In Lost Ark, you can customize your equipment with engravings. These special runes add a wide range of new effects to your gear.
Keep in mind that each piece of equipment limits how many engravings it can hold; you can only put so many runes into one weapon or piece of armor before it’s full.
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Engravings In Lost Ark
These are essentially item enhancements that can be applied to equipment in your inventory. Each piece of equipment has several slots (number may vary by item and rarity) that you can use to apply these “engraved” effects. Once applied, they are permanent and cannot be removed unless you destroy the item (using an Alkahest).
The effect from these engravings is powerful enough that a single high-end engraving can replace an entire piece of gear for some players (usually as a stopgap solution). Do note that only two weapons can have this bonus at one time (main and sub-weapon).
How Do You Use Engravings in Lost Ark?
In the Lost Ark game, players can apply a wide variety of Engravings to weapons and accessories. Two different engravings can be used depending on the item in question.
The process for applying these enchantments is relatively simple:
- First, you need to acquire a weapon or accessory with an empty enchantment slot (indicated by an open spot at the top of the enchantment box).
- Then go to your inventory and click on the “Engrave” tab in your bag. This will bring up all possible engravings for that item class: weapon or accessory. Select which one suits your needs most and put it into play before pressing confirm if you’re sure about this decision! Now repeat steps 1-3 until every slot is filled out with its respective enchantment!
Best Engravings In Lost Ark
If you’re a player of Lost Ark, you should know that engraving is one of the most essential features in the game. You can apply engravings to your gear, and they work similarly to runes or glyphs in other games. They provide different types of stat bonuses and other extra effects.
Before we get into how to acquire the best engravings, let’s discuss just what an engraving is and how it works in Lost Ark. An engraving is a decorative pattern embedded directly into your equipment and armor pieces. There are six different slots for engravings on each item, and every slot can hold up to five stars (though this varies).
Grudge
Grudge is an Engraving that is available to all classes.
It increases your character’s damage by a percentage and only applies to the main weapon.
The higher the level, the more damage it provides, but once you reach Level 20, there will be no more increments until you level up your Engraving.
The maximum stat for Grudge is +10% Damage.
Cursed Doll
To be clear, the Cursed Doll is not an engraving that you can use on its own. Rather, it can be combined with others to maximize your critical damage. It’s weak compared to other options on this list, but it still has a place in your arsenal.
You will need to have at least 500 points of base critical damage for this engraving to be effective. If you have that much-or more-then go ahead and add the Cursed Doll engraving to your character!
Keen Blunt Weapon
The Keen Blunt Weapon engraving increases the Attack Power of blunt weapons by 10%. This effect stacks with other effects that increase the Attack Power of blunt weapons.
For example, the Burnished Iron Club weapon has this characteristic: increases the Attack Power of blunt weapons by 15%. Combined with the Keen Blunt Weapon engraving, you get a 25% increase in attack power with a blunt weapon. This is one of the most popular engravings in the game.
Raid Captain
Making up 20% of the total engravings in the game, Raid Captain is one of the most popular in Lost Ark. As you can probably guess from its name, this powerful engraving is only available to players who lead a raid team and as a result, it provides a large damage buff to all party members by 20%.
Raid Captain is also one of the most difficult engravings to acquire. It can be obtained as a rare drop from bosses in the game or purchased from other players for an enormous sum.
If you are lucky enough to find it though, this engraving will significantly boost your DPS and make it easier for your raid group to defeat whatever challenge lies before them.
However, several other alternate options provide similar bonuses, and some may even be more effective depending on which stage of raiding you’re doing!
Awakening
The Awakening engraving is the most sought after in all of Lost Ark and for good reason. This engraving gives a flat increase to your weapon’s base attack power, meaning you get more bang for your buck than with any other engraving.
It also has the highest chance of appearing on the rarest items in Lost Ark, making it the most powerful engraving in the game.
Barricade
The Barricade Engraving is popular because of its boosting properties. This buff will boost all sorts of stats, including damage, defense, vitality, and mana. It boosts stamina, attack speed, movement speed, critical rate, and critical damage and evasion.
Master Of Ambush
One of the most sought-after engravings in Lost Ark is Master Of Ambush. It’s a rare grade IV engraving that should be taken into consideration by anyone using a scythe or sword, especially for PvP oriented builds.
While there are many other useful options to explore, a mastery of ambush is certainly one option you should keep in mind when moving forward with your character’s development.
Spirit Absorption
Players using many skills will find the Spirit Absorption engraving a great addition to their character.
This engraving increases the maximum spirit a character has and allows them to use more skills, enabling them to deal more damage and use more defensive skills.