Raid/PvE Deathblow Striker : Striker Build Guide

Build Details & Information

Hello! I am Brother Chris and I have been playing Lost Ark since its western release in February 2022. This is meant to be an introductory guide to quickly get you up to speed for a raid/pve Deathblow Striker.

Class Introduction

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Deathblow Striker is the only male martial artist in Lost Ark - it's main draw being it's many tiger themed skills. Striker has esoteric bubbles much like Wardancer, 3 by default and Deathblow adding a 4th. You build up esoteric bubbles and then spend them to deal more damage on your spenders, Deathblow being a back attacking "builder spender" playstyle.

Pros High burst damage Very heavy hitter

Cons Very expensive to build Backattack focused Slower, can be hard to play

Rotation

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Deathblow Striker rotation can be broken down into a few different pieces. For your generation of esoteric bubbles you generally want to be able to get to 4 bubbles after using a single generator combo. Deathblow has two generator combos, these being Sky Shattering Blow + Lightning Whisper and the other combo is Vicious Tiger Dance + Moon Flash Kick. One big generation skill and one small one combined is one generator combo. In order for Deathblow rotation to feel smooth you need to be able to get to 4 bubbles after one of these combos - else it will feel very jank. Auto attacking a little bit to fill your fourth orb isn't ideal but OK as a temporary solution.

An optimal start of fight rotation would look something like this.

1. Storm Dragon Kick x3 to build adrenaline
2. Sky Shattering Blow
3. Lightning Whisper
4. Esoteric Skill: Lightning Tiger Strike
5. Vicious Tiger Dance
6. Moon Flash Kick
7. Esoteric Skill: Tiger Emerges
8. Sky Shattering Blow
9. Storm Dragon Kick
10. Vicious Tiger Dance
11. Esoteric Skill: Blast Formation

You may need to auto attack to get a 4 orb Esoteric Skill: Blast Formation off and that's OK - more spec can fix that too. This is your basic skill rotation if you're allowed to just hammer away at a boss. Just remember, use a generator combo and then LTS > TE > BF in terms of spender skill priority.

Engravings

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This is generally considered the meta Deathblow Striker setup.

Engraving priority would be something like Deathblow > Ambush Master > Grudge > Adrenaline > Keen Blunt Weapon

Stats

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Deathblow Striker absolutely requires as much specialization as possible - this is why I say it is expensive to build as you cannot skimp on quality unless you want your performance to suffer greatly. Secondary stat will be crit as always.

Specialization: 1700
Crit: 550

this is with relic accessories and a bracelet and all potions unlocked from horizontal content.

Relic Set

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Deathblow Striker is a back attacker so naturally we go with the only choice - Entropy set. Scales our damage and gives us needed crit rate.

Tripods

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For tripods it is imperative you focus on the meter generation tripods ASAP as well as your main damage tripods on LTS and TE.

Esoteric Extortion White Flame Kick Abundant Resources ASAP

Skills

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If you dislike 3 spender you can drop Esoteric Skill: Blast Formation in favor of Sweeping Kick or Sweeping Hidden Dragon for more mobility. The choice is yours, all preference.

Runes

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Wealth runes are absolutely VITAL to this class, is a heavy requirement for Deathblow to feel smooth and playable.

Card Sets

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Deathblow striker is a special case of a class that can utilize Three Umar Families + Fate of the Lazeniths together though this is a very hard feat to achieve max awakening on both of those.

Lostwind Cliff is a fine go to stop gap until you're able to get Light of Salvation at 18 awakening or higher.