Deathblades are one of the advanced classes that fall under the assassin in Lost Ark. How to build a deathblade in Lost Ark? In this Lost Ark deathblade guide, we are going to show you what it means to play as a deathblade, in terms of how well they perform in combat, the best skills and tripods to focus on and the playstyles available to them. If you're searching for a melee dps class with the ability to deal excellent damage and buff everyone in the party, then this Lost Ark deathblade guide is for you.

Lost Ark Deathblade Guide 2022 - How To Build A Deathblade

Deathblades wield dual blades and a long sword which allow them to deal incredible damage up close at an astonishing pace. However, they're difficult to pilot as a solo player especially when it comes to higher tier content is they have to constantly change positions to maximize their damage output. As a Lost Ark death lady be able to inflict high damage combos thanks to your fast attack and movement speed. These qualities enable you to dart in and out of combat quite effectively when you need to slash enemies for the kill or evade them together. Deathblades have to keep moving behind their foes especially fast-moving ones in order to deal back attacks. However what's good about their corresponding skills is they also gain a lot of super armors or immunities, thereby protecting them from crowd control. In terms of buffs, death blades can boost the party's movement and both are frontal and back attacks for better damage.

Lost Ark Deathblade Advantages

The deathblade is the melee DPS class that capitalizes on inflicting high sustained damage. As an assassin, their mobility is very impressive since they can blitz from one point of an area to the next, making it difficult for slow-moving classes like the gun lancer to catch them by surprise. Because of this, they can get away with having relatively lower hp. What makes the deathblade a highly versatile class is their buffs and super armors, specifically paralysis immunity which they gain from a variety of skills. Although it's important to remember they don't have a lot of staggers, so they're unable to impair enemies as much.

Lost Ark Deathblade Identity

For the deathblade, it's the death orb identity which is divided into two categories namely the death art and deathblade surge. Note that when either of these skills is active, you won't be gaining energy. But when you return to your normal state, you can once again fill up your death or meter by successfully hitting enemies without having to wait for a couple of seconds.

Deathblade Arts

With deathblade arts you significantly boost your movement speed, attack speed, attack power and mana recovery while reducing the cooldown rate of your normal skills. You also gain immunity from crowd control. The effectiveness of this self buff relies on the number of filled up death orbs. If you activate death blade orbs when there are three orbs are full, then you receive the highest amount of buffs for the longest time. Once all death orbs are empty, then the death trance or death blade arts modes will end.

Blade Surge 

What makes this identity even more interesting is the fact that the deathblade arch can lead to another mode known as blade surge. When you activate it a second time. This not only grants you push immunity, but it allows you to deal massive burst damage upon slamming your sword on the ground Activating death blade surge completely consumes any remaining death orbs.

Lost Ark Deathblade Best Skills & Tripods

By the time your Lost Ark deathblade reaches level 60, you'll have unlocked a total of 20 skills comprised of normal and awakening skills. To add to this, you've invested several points into normal skills to specialize further by unlocking their respective tripods. The tripod system allows players to customize their skills in various ways like increasing the death order of energy you gain or boosting inflicted damage in total you only need 8 skills per character with a select number of tripods. In this section, we'll cover the essential normal skills and tripods you should allocate points into, regardless of the play style you end up choosing.

Spincutter

A gap closer that allows you to spin towards a group of enemies two times. To increase the number of spins and therefore the spin cutter's damage, you should pick the triple spin tripod. The other good upgrades to choose from are open weakness and quick prep. These improve the damage dealt by everyone in the party for several seconds. And all of their frontal and back attacks as well as reducing the cooldown period of the skill itself.

Dark Axle

A very good mobility skill which is made more effective with the right combination of tripods. Dark axle works similar to the gunslinger somersault shot and you're able to jump over a group of enemies to evade their attacks while dealing damage in the process. The best upgrades you should pick are quick pace corkscrew and high axle. This combination enhances your spin attack's distance such that you traverse a longer distance while inflicting more damage. And when the dark axle ends, you gain a movement speed boost to kill remaining enemies. If you feel like you need the extra push immunity while in the air, you can substitute corkscrew for tenacity instead.

Soul Absorber

This allows you to perform a mini lunge by stabbing enemies with a long sword regardless of whether or not the skill has been fully charged. To make soul absorber more effective, it's good to select wide-angle attack, ice-cold hands, and have. These tripods boost your stab range and add a slash attack at the end to deal massive damage. Lastly, ice-cold hands freeze targets for a couple of seconds which is perfect to create some space between the both of you.

Earth Cleaver

A frontal or back attack enables you to deal great overhead damage. To charge forward to close the gap and inflict good damage, you're going to need a push. The other earth cleaver tripods to consider are weak point detection, making the skill effective against push and moon or stronger enemies, and leap attack to forcibly slam your longsword on the ground and significantly enhance your crit rate.

Moonlight Sonic

This allows you to execute big rapid slashes to deal massive damage against multiple enemies in front of you. The best moonlight sonic tripods to choose from are burning hands, quick prep, and shade sonic. This combination lets you deal damage over time by burning targets, reducing the skills cooldown rate and boosting damage by more than half due to your enhanced speed.

