Lost Ark Artist F2P Guide & Best Builds: SUP/DPS Painter

A specialist class that connects with nature and faces enemies with unique illusion power. The Artist, a profession that goes beyond being mere support in Lost Ark, as its capable of becoming a powerful DPS for both PVE and PVP.

In this article, we share the Artist class guide with her Regression/Full Bloom engravings builds in our Lost Ark Series. It focuses on new F2P players while considering the P2W and hardcore players. It’s a starting point to build your own adorable specialist class creatively.

In short: Artist, the 1st female advanced specialist class in Lost Ark who fight with illusion power. This specialist profession isn’t just a support class since it already can be built as a powerful DPS for the highest end-game content. We provided 4 methods to build Artist engravings along with suggestions for stats, skills, and tripods. Despite being a massive P2W game with a nasty grind, you can still ignore the P2W meta and enjoy the Artist’s great combat and forging your own path.

Artist Class Overview:

The Artist in Lost Ark is a unique female specialist class who wields a large brush. Connected with nature, she faces enemies with unique skills. Through the power of illusions, she can summon a divine beast to strategically support her party members on the battlefield.

Moreover, the Artist is the first specialist class that was released first in Lost Ark Korea in early 2022. Later, it was released globally in early 2023.

Besides, players can choose the Artist as an advanced specialist class starting from level 10. Furthermore, the newly added Aeromancer class will also be available alongside her.

For more information, check the link below:

Since the Artist is primarily classified as a support class in Lost Ark, here are some other related classes to explore:

Artist Identity:

The Artist Identity is about acquiring Harmony Energy to fill the gauge every time she hits an enemy with a skill, and when it became full, it will create up to 3 harmony marbles or Orbs.

Afterward, the Orb of Harmony can be consumed to use the Setting Moon and the Rising Sun skills as follows:

• The Setting Moon skill can instantly power up a large number of party members with the power of writing.
• The Rising Sun skill is a skill that creates a sun orb that can restore the health of a single party member with the power of silent magic.

Many Players Build Artist As A DPS Class In Lost Ark:

We have noticed that many players in Lost Ark KR are using a DPS build for the Artist class rather than just support.

The DPS builds percentage among the Artist players is way more than what we can find in the Holy Knight (Paladin) class or the Bard class. Not only, but also it was so easy to find DPS gameplay for this specialist profession.

This absolutely confirms the stated fact, which says that all classes in Lost Ark are just DPS. This makes Lost Ark similar to any mobile game ​RPG rather than a real MMO.

Lost Ark Artist Gameplay:

The videos below show the PVE and PVP gameplay of the Artist class in various levels in the Lost Ark endgame, which will help and guide you to understand the gameplay of this specialist character.

The previous video shows small previews of the Artist profession that include her trailer, skins, and skills gameplay, which the Lost Ark KR region introduced in early 2022.

Another PVE gameplay video for the Artist class, this time about doing solo guardian Boss dungeon. This class is also able to use it as a method to farm gold from other players.

This time you can notice that the Artist class is using a PVE Support Build inside the Legion Raid dungeon of Brelshaza the Phantom Legion Commander in Lost Ark MMO.

Furthermore, the video above shows the Artist (Painter) PVP gameplay in the Lost Ark 3V3 Arena.

Best & Top Engravings For Artist In Lost Ark:

We present four methods to build Artist Engravings for Lost Ark: Support, Low-Cost, Balanced, and Common. Decide carefully on the right build for your adorable specialist class based on how much time and real money you are willing to risk losing.

Knowing that support builds are always friendly for everyone with lower costs. Therefore, here are suggested Lost Ark Artist Engraving Builds for both PVE and PVP:

Support Engraving Build: Full Bloom For PVE

• Full Bloom: Level 3.
• Awakening: Level 3.
• Expert (Specialist): Level 3.
• Heavy Armor: Level 3.
• Near-Death (Crisis Evasion): Level 3.

There’s nothing big to say here, just if the build becomes expensive, just remove some of the engravings with the higher price. Moreover, this focuses on Full Bloom Engraving with Specialization and Swiftness stats.

Low-Cost Engravings Build: DPS Regression For F2P & Alts

• Regression Level 3.
• Mass increase Level 3.
• Heavy Armor Level 1-3.

If you are a F2P Lost Ark player with low gold, the Artist Low-Cost Regression Engraving Build should be your ideal choice, which is for those who dislike grinding loops, RNG, and progress losses.

This is an also All-In-One Lost Ark Artist Build (PVE and PVP) that can be used for Alts. It focuses on Regression and a few engravings with Critical and Swiftness stats. Heavy Armor Level 3 is really fun to have for the Artist DPS build in PVE but it is required for PVP.

