Striker Leveling Guide Lost Ark

In this Striker 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.

Striker Class 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.

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. 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 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 Crit.

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 Striker Guide.

Also note that these sub-guides are also part of our full-scope Striker 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:

https://thegamescabin.com/lost-ark-guides/