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Sage Awakening

Sage Expert

Awakening

Arkyve

10k+ hours on Sage since release, Awakening one-trick since mid 2023

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Comfort Medium
AoE Medium/Large
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PvE Combo Guide

DPS Priority List

This is not a fixed combo. These are the skills to prioritize while freestyling. Looping a combo works for chill grinding, but freestyling performs far better because cooldowns don't line up and skills flow into each other.

1) Top Priority

  1. F
    Radiant Annihilation
  2. S + LMB
    Enlightening BoltUse when mobs are tightly grouped for the most value
  3. Shift + RMB
    UpsurgeSame as Enlightening Bolt
  4. W + F (Hold)
    Spear BoltFlow: AftershockFunctionally the same skill. Sadly both our main repositioning skill and one of our highest DPS skills. Hold onto it a little if you know mobs might be about to turn around
  5. RMB
    Shock RelayVery high priority to cancel in and out of skills and space out your cooldowns. Very high DPS skill as well, and needed on cooldown too

2) Core DPS

  1. S + RMB
    Chain LightningUse early before mobs group up for the most value
  2. Shift + F
    Lightning PrisonSame as Chain Lightning
  3. S + F
    Ator's Spear
  4. Space
    Lightning SurgeDecently high priority because it is needed to cancel in and out of some skills. Quite like Shock Relay, but more situational
  5. Shift + X
    Ator's PalmGood DPS and Forward Guard self heal
  6. W + Q
    Flow: JudgmentCan be used to reposition in a pinch too

3) Filler DPS

  1. Shift + LMB
    Rift StormIf everything else is on cooldown
  2. F
    Flow: InterrogateFlow from Lightning Prison if mobs are still spread
  3. Quickslot
    Realm of AnguishSummon skill. Only use it when precast, before mobs spawn or group up
  4. LMB
    Void BlastCan be chained from Ator's Palm for a bit of filler damage and an extra heal
  5. Quickslot
    Dimensional CompressionOnly use if you absolutely need the large AoE and everything else is unavailable

Movement

Class Mobility

Movement Between Packs

  1. Shift+E
    Impaling Flash
  2. Shift+Q
    Divine Executioner
  3. Shift+WASD
    Bolt
  4. Space
    Lightning Surge

Repositioning in Packs

  1. W+F
    Spear BoltHold F to dash
  2. Hold F
    Flow: AftershockKeep holding F after the dash attack
  3. W+Q
    Flow: Judgment
  4. Space
    Lightning Surge
  5. Shift+WASD
    Bolt

Build Notes

Class Specifics

Skills to Lock

  1. Q (Electrify)
  2. RMB (Ator's Thorn)
  3. F (Ator's Fist)
  4. W+RMB (Form Shift)

Skills to Quickslot

  1. Q (Electrify)
    Reset
  2. S+RMB (Realm of Anguish)

No need to lock Realm of Anguish for PvE. It can be handy to use through hotkeys after Rabams or mainhand 100%.

Core

  1. S+LMB (Enlightening Bolt)
    Enhance

Skill Enhancements

  1. Ator's Palm
    Lv. 56
  2. Piercing Thorn
    Lv. 57
  3. Void Blast
    Lv. 58

Skill Add-ons

Class Addons

Spear Bolt I

Tier: 2

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Instantly recover 35 HP per target
  • Back Attack damage +5% for 7 sec

Enlightening Bolt I

Tier: 2

Skill Add-on Effect

  • All DP -20 for 10 sec for target
  • Attack/Casting Speed +10% for 12 sec

Lightning Prison I

Tier: 2

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Instantly recover 35 HP per target
  • All DP +20 for 15 sec

Shock Relay

Tier: 1

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Critical Hit Rate +30% for 7 sec
  • Critical Hit damage +5% for 5 sec

Chain Lightning

Tier: 2

Skill Add-on Effect

  • All DP -20 for 10 sec for target
  • Attack/Casting Speed +10% for 12 sec

Upsurge I

Tier: 2

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Movement Speed +10% for 12 sec
  • Down Attack damage +5% for 7 sec

Change Log

October 22, 2026

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    PvP minimum damage when the target's defense exceeds your attack raised from 5% to 7%.All classes

  • All

    Lightning Prison: Fixed a skill issue.

October 8, 2026

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Unified the level-based base stats (Max HP, HP Recovery, All AP, All Damage Reduction and All Evasion) for every class. Class-specific stat differences now come from a new passive skill learned automatically at Lv. 50, 55, 60, 65 and 70.All classes

  • All

    Added the common skill Godslayer: Force Palm (Lv. 60+). Its Secret Book is obtained at A Freesword's Hearth in Voidekaia after finishing the Inner Edania main quests.All classes

June 25, 2026

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed pressing C out of combat to switch to the awakening weapon playing the animation but returning to the main weapon.

June 18, 2026

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvE

    Dimensional Compression: PvE damage +7%. PvP ratio lowered so PvP damage stays the same.Both specs

April 30, 2026

 4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Absolute: Rift Chain, Rift Chain II: Stamina 200 → 300; start defense Invincible → Super Armor (Prime: Rift Chain keeps Invincible); the decoy moving the other way was removed and a direction effect shows while concealed.

