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Engraving System Guide

Last Updated:February 22, 2025

Engravings are empowerment that are applied to your character for various buffs that alter your playstyle. All of this is trackable in your character profile under the Engraving Tab. Why someone should bother to get them, where they can be found and how they actually work are all the questions we will answer here, so buckle up and let's learn all about them!

Unlock

The way engravings are used will follow the Ark Passive model. However, not all slots are unlocked right away, with some of them becoming available after reaching certain Item Level requirements. Below you can see at what Ilvl you unlock additional engraving slots.

How to Improve

Engravings can only be obtained by using Combat Engraving Recipes. Each engraving starts off at Rare grade, and can be further enhanced by learning Epic Grade Recipes, Legendary Grade Recipes, and Relic Grade Recipes, with gradual increases for every 5 books. Ability Stones further increase the effects of engravings at 6, 7, 9, and 10 nodes. The values in the table below only refer to the positive side of each engraving, and downsides are not mentioned.

Grudge

+12% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Damage

+3/3.75/5.25/6% Damage

Cursed Doll

+8% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Damage

+3/3.75/5.25/6% Damage

Keen Blunt Weapon

+28% Crit Damage

+2/4/6/8%
Crit Damage

+7.5/9.4/13.2/15%
Crit Damage

Hit Master

+8% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Damage

+3/3.75/5.25/6% Damage

Ambush Master

+3.2% Damage

+9% Back Attack Damage

+0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Back Attack Damage

+0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Back Attack Damage

+0.7/1.4/2.1/2.8% Damage

+2.7/3.4/4.7/5.4% Damage

Master Brawler

+3.2% Damage

+9% Front Attack Damage

+0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Front Attack Damage

+0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Front Attack Damage

+0.7/1.4/2.1/2.8% Damage

+2.7/3.4/4.7/5.4% Damage

Heavy Armor

+58% Defense

+4/8/12/16% Defense

+12/15/21/24% Defense

Stabilized Status

+8% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Damage

+3/3.75/5.25/6% Damage

Magick Stream

+1.4% MP Regen

+4% CDR

+0.15/0.3/0.45/0.6% MP Regen

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% CDR

+0.6/0.75/1.05/1.2% MP Regen

Adrenaline

+8% Crit Rate

+2.4% Attack Power

+0.78/1.5/2.28/3% Attack Power

+1.5/3/4.5/6%
Crit Rate

+2.88/3.6/4.98/5.7% Attack Power

Values are shown at full stacks (6).

Mass Increase

+10% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Damage

+3/3.75/5.25/6% Damage

Raid Captain

Damage +24% of Mov. Speed

Damage +2/4/6/8% of Mov. Speed

Damage +7.5/9.4/13.2/15% of Mov. Speed

Precise Dagger

+12% Crit Rate

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Crit Rate

+3/3.75/5.25/6% Crit Rate

All-Out Attack

+12% Cast Speed

+14% Damage

+1/2/3/4% Cast Speed

+0.5/1/1.5/2% Damage

+1/2/3/4% Cast Speed

+0.5/1/1.5/2% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Damage

+3/3.7/5/6% Damage

Ether Predator

+12.6% Attack Power

+12% Defense

+4.5/9/13.5/18% Defense

-1.5/3/4.5/6s Cooldown

+0.9/1.8/2.7/3.6% Attack Power

+3/3.9/5.4/6% Attack Power

Values are shown at full stacks (30).

Barricade

+8% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Damage

+3/3.75/5.25/6% Damage

Awakening

+38% Awakening CDR

+1 Awakening cast

+1.5/3/4.5/6% Awakening CDR

+0/1/1/2 Awakening casts

+6/7.5/10.5/12% Awakening CDR

Propulsion

+8% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Damage

+3/3.75/5.25/6% Damage

Drops of Ether

22s Cooldown

-1.5/3/4.5/6s Cooldown

+4/8/12/16% Efficiency

+12/15/21/24% Efficiency

Expert

+16% Heal & Shield Efficiency

+1/2/3/4% Heal & Shield Efficiency

+4/5/7/8% Heal & Shield Efficiency on targets under 50% HP

All values shown for book effects have 1.5x efficiency if the target is under 50% HP.

Vital Point Hit

+22% Stagger

+1.25/2.5/3.75/5% Stagger

+4/5/7/8% Stagger

Master's Tenacity

+8% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Damage

+3/3.75/5.25/6% Damage

Spirit Absorption

+7% Attack & Movement Speed

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Attack & Movement Speed

+3/3.75/5.25/6% Attack & Movement Speed

Explosive Expert

+40% Bomb/Grenade DMG

+1 Bomb/Grenade

+10/20/30/40% Bomb/Grenade DMG

+0/1/1/2 Bombs/Grenades

+40/50/70/80% Bomb/Grenade DMG

Super Charge

+24% Charge Speed

+14% Damage

+2/4/6/8% Cast Speed

+0.5/1/1.5/2% Damage

+2/4/6/8% Cast Speed

+0.5/1/1.5/2% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Damage

+3/3.75/5.25/6% Damage

Max MP Increase

+20% Max MP

+1/2/3/4% Max MP

+4/5/7/8% Max MP

Crisis Evasion

720s Cooldown

+40% HP Recovered

-20/40/60/80s Cooldown

+30/37.5/52.5/60% HP Recovered

MP Efficiency Increase

+12% MP Regen

+9% Damage

+1/2/3/4% MP Regen

+0.5/1/1.5/2% Damage

+1/2/3/4% MP Regen

+0.5/1/1.5/2% Damage

+0.75/1.5/2.25/3% Damage

+3/3.75/5.25/6% Damage

This engraving only increases the damage of skills that consume MP.

Engraving Recipe Sources

Sources for engravings in Lost Ark include:

Clearing your daily Chaos Dungeons.
Clearing certain stages in Shadespire Tower.
Battle Engraving Recipe for clearing daily Guardian Raids.
Cube clear reward.
Random Battle Engraving Recipe for clearing Abyssal Dungeons.
Procyon’s Compass
Side quest completions in East Luterra reward Battle Recipe Selection Pouches.
Story questline completion for specific Islands rewards Battle Recipe Selection Pouches.
Island exchange merchants that offer Battle Recipe Selection Pouches with a limited availability per week in return for currency found on their Islands.
Buy from Auction House.
Legion Raid Exchange NPC
Event Rewards

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