LoA Best Arcana (Arcanist) Emperor Build Guide: Identity, Gear, Stats, Engravings, Skills, Gems & Rotation

There are lots of things that got changed for arcana after the August patch, so in this LOA guide, we go over the identity, gear, stats, engravings, skills, gems, and rotation to help you get the best Arcanist Emperor Build in the game!

Identity 

The odds of drawing all balance judgment and wheel of fortune got increased and other cards except for emperor card got decreased, balance and judgment don't matter much for emperor since most of the emperor builds use only one red skill like this, but Call and the Wheel of Fortune matters a lot. 

Also, four new cards got added:

• Clown Card - you get back the last card that you used 

• Joy Card - reduces cooldown by 15% or by even 30% with 50% chance for the skills that are already on cooldown except for space bar and awakening

• Droplet Card - For 10 seconds, crit rate of all the yellow skills gets increased by 20% 

• Lord Card - For 4 seconds, damage of all the yellow skills gets increased by 50%

You can only add Lord and Droplet Cards if you run Ambro class engraving

Gear & Stats

• For the relic set, you want to run either two Nightmare plus four Dominion or 6 Dominion sets. 6 dominion has a higher potential than the other one. Still, you have to control your mana very well. 2 nightmare 4 dominion definitely helps the mana problem. Still, it does less damage, also the damage buff from 2 set nightmare does not affect the emperor card since the emperor card does not consume mana.

• For the stats, you want to mean swiftness and sub crit

Engravings

Emperor engraving got a big buff:

• Now it adds emperor, droplet, and lord card by replacing balance and judgment card which is good because balance and judgment card is not needed in amber builds

• Also at level 3, the damage of yellow skills get increased by 40% and the damage of the emperor card also get increased by 80%

• Bridge, Emperor, Raid Captain, and the Hit Master are most likely fixed, Raid Captain have full benefit if you run movement speed buff tripod on stream of edge skill, Hit Master is good for this build since all the skills don't have a chat type.

• For the fifth one, if you want higher potential then add curse doll, if you value consistency then add adrenaline, you can also run mass increase if you're good with the attack speed reduction. 

• For engravings under 5x3, prioritize on ambro level 3 and you can add other engravings in your favor

Skills

The graphic effect of most of the skills got changed:

• Call of Destiny (lead rune) - This skill is for stacks and cards, first line - mana tripod, second line - quick draw, the odd got nerfed from 40% to 20% at level five, third line - the new tripod that turns this yellow skill into a blue skill that stacks two stacks

• Unlimited Shuffle (gilwind rune) - This is a DPS skill, first light - quick preparation, second light - damage tripod, and third line - damage tripod as well, this tripod by the way got buffed, the animation became much shorter and became a range skill

• Return (judgment rune) - This is a party's energy skill that also gives self crit damage buff, tripods are same as before the patch

• Mysterious Stampede (quick recharge rune) - This skill is for drawing the cards, first line - quick draw the odd to draw the cards is 30 at level 5, second line - damage tripod, and the third line - the one that allows you to store the skills up to two times

• Dark Resurrection (focus rune) - This is a DPS skill tripods are same as before the patch - all dps tripods

• Evoke (focus rune) - This is a DPS skill, first line - quick preparation, second line - damage tripod, and third line - split tripod, split tripod is buffed now, it explodes after 3 seconds instead of 5

• Stream Over Edge - This is a crit rate buff and raid captain buff skill, first line - the tripod that boosts the movement speed for some seconds, and second line - credit rate buff rooney's conviction

• Celestial Rain (focus rune) - This is a DPS skill, tripods are same as before the patch all dps tripods, you don't have to level up this skill over 10 since it doesn't increase the stack damage

This build requires a lot of skill points, so for those who don't have enough skill points you can run either level 7 or level 4 for the mysterious stampede. For the priority of the tripod, you want to prioritize the crit damage buff on this return tripod and crit rate buff on stream of edge, then go for DPS tripods on other DPS skills.

Gems

• For the gems, you want to attack gems on unlimited shuffle, evoke, dark resurrection, celestial rain, and emperor. 

• For the rest of the slots, you want to run cooldown reduction gem on celestial rain, dark resurrection, return, stream of edge, evoke, and mysterious stampede. 

Rotation

Let's go over the rotation:

The point of emperor build is to burst all the skills in few seconds mysterious stampede has to be used all the time for the cards, for others you use it in sequence: Call of Destiny -> Evoke -> Stream of Edge -> Dark Resurrection -> Return -> Unlimited Shuffle -> Celestial Rain

If you have awakening and when Return activates the Judgment, then use the awakening right after using the Return to activate the Dominion relic set and continue with Unlimited Shuffle and Celestial Rain.

Well, this is all of the Arcana Emperor Guide, if you need some LOA gold for build up this class, welcome to check out the best offer on AOEAH.COM!