Artillerist Lost Ark Class Guide

Our Artillerist 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 Artillerist Lost Ark class, we’ve got you covered below.

Artillerist Class Guide Overview

The Artillerist in Lost Ark is a Gunner type class that wields a large Heavy Launcher gun. Their musical instrument is an Electric Guitar. The Artillerist is a Ranged DPS, safely blasting away from a distance enemies with hard hitting missiles, bombs, and other various explosives.

The Identity Gauge of the Artillerist is the Firepower Gauge. Successful hits to enemies will fill up the meter. There are 3 set intervals which produce bonus damage at each threshold. Once the Gauge is entirely full the Artillerist has access to the Identity Skill: Barrage Mode. This turns the Artillerist into a stationary Turret replacing their skill bar 4 separate Bombardment skills: 1 Shield and 3 powerful damaging abilities.

Unlike other classes, whose Class Engravings give them the option to change up their playstyle, there is really only one distinct playstyle that players can play. Hopefully in the future this will change, but here are the Artillerists Class Engravings anyway:

• Firepower Enhancement – Reduce damage taken, Increase Crit Rate depending on how the level of the Firepower Gauge.
• Barrage – Killing a foe in Barrage Mode resets the Cooldowns of all Barrage Skills.

In end game content, there really isn’t a use case to stay in Barrage Mode as the game is all about mobility; staying in one place for extended periods of time is very rare and typically punishing.

Role of a Artillerist

Artillerists are a pure DPS class in Lost Ark. In PvE, they are going to be on the top of the leaderboard for both their AoE and single target damage done in both Chaos dungeons and Guardian Raid or Abyss Dungeons. In PvP, they are going to be one of the highest threats in regards to damage in the arena, they can very easily take out nearly half of a players health in one well timed combo.

Strengths

• Very High Damage
• Fair Damage Mitigation
• Lots of Super Armors
• Very Easy to learn
• High Destruction and Stagger

Weaknesses

• Low Mobility
• No Party Buffs
• Can be difficult to master landing delayed abilities.

Skills

The following table is a list of all Lost Ark Artillerist Skills that you will unlock and at which level you will do so. You can click each line to expand the table.

Artillerist 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

The Artillerist doesn’t have many movement abilities. The only ones available are:

• Swing (unlocked at Level 16 and you need it to be Level 7 for Tripod 2: Advancing Strike)
• Jump Bombardment (unlocked at Level 20 but you have max it out to Level 10 to get the Tripod 3: Rocket Jump and at that point you’re wasting points that could be used for higher damaging abilities)

Then there are the filler skills. Which you can choose to put points into before removing some or all of them when we need to max out our High Damage Skills to Level 10. (in order of importance by damage)

• Multiple Rocket Launcher (Combat Lvl 12)
• Enhanced Shell (default skill)
• Howitzer (default skill)
• Gatling Gun (default skill)
• Buckshot (default skill)

Finally, the High Damage abilities you’ll want to max to level 10 when you can in this order:

• Flamethrower (lvl 14) (max at Lvl 20)
• Gravity Explosion* (lvl 32)
• Napalm (default skill)
• Plasma Storm (lvl 28) (keeping at level 7 is fine)
• Air Raid (lvl 12)+
• Homing Barrage (lvl 40)+

^{*You can create a second skill build for boss fights by using Air Raid (Tripods 2-3-2) to replace Gravity Explosion.}

^{+Both Air Raid and Homing Barrage can be tricky for new players to time and hit properly, but when they do… oh lord are them those numbers satisfying. You will eventually have to learn to use them in Raids at End Game, so you might as well give it a shot practicing while you level.}

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

To simplify everything, follow this priority:

1. Make Level 10 if you can: Flamethrower > Gravity Explosion > Napalm > Air Raid > Homing Barrage
2. Make Level 7 with leftover points: Plasma Storm > Multiple Rocket Launcher > Enhanced Shell > Swing
3. Make Level 4 if any points remain: Howitzer > Gatling Gun > Buckshot

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.

