Striker Lost Ark Class Guide

Our Striker Lost Ark class guide covers everything you need to know about this Gunner subclass, including its overall role in the team, its strengths and weaknesses, some tips, and more. Lost Ark allows you to control a number of classes, who all come with different benefits in PvE and PvP content. So if you want a breakdown of the Striker Lost Ark class, we’ve got you covered below.

Striker Class Guide Overview

The Striker in Lost Ark is a Martial Artist type class that wields a lightweight Fist Weapon on each hand. The Striker is a Melee DPS, getting up close and personal in the faces of their targets. They combo together punches, kicks, and powerful elemental skills throwing enemies up in the air. Their musical instrument is an Lute.

The Identity Gauge of the Striker is the Elemental Meter. Successful hits to enemies with their Basic attack and Normal Skills will fill up the meter. There are 3 orbs, or bubbles, in their meter which once full, are the resources of special Esoteric Skills. These Esoteric Skills, when used, consume 1, 2, or 3 Elemental Bubbles depending on the skill.

There are two distinct playstyles that players can choose from through the use of the Striker’s Class Engravings:

• Esoteric Flurry – Only 1 Elemental Orb is consumed when using Esoteric Skills. (levels 1 and 2 reduce their damage)
• Deathblow – Increase amount of Elemental Orbs to 4. Esoteric skills consume all orbs and inflict bonus damage per orb consumed.

In end game content, the Deathblow Engraving is the most popular due to the significant damage increase when using esoteric skills.

Role of a Striker

Strikers are a pure DPS class in Lost Ark. In PvE, they provide decent burst damage but are generally not the highest damage overall. They can be particularly difficult to play as they have to line up burst combos that benefit tremendously from back attacks. In PvP, they are going to be a very annoying class to play against given their great ability to knock-up players and prevent enemies from using abilities. They also have tremendous movement abilities, however lack a lot of super armor. Once caught, they can be fragile and dealt with fairly easily.

Strengths

• High Burst Damage
• High Mobility
• Provide Attack Speed Party Buff

Weaknesses

• Lower Sustained Damage
• Low health and defense
• Not a lot of party utilities
• Can be difficult to master landing back-attack abilities.

Skills

The following table is a list of all Lost Ark Striker Skills that you will unlock and at which level you will do so.

Striker Levelling Guide

We recommend that you try out all the skills and play whatever is the most fun for you. However, if you just want to speed up the process (maybe that’s the most fun for you) or you’re tying to power through levelling an alt, follow this level by level breakdown of what skills to use and level up and which tripods to activate.

You can swap between saved skill tree slots whenever for free (even in combat as long as no skills are on cooldown). It’s recommended to use both your skillbook slots, choose abilities based on this: one for AoE (packs of normal enemies) and one for Single Target (Boss/Elites).

Skill Progression

Here are the Regular Damaging Skills to focus on when you unlock them:

• Sweeping Kick (Gauge Generation)
• Swift Wind Kick (AoE)
• Violent Tiger (High Damage)
• Moon Flash Kick (Gauge Generation)
• Berserk Circle (AoE)
• Lightning Whsiper (AoE and Buff)

Focus on Tripods that improveme movement and cooldown recovery such as Excellent Mobility, Quick Preparation, as well as increasing damage to normal enemies with Law of the Jungle, and AoE improvements like Wide Strike

Here are the Esoteric Skills listed in order of what you should use when they become available:

• Tiger Emerges (best damage)
• Call the Wind God (best mobility)
• Blast Formation
• Spiral Impact

To simplify everything, follow this priority:

1. Make Level 10 if you can: Swift Wind Kick > Lightning Whisper > Sweeping Kick > Esoteric Skill: Tiger Emerges
2. Make Level 7 (or 4) with leftover points: Sleeping Ascent Celebration > Violent Tiger > Moon Flash Kick > Esoteric Skill: Call the Wind God
3. Make Level 4 with any remaining points: Storm Dragon Awakening* > Berserk Circle > Sky Shattering Blow

^{*For Storm Dragon Awakening (lvl 4), this should take priority after level 10 abilities for the high mobility aspect of this skill.}

For Bosses, in your second skill book you can choose Tripods that improve damage to single targets and “push-immune” foes. Such as Single Strike, and Weak Point Detection.

