This guide will teach you most of what you need to know about the essentialist class in Lost Ark, starting with an overall overview of its strengths and weaknesses, skills but also our recommended builds suggestions for Leveling, in PVE SOLO AND IN GROUP, OR PVP.

Presentation of the essentialist

The teen is a class of experts in martial arts capable of attacking with a powerful wind. With a wide range of physical skills and excluding standards, it can make superb aerial combos after hitting its target, as well as unleasted powerful elementary skills that can change the course of combat.

role of the essentialist

In Lost Ark, the essentialist is an archetype of the martialist class. It is a melee dDS with certain basic capacities. With a very good mobility, its skills are based on devastating combos.

The essentialist is a purely DPS class with a single improvement for the group. It is a class with a good burst but implicating rather moderate damage. This is not a very easy class to master because of its many combos.

essentialist identity competence

Its identity competence (its main liability in a few kinds) is the esoteric gauge that filled with the given blows. By filling the different nodes, you will have access to a range of powerful esoteric capacities. It will be possible to increase your gauge to have up to four nodes.

forces and weaknesses of the essentialist

Strengths : - Big Burst of Damage - Great mobility - Grants attack speed improvements to the group

Weaknesses: - Low resistant and health - Little group utility - certain not necessarily obvious capabilities to use

Essentialist skills

Awakening skills of the essentialist

Our Recommended Builds on Lost Ark

In Lost Ark you can save up to three talent trees. You can change Build for free at any time in the game (out of combat and when your skills are not in CD). In the lines that will follow we will talk about "Tripod". If you do not know what it is, do not hesitate to read our guide on the Tripod system of Lost Ark.

Remember that there is no optimal build. We recommend some builds that we believe are efficient, but above all, we advise you to find your own build that will be the most fun for you.

Build Leveling of the Essentialist

The essentialist is a class with lots of mobility tripods, do not hesitate to pick up the points "Excellent mobility" in your abilities to move faster. Also focus on tripods that reduce the recharge time of your abilities. You will charge the packs of monsters faster.

Our Build suggestion is based on the generation of the esoteric gauge as "scan" or "lunar kick" to allow you to launch your esoteric capabilities and on zone skills as "dazzling kick" or "Cercle Berserk".

Build PVE of the group essentialist or solo

In groups, focus on unique target skills that will be much more effective on bosses. You will have a burst consistent and an attack speed buff for your team.

This build can be used in any type of content. However, if you prefer to play alone, exchange mono-target skills for your areas skills as "dazzling kick", "Esoteric competence: call of the god of the wind" and "lunar kick".

Build PVP of the essentialist

In PVP, your role will be to go boring the adverse back line by applying them to your controls. The resistant body classes will put difficulties. Concentrate on the media or remote mages to prevent them from starting their capabilities with your many Knock Up.

- Lunar kick: Control - Ascension of the Soundormi Dragon: Control - Awakening of the storm dragon: Control - Esoteric competence: Tiger flapping: damage - Timming FOUDROYANT: Damage - Foudroyant kick: Damage - Circle Berserker: Big control

We hope this guide can help you in your first steps in Lost Ark. Remember that these are just suggestions based on our preferences. You are free to modify at your leisure depending on the build that you will find more fun to play.

If you still hesitate on which class play in Lost Ark, do not hesitate to consult our guides on each of the classes available at the exit of the game in France or our guide on the most sought after classes.

So much for our essentialist guide in Lost Ark. You can find all our guides to start in Lost Ark as well as all the game news on class.

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