This skill is only viable while leveling for more orbs. Later it's just redundant due to a 3^rd job passive. If you really want your orbs to be recovered, just use its counterpart, Life Swap. Absorption requires to hit the enemy to gain orbs as it utilizes orb drain system and doesn't provide super armor (neither by default nor via a trait).

Tip: Spirit Enhancement passive changes this skill's initial physical damage to magical damage.

Mainly used for cancelling but it makes you move, for example causing you to fall from platforms. High Speed does the job better. I am not a big fan of it.

Tip: Spirit Enhancement passive changes this skill's initial physical damage to magical damage.

This skill is awful, slow and doesn't feel that great to use, yet you can call it completely free for Devi because of her Spirit Energy recovery system in Awakening with Secret Art buffs. I won't recommend it though, it's still pretty risky to use up all of your orbs at once as Devi. She's got better alternatives. Good for Henir speedruns however (can oneshot Ran, Alterasia or Ifritian at low stages with enough damage, skipping their pattern).

Tip: Spirit Enhancement passive changes this skill's initial physical damage to magical damage.

It's used for energy gain while leveling. I don't see any use of this skill in later game for Devi.

Tip: Spirit Enhancement passive changes this skill's initial physical damage to magical damage.

Sometimes might come in handy, but generally you shouldn't use it in dungeons. It would be a nice evasion skill but that jump ruins everything.

Only used to beat a remained enemy as a single skill. The skill itself wouldn't be worth bringing if it wasn't used to perform Killing Howl.

Tip: Spirit Enhancement passive changes this skill's initial physical damage to magical damage.

Despite being a part of Night Parade of One Hundred Souls (Little Specter's Secret Art), it suits Devi's gameplay. Though, be aware of the fact that it moves Ara slightly backwards, causing her to fall down from platforms sometimes. In most cases, Infernal Circle is better.

Tips:

• It moves and groups targets, making this skill fairly helpful in Henir against enemies like double Ran (if it doesn't put them in their first phase already).
• Spirit Enhancement passive changes this skill's initial physical damage to magical damage.

A neat replacement to Energy Absorption. It can be used to recover orbs even if nothing was hit but instead of draining orbs from hit enemy, it recovers HP. Its cooldown is high because it could be abused in PvP. Mainly used for cancelling anyway.

Works similarly to Shadoweave. Damage is way lower than Shadoweave but it provides decent iframes that reach to the very end of the skill, which Shadoweave does not. It has also way faster casting time (you can move early after cancelling).

With the Gigantic trait its vertical hitbox is larger than it seems. It can reach up to 3 platforms. Its horizontal reach is also better, as it fixes a visual bug where the skill makes contact with the target but doesn't hit.

*take Persistent if it deals enough damage

Low cooldown, good for clearing if it deals enough damage to kill mobs instantly, or to support [Mod] Rakshasa Inferno. You can also use it to deal with bosses when your main skills are on cooldown. Can be used to quickly finish the enemy if they have a small bit of remained HP.

Suppression used to be better back when it could Power Stun the enemy and had better suction range. Honestly, it needs bigger range, more damage and faster casting speed to be useful in dungeons. It applies defense reduction debuff, so take it in raid if you don't deal damage.

Note: Gigantic increases hitbox size, but not black hole size.

Stance 3:

Stance 4:

Your first Secret Art. Killing Howl, also known as Wolf Secret Art, is a chain of skills that allows you to unleash a powerful additional attack at the end. Use or and start repeatedly pressing Wolf Stance 2: Wind Wedge. This will chain into Wolf Stance 3: Wolf Claw, Wolf Stance 4: Wolf Fang and the additional attack firing straight ahead, respectively.

Gigantic increases Wolf Claw's hitstunning ability if you cast it from afar. This helps catching dodgy enemies like Gaia.

Tips:

• You won't regain the energy used by Wolf Fang via cancelling it with Killing Howl final attack.
• Wolf Art gains damage increase from Strength Skill's Damage Increase +x% sockets.
• The final part is not affected by The Setting Sun title, and does not consume El Essences.

• Energy Absorption
• Dragon Stance 2: Pulling Thrust
• Falling Dragon
• Wolf Stance 2: Wind Wedge
• Exorcism Stance 3: Shadoweave
• Steel Body

To be honest, this is a nice Active skill. You can use it for cancelling, speeding up yourself or changing sides. You can automatically dash (applies to dashing mid-air as well) after the skill if you want. It applies Acceleration buff when used. It's only 10% but it's unnormalized so the difference is noticeable. With this buff, Eun Mode and socketed 120%+ Attack Speed, your speed will be much higher. Sadly, its duration is way too short to keep the buff up most of the time and sometimes it's a waste of time because it makes you dash away from the target.

Provides a +10% Magical Attack Power and Magical Defense buff for 10 seconds. It also makes Ara able to reflect several magical projectiles while it's up. Costs only 1 orb. Because of its high cooldown, it can't be up all the time (assuming you don't have cooldown acceleration/decrease buffs). Use it as much as you can, though make sure your main skills get the buff.

