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Shadowhunters, otherwise known as "Demonic," feature some of the best build variety in Lost Ark, featuring two vastly different PvE builds and multiple PvP options. Whether you dear wielding bladed tonfas or the raw power of a demon, the Shadowhunter has y'all covered.

In this guide, we'll be looking at iii builds for the Shadowhunter—two for PvE, i for PvP. These builds are easy to larn, fun to play, and dish out a respectable amount of damage. Each build is quite long, and then feel free to use the table of contents above to find a specific build. We comprehend everything from Tripods to recommended stats.

Updated May xiii, 2022: The build guides in this commodity take been updated with better formatting and some tweaks to ensure that your Shadowhunter is the all-time it tin exist, and we've likewise added a helpful video guide that tells you all about the best Shadowhunter builds.

Demonic Impulse (PvE)

Lost Ark Shadowhunter Demon Form

Why Play This Build?

Do you love etching through hordes of enemies with melee attacks? Do you dearest flashy skills? Are you a Devil May Cry fan? If yous answered "aye" to any of those questions, this build is for you. In essence, this build focuses on minimizing the downtime on your Shadowburst estimate, assuasive you to use your demon form in every engagement.

This is done by utilizing the Demonic Impulse Engraving and skills that grant a copious amount of Shadowburst energy. Your homo class will be throwing out as many skills as possible to activate your demon form, unlocking a new suite of skills that bargain immense damage and have low cooldowns. You'll deal incredible single-target damage, accept solid AoE clear, and will be both fast and stylish while doing so. Be warned: this build is a slog to level.

Skills

This build uses mostly Intrude Skills and Shadowburst Tripods to build up your Shadowburst meter equally fast as possible. One time it'due south active, plow into a demon to access your extremely powerful Demon Skills. Your Demon Skills don't have Tripod upgrades, so we'll only be covering the Tripods for your man skills.

Skill Clarification
Demonic Slash Dash forward to inflict 376 damage iii times earlier swinging your weapon to deal an additional 376 damage. This skill has Super Armor.
Thrust Bear upon Use a burst of your weapon's power to depict enemies shut, dealing 336 damage before chop-chop sliding dorsum and inflicting 1,344 impairment.
Demonic Clone Telephone call forth an incarnation of the devil to attack past your side. Move frontward and punch 2 times, inflicting one,714 impairment, then strike the ground with one final accident that inflicts 1,121 damage.
Rising Claw Dart forrad and inflict 200 impairment, and then deliver an uppercut for one,722 damage that launches foes into the air.
Demon Vision Shoot a ray of death, dealing 2,269 damage while knocking foes abroad. Charge the beam before release to deal 4,495 damage.
Demon's Grip Thrust your demon arm frontwards and pull foes toward you, dealing two,417 damage.
Howl Let out a weep that deals 1,150 damage and inflicts Fear for 2 seconds.
Decimate Swing your arms forward to summon giant Demon arms that deal ii,248 damage.

Fallen Ruin

(Awakening
Soar into the air and shoot an free energy ray straight to the footing. The light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation causes an explosion moments later, knocking foes abroad while dealing additional impairment.

Tripods

Demonic Slash First-class Mobility
Nimble Movement (Optional)
Thrust Impact Swift Thrust
Deep Thrust
Encroaching Power
Demonic Clone Vital Point Strike
Fist of Destruction
Enhanced Released Encroachment
Rising Claw Quick Preparation
Demon Vision Concentrated Release
Encroaching Power
Instant Discharge
Demon's Grip Quick Grooming
Encroaching Power
Stretching Paw
Howl Quick Preparation
Encroaching Power
Scream of Fury
Decimate Quick Preparation
Weak Bespeak Detection
Barbarous Hand

These skills favor range, so keep your distance in gainsay. Use Thrust Bear upon to generate a expert bit of Shadowburst energy, retreat with Demonic Slash, then utilize your wide range of Intrude Skills to build upwards your Shadowburst energy. With enough enemies, your reanimation between each transformation volition only be a few seconds.

For gems, y'all but need two. Increased damage and faster cooldowns for Demonic Form are all this build requires. The residual of your gems are upwards to preference.

Recommended Stats Master: Specialization
Secondary: Critical
Engravings Demonic Impulse
Grudge
Raid Helm
Keen Blunt Weapon
Master of Deadfall

Cursed Doll is a good replacement for Master of Ambush.

Specialization is going to be our main stat for this build, increasing the duration of your demon grade (called "Demonize" in-game) while increasing Demonic skill damage. Disquisitional is used to increase your critical hit chance, making your demon abilities hit even harder than normal. Focusing on Specialization showtime is recommended.

