💀┃acolyte

[wintry flame]

top tier mhm

[near citrus]

Will the bone helm be enough for survival in empowered

[radiant helm]

yikes rip.... no way to reroll uniques right?

[wintry flame]

there's a woven echo to reroll

[crisp ridge]

egg can add lp/stats

turtle can reroll lp

weaver can reroll affix rolls for uniques(requires a sacrifice of same lp)

[crisp ridge]

u mean barbutes?

or somethin else?

either way, any decent-ish build will have no issue at 100corr

[grave plume]

2lp 2lp 1lp,I love this season

all at once

[high smelt]

is this good?

that node

[atomic atlas]

did you try reap with the apogee to proc the mod? reap also has pen but attacking is kinda tough. if you go pen idols you drop too much def tho..

[haughty sedge]

So I've finally made it to Empowered and I'm... Fine? Like it doesn't feel great as it is. I died to a champion once. Hoping I can just power through it and get some blessings so I can slot better idols.

I've also struggled a bit against T3 Julra. I think I just need a bit more health.

Which is a shame, I can get a much better weapon if I beat her.

I have a T6 attack speed roll waiting to be put on my Death's Embrace.

Although if I can finally find an upgrade for my gloves, perhaps some attack speed, and some life, that would be swell too.

[mossy spruce]

what's your life at?

[haughty sedge]

1776 or so?

[mossy spruce]

yea you wanna add like another 1k to that

[crisp ridge]

1700 is fine at 100cor tbh

it also highly depends other defensive layers

[haughty sedge]

It's... Fine...

[crisp ridge]

i mean yea, more is always better, but thats how the whole game goes

[mossy spruce]

yea, pick up items with exalted health/vit/% or hybrid life

I'm at 3k on my warlock

[haughty sedge]

If they drop.

[crisp ridge]

yea im at 4k lich atm but struggling for hybrid life rolls

[high smelt]

so thats cool i can put the same 1 specific item into 3 weaver nodes? i first though i'd have to buy 3 of the same item

nice

[mossy spruce]

yea it just imprints

I thought the same thing

[haughty sedge]

You can also keep using the item.

That said for unique duping only two of the slots work really.

Since the champion doesn't do anything with uniques.

[high smelt]

oh wow why

[haughty sedge]

Wym?

[high smelt]

why does champion one do nothing

[haughty sedge]

It does nothing with uniques.

The champion one makes champions drop items that have one of the imprinted item's affixes sealed.

[high smelt]

oh

[haughty sedge]

There's no restriction on what kind of equipment goes in there, unlike the other three. But it does nothing with uniques.

[crisp ridge]

why did i have to run ou of fp 😭

[haughty sedge]

But yeah my Lich feels fine but not great. I'm not used to having to dodge stuff.

[high smelt]

is lich not tanky later?

[crisp ridge]

its tanky from leech

[candid escarp]

can anyone point me at a good noob lich build? I don't have the hang of epochtools well enough yet to find what I want easily, best I found was one that seems to be in a constant state of dying to the point that it will if it runs out of things to kill for a bit (a flaw the author admits)

[crisp ridge]

omg, progress to my other build

[high smelt]

i need a lot more HP items problem is its all LP uniques that are super expensive. gonna farm some stuff to put up on AH and hope for the best

[foggy agate]

Hello, is there a way to see total damned chance per hit on Warlock?

[vivid fractal]

Anyone know why a guide would recommend using Phantom Grip rings for snapshotting?

[crisp ridge]

good stats?

[atomic atlas]

the crit and the +skill

[vivid fractal]

But the abe has 100% crit

[atomic atlas]

but setting the skills everytime? sheesh

[vivid fractal]

So it's just the skill then, to snapshot a better abe every time through skills? Yeah... Nah.

I think Hollow Fingers for the extra skellies is much simpler

[orchid sparrow]

does chance on hit apply to spells or only melee?

[crisp ridge]

any non-dot basically

[candid escarp]

is there any weird interaction with bone curse's marked for death bit that can get it on me, or is it just that I'm now noticing that I get marked for death from time to time now that I know what that glyph means?

