Lost Ark Salvation and Hallucination relic sets are two popular options for the Shadowhunter Demonic Impulse build, Salvation vs Hallucination, which one is the better gear option? Today we’ll focus on the comparison of Salvation and Hallucination in detail, as well as the Lost Ark Poem of Salvation set bonus and build tips for both sets. 

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Lost Ark Salvation Relic Set Bonus

Poem of Salvation is a relic set available since the Valtan was added to Lost Ark, to get the complete Salvation set, you need to gain 45 Valtan materials and 30 Vykas materials. Below is Salvation set bonus for different levels and pieces. 

Poem of Salvation Set Bonus Level 1

2-piece

When an attack hits, you gain a stack of Enhancement for 120 seconds. Enhancement increases damage dealt to enemies by 0.7%. Critical hits increase stacks by 2. Maxes out at 20 stacks. If you take damage when your health is under 30%, all stacks are lost, but the cooldown of your spacebar dash will be reset, and all damage taken will be reduced by 30% for 8 seconds.

4-piece

The effect of enhancement is increased from 0.7% per stack to 1.4% per stack. Gain an additional 10% attack speed when reaching 20 stacks.

6-piece

The effect of enhancement is increased from 1.4% per stack to 2.1% per stack. Gain an additional 5% damage to enemies when reaching 20 stacks.

Poem of Salvation Set Bonus Level 2

2-piece

When an attack hits, you gain a stack of Enhancement for 120 seconds. Enhancement increases damage dealt to enemies by 0.9%. Critical hits increase stacks by 2. Maxes out at 20 stacks. If you take damage when your health is under 30%, all stacks are lost, but the cooldown of your spacebar dash will be reset, and all damage taken will be reduced by 30% for 8 seconds.

4-piece

The effect of enhancement is increased from 0.9% per stack to 1.8% per stack. Gain an additional 10% attack speed when reaching 20 stacks.

6-piece

The effect of enhancement is increased from 1.8% per stack to 2.7% per stack. Gain an additional 5% damage to enemies when reaching 20 stacks.

Poem of Salvation Set Bonus Level 3

2-piece

When an attack hits, you gain a stack of Enhancement for 120 seconds. Enhancement increases damage dealt to enemies by 1.1%. Critical hits increase stacks by 2. Maxes out at 20 stacks. If you take damage when your health is under 30%, all stacks are lost, but the cooldown of your spacebar dash will be reset, and all damage taken will be reduced by 30% for 8 seconds.

4-piece

The effect of enhancement is increased from 1.1% per stack to 2.2% per stack. Gain an additional 10% attack speed when reaching 20 stacks.

6-piece

The effect of enhancement is increased from 2.2% per stack to 3.3% per stack. Gain an additional 5% damage to enemies when reaching 20 stacks.

Lost Ark Salvation vs Hallucination, Which is Best for Shadowhunter Demonic Impulse

What is the best relic set for Shadowhunter? Let’s get into a comparison between Salvation and Hallucination sets as 6 pieces, with the explanation from Shandamon.

How Salvation set works in Lost Ark? Every time you hit an enemy, you gain a salvation stack, which gives you 2.1% damage per stack for a max of 20 stacks, which is a total of 42% damage. If you crit, you can get two stacks, you can only gain a stack every second, which means it takes a minimum of 10 seconds to get full stacks. At max stacks, you can also get an extra 5% damage, which makes the total damage up to 47% and plus 10 attack speed. However, if you take damage below 30% HP, all stacks will disappear, your movement and skill is reset, and you also gain a 30% damage reduction for 8 seconds. Overall, this set provides a 47% damage increase and 10 attack speed, stacks lost when hit below 30%.  

How Hallucination set works in Lost Ark? Hallucination relic set works a bit differently than Poem of Salvation at six pieces, it passively gives you 15% crit, when you hit an enemy, you immediately gain the hallucination buff, which increases damage by 13% for 6 seconds. Every time you crit, you will extend the hallucination duration by 1 second on a 0.4-second cooldown. If you keep the hallucination buff active for 9 seconds, you’ll also get Reality which gives you an extra 5% crit and another 12% damage for 90 seconds. So all bonuses of this set include 25% damage and 20% crit rate, and you don't lose any buffs. 

Build Tips for Lost Ark Salvation and Hallucination Set

With the Poem of Salvation set, it offers no crit rate, so you have to go with a spec/crit necklace and also take Adrenaline 3, with your class engraving (Impulse 3), necklace, and Adrenaline 3, you can get around 60 crit. The salvation set does not offer much flexibility since you really need to get the crit rate up and after that, you just take your standard damage engravings.

For the Hallucination set, it offers more options because the set gives you 20 crit rate, you can choose to go with spec/crit or spec/swiftness on stats. Demonic Impulse 3 and Hallucination will make your crit rate 50%, it’s easy to achieve an optimal crit rate, if you are going to go swiftness, you need to take Adrenaline 3 to make your crit rate up to 65. Because you're going swiftness instead of crit on your necklace, Raid Captain will be a much more effective option. Compared to salvation, hallucination is much more open about builds.

Which is the Better Shadowhunter Demonic Impulse Relic Set?

Which set is better? Both sets are viable endgame options, Salvation does offer more damage assuming you can keep up the stack, this is due to the higher damage increase it offers, but you may find it hard to keep up salvation stacks, which results in lost DPS. Basically, Salvation set has a fixed build path, if you can play it well, you can get higher damage, while Hallucination gives you more build options, but literally lower damage. It doesn’t matter that if you can’t determine which one to use, you can recraft or transfer the gear sets in the game, with Lost Ark gold and silver. When you collect enough materials from both Valtan and Vykas, you can freely change sets from the character menu.

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