Hunger Reaper Guide for Lost Ark

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Strengths

• High damage floor compared to Lunar Voice
• Plenty of mobility options
• Fast skill animations and low cooldowns
• Forgiving gameplay loop

Weaknesses

• Low effective HP
• Can be stuck sitting on skills due to downtime, missing out on potential damage
• Lower burst damage than Lunar Voice

Taking Spinning Dagger over Nightmare and replaces Silent Rage with Call of the Knife for better AOE. For Dance of Fury and Glowing Brand, their third tripod option changes for better crowd control and damage.

Prioritize leveling all Swoop skills to maximize damage potential and Dagger skills for your Counter and the Swoop Activation tripod on Shadow Vortex. Distortion can be leveled to use the second tripod Tailwind if you want the extra movement speed.

Your goal is to build Chaos Meter quickly and maintain your buffs throughout the encounter. Using your Awakening Skill Lunar Eclipse: Cadenza increases your gauge by one full bar. At the start of a fight, use your Awakening then cycle through Dagger and Shadow skills to enter Chaos Mode as quickly as possible before pressing your Swoop skills.

Once in Chaos Mode, it's a simple priority of refreshing your buff and pressing buttons on cooldown. Shadow skills like Distortion refresh the buff even on whiff and has a similar cooldown to the buff itself, making it a prime candidate when you cannot target the boss. Allowing the debuff to fall off results in losing the entire bar of Chaos Meter and the goodies that came with it.

Having Swiftness, Quick Recharge and the Swoop Activation tripod helps with the downtime on your Swoop skills. While not necessary, pairing your Swoop skills' usages can help manage some sense of a rotation. Shadow Vortex having a low cooldown makes it a good option to proc Quick Recharge and is very likely to be off cooldown after using Swoop skills. You can use Glowing Brand and Silent Rage like pseudo movement skills. Treat them basically as gap closers that deal a lot more damage than Nightmare or Distortion, which are more utility focused. Generally, the priorities and gameplay loop are as follows:

• Build Persona gauge via Awakening at the start of an encounter. Use Nightmare and Distortion to zip through the boss and back again.
• Use Shadow Storm to max out Chaos Meter and gain all your buffs!
• Use your Swoop skills on cooldown, being sure to use Shadow Vortex to reduce their cooldown.
• Keep refreshing your buff via Dagger and Shadow skills.