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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 bear 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.

How do the two builds compare?

Ferality

Phantom Beast Awakening

Summary

get your antidepressants ready.

you should probably play this one.

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

get your antidepressants ready.

Pros

Burst focused
Paralysis immunity
Push immunity
Tanky

Cons

Very high mana drain
Less utility
May need mana food

Phantom Beast Awakening

Summary

you should probably play this one.

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

Quick Recharge

Growling Bear

Level 14

Galewind

Fox Leap

Level 14

Galewind

Crow Parade

Level 11

Galewind

Fox Flame

Level 10

Wealth

Swish Bear

Level 10

Galewind

Vulpine Velocity

Level 10

Wealth

Tailwind

Level 10

Wealth

Awakening

Engravings

Chaos Brawl

Ark Grid Cores

Sun

Moon

Star

Order

Fox-To-Be

Forbidden Sorcery

Starlight Fox

Chaos

Flashy

Smoldering

Attack

Notes

Forbidden Sorcery is slightly weaker than Strong Fox, but it can be stronger if you are prone to overfilling the fox meter.
For longer raids, swap to Strong Fox. The amount of destiny procs from Strong Fox is higher than Forbidden Sorcery.
If you are missing crit sources, consider swapping Smoldering to crushing to gain a little bit more crit rate.

Ark Passives

Evolution

Enlightenment

Leap

Evolution

Specialization

30/30

Crit

10/30

Limit Break

3/3

Unlimited Magick

1/2

Zealous Smite

1/2

Critical

1/1

Pulverize

1/1

Standing Striker

2/2

Enlightenment

Ferality

3/3

Awakened Potential

3/3

Wild Impulses

3/3

Bestial Resonance

1/5

Hunter Instinct

3/3

Swiftness

1/5

Leap

Unleashed Power

5/5

Release Potential

5/5

Ancient Strength

3/3

Nimble Movement

X/3

Notes

Nimble Movement is optional as a way to mitigate wasted meter on the Fox-to-Be + Strong Fox ark grid combo. Keep in mind, playing with Nimble Movement will cause you to have to manage your Phantom Beast meter more than you would have you with Ancient Strength. Ancient Strength will still be the better but can be swapped out for comfortability.

Engravings

Core Engravings

Pick One

Core Engravings

Pick One

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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.

Skills

Fox Flame

Level 14

Wealth

Weak Point Lv. 1, Mid Stagger, Paralysis Immunity

Energy Concentration: On hit, gain 45% more fox energy.
Flash: Immediately launches the final ray dealing more damage.
Enhanced Strike: Increases damage of final ray.

Boulder Bear

Level 14

Galewind

Weak Point Lv. 1, Mid Stagger, Push Immunity

Magick Control: Reduces MP cost.
Enhanced Strike: Increases damage.
Ancient Strength: Increases attack range, grants push immunity, and increases damage.

Fox Illusion

Level 14

Conviction

Wealth

Low Stagger, Paralysis Immunity, Counter

Enhanced Phantom Beast: Reduces phantom beast energy consumption.
Blade Charge: Stacks skill up to 3 times, increases attack range, and increases damage.
Illusion Swoop: Once the phantom blade disappears, a phantom fox emerges and inflicts damage.

Fox Orbs

Level 14

Judgment

Wealth

Energy Concentration: On hit, gain 45% more fox energy.
Lightning: Changes skill element to lightning and gains crit damage.
Ruthless Barrage: Increases damage.

Fox Leap

Level 13

Galewind

Weak Point Lv. 1, Mid Stagger, Paralysis Immunity

Magick Control: Lowers mana cost.
Illusory Fox: Summons a phantom fox, reducing AoE radius and increasing damage.
Sharp Fangs: Increases crit damage.

Vulpine Velocity

Level 10

Quick Recharge

Synergy

Armor Destruction: Reduces enemy defense.
Revitalize Illusion: Stacks skill up to 2 times. Increases damage.
Divided: The illusion fox splits and increases damage if all attacks hit.

Tailwind

Level 10

Wealth

Mid Stagger, Main Human Meter Skill

Energy Concentration: On hit, gain 75% more Phantom Beast Energy.
Transfigure: Changes skill to point mode and throws an illusion orb at the target location. Increases damage.
Illusion Explosion: When the illusion orb disappears, it explodes an additional time dealing additional damage.

Claw

Level 7

Wealth

Purify

Weak Point Lv. 1, Counter, Paralysis Immunity

Brutal Honesty: Gain paralysis immunity.
Charge: Dash 4 meters and gains crit damage.

Crow Commotion

Level 10

Wealth

This skill can be used as an optional replacement for Claw in fast raids. Crow Commotion will give more meter in burst scenarios, but over a longer period of time, you will often gain more Phantom Beast Energy from Claw.

Low Stagger

Energy Concentration: On hit, gain 75% more Phantom Beast Energy.
Wide-Angle Attack: Increases AOE Radius.
Mental Connection: Stacks the skill up to two times.

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.

Gem Priority

Gems are listed in order of most to least important from left to right. Grayed out icons are optional.

DMG

The DMG gem on Forbidden Sorcery is the most important dmg gem. If ever thinking about upgrading DMG gems on Ferality, always choose to upgrade Forbidden Sorcery. (If all gems are even).
Pre-Ark-Grid, Fox Flame and Boulder Bear are relatively similar in overall damage%. Once you unlock the Starlight Fox Core, Fox Flame will massively out-damage Boulder Bear.
Fox Illusion and Fox Orb are practically the same damage and will often flip spots in damage.
Fox Leap will be your last DMG gem upgrade.

CDR

To ensure that your skills come off cooldown at relatively the same time to mitigate the waiting periods, keep Boulder Bear, Fox Flame, and Fox Leap at the same cd gem. This is not a strict requirement and can range plus or minus 1 level.

Rotation

Notes

THIS OPENER IS ONLY POSSIBLE WITH A STIMULANT.
At the start of the opener, Tailwind is to be used at a distance to make use of the incoming Phantom Beast Meter, which will allow you to continue the end of the rotation uninterrupted. To get a feel for this, go into Trixion and practice until you can comfortably land it, then move into a Guardian Raid to practice in a real scenario.
Once you have used the first Fox Z, you can immediately press Fox Orbs during the animation, and it will still go off and count towards filling your next meter and giving a stack of Hunter's Instinct.
Fox Leap and Fox Orbs can be used as the third skill for your Hunter's Instinct stack, and if you immediately press Fox Z before hits on the target occur, the hits will instead transfer the would-be wasted meter into the next fox meter, mitigating the amount of meter that you waste during a rotation.
Occasionally, you will be short on a little bit of meter before you can cast Fox Z or Bear Z. You can stay inside that form and generate meter. Using auto attacks will also allow you to generate tiny amounts of meter to get you towards the 100% meter required to use Fox Z or Bear Z.
After the opener, Ferality becomes a rotation-less class where you aim to manage your meter and have a priority on your skills that you want to stick to.
Ensure that you are rotating between Fox and Bear skills to make use of Bestial Resonance.

DPS Distribution

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