With the May update, Lost Ark brings the Destroyer as the fourth subclass of Warrior into the game. MeinMMO author Anny Bader has looked at it closely and explains what you need to know.

As a Destroyer, you deal high burst damage while having strong defense. Since the class moves very slowly, you can stand still during some attacks. Additionally, some of your attacks generate a shield to defend yourself even better.

It is considered popular on Korean and Russian servers because it can quickly take down bosses and has some of the best crowd control. Therefore, the Destroyer is also suitable for PvP and is a valuable group member.

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This is how the Destroyer plays

This is the special ability of the Destroyer: The skills are divided into Gravitational Release Skills (purple) and Concentration Skills (blue). By performing blue attacks, you charge spheres with which the purple skills do more damage, depending on the number of charged spheres.

When using the Gravitational Release Skills, you charge a bar that enhances your blue skills. You need this bar to put your Destroyer into god mode, which increases its power even further.

The Destroyer in the Leveling Process

It’s important when distributing points that you never need to raise the skill levels higher than level 10. Skill Level 4 is needed for the first tripod, Skill Level 7 for the second, and Skill Level 10 for the third.

We will add the leveling process for the class as soon as the Destroyer is playable on European servers.

The Best Builds in Endgame

In the endgame, you choose between two class engravings, just as with most other classes. You either focus on crit or defense.

Class Engraving A: Hammer of Rage

What does the engraving do? This increases your crit rate with each charged sphere through the blue concentration skills. Additionally, your crit damage is increased by 15% at level 3 of the engraving.

For the stats, you naturally focus on crit.

What other engravings do I use? If you chose Hammer of Rage, Super Charge is worthwhile because some of your attacks need to charge to deal more damage. Additionally, the developers are working, for example, with the new skill Earth Wave, to give the Destroyer more build freedom and to make Super Charge not a necessity.

Additionally, Master Slayer is advantageous since you must perform numerous attacks from the front to deal more damage.

Which collectible cards are important? To further increase your crit rate, you should initially focus on the card set Howling Rocks. It consists of Armel, Seria, Solas, King Thirain, Kharmine, and Delain Armel.

The optimal set is the Light of Redemption set, although it consists of rare cards. Thus, it will get expensive later, but it’s worth it. The set consists of Shandi, Azena, and Innana, Nineveh, Wei, Balthorr, and Thirain. A 6-card set with 30 awakening pieces provides you with 8% more holy damage and converts all your damage into holy damage.

What skills do I use?

Icon	Skill	Level	Tripods
	Heavy Crusher	4	Swift Strike
	Gravitational Impact	4	Agile Movement
	Colossus	4	Persistence
	Endure Pain	10	Wide Strike Taunt Hidden Pain
	Earth Eater	10	Enhanced Strike Persistence Earthen Rage
	Full Swing	10	Agile Movement Hammer of Horrors Beast’s Eye
	Perfect Swing	10	Weak Point Detection Absolute Strength Carelessness
	Earthquake Hammer	10	Quick Preparation Absolute Strength Strength of Hunger

As awakening, you choose Big Bang. This is basically your ultimate.

To counter a boss attack, use Colossus. You can read how the counter exactly works in our guide on that.

What does the rotation look like? In battle, focus on filling three cores as quickly as possible. The rotation suggested by Maxroll seems a bit complicated at first, but it is not. You repeatedly use the blue skills to charge and then execute various purple skills. A suitable order would be as follows:

• Heavy Crusher
• Jump Slamming Strike
• Perfect Swing
• Heavy Crusher
• Colossus
• Earthquake Hammer
• Heavy Crusher
• Jump Slamming Strike
• Earth Eater
• Heavy Crusher
• Colossus
• Full Swing

Class Engraving B: Gravity Training

What does the engraving do? As a second option, Lost Ark offers you the class engraving Gravity Training. The crit rate for Gravitational Release Skills and basic attacks is increased by 10/20/30%, and in Hypergravity mode, you deal 4/10/20% more damage.

Additionally, your Gravity Meter fills faster, depending on level 10/20/30%. This gets you into god mode faster and provides more defense.

For the stats, focus on specialization to fill your bar even faster.

What other engravings do I use? With Gravity Training, it’s worthwhile to initially focus on Barricade to further enhance your defense.

Later, the combat engraving Master Slayer is also beneficial to deal more damage with frontal attacks.

