Lost Ark: The Best PvE Paladin Build

Paladin is one of the Advanced Classes available for Warrior. The holy warrior Paladin is a valuable member of your party as one of the dedicated Support Classes you can pick aside from the Bard. Armed with a sword and his faith, a Paladin’s main job is to strengthen teammates with Holy Aura and weaken enemies with Holy magic. Here are the Skills and Engravings you should prioritize when you’re making a PvE Paladin build in Lost Ark.

(Updated on August 7, 2024 – Fact-checked and clarified the guide’s information).

PvE Paladin Skill Build in Lost Ark

As mentioned above, Paladin’s role in PvE is to support your team, giving damage and defense buffs as well as cleaning debuffs using a variety of Holy Skills. These are four types of popular Skill builds you can use as a template:

Faith Defender Paladin

Holy Aura Paladin

Raid Champion Paladin

Chaos Dungeon Breaker Paladin

Awakening Skills:

1. Alithanes’ Judgment: Jump up and unleash a holy light that shines toward your target location for an attack that even penetrates through guardian monsters. Inflict 111 Damage on surrounding foes upon landing and create a barrier for 80% of your Max HP for all party members for 10s. Stagger: Mid.
2. Alithanes’ Light: Imbue holy energy into your sword and unleash it forward. On hit, it inflicts 111 Damage. The energy then explodes and inflicts an additional 111 Damage. Stagger: High.

Recommended Engravings for Paladin PvE Build in Lost Ark

• Blessed Aura:
  • Level 1: With Holy Aura, Damage received -10% and 2% of Max HP restored every 2.5s for all party.
  • Level 2: With Holy Aura, Damage received -15% and 2% of Max HP restored every 2s for all party.
  • Level 3: With Holy Aura, Damage received -20% and 2% of Max HP restored every 1.5s for all party.
• Awakening:
  • Level 1: Awakening skill cooldown -10%. +1 Maximum use.
  • Level 2: Awakening skill cooldown -25%. +2 Maximum use.
  • Level 3: Awakening skill cooldown -50%. +3 Maximum use.
• Specialist:
  • Lv. 1: Shield and HP recovery effects used on self and party members increase by 6%, and when the target’s HP is below 50%, this effect increases by an additional 3%.
  • Lv. 2: Shield and HP recovery effects used on self and party members increase by 14%, and when the target’s HP is below 50%, this effect increases by an additional 7%.
  • Lv. 3: Shield and HP recovery effects used on self and party members increase by 24%, and when the target’s HP is below 50%, this effect increases by an additional 12%.

Those three are pretty much a must to increase your Support Paladin potential. Meanwhile, these other Engravings are often used but are not really essential:

• Spirit Absorption.
• Heavy Armor.
• Vital Point Strike.
• Judgment.
• Drops of Ether.
• Crushing Fist.