[autumn elbow]

some uniques puts ailments or curses on yourself, some use these or give you scaling based on them. Some of warlock's passives can use them too

[candid escarp]

aha...I found it. I had Soul Bastion equiped.

[crisp ridge]

guys i dont have enough fingers

[candid escarp]

be acolyte, grow more

[crisp ridge]

i did instantly get a red ring

[candid escarp]

I'm sure transplant has some kind of talent for 'and you just kind of keep some extra fingers'

[sturdy zenith]

if I only have a 1LP exsang, do you guys think chthonic fissure frequency or +4 to chthonic fissure is better?

[crisp ridge]

depends ur build

[sturdy zenith]

transitioning to low life bleed dot

or at least preparing to transition

could wait until I have a 2LP one too

[misty hedge]

Almost level 80 torment warlock LF guidance spending gold on gear etc.

[gray spear]

Has anyone beaten Uber Aberroth on Necro or another Acolyte mastery yet?

It seems like Warlock might have a shot, but necro seams really rough

[pearl snow]

Necro probably can with snapshotting

[pearl snow]

If its a T6 or T7 frequency possibly that one. Depends if you want the extra +4 for important nodes or just extra torment dps

Since you are going bleed I assume freq might be better but no clue your build

[sturdy zenith]

probably the frequency is best then

Is bleed still the better scaling version of fissure?

[pearl snow]

Yeah, Witchfire exists but atm its unsure which scales better

So many bleed sources

[gray spear]

I still clear >5k corruption monos, but uber aberroth's beams do too much.
I can avoid the mechanics and get to the final phase, but there's no space to stand without beams

[pearl snow]

Skill issue detected most likely

Granted not like I’m doing it lol

[gray spear]

There are times when I make mistakes and die since everything 1-shots, but even when I dodge everything, it gets to a point when the whole screen is purple.
The paladins that clear it just tank all of the void dots

[pearl snow]

Acolyte aint a tank unfortunately. But if your room is filling up get more dps

You do 5k monos but dont have uber

Sounds iffy

[odd mortar]

A dumb but sincere question: on the warlock, whats exactly the souce of witchfire? Is it a passive? A side effect of one of the skills?

[gray spear]

There is no more dps 🤣

[crisp ridge]

its from gettin damned/ignite overload

there is a warlock passive that makes when u overload the relevent afflicted get witchfire

then there is the new relic

[odd mortar]

Ahhh got it. Thanks!

[violet forge]

twisted waves benefits the torment applied by wheel of torment or only the one applied by the fissure?

[rapid cloud]

oo mind liinking me to your build?

[gray spear]

That's the big one - if you can get a second spell damage or a necrotic pen on the weapon, it boosts it a bunch again

[boreal rampart]

question: if I had 100% increased damage over time and 100% increased poison damage from my gear, will it say 200% poison damage on my stat sheet? asking because im curious how the "bonus crit chance per 10% inc poison damage" node works on cthonic fissure.

[rich frigate]

Oof

[pearl snow]

Theyll be in different spots

They are additive in different sections if the calculations basically

[boreal rampart]

right, so the node cares specifically about %inc poison damage, and in the case I mentioned, it would give 10% crit chance?

[rich frigate]

Yes

[pearl snow]

Yeah

[boreal rampart]

Okay, thanks

[edgy yew]

What build are the high corruption and harbinger people using.

[crisp ridge]

the one they enjoy 🤔

[rapid cloud]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Valatel/character/Valatel Whilst im waiting for exalted items, is there anything I could do in the short term to make myself stronger? :p

[edgy yew]

And what's most people enjoying? Lol

[gray spear]

Wraithlord's fun

[pearl snow]

Torment Lock, Wraithlord

Handful of us in here are Witchfire

[radiant helm]

you guys like torch or ladle for witchfire?

just got to 70 and this shit is crazy

[boreal rampart]

will stygian beams be converted to poison damage if you convert drain life to poison damage? trying to understand how an item changing a skill would interact with the skill tree itself

[compact sorrel]

great build this is what im striking for but no luck with t7;/

[pearl snow]

Torch

Well Firstartes actuallly

Firestarter

Couple of us are hunting a rare mace with good exalts and throwing Sinathas Set on it for % Curse dmg

[crisp ridge]

is it hunting if i already did it?

