The new class in Lost Ark, Aeromancer release date was August 16 with the Wield the Storm update. Along with progression events to help players level up, Akkan Regions Raid, Sonavel Guardians Raid, new skins, and much more.
The Aeromancer is the second Specialist class beside the Artist, and she is quite cute with her umbrella sword that she uses for melee attacks. With her weather control abilities (kind of expected with a name like that), she can cause a lot of damage on the battlefield. So, if you want to know more about this character, let’s check it out.
Why Should You Play Aeromancer in Lost Ark?
As we mentioned before, the release date for Aeromancer was August 16, but she has been present for more than a year on Korean servers. Maybe she isn’t the strongest top-tier list class, but she is popular there. There are a lot of reasons for this: First, you can tell that they put a lot of effort and love into the creation of this character, the design, the animations, and the sound effects. She looks good, and it is very satisfying to play with her.
Another reason why the Aeromancer is so popular is because she has a consistent DPS that offers a lot of synergy to the team, but she also can carry her own weight in battle. She is an accessible character, compared to other classes like the Gunslinger, with an easy-to-master playstyle that is forgiving, even if you make huge mistakes.
She is very casual/normie friendly, if you are not a tryhard and just want to enjoy your game without dedicating a lot of hours mastering a class, the Aeromancer is the character for you.
Also, her identity skill, Sun Shower, gives a buff to her party and a debuff and constantly damages enemies in an AoE. It gives you that accomplished feeling when you are helpful to your party. You can support your party without the pressure of others supporting classes like Paladin or Bards.
Lost Ark Aeromancer Skills
Lost Ark Aeromancer has two sets of skills: the Weather skill that resembles spell skills and the Umbrella skills used for melee attacks. Depending on your class engraving, Drizzle, or Windfury, you will have different set skills.
Her identity Skill is Sun Shower, where she creates an AoE that damages close enemies once the Raindrop gauge is filled, reducing the damage to the Aeromancer and her party and changing her normal attacks, improving her movement skills.
The aeromancer has two awakening skills: Storm’s Approach, where she creates a tsunami and does much water damage, and Narr’s Blade, where she inflicts damage with the sword to enemies in front. Both awakenings are pretty cool and a perfect combo’s ender.
Lost Ark Aeromancer Engravings
Since the character has been in Korea for a while, there is already an established meta for the character. Two Lost Ark Aeromancer builds with good balance exist for PvE. Of course, you can play and experiment with other builds, but these are the most recommended.
Lost Ark Aeromancer: Windfury Build
The Windfury Aeromancer build uses her Umbrella skills more than the weather and capitalizes on swiftness. She is fast, falling into the video game trope of a high APM low damage character.
She is the most popular character build in Korean ranking due to her speed and the synergy she gives to the party.
This class can provide excellent synergy to the party and has reliable damage, but it spends lots of mana and has a low DPS ceiling.
Stats (swift + crit)
The Windfury builds must prioritize swiftness since it scales your crit, damage, and movement speed. Besides, her gameplay revolves around the rapid use of skills.
Also, her secondary combat stat is crit since she has 2 Thunderbolt tripods, which increases those two skills' crit dmg up to 400%+
Relic gear
For this Lost Ark Aeromancer build, she must consider buffing up her crit. Hallucination is recommended over other gears like Nightmare Flower or Dominion Fang since this gear doesn't offer the crit chance.
Lost Ark Aeromancer: Engraving For the Windfury
The Windfury Aeromancer should use these engravings:
- Wind fury (level 3): This engraving increases crit rate and crit damage. The Windfury engravings have a smaller AoE and faster gauge consumption when the Sun Shower is activated. Using an umbrella skill one after another within a three-second timeframe restores 12% of the gauge. In this configuration, the Sun Shower doesn’t decrease enemies' defense but gives a buff 12% attack and movement speed.
- Raid Captain (level 3): Give a +45% outgoing damage of the base move speed bonus percentage.