Artillerist AoE PvE Build

Here’s a basic PvE build for Artillerists. It’s good for AoE content such as Chaos Dungeons, Tower Event, Quests.

In the Build below, we focus on maximizing AoE potential with Tripods that increase the size of the attack and also some stuns to land heavy hitting combos.

Gather up all the enemies in a big group and use Energy Field before casting Gravity Explosion as you will be stationary and vulnerable. Gravity Explosion can take out most groups of enemies on it’s own.

Additionally, Fillers such as Plasma Storm, Flamethrower, and Enhanced Shell can also dish out high damage and take out lots of targets.

To easily clear Elites or Named Monsters use this combo:

• Napalm Shot (Stun) >
• Homing Barrage >
• Air Raid

And for Bosses, if the above for some reason doesn’t kill them, you can always nuke them with the Awakening Skill: Missile Barrage

Artillerist AoE Stat Priority

Maximize Swiftness as much as possible; mainly to get your skills off faster and reduce the cooldowns. Then focus on Crit as a secondary stat. Alternatively, if you are confident in your ability to time everything perfectly and hit all your skills and time the Identity Skill correctly, try out a high Specialization stat build.

Artillerist AoE Build

This Artillerist build requires 268 Skill Points which will require the collecting of a few extra skill points from Shushire or Rohendel if you have it unlocked.

Icon	Skill Name	Skill Level	Tripods	Notes
	Flamethrower	10	1 3 2	High Damage Tripod 3: Incinerate – Wider damage
	Air Raid	10	2 3 2	High Damage
	Gravity Explosion	10	2 1 2	High Damage Tripod 2: Sturdy Armor – shield while standing still casting Tripod 3: PLanetary Gravity – Pull targets in and nuke
	Homing Barrage	10	2 1 2	High Damage Tripod 3: EMP Explosion – alternative to stun
	Enhanced Shell	10	2 1 1	Damage
	Napalm Shot	7	2 3 1	Counter Damage, Stun Tripod 2: Flash Explosion – Stun
	Energy Field	4	2	Self Shield
	Plasma Storm	4	1	Filler Damage

Artillerist Single Target PvE Build

Below is a good basic PvE Build for Single Target Boss Raids and battles. This build specifically provides more utility for part break destruction mechanics. It is generally a good build for Guardian Raids, and Abyss Dungeons.

Alternatives to this build are for when your party does not need as many skills for part break destruction mechanics (ie. using Destruction Bombs). Once you get a good feel for the bosses movements, these changes will make a big difference in Damage output if you can land all your shots. From highest Damage boost to lowest:

• Reduce points down to Plasma Storm (4) for Air Raid (10) (Tripods 2-3-2).
• Swap out Howitzer for Homing Barrage (10) (Tripods 2-3-2).
• Swap out Enhanced Shell for Multiple Rocket Launcher (10) (Tripods 1-3-2).

And lastly, when you have enough skill points this change can help with survivability

• Max out Energy Field (Tripods 3-2-1). Alternatively, you can use Tripod 3: Energy Share for the shield for party members.

Artillerist Boss Stat Priority

Maximize Swiftness as much as possible; mainly to get your skills off faster and reduce the cooldowns. Then focus on Crit as a secondary stat. Alternatively, if you are confident in your ability to time everything perfectly and hit all your skills and time the Identity Skill correctly, try out a high Specialization stat build.

Artillerist Boss Build

This Artillerist build requires 296 Skill Points which will require the collecting a few extra Skill Points in Shushire and Rohendel.