[pearl snow]

Wtf gimme

I could find a half decent mace to save my life before I left on a work trip

[crisp ridge]

could be better but its decent

[pearl snow]

BIG LIGHTNING SKILL

Lol

Thats basically a what like 70% item

[vivid monolith]

Everyone knows warlock is lightning

[pearl snow]

No if ite

Ignite is only thing

[pearl snow]

I want to test adding in Torment Dmg per necro res on top of this to see how much you end up out of it

I had an idea after you showed the mace tech about scaling the damned and necro instead

Its heavily gear dependent though because youd prob need damned on chest and helm

Swap all % Fire dmg for Necro probably

[crisp ridge]

mine as purely based on witchfire

anything that wasnt scaling witchfire, i didnt want

[pearl snow]

Ignite is just way easier

Stupid straightforward progression

[crisp ridge]

yea but thats boring

[pearl snow]

lol

[crisp ridge]

i just like cooking stupid builds

[pearl snow]

Same

I was on the plane trying to cook auto sac infernal shade bomber

[rapid cloud]

Just tried Julra for an upgrade and everything she did 1 shot me. Me, arpg's and life dont go well together, I never seem to have enough lol >.>

[tranquil dagger]

hi guys...the ask the dev channel looks crowded so i put qustion here...
does +x Curse Spell Damage affect the dot curse like Decrepify or Spirit Plague?
thank you first

[pearl snow]

Which Tier?

[rapid cloud]

3 :/ Wanted to try and put physical and spell damage and minion and spell damage on my axe but alas :P

[pearl snow]

She does have a 1 shot mechanic

But the rest shouldnt kill at T3 unless you are a bit squish

[pearl snow]

I think it does for spirit plague not sure on decrip

[rapid cloud]

yee I think its just squish, I imagine her 1 shot mechanic is her big explosion she does first. Nah everything she did was 1 shotting me lol

Spawned pool under me? Dead, lightning hit me? Dead, spinning spiral thing? Dead haha :P

Ill try and fix it soon...I need to be able to beat her for any meaningful upgrades haha :X

[pearl snow]

Yep gotta get your defensives up

res, crit immunity, either hp or ward gen, even layered defensives like block parry etc

[rapid cloud]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Valatel/character/Valatel This is where im at atm. I could definitly do with improvements across the board sadly lmao

[pearl snow]

Oh yeah

The res sheesh. Also a chance you went low life too early but idk

[atomic atlas]

try bone curse instead of bolt, no ? and apogee/tolmat or the 1h axe / ward offhand

[obtuse quest]

Similar to stygian but drop all crit related things and build poison chance instead. Yes you still need to build int and mana.

[obtuse quest]

If the Curse is treated as a spell,yes.
In your examples:
Spirit Plauge:Yes
Decrepify:No.

[violet peak]

anyone having issue with reaper form on lich even with alot of leech and death seal it just keeps knocking me out

[edgy yew]

what one is that? Torment worked well until I got to a point where i started duying too much

[pearl snow]

Ignite and Damned Overload in the warlock tree + new relic

[obtuse quest]

Are you draining your own life by other means as well? Death Seal itself doesn't help with the drain.

Armour, other sources of defense?

[edgy yew]

did anyone made a planner with that?

[thin knot]

How hard is it supposed to be to get Urzil's Pride?

[crisp ridge]

its one of the more common uniwues

[pearl snow]

I linked one days ago, so did Kzb and one other

Gotta cntrl f I think

[edgy yew]

assuming this one then

[edgy yew]

new relic is the soulfire one?