Definitely one of the best skills in the entire game. It's very satisfying, has great damage, ignores 100% Defense (20% in PvP) and inflicts splash damage on tightly grouped enemies. In exchange, its casting time is rather slow.

Pulls enemies in (even those behind you) to deal more hits. It's pretty simple to use and will deal full hits in 95% of cases. You can stick to most of enemies while using but for the best performance, attack from a slight distance. (Herna Orb, Maya and Dekal are allergic to sticking to them while using this skill, just attack from a slight distance). Don't forget that the more enemies are in its range, the more damage it will deal, assuming they are grouped. Ignition Spear is extremely effective on Trosh's Nest dungeon's bosses, dealing tremendous damage to them even if you are undergeared.

Its pull power is way too low. You can extend this skill by pressing and holding the button. It has only a bit of invincibility frames and even if you don't extend it, you will be vulnerable during most of its casting time. I don't really like or use this version of the skill nowadays. The [Mod] version is a lot better.

Stance 1:

Stance 2:

Stance 3:

*Heavy is only beneficial

Stance 4:

Your second Secret Art, Purgatory, also known as Rakshasa Secret Art. It's used often to deal high damage, gain energy or reduce cooldowns (look up Hell Gate). Purgatory spreads several energy balls that deal enormous amounts of damage. To activate it, repeatedly press Rakshasa Stance 1: Soul Reaping. It takes a bit long to cast but the cooldown is rather low, as being dependent on Soul Reaping cooldown. The first stance (even with the use of the second stance) is also worth to use while clearing to beat a remained mob.

Most of larger enemies can take full hits from this Secret Art. Be aware that enemies with Super Armor can quickly dash out of the prison. Beware hitting nothing with Purgatory because you will lose a lot of orbs, unless you've got Awakening activated.

It requires 5 orbs to be casted. However, Soul Reaping cancels itself, returning 3 orbs before casting Energy Burst, making it possible to use the art with only 2 orbs. This phenomenon requires sticking to the enemy however. If you are too far from the enemy, Purgatory will still require 5 orbs.

Tips:

• The whole Secret Art has the highest MP usage out of all Devi's skills, excluding Hyper Actives and Master Skills.
• Energy Burst is the only skill in Devi's tree that uses only orbs and no MP to work (excluding Falling Dragon).
• Purgatory gains damage increase from Strength Skill's Damage Increase +x% sockets.
• The final part is not affected by The Setting Sun title, and does not consume El Essences.

Tip: The damage increase buff stacks additively with with the stat Strength Skill Damage Increase that affects both the original Killing Howl and the additional ones.

Resurrection, as the name might imply, grants you a free revieve. Helpful but can be annoying sometimes. For example, if you fall from a platform in 12-7, it will activate before you die and charge all of your orbs to regenerate HP based on their count, just for you to die once again. For quick recovery after being resurrected, awaken and trigger Secret Art buff and/or use demon potion (check the bottom of the guide). With both buffs, the orbs you've lost will be quickly recovered so it's not as big deal as it used to be in the past.

The resurrection attempt only occurs if you have at least 5 orbs. It's suppressed if you get killed with one hit that exceeds the value of your current HP and the HP recovered after being resurrected. Also, you won't be knocked down if you get killed with a skill that inflicts Stun, so you could die right away.

It does not put you in iframes, unlike the normal revive action. For clearing a dungeon like Spirit Sanctum solo without deaths, you still need Revive Synergy effect or a revive title like Eclipse or Forginay. Resurrection won't help you there.

There aren't many uses of this skill in dungeons. You don't need to gain additional Sacred Spirit Energy stacks anymore because they are full faster than you could notice. Maybe it's useful for breaking Grey Cages and Spikes in 12-6.

Binds enemies in place but lasts too short to be useful. Binding spears are kind of homing, but any target can easily escape by performing a jump (the skill won't damage or bind enemies in midair).

Tip: It will deal all hits even if you cancel it, but won't bind the enemies hit.

The skill has a weak suction effect. Explosion damage is interesting because it's very high vertically but sadly, it hardly does any damage. On top of it, if you are sticking to an enemy, it may completely miss due to its hitbox being too far from Ara. The skill has some potential but in the current form putting it on your skill bar is never worth it.

It's an excellent skill, but it has cons. It's not good to cast in every position.

Rakshasa Inferno covers a large area which is why it's also decent for clearing maps (though, you should always use the [Mod] version for clearing). It's best to use on a Super Armored or immobilized target, since it knocks hit enemies up and pushes them far away.

Increases the range of Spirit Balls when there is more than 5. They also have a chance for ignoring Guard and Defense.

When gaining energy, you have a chance for summonning Rakshasa Spirit. It will be unleashed every time you are consuming energy and can be stacked up to 5 times. The effect won't be unleashed by skills and moves that don't consume orbs:

• Dragon Stance 2: Pulling Thrust,
• Life Swap,
• Energy Absorption,
• Tempest Dance,
• Rakshasa Stance 3: Spear Prison,
• Wolf Stance 3: Wolf Claw,
• final Secret Art attacks,
• Hyper Actives.

