Spiritmaster PvE build: skills, stigmas, boards and gear priorities

The Spiritmaster fights through its spirits. You keep two of them out, open the damage window with Enhance: Spirit's Benediction and Summon: Ancient Spirit, and fill every gap with the curse line on right click. Pick it if you like steady damage from 20m and a pet that takes the hits. Skip it if you want one big button: your damage is a pile of spirit procs, not a single nuke.

Everything feeds one loop. Each time a spirit uses its skill you gain an element. At four you enter Four Elements and can fire Elemental Fusion, the hardest hit you have. The same spirit skill opens Dimensional Control for a moment and stacks Element Unification. More spirit skill casts means more of all three, and most choices below come back to that.

You learn each skill to level 10. Arcana, accessories and boards add levels on top. Specialization options open as the total climbs: the first three at 8, the fourth at 12, the fifth at 16. Run three per skill.

Train the nine core skills to 10 first: Cold Shock, Combustion, Dimensional Control, Elemental Fusion, Jointstrike: Curse, Rapid Scattershot and the Earth, Fire and Water summons.

Push Elemental Fusion and Combustion toward 20 before anything else. They are where the extra levels from rings and arcana pay most.

Take all eight core passives to 10. Spirit Communion goes to 7 and Revitalization Contract to 5 early, both to 10 later.

Spirit Strike leads because it is the only passive that boosts you and the spirit by the same amount, and the spirit is half your damage.

Four slots, four stigmas. Level them in this order.

Two stigmas earn a swap now and then. Jointstrike: Destructive Attack becomes a charge skill, and its fourth pick resets the cooldown of Curse and Corrode on the first hit. Take it once its level is high enough for that pick. Siphon gives MP and, from its third pick, a shield worth 30% of your Max HP. Slot it on a fight where you run dry or keep eating hits.

The game fires the first ready skill in a stack, so the order inside each key is your priority list.

Put 1, 3, Q, right click and left click into the in-game macro, in that order. The macro key is unbound by default: set it to right mouse button and hold it together with left click.

Run three Vigor and two Magic. The god stats decide it, not the set bonus.

Three Vigor pieces give the two-piece Primal Vigor bonus, +60 PvE Attack while you sit above 70% HP. Two Magic pieces give the Magic Armor two-piece, 1,500 MP back when you drop under 20%. Spiritmasters stay at range and above 70% HP most of the fight, so the Vigor bonus stays up.

Once your accuracy is comfortable, Compass of Magic trades Freedom for Death (Critical Hit). Each arcana also rolls skill levels. Aim active-level rolls at Elemental Fusion, Combustion, Fire Spirit and Cold Shock. Aim passive-level rolls (Bell, Mirror) at Spirit Strike, Mental Focus and Element Unification.

For the other arcana slots: Arcana: Scales of Punishment (Bound) carries Destruction and Destiny, Arcana: Key of Punishment (Bound) has Attack Bonus as its main stat and Arcana: Hourglass of Punishment (Bound) Defense Bonus. Take Key over Hourglass.

Open Nezekan (Spiritmaster) (level 12), Zikel (Spiritmaster) (20), Vaizel (Spiritmaster) (30) and Triniel (Spiritmaster) (40). Around 60 nodes on each is a solid first week. 68 on each is where a finished character sits. Azphel (Spiritmaster) runs on its own points, so open it too. It is mostly PvP stats; in PvE only its HP, MP and status resist nodes help.

Between the rare nodes, fill with Attack, Critical Hit, Accuracy, MP, Combat Speed and HP. Skill nodes come first for the same skills you push elsewhere: Elemental Fusion, Combustion, Fire Spirit, Cold Shock, Water Spirit, Curse, Dimensional Control, then Mental Focus, Spirit Strike, Element Unification and Spirit Revitalization.

Each pet family (Cogni, Natura, Fera, Varian and the special board) fills its own board as you collect pets, line by line. Most lines follow the same rule.

Line 4 differs per family:

Budget: Spiritforged Orb at +10 with Legend-grade armour at +5. Full: Aulamus Orb at +15 with Unique Vakron armour and Aulamus accessories at +10. On plain substats, take Accuracy, Critical Hit, Attack and Combat Speed.

Soul binding, per slot. The first stat is the one that slot does best. After it, most armour wants Spirit Strike and Mental Focus levels, because both work for your spirit too.

Bracelets roll god stats: Wisdom > Destruction > Time > Illusion > Death > Justice > Life > Space > Freedom > Destiny. Wisdom leads because it cuts MP cost and raises Double Chance, which Mental Focus and the Mirror already push. Destruction is plain Attack, Time is Combat Speed.

With hageup-maseok and junggeup-maseok, take Accuracy Bonus, Attack and Critical Hit. sanggeup-maseok can roll the big ones: Weapon Damage Boost and Critical Damage Boost about equal, then Damage Boost, then Attack. When an enhancement gives you a bonus to pick, go Double Chance > Weapon Damage Boost > Damage Boost > Attack > Accuracy Bonus and Critical Hit.

Theostones barely move your damage. Put Theostone: Feruk's Instinct on the weapon and Theostone: Tassin's Command on the guard. Two identical theostones only apply once.

Equip debaui-choesanggeup-nalgae to start: 500 Penetration plus HP and MP. Swap to jamsikdoen-geumbit-nalgae (95 Max Attack, 5% Multi-Hit) or gongheoui-talriseura-nalgae (Attack, Accuracy, 4% Cooldown Reduction) once you own them.

Every wing you own adds its owned effect, so level the ones with useful owned stats even if you never wear them: pureun-jeongwangui-nalgae, ilkkaeun-geungjiui-nalgae, pureun-padoui-nalgae, tusaui-nalgae, deuramata-dungjiui-nalgae, jamsikdoen-geumbit-nalgae, sup-jeongryeongui-nalgae, heosangui-meari-nalgae, akmongui-nalgae, guwonbateun-tarakui-nalgae, gongheoui-talriseura-nalgae, debaui-choesanggeup-nalgae.

Pantheon: the colossus should carry Destruction, so colossus-of-zikel, or colossus-of-disbelief for the same stats through achievements. For sculptures, take Freedom, Death and Space: effigy-of-vaizel, banner-of-triniel, shard-of-israphel. For masterpieces, Illusion and Wisdom first, then Life.