[wet juniper]

Is this a bad thing? How well does the percent damage increase when I have 0 added? Also how do I get added damage?

[obtuse quest]

Yup, that's the new witchfire relic

[obtuse quest]

Not really, there's always the base damage that it multiplies from.
Added minion flat damage is rare, so mostly from passives or rare affixes.

[wet juniper]

Ah, okay sounds good 👍

[autumn elbow]

Just in case, make sure you have the right leech type. Some leech are for spell only (the first lich passive for example) while others, like glove prefixes, are for melee only

[abstract cedar]

Any ideas for leveling an alt acolyte? Just got mastery unlocked, not sure what to pick. I have access to most items and can use overpowered uniques if there are any. My main has max merch rep.

[autumn elbow]

Wouldnt a leg firestarter or that plague staff be the best? With 2 speed rings and speedy boots

Its what i do for all my levelings, past the first char of the league

[obtuse quest]

Firestarter and slap in fissure.

[autumn elbow]

As warlock, then swap to lich once you reach higher lvls

[abstract cedar]

I’ll give it a shot thanks!

[autumn elbow]

Gl hf

[edgy yew]

it's kinda irritating that the lastepochtools thing shows stuff from the forums and youtube but apparently you can't search the ones that are already there? Because lookiung for soulfire I can only find old stuff. Unless I am doing something super wrong

[crisp ridge]

witchfire one is called "righteous of the damned" or something very close

[obtuse quest]

It's Witchfire, not soulfire.
Also all the stuff we linked here isn't publicly published-

[edgy yew]

oh, the item isn't called soulfire, ok let me try again lol

[obtuse quest]

Yeah that's not the item name it's just the debuff name.

[abstract cedar]

How would I get fissure?

[edgy yew]

Downfall of the Righteous

[obtuse quest]

As in the skill chthonic fissure, warlock's mastery skill

[thin knot]

Man.. I haven't had it drop once yet... Gues keep grinding

[white crest]

How is acolyte's sustain after the nerfs to ward?

[tranquil dagger]

@obtuse questhey...thanks for the previous reply...still 2 things anen't that clear
1.i search the tools...this debuff still has the spell tag...so would it affected by the flat + spell damamge?
2.how does the flat dmg involved in the spell. like spirit plague deals 90 nec damage over time...the flat spell damage added in per second?or in total?
ty mate...

[obtuse quest]

1. Yes.
2. Added as base damage. The base damage shown in LETools is "Total damage per stack of this debufff"

[tranquil dagger]

so it's 200 physical dmg over 10 sec? 20 per sec?

30 nec per sec...awwwwwwwww. that's why dot bd not that good.....

[lean salmon]

Whats the go to build for necromancer

[obtuse quest]

Yes

[frank remnant]

I use spirit plague in my build, you don't use this spell for his main dmg for me

[obtuse quest]

Wraithlord, Abomination, archmage skeleton.

[edgy yew]

Apparentlyt the abomination one? If you like running behind a killing machine 😄

[obtuse quest]

Spirit plague is good for the DoT buff, to tag a whole map like a spreading ailment, and as a curse.

[edgy yew]

minion wise I think the Beastmaster seemed more like "i am fighting with my minions" instead of "my minions are fighting and I am supporting them" 😄

and all; the minion builds seem to depend on snapshotting that is, for me, annoying. ymmv

[frank remnant]

I use spirit plague for the bleed on hit, spread anguish and global incr DoT

insane tools for mapping

[edgy yew]

wth with people using carcinization of the moment, I read and re-read it and can't figure out what's the interaction there. Is it just for speed?

[grave plume]

I have my stash organized using rax's guide, how do I stop items moving to the active tab

[edgy yew]

did you configure each tab?

[grave plume]

yes

[edgy yew]

is trhere space on the tab? becaust that's all I can think then

[grave plume]

Things just go into the active tab i have opened

[grave plume]

yes

[edgy yew]

like, the tab priorities like this should work

[grave plume]

so I need to have a tab permanently full? that doesn't seem right

[obtuse quest]

Crab ring? Just swiftness, it's 20% MS at level cap.