Which collectible cards are important? The collectible cards are not different from the other class engraving. To further increase your crit rate, you should initially focus on the card set Howling Rocks. It consists of Armel, Seria, Solas, King Thirain, Kharmine, and Delain Armel.

The optimal set is also the Light of Redemption set, although it consists of rare cards. Thus, it will get expensive later, but it’s worth it.

What skills do I use? For skills and rotation, there is currently no separate build for this engraving. You use the same one as with the first class engraving.

Should there be updates on this in the future, we will inform you.

What do you think of the Destroyer? Is it worth it to use a Power Pass for him to get to the endgame? Which class engraving do you choose? Do you focus on crit or defense? Feel free to let us know in the comments here on MeinMMO!

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Human or Demon? The Shadowhunter in Lost Ark fights with great blades and occasionally transforms into a demon. MeinMMO author Anny Bader takes a closer look at her and explains what to expect from the Shadowhunter.

What kind of class is this? The Shadowhunter, in English Shadowhunter, is one of two subclasses of the Assassin. She wields a sword in each hand, which allows her to deal damage to her opponents quickly. She also possesses a few attacks that can be performed from medium range.

Her armor and hit points are lower compared to other classes, which means she takes a lot of damage. She is even one of the classes with the lowest hit points in the game. Additionally, outside of her demon form, she is relatively immobile and has long cooldowns on her evasion abilities.

For what content is she useful? The Shadowhunter shines in PvE as she deals significant damage and quickly defeats a large number of opponents. If she takes too much damage, you can first evade and use her mid-range attacks. The class is ranked A-Tier on our PvE tier list. 

On the PvP version of the list, she is in the B range. She is not bad, but also not perfect in PvP. Due to her diversity, opponents can hardly predict what the Shadowhunter will do next. You can use this to your advantage.

How to play the Shadowhunter

The special feature of the Shadowhunter is the so-called Shadow Burst Bar, her identity ability. When this is filled, you can press Y to transform the character into a demon for a few seconds. To fill the bar, you must use penetrating abilities. These include Demon Clone and Rising Claw. 

In demon mode, you benefit from the demonic abilities that deal significant damage and have large AoE fields. Additionally, the transformation heals 20% of your current HP and gives you 20% increased movement speed. You are also immune to staggering as a demon. 

After a while, you transform back into a human. The cooldown before the Shadow Burst Bar can be filled again is 30 seconds.

The Shadowhunter in the Level Process

How should I distribute my first skill points? When distributing points, it’s important that you never need to raise the skill levels higher than level 10. Skill Level 4 is needed for the first tripod, Skill Level 8 for the second, and Skill Level 10 for the third.

Level 12: At the beginning, place 4 points in Demonic Strike and 4 points in Demonic Clone. 

Up to Level 21: 48 points in Impact Slam to deal high AoE damage.

Up to Level 29: 20 points each in Brutal Strike and Demonic Clone, then additional points in Brutal Strike until the ability is at level 10.

Up to Level 38: At level 36, you unlock Sharp Cut. Then place 20 points in it.

Up to Level 45: 48 points in Howl for maximum AoE damage.

Up to Level 48: Place the remaining points in Demonic Clone to reach level 10.

By the way, you can reset skill points anytime for free if you don’t like your playstyle. For example, you might prefer Demonic Clone during the leveling phase and replace Brutal Strike with it.

The Best Builds in the Endgame

In the endgame, there are two different play styles for the Shadowhunter. You can ultimately choose between human and demon, each having its own advantages and disadvantages. However, both builds primarily focus on generating as much demonic energy as possible, but spend it differently.

Class Engraving A: Perfect Suppression

What does the engraving do? If you choose this class engraving, your character can no longer enter demon mode.

Nevertheless, the build focuses on building demonic energy to then use it as a boost for normal abilities. 20% of the demon energy is consumed to empower a few of your attacks for up to +200% more damage.

When equipping, pay attention to the stats Critical and Swiftness, with Critical being the more important of the two.

A disadvantage of this playstyle is that you only have one awakening ability since the others are tied to demon form. 

Which engravings do I use? Master of Ambush is worthwhile in this build since many of your attacks deal more damage from behind anyway. Additionally, Adrenaline and Reckless Blunt Weapon are beneficial as you are relying on a high critical rate.

Which collectable cards are important? To further increase your critical rate, at the beginning you should focus on the Howling Rock card set. It consists of Armel, Seria, Solas, King Thirain, Kharmine, and Delain Armel.

