The Arcanist's unique skill, Lost Ark Gold, allows her the ability to randomly draw cards out of a deck that can be used to create various effects, such as giving an extra attack speed boost to making each attack have a greater likelihood of being a crucial strike. Card Deck players can save two drawn cards in a row to be utilized as they see suitable, leading to some possible devastating combos.

Two important class engravings are available to players to select from. Order of the Empire puts an emphasis on Normal skills as well as the Card Deck mechanic, giving Normal attacks extra damage and Card Deck building up meter. Additionally, it adds a powerful card, the Emperor to the deck of an Arcanist. The other engraving of the class, Empress's Grace, is focused on using the Arcanist's Stack as well as Ruin mechanics for greater damage.

For those looking to take the Arcanist out for a test drive, and are at Punika in the game's storyline the Punika Powerpass that boosts the level of a power's item by 1,302 points will be announced on July 20 along with an Express Event for item level 1,302 characters that will further advance to 1,370 level.

The Arcanist is not the only class that has been made available in the Western release of Lost Ark, with the Destroyer and Glaivier also being added to the free-to-play MMORPG rosters in recent months. There's a range of classes in the Korean version Lost Ark that Amazon and the developer Smilegate cheap Lost Ark Gold RPG are in the process of expanding to the West, including that of Scouter, Reaper, and Artist.