[edgy yew]

no it has to have space for the item or it will go to some other one (probably the active)

[tranquil dagger]

thank you !

[obtuse quest]

If there's a tab that works properly for the item, it'll go into that tab instead of the active tab, looks like you have a setting wrong somewhere.

[edgy yew]

so uniques should go there automagically. Not legendaries tho

[grave plume]

right

but anything and everything just goes into whatever tab is open

wait

this problem happened out of nowhere, might be a bug

restarted the game.

My entire stash is broken

my idol tabs work

exalts and unique items all go to whatever tab is open'

I have not bought a new stash tab since this morning and I have been playing since 10am

F

[tranquil dagger]

me again...so what number does amguish exact deals to if it's triggered by hits...

[scarlet kindle]

Hey guys, I'm trying to transfer from acolyte levelling warlock to stygian coal lich but I can't figure out how to farm the stygian coal. It says to be in the stolen lance and look for echoes that are for catalyst but I don't see any like that

[frank remnant]

Same I'm using Anguish atm and it seems that it's like half of my DPS so would know how this work if I can scale much better and invest on an "Anguish build based"

[obtuse quest]

The base damage.

[frank remnant]

base damage is over time

[obtuse quest]

Are you farming in empowered? Those reward echoes are decently rare in normal monoliths.

[frank remnant]

meaning the full duration proc?

[tranquil dagger]

if so...that's A LOT compared to normal curses...

[scarlet kindle]

No, how do I get to empowered? sorry this is my first day playing

[obtuse quest]

As in "Anguish doesn't actually do any damage over time, it instead uses that base damage whenever it's damage effect triggers." Like Bone Curse.

[obtuse quest]

Clear the 3 lv90 monoliths.

[obtuse quest]

Well, you have to take into account that it does no damage over time without any hits, it works like bone curse.

[scarlet kindle]

How do I get there? haha. The system is kind of confusing. I was at fall of the outcasts and just doing shit there, now I'm at stolen lance. Is the 90s hard for a lvl 67?

[obtuse quest]

Clear each monolith like usual by killing the quest echo boss, you'll eventually push up and unlock the higher level ones.

[tranquil dagger]

ye...question 1 more..does implict on wand "+ xx spell damage" affect the amguish base damage?

[obtuse quest]

Anguish is a spell, so yes.

[frank remnant]

Still don't understand why they added (over time) then

[scarlet kindle]

So it's gonna be a while til I can get gear to convert to stygian coal lich huh?

[frank remnant]

if anguish and bone curse is an "on hit curse"

[tranquil dagger]

awsome...40 base..can easily stack more than that...double 100% more

[obtuse quest]

Or you get lucky and drop it early

[obtuse quest]

Because it's the default logic for ailments.

[frank remnant]

hm but when Anguish proc, you deal instantly the damage ?

[obtuse quest]

It's bone curse but cheaper and weaker, basically.

[obtuse quest]

Yes.

[frank remnant]

Then over time is ambigeous

[obtuse quest]

Like I said, it's because (over time) is added to every damaging ailment in letools.

Meanwhile in tunklab every ailment just lists every ailment without (over time)

[tranquil dagger]

As a tornado shaman...there's ton of hit proc...but the warlock turns little metods to trigger..

[frank remnant]

I use fissure chaos bolts personnally

to get tons of hit

but I have some mana issues

[tranquil dagger]

shaman lightning bolt could hit 70 more per sec maybe...

[frank remnant]

Probably obtainable with warlock too, just need to invest on spirit frequency and more chaos bolt proj

but the main issue is mana sustain

[tranquil dagger]

this one...i found some old build utilizing it and bone curse

[lost garnet]

I'm also new to the game and found out that the only real way to play Necromancer in the endgame was with snapshotting and abusing the Abomination for his more multiplier mods. I found this video and build guide by a player named Lizard which introduced me to the world of minion snapshotting. To solve the annoyance of having to deal with Infernal Shade I got one item(Belt) with ~200 minion health regen that I snapshot onto my Abomination so he outheals the DoT.

