Dragon Nest SEA – Level 50 Dark Summoner Pure PVE Skill Build Guide + Info ~!

Next skill build guide will be the spirit dancer (Notice the screamer and dancer class taking turns here)
Like all skill build guides, it only serve as a guidance/reference for you to make your own decision.
I’ll be sharing with you my reasons as usual for putting skill points into certain skills instead of another.
There is currently no PVP Build that I can share confidently with you yet at the moment so do bear with me for now.
However I believe this Pure PVE Build that I’ll be sharing today will definitely be one of the best available in Level 50 cap.
I’ll go in sequence this time in order of the various class trees in which you will find yourself wondering how you should allocate your SP points especially when they are multiple skills in the Kali Basic Tree for example with the Dark Attribute that you might be interested to know which is worth while in adding.
I’ll thus go in the order of the 2 Skill Trees which is the Kali and Screamer respectively in detail while first sharing the obvious Dark Summoner Tree in which you simply max everything available there.

 

Let’s get down to business firstly with the Kali side of the tree.
I’ll first share with you 3 options that you will probably ponder to see if which was better in terms of DPS:

1. Level 1 Soul Wind, Level 6 Despair Needle, Level 6 Negative Ghost
2. Level 1 Soul Wind, Level 16 Despair Needle
3. Level 16 Soul Wind, Level 1 Despair Needle  

 

 

After testing myself I’ve come to the conclusion that Option 1 and 3 have around the same DPS.
Option 2 with  Level 1 Soul Wind and Level 16 Despair Needle has 7.5% More DPS compared to Option 1 and 3
For proof watch the video version of this guide which will be embedded close to the bottom of this guide.
I also prefer Level 16 Despair Needle as when hitting level 50, the number of skills you have on the hotkey bar that you must take note off and cast is alot for a Dark Summoner.
Despair Needle is a Damage Over Time (DOT) skill that you can cast quickly and not bother about it anymore xD!
Compared to Option 1 which requires you to cast Soul Wind, Negative Ghost AND despair needle to even come close to Option 2′s Level 16 Despair Needle option, it is definitely too much hassle.
So if you’re not a fan of Despair Needle and want to keep it at Level 1, take the Level 16 Soul Wind option instead.
Note that I’m not taking into consideration Negative Ghost’s skill effect that will make monsters loss their will or aggro towards you (Basically means you buy yourself time not to get hit by affected monsters)
However, Negative Ghost do not work on bosses in Nests from Minotaur Nests onwards. (Able to work on the 2 minotaurs mini boss at MInotaur Nest, but not from Cerberus Nest Mini Bosses and onwards AFAIK)
This makes negative ghost a useful skill while leveling at the beginning but towards the higher level nest, it is not as effective or useful.
I’ve decided to do the damage test because googling a PVE Dark summoner build so far, I’ve found guides max-ing Negative Ghost as an option which was why I decided to put it to the test.
My verdict is that Negative Ghost is not worth leveling if you’re looking into a Pure PVE DPS Dark Summoner build.
Let’s move on to the Screamer Tree now where I’ll present you 2 main options that many will ponder over as well:

• Is a Pure Dark Summoner Claw Build (Focusing on Max-ing Levels for Left side of Tree) viable?
• Is Hybrid Dark Summoner with Soul Gate and Beast Spirit Max-ed a better choice?

Before we get to that let’s look at a Generic Pure Dark Summoner Claw Build

 

Points to note:

• Level 5 Resent Area (If you’re choosing to invest in this skill, get Skill Plate +20% duration and Skill Ring for Level 6)
• Level 5 Grudge Formation (+15% Attack Power for Allies, 100% Decrease in SA Destruction power for Enemies)
• Level 2 Increased Soul
• Level 1 Stigma of Curse
• Level 4 Summon Puppet (+16% DMG for damage done on Puppet)
• Level 6 Phantom’s Rage & Blitz Claw
• Level 6 Revenge Hand
• Level 7 Rampage Claw
• Level 11 Phantom Claw EX
• Level 11 Chain Claw

Resent Area is really a skill that does decent amount of DPS.
You must get the skill plate for 20% Duration which will get you 9 Ticks of damage instead of 7 and get the skill ring for the skill to get it to level 6 which increases it damage by close to 40%
As you can see, this build focus on maximizing all possible SP on skills that are on the left side of the Skill Tree meant for the Dark Summoner Class.
With my Testing Gear of 10800MATK, 27% Dark Attack and Critical Cap I arrived at these DMG for the various skills that are important for Comparison:
All damage is done without Grudge Formation, Summon Puppet, Increased Soul or Sadism Pleasure

• Level 11 Phantom Claw EX  - 95,000
• Level 11 Chain Claw – 50,000
• Level 6 Revenge Hand - 77,600
• Level 6 Phantom’s Rage - 68,000
• Level 6 Blitz Claw – 71,000

Total: 361,000 DMG
For proof watch the video version of this guide which will be embedded close to the bottom of this guide.
So why am I highlighting the damage for these skills?
Well, we compare them to another build which does not level skills like chain claw, revenge hand, phantom’s rage and Blitz claw to such high levels and instead put the SP into learning Soul Gate Level 9 and Beast Spirit Level 7 as shown below.

