Ambush master would be fine with pinnacle glavier because almost all of the main spells are back attack.
The problem the bosses. If you cant hit the boss in the back then you kinda waste 1 engraving. Sometimes its pretty hard for back attack in legion raids. Thats why its not recommended to use.
As @Sophomore said the 4 basic is Pinnacle, Grudge, Keen Blunt, Cursed Doll.
The fifth engraving is depends on how many red skill you use. If 2 then you can go for Mass Increase but be aware, that the recent korean patch will increase every red skill dmg with 6,6% so the blue build will not worth it and you need to go for 3-4 red skill. So instead of Mass Increase you need to use Raid Captain as the 5th engraving.
Thanks, I’m considering that build, right now I’m using 3 red skills but for that build I would like to replace cursed doll with mass increase, form what I understand the catch is not using them at the same time so I’m more inclined to Mass cuz probably will be running spec/swift so the swift would negate the atk speed con and increase mov speed for raid capitain but the thing with this last one is that it only buffs those 3 red skills, right?
Yeah I’ve had a long talk with the glaivier channel in the LA disc about it and consensus seems to be pinnacle is perfectly fine but at 1445 if you really want to invest and get a lot more stronger from the gold investment. control is much safer/stronger thanks to entropy + their engraving choices being really solid and the gameplay doesn’t feel as clunky since you have so much swiftness.
On relic level they kinda do the same dmg (maybe pinnacle slightly more but not much).
Yes you get crit rate but with pinnacle you go spec+swift and control u go swift+crit. You will use more spells with control in the same time then pinnacle because you have faster attack speed, lower cd with almost the same engravings.
But here is a Reddit comment that write it down right: https://www.reddit.com/r/lostarkgame/comments/w2sz3j/comment/igs8js4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Glaivier control have a few builds, with the strongest (requiring more experience) being going ambush master + entrophy, but u can also if u don’t main it but wanna have a decent and strong easy alt, build it with 4pc dominion 2 nightmare and forget ambush master, glaivier crit pretty often even outside back attack buff, which make removing keep blunt (people will go wild now) and putting even spirit absorption makes it feel better and combo very well with raid capt, pinnacle have not much choices, even with kr buff it still lack what control have = choices, weapon swap animation is not fast, then u have to charge the spear, that takes a precious few seconds just to use a single skill, while a very good entrophy class like shock scrapper can do her full rotation in the same time.
i use spirit absorption on mine, work just fine, it changes the pacing of the class, ofc swapping to adrena gives more dps, but for a alt i rather enjoy the gameplay than tryhard the max dps possible, so my build goes with control, grudge, raid and spirit, if 5 engraving, adrena goes to 5, with 2 night 4 dominion it work like a charm, back attack itself (without any engraving or entrophy) increases ur crit rate, but honestly for glaivier control, if u are not invested into the ‘‘i must go behind at all cost’’ meta, u can just play it braindead, control is not a burst class, theres no semi burst like pinnacle, so ambush + entrophy job is to make it stronger since it feels weak, control playstyle is similar to reflux full swiftness, if you with 2 night/4domin or even 4 night/2domin can have a dps uptime higher than a control ambush + entrophy, u will end doing basically the same or closer dps.
I don’t get why this guy is being so aggressive about it. You acknowledged that it’s less damage and you do it for feel over performance.
Now I would look at your build, snort, judge internally but still invite you as long as everything else was in order and it’s valtan or vykas, it’s not like DPS is the issue with those anyways.