  • All

    Lightning Prison, Core: Lightning Prison: Faster execution; Core CC Stun → Stiffness.

  • All

    Impaling Flash: Stamina 150 → 250; no Stamina recovery during any motion.

  • All

    Divine Executioner, Flow: Judgment: Divine Executioner now costs 200 Stamina instead of 80 MP; Flow: Judgment Stamina 150 → 200.

April 9, 2026

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Impaling Flash: Fixed its defensive effects differing from the normal version.

March 12, 2026

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Dimensional Compression: Defense Super Armor → Forward Guard.Both specs

February 26, 2026

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Flow: Judgment: Invincible on the airborne motion removed (Super Armor during the skill and Invincible while concealed kept).

  • All

    Impaling Flash: Defense Invincible → Super Armor changed to Super Armor → Invincible → Super Armor.

February 12, 2026

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Illusion Expansion, Prime: Spatial Fissure: All AP buff +20 → +15; main-weapon and Succession skill damage raised about 2% so overall damage stays the same.Both specs

  • All

    Removed "Extra Damage to Guard Gauge" (including Extra Fixed Damage to Guard Gauge) from all skills.All classes

December 11, 2025

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Illusion Compression: Pull triggers one-third as often but moves targets twice as far, and applies All Speed -50% for 1 sec.

September 25, 2025

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Flow: Finishing Touch: Easier to use with W+F; Prime: Ator's Fist no longer activates on W+F.Both specs

August 21, 2025

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Core: Spear Bolt: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

July 24, 2025

 5 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Combat system overhaul: Resistance and Ignore Resistance reworked, AP, DP reduction and Special Attack damage gaps between classes narrowed, and Special Attack damage effects of the same type no longer stack.All classes

  • All

    Infinite Mastery now grants Accuracy +18 and All Accuracy +18 per skill level.All classes

  • All

    Electrify: Ignore All Resistance +30% → Critical Hit Rate +50%.

  • All

    Upsurge: Removed Knockdown Resistance reduction on hits.

  • All

    Enlightening Bolt, Chain Lightning: All DP -30 → -25.

May 29, 2025

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Core: Divine Executioner: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

April 10, 2025

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Flow: Judgment: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

March 13, 2025

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Illusion Barrier: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

February 13, 2025

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Emergency Escape: Invincibility now also applies when you reappear; movement speed and Stamina recovery during the skill reduced; SPACE now jumps to higher terrain.All classes

  • PvE

    Combat Assistance can now only be used while total Family Level is 200 or lower; some skills deal less damage or lose effects when spammed during cooldown, while main PvE skills deal more damage.All classes

January 23, 2025

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Flow: Interrogate: Fixed a skill issue.

December 12, 2024

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

November 21, 2024

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Spear Bolt: Skill behavior improved.

  • PvE

    Enlightening Bolt: Corrected the skill description.

November 14, 2024

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

October 17, 2024

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

August 29, 2024

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Ator's Energy: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

  • All

    Black Spirit: Prime: Ator's Energy, Black Spirit: Divine Executioner: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Black Spirit: Ator's Energy, Black Spirit: Prime: Ator's Energy: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

August 1, 2024

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

July 25, 2024

 4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Absolute: Ator's Thorn: Damage adjusted.

  • All

    Bolt, Impaling Flash, Black Spirit: Impaling Flash: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

July 18, 2024

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

  • All

    Fixed a class issue.All classes

July 10, 2024

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.All classes

June 19, 2024

 5 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Absolute: Spatial Fissure: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Illusion Barrier, Bolt, Ator's Mark, Ator's Spear: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Radiant Annihilation: Damage adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    Spear Bolt, Flow: Aftershock, Core: Lightning Prison: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

November 15, 2023

 4 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Absolute: Gravity Rift, Lightning Surge, Spear Bolt, Rift Storm, Enlightening Bolt, Upsurge, Radiant Annihilation, Ator's Spear: Damage adjusted.

  • PvP

    Chain Lightning, Shock Relay: Damage adjusted.

  • All

    Lightning Prison, Spear Bolt, Flow: Aftershock: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Flow: Interrogate: Damage adjusted.

September 20, 2023

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvE

    Fixed a class issue.All classes

September 13, 2023

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

September 6, 2023

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

August 9, 2023

 5 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • PvP

    Enlightening Bolt, Lightning Prison: Damage adjusted.

  • All

    Spear Bolt, Divine Executioner, Flow: Judgment, Flow: Aftershock, Lightning Surge: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Black Spirit: Flow: Interrogate: Smoother combos and controls.

  • All

    Impaling Flash, Black Spirit: Impaling Flash: Damage adjusted.

July 19, 2023

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.All classes

July 5, 2023

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

May 10, 2023

 5 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Lightning Prison, Ator's Spear: Cooldown 15 → 12 sec.

  • All

    Flow: Judgment: Smoother combos and controls.

