Lost Ark Soulfist Build (December 2024)

The Soulfist class may remind many anime fans of a Dragon Ball Z character, as it utilizes energy blasts like Kamehameha and Spirit Bomb for the ultimate skills. Soulfists are heavy-hitting melee martial artists, but they also make use of ranged normal attacks. Like other classes, though, all of your damage will be coming from the powerful abilities and explosive combos. If you’re new to Lost Ark and choose the Soulfist, you might be wondering where to begin.

To preface, Lost Ark is all about experimenting with builds and finding what you like best! That said, we’ve put together what we consider one of the best Lost Ark Soulfist builds in the game. Below you can find a list of all eight of your skills, along with the effects to use. If you find anything you disagree with, feel free to tweak anything to your liking.

Best Lost Ark Soulfist Build

Here are the eight skills and effects for this Soulfist build:

• Heavenly Squash (Hard Hitter, Burning Hands, Enormous Palm)
• Force Orb (Quick Prep, Powerful Wave, Scattering Wave)
• Pulverizing Palm (Excellent Mobility, Ready Attack)
• Flash Step (Excellent Mobility, Quick Place)
• Tempest Blast (Charge Enhancement, Eradication, Demolition)
• Crippling Barrier (Quick Prep, Hard Hitter, Keen Judgment)
• Merciless Pummel (Hard Hitter, Coldhearted, Double Up)
• Energy Bullet (Impaired Mobility, Penetrating Pain, Trance)

While leveling, you will probably be using Venomous Fist up until level 50+ when you’ll switch it out for Force Orb.

Skill Breakdown

Here’s a more in-depth explanation of each of the skills we are utilizing in this build:

• Heavenly Squash – Drop a massive palm at the target location, inflicting damage. Damage increase to foes down on the ground or in the air.
  • Hard Hitter – Energy cost +20% and Outgoing Damage +30%.
  • Burning Hands – Element is now Fire. Burns foes on hit and inflicts 88.5 Damage every 1s for 7s.
  • Enormous Palm – Changes to normal mode. On skill use, send a palm 9 meters forward, attacking foes along the way. Ignore foe defense by 50% on hit. With ranged hit, attack range +3 meters.
• Force Orb – Quickly shoots a powerful energy ball from your palm. The ball slowly disperses, attacking foes and knocking them down, inflicting 338 damage.
  • Quick Prep – Cooldown reduction.
  • Powerful Wave – Strengthens the wave to deal more damage.
  • Scattering Wave – Shoots three waves in a cone shape, dealing +110% total damage.
• Pulverizing Palm – Quickly dash forward four meters, inflicting damage. Strike foes with energy-charged palms to inflict damage two times and deliver the last strike to inflict damage. The last strike inflicts double damage on airborne foes.
  • Excellent Mobility – Increased move distance.
  • Ready Attack – On palm strike hit, attack power increases massively for four seconds.
• Flash Step – Rapidly move toward target location, inflicting damage to foes at the destination. Airborne foes get launched back into the air upon hit. Use the skill again within two seconds to use the skill two more times. Cooldown +4s and Energy consumption by 2x per additional use.
  • Excellent Mobility – Increased move distance.
  • Quick Place – On hit, move speed increased for three seconds, stacking up to three times. 
• Tempest Blast – Shoot energy forward and push your palms again to shoot a larger, more powerful plume of energy that deals damage.
  • Charge Enhancement – For each foe hit, reduce the cooldown for 1 second, stacking up to 8 seconds.
  • Eradication – Changes to Charge mode. Charge energy into your fingers and instantly shoot a narrower stream of energy. Streams damage goes up by 50% when fully charged.
  • Demolition – Increased attack distance. Damage to named or higher foes is doubled.
• Crippling Barrier – Release a barrier around yourself, slowing down foes within range. Hold for up to three seconds to sustain the barrier and inflict damage multiple times. Each hit casts a debuff on foes, causing a Move Speed and Attack Power decrease. Stacks up to four times.
  • Quick Prep – Reduced cooldown.
  • Hard Hitter – Energy cost and damage increased.
  • Keen Judgment – Charge up the skill and release to pull foes in range. Inflict damage of max charge up damage. With Hard Hitter, the attack’s damage of the max charge-up damage, depending on your Hard Hitter level. 
• Merciless Pummel – Move forward and deliver a punch to inflict damage, followed by a right kick and a straight punch, inflicting more damage. You can change directions between each hit.
  • Hard Hitter – Energy and damage increase.
  • Coldhearted – After the last attack, attack two more times with palms, inflicting 50% damage. 
  • Double Up – Creates afterimages of you that attack your goes and deal 100% damage.
• Energy Bullet – Quickly shoot condensed energy ahead of you three times.
  • Impaired Mobility – On skill hit, move speed reduction for 5 seconds, stacking up to 6 times.
  • Penetrating Pain – Inflict more damage on hit in a four-meter long cone-shape pattern.
  • Trance – Changes to Holding mode. Hold down for 1s to shoot 6 energy projectiles, inflicting up to +100% damage.

Soulfist Skill Rotations

Here is the skill rotation you should be using for boss fights:

1. Heavenly Squash
2. Energy Blast
3. Crippling Barrier
4. Merciless Pummel
5. Heavenly Squash
6. Venomous Fist/Force Orb

For clearing out trash mobs, you can go with something like Crippling Barrier and Energy Blast.

Soulfist Stat Priority

Here is the Soulfist stat priority to focus on while leveling and maxing your gear:

1. Crit+Swift
2. Crit
3. Swift
4. Everything else

That’s our version of the best Soulfist build in Lost Ark. You may have a totally different playstyle, and that’s fine. Remember to experiment and tweak things until you find what works best for you! For more guides, builds, and content, you can check out our Lost Ark section.