Typically we choose skills 3 or 4 skills to be at Level 10 as they are much more powerful, however keep in mind mobility when choosing skill points. If you are having difficulty clearing elites or bosses, take points away from mobility and put them into the higher damaging abilities.

Below is an example Skill Progression Chart, and their Tripods, you can use to Level your Striker.

Gear

Just equip the highest Item Lv. item you find. Focus on Swiftness for increased movement speed, reduced casting time, and faster skill cooldowns. Secondly, your next best stat is Crit.

Striker Deathblow PvE Guide

Below is a good basic Striker PvE Build for Single Target Boss Raids and battles. This build specifically focuses on burst damage, providing the party with an attack speed buff, part break destruction mechanics, and a counter attack skill. It is generally a good build for all types of content such as for Chaos Dungeon, Questing, Guardian Raids, and Abyss Dungeons.

The Rotation or Skill Priority is very straightforward.

• Fill the Identity Gauge (with skills not listed below)
• Lightning Whisper
• Esoteric Skill: Lightning Tiger Strike
• Fill the Identity Gauge quickly with
  • Moon Flash Kick > Sweeping Kick
• Esoteric Skill: Tiger Emerges
• Auto Attack and use what is available.

For Chaos Dungeons:

The strategy for Chaos dungeons and other AoE content is much the same as for with bosses for the most efficient gameplay. Stay mobile and gather up the enemies, fill the identity gauge, spend Elemental orbs with Esoteric Skills, and repeat. You can change your abilities however you see fit; many players like to go with these changes:

• Swift Wind Kick (lvl7) (Tripods 3-1)
• Esoteric Skill: Call the Wind God (lvl10) (Tripods 1-3-2)
• Moon Flash Kick (change to Tripod 2: Excellent Mobility)

Striker Deathblow Stat Priority

Maximize Specialization as much as possible; to build more gauge. Then focus on Crit as a secondary stat once you are able to perform the burst damage within that 6 second duration of the debuff from Lightning Whisper.

Striker PvE Build

This Striker build requires 300 Skill Points which will require the collecting a few extra Skill Points in Shushire and Rohendel.

Icon	Skill Name	Skill Level	Tripods	Notes
	Sky Shattering Blow	4	1	Movement Skill
	Storm Dragon Awakening	4	1	Movement Skill
	Violent Tiger	10	2 1 1	Damage, Part Break Destruction
	Lightning Whisper	7	1 1	Attack Speed Party Buff – Tripod 1: Lightning’s Blessing
	Moon Flash Kick	10	3 3 2	Generate Gauge
	Sweeping Kick	10	2 1 1	Generate Gauge
	Esoteric Skill: Tiger Emerges	10	3 2 2	High Damage
	Esoteric Skill: Lightning Tiger Strike	10	2 1 1	High Damage

Striker PvP Guide

In Player versus Player Arenas, Strikers typically play the role of the “Juggler“. Also known as the “Harrasser“, the Striker’s goal is to keep the back line targets preoccupied and unable to cast their abilities. They do this by using the plethora of knock up skills that are in their toolkit.