- Adrenaline (level 3): Give a buff in attack +1 for 6 seconds after using a skill, except move skill and basic attacks. After using a skill, it gives a buff in attack +1 for 6 seconds and can be stacked up to 6 times, and when it reaches the max, it provides an increment of 15% of the crit rate.
- Grudge (level 3): Give a buff of +20% to incoming damage or damage to bosses or above monsters
- Hit Master (level 3) +16% of damage other than frontal and back attacks. Do not apply to Awakening.
- Ether Predator (level 1): Create ether when attacking enemies and collecting the ether, giving a buff in defense and attack power for 90 seconds.
You can check and change Adrenaline (level 3) with Curse Doll (level 3) and Ether Predator (level 1) to adrenaline (level 1).
Skill builds
Windfury builds are pretty simple; the goal is to alternate between current occurrence skills to get a self-buff and then do a damaging skill called reversals.
When you are utilizing a current occurrence skill, you get a 3-second temporary shield that functions as a regular shield that can be exhausted with an enemy attack.
Current occurrence skills
- Spread: Charge forward and pierce the enemy in front, opening her umbrella and inflicting damage. It is an excellent moving skill to consider.
- Downward Strike: Slam down the umbrella two times, inflicting damage.
Reversal skills
- Piercing Wind: Unleash a wind blade attack that damages and blasts enemies away.
- Wind Gimlet: Perform a tornado attack with the umbrella on the enemy in front. If the enemy is knocked down or in the air, it lifts them again, inflicting damage.
- Tornado dance: Spin the umbrella forward, damaging enemies. After that, she swings the umbrella, damaging and blowing enemies away.
- Rage: She does two swings, one with the umbrella and the other with the sword.
Other skills
- Tornado: Throw the umbrella toward the enemy, inflicting damage and blowing the enemy away. It also inflicts damage while returning to the Aeromancer
- Whirlpool: Create a whirlpool in the direction of the enemy hitting and, for two seconds, inflicting water damage.
Recommended Rotations
The trick here is spamming the Lost Ark Aeromancer skills, alternating between current occurrence and reversals. Always remember to check your mana.
Alternate rotation 1
- Spread
- Piercing Wind
- Downward Strike
- Wind Gimlet
- Spread
- Rage
- Downward Strike
- Tornado Dance
Alternate rotation 2
- Tornado
- Downward Strike
- Whirlpool
- Piercing Wind
- Downward Strike
- Wind Gimlet
- Spread
- Rage
- Downward Strike
- Tornado Dance
Notice the alternate use of skills between current occurrence skills and reversals is essential to dominating the Windfury Aeromancer in Lost Ark.
Lost Ark Aeromancer: Drizzle Build
The Drizzle is the caster version of the Aeromancer. Her gimmick is accumulating Raindrop gauge to unleash powerful attack skills within the Sun Shower effect.
Similarly to the Sorcerer class, she relies on a specialization stat to generate more meter and do damage with her weather skills. Still, unlike the sorceresses, she has more ways of doing harm instead of relying on a single skill, which is more fun.
This character does a lot of damage and gives a lot of synergy to the party. Despite being slower than the Windfury, the Drizzle has a lot of movement skills to compensate.
Stats (spec + crit)
Specialization is the combat stat for the Drizzle since her goal is to build Raindrop gauge faster to cast Sun Shower. This gimmick has a downside: making a proper Aeromancer Drizzle is expensive.
For secondary combat-stat should be crit to increase crit rate and damage.
Relic gear
Like the Windfury build, the Drizzle Aeromancer must consider buffing up her crit, so hallucination is recommended over other gears since this gear increases the crit chance.
Lost Ark Aeromancer: Engraving For the Drizzle
These engravings are the best for a Drizzle Aeromancer:
- Drizzle (level 3): Sun Shower’s Raindrop meter decreases by 50% and gives a damage buff of 30% to weather skills while Sun Shower is active.
- Keen Blunt Weapon (level 3): Give a +50% crit damage but with -20% damage to her attack chance.