That being said, I'm fairly certain the way Lizard teaches people to snapshot the Abomination is incorrect. Was kinda hard to find information on how to correctly snapshot it so was forced to do alot of testing through trial and error and I think I dscovered how to correctly snapshot the "correct" Abomination for Maximum multipliers. I also found a way to make the "bossing" Abomination infinite and how to keep it between different zones without having to resummon it everytime you want to go to the Bazaar or something. This obviously involves degenerate levels of snapshotting that I'm not sure the rest of the Necromancer community is aware off since I couldn't find this info myself, but discovered it through experimentation.

[obtuse quest]

[lyric idol]

yoo share the build 😂

[tranquil dagger]

building witchfire is so complicated...

[obtuse quest]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/A88xVxyA

[stuck owl]

Warlock, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Acolyte (20) / Lich (24) / Warlock (69)

General:

▸ Health: 1,405, Regen: 20/s
▸ Mana: 145.51, Regen: 10.56/s
▸ Ward Retention: 140%, Regen: 81/s
▸ Attributes: 3 Str / 13 Dex / 39 Int / 3 Att / 22 Vit
▸ Resistances: 148% / 10% / 10% / 36% / 10% / 243% / 52%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 281
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (52)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 14% (414)

Used skills:

Chthonic Fissure / Chaos Bolts / Infernal Shade / Summon Volatile Zombie / Bone Curse

[obtuse quest]

Whatever I was cooking with this.

[edgy yew]

What are those volatile zombies doing there

[obtuse quest]

Infernal shade vehicles.

[edgy yew]

and what skills oyu have on the bar? I mean. I assume transplant is there

[obtuse quest]

I'm honestly thinking if the other setup with hungering souls and spirit plague is better.

This is funnier tho from all the explosions.

[edgy yew]

if you ever post that one, let us know, I will try this one now 😄

[obtuse quest]

Don't expect too much from it, it's a fun setup more than a meta setup

It works though

[edgy yew]

I wonder if that ring that ressurects zombies works well with the volatline ones since they are not automatically ressurectable in general

[forest mica]

Do the amount of embers available in tombs and cemeteries scale with corruptions?

[obtuse quest]

No idea, probably not.

[obtuse quest]

Yes, that's what I'm using to automate infernal shade

[edgy yew]

yeah I noticed it actually mentions volatile zombies on the escription as soon as I read it again

[obtuse quest]

I just godamn remember why I was fixated on firestarters for witchfire.
@crisp ridge @pearl snow

[edgy yew]

I will try something without that many active skills later tomorrow 😄

ty for the tips

[scarlet kindle]

Is it worth it to try to use rune of ascendances to try to craft a stygian coal?

[obtuse quest]

You sure can try.

[scarlet kindle]

Are the chances pretty slim? And are the runes of ascendancies very rare to get and should horde them?

[obtuse quest]

Well, they're mostly useful to get key uniques you need and aren't good at fishing LP so maybe?

[scarlet kindle]

What is LP?

[frank remnant]

Legendary Potential

[scarlet kindle]

Wooot I got it on my second try. I can swap to stygian coal lich now right? The only barrier to entry is the offhand?

[obtuse quest]

And decent gear.

[signal iris]

hello everyone, i play a profane oblivion build, i had this weapon

i just loot this one

but it estimate a 60% dps loss on tooltip

i don't know why

[scarlet kindle]

I just swapped to stygian coal and my damage is absolutely ass. Is it just dog crap even after you get stygian coal until you get another couple items?

[obtuse quest]

You need the gear to support it.
Int stacking, mana stacking...

[hardy sapphire]

just reached those lvl100 echos. Do i need to focus on getting more hp or what is it that im missing that makes some encounters feel sketchy af

[obtuse quest]

Your HP is low as hell

[hardy sapphire]

figured 😛

how high should i be aiming at? Summoner build so winions are doing brunt of the work while i just focus on not dying

[lilac bear]

If your only job is not dying, then you really want a lot more health.