For Engravings, utilize the following (all at level 3 if possible):

Engraving

Effect

(Level 3)
Demonic Impulse The Composure effect does not activate when Demonize ends. Upon Demonize, Demonic Skill Cooldown is reset. +30% Crit Rate while Demonic Mode is active.
Grudge Deal twenty% increased impairment to Boss or above monsters. Have xx% more damage from Boss or to a higher place monsters.
Raid Captain Approachable damage is increased past +45% of basic Move Speed bonus per centum.
Keen Blunt Weapon +50% Crit Damage, simply your attacks have a gamble to deal -20% damage.
Master of Ambush Back attacks bargain 25% increased damage.

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Perfect Suppression (PvE)

Lost Ark Shadowhunter Class

Why Play This Build?

If you prefer the Shadowhunter's standard attacks more than its demon form skill bar, this is the build for y'all. Perfect Suppression builds are focused on staying human being, using the Shadowburst judge as a way to juice up some of your attacks. Tripods and gear are much more important on these sorts of builds, so it's recommended you brand this once yous're experienced with the Shadowhunter. The payoff is more than than worth it, allowing you to cleave through hundreds of enemies and bosses alike with loftier-damage bladed tonfas and demonic powers.

Skills

There's quite a bit of variety for human builds every bit a Shadowhunter, so your skill bar volition mostly be up to you. Yet, there are a few melee staples with this course: Demonic Slash, Brutal Cutter, Thrust Touch, Sharpened Cut, and Howl. We'll requite eight skill recommendations to give you an idea of what to build for, but what y'all run is by and large up to preference. For Tripods, focus on critical damage and anything that consumes Shadowburst energy to deal bonus harm.

Skill Description
Demonic Slash Dash forwards to inflict 376 damage three times before swinging your weapon to deal an additional 376 impairment. This skill has Super Armor.
Cruel Cutter Toss your weapons to wipe out opponents in front of yous, inflicting up to 4,136 damage every bit you motion forrad. Airborne enemies are launched dorsum in the air when hit.
Thrust Impact Employ a burst of your weapon'due south power to depict enemies shut, dealing 336 harm earlier chop-chop sliding back and inflicting ane,344 damage.
Demolition Dart forwards with crossed weapons to inflict 966 impairment. Use the skill once more to perform 2 slashes that inflict 995 damage. Use the skill once again to swing your weapon, inflicting 1,303 damage and knockback.
Sharpened Cut Motility 9 meters forrard while quickly spinning, inflicting upward to 1,564 damage. Y'all ignore collision with normal monsters during the skill motion.
Demonic Clone Call forth an incarnation of the devil to assault by your side. Move forward and punch 2 times, inflicting 1,714 damage, then strike the ground with ane final accident that inflicts i,121 damage.
Howl Let out a cry that deals 1,150 damage and inflicts Fear for 2 seconds.
Decimate Swing your artillery forward to summon giant Demon artillery that deal two,248 damage.

Gate of Eruption

(Awakening)
Unleash demonic powers to open up up the gates of hell,s catering hellish free energy across the state that damages foes and inflicts Fear for 4s. Dark energy periodically rises from the globe to inflict damage. The energy explodes at the finish for additional harm, knocking foes back.

Tripods

Demonic Slash Fantabulous Mobility
Barbarous Cutter Magick Control
World Attack
Encroaching Release
Thrust Impact Swift Thrust
Deep Thrust
Spectral Explosion
Demolition Weak Point Detection
Wave Attack
Encroaching Release
Sharpened Cut Enhanced Slash
Vertical Slash
Critical Cutting
Demonic Clone Vital Point Strike
Fist of Destruction
Encroachment Discharge
Howl Quick Preparation
Encroaching Power
Scream of Fury
Decimate Quick Grooming
Encroachment Discharge
Cruel Hand

The Tripods in this setup focus on close-range combat. Most of your abilities are tailored towards dealing absurd upfront damage, assuasive you lot to decimate virtually health bars with little issue. For tougher foes, use Cruel Cutter, Howl, and Decimate to deal absurd damage. Savage Cutter and Sabotage are effectively ultimate skills since they consume Shadowburst energy, so brand them count.

For gems, you want to focus on lowering the cooldowns of Howl, Vicious Cutter, and Decimate. Focus on enhancing the damage of your other skills with the rest of your slots.

Recommended Stats Primary: Critical
Secondary: Swiftness
Engravings Perfect Suppression
Grudge
Raid Captain
Not bad Blunt Weapon
Chief of Ambush

If you lot're struggling to stay alive, consider replacing Main of Ambush with Crisis Evasion or Divine Protection.

Critical is your primary stat for this build, scaling the impairment your abilities will be dishing out. It's important that you lot invest heavily into Critical to make your power crit chance consistent. For your second stat, Swiftness is bang-up for improving the overall feel of the build—increasing attack speed, movement speed, all while reducing your cooldowns slightly.

