Esoteric Flurry Striker Build Guide

Welcome to the Esoteric Flurry Striker Build Guide! This build revolves around quickly generating and consuming Esoteric Orbs to boost powerful Esoteric Skills.

Esoteric Flurry striker is a fast builder-spender type of damage dealer with good Stagger and decent Destruction.

Raids

Kurzan Front

Notes

The stat split isn't fixed. You should adjust it to satisfy the following criteria:

• Enough Crit to max Blunt Thorn (119.28%).
  • You have 20% from Lightning Whisper, 10% from Back Attacking, 7% from Master elixir set, and a varying amount from Adrenaline depending on its level. The rest comes from stats, and bracelet and accessory effects.
• Some swift can be taken to help to fully negate Mass Increase's penalty
• Rest of the points should be used in Spec for extra damage and orb generation.

Taijutsu Enhancement can be taken to reach Blunt Thorn cap more easily, but it's less damage than the alternative sidenode.

Focus Hit is an alternative leap node, providing more damage but a longer animation and slightly more cooldown.

Skills Setup

• Esoteric Skill: Lightning Tiger Strike, Esoteric Skill: Tiger Emerges, Esoteric Skill: Blast Formation and Esoteric Skill: Call of the Wind God are your Spender skills, dealing high damage while consuming Esoteric Orbs.
• Lightning Whisper, Sky Shattering Blow and Sweeping Kick are your main Esoteric Orb generators.
• Storm Dragon Kick is a mobility skill which generates a bit of Esoteric Orb meter and is great at triggering rune effects.
• Sky Shattering Blow and Lightning Whisper are your Blessing of the Wind Self-buff and Weakness Exposure party Synergy skills respectively.
• Sky Shattering Blow is also your Counter skill.

Alternative Skill, Tripod and Rune options

Lightning Whisper

• Lightning's Blessing can be taken if you have a high-enough Cooldown gem (Lv. 8+).

Sky Shattering Blow

• All three first-row tripods are useful, pick based on preference.

Skills Setup

• Esoteric Skill: Call of the Wind God is your main lesser monster clearing tool.
• Esoteric Skill: Blast Formation is a good front-cone skill that deals high damage to elites.
• Esoteric Skill: Lightning Tiger Strike and Esoteric Skill: Tiger Emerges are your main Boss killers. Alternatively Ultimate Skill: Potent Heavenly Kickis also strong to kill the 2nd floor Boss.
• Lightning Whisper and Lightning Kick are your main Esoteric Orb generators. They're also good against lesser monsters.

Recommended Engravings

• Preemptive Strike
• Contender
• Raid Captain
• Cursed Doll
• Magick Stream

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Warning

This build is optimized and meant to be used only in Kurzan Front. For Ebony Cube please use a Raid build.

This build focuses on dealing quick bursts of damage while keeping consistent uptime on the enemy. To achieve this, Esoteric Flurry picks several Attack Speed buffs from skills. It's not a burst-heavy class like its counterpart Deathblow, but still gets to see some relatively big numbers.

There's no special interaction or activation in his Identity.

All attacks with a Back Attack affix receive +10% Crit Rate and +5% Damage when they land on the target's back-side indicator. It is important to position yourself accordingly as much as possible to take advantage of this.

Striker Identity

Standard Rotation

• There is no strict order of skills in this playstyle. Instead, you focus on generating enough Esoteric Orbs and using your Spender skills during your self-buff windows. The rotation shown above is ideal as an opener, assuming you have no Esoteric Orbs or Adrenaline stacks to begin with.
• Remember to always maintain your Weakness Exposure party Synergy with Lightning Whisper, as well as your Blessing of the Wind self-buff using Sky Shattering Blow. This is specially significant before using your Spenders.
• Use Storm Dragon Kick to position yourself at the back and gain Adrenaline stacks.

Gems are another significant aspect of your build, as they directly impact the damage and cooldowns of your skills. You can equip up to 11 gems at a time. Here are the ones you should focus on to maximize this build's potential, listed according to their priority.

Engravings are a core part of your build. You can equip up to five at a time, freely swapping between them.

Engravings are listed in order of importance.

Engravings Information

• Mass Increase penalty can be easily negated by your Atk. Speed self-buffs (Blessing of the Wind) as well as Flurry Enhancement giving 10% Atk. Speed to your Esoteric Skills.

Tripods affect your skills directly by providing utility, damage, cooldown reduction or gauge generation. You should level up these first:

• Lightning Whisper: Efficient Extortion
• Sky Shattering Blow: Abundant Resources, Blessing of the Wind

Bracelets provide beneficial effects to yourself or to your party members depending on the rolls they have.

The primary goal is to get the main stats used by your build. After that, you should be aiming for Special Rolls to get more damage. Here are the effects you should look out for, in no particular order:

The recommended Elixir Set for this build is Master.