[hardy sapphire]

can i somehow figure out how much dmg my minions are dishing out?

[lilac bear]

Pretty much every suffix in your gear should be healh and armour related.

[scarlet kindle]

Is it just RNG that my alchemist ladle that I got has no spell hit on it? The one in the guide has a bunch of good stuff. This one says melee hit. Can I do anything to change it?

[lilac bear]

Go to the arena and hit the dummies

[hardy sapphire]

the what now

i have some arena keys, that the right thing?

[lilac bear]

Open your inventory, select the keys page and right click on the arena key

[obtuse quest]

You mean the red stats? That relies on legendary crafting.

[scarlet kindle]

@obtuse quest This is mine right now. How do I get it to the red stats?

[lilac bear]

There's 2 ladles

You got the dud one.

[hardy sapphire]

this is not helping 😄 what am i doing wrong?

[obtuse quest]

Oh, that's the WRONG LADLE

[lilac bear]

You don't have dread shade on your abomination

[hardy sapphire]

its supposed to go on the abom? 😮 been using it on mages/wraiths thus far

[lilac bear]

Like, there's different ways to do things

[signal iris]

if someone could enlightened me with my previous question, thx everyone 🙂

[obtuse quest]

Are you checking profane's tooltip? That is calculated based on YOUR stats, not the minion's.

[signal iris]

oh ok, thx, so i've no tool to know the real ouput of profane ?

[rich frigate]

I can only guess but that first weapon base's gives A LOT of flat Spell damage (+ minion damage, which AFAIK boosts PO too), which is huge. Meanwhile the second item only scales Necrotic Damage with %inc and gives you total +36 flat Spell Damage (half of the first one)

[obtuse quest]

Other than live testing or against a dummy, no.

[rich frigate]

Pretty hard as PO itself has only "generic" player tags (Necrotic, Spell etc.) even though it scales with the minion's stats too (which is not reflected on the tooltip itself)

[signal iris]

thx a lot everyone

[scarlet kindle]

Man... Should I just go back to warlock until I get several more items for stygian coal? I do such shit damage...

[lilac bear]

I'm not saying I'm some kind of super expert or anything, but my abomination is pretty good.

[hardy sapphire]

gotta give it a go

The build is absolute hell anyway since this is my very first character and going in blind and just testing stupid shit 😄

[lilac bear]

The numbers you see in the arena are somewhat inflated, in level 100 monos he hits for about 150k

[lyric idol]

my stygian is also feeling very weak

[lilac bear]

It's nowhere near as powerful as the wraithlord

But it's a chill perma abomination build

[thorn kernel]

Hello, noob question, but does all necro builds use snapshotting ? or just most ? or "less" ?

[lilac bear]

You should be able to do content without it

[wheat nexus]

warlock leveling felt awesome > switched to stygian coal felt 10000 times bad > switched to shade crit lich and its better than ever

[obtuse quest]

You can do everything (maybe except uberroth) without it.

[lilac bear]

If I were being completly honest, I'd say I'm guilty of doing it in the past, but I don't do it anymore

[thorn kernel]

I have no idea, but the idea to fell like "Im lazy so my minions will deal 3x less damage" sounds awful, to me at least and kill the hype to play this build 😒

[lilac bear]

It's a gear progression thing

[obtuse quest]

It's closer to "Oh my minions will 3 shot anything" to "Wtf this minion's slam just made a black hole".
And the former is good enough for most players that aren't looking to push more than 1k corruption.

[lilac bear]

Lets say you have a cool minion summoning chestpiece, and you have a 0LP exanguinous. You might summon with the good chest, then swap to the exang. But eventually you get an exang with LPs and you just combine the 2 items and you don't need to swap anymore.

[lilac bear]

https://youtu.be/Mo4APjaWHzw

The game needs a proper necromancer minion relic.

Like, a unique.

That'd be fun

[scarlet kindle]

How do I look up my progress in circle of fortune?

