you have really high Swiftness to proc the cooldown refresh more frequently.

• Rage is paired Distortion for Hunger build to get some attack speed increase if it procs to speed up your skill casting even faster.

• Bleed can be paired on Call of the Knife to finish off some left over low HP mobs.

• Wealth runes are very important for Lunar Voice build to get your Persona Gauge up quickly to cycle through your Swoop bursts.

• Galewind is used for speeding up your main damage skills animations. Summary

• Distortion gives a massive movement speed boost to help move across the map to lure mobs into a tight pack and can be used to phase through bosses to get to their back to burst them down quickly.

• Shadow Trap helps reduces all Shadow Skills cooldown for Lunar Voice variant after you used all the other Shadow Skills.

• Spam Shadow Vortex whenever you can to reduce Swoop Skills cooldowns.

• Glowing Brand and Rage Spear are your boss killing skills.

• Killing Elites/Bosses and breaking Rift Cores grant a Cooldown refresh or Cooldown Reduction buff. This works on Awakening Skills, so you can use them often. The Reaper arrives fast from the shadows with her agility and precision. The class has three distinct skill sets that allow her to have a plethora of playstyles. Dagger skills focus on skills revolving around her sharp blades. Shadow skills consist of her many clone abilities that come to her aid or for general mobility. Finally, her Swoop skills are her "red" skills, allowing her to impact the map with huge burst damage.

There are two modes for Reaper, Chaos and Persona mode. Chaos mode revolves around her fast and agile form, focusing on a barrage of attacks. On the other hand, Persona mode focuses on landing big Swoop attacks during the duration.

In this article, we will be covering Lunar Voice, a build revolving around her Persona Mode for big hits. If you're interested in big hits out of stealth, look no further than this Reaper build.

Check out the Hunger Reaper Build Guide for an alternative Reaper playstyle.

This build guide assumes you have a Character at Level 50 before transitioning to it. Check out the Reaper Leveling and 1-50 Leveling guides to reach Level 50.

Check out the Guardian Raids and Abyssal Dungeons guides for an introduction to their content.

Raid Skill Build

• Nightmare is your main Counter skill as the initial dagger toss counters as well as the teleport explosion from Back Attack allowing you to essentially counter while at the back of the boss. It also lets you teleport to the opposite direction of your current position if you marked the target with the initial dagger toss which makes the back chasing less annoying. Unfortunately Poison: Corrosion only stacks once with this skill even with 2 sequences of attacks.

• Shadow Vortex debuffs 12% defense reduction with Poison: Corrosion and it also reduces cooldowns of your Swoop Skills.

• Distortion serves as your mobility skill and it can phase through bosses which allows you to reposition at the back easier.

• Shadow Trap is also another Counter skill but it will take a little getting used to using it since it back dashes you on use, but it does generate a decent amount of Persona Gauge and also helps reduce Shadow Skills cooldowns.

• Shadow Storm is mainly used as a Persona Gauge generator in this build since it can generate a massive amount of gauge with high level Charge Shadow.

• Rage Spear, Dance of Fury, and Glowing Brand are your main damage skills scale with your Specialization stats.

Alternatives

• Awakening Skill:

  1. Lunar Eclipse: Cadenza is used most of the time as it does more damage than the latter awakening and it generates a full bar of Persona Gauge for you to instantly set up the next burst.

  2. Solar Eclipse: Requiem deals way lesser damage but has a faster animation and it deals damage while dashing towards the target while in stealth, which doesn't have a lot of usage in PvE aside for Brelshaza Gate 3 during shapes phases to single out 3 targets among the clutters easily.

Gameplay & Skill Rotation

You should test out having "Cursor Aim" on or off on Gameplay > Combat Related Settings > Combat Settings for personal preference. This allows some skills (e.g. Shadow Storm and Glowing Brand) to be easier used at certain angles to phase through bosses. However, if you are used to Cursor Aim assist, you might miss some skills. It's up to you, try it out! Lunar Voice Reapers are gauge builders-burst DPS similar to Deathblow Strikers, where they have to charge up their Persona Gauge with a couple of gauge generators (Dagger and Shadow Skills) and then activate Persona Mode(Default Keybind: Z) to burst with any of your next Swoop Skills. Though keep in mind that performing any attacks will cancel out of Persona Mode but only Swoop Skills will get the damage increase while in Persona Mode, Shadow Step(Spacebar)won't cancel you out from the mode. Charging into Chaos Gauge does not bring its buffs into Persona Mode hence there is no reason to charge full bars of Chaos Gauge, you can immediately enter Persona Mode as soon as Persona Gauge is filled.

