Gunslinger Leveling Guide Lost Ark

In this Gunslinger Leveling Guide we cover everything you need to know on your journey to level 50 in Lost Ark. We’ll teach you what you should focus on, the skills you should make priority, and which skills to level to as you continue on.

Gunslinger 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).

Largely you’ll be in the Pistols stance for all the movement skills to travel when you cannot mount up. The basis of the allocation of points goes like this: select Tripods that increase Mobility, Attack Speed, and Cooldown Reduction. These Tripods are typically found in the first tier:

• Excellent Mobility
• Quick Preparation
• Quick Aim
• Swift Fingers
• Agile Movement

Gunslinger Skill Priority

Here are the mobility skills you should focus on keeping at Level 4:

• Quick Step
• Somersault Shot
• Dexterous Shot
• Peacekeeper

Then there are filler skills you can choose to put points into or not if you want to save time later when you need to remove them for Level 10 Skills. (in order of importance)

• Shotgun Rapid Fire
• Spiral Flame
• Catastrophe
• Dual Buckshot
• Last Request
• Hour of Judgement

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

• Equilibrium (lvl 20)*
• Sharpshooter (lvl 40)+
• Bullet Rain (lvl 36)
• Focused Shot (lvl 32)
• Perfect Shot (lvl 20)

_{*only take away points from movement skills to acquire Equilibrium Level 10.}

^{+You can create a second skill build for boss fights with only changing the Tripods of Sharpshooter to: Tripod 1: Special Bullet and Tripod 2: In a Tight Spot.}

Below is an example Skill Progression Chart, and their Tripods, that you can use to Level your Gunslinger. In theory, you can get Bullet Rain and Focused Shot to Level 10 once you reach the level unlock them, however it would require losing a lot of movement abilities.

Gunslinger Skill Level Chart

Gear While Leveling

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 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 Gunslinger Guide.

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

As always, you can also use our Guide Directory article to see all of our Lost Ark Guides in a nice, detailed, organized fashion:

Lost Ark Guides Directory