Tier 4 Artist Build Guide

Welcome to the Tier 4 Artist Build Guide! Artist is one of the Support classes in Lost Ark. Your role revolves around providing your party with various damage buffs, as well as keeping them safe through Shields, Damage Reduction, and Heals. This is a cakewalk for the class because of her protection and defenses.

Outside of that, Artist provides bonus Stagger, Counter, and Destruction, to the party. Your class engraving Full Bloom improves your healing with Sunrise (X) making it more impactful.

Raids

Kurzan Front

Ark Passive

Notes

• If you run into significant MP issues, you can consider switching MP Furnace with Standing Striker or Stable Manager.

Skills Setup

• Paint: Sunsketch and Paint: Sun Well are your Attack Power buffs.
• Paint: Drawing Orchids is your Brand skill from Ink Brand - you can consider this to be your Synergy if you are familiar with the term. It also provides Destruction.
• Stroke: Hopper is your largest meter generation skill and shields your allies, try to land this both on your party and boss at the same time.
• Paint: Starry Night is your damage reduction skill, making it one of your best protection skills.
• Paint: Illusion Door is both a large meter generation skill and a cleanse, try to save a cleanse if needed, but otherwise use it for meter. This is also used to teleport your teammates to yourself if a party member is far away.
• Paint: Pouncing Tiger provides decent meter generation, Destruction, and Stagger.
• Stroke: Upward Stroke is your Counter, and it also provides Destruction.
• Masterwork: Efflorescence is your Awakening. It generates 2 orbs and provides a large shield to your party.

Alternative Skill, Tripod, and Rune Options

Paint: Starry Night can be swapped for Stroke: Sprinkle, using Wide-Angle Attack, Drawing a Line, Ink Shield, and Overwhelm.

• This will cost you your Damage Reduction however it still provides great shielding and great Stagger, this is an ideal choice if you are struggling with Stagger.

Paint: Starry Night

• Quick Prep - Will give a decent meter generation increase at the cost of making the skill harder to utilize and use more mana throughout the fight.

Paint: Illusion Door

• Swift Fingers - Helps with maintaining a smoother rotation, but this is only viable if you can sustain the mana.

Paint: Sunsketch

• Agile Strokes - Can be used if survivability is less of a concern, instead providing your team with a nice Attack Speed buff.

Ark Passive

Skills Setup

• Paint: Sun Well and Paint: Sunsketch will self-buff and provides some great damage.
• Stroke: One Stroke and Paint: Pouncing Tiger are your best skills for dealing with elites.
• Paint: Crane Wing, Paint: Ink Well, and Paint: Starry Night are amazing skills for dealing with the mobs.
• Masterwork: Spectacle is your Awakening. It helps with clearing bosses and mass area of effect.

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.

Artist excels at providing high uptime Attack Power and Brand buffs to the entire party, while also reliably providing Damage Reduction, Shields, Heals and Utility.

Her identity has two options Moonfall (Z) or Sunrise (X).

• Moonfall (Z) provides a 10% Damage increase to enemies. This will cost 2 orbs.
• Sunrise (X) provides a bubble that can be picked up that will heal a single player 25% of her HP as well as provide an AOE heal that is 15% of her HP. This will cost only one orb.

Your gameplay revolves around supporting your party through various damage buffs, as well as protecting them from dangerous attacks. Here's a breakdown of how you can fulfill that role.

Artist Identity

Goddess of Blessings + Passionate Dance

Goddess of Blessings and Passionate Dance act as a replacement for the Yearning Set. However, unlike Yearning, these effects apply in a 25m area around you, removing the need for teammates to stand beside you to receive them. Maintaining these buffs is one of your highest priorities, and they should always be up from the start of the fight until the end.

Attack Power Buffs

This buff allows you to increase your party's Attack Power by 15% of your Attack Power, as well as granting +6% Attack Power overall. It is applied through Paint: Sunsketch and Paint: Sun Well. It is significant to understand that both of these skills apply the same buff, and it does not stack. You should maintain this buff as well as you can throughout the fight, by keeping an eye on your buff bar and alternating between these skills when the buff is about to expire.

Brand

This debuff causes the target to receive +10% Damage from your party. It is applied by Paint: Drawing Orchids. You should be able to maintain Brand throughout the entire fight by keeping an eye on the enemy's debuff bar and using your Brand.

Identity

Her Identity has two different use cases, and it depends on the situation. You should only use Sunrise (X) when your team is decently low or a single player needs special help. Otherwise, you should be spending your meter on Moonfall (Z) which will increase your party's DPS and make the raid a smoother experience.

Hyper Awakening Technique

Paint: Dragon Engraving is an incredibly powerful buff. When cast, it grants your party +10% Damage for 10 seconds, and +20% Hyper Awakening Damage for 30 seconds. Normally, you should be using this skill as often as possible, but occasionally, you might decide to hold it briefly if a specific window comes up where your teammates would cast their Hyper Awakening Skills. This varies from encounter to encounter, and identifying these windows is crucial to mastering the use of this skill.

Shields, Damage Reduction, Healing

Artist's kit benefits from several ways of protecting your party.

• Stroke: Hopper - All party members within range receive a shield for 30% of Artist's HP.
• Paint: Starry Night - All party members inside the area of effect receive a shield for a portion of the Artist's maximum HP for 3 seconds and take -75% incoming damage until the skill ends, or they leave the area.
• Paint: Illusion Door - All party members within range receive a shield for 10% of Artist's HP and a cleanse.
• Paint: Sunsketch - All party members within range take -35% incoming damage for 8 seconds, as well as receiving increased MP regeneration for the same duration.
• Masterwork: Efflorescence - All party members within range receive a shield for 100% of the Artist's maximum HP.

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

• Awakening
• Magick Stream
• Expert
• Heavy Armor
• Max MP Increase

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 this build - Swiftness and Specialization. After that, you should be aiming for Special Rolls to get more damage. Please note that this system is heavily reliant on RNG, and you should not expect to get much more beyond your main stats early on.

The recommended Elixir Set for this build is Luminary.