Excited to learn more about the Lost Ark Glaivier class? This new advanced class for the martial artist excels at close to mid-range encounters, featuring two combat stances that reward careful planning. The Burst Stance, also known as the Blue Stance, revolves around fast, mobile attacks with high chances of dealing critical hits, while the Red Focus Stance emphasizes power and range.
Knowing when to change posture is what makes the The Lost Ark Glaivier difficult to master. Glaivier’s identity ability increases your movement speed, critical damage, and attack when you change stance after the identity gauge fills to a certain point. You can forego this bonus and focus abilities altogether with one of Glaivier’s class etchings, but the stat boosts make it worth balancing both stances.
Regardless of what he chooses, getting the most out of Glaivier involves chaining combos, hitting from behind, and retreating to safety with his agile abilities. It’s a tough class to master, but once you get the hang of skill switching and commands, it’s one of the most rewarding in MMO gaming so far. Here are the best Lost Ark Glaivier builds for PvP and PvE.
Best Lost Ark Glaivier PvP BUILD
This PvP build also doubles as a strong Raid build, as it focuses on dealing high damage, increasing your Glaivier’s mobility, and weakening your enemies through staggers, casts, and debuffs.
burst skills
- chain cut (Skill Lv. 4): Combo move that punches up once, moves forward and punches, then attacks twice in the opposite direction. “Raid”.
- lightning kick (Skill Lv. 4): Jump forward several meters and strike three times, then finish with a powerful kick. “Raid”.
- Vault (Skill Lv. 4): Deals minor damage and throws enemies. “Excellent Mobility”.
- crescent cut (Skill Lv. 10): Drag the spear across the ground before striking twice, then strike twice more, launching at enemies. “Burst Experience”, “Final Decision”, “Blade of Tornado”.
- Wind shear (Skill Lv. 10): Moves you eight meters forward and deals damage three times, then returns you to your original position and deals heavy damage once more. “Firepower control”, “Speed”, “Weak point detection”.
- blade wheel (Skill Lv. 10 until you can reach level 12): Spin around and deal damage three times before finishing with a heavy blow. Knocks enemies back into the air, knocking them down. “Hit”, “Consecutive turn”, “Weak point detection”.
- chained blue dragon (Skill Lv. 10 until you can reach level 12): Creates a shockwave that deals high damage and reduces the critical resistance of the enemy for six seconds. “Quick Setup”, “Critical Spear”, “Blitz”.
- Furious Dragon Slash (Skill Lv. 10 until you can reach level 12): Strong spin attack that knocks enemies back and staggers them. “Quick setup”, “Precise cut”, “Wake up”.
focus skills
- star rain jump (Skill Lv. 10) – Jump to a target point, dealing high damage and creating a shockwave that launches at enemies. “Weak spot detection”, “Quick setup”, “Powerful completion”.
- red dragon horn (Skill Lv. 10): Fires a beam that damages enemies in its path. Hit the perfect spot to increase damage dealt. “Rapid Preparation”, “Destruction Spear”, “Weak Point Detection”.
Depending on how much you use your Focus skills, you can do one of two things with extra skill points. You could pour them into burst abilities:
- chained blue dragon
- blade wheel
- crescent cut
Alternatively, you can spend them on acquiring these focus abilities:
- Dragon Scale Defense
- Destruction Push
- spiral lance
LOST ARK GLAIVIER BEST PVe BUILD
Our PvE build focuses less on maximizing powerful abilities and more on expanding the selection of moves at your disposal.
BURST SKILLS
- soul cutter (Skill Lv. 1): Combo move that propels you forward three meters and unleashes two attacks, then knocks you back four meters. Use it again to move forward and attack twice, before attacking several more times and dealing increasing damage.
- chain cut (Skill Lv. 4): Combo move that punches up once, moves forward and punches, then attacks twice in the opposite direction. “Raid”.
- lightning kick (Skill Lv. 4): Jump forward several meters and strike three times, then finish with a powerful kick. “Raid”.
- chained blue dragon (Skill Lv. 4): Creates a shockwave that deals high damage and reduces the critical resistance of the enemy for six seconds. “Quick Preparation”.
- blade wheel (Skill Lv. 4): Spin around and deal damage three times before finishing with a heavy blow. Knocks enemies back into the air, knocking them down. “Blow”.
- crescent cut (Skill Lv. 10): Drag the spear across the ground before striking twice, then strike twice more, launching at enemies. “Burst Experience”, “Final Decision”, “Blade of Tornado”.
- Wind shear (Skill Lv. 10): Moves you eight meters forward and deals damage three times, then returns you to your original position and deals heavy damage once more. “Firepower control”, “Speed”, “Weak point detection”.
- Furious Dragon Slash (Skill Lv. 10): Strong spin attack that knocks enemies back and staggers them. “Quick setup”, “Precise cut”, “Wake up”.
FOCUS SKILLS
- 4 headed dragon (Skill Lv. 1): Use eight strong spear thrusts, followed by a powerful final attack.
- spiral lance (Skill Lv. 3): Execute a strong spear thrust
- star rain jump (Skill Lv. 10) – Jump to a target point, dealing high damage and creating a shockwave that launches at enemies. “Weak spot detection”, “Quick setup”, “Powerful completion”.
- red dragon horn (Skill Lv. 10): Fires a beam that damages enemies in its path. Hit the perfect spot to increase damage dealt. “Rapid Preparation”, “Destruction Spear”, “Weak Point Detection”.
The best prints for LOST ARK Glaivier
What you don’t use for your class engraving, you’ll want to focus on these strong engravings:
- Raid Captain: Increases attack power based on movement speed.
- Increase the mass: Increases attack power and slightly reduces attack speed.
LOST ARK Glaivier Awakening Best Ability
Since these builds are all about power, we prefer the Storming Red Dragon Awakening ability over Spear Meteor. Both abilities are viable, but Storming Red Dragon hits enemies nearly 20 times, dealing an incredible amount of damage over a wide area. While Spear Meteor gives you a boost to your mobility, you probably won’t need it in most situations thanks to how destructive this ability is.
pinnacle vs. Control for LOST ARK Glaivier
It’s important to experiment with some basic abilities from Glaivier’s Flurry and Focus sets before deciding on a Class Engraving.
- Pinnacle – Increases stat buffs when changing stance, for a maximum of 15% movement speed, 20% damage, and 50% critical damage
- Control – Prevents you from changing your stance, which blocks Focus abilities, but grants a permanent 18% damage increase to all Burst abilities.
Focus abilities are some of Glaivier’s most powerful, and the Pinnacle-class etching forces you to strategically switch between stances to stack buffs and deal tremendously high damage. However, fighting this way requires more planning and effort, and Focus skills often tend to be slower as well. Burst skills often rely on attacks from behind to deal the most damage, though these skills also often inflict status effects or debuffs.
We have opted for Pinnacle in this version. The variety of attacks and abilities that don’t require specific positioning, along with the powerful buffs, make this etching too good to ignore. Glaivier’s scale of benefits based on your specialization stat, or spec statistics for short. While this is a stat you can generally ignore with other classes, you should focus on improving it with gear and accessories.
That’s all you need to craft the best Glaivier builds in the Lost Ark. Do you already have the Ark Pass in your hands? Check out our guide to find out what the Lost Ark Battle Pass offers across all three tracks. You might want to take a trip to the new continent known as the Lost Ark South Vern – it’s full of hidden quests, Una’s tasks and much more.