Gravekeeper

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The Gravekeeper is a powerful fighter that can quickly end battles with short bursts of critical damage. As an alternative, they can also quickly barrage their opponents with many quick attacks.

The core of their combat is around the way they can combo and simply ignore enemy defenses and resistances, making them always easy prey.

Best: Many critical options, easy to build, powerful DPS potential.

Worst: Resource intensive, requires many status investments, no unique defensive choices.

Weapons: Dagger, Sword, Katar, Axe

Gameplay Identity

The Gravekeeper has a strong focus on chaining skills together to find an outcome, while debilitating enemies by decreasing their defenses, this makes them:

A heavy-duty job that can hit enemies with massive damage, while ignoring most defensive tactics used by them, ensuring they don't need to adapt much.

Since most Gravekeeper skills can crit, they have a very high power in dealing with enemies over both short and long fights, as long as their resources aren't drained.

The access to 2 different ways of achieving Fury status, with the Assassin's Fury and their own Loki's Fury provides them tools to always keep the aggression up.

The Gravekeeper has a short 3-skill combo where the last hit can be changed between a strong direct hit or an AoE to help with quick crowd-control and adaptation.

Gravekeepers also have access to a multitude of terrain and enemy debilitation by making them unable to fight effectively, either by revealing hidden enemies, petrification, large area coverage, doubling damage taken or straight up defense piercing, up to a point, as long as resources are available.

Core Gameplay Loop

The Gravekeeper is a job that only needs access to part of its kit, depending on how it's built by the player. It has different focus for different ways of fighting:

• When using combos, always starts by casting Executioner's Alpha and Omega.
• The final hit comes with either Desolated Burial or Cursed Coffin.
• Making use of Cross Impact to fill in rotations with a very quick hit is a good way to extract extra DPS.
• It's important to properly build a SP reserve due to the constant cost of the skill chains.
• All builds should consider Loki's Mark for support and burst potential by doubling the enemy damage taken on next hit (Lex Aterna effect).
• Final Skill: Mass Grave. A walking large AoE that deals massive physical damage to enemies caught in the path.

Due to the need to be in Fury status for its combo, the Gravekeeper needs to properly prepare how to achieve this status. Loki's Fury requires a large amount of SP but provides the status for a long time, being more recommended before engaging in combat, while Fury itself (from the Assassin tree) is a good way to keep it up later on. The Gravekeeper can also forego its combo skills entirely and focus on alternating Sonic Blows, Cross Impact, Impact Tooth and Fissure Tooth to overwhelm enemies with skill casts.

Gravekeeper is a job that values quick reactions and high skill use, the rotations outside of combo are very free form but require extra care on SP management to not burn it entirely and be exposed. The fact it can deal critical damage in many skills makes it a perfect user of Katar weapons.

Skills

Skill	Max Level	Description	Skill Type	Details	Scaling
Adv. Katar Mastery	Lv 5	Increases Katar damage	Passive	Damage bonus is %-based, making it a strong modifier	No
Ancient Power	Lv 5	Increases attack power of the entire party for a short duration	Party-Support	High SP cost	No
Loki's Fury	Lv 5	Increases HP/SP and enables Fury status for a long duration	Self-Support	High SP cost	No
Loki's Veil	Lv 5	Halts SP regeneration to always deal max damage with no variation	Self-Support	Higher levels decrease upkeep cost	No
Loki's Mark	Lv 1	Marks an enemy with Loki's Curse, applying Lex Aeterna to them	Debuff	Lex Aeterna doubles the damage taken on the next attack	No
Tombstone Curse	Lv 10	Petrify an enemy rendering them defenseless	Crowd-Control	Higher levels increase effect duration and decrease resistance	No
Exale Rage	Lv 5	Deals quick damage to all enemies around caster	Ranged AoE	Requires Fury status.	DEX
Quagmire	Lv 5	Destroys terrain in a small area, decreasing enemy speed, DEX and AGI	Ground Debuff	Has a short duration	No
Fissure Tooth	Lv 5	Erupts earth spikes over a large area, dealing damage to all targets	Physical AoE Ranged	Has a small chance of applying bleeding status	DEX
Guard Breaker	Lv 10	Attacks an enemy with a drilling attack dealing heavy damage.	Physical Melee	Has a skill level based chance to remove any defensive/shield buffs from enemy.	VIT
Cross Impact	Lv 5	Quickly strikes an enemy multiple times attempting critical damage	Physical Melee	Very short cooldown with high repeat rate. Half critical chance	AGI
Desolated Burial	Lv 10	Deals strong damage with a katar to enemies around caster	Physical Melee AoE	Can be critical, if chained after Executioner's Omega, damage is massively boosted	LUK
Cursed Coffin	Lv 10	Deals strong damage with a katar to an enemy, if cast directly, can be ranged	Physical Melee/Ranged	Can be critical, if chained after Executioner's Omega, damage is massively boosted	LUK
Open Graveyard	Lv 1	Strikes the ground to reveal hidden enemies around	AoE Support on Self	Deals heavy damage to any revealed enemies	No
Mass Grave	Lv 10	Summons a powerful wave of land to hit enemies in a large path.	Physical Special	Skill will redirect itself randomly if it finds any terrain obstacles	STR