Punisher Slayer Build Guide

Builds

Raids - 1.5 Cycle

Raids - 1.0 Cycle

Chaos Dungeons

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• Brutal Impact, Guillotine, Volcanic Eruption and Bloodlust (Z) are your main sources of damage during Burst mode. You should avoid using them outside of it.
• Furious Claw is a decent damage and gauge skill, you can use it during burst mode and outside.
• Wild Rush is your mobility skill.
• Wild Stomp and Spinning Sword are gauge generators. Wild Stomp is your Counter skill.
• Flash Blade is your Synergy skill.
• Ragna Break is your awakening. It deals massive amounts of damage, so it's recommended to use it during burst mode for the extra damage from Punisher's class engraving.

Alternative Skill, Tripod, and Rune Options

You can drop Flash Blade for Ground Smash.

• This replaces a fast, short-cd skill with a longer, Push Immune skill with more meter generation.
• You will need to move Cooldown Gem and Wealth from Spinning Sword to Ground Smash.
• You will need to add Wealth to Spinning Sword.
• You will need to select Damage Amplification on Wild Stomp as your Synergy Skill.
  • You can then replace its Wealth rune with Bleed or any utility rune.
  • This effectively reduces the amount of Focus you need to level by 1.

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

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

This build requires higher investment into skill points, Specialization (1782+), tripods (Focus) and all Wealth (1 Legendary, 2 Epic, 2 Rare) runes to work. If you don't meet the requisites, it will perform worse than the 1.5 Cycle counterpart).

• Brutal Impact, Guillotine, Volcanic Eruption and Bloodlust (Z) are your main sources of damage during Burst mode. You should avoid using them outside of it.
• Furious Claw is a decent damage and gauge skill, you can use it during burst mode and outside.
• Wild Stomp, Ground Smash, Cruel Pierce and Spinning Sword are gauge generators. Wild Stomp is your Counter skill as well as Synergy in this build.
• Ragna Break is your awakening. It deals massive amounts of damage, so it's recommended to use it during burst mode for the extra damage from Punisher's class engraving.

Alternative Skill, Tripod, and Rune Options

You can replace Cruel Pierce with Punishing Draw at 1808 Specialization.

• This reduces your Destruction but replaces it with a skill with Paralysis Immunity as well as a secondary Counter.
  • This effectively reduces the amount of Focus needed to be leveled by 1.

At 1836 Specialization you can take off the Wealth rune from Wild Stomp, and have a flex slot for Purify, Bleed or similar.

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.

• Guillotine is your main lesser monster and Elite killer. It does a big spin that should instantly kill everything in range and reduce its cooldown.
• Brutal Impact is your Floor 2 Boss killer, alternatively, you can also use Ragna Break.
• Wild Rush is your Floor 3 Crystal crusher and a mobility tool in case you need it.
• The rest of the skills are damage fillers to kill lesser monsters during Guillotine downtime.

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.

Gameplay & Skill Rotation

Basic Rotations

Burst Rotation

• *If you have a high-enough Cooldown Gem (9+) and Quick Prep at level 5 in Guillotine, you can cast it twice per burst cycle. Otherwise, skip the last one.
• You can fit your Ragna Break during dead time in Burst Mode.
• For 1.0 Cycle builds, you cycle so fast that following the order listed above is not always possible. In that case, cast the skills as they come off cooldown.

Stagger Check Rotation

• Most Stagger checks in the game have damage reduction so you want to avoid using your big skills on them, but if it's necessary (or if the stagger check is too long) then Brutal Impact and Bloodlust also deal massive amounts of Stagger.
• Don't forget to utilize a Whirlwind Grenade if necessary.

Tripods and Gems

Tripod Levelling

Gems

Stat Priority

• Specialization is the primary stat. It increases damage during Burst Mode and increases Fury Meter generation.
• Swiftness is a secondary stat. It helps with Raid Captain efficiency and cooldown reduction.
• Crit is taken only on bracelet for a small consistency boost.

Gear Set

Entropy Set

Engravings

Engraving Explanations

• Punisher gives damage and allows you to make use of Burst Mode.
• 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.
• Ambush Master provides a huge amount of positional damage to Back Attack skills.
• Raid Captain is a good choice since you get Move Speed from Identity, Swiftness and Supports.

• 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.
• Keen Blunt Weapon can be a good option alternative to Cursed Doll, providing Crit Damage at the expense of slightly lower average damage. It becomes better with additional Crit Rate sources such as Synergies.
• Adrenaline provides an additional source of Crit Rate and Attack Power. It can be difficult to maintain in some skill builds. Can be run at Level 3 if you want to avoid Cursed Doll's penalty and aren't convinced of Keen Blunt Weapon.

• Adrenaline is ideal at Level 1 and 2 due to all the other sources of Crit Rate we already have.
• Ether Predator (Level 1) is a decent alternative but can be annoying to play around since you have to collect orbs over 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.
• Three Umar Families combined with A Voice Calls with is used as an alternative to Light of Salvation, in Guardian Raid content exclusively.

End Game Damage Card Set