Loyal Companion Sharpshooter Build Guide

Welcome to the Loyal Companion Sharpshooter Build Guide! This build revolves around your Hawk, it provides massive buffs and even contributes to a significant portion of your damage. A simple playstyle of trying to dish out as much damage as possible and sniping the boss.

Outside of that, Loyal Companion enjoys a comfortable playstyle, has decent mobility, and is non-positional, meaning the class can attack from anywhere and at a range. The only downside of this playstyle is that he is relatively simple and has long skill cooldowns.

Raids

Kurzan Front

Ark Passive

Skills Setup

• Snipe is the highest damaging skill and highest priority to land.
• Hawk Shot, Charged Shot, Sharpshooter, and Arrow Wave are all filler bonus damage skills.
• Charged Shot additionally has Destruction.
• Atomic Arrow is our primary way of applying your Synergy from Damage Amplification.
• Deadly Slash is our Counter and meter generation.
• Moving Slash is our primary mobility.
• Fenrir's Messenger is your Awakening, we use it because it provides us with a full meter at the start of the fight.

Alternative Skill, Tripod, and Rune Options

Sharpshooter

• Overwhelm can be used if you are struggling for Stagger.

Moving Slash

• Quick Prep Can be used if you prefer a lower cooldown.
• Rage, Quick Recharge, Galewind These are all fine options, feel free to use what fits your playstyle.

Ark Passive

Skills Setup

• Snipe, Hawk Shot, and Arrow Wave are your best skills for clearing elites.
• Arrow Shower, Claymore Mine, Blade Storm, and Charged Shot are your best mob clearing skills.
• Moving Slash is your mobility skill.

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.

Loyal Companion revolves around his Hawk. This is because it does significant damage itself as well as increasing your damage. We can always have this up by instantly filling our meter using Fenrir's Messenger then maintaining the drain with meter generation skills like Hawk Shot and Deadly Slash.

Having the hawk Summoned will have these effects:

• 8% Increased Party Movement Speed
• 12% Damage Increase to the boss, only for yourself.
• 10% Attack Power increase to yourself.
• Additionally, the Hawk has its own natural 40% Crit Rate

Once we have full meter, we can use Summon Silverhawk (Z) to summon our Hawk.

The identity has two skills Wings of Storm (Z) and Last Rush (X).

• Wings of Storm (Z) should be used off cooldown. This is just a straight damage increase and can be cast during any animation.
• Last Rush (X) sends in our Hawk sacrificing it and losing our buffs. This should rarely be used, but you can throw one if you plan to instantly use Fenrir's Messenger to refill your meter completely.

Sharpshooter Identity

This build is incredibly simple, try to deal as much damage as possible. We mainly want to follow a priority list of the highest damage skills and focus on survival. As long as you are using your skills off cooldown, you will have great performance.

Standard Damage Rotation

• This is a simple rotation, but it functions more as a priority list, as we do not have a true rotation. Try to use your skills off cooldown to maximize your damage potential.
• Wings of Storm (Z) can be cast during any animation, so your goal is to use it as much as possible whenever it is available.
• Charged Shot can be tapped to instantly cast, holding it down only increases the range, so keep that in mind.
• Try your best to maintain your Synergy using Atomic Arrow, even if you aren't planning to attack immediately after.
• Weave in Spiral Arrow whenever it is available.

Stagger Check Rotation

• This is a simple priority list on what to use during any time you need to maximize stagger. Remember, you can also use a Whirlwind Grenade if you have one equipped!

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.

Recommended Setup

• Grudge
• Keen Blunt Weapon
• Hit Master
• Cursed Doll
• Adrenaline

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

• Arrow Wave: Enhanced Arrow
• Sharpshooter: Vital Point Hit
• Hawk Shot: Eagle Hawk
• Snipe: Quick Prep, Weak Point Detection, Easy Prey

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.