The optimal set is Light of Redemption, which consists of rare cards. Thus, it will be expensive later, but worth it. The set consists of Shandi, Azena, and Innana, Nineveh, Wei, Balthorr, and Thirain. With a 6-piece set with 30-piece awakening, the cards grant you 8% more Holy Damage and convert all your damage into holy damage.

What abilities do I use?

Icon	Ability	Level	Tripods
	Demonic Strike	7	Enhanced Damage Swift Movement
	Brutal Cut	12	Magic Control Ground Attack Ambush Release
	Impact Slam	12	Swift Thrust Deep Thrust Spectral Explosion
	Demolition	12	Weak Point Detection Wave Attack Ambush Release
	Sharp Cut	11	Enhanced Strike Vertical Strike Critical Cut
	Rising Claw	10	Naive Honesty Concussion Grip of Death
	Howl	10	Enhanced Damage Ambush Strength Scream of Anger
	Decimate	12	Quick Preparation Weak Point Detection Brutal Hand
	Gate of Eruption		Awakening

What does the rotation look like? Your rotation begins with the awakening Gate of Eruption to fill your entire energy. Then you use Howl so that the opponent takes 6% more damage for 8 seconds. 

Then follow up with your burst skills. However, you should not have more than two of these in your build, as otherwise, you will run out of energy and cannot regenerate it quickly enough. The burst skills include Demolition, Brutal Cut, Whirling Weapon, and Swift Cut.

After that, use other skills to bridge the time until you have gathered enough energy again. Now the rotation can restart.

Class Engraving B: Demonic Impulse

What does the engraving do? With this class engraving, you choose to play as a demon and focus entirely on the Shadow Burst Bar. As a human, you want to switch back to demon mode as quickly as possible, as this is where you deal the most damage.

Since you are agile as a demon, the Swiftness value in your equipment is less important here. Instead, focus on Critical and Specialization, with the latter being more important than Critical. The more Specialization you have, the faster your bar fills up.

The problem with this engraving is that in tier 1 and 2, you do not have enough Specialization to fill the entire bar with one rotation unless you use your awakening Gate of Eruption.

Which engravings do I use? Because this build relies on Specialization, you can use Adrenaline for more Critical. Additionally, Hit Master is beneficial as almost no demon skills deal more damage than frontal or ambush attacks. Later, you can also rely on Reckless Blunt Weapon and Spirit Absorption combined with Overlord.

Which collectable cards are important? The collectable cards do not differ from the other class engraving. To further increase your critical rate, at the beginning you should focus on the Howling Rock card set. It consists of Armel, Seria, Solas, King Thirain, Kharmine, and Delain Armel.

The optimal set is Light of Redemption, which consists of rare cards. Thus, it will be expensive later, but worth it. The set consists of Shandi, Azena, and Innana, Nineveh, Wei, Balthorr, and Thirain. With a 6-piece set and 30-piece awakening, the cards grant you 8% more Holy Damage and convert all your damage into holy damage, meaning you deal a smooth 8% more damage.

What abilities do I use?

Icon	Ability	Level	Tripods
	Demonic Strike	10	Enhanced Damage Swift Movement Chain Charge
	Impact Slam	12	Swift Thrust Deep Thrust Ambush Strength
	Demonic Clone	12	Nerve Strike Fist of Destruction Enhanced Ambush Release
	Rising Claw	10	Naive Honesty Giant Hand Grip of Death
	Demon Sight	12	Concentrated Release Ambush Strength Instant Discharge
	Demon Grip	11	Swift Fingers Ambush Strength Outstretched Hand
	Howl	7	Swift Fingers Ambush Strength
	Decimate	12	Swift Fingers Weak Point Detection Brutal Hand
	Gate of Eruption		Awakening

What does the rotation look like? In human form, you try to fill your bar quickly. Just before switching to demon form, you use Howl. Now you use the demonic abilities that are enhanced by Howl by 6%. 

As a demon, you then use the appropriate abilities and try to manage the cooldowns  effectively. Blood Massacre, Jumping Strike, and Bloodletting in succession, for example, are a suitable start.

When the demon mode ends, the rotation starts over.

What do you think of the Shadowhunter? Have you played her and reached the endgame? If so: What playstyle have you chosen? What skills do you use? Or is the Shadowhunter not for you and do you prefer one of the other classes? Feel free to leave us a comment here on MeinMMO!

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