Icon	Skill Name	Skill Level	Tripods	Notes
	Howitzer	10	1 2 2	Part Break Destruction Tripod 2: Swift Fingers -if the Boss doesn’t have a Part Break Mechanic
	Napalm Shot	10	1 1 1	Counter Part Break Destruction Tripod 1: Target Focus – if the boss doesnt have part break mechanic.
	Enhanced Shell	10	1 1 2	Part Break Destruction Tripod 1: Vital Point Bombardment – if boss doesn’t have part break mechanic
	Flamethrower	10	1 3 1	High Damage Tripod 3: Blue Flame – faster damage
	Summon Turret	10	2 1 2	Passive Damage
	Plasma Storm	10	1 2 1	Follows target; lower damage
	Homing Barrage	4	2	Can be difficult to hit due to delay the boss might move away. can max with Tripods 2-3-2
	Energy Field	4	2	Can max for Tripod 3: Energy Share – party shield

Artillerist PvP Guide

In Player versus Player Arenas, Artillerists typically play the role of the “Nuke“. Being a primarily damage dealing class, they don’t generally provide any utility except if they choose the Energy Field Tripod 3: Energy Share for a small Party Shield. They do provide good zoning potential to prevent the enemy from getting positional advantage or to peel them off teammates. They are very good at eliminating the competition on their own.

How to combo with this build:

• Gatling Gun or Flamethrower (stagger) >
• Swing (stun) >
• Homing Barrage > *
• Howitzer (knock up) >
• Air Raid (finisher)

*use Homing Barrage immediately following Swing as will hit at the end of the combo due to this skills delayed damage.

The above combo can easily take out approximately 40-50% of the enemies health pool

PvP Stats

• 1000 Domination
• 250 Crit

Artillerist PvP Skills Build

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

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

Icon	Skill Name	Skill Level	Tripods	Notes
	Napalm Shot	4	2	Knock Up AoE limits enemy Positioning
	Howitzer	10	2 1 2	Knock Up
	Flamethrower	10	2 2 2	Stagger
	Swing	10	3 1 2	Tripod 3: Dancing Flame – 3s Stun
	Gatling Gun	10	2 2 1	Stagger Alternative Tripod 3: Aimed Shot – if you are confident to line up the shot.
	Homing Barrage	10	2 1 2	Delayed Damage Tripod 3: Power Bomb – AoE limits enemy Positioning
	Air Raid	10	2 3 2	High Damage Finisher
	Energy Field	10	1 3 1	Self Shield Tripod 3: Solid Shield – Push Immunity or Tripod 3: Energy Share – Party Shield

Here’s Youtuber Pum with some great 1v3 PVP. Showcasing exactly how to pull off that insane combo explained above.

Best Artillerist Engravings

Since the Artillerist 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 first level of the class engraving. Which makes it very easy to focus on getting Grudge Level 3 and any of the other optional engravings listed.

Mandatory

Icon	Engraving	Description	Source
	Firepower Enhancement	Lv. 1: Incoming Damage -20%. Crit Rate +(15%, 20%, 25% )depending on the level of the Firepower Buff. Lv. 2: Incoming Damage -25%. Crit Rate +(20%, 25%, 30%) … Lv. 3: Incoming Damage -30%. Crit Rate +(25%, 30%, 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
	Keen Blunt Weapon	Lv. 1: +10% Crit Damage but your attacks have a chance to deal Damage -20%. Lv. 2: +25% Crit Damage… Lv. 3: +50% Crit Damage…	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
	Spirit Absorption	Lv. 1: Atk./Move Speed +3%. Lv. 2: Atk./Move Speed +8%. Lv. 3: Atk./Move Speed +15%	Chaos Dungeons Cube
	Massacre or Master of Striking*	Lv. 1: Increases the damage of attacks that are not back attack or head attack by 3%. Does not affect Awakening. Lv. 1: … 8% … Lv. 1: … 16%. ..	*may not be available at launch
	Adrenaline*	Lv. 1: After using skills that exclude mobile and basic attacks, attack power increases by 0.3% (stacks up to 6) for 6 seconds, and when this effect reaches its maximum stack, crit rate increases by 5%. Lv. 2: …attack power increases by 0.6% … crit rate increases by 10%. … Lv. 3: …attack power increases by 1% … crit rate increases by 15% …	*may not be available at launch

Gear Sets

Below is a list of all the gear sets and their bonuses that available to Tier 1 Artillerists. 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 Sharpshooter builds, which covers everything you need to know about the class, including the best skills and engravings.