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

After testing myself I’ve come to the conclusion that Option 1 and 3 have around the same DPS.
Option 2 with  Level 1 Soul Wind and Level 16 Despair Needle has 7.5% More DPS compared to Option 1 and 3
For proof watch the video version of this guide which will be embedded close to the bottom of this guide.
I also prefer Level 16 Despair Needle as when hitting level 50, the number of skills you have on the hotkey bar that you must take note off and cast is alot for a Dark Summoner.
Despair Needle is a Damage Over Time (DOT) skill that you can cast quickly and not bother about it anymore xD!
Compared to Option 1 which requires you to cast Soul Wind, Negative Ghost AND despair needle to even come close to Option 2′s Level 16 Despair Needle option, it is definitely too much hassle.
So if you’re not a fan of Despair Needle and want to keep it at Level 1, take the Level 16 Soul Wind option instead.
Note that I’m not taking into consideration Negative Ghost’s skill effect that will make monsters loss their will or aggro towards you (Basically means you buy yourself time not to get hit by affected monsters)
However, Negative Ghost do not work on bosses in Nests from Minotaur Nests onwards. (Able to work on the 2 minotaurs mini boss at MInotaur Nest, but not from Cerberus Nest Mini Bosses and onwards AFAIK)
This makes negative ghost a useful skill while leveling at the beginning but towards the higher level nest, it is not as effective or useful.
I’ve decided to do the damage test because googling a PVE Dark summoner build so far, I’ve found guides max-ing Negative Ghost as an option which was why I decided to put it to the test.
My verdict is that Negative Ghost is not worth leveling if you’re looking into a Pure PVE DPS Dark Summoner build.
Let’s move on to the Screamer Tree now where I’ll present you 2 main options that many will ponder over as well:

• Is a Pure Dark Summoner Claw Build (Focusing on Max-ing Levels for Left side of Tree) viable?
• Is Hybrid Dark Summoner with Soul Gate and Beast Spirit Max-ed a better choice?

Before we get to that let’s look at a Generic Pure Dark Summoner Claw Build

Points to note:

• Level 5 Resent Area (If you’re choosing to invest in this skill, get Skill Plate +20% duration and Skill Ring for Level 6)
• Level 5 Grudge Formation (+15% Attack Power for Allies, 100% Decrease in SA Destruction power for Enemies)
• Level 2 Increased Soul
• Level 1 Stigma of Curse
• Level 4 Summon Puppet (+16% DMG for damage done on Puppet)
• Level 6 Phantom’s Rage & Blitz Claw
• Level 6 Revenge Hand
• Level 7 Rampage Claw
• Level 11 Phantom Claw EX
• Level 11 Chain Claw

Resent Area is really a skill that does decent amount of DPS.
You must get the skill plate for 20% Duration which will get you 9 Ticks of damage instead of 7 and get the skill ring for the skill to get it to level 6 which increases it damage by close to 40%
As you can see, this build focus on maximizing all possible SP on skills that are on the left side of the Skill Tree meant for the Dark Summoner Class.
With my Testing Gear of 10800MATK, 27% Dark Attack and Critical Cap I arrived at these DMG for the various skills that are important for Comparison:
All damage is done without Grudge Formation, Summon Puppet, Increased Soul or Sadism Pleasure

• Level 11 Phantom Claw EX  - 95,000
• Level 11 Chain Claw – 50,000
• Level 6 Revenge Hand - 77,600
• Level 6 Phantom’s Rage - 68,000
• Level 6 Blitz Claw – 71,000

Total: 361,000 DMG
For proof watch the video version of this guide which will be embedded close to the bottom of this guide.
So why am I highlighting the damage for these skills?
Well, we compare them to another build which does not level skills like chain claw, revenge hand, phantom’s rage and Blitz claw to such high levels and instead put the SP into learning Soul Gate Level 9 and Beast Spirit Level 7 as shown below.
Hybrid Dark Summoner Pure PVE DPS Build (Screamer Tree)

 

Points to note:

• Level 5 Resent Area (If you’re choosing to invest in this skill, get Skill Plate +20% duration and Skill Ring for Level 6)
• Level 5 Grudge Formation (+15% Attack Power for Allies, 100% Decrease in SA Destruction power for Enemies)
• Level 2 Increased Soul
• Level 1 Stigma of Curse
• Level 4 Summon Puppet (+16% DMG for damage done on Puppet)
• Level 1 Phantom’s Rage & Blitz Claw
• Level 1 Revenge Hand
• Level 7 Rampage Claw
• Level 11 Phantom Claw EX’
• Level 1 Spirit Paper
• Level 1 Cling of Snake
• Level 9 Soul Gate
• Level 7 Beast Spirit

Make sure you have read the paragraph above regarding Resent Area!
So basically, we have got our Revenge Hand, Chain Claw, Phantom’s Rage and Blitz Claw down to Level 1 to get Level 9 Soul Gate and Level 7 Beast Spirit.
It feels like 4 skills exchanging for 2 which might not seem to be a good trade off.
Similarly, with the same gear set up of  10800MATK, 27% Dark Attack and Critical Cap I arrived at these DMG for Level 9 Soul Gate and Level 7 Beast Spirit:

• Level 9 Soul Gate – 380,000  (19k x 4 hits, and fired 5 times)
• Level 7 Beast Spirit – 215,000
• Level 11 Phantom Claw EX – 95,000

Total: 690,000 DMG
For proof watch the video version of this guide which will be embedded close to the bottom of this guide.
As you can see this hybrid build in the screamer tree with soul gate and beast spirit provides for over 90.8% more DMG compared to the pure build.
With that we have our resultant Pure PVE DPS Build, now with the full screenshot of all 3 skill trees.
Hybrid Pure PVE DPS Dark Summoner Build