All Lost Ark Engravings: Best & Negative Engravings, Ability Stones
The Engraving system is key to boosting your character’s lethality inLost Ark, so here’s a rundown of how to use them and every Engraving available right now.
When it comes toLost Ark‘s magical world ofArkesia, there’s a lot you’ll need to learn to etch yourself into the history books and have the bards recount soaring tales of your exploits.
From thePirate Coinsystem to the mysteriousMokoko Seeds, there’s a lot to get your head around – and that’s before we even talk about Engravings.
Here’s everything you need to know about Engravings in Lost Ark, as they’ll become essential to your character’s growth, as well as dictate how your journey plays out.
What are Engravings in Lost Ark?
Engravings are found on accessories and Ability Stones (more on this later) and essentiallyapply buffs to your character– provided that they are a Normal Engraving.
These buffs can be divided into damage boosts, utility buffs, and class-specific Engravings, the latter of which can entirely change how you play your character.
How to use Engravings & Ability Stones in Lost Ark
Each Engraving has three different tiers in Lost Ark, with each level increasing the Engraving’s specific buffs. Your Engraving level depends on therarity of your accessories, with Levels requiring5, 10, and 15 pointsrespectively to activate.
The points that each item grants are below, withAbility Stonescontributing a huge amount of points. you may only equiponeof these, and will have tofacet (cut) itat anAbility Stone Cutterin order to activate the points :
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Best Engravings in Lost Ark
Once you hit Level 50, these are the Engravings that we recommend you take:
All Engravings in Lost Ark
While there seems like an overwhelming number of Engravings at first glance, most of them will provide you with positive buffs – so don’t worry!
Below we’ve listed all of the general Engravings, as well as the class-specific ones, in alphabetical order.
General Engravings
Class-Specific Engravings
Negative Engravings
With great power comes great responsibility, and if you’re unfortunate enough to land yourself with one of the game’s Negative Engravings you’ll see yourstats decreased.
Thankfully, though, there are only four of them:
So that’s everything you need to know about Engravings in Lost Ark. Looking to etch yourself into Arkesia’s history books? Be sure to check out our Lost Ark guides:
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