Lost Ark Gunslinger Class Leveling Guide
Looking for how to navigate to level 50 as smoothly as possible with Gunslinger? You’ve come to the right place.
In this quick beginner-friendly guide, we’ll help you understand which stats, skills, and tripods to prioritize.
Once you hit level 50, be sure to visit our Gunslinger end game guide.
If you want to learn how to play another class, check out our other Lost Ark class guides.
If you’re interested in how Gunslinger performs in current meta, we highly encourage you to take a look at our Lost Ark tier list article, where you can find information for both PvE and PvP.
Stats
Prioritize gear with Crit and Specialization for extra damage and clear speed while leveling. Swiftness is good to have for Gunslingers but Endurance, Domination, and Expertise are useless stats.
Skills
Skills can be reset at any time at no cost. While leveling, prioritize skill points towards skills that let you clear mobs of monsters as quickly as possible on a low cooldown. Here are the most important Gunslinger skills:
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Important Skills
Equilibrium (Lv. 12)
- 2-2-2
- Upgrade skill to a minimum of level 7 as fast as possible for the Enemy Raid tripod. This will be your strongest AoE skill on a respectable cooldown.
Death Fire (Lv. 18)
- 3-1-2
- Another good AoE clearing option. On a longer cooldown than Equilibrium. Becomes much stronger once you unlock the last tripod at level 10.
Focused Shot (Lv. 32)
- 2-3-1
- Great damage against bosses and decent AoE option. Has a long cast time so needs level 10 for Quick Finish tripod to safely use against bosses.
Sharpshooter (Lv. 40)
- 2-2-1
- Extremely high damage big AoE damage option at level 7 with Omnidirectional tripod.
Dual Buckshot (Lv. 28)
- 1-2-1
- Good balance between good damage anda decent sized aoe.
Extra Points
Whenever you have a few extra points left over:
4 Spiral Tracker
- 2-0-0
- Weakness Exposure to debuff enemies giving you extra 10% crit chance against them.
4 Peacemaker (Lvl. 26)
- 2:0:0
- Excellent Mobility tripod for another dash to go through maps faster and help with dodging abilities.
Skill Progression 1-50
- Level 14
- 7 Equilibrium
- Level 20
- 10 Equilibrium
- Level 24
- 10 Equilibrium
- 7 Death Fire
- Level 30
- 10 Equilibrium
- 10 Death Fire
- Level 33
- 10 Equilibrium
- 10 Death Fire
- 7 Focused Shot
- Level 38
- 10 Equilibrium
- 10 Death Fire
- 10 Focused Shot
- Level 41
- 10 Equilibrium
- 10 Death Fire
- 10 Focused Shot
- 7 Sharpshooter
- Level 45
- 10 Equilibrium
- 10 Death Fire
- 10 Focused Shot
- 10 Sharpshooter
- Level 47
- 10 Equilibrium
- 10 Death Fire
- 10 Focused Shot
- 10 Sharpshooter
- 7 Buckshot
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