Master Summoner Build Guide

Builds

Raids

Chaos Dungeons

Need some tips for general content? Check out our Guardian Raids and Abyssal Dungeons guides.

• Water Elemental is your Counter skill and one of your main Ancient Energy generators.
• Sticky Moss Swamp is your Synergy skill.
• Ancient Spear is your most damaging skill outside of Ancient Elementals. It also generates a good amount of Ancient Energy.
• Electric Storm and Steed Charge generate high amounts of Ancient Energy.
• Earth Collapse is your second strongest Normal Skill, also generating a decent amount of Ancient Energy and dealing Destruction.
• Shurdi is your Crit Rate self-buff. It also increases party MP regeneration thanks to its MP Recovery tripod.
• Maririn helps you maintain Adrenaline stacks and proc Quick Recharge with its extra ability.
• Bagron's Wrath is used because of the big amounts of Ancient Energy it generates.

Check the Rune Guide for more details on Runes and how to obtain them.

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

• Most of your skills have good AoE.
• Maririn is used to draw attention of enemies
• Steed Charge generates a lot of Ancient Energy, allowing you to spam Phoenix for AoE damage.

Recommended Engraving Setup

Acquiring additional engravings leads to a faster clear potential, but the build can perform quite well with the bare minimum.

Minimum requirements

• Preemptive Strike causes your attacks to deal immense amounts of damage to monsters that you haven't attacked yet, making it ideal for Chaos Dungeons.

Additional engravings

• Contender is a stacking Attack Power effect that increases in strength once you kill a monster, making it ideal for Chaos Dungeons.
• Raid Captain provides damage based on your Bonus Movement Speed, synergizing well with the Buff Nodes scattered throughout Chaos Dungeons.
• Hit Master provides an unconditional damage boost to your skills, as none of the important ones have a positional affix.

Gameplay & Skill Rotation

Basic Rotations

Pre-Summons

• You want to pre-summon Shurdi for Crit Rate and MP Regen buffs, and Maririn for Adrenaline stacks and some damage while you start your rotations.
• Keep them active and refresh them when they expire, unless you know the boss is going into a mechanic or a big downtime.

Opener with no Ancient Energy

• The core concept of this rotation is when you start with 0 Ancient Energy, you utilize Sticky Moss Swamp to apply your Synergy. Then use your Ancient Energy generators and Akir to consume your meter.
• Remember to use Earth Collapse to cancel Electric Storm's animation.

4 Akir Burst Rotation (Full Ancient Energy)

• Since Akir's damage is delayed you need to be aware of boss patterns and phases to avoid missing it too often.
• Bagron (Awakening) will help you fill your Ancient Energy almost twice, and having Electric Storm in place will help generate the remaining energy needed. Remember that Bagron is actually 2 hits, meaning you have to be fast to pull the combo off and not waste any Ancient Energy by quickly using Akir.

Other Rotations

• Outside of your Akir combos, you don't have a "set" rotation so you prioritize skills in a way that maximizes your meter generation.
• You constantly utilize Sticky Moss Swamp to apply your Party Synergy, and Akir to consume your Ancient Energy.

Animation Canceling

• Ancient Spear and Electric Storm have long animations after the skill is actually launched, so you can do a small trick to cancel the end of those animations with any of the listed options. You need to cast the animation-canceling skills right when Ancient Spears/Storm is about to end, so you skip the last bit of the animations.

Stagger Check Rotation

• Remember you can also use a Whirlwind Grenade if you have one equipped!

Tripods and Gems

Tripod Levelling

Gems

Stat Priority

• Specialization is the primary stat. It increases Ancient Elementals damage and Ancient Energy generation.
• Swiftness is a secondary stat. It provides some cooldown reduction and attack/move speed for comfort.
• Crit is an alternative secondary stat. It provides more damage but requires higher level cooldown gems.

Gear Set

Hallucination Set

Engravings

Engraving Explanations

• Master Summoner enhances your Ancient Elementals with different utility, and increases your Normal and Ancient Elemental skills damage and Crit Rate.
• Adrenaline provides an additional source of Crit Rate and Attack Power. It is fairly easy to upkeep.
• Grudge increases damage done while also increasing damage received. The engraving is a highly effective damage increase without needing specific positioning, making it worthwhile even with the penalty.
• Keen Blunt Weapon is a great choice when paired with all the Crit Rate you seek to have.

• Cursed Doll is a significant Attack Power increase at the cost of 25% healing. The healing penalty can be punishing for inexperienced players who are not familiar with boss mechanics, but it becomes easy to overcome with time.
• Hit Master provides multiplicative damage but it doesn't affect your Awakening nor Bleed Rune damage.

• Adrenaline is usually only chosen in Specialization + Crit builds.
• Ether Predator provides a ramping Attack Power and Defense buff, but requires you to collect orbs and it takes time to reach its true potential.

Bracelet

Elixir

Card Sets

• Deep Dive is used early on as it is fairly easy to obtain.
• Light of Salvation is the standard endgame option, but it can take a long time to acquire 30-piece Awakening.
• Kazeros's Legion Commanders is used as an alternative to Light of Salvation, in content where enemies have a weakness to Dark Damage.

End Game Damage Card Set