Daidraco
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Voldeth
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From Maxroll for support Paladins:
Pretty much every guide there has a section for stats priority. When I create parties, the first thing I look at are whether it's a 300 dom / 400 end / 300 swiftness / 250 spec / 150 crit player. While it's a bit elitist, that tells me they just equipped the shiniest object possible rather than taking the time to prioritize their accessories properly (it makes a huge difference). I feel like it's pretty abundant in LA, where everyone is just upgrading gear because there's an 'up' arrow rather than actually building their characters properly (and thus being incredibly ineffective).
Grim1
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Most Lost Ark guides talk about fuck all and are just click bait.
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Voldeth
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I'm actually impressed with how bad the information is for a game that's been available for this long. It adds an actual MMORPG feel to it but Googling anything is an exercise in frustration. Just a reminder that Discord / the East guild chat is available for anyone struggling or that has questions. We have a lot of people that have gone through the frustration recently and can help guide folks.
Voldeth
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Engravings are an interesting subject with our version of the game. Traditionally, Expert is recommended for Paladins by virtue of the high value of shields but I wouldn't place such a high emphasis on it for our present content. This is similar to everyone I see running with Grudge I or II in that, they're trying to follow a guide based on players who know the content well and are playing it optimally, which just isn't the case for most players.
Based on the above, I'd go with Blessed Aura (which is a core for anything) along with Vital Point Hit (to assist with stagger checks, which groups are struggling on quite a bit). If you're not struggling with stagger checks, I'd probably run Spirit Absorption before Expert (which is still a good choice regardless).
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Expert isn't just shielding effectiveness, it's also healing effectiveness. You'd be a fool not to run it as a Paladin. And if you're having to run Vital Hit Point, your group is fucking trash. Vital hitpoint is one of the LEAST prioritized engravings for us. It's one of those, "well, I ain't got shit else to stack" engraving. Hell, you should even get 1 level of Judgement before that dogshit.
Kirun
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You'll have more than just 2 engravings active. Awakening is good, but really doesn't come "online" for Paladins until you unlock your second awakening skill.
Mahes
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Doing the Blue Knight thing myself (Combat Readiness), so stacking Specialization and some crit. Get a lot of dps from all the blue basic attacks.
Somewhat following these two:
Combat Readiness Gunlancer Raid Build Guide for Lost Ark on Maxroll.gg
Welcome to the Combat Readiness Gunlancer Raid Build Guide for Lost Ark. Learn about Builds, Gear Sets, Skill Rotations, Engravings, Stats, Runes, Tripods and Gems!lost-ark.maxroll.gg
I did not consider going all the way with shield(specialization). I will try this out. It sounds fun.
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Gravel
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2nd awakening should unlock for all your characters after you do it on the first. Just visit Beatrice and she'll auto complete it.
Don't even need to have been to Rohendel to do it.
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If you need to help with stagger checks, just switch one skill to another stagger skill. I switch the shield circle thing on stagger check fights, I add one of the melee attacks, I'm not ingame and terrible with names but it's a mid stagger you can upgrade to high with a tripod iirc, and it also does destruction, does 2 hits with lvl 10 tripod, just some basic double slash shit, but this+the triple sword attack thing that's basics gives Paladin quite good stagger. Overwhelm runes too help. People can still fail them but there's a limit to how much you should help idiots, and you're better off throwing a whirlwind grenade and a destruction bomb at it than slot vital point.
Blessed Aura/Awakening/Expert is what you should aim for as support Paladin, people have different preferences for them and I think it's all pretty ok. Awakening obviously only after you have 2nd awakening, but I find it kinda meh in our current content, most fights are over before you can get good mileage out of it. Once we have 15mins legion raids and shit, you'll be able to use all your awakenings, but atm it feels pretty pointless on a lot of fights. Expert on the other hand works all the time, and Blessed Aura is just very nice since it increases both the dmg reduction and the healing of your aura.
And yes every maxroll guide has stat choices, for Paladin and Bard I just stack swiftness, it's a lot less boring than spec. You zoom around fast and your cooldowns are back faster so you can use more skills. Main issue is with Bard, I literally run out of mana 20secs into the fight if I spam everything. I need to get conviction/judgement shit setup, I haven't bothered yet.
Unrelated but if you have prime, twitch has another free shit. 5 days of aura, some pet and some amethyst shards, nothing major but eh "free" shit.
Blessed Aura/Awakening/Expert is what you should aim for as support Paladin, people have different preferences for them and I think it's all pretty ok. Awakening obviously only after you have 2nd awakening, but I find it kinda meh in our current content, most fights are over before you can get good mileage out of it. Once we have 15mins legion raids and shit, you'll be able to use all your awakenings, but atm it feels pretty pointless on a lot of fights. Expert on the other hand works all the time, and Blessed Aura is just very nice since it increases both the dmg reduction and the healing of your aura.
And yes every maxroll guide has stat choices, for Paladin and Bard I just stack swiftness, it's a lot less boring than spec. You zoom around fast and your cooldowns are back faster so you can use more skills. Main issue is with Bard, I literally run out of mana 20secs into the fight if I spam everything. I need to get conviction/judgement shit setup, I haven't bothered yet.
Unrelated but if you have prime, twitch has another free shit. 5 days of aura, some pet and some amethyst shards, nothing major but eh "free" shit.
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Brahma
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Ya. It's what I use for everything minus chaos dungeons. Not as "fun" as the red build.
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Voldeth
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Great work on everyone keeping up the contributions, we're now level 5:
For anyone thinking of picking up the game late (or giving it a second try - 800k concurrent users a month into the game shows it has some lasting power) make sure to roll Regulus. With the levels we've gotten, we're now able to actually invite folks.
For anyone thinking of picking up the game late (or giving it a second try - 800k concurrent users a month into the game shows it has some lasting power) make sure to roll Regulus. With the levels we've gotten, we're now able to actually invite folks.
Voldeth
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Grats on T3!!!! I know that final transition was rough on you with the failures but I'm glad to see you made it.
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