Order of the Emperor Arcanist Guide (2024)

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The Arcanist joins combat equipped with a Magick Deck and a plethora of Tarot Cards, each with it's own unique effect.Split between the Order of the Emperor and Empress's Grace playstyles, both builds will utilize three different types ofskills: Normal, Stacking, and Ruin.

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A standard build that uses the Order of the Emperor. Using Empress's Grace is not recommended.

Arcanist can run several builds, usually named after how many skillsper type are taken. "116" indicate how many Stacking, Ruin and Normalskills are taken in a build. While there are differences, it's importantto maintain the fundamentals when playing. With the variety that Arcanist has in its builds,be sure to try them out in Trixion before committing precious resources towards it!

This build takes one Stacking & Ruin skills with six Normal skills.

Despite what the name indicates, this build uses "Fake Flip" on Call of Destiny to havetwo Stacking skills. The focus of this build being to stay in "Boundless Mana" for a very high APM class with strongburst windows. With the ability to still utilize "Magick Addiction" before downtime,you'll always be on your toes with this build. You'll still be doing majority of your DPS within Return's window but with a focus onyour Normal skills instead of worrying solely on stacks. You'll always be pressing skillswith this build and it's a lot of fun! Only reason you shouldn't be pressing skills is if the boss is dead or untargetable, otherwiseyou're doing something wrong! Emperor comes with its own set of rules to follow to help guide you when playing:

• Enter "Boundless Mana" as fast as possible, maintaining it by using skills off cooldown.
• Ensure Emperor is used under buffs such as after Return.
• Outside of your burst, keep Evoke on cooldown as it does a large percentage of our damage over time.
• Call of Destiny & Stream of Edge serve as our only way of getting to four stacks for Celestial Rain.

With only having one Ruin skill, Celestial Rain must be used at four stacks at all times.Some of Emperor's skills linger and can be affected by buffs in real-time like Dark Resurrection. Because of this you can fitmore damage within your burst windows if you play into it properly. An exampleof this is using Return after Dark Resurrection tocatch the backloaded damage on the skill. Casting Unlimited Shuffle and Mysterious Stampede serve as fillers while Stream of Edge isbuilding stacks towards Celestial Rain's detonation.

You'll want to prioritize Royal (Emperor Only) and Chancellor to coverwithin your buff window for maximum gains. With Chancellor having alonger duration you can catch about 1.5 damage cycles if using it after Return. It's also fine to be used upon draw if you don't have the setupat the ready.

Star can yoink you out of "Boundless Mana" which is aDPS loss unless you are already near 80% MP, less than 25% MP or therewill be downtime soon. If you are forced to use this, you'll have littleissue getting back under "Boundless Mana" due to low cooldowns.You're also able to hold this card and only use the second slot to avoiddrawing this card again. As for the Clown card, your best bet is to use this onRoyal (Emperor Only) with other good options being Cull,Wheel of Fortune or Twisted Fate.

Last but not least,Wheel of Fortune should be used with Evoke but Dark Resurrection is an easier to use alternative.