Lost Ark - Paladin Guide

If you haven’t already heard about this game, Lost Ark is a free-to-play fantasy MMORPG developed by Tripod Studio and Smilegate RPG. It is being released on February 11th 2022 in the NA and EU regions. Even though it is F2P, you can purchase the Founders pack which will give you exclusive skins, items and a 3-day early access pass to start playing before anyone else. Lost Ark was originally released in South Korea in November 2018, in Russia in October 2019, and in Japan in June 2020. Lost Ark offers 15 unique playable character styles which are then divided into 5 groups. These characters are:

●Shadowhunter

●Deathblade

●Bard

●Summoner

●Sharpshooter

●Artillerist

●Deadeye

●Gunslinger

●Striker

●Scrapper

●Wardancer

●Soulfist

●Berserker

●Gunlancer

●Paladin

In this guide, we will be only focusing on the Paladin class. The Paladin is one of 2 support characters available in Lost Ark. The other class being the Bard. The Paladin is viable in both PVP and PVE, whether you are solo or playing in a team and is one of the easier classes to start the game with. Keep in mind that the Paladin is not a DPS character like a Paladin in games like Diablo 2: Resurrected. Even when focusing on DPS skills and weapons, the Paladin was designed as a tanky support class and wont dish out more DPS than a focused DPS class. Although you could, but only for a very short period of time. It seems a waste to focus this class solely on DPS for this short burst of DPS, whereas most of the abilities can be used to buff you and your team. With the Paladin’s Book (not a real book by the way), you're able to activate support skills to heal and buff the party. It’s also worth mentioning that the Bard has superior healing abilities – but is not as tanky as the Paladin. The great thing about the Paladin is their ability to reduce incoming damage by more than 50% due to their shields. Let’s take a look at some of the Paladin’s skills in Lost Ark.

Tripod is a system that allows you to select and enhance the unique traits of a skill whenever a combat skill reaches a certain level. At each stage, you can choose from attributes for the skill, the type of attack, the effects, etc. In addition, one skill is divided into two or more branches, and even if the same class uses the same skill, the battle will be differentiated based on the tripod choices.

The best Engravings for the Paladin in PVE/PVP are:

●Master Fencer: Level 3 – A must have if you are playing support or DPS. It increases all fencing skills by 25% damage and fills the faith bar 100% faster when using fencing skills.

●Healing Faith: Level 3 – A must have since they buffed it. It now buffs you and your allies defense by 20% and restores 2% of max health every 2 seconds.

●Awakening: Level 3 – Increases the number of times you can use awakening by +3.

●Sharp Blunt: Level 3 – Increases CRIT damage by 50% but also has a very low chance of lowering skill damage by 20%. This is so important because Paladins almost always ensure CRIT hits.

●Heavy Armor: Level 3 – Possibly the best engraving for the Paladin hands down. It increases defensive stats by a whopping 150%! And what is even better is that it can’t be lowered by effects such as armor-piercing or ignore resist. 10/10 would recommend this to everyone playing as Paladin.

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