Kevin 'Starlast' Le joined Maxroll in 2021 as a Lost Ark content creator. Starlast is a competitive player that's known for his prowess to play a variety of different games at a high level. He's an avid MMO PvPer that enjoys pushing himself to become the best. With the launch of Lost Ark, Starlast has been getting experience in the game since 2018. He is aiming to be the best, as well as share his knowledge of the game with the new Lost Ark audience. 
Introduction
The Slayer is Lost Ark's new warrior class that specializes in the greatsword (counterpart to Berserker).
Similar to the Berserker, they focus on fast engages or counter engage in their play style. They have similar issues with long skill CDS but are very impactful when they land. In the right hands, this class deals high damage and can easily turn a losing game into a winning state with its tools. With protection on nearly all their skills and high damage output, Slayer is an extremely good class to take over games.
This article assumes you have a Character with a minimum level of 26 before transitioning to it. Check out the 1-50 Leveling guides to reach Level 26.
Check out the General PvP Guide for a better understanding of the arena systems in place.
Core Skills
- Fatal Sword a 2 part Push Immunity skill similar to Berserker's. Can be used for protection or a nuke.
- Wild Rush mobility/engage skill with 2 stacks.
- Final Blow combo/follow up skill. Can be used for protection if you read certain skills correctly or just for general damage.
- Wild Stomp one of your main CC skills.
- Cruel Pierce 2 part catch skill that has Paralysis Immunity. Depending on how far you catch with it, can be used to follow up with another combo skill.
- Mountain Cleave another CC skill that grants Push Immunity and does decent damage.
- Guillotine a counter/catch/damage skill when held, grants Push Immunity. It's a very versitle skill. Tapping the skill can also be used for a quick nuke.
- Brutal Impact big damage ability.
Berserker Form (Identity)
- Similar to the Berserker's Identity, quickly gain Full Immunity during the transformation.
- Transformation also does a small knockup around yourself.
- Pressing your identity again during the form will unleash a blade slash animation that grants Push Immunity.
PvP Builds
Combat Stats
750 Swiftness, 1 Critical and 249 Domination
Standard
Standard v2
Alternatives
- Spinning Sword great mobility skill with Paralysis Immunity.
- Flying Strike another mobility/engage skill.
Basic Combo #1
- Catch with Wild Rush.
- Use Final Blow backwards.
- Wild Stomp
- Finish with Brutal Impact.
Basic Combo #2
- Catch with Cruel Pierce.
- Final Blow or Wild Stomp if they are close enough.
Basic Combo #3
- Catch with Wild Stomp.
- Ragna Break
Gameplay
- Similar to the Berserker, you will have long CDs and could potentially run into Mana issues. Try to make your skills impactful by getting value out of them. Either switch up your engages and make them unpredictable or play counter engage depending on your composition.
- Guillotine is a great skill to try to recatch or just used for general protection.
- Unlike the Berserker, Cruel Pierce is a new skill the Slayer has that can be used for a quick engage.
- Slayer has a lot of protective skills (if not all) has some sort of protection, use that to your advantage and don't be too afraid of trading skills with people.
Combat Stats
750 Swiftness, 1 Critical and 249 Domination
Standard
Alternatives
- Spinning Sword great mobility skill with Paralysis Immunity.
- Flying Strike another mobility/engage skill.
Basic Combo #1
- Catch with Wild Rush.
- Use Final Blow backwards.
- Wild Stomp
- Finish with Brutal Impact.
Basic Combo #2
- Catch with Cruel Pierce.
- Final Blow or Wild Stomp if they are close enough.
Basic Combo #3
- Catch with Wild Stomp.
- Ragna Break
Gameplay
GvG is more chaotic than Arena battles, so you rarely have the opportunity to do long combos. This mode is more about zoning/interrupting objectives and assisting allies. Do your best to coordinate with your team and stick together. Refer to 3v3 section for more gameplay tips.
Please refer to the GvG Islands and GvG Builds Guide for more information!
There are no actual combos listed here compare to the other PvP builds because the build is built around zoning/interrupting objectives and mostly assisting allies. Since there will be more than 8 enemies on the field, it'll be really hard to pull off a long combo with many spells and attacks being unleash on the field.
Basically, use the skills base on the situations. Holy Land, can be use for annoying enemies on the objectives as it can prevent enemies from trying to capture the objectives by interrupting the capturing animation from the damage ticks that the ground effect does, and it helps in mass fights were the enemies can't stand on top of your allies for more than 3 ticks before they get stun by the skill.
GvG can be a lot more chaotic than Arenas as theres more than 3 opponents rushing into the fight, Paladin's role usually be sticking close to the backlines or allies immobile range classes to assist them if they get group on, while also play around from their range since the build is kitted with more range skills than Arena builds.
GvG Engraving
Priority
- Heavy Armor Equipment-engraving] level 3 increases all defense for higher survivability. Moreover, armor shredding debuffs doesn't affect the bonus defense increase effect from the engraving.
- Spirit Absorption increases attack speed and movement speed by a significant amount at level3 engraving effect which will help with positioning and getting skills cast out quicker.
- Judgment level 1 increases duration of Sacred Executioner by 100% to 40 seconds. Additionally increases sword skills damage and identity gauge gain rate.
Additional Choices
- Cursed Doll since Cursed Doll doesn't affect a player character, this is the next best engraving for damage increase in general. Furthermore, Island PvP disables consumables so the penalty isn't too penalizing and GvGs consumables are very limited as well which eventually player will run out consumables quick as well.
- Divine Protection, Fortitude and Strong Will these are the engravings to stack for maximum defenses.
- Raid Captain is also another good damage engraving option for Island PvP and GvGs since players will be stacking high Swiftness stats for having fast animation casting speed and general movespeed as well as more cooldown reductions then stacking with Spirit Absorption will max out 140% movesment speed cap which will grant the max 18% damage increase from Raid Captain.
- Champion's Tenacity Island PvP with disabled consumables and the very limited amount of consumables in GvGs means a lot of the time the player spent being damaged and unable to heal up, so this engraving will help give some boost to damage while the player is below 50% health pool.
- Shield Piercing self-explanatory; usually well coordinated guilds will stack lots of classes that has team shield or personal shields, this engraving will help a little from shield stack pushes.
- Basic Game Plan;
- there's no actual combos listed here compare to the other PvP builds because the build is built around zoning/interrupting objectives and mostly assisting allies. Since there will be more than 8 enemies on the field , it'll be really hard to pull off a long combo with many spells and attacks being unleash on the field. Basically , use the skills base on the situations.
- Holy Land, can be use for annoying enemies on the objectives as it can prevent enemies from trying to capture the objectives by interrupting the capturing animation from the damage ticks that the ground effect does, and it helps in mass fights were the enemies can't stand on top of your allies for more than 3 ticks before they get stun by the skill.
- GvG can be a lot more chaotic than Arenas as theres more than 3 opponents rushing into the fight , Paladin's role usually be sticking close to the backlines or allies immobile range classes to assist them if they get group on, while also play around from their range since the build is kitted with more range skills than Arena builds.
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Summary
- Remember your combos!
- Try to get value for your skills as you might run into long skill CDS and Mana issues.
Credits
Written by Starlast
Changelog
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