Knock-up abilities in this build:

• Moon Flash Kick
• Sleeping Ascent Celebration
• Storm Dragon Awakening

Damage Dealers:

• Esoteric Skill: Lightning Tiger Strike
• Lightning Whisper
• Lightning Kick

Hard CC:

• Berserk Circle (Tripod 3: Glacial Explosion – 1.5s Freeze/Stun)

Optional abilities for the 8th skill slot:

• Sweeping Kick (Tripods 1-1-1: Purely Damage)
• Phoenix Advent (Tripods 1-3-2: Dive and Freeze)
• Swift Wind Kick (Tripods 2-1-1: Damage and knock-up)

Possible Combo opportunity:

• Sleeping Ascent Celebration (knock up) >
• Storm Dragon Awakening (knock up) >
• Moon Flash Kick (knock up) >
• Lightning Kick (damage) >
• Esoteric Skill: Lightning Tiger Strike (finisher)

Also take note not that a lot of these abilities can be used as movement skills to quickly engage or disengage or save a teammate from damage. Esoteric Skill: Lightning Tiger Strike is particularly good at saving teammates if you have the necessary Elemental Orbs available.

In PvP the best Awakening Skil is True Heavenly Awakening. It is best combo’d immediately following using the skill Sleeping Ascent Celebration.

PvP Stats

• 1000 Swiftness
• 249 Endurance
• 1 Crit

Striker PvP Skills Build

Feel free to change whatever skills you like depending on your playstyle and how you see fit.

Below is a general Striker PvP build that is a great foundation to build upon.

Icon	Skill Name	Skill Level	Tripods	Notes
	Moon Flash Kick	10	2 1 2	Knock-up Gauge Generation
	Sleeping Ascent Celebration	10	2 1 1	Knock-up
	Storm Dragon Awakening	10	1 2 2	Movement then Knock-up
	Sweeping Kick	10	2 1 2	High Damage, Knock-up Gauge Generation
	Esoteric Skill: Lightning Tiger Strike	10	2 2 2	Movement, High Damage Finisher
	Lightning Whisper	4	1	Tripod 1: Lightning’s Blessing – Attack Speed party buff OR Tripod 1: Elemental Extortion – Gauge Generation
	Berserk Circle	10	3 3 1	Tripod 3: Glacial Explosion – Freeze 1.5s
	Lightning Kick	10	1 1 2	Variation: Tripod 1: Ruthless and/or Tripod 2: Intense Shock

Here’s Youtuber Pum showcasing some quality PVP gameplay displaying a lot of the techniques and strategies listed above.

Best Striker Engravings

Since the Striker only has one main build, and both AoE and Single Target builds benefit from the same engravings, there’s only one priority here. First and foremost acquire the class engraving Deathblow. Then focus on getting Grudge Level 3 and then any of the other optional engravings listed.

Mandatory

Icon	Engraving	Description	Source
	Deathblow	Lv. 1: Max number of Elemental Orbs +1. Esoteric skills consume all Elemental Orbs and inflict +17% Damage per Elemental Orb consumed. Lv. 2: …inflict +26%… Lv. 3: …inflict +35%…	Guardian Raid Abyss Dungeon
	Grudge	Lv. 1: Damage +4% to Boss or above monsters. Damage -20% from Boss or above monsters. Lv. 2: Damage +10%. … Lv. 3: Damage +20% …	Chaos Dungeons Cube

Optional

Icon	Engraving	Description	Source
	Cursed Doll	Lv. 1: Atk. Power +3%. Healing -25%, natural recovery excluded. Lv. 2: …+8%. … Lv. 3: …+16%. …	Chaos Dungeons Cube
	Master of Ambush	Lv. 1: Damage +5% for successful back attacks. Lv. 2: Damage +12%… Lv. 3: Damage +25%…	Chaos Dungeons Cube
	Spirit Absorption	Lv. 1: Atk./Move Speed +3%. Lv. 2: Atk./Move Speed +8%. Lv. 3: Atk./Move Speed +15%	Chaos Dungeons Cube

Gear Sets

Below is a list of all the gear sets and their bonuses that available to Tier 1 Strikers. You can mix and match 2-Set bonuses using 2 or 3 different ones. Depending on your playstyle and what’s available to you, you may want to take two 2-set bonuses instead of a full 5-set Bonus. You can also have one set for Chaos Dungeons and other Solo Content, and another for Guardian Raids and other Group Content.

