Lost Ark: Shadowhunter Class Guide

Energy Overflow - This Engraving is not used very often as Robust Spirit is by far the more reliable Engraving for landing big damage with your World Decimation Awakening skill. Energy Overflow is harder to use. It requires a lot more micromanagement of your ene


Clearing PvE content is all about AoE damage and maximizing your skills where possible. Aim to grab level three Tripods in your abilities - it's better to have fewer high level skills than it is a wide spread of skills at a lower Tripod level. Some Tripods hugely impact the power of the abil


The Bard's Identity Skill is Serenade. You earn Serenade Bars during combat for hitting attack abilities, and each activation of a Serenade consumes one bar. You can stack up to three bars at the same t


The Bard is one of Lost Ark's dedicated support characters and is usually the top choice for a dedicated support in both PvE and PvP, although the Paladin (and in the future, the Artist) see play as well. This class provides all sorts of buffs to the party, including damage reduction, damage increases, and various other bu


Unlike most classes in Lost Ark, the Shadowhunter has two radically different endgame builds that are both equally viable. Demon builds focus on transforming as often as possible, utilizing the Demonic Impulse Engraving to remove the 30-second cooldown between each use. Human builds focus much more on using melee and demon-themed attacks to dish out damage. Below is a short overview of how each build works and plays. More in-depth views of these builds can be found in our Shadowhunter best builds gui


Level 3: Attack power is increased by 16% but all incoming healing is reduced by 25%.

These are easily the most common Engravings you'll see in Lost Ark. Grudge and Cursed Doll are pretty much staples in Tier 1 content, and Keen Blunt Weapon is idea for any crit-heavy burst-damage class, which the Berserker most certainly is if you're playing in Mayhem m


**Updated February 5th, 2022, by Charles Burgar: ** In preparation for the NA and EU release of Lost Ark, we've been hard at work updating all of our class guides. We've updated the Shadowhunter guide to include more information about Engravings, recommended skills, and we've made a few tweaks to ensure that your demonic assassin dishes out as much damage as possi


Demonic Impulse is a favorite for demon builds, allowing you to bypass the 30-second wait period between each transformation. The increased critical chance buff also enhances the strength of your abilities while in demon f


Shadowhunters, known as "Demonic" in Korean and Russian clients, is an advanced Assassin class that has mastered demonic shapeshifting. Shadowhunters dominate the battlefield with their pair of bladed tonfas, demonic-themed powers, and their true demonic f


Slowly stacks crit damage chance over attacks (other than mobile and basic attacks), attack power increases by 1% for 6 seconds (can stack up to 6 times), when it reaches max stack you have an extra 15% chance to c

The Deadeye is a versatile class because there are some options when it comes to Raid builds. However, there's one that really sticks out as the most popular in the game right now. Because of the weapon rotation, there are a few different skills to think about here. This build requires 240-250 skill points, which is considered an early Anime game patch notes build.


Upon activating Last Rush, recover 50% of the Hawk meter. The enemy hit by the ability takes an extra 40% damage for 8 seconds.

Both of these class Engravings are viable, and it really depends on what sort of situation you find yourself in/what sort of build you're going for. On the one hand, you have Death Strike, which focuses on a burst damage build that wants to maintain the extra damage debuff for as long as possible . The Loyal Companion playstyle is basically anti-burst - you don't use the self-destruct and instead want to keep the Hawk summoned for maximum sustained dama


When your recovery effect ends, an additional effect is activated which recovers 24% of your max HP.

As you are mostly focusing on the support side of things with bard, The Song of Courage, then you want to go for the Desperate Salvation Engraving. This boosts your healing effect after the initial burst, as well as provides you with some of your own sustainability. Bards are squishy. Staying alive longer in the fighter will benefit you, and therefore benefit your t

Shotgun, shotgun, shotgun. At this level of Dungeon you just want to use your Shotgun abilities off-cooldown whenever they're available. Rotate with Pistol skills like Equilibrium and Rifle skills like Spiral Flame.


Golden Eye - Summons 4 Golden Hawks that swirl around your character, dealing damage over time. Launches enemy into the air and puts you into stealth mode for a short period - it isn't canceled if you receive damage, and it also lets you move straight through enem