Arcanist

## Specialty

**Arcanist** (also known as **Arcana**) is an advanced class for the female mage found in *Lost Ark*. She is primarily a ranged class that uses magick decks as her main weapon.

## Skills

Due to the complexity of the skill system, all skills on this page are displayed at level 1 with no effects applied. Please see the skill page for additional information. Scaling damage values are represented by **X**.

The Arcanist's skills are split into three categories; Normal Skill, Stacking Skill, and Ruin Skill.

* Normal skills are used to deal damage and quickly build up the Arcanist's Specialty Meter.
* The other two types of skills, Stacking & Ruin, work together to build up impressive attacks.
* Successful attacks with Stacking skills will build up to 4 stacks on an enemy target. When a Ruin skill lands, it consumes stacks built up on the target to greater effect— creating opportunities to deal massive damage.

### Specialty Skill

* Despite being armed with an arsenal of skills, the Arcanist will sometimes leave things to the fate of the cards with her specialty skill "Card Deck". When the player lands an attack, it charges the Card Meter. Once the meter is completely charged, a card is drawn randomly from the Card Deck, which can be used to varying degrees of devastating effect. Two cards can be stored in the Deck at once, and can be activated by pressing [Z] or [X].

## Exclusive Engravings

* Empress's Grace
* Order of the Emperor

## Patch History

Fire Up the New Year
* Dash skill cooldown reduced from 9 seconds to 8.
* PvE damage for all Normal skills increased by 2.3%.
* Identity
	+ Ruin
		- PvE damage increased by 3.1%.
	+ Emperor card
		- PvE damage increased by 8.7%.
	+ Cull card
		- Bonus crit damage and crit chance no longer require to hit only one target, now always applies.

The Art of War
* PvP skill damage reduced by 6%.

Feast with Friends
* "Infinity Shower" replaced with "Dealer's Flip".
* General
	+ Attack range increased by 2 meters.
	+ Can now switch to and from other skills faster.
* Identity
	+ Draw probability increased for Balance, Cull, Judgment, Wheel of Fortune.
	+ Draw probability reduced for Three-Headed Snake, Twisted Fate, Ghost, Moon, Star, Royal, Mayhem, Corrosion.
	+ Ghost
		- New: Ignores collision with monsters and players. Movement Speed +20% for 16 seconds.
		- Old: Ignores collision with monsters. Movement Speed +20% and damage from foes -50% for 3 hits for 16 seconds.
	+ Moon
		- New: Cooldown -20% for 30 seconds. The way Cooldown reduction effect is calculated changed from calculating percentage point of cooldown reduction from Swiftness to calculating percentage.
		- Old: Cooldown -10% and MP Recovery Speed +20% for 30 seconds.
	+ Star
		- New: Recovers 50% MP. Increases MP Recovery Speed +20% for 20 seconds.
		- Old: Recovers 100% MP. Remaining skill cooldown -15% except for Awakening, Movement, and Stand Up skills.
	+ Cull
		- Effects now also apply to normal hits.
	+ New identity cards:
		- Clown: Copies the effect of the previously used Identity Card.
		- Joy: Restore 100% MP and reduce remaining skill Cooldown by 15% immediately except for Awakening, Movement, and Stand Up skills, or 50% chance to instantly reducing cooldown by 30%.
		- Prince: Normal Skill damage +50% for 4 seconds. Only available if the Class Engraving Order of the Emperor is active.
		- Renewal: Crit Rate of Normal Skills +20% for 10 seconds. Only available if the Class Engraving Order of the Emperor is active.
	+ Ruin skills
		- Upon using Ruin skills in PvE, you gain a certain amount of Specialty Meter based on the Stacks triggered.
		- 4-Stack Ruin damage increased by 5%.

Spells in Spades - Added
* Added to the game.

## Trivia

* The Arcana uses cards as medium of powerful spells. She can cast cards chosen by a roulette wheel that spins according to special conditions.
* The Arcana's gameplay revolves around using her cards at the right time in the most effective combination.
* The Showtime Card empowers the Arcana to deal tremendous amount of damage.
* The Arcana also has the Wheel Of Fate, which allows her to recast a previous ultimate ability.