General Tips:

• Using Persona Mode will make you do a backflip which will sometimes be inconvenient positioning-wise. Hence before you activate Persona Mode, you should point your cursor in the opposite direction of the target so you will backflip into the boss maintaining a close position to the boss. *A fair warning that the backflip can phase through some bosses/elites which might put you in a worst position.

• Lunar Eclipse: Cadenza and Shadow Trap move you backward on use as well, hence the tip above can be applied here as well.

• Nightmare can help you reposition to the back of bosses if you are in front of them since it teleports you to the opposite direction of where you're at after you marked them with the initial dagger toss. Prioritize sticking to the back of bosses than only using it for the purpose of rotations.

• Distortion can phases through bosses as long as they're not too big, which helps you to maintain your position at the back of the bosses. Hence use it for positioning priority than only for rotations.

The Basic Rotation:

Extra Note: If you are already at the back of the boss, you can do Nightmare > Distortion > Nightmare to maintain at the back while generating some gauge doing it.

Cycle 1

1. Shadow Storm

2. Shadow Vortex

3. Persona

4. Glowing Brand or Rage Spear or Dance of Fury

Cycle 2

1. Shadow Vortex

2. Nightmare

3. Nightmare

4. Distortion

5. Shadow Trap or Shadow Vortex

6. Persona

7. Glowing Brand or Rage Spear or Dance of Fury

Stats Priority

Lunar Voice Reapers focus on Specialization to increase their Swoop Skills damage with some Crit from necklace or engraving to help cap 80-100% Crit Rate on those skills. Furthermore, the higher Specialization stats you have the faster you get to cycle out your burst as you get to fill out your Persona Gauge faster to activate Persona Mode.

• Standard: Get Specialization on every accessory with Crit coming from only your necklace.

• Alternative: Get Specialization on every accessory with Swiftness coming from only your necklace. This setup will require Adrenaline to help compensate for the lack of Crit Rate.

Engravings

Class Engravings provide powerful benefits that can significantly change play style.

Battle Engravings are generally used to increase damage. Below are the recommended Engravings for this build.

Check out the Engraving Guide for more details.

Starter Engravings

• Lunar Voice makes your Persona mode give you an instant buff instead of having to wait 5 seconds for the full effect, hence allowing you to instantly attack right after using Persona mode for a massive damage increase for your Swoop Skills.

• Ambush Master is your best damage engraving as Reapers can easily reposition to back with many of her mobilities and all of her attacks have Back Attack modifiers.

Add-On Endgame Engravings

• Keen Blunt Weapon* works really well for this build since all the main damage Swoop Skills have high Crit Rate Skill Tree node on them and more Crit Rate from Earth's Entropy Set to further increase its efficiency.

• Adrenaline is an alternative option of Cursed Doll to compensate some Crit Rate if you are using a Swiftness-Specialization necklace. though this setup is rarely used until bracelets exist in the future as it comes with the inconvenience of checking and maintaining stacks before bursting your skills.

Advanced Engravings

Note: The Advanced Engravings are the Best in Slot setup for Tier 3 content. The penalties attached to these can be hard to overcome for new players. Only use the following engravings if you are experienced with the boss fight!

• Grudge* increases damage done to bosses while also increasing damage received from bosses. The engraving is a highly effective damage increase that does not require specific positioning, making it worthwhile even with the penalty.

• Cursed Doll* provides a significant Attack Power increase at the cost of 25% healing penalty. The healing penalty can be punishing for inexperienced players not familiar with boss mechanics.

(*)These Engravings should only be used at Engraving Level 3.

Gear Sets

These are the specific gear sets for each tier. Check out the Gear Set Guide for more details.

Notes :

• If speedrunning your alts, you can skip Abyss Dungeon Gear up to 1370 gearscore by just honing Chaos Dungeon Gear.

• If you're close to 1445 gearscore and were already doing Valtan/Vykas Normal Mode, you can skip crafting the Legendary Legion Raid Gears.

