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Wildsoul
Community Guide
LAST UPDATED
June 11, 2026
June 11, 2026
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This guide is created by community members as a compilation of class related information. This is not meant as a new player guide; if you are a new player we suggest reading Maxroll’s Build Guides instead. If you have any feedback or want to help with class discussions, join our Discord! You can toggle builds you want to see at the top.
How do the two builds compare?
Ferality
Phantom Beast Awakening
Summary
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Pros
- Burst focused
- Paralysis immunity
- Push immunity
- Tanky
- Easy to play
- Spammy
- Mobile (2x spacebar + swift)
Cons
- Very high mana drain
- Less utility
- May need mana food
- Downtime periods
- Uptime based
- May need food if not running MPE
Ferality
Summary
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Pros
- Burst focused
- Paralysis immunity
- Push immunity
- Tanky
Cons
- Very high mana drain
- Less utility
- May need mana food
Phantom Beast Awakening
Summary
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Pros
- Easy to play
- Spammy
- Mobile (2x spacebar + swift)
Cons
- Downtime periods
- Uptime based
- May need food if not running MPE
Chaos Dungeon
Fox Illusion
Level 14
Growling Bear
Level 14
Fox Leap
Level 14
Crow Parade
Level 11
Fox Flame
Level 10
Swish Bear
Level 10
Vulpine Velocity
Level 10
Tailwind
Level 10
Chaos Brawl
Ferality Wildsoul Identity
The main meter is the center orb (Phantom Beast Energy). This meter is required for you to cast both Bear and Fox skills. You can gain back this meter by either using Phantom Beast Skills, or passively when you are in human form.
There are two other meters that are required to be managed as well. The yellow meter (Bear Energy) is gained by using bear skills or passively when you are in bear form. The blue meter (Fox Energy) is gained by using fox skills or passively when you are in fox form.
When the Bear meter is full, you unlock "Forbidden Sorcery: Ripping Bear" which is tied to the Z keybind. To use this skill, you must already be in bear form. This skill claws at the enemy and finishes with a large final slash dealing massive damage.
When the Fox meter is full, you unlock "Forbidden Sorcery: Fox Star Rainstorm" which is tied to the Z keybind. To use this skill, you must already be in fox form. This skill summons 5 orbs and launches them towards the direction you are facing dealing massive damage.
Phantom Beast Awakening Identity
The Phantom Beast Meter is the main focus of Phantom Beast Awakening. Once this meter is full, you can press Z to enter the Phantom Beast Awakening state. In this state, you gain 20% attack speed and move speed, your meter slowly drains over a period of time, and you can gain up to 20 stacks of Phantom Beast Spirit which you can then use by pressing Z again and reducing 5% of the remaining cooldowns of your skills (excluding awakening and T-Skill) for each stack consumed. While in this state, you can also press X to exit the Phantom Beast Awakening state early and automatically consuming the stacks that you had gathered during the form.
Ark Grid Cores
Sun
Moon
Star
Order
Chaos
Ark Passives
Evolution
Specialization
30/30
Crit
10/30
Boundless MP
2/2
Keen Sense
1/2
Unlimited Magick
2/2
Master
1/1
Pulverize
1/1
Standing Striker
2/2
Enlightenment
Ferality
3/3
Awakened Potential
3/3
Besital Resonance
1/5
Wild Impulse
3/3
Swiftness
1/5
Hunter Instinct
3/3
Leap
Unleashed Power
5/5
Release Potential
5/5
Ancient Strength
x/3
Nimble Movement
x/3
Notes
With this build, your crit rate will be lacking quite a bit. It is a damage loss to grab Zealous Smite over Unlimited Magick. The ways to make up this crit rate would be allocating points into Keen Sense. If you are sitting somewhere around 90% crit rate without Master, you can drop Master and swap instead to Critical
The reasoning for putting a point into Bestial Resonance is because the damage you gain from putting one point into each is slightly (legit 0.1%) higher than putting both points into Swiftness. If you think that having that extra point in Swiftness will save you, go ahead and allocate it into there.
Ancient Strength and Nimble Movement are both viable options. Both will relatively equal out to the same point by the time the raid ends UNLESS there are good atro windows (think of rumble during Serca) where you would gain much more damage with Ancient Strength. With Nimble Movement, you want to consistently have the skill on cd as it is one of your higher meter generators. Choose whichever you are more comfortable with.
