LSOT AK Arcana Empress Build - Highest DPS Arcanist Build Guide in LSOT AK

To create the best Arcanist PVE build, what abilities and awakening skills do you want to get? And what are the best engravings, gems, and cards to use? In this LSOT AK Arcana Empress build guide, we’ll show you the details covering stats, engravings, cards, skills, and more for the highest damage possible.  

New LSOT AK Arcana Empress Build - Highest DPS Arcanist Build Guide in LSOT AK 

Arcanist is more commonly known as Arcana, which is a mage class, she is not an easy class to pick up and play, but if you know how to use it to your best advantage, then you will be able to do an insane amount of damage. At the end game, we will be using the empress engraving, which will increase +30% 4-stack Ruin damage. No matter how low or high level or gear score your character is, you can easily use this LA Arcana build and follow the Arcanist Empress guide from KaidGames2. 

Arcana Empress Build Skills, Runes, Gems, and Tripods 

Below is a breakdown of the skills used for this Arcanist Empress build (410 skill points) with each tier tripod, as well as gems and runes for each ability.  

1. For the first ability, we have the Celestial Rain and we want to use 12 levels to unlock the Vital Point Strike, Enhanced Strike, and Weak Point Detection, then for your gems, you want to get both types, one for cooldown reduction and the other one for damage increase. Lastly for your rune, you want to get the Protection.

2. Use level 7 Quadra Accelerate to unlock the Nimble Movement and Increased Card, you want to get the cooldown reduction gem, and for your rune, you want to get the Galewind.

3. Use level 10 Call of Destiny, select the Nimble Movement, Quick Draw, and Chain Attack, then you want to get the cooldown reduction gem and you want to get the Bleed rune.

4. Use level 10 Spiral Edge, and select the Quick Preparation, Ruthless Shot, and Quick Pace. You want to get the cooldown reduction gem and lastly for your rune you want to get the Galewind.

5. Use level 12 Serendipity, select Piercing Strike, Lucky Blow, and Intended Luck. You want to get both of the gems and Protection rune. 

6. Use level 12 Return, select Weakness Exposure, Concentrated Card, and Exposed Darkness. You want to get the cooldown reduction gem and for your rune, you want to get the Rage. 

7. Use level 12 Secret Garden, unlock Vital Point Strike, Perfect Secret, and Secret Chance. You want to get both of the gems and Protection rune. 

8. Use level 11 Scratch Dealer, unlock Excellent Mobility, Weak Point Attack, and Safety Device. You want to get both of the gems and Galewind rune. 

After level 50, for your awakening skill, you want to get the Deathbound. At the start, you should use a 256-point build, and then by leveling up and completing quests you will get more points, keep on improving your skills, earn more LA gold and get higher-tier runes and gems.

Arcanist has three types of skills, yellow skills will fill your identity meter a lot quicker, so you get to use your cards a lot more often, then the blue skills will stack on mobs, which can stack up to 4 times and you will usually want to use them, so then you use the red skills and these are your main damage dealers, so the red skills will remove the stacks that you got from the blue skills and depending on your stocks, they will do a huge amount of damage.

Arcana Empress Build Gear & Stats

And then on top of all, this focus on equipping as high item level gear as you can, and at the end game, you should get 400 crit and 1400 specialization, but if you have more or fewer points than this, then try to have around 75 stats into specialization and 25 stats into crit.

Arcana Empress Build Engravings

- Empress’s Grace: you want to get the Empress’s Grace, this engraving is very powerful as it will give you 4 stack ruin damage for up to 30 damage increase, so when we use our red skills with full stacks, we will increase our damage and recover our mana a lot faster.

- Hit Master: this engraving will increase our basic attack damage by 16, so this is a simple but nice engraving that on top of the 30% will increase our damage even more.

- Barricade: this will give us +16 damage when you are shielded and a bunch of your abilities will give you a shield, so this is a nice damage boost.

- Adrenaline: this will give us +1% attack power for up to six seconds and when the stacks have reached max, then we will get a +15% crit rate, so this engraving will give us the ability to do massive amounts of damage at the end of the rotation.

- Grudge: this is more advanced engraving that is recommended for tier 3 content, it is the most efficient engraving against mobs and you will get your damage increased, but in return, you will take 20 percent more damage, so when you get to the very end game content get this engraving and before using it get it to at least level 2 because at level 1 this engraving is not that efficient.

- Cursed Doll: this is a significant attack power increase at the cost of 25 healing penalty, the penalty can be offset by paying more attention to dodging red AOE circles, and by using healing potions more often.

Arcana Cards

Moving on to the best cards for the Arcana build, you want to get the Shandi, Azena and Inanna, Nineveh, Balthorr, Thirain, and Wei in the Light of Salvation set. These cards are the in-game system for maximizing your character, so you don't have to get them right away, but these specific cards will optimize your damage output in PVE. This is the best and most optimized card set for Arcana.

Arcana Rotation

The highest damage rotation order is the Call of Destiny, Quadra Accelerate, Celestial Rain, Return, Spiral Edge, Secret Garden, Call of Destiny again, Scratch Dealer, and then finish it off with the Serendipity.