Maelstrom

Maelstrom conjures a tornado to protect you from incoming attacks while dealing damage. To capitalize on the buffs granted by the maelstrom, you should acquire orb control and dark order. Orb control boosts the death orb energy you gain from using normal and awakening skills whereas dark order enhances all nearby allies' movement speed as well as your attack speed. Lastly overwhelm enhances the damage dealt against challenger lower type monsters and paralyzes normal ones. Note that maelstrom's tornado stays for a couple of seconds, so you continue reaping the skill's benefit even as you attack with normal skills.

Blitz Rush

Another mobility skill that lets you approach enemies with swiftness and ease to deal damage multiple times. Blitz rush can be transformed into a range skill when you select shadow rush. This tripod utilizes an afterimage to attack your behalf inflicting considerable damage. The other upgrades to take into account are vital point hits and all-around. This combination improves your crit rate and changes the skills type from charge to, normal so you can instantly activate blitz rush. But if you need the extra damage at the cost of being vulnerable by charging the skill first, then picking charge enhancement should solve the issue.

Void Strike
One of the highest damage dealing skills of the deathblade is to destroy normal monsters by inflicting significant harm against stronger targets. What makes void strike more useful is orb control fist of darkness and dark explosion. This combination increases the death orb energy you gain boosts your overall damage and deals additional explosive damage. You can decide to equip either of the following skills if you want to impair enemies further or to receive push immunity.

Head Hunt

A frontal attack that lets you deal damage and stun targets. To lengthen the stun duration, you should pick enhanced stun. The other tripods we're taking are weapon destruction and enhanced strike. These upgrades inflict a debuff on enemies to temporarily reduce the effectiveness of their attack power and to boost your damage.

Turning Slash

Swings your long sword twice to deal devastating blows. To add one more attack to increase damage while remaining mobile, you should choose the triple-turn tripod. For the rest of the upgrades, it's best to select enhanced strike which improves damage and tenacity to receive push immunity super armor.

Lost Ark Deathblade Engravings And Stats

In Lost Ark, every advanced class unlocks engravings that allow you to further specialize in your chosen classes. These grant special effects which you can activate by reading recipe books and equipping accessories and ability stones. You're able to obtain them as random rewards by completing endgame activities such as chaos and abyss dungeons and guardian raids. In this section, we are going to talk about lost dark deathblade engravings which determine the playstyle you wish to adopt for your character and our class-specific abilities and traits. You gain access to this when you reach our levels. The two-class engravings available to the deathblade are surge and remaining energy.

Surge

Surge has a rather wordy and confusing description at first glance. But what this engraving is trying to tell us is that you can still capitalize on deathblade surge. Even if not all of your blade orbs are completely filled up. To do this, you have to continuously attack enemies using normal skills when you enter the deathblade arts mode to build up your surge enhancement effects. You can have up to a maximum of 20 stacks. The more stacks you have, the better your damage will be and the more death orb energy you gain after depleting the death orb meter. 

Additionally, to improve your surge damage and attack power, you should at least aim for surge level 2. In order to fill up at least one death orb, make sure to have maelstrom and void strike in your list of skills. In terms of surges combat stats, you want to prioritize specialization followed by crit when gearing up. This setup enhances the damage dealt with deathblade surge and boosts the deathblade or of energy gained upon successfully hitting enemies. It also improves crit rate and reduces the cooldown rate of your skills while in death blade art mode.

Remaining Energy

Remaining energy provides a two-second buffer when entering depth blade arts mode, meaning the death dwarf energy will only start to decrease after two seconds. When you activate the death blade surge, your attack speed movement speed and attack power will all be boosted for a certain period. To maximize the amount of attack power enhanced, you should aim to reach the remaining energy level 3 as this significantly improves your build. In terms of skills, you're going to have a similar setup with the surge play style, such that you have to include maelstrom and void strike to obtain death orb energy fast. The same is true for remaining energy's combat stats where specialization and crit should be prioritized.

Lost Ark: Deathblade VS Shadownhunter

Death blades and shadowhunters deal commendable DPS and are considered some of the fastest classes in Lost Ark. But there are a few differences that set them apart. For instance, death blades are capable of buffing their overall speed, attack power, and mana recovery while boosting the capabilities of their comrades. Comparatively, shadowhunters can transform into a demon to enhance their burst damage and movement speed and to make use of their strong demonic skills. But if you're looking to play a more challenging class where positioning is key to winning encounters and you'd rather take advantage of super armors. Then you should choose the deathblade.

As a Lost Ark Deathblade Gameplay Tips

You'll be adjusting quite a lot compared to the shadowhunters since you'll change directions more often. Moving behind bosses to execute back attack significantly improves the damage you deal. In PVP, the deathblade is a difficult enemy to go up against. Because of the super armors, you have together with your excellent mobility. To succeed in arenas, you'll have to manage your skills cooldown rates. Some of which may be longer than expected. For skills like the soul absorber blitz rush and void strike, remember that you can easily change your orientation by turning around while charging any of them. 

Deathblades are flexible in this regard due to their spectacular speed, unlike the gunlancer. Lastly, it's ideal to buff yourself and the party first before attacking your enemies from behind. Allowing you to kill them efficiently in addition to surviving long-term combat. Also regardless of the playstyle you choose, you can use deathblade surge at the start of an encounter to finish off remaining enemies since it inflicts massive damage.

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