Engravings
Core Engravings
Pick One
✓
Notes
- Please do not try to force MP Efficiency. Your Z skills for bear and fox do not use mana. If you are really running out of mana, invest in mana food.
- Raid Captain can be used for Bear under certain circumstances where you are playing with a Valk/Artist/SS/DB/Striker/WD. Valk is a guarantee for you to get good RC Efficiency while the rest depends on the player playing those classes. You can drop Cursed Doll for Raid Captain for slightly higher damage. In cases where you have a 6% movespd bracelet, you can also play RC.
Skills
Boulder Bear
Level 14
Weak Point Lv. 1, High Stagger, Push Immunity
- Concussion: Increases Stagger
- Enhanced Strike: Increases damage.
- Ancient Strength: Increases attack range, grants push immunity, and increases damage.
Swish Bear
Level 14
Mid-High Stagger, Paralysis Immunity
- Energy Concentration: On hit, gain 45% more bear energy.
- Ancient Strength: Increases attack range, changes skill to normal mode, and increases damage.
- Iron Shell: Increase damage to push-immune enemies.
Digger Bear
Level 14
Mid Stagger, Push Immunity
Energy Concentration: On hit, increases bear energy.
Ancient Strength: Gain push immunity and attack range. Increases damage
Ground Shock: Slams down onto the ground 5m ahead. Increases damage
Growling Bear
Level 14
Mid Stagger, Push Immunity
Bear Energy: Increases Bear Energy on skill use.
Ancient Strength: Increases AOE radius, increases damage, increases Bear Energy on skill use.
Enhanced Roar: Grants push immunity and larger shield.
Ursine Windup
Level 14
Weak Point Lv. 1, Max Stagger, Paralysis Immunity
- Concussion: Increases Stagger
- Unstoppable Power: Lessens cast time and lunges the character forward a short distance.
- Flame Punch: Creates flame explosion on hit and leaves burning damage over time on enemy hit.
Rolling Wheel
Level 14
Mid Stagger, Paralysis Immunity, Synergy
- Armor Destruction: Decreases the foe's defense.
- Dive Bomb: Changes to Point Mode. Jumps into the air and lands on the target dealing increased damage.
- Ironclad: Increases damage.
Claw
Level 7
Weak Point Lv. 1, Counter, Paralysis Immunity
- Brutal Honesty: Gain paralysis immunity.
- Charge: Dash 4 meters and gains crit damage.
Vulpine Velocity
Level 7
Synergy, Paralysis Immunity
- Brutal Honesty: Gain Paralysis Immunity
- Revitalize Illusion: Stacks skill up to 2 times. Increases damage.
T Skill and Awakening
One-Hit Bear
High Stagger, Paralysis Immunity
Hyper Awakening Skill (T Skill).
Classified as a Bear Skill and will contribute towards a stack of Hunter Instinct.
Earthquake Pound
Smack Smite
Max stagger, Push immunity, and Status immunity
Earthquake pound has the player jump into the air, transforming into a bear and landing on the target dealing massive damage and refilling phantom beast energy back to 100%.
The Hyper Awakening, Smack Smite, functions exactly the same as Earthquake Pound.
Chaos Brawl
Fox Fire Dance
Chaos Brawl summons illusions to jump into the foe, inflicting massive damage.
Fox Fire Dance summons a large red fox to dive-bomb your foe, inflicting massive damage.
Use this one for the Bear Build.
Gem Priority
Gems are listed in order of most to least important from left to right. Grayed out icons are optional.
DMG
CDR
Notes
Rotation
Notes
- There is no need to stim. You can get full bear meter by just pressing skills.
- Make sure to activate destiny before going into the raid. This is simply done by pressing Growling Bear.
- At the beginning, you can build adrenaline using any skills you want, the Vulpine > Claw > Vulpine is just preference based. With this, you would have to drop para immune Vulpine for synergy Vulpine. If you are running para immune vulpine instead, you will have to roll to apply synergy before using Awakening and Swish Bear.
- To maximize your damage, press atropine whenever you press Z. You will not be able to ever fit all three Z's into the opener atropine.
- Once this opener is over, Ferality goes by a "press the button that makes the most sense" priority system. You never want to sit on two charges of any of your skills.
- Remember that the Cores already enhance your Z. There is no need to stack up to 3 Hunter Instinct charges before using Z.
DPS Distribution
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