- Adrenaline (level 3): Give a buff in attack +1 for 6 seconds after using a skill, except move skill and basic attacks. After using a skill, it gives a buff in attack +1 for 6 seconds and can be stacked up to 6 times, and when it reaches the max, it provides an increment of 15% of the crit rate.
- Grudge (level 3): Give a buff of +20% to incoming damage or damage to bosses or above monsters
- Hit Master (level 3) +16% of damage other than frontal and back attacks. Do not apply to Awakening.
- Ether Predator (level 1): Create ether when attacking enemies and collecting the ether, giving a buff in defense and attack power for 90 seconds.
Just like the Windfury, you can experiment with changing different engravings like Adrenaline (level 3) with Curse Doll (level 3) and Ether predator (level 1) to adrenaline (level 1).
Skill builds
Drizzle skills build turns around her weather skills since they get buff while the Sun Shower is active. Also, since she has limited mobility and lower speed, having some mobility skills like Spread and Fly Open is good.
The drizzle should also consider that, like the Windfury, there are two sets of skills to alternate: one to build gauge and the other to cause damage.
Identity gain skills
- Rainstorm: Create a rainstorm at the enemy location within 10 meters, inflicting water damage on enemies.
- Strong Wind: Swing the umbrella in the direction of the target, creating a wind that does damage and pushes enemies back.
Main DPS skills
- Scorching Sun: Create a ray of sunlight that scorches the enemies within 10 meters, knocking them down and inflicting fire damage.
- Wiping Wind: Create a gust of wing that inflicts damage and lifts enemies.
- Fly Open: A good mobility skill that throws her forward with her umbrella open, inflicting damage to enemies.
Other skills
Spread: Charge forward and pierce the enemy in front, opening her umbrella and inflicting damage. It is an excellent moving skill to consider.
Tornado: Throw the umbrella toward the enemy, inflicting damage and blowing the enemy away. It also inflicts damage while returning to the Aeromancer.
Recommended Rotations
Drizzle Aeromancer wants to cast Sunshower as much as possible to boost her weather skills and give the party synergy, so building the Raindrop gauge is essential.
Raindrop rotation
Use this rotation to gain a Raindrop gauge to cast Sun Shower:
- Tornado
- Rainstorm
- Whirlpool
- Strong wind
- Sun Shower
As soon as the Sun Shower is activated, the Drizzle Aeromancer can do this rotation
Damage rotation
- Strong Wind
- Scorching Sun
- wiping Wind
- Strong Wind
- Scorching Sun
- Wiping Wind
Remember to use the awakening skill as a rotation ender if available.
Lost Ark Aeromancer Tips and Tricks
- The Aeromancer is a fast character, especially if you are using the Windfury build. The drizzle build is slower, so use your movement skills wisely.
- The Drizzle build is forgiving! You can use Skills like Rainstorm that move automatically to enemies even if you miss, so keep that in mind.
- Also, keep in mind that 3-second shield that she has after using a current occurrence skill if you are playing with a Windfury build.
- Always keep an eye on your mana levels and Raindrop gauge. The Aeromancer is very mana-hungry.
Lost Ark Aeromancer - FAQ
Is Aeromancer a support class in Lost Ark?
Yes and no. The Aeromancer can give a lot of synergy and buff stat to the party with her identity ability, Sun Shower, but she also can do a lot of damage on her own. You can play alone or with others without the pressure or responsibility that other support classes like Bard or Paladin have.
What build should I choose?
It is up to you. The Windfury is the most popular build in Korea because of her gameplay since she is faster than Drizzle. But you can use any build and have fun with the customizations.
Conclusion
The Lost Ark Aeromancer is a fun character; she is accessible and easy to master. She is also relatively casual-friendly and forgiving. You should check it out, especially if you are a regular person who just came from your work and just want to relax playing Lost Ark without the pressure of grinding or mastering a class. You can play alone or at a party and have lots of fun.
What do you think of this character? Do you want to check it out? While you're at it, you should also check our guide 'How to play PvP in Lost Ark' or any other of our previous blogs. If you struggle with grinding out levels and goodies, buy Lost Ark gold directly from us, and remember to share this blog if you liked it!