Balanced Engravings Builds: DPS Regression All-In-One

• Regression Level 3.
• Sharp Blunt (Keen Blunt Weapon) Level 3.
• Blitz Commander (Raid Captain) Level 3.
• Mass increase Level 3.
• Heavy Armor Level 1-3.

It’s also an All-In-One Lost Ark Artist Build (PVE & PVP) based on Regression and basic Engravings with Critical and Swiftness stats. It’s for those who don’t like meta, niche, and multi-builds.

Besides, you can switch Mass increase with Spirit Absorption if you care more about speed. For PVE only, you can use Adrenaline instead of Heavy Armor.

Common Engravings Build: DPS Regression P2W

Keep in mind that the Lost Ark Artist Engravings build shown here are used by whale Pay-To-Win and Hardcore players, which cost time, a lot of gold, and real money to obtain. Therefore, if you’re looking for a simple and enjoyable gaming experience, this isn’t for you.

• Regression Level 3.
• Grudge Level 3.
• Sharp Blunt (Keen Blunt Weapon) Level 3.
• Blitz Commander (Raid Captain) Level 3.
• Cursed Doll Level 3.
• Super Charge Level 1 to 3.

Common Regression build is also preferred with Critical and Swiftness stats (PVE-only). You can switch Super Charge with Full Bloom or Adrenaline.

PVP Engravings For Guilds War (GVG):

These can be added to any Artist build to be suitable for Lost Ark GVG or open-world PVP events. knowing that any basic build (All-In-One) for your lovely Painter class with Heavy Armor at level 3 would be enough.

• Heavy Armor Level 3.
• Indomitable Will Level 3.
• Spirit Absorption Level 3.

However, Lost Ark PVP outside of the arena is mostly P2W, so you need to be aware of that. Therefore, F2P and PVP players who want to join Lost Ark Guilds War (GVG) as an Artist class with an average item level will get one shot by P2W players. To know more, check below:

Class Engravings Details For Artist:

Here is an overview guide of Artist class engravings effects in Lost Ark:

Regression: When using the Setting Moon and Rising Sun skills, Dohwa grants you a Critical Strike Rate and a Critical Damage increase for 60 seconds.

Full Bloom: When acquiring the marble, the energy of the rising sun spreads widely, recovering some of the painter’s maximum HP to party members within 24m including the target who obtained the marble.

For other engravings overviews, check the guide below:

Combat Stats For Artist In Lost Ark:

Here is a short list of suggestions for Artist class combat stats, which are likely to be used in PVE and PVP:

PVE Combat Stats:

1st PVE Stats: ~60% Critical & ~40% Swiftness.
For example ~1600 Critical & ~700 Swiftness.
This is preferred for the Regression’s Low-Cost and Balanced Builds. Also, you can change stats based on your gear level.

2nd PVE Stats 2: ~70% Swiftness & ~30% Critical .
For example ~1800 Swiftness & ~600 Critical.
This is preferred for a Common Regression build and requires critical chance effects from the gear set and engravings.

3rd PVE Stats 3: ~45% Specialization & ~55% Swiftness.
For example ~500 Specialization & ~1500 Swiftness.
This is preferred for the Support Build.

Arena PVP Combat Stats:

1st PVP Stats: 80% Agility & ~20% Subdue & ~1% Critical.
For example, 1000 Agility & ~249 Subdue & ~1 Critical.
This is a General PVP stats for all classes. Besides, Subdue can be switched with Specialization if needed.

2nd PVP Stats: 60% Agility & ~40% Critical.
For example, 800 Agility & ~450 Critical.
This is also a General PVP stats for all classes.

Artist Skill Tree & Tripods Builds:

Finally, here are an example and suggestions of PVE skill tree builds for the Artist class in Lost Ark MMO, as will their tripods guide. In addition, there are a lot of DPS and SUP builds for the Artist class with different tripods. Therefore, change anything and everything until you find what works for you.

DPS & SUP PVE Skill Build Example:

You can get an idea of the Artist class skill tree builds and tripods from the example image below:
(skills are translated by Google)

PVE DPS Skill Builds:

PVE SUP Skill Builds:

Finally, we hope our Lost Ark Artist guide is simple and useful for everyone, especially F2P players. As always, we highly recommend learning from builds and performing changes to any Artist or Painter based on your gameplay style.

Furthermore, if you are a free-to-play player who looking to play Artist class in this Pay-to-Win MMO game. Your best option is to use only one Artist build to maximize fun to avoid grinding. Also, you might benefit from the following articles:

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