For Engravings, use the following (all at level iii if possible):

Engraving

Outcome

(Level 3)
Perfect Suppression Normal skill harm +30%. Shadowburst meter +l% for all skills. Disables Demonize.
Grudge Bargain 20% increased damage to Boss or above monsters. Take 20% more harm from Dominate or above monsters.
Raid Captain Outgoing damage is increased by +45% of basic Motion Speed bonus percentage.
Keen Edgeless Weapon +50% Crit Damage, but your attacks accept a chance to deal -20% impairment.
Main of Deadfall Back attacks deal 25% increased damage.

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Demonic Chain (PvP)

Lost Ark Characters

Why Play This Build?

This build is tuned towards 3v3 group PvP. 1v1 PvP builds are generally personal preference.

Exercise you beloved carving through hordes of enemies with melee attacks? Do you love flashy skills? Are you a Devil May Cry fan? If you answered "yep" to whatsoever of those questions, this build is for you. In essence, this build focuses on minimizing the reanimation on your Shadowburst gauge, allowing you to use your demon class every engagement.

This is done past utilizing the Demonic Impulse Engraving and skills that grant a copious amount of Shadowburst energy. Your human course volition be throwing out as many skills as possible to activate your demon form, unlocking a new suite of skills that deal immense damage and have low cooldowns. You'll deal incredible unmarried-target harm, have solid AoE clear, and will be both fast and stylish while doing and then.

Skills

This build uses mostly Intrude Skills and Shadowburst Tripods to build upwardly your Shadowburst meter as fast as possible. Once it's active, turn into a demon to access your extremely powerful Demon Skills. Your Demon Skills don't take Tripod upgrades, and then we'll only exist covering the Tripods for your human skills.

Skill Description
Demonic Slash Dash forward to inflict 302 damage 3 times before swinging your weapon to bargain an additional 302 damage. This skill has Super Armor.
Thrust Impact Use a outburst of your weapon'southward power to depict enemies close, dealing 215 damage before quickly sliding dorsum and inflicting 859 damage.
Grind Chain Throw your weapon forward to inflict 435 damage, then some other 472 damage as it comes back to you. This skill cannot be canceled while your weapon is away.
Sharpened Cutting Motion 9 meters frontward while chop-chop spinning, inflicting up to 1,564 damage. Yous ignore collision with normal monsters during the skill motion.
Demonic Clone Call forth an incarnation of the devil to set on by your side. Motility forward and punch ii times, inflicting 1,377 damage, so strike the ground with one terminal blow that inflicts 900 damage.
Rising Claw Dart frontwards and inflict 160 impairment, then evangelize an uppercut for 1,383 harm that launches foes into the air.
Demon Vision Shoot a ray of death, dealing 1,822 damage while knocking foes abroad. Accuse the axle earlier release to deal iii,610 damage.
Piercing Thorn Summon infernal spikes at the target location within 12 meters to inflict 2,243 impairment, knocking foes back.

Tripods

Demonic Slash Excellent Mobility
Nimble Motion
Chain Charge
Thrust Impact Swift Thrust
Enhanced Explosion
Spectral Explosion
Grind Chain Earth Assault
Impaired Mobility
Chain Attack
Sharpened Cutting Excellent Mobility
Infiltration Attack
Demonic Clone Naively Honest
Fist of Devastation
Inroad Discharge
Rising Hook Naively Honest
Giant Hand
Demon Vision Quick Release
Electric Discharge
Instant Belch
Piercing Thorn Enhanced Strike
Triple Thorn
Massive Thorns

Your skills provide a great mix of ranged poking and up-shut harm. Quite a bit of oversupply control is broiled into your abilities, assuasive you to philharmonic certain skills together to bargain immense damage. Hither are a few combo examples:

  • Grind Chain -> Sharpened Cut -> Demonic Clone -> Thrust Impact
  • Demon Vision -> Sharpened Cut -> Rising Hook -> Thrust Bear on
  • Grind Chain -> Demon Vision (nifty stun combo)

As y'all tin see, y'all'll want to use Grind Chain or Demon Vision equally a combo opener, shut the gap with Sharpened Cutting or Demonic Slash, then use your difficult-hitting ability. If that third ability stuns, you lot tin can finish the combo with Thrust Touch on. Using Thrust Impact volition end your combo, so be mindful of your positioning once y'all use it. You do also take admission to your demon form in PvP, although edifice upward charge for it is tricky. Apply information technology in 3v3 situations to further create chaos.

Engravings are disabled in PvP, and so we volition not exist list any for this guide.

Recommended Stats Primary: Swiftness
Secondary: Domination

Swiftness is your main stat, enhancing your assault speed, movement speed, and ability cooldowns. A large clamper of your stat points should go here. From at that place, put points in Domination to take full advantage of the stun-chaining this build is capable of—enhancing your damage to stunned targets. Be mindful of your lack of Super Armor and wellness on this build. If you get stunned, it's over. Merely if you tin can land the first accident, prepare to deal some serious damage.

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