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As Lost Ark players know, there’s no shortage of classes to choose from. Additionally, many are gender-based. So, it encourages you to play around with different characters. The Sharpshooter is one of those Advanced Classes. If you push the Sharpshooter Class in Lost Ark, a certain build can serve you best based on your playstyle.
Best Sharpshooter Build in Lost Ark
As you start up your Sharpshooter build in Lost Ark, you’ll learn there’s no singular best playstyle. Instead, there are great builds that work for certain situations. In the game, one build is ideal for PvP. Meanwhile, another can better serve PvE.
Before we get into that, let’s look at Sharpshooter in general in Lost Ark. The Sharpshooter, a ranged DPS class, is a male-only Advanced Gunner Class. This character can handle both medium and long distances.
Because of this style, strategy is key. Similar to other range classes, he lacks strong protection. Despite having some close-up moves, he works best when out of the fray. With how squishy he is, it’ll hurt if you’re stuck in melee. Thankfully, he has moves to get away fast by slowing enemies down or stunning them.
When it comes to using a Sharpshooter in Lost Ark, it helps to have the right engravings. If you upgrade the following ones, they can serve you well in the game:
- Adrenaline:Â With this, your crit damage chance over attacks (besides mobile and basic ones) slowly stacks. As this stacks up 6 times, your attack power increases 1% for 6 seconds. When the max is reached, you’ll have an additional 15% crit damage chance.
- Cursed Doll: Using this engraving, attack power increases 16%, while incoming healing is cut -25%.
- Death Strike: With this engraving, you get a debuff of 40% damage for 8s when you use your Last Rush Hawk skill.
- Keen Blunt Weapon: This gives you +50% crit damage, which is useful considering plenty of your skills focuses on critical damage. Although your attacks have a chance to deal -20% damage, it’s a worthwhile sacrifice.
Best PvE Sharpshooter Build
As you play Lost Ark PvE, you’ll want a straightforward Sharpshooter build. Since you’ll hit dungeons at Level 50, this should help you there as well as later in the game.
If you take this approach, your Lost Ark Sharpshooter Class build considers both AoE and crowd control skills.
Ability | Tripod 1 | At Tripod 2 | Tripod 3 |
Atomic Arrow | Swift Fingers (Attack speed increase +27%.) | Flaming Gunpowder (Explosion inflicts 36 burn damage every 1.0s for 6.0s.) | Long Fuse (Explosion duration increases to 3.0s and damage increases +116%.) |
Arrow Wave | Blizzard (Element changes to water. Frost on enemies sees their Move Speed reduced -30% for 5.0s. With 3 stacks, foes freeze for 1.5s.) | Quick Shooting (Move back 2 meters to shoot. Attack speed increases +20% as crit damage increases +120%.) | Wave Streak (3-hit tornado attack with +260% damage and a +8.0s cooldown.) |
Arrow Shower | Swift Fingers (Attack speed increases +30%.) | Electrocuting Wave (Electrocution hits multiple enemies.) | Piercing Arrow (Crit rate increases +70%.) |
Snipe | Quick Preparation (Cooldown reduced +5.0s.) | Perfection (Perfect Zone damage increases +70%.) | Easy Prey (With Perfect Zone hit, crit rate increases +30% and crit damage +160%.) |
Claymore Mine | Swift Fingers (Attack speed increases +27%.) | Thunderbolt (With Lightning element, crit rate is +40% and Electrocution is 3.0s.) | Storm Surge (Cone-shaped explosion has +4.0s cooldown. On lower or challenge foes, damage increases +160%.) |
Charged Shot | Quick Preparation (Cooldown -8.0s.) | Double Shot (Damage increases +80% as it shoots 2 arrows simultaneously.) | Fast Fire (When the arrow explodes on impact, it deals +66.5% damage.) |
Best PvP Sharpshooter Class Build in Lost Ark
If you want a PvP Sharpshooter build in Lost Ark, it’s good to focus on hard attack skills. For instance, ones that knock enemies back, add elemental damage, or crit damage.
Ability | Tripod 1 | At Tripod 2 | Tripod 3 |
Atomic Arrow | Amplified Damage (increased damage by 6% for 8 seconds.) | Enhanced Arrowhead (Explosion crit rate +60%, and with Lightning Arrow, Electrocution duration +50%.) | Lightning Arrow (Arrow speed increases +50%. With Electrocution for 2.0s, Electric Shock adds 74 damage for 3.0s.) |
DM-42 | Weak Point Enhancement (Weak Point Lv. +1.) | Shock Mine (Instead of knocking enemies down, it stuns for 3.0s.) | Spare Mine (After 5.0s, it can be installed again. Cooldown is +1.0s.) |
Electric Nova | Magick Control (At Rank 5, MP cost is reduced -67%.) | Electric Impact (With Rank 5, it doesn’t cause Electric Shock, but enemies have Electrocution for 1.5s. Damage increases +82%.) | Electric Storm (Nova size increases +30%, while Electric Wave increases +30%.) |
Evasive Fire | Quick Preparation (Rank 5 offers a -6.0s to Cooldown.) | Heavy Arrow (On Rank 5, knockback distance increases +3 meters while damage increases +45%.) | Critical Blow (Besides an instant knockdown on hit, it has a crit rate +100% and crit damage +44%.) |
Salvo | Quick Pace (On Rank 5, your Move Speed increases by +20% for 4s.) | Shock Shot (With a crit hit, it stuns for 1.0s.) | Focus Fire (Attack Angle -30% and damage increase +145%.) |
Sharp Shooter | Vital Point Strike (Crit rate +40%.) | Painful Shot (Bleed 60 damage ever 1.0s for 5.0s.) | Focus Shot (Strike 5 times with +100% crit damage.) |
In Lost Ark, this PvP Sharpshooter build works to slow your opponent down. At the same time, it deals heavy damage. So, you have time to breathe if you need it.
Related:
Lost Ark: Wardancer Guide
With the best Sharpshooter Class build in Lost Ark, PvP and PvE battles should be a breeze. Of course, it never hurts to experiment. So, don’t be afraid to play around to find the Lost Ark Sharpshooter build that suits you.