• All attacks grant Sacred Spirit Energy that can be stacked up to 8 times. Wolf and Rakshasa Arts unleash them when they are casted.
• Wolf Art summons Wandering Energy (an additional attack wiping enemies out on its path). Once an enemy is hit by Sacred Spirit Energy, bleeding effect is applied.
• When Rakshasa Art is used, Sacred Spirit Energy is converted to Spiritual Energy that slows down hit enemies.
• Thanks to this passive, Energy Wave is divided into three gaining an increase in its damage and vertical range. Each additional wave deals 1/4 damage of the original wave.

Visually, it's the same as the original version. The difference is that it consumes less HP and gains less orbs at once. Instead, grants a buff that makes you recover 1 orb per 5 seconds by draining HP and lasts 25 seconds for a total of 5 orbs recovered.

Decent for triggering Pet Encouragement effect. You can switch back to the original version if you are worried about your life in some dungeons, though.

Tip: if the skill is combined with Unleashed Chi orb recovery whenever orbs are gained, you gain additional 2 orbs per 5 seconds from this skill for a total of 15 orbs recovered.

Don't use this mod in PvE. Its damage is lower than the original one, even if it's not cancelled. There is literally no reason to use it, it isn't very different from unmod, just produces additional spheres protecting Ara if the skill is not cancelled. Does less damage overall and in more time than unmod as well.

Tip: This skill's second part won't knock down hit enemies.

[Mod] version exchanges unmod's vertical range for more damage and a capability of following curved paths. I wouldn't recommend this skill for any dungeon's clearing besides Bethma Secret Dungeon and middle floor in Abandoned Icerite Plant. Take it while bossing for more damage.

You can clear some linear fields with it. Its range is nothing crazy but still could be useful. I recommend it for Add's Energy Fusion Theory speedruns. Be aware that it moves you forward slightly. Not a big fan of it.

Tip: This skill's second part won't knock down hit enemies.

This [Mod] is excellent. Creates five large energy fields that deal damage while spinning around. It's impossible to count its full hits because it never lands them all but approximately, the skill does 100 hits. Its damage scales extremely well with the size of the target. It's unlike every other skill that is good for big targets — deals a lot of damage even on smaller enemies. You should stick to targets to maximize damage dealt by this skill as the energy fields spawn in point blank in front and back of Ara and already start dealing damage.

Throws several spears similar to those from Spear Prison. Still has low damage and not enough bind duration for PvE. Although, this version can be cancelled (last hit is skipped) and will still bind the target. It's no longer homing in this version. You can consider using it in PvE sometimes, but it's still mostly for PvP.

Tip: This skill's second part won't knock down hit enemies.

Throws five explosive orbs. Similarly to Vortex Energy, the explosion range is very high. I highly recommend using this skill for both clearing and bossing in most of cases. The only downside of this skill is that it knocks up enemies and throws them far away so it's hard to recatch them afterwards, assuming they are still not dead.

Any given enemy can be hit by at least 2 explosions of this skill. It shows better efficiency than the regular Rakshasa Inferno on bossing while facing smaller targets. However, I recommend using this version rather than the original one against heads in 12-5 because the heads dodge a lot and it has faster casting speed.

The explosions are lingering for a long time after hitting.

One of your most useful and urgent passives.

• Whenewher a Secret Art is used, grants Special Active Skill Damage +20% buff (multiplicative to your current stats).
• In Korea, the buff has been changed to +30% Special Active Skill Damage and 1.5x Cooldown Acceleration.
• Once the final part of Killing Howl hits successfully, grants Fear of Wolves buff that increases Critical Damage by 20% (additive) and makes you ignore Guard for the duration.
• Purgatory also applies an extra effect, but in form of a debuff (decreases 40% of target's Magical Defense and Elemental Resistance by 100).
• All the (de)buffs last 30 seconds.

• You will gain 2 additional orbs every time Spirit Energy is gained after using a Secret Art for 30 seconds. You need to keep this buff up at all times.
• During Awakening, 1 orb per second is recovered. With the Secret Art buff, it becomes 3 orbs per second. That's why it's a duty to stay awakened as Devi. It refills so many orbs that energy-consuming skills can be powered on their own. You technically also don't need to be in Eun Mode, as the tooltip would imply. Any bead Awakening counts.
• Decreases all debuffs duration that affect Ara by 30%.
• Spirit Balls will debuff hit enemies with Movement/Attack Speed decrease by 2% for 5 seconds that can be stacked up to 10 times (pretty much a PvP thing).

Note: The additional orb recovery after casting Secret Arts has no visible effect icon but it has the same timer as Chi Release buff.

It has safer iframes than Hell Blast and doesn't require positioning. Probably not in high demand to unlock it, but it's nice to have.