With the May update, Lost Ark brings the Destroyer into play as the fourth subclass of the warrior. MeinMMO author Anny Bader took a closer look at it and explains what is important.
updated: This article received a revision on November 14, 2022. The developers have changed the “Gravity Training” class engraving and some skills. So for the endgame there are new tripods and the skill “One Man Arms” has been replaced by “Earth Wave”.
As a Destroyer, you deal high burst damage while also having a lot of defense. Since the class is very slow, you can just stand still in some attacks. Some of your attacks will also create a shield for even better defense.
He’s popular on Korean and Russian servers due to his speed at taking down bosses and some of the best crowd control. Therefore, the Destroyer is also suitable for PvP and is a useful party member.
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This is how the destroyer plays
This is the special ability destroyer: Skills are divided into Gravity Release Skills (purple) and Concentration Skills (blue). By performing blue attacks, you charge orbs that cause purple skills to do more damage based on the number of orbs charged.
When using the gratification release abilities, you in turn charge a bar that improves your blue skills. You need that in turn to bring your Destroyer into God mode, which makes it even more powerful.
All abilities of the Destroyer:
concentration skills
Gravity Release Skills
The destroyer in the leveling process
It is important when distributing the points that you never have to bring the skill levels higher than level 10. Skill level 4 is required for the first tripod, skill level 7 for the second, and skill level 10 for the third.
We will add the leveling process for the class as soon as the destroyer is playable on the European servers.
The best builds in endgame
In the endgame, as with most other classes, you choose between two class engravings. You either focus on crit or defense.
Class Engraving A: Hammer of Rage
What does the engraving do? This increases your crit rate with each charged ball through the blue concentration skills. In addition, your crit damage is increased by 15% at level 3 of Engraving.
Of course, you rely on crit for the stats.
Which engravings do I use? If you chose Hammer of Rage, Supercharge is worth it, as some of your attacks need to charge to do more damage. In addition, the developers are working, for example with the new skill Earth Wave, on giving the destroyer more build freedom and making supercharges no longer inevitable.
In addition, master brawler is advantageous because you have to use numerous attacks from the front to do more damage.
Which trading cards are important? To further increase your crit rate, you should start with the Howling Rocks card set. It consists of Armel, Seria, Solas, King Thirain, Kharmine and Delain Armel.
The Light of Redemption set is optimal, but it consists of rare cards. So it will be expensive later, but worth it. The set consists of Shandi, Azena and Innana, Nineveh, Wei, Balthorr and Thirain. For a 6-piece 30-piece awakening, the cards give you 8% more Holy damage and convert all your damage to Holy damage.
What skills do I use?
You choose Big Bang as your awakening. This is your ultimate, so to speak.
To counter an attack from the boss, use your BattleMech. You can read exactly how the counterattack works in our guide.
What is the rotation like? In combat, you focus on filling three cores as quickly as possible. The rotation that Maxroll proposes seems a bit complicated at first, but it isn’t. You use the blue skills to recharge again and again and then perform various purple ones. A suitable order would be this:
Class Engraving B: Gravity Training
What does the engraving do? As a second option, Lost Ark offers you the Gravity Training class engraving. The crit rate for gravity release abilities and basic attacks is increased by 10/20/30% and in Hypergravity mode you do 4/10/20% more damage.
In addition, your Gravity Meter fills up faster, depending on your level 10/20/30%. This will get you into god mode faster and have more defense.
With the stats you focus on specialization to fill your bar even faster.
Which engravings do I use? In Gravity Training, it’s worth starting with Barricade to further increase your defense.
Later, the battle engraving Meisterschläger is also worthwhile here, in order to cause more damage with frontal attacks.
Which trading cards are important? The trading cards are no different from the other class engraving. To further increase your crit rate, you should start with the Howling Rocks card set. It consists of Armel, Seria, Solas, King Thirain, Kharmine and Delain Armel.
The Light of Redemption set is also optimal here, but it consists of rare cards. So it will be expensive later, but worth it.
What skills do I use? For abilities and rotation, there is currently no separate build for this engraving. You use the same as for the first class engraving.
If there are any updates on this in the future, we will let you know.
What do you say about the destroyer? Is it worth using a power pass on him to get him into endgame? Which class engraving do you choose? Do you rely on crit or rather on defense? Write it to us in the comments here on MeinMMO!
More guides are available here: Lost Ark Guides: All tips, tricks and builds at a glance