Item Level	Rarity	Set Bonus Name	Effects	Source
385	Relic	Dark Night	2-Set: When attacking a foe, 30% chance for +8% Atk and Move Speed for 6s. (Cooldown: 3s) 5-Set: Increases Crit Rate by 40%, but decreases Crit Damage by 40%.	Chaos Dungeon Rohendel (Welcome 3) Chaos Dungeon Rohendel (Nightmare 1-4)
385	Relic	Phantom Memory	2-Set: Attack Speed and Move Speed +5% 5-Set: Increases Damage with an Awakening Skill to Seed or lesser monsters by 60%. Increases Damage to Challenge or lesser monsters by 60% when hitting them with an Awakening Skill for 10s. (Cooldown: 60s)	Chaos Dungeon Rohendel (Welcome 3) Chaos Dungeon Rohendel (Nightmare 1-4)
385	Relic	Void Afterimage	2-Set: Decreases damage taken by 30% when HP is below 30%. +15% Atk. Speed and Move Speed, +10% Skill Cooldown. 5-Set: When hitting a foe with a normal attack, +15% Additional Damage for 3s (Cooldown: 1s)	Chaos Dungeon Rohendel (Welcome 3) Chaos Dungeon Rohendel (Nightmare 1-4)
340	Legendary	Awakened Hatred	2-Set: Combat Resource Recovery Speed: +30% 5-Set: Crit Damage +25	Abyss Dungeon (Corridor of the Twisted Lord) Abyss Dungeon (Hildebrigne, Dream Palace)
340	Legendary	Boisterous Elemental	2-Set: Increases Attack Speed and Move Speed by 4% for 6s, up to 8% when attacking monsters Boss rank or above. (Cooldown: 3s) 5-Set: Increases damage to monsters Boss ranked or above by 12%.	Abyss Dungeon (Corridor of the Twisted Lord) Abyss Dungeon (Hildebrigne, Dream Palace)
340	Legendary	Dense Confusion	2-Set: Attack Speed and Move Speed +4% 5-Set: Crit Rate +15%	Abyss Dungeon (Corridor of the Twisted Lord) Abyss Dungeon (Hildebrigne, Dream Palace)
340	Legendary	Enraged Nature	2-Set: Move Speed +8% 5-Set: Atk. Power +4% for 8s, up to 12% when attacking a monster Boss ranked or above. (Cooldown: 3s)	Abyss Dungeon (Corridor of the Twisted Lord) Abyss Dungeon (Hildebrigne, Dream Palace)
340	Legendary	Mist	2-Set: Decreases damage taken from Normal ranked monsters by 20%. 5-Set: Increases damage dealt to monsters Challenge rank or below by 15%.	Abyss Dungeon (Corridor of the Twisted Lord) Abyss Dungeon (Hildebrigne, Dream Palace)
302	Epic	Ancient	2-Set: When hit while HP is below 20%, restores 3% of Max HP for 15s each time you hit a Normal monster. (Cooldown: 60s) 5-Set: Increases damage by 17% when hitting 3 or more foes.	Abyss Dungeon (Valley of Beasts) Abyss Dungeon (Spirit of the Necromancer)
302	Epic	Rugged Valley	2-Set: Move Speed +8% 5-Set: Atk. Power +4% for 8s, up to 12% when attacking a monster Boss ranked or above. (Cooldown: 3s)	Abyss Dungeon (Valley of Beasts) Abyss Dungeon (Spirit of the Necromancer)
302	Epic	Seraphic Oath	2-Set: Attack Speed +8% 5-Set: Additional Damage +10%	Abyss Dungeon (Valley of Beasts) Abyss Dungeon (Spirit of the Necromancer)
302	Epic	Stalwart Years	2-Set: Attack Speed +8% 5-Set: Additional Damage +10%	Abyss Dungeon (Valley of Beasts) Abyss Dungeon (Spirit of the Necromancer)

Why not also check out our Lost Ark Soulfist builds, which covers everything you need to know about the class and its best builds.