  • All

    Shock Relay: Cooldown 5 → 3 sec.

  • PvP

    Lightning Surge: Cooldown 5 → 3 sec.

  • PvP

    Enlightening Bolt, Upsurge, Ator's Spear: PvP damage reduced.

April 6, 2023

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvE

    General class improvements.All classes

December 7, 2022

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Core: Spear Bolt: Fixed a skill issue.

November 23, 2022

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

October 26, 2022

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Dimensional Compression: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

October 19, 2022

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Dimensional Compression: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

October 12, 2022

 5 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Lightning Prison: Damage adjusted.

  • All

    Bolt, Upsurge, Kibelius Training: Fixed a skill issue.

  • All

    Radiant Annihilation: Smoother combos and controls.

  • All

    Impaling Flash, Rift Storm, Shock Relay, Divine Executioner: Skill behavior improved.

  • PvP

    Enlightening Bolt: Corrected the skill description.

September 7, 2022

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Lightning Prison: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

August 23, 2022

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Absolute: Realm of Anguish: Cooldown 20 → 15 sec.

  • PvP

    Lightning Prison, Rift Storm, Enlightening Bolt, Spear Bolt, Ator's Spear: PvP damage reduced.

  • All

    Flow: Aftershock: Skill behavior improved.

July 20, 2022

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Ator's Mark: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

July 13, 2022

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Lightning Prison: PvP damage reduced.

  • All

    Flow: Judgment: Damage adjusted.

  • All

    Spear Bolt: Smoother combos and controls.

June 15, 2022

 6 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Piercing Thorn: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

  • All

    Void Blast: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • PvP

    Void Eruption: PvP damage reduced.Both specs

  • All

    Bolt, Spear Bolt: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Impaling Flash, Bolt: Fixed a skill issue.

  • All

    Rift Chain: Smoother combos and controls.

May 31, 2022

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Flow: Interrogate, Black Spirit: Ator's Spear, Rift Chain, Spear Bolt, Flow: Aftershock, Core: Spear Bolt, Shock Relay, Impaling Flash: Skill behavior improved.

  • PvE

    Spear Bolt, Flow: Aftershock: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Core: Spear Bolt: Fixed a skill issue.

May 25, 2022

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Bolt, Divine Executioner: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

January 26, 2022

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Radiant Annihilation, Enlightening Bolt, Flow: Aftershock: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

January 19, 2022

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Black Spirit: Ator's Mark: PvP damage reduced.Both specs

  • PvP

    Black Spirit: Prime: Ator's Mark: Damage adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    Black Spirit: Rift Storm: Damage adjusted.Both specs

January 5, 2022

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Black Spirit: Prime: Ator's Energy: PvP damage reduced.Both specs

  • PvP

    Black Spirit: Divine Executioner: Damage adjusted.Both specs

September 8, 2021

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Realm of Anguish: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

August 25, 2021

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Form Shift, Bolt: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • PvE

    Lightning Prison: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Lightning Prison, Flow: Interrogate, Black Spirit: Ator's Energy, Black Spirit: Flow: Interrogate: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

July 7, 2021

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.Both specs

June 16, 2021

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Void Eruption, Void Blast: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

June 8, 2021

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Class balance adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    Bolt: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

May 26, 2021

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.Both specs

May 12, 2021

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.Both specs

  • All

    Rift Chain: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

May 4, 2021

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.Both specs

  • All

    Impaling Flash, Flow: Interrogate, Ator's Spear: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

April 28, 2021

 4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Lightning Surge, Spear Bolt, Radiant Annihilation, Flow: Interrogate, Flow: Aftershock, Electrify, Impaling Flash, Bolt: Fixed a skill issue.

  • All

    Impaling Flash, Upsurge, Radiant Annihilation, Shock Relay: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Chain Lightning, Bolt: Smoother combos and controls.

  • All

    Radiant Annihilation, Kibelius Training: Corrected the skill description.

April 21, 2021

 4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Class balance adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    General class improvements.Both specs

  • All

    Ator's Palm, Ator's Illusion, Energized Thorn, Piercing Thorn: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Energized Thorn, Piercing Thorn, Rift Chain: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

April 14, 2021

 4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Rift Chain, Flow: Finishing Touch, Flow: Illusion Detonation, Ator's Thorn, Ator's Energy: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

  • All

    Form Shift, Ator's Energy, Spatial Collapse, Realm of Anguish, Void Gateways: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Illusion Expansion: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

  • All

    Realm of Anguish, Black Spirit: Ator's Mark: Damage adjusted.Both specs

April 7, 2021

 1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Kyve Mastery: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

March 31, 2021

 3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Prime: Ator's Energy, Kyve Mastery, Flow: Form Recall, Spatial Collapse, Ator's Mark, Rift Chain: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

  • All

    Gravity Rift, Illusion Compression, Spatial Collapse, Ator's Fist, Ator's Mark, Void Gateways, Illusion Expansion, Flow: Finishing Touch: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Illusion Compression: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

March 24, 2021

 2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Spatial Fissure: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Ator's Energy, Illusion Barrier: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

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