• If you have already crafted Relic Gears, hold onto them because once you unlock the Gear Set Conversion feature, you will be able to freely swap between Relic Legion Raid Sets.

"Play at your own pace" Route

Tier 1 340 gearscore Seraphic Oath Set 460 gearscore Boisterous Elemental Set Tier 2 840 gearscore Marvelous Earth Set 960 gearscore Unyielding Will Set Early Tier 3 1302-1370 gearscore Twisted Dimensional Set

Tier 3 Argos Set 1370 -1415 gearscore Preordained Diligence Set Tier 3 Legion Raid Set 1415 - 1444 gearscore Hold onto Preordained Diligence Set 1445+ gearscore Earth's Entropy Set unes

Runes enhance Skills with extra bonuses. All Rune drops are account bound and have limited availability, so placement of Runes on the correct Skills is important. Below are the recommended pairings. Check the Rune Guide for more details.

SkillsRunesNightmare WealthShadow Vortex Purify WealthDistortion Wealth Rage PurifyShadow Trap WealthShadow Storm WealthDance of Fury GalewindRage Spear GalewindGlowing Brand Galewind Overwhelm

• Galewind is ideal for speeding up your highest damage dealing skills.

• Purify is best used on a low cooldown skill during specific boss encounters that will benefit from cleansing debuffs/dots effects.

• Overwhelm can be pair with Glowing Brand if your party is struggling to clear certain Stagger Checks in contents.

• Wealth runes are the most important runes for this build particularly as you want to generate enough gauge fast to cycle through all your main damage skills as soon as possible. But depending on the amount of Specialization stats you have, you have to make some adjustments to the rune placement on the skills shown on the table. If you have 1200-1350 Specialization, it is best to use Legendary Grade Wealth on Shadow Storm. 1400-1600 you can use Epic grade and 1650 above you can switch it down to Rare grade which opens up the Epic and Legendary Grade runes for other skills.(this is also assuming you have Charge Shadow maxed out.)

Gear Skill Tree

While Gems add benefits to skills, you can also increase the effects of Skill Tree themselves. Skill Tree levels go up to 5 and each level can increase the damage, cooldown reduction or buff that they provide.

For more information on how to add equipment Skill Tree and how to get them, please visit our Skill Tree System Guide.

Glowing BrandVital Point Hit Enhanced Swoop TestamentRage SpearFatal Dagger Ambush Concentrated AttackDance of FuryPiercing Strike Fatal Dagger Suppressed MoveShadow StormCharge Shadow Quick Prep or Period Shadow Zone

Gems

Gems grant bonus damage and cooldown reduction to specific skills. You can only equip 11 of these Gems at a time so it is recommended that you prioritize the Gems for your most important skills.

Please visit our Gem System Guide for more information like how to create higher tier Gems.

Attack Gems Glowing Brand Rage Spear Dance of Fury Cooldown Gems Glowing Brand Rage Spear Dance of Fury Nightmare Shadow Vortex Shadow Trap Distortion Shadow Storm

Card Sets

Cards are an endgame system for maximizing your character. Below are the recommend sets for this class. Check out the Card Guide for more details on how to obtain them.

Summary

• Lunar Voice Reapers are really mobile with a ton of skills moving her around while using them, which can be a good or bad thing depending on your awareness of positioning and this particular build focuses on more bursty damage gameplay than its counterpart. But be aware that reapers generally lack defense and general health compared to most other classes which make them take a substantial amount of damage even though it's just a few swipes from the bosses.

• Swoop Skills are your main damage skills that scale with your Specialization stats and their damage gets further increased when you are using them in Persona Mode. Performing any attacks will take you out of Persona Mode even if they are not Swoop Skills and they do not get damage increase from the mode, but using Shadow Step(Spacebar) does not take you out from the state.

• Lunar Voice focuses on stacking a ton of Specialization stats as mentioned above that it increases your Swoop Skills damage and it also increases the amount of Persona Gauge gain letting you cycle through your rotation faster without taking too many skills to charge up for a single burst.

• Wealth runes are very important for this build to further smoothen out your gauge gain to keep the burst cycles going. So make sure you have all the high grades and a couple of low grades runes prepared.

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