Gunlancer Leveling Guide - Lost Ark

Gunlancer Levelling Guide

This small sub-guide dives into the best skills to choose while levelling your Lost Ark Gunlancer. If you want to see our Complete Gunlancer Class Guide, make sure you check out this link. 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).

Best Gunlancer DPS Skills to Choose While Leveling

At early levels you will use the Fillers listed here:

• Sharp Gunlance
• Rising Gunlance
• Fire Bullet
• Shield Shock

You will automatically unlock the skills below as your combat level increases and earn more skill points. Assign skill points following this priority:

• Charged Stinger (Unlocked at Level 20) to Level 10
• Shout of Hatred (Unlocked at Level 24) to Level 7
• Guardian’s Thunderbolt (Unlocked at Level 14) to Level 10
• Gunlance Shot (Unlocked at Level 40) to Level 10
• Filler(s) of your choice

You will have left over skill points at some levels and between levels not listed below, just put them into whatever you feel like or wait until the next checkpoint to save time removing points later. You can also swap out Sharp Gunlance for any of the other fillers listed above if you so choose.

Below is a Gunlancer Skill Levelling chart that shows progression of skill points and their Tripods.

Gunlancer Skill Priority – Lost Ark

For Normal packs of enemies, the Gunlancer AoE rotation is:

Guardian’s Thunderbolt > Sharp Gunlance > Any other Fillers

For Bosses, the Gunlancer Single Target rotation is:

Identity Shield (if ready) > **Shout of Hatred** > Charged Stinger > **Gunlance Shot** > Any other Fillers

Stat Priority for Gunlancer

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

Next Steps

Now that you’ve made it through this sub-guide, make sure you are ready for the End-Game once you hit level 50. Check out our End Game Gunlancer Skills Guide.

Also note that these sub-guides are also part of our full-scope Gunlancer Class Guide which will encompass all of these sub guides.