[lilac bear]

Hit "Y"

[scarlet kindle]

ty

[lilac bear]

For minion builds what are the general consensus on Phantom grip (+2 minion skills ring) over other available rings? Is the +2 sufficiently powerful to make other rings unattractive?

[crisp ridge]

okay see this makes more sense rather than firstarters by itseld

[lilac bear]

I have my perma-abomination up there with 30 skill points with rings, relic and weapon. And well it seems pretty spiffy to have all the damage nodes and some of the good bonus skills.

But I do feel that there should be SOME ring that's better overall. It feels wrong to be using them as they're designed for sentinels.

[obtuse quest]

It's also + flat minion crit.

[lilac bear]

Yeah, but the Abom + shade is 100% crit

[obtuse quest]

Then you don't need phantom

[lilac bear]

It IS useful for the 5 mages I bring along, though their damage is miniscule compared to the abom

But 4 skill points is 4 skill points

What 30 points gives you

[sinful monolith]

How does wraithlord act ? is he going melee ?

[obtuse quest]

He fires a beam

[lilac bear]

No, laZoRs

[sinful monolith]

so he could have a dread shade and empowers archers & mages around him

[obtuse quest]

Oh, he'll eat any non-warith minion up first, if possible.

[lilac bear]

He's like tha abomination. You change shade so it buffs just him at greater effectiveness and it just melts everything.

[sinful monolith]

so no mages, but it could work with skellies and volatiles ? volatiles explode on death right

and get resummoned with putrescence rings

[lilac bear]

Nah, time it spends eating other minions is time it's not damaging baddies

[obtuse quest]

If there's any minion to eat, it will eat minions instead of attacking.

[sinful monolith]

oh

rip then

[obtuse quest]

Constantly summoning a zombie= wraithlord eating the zombie constatly

[lilac bear]

That's why you want something that summons new minions on a regular, but not too frequent basis.

The new off-hand is kinda fun for this, so too is the crab ring. But most people use Transplant or bone curse.

[rich frigate]

Do you know if Marina's "20% Necro Pen with Possess" works if Hungering Souls is converted to Fire? And if so, does it gives Fire Pen?

[sinful monolith]

are there builds with constantly dying and resummoning minions out there ? trying to make mine, 2 putrescence, but would like some more examples

[obtuse quest]

Good question, iirc that stat doesn't respect conversions.

[rich frigate]

Hm, I thought so

[obtuse quest]

Profane Skeletal mages maybe?

[lilac bear]

Look up anything with "autobomber" in it on the website

[sinful monolith]

no necro build with that ?

[lilac bear]

They may have fallen out of fashion after they were nerfed due to abuse of mana.

Before you could get the resummons even if you were OOM, but now you don't.

[sinful monolith]

so is that just a bad idea

[fiery root]

Which is the new off-hand?

[lilac bear]

I have been playing about with one that uses the resummoning skeleton shield, plus the skelly pasive to get >85% chance to reummon skeleton, since when a skeleton dies you can make it so you get ward and mana.

[lilac bear]

Typically the Wraithlord builds use a 2-handed axe unique and you create minions for the wraith to eat using transplant or bone curse. But if you are lazy and happy with a little inefficency, you could use this off-hand and maybe Arek's bones or something to do onewhere you have a minion every 3-4 seconds

[radiant patio]

skelly mage teleport me out of bounds

[sinful monolith]

That would be my plan, resummoning skeletons to spawn volatiles and get mana + ward, but probably won't work

[lilac bear]

It will work, but only up to a point 🙂

I was clearing corruption 100 quite well with a highly unoptimised test of it.

[sinful monolith]

May just give up this then. Currently are there high corruption necromancer builds without snapshotting then ?

[fiery root]

Ive got Usurpers mandate and the Exsanguinous chest, both pretty crap, but I seem really squishy, I dont seem to be getting the crazy ward number I see some people getting (alse using transplant and bone curse)

[lilac bear]

This skill in Dread shade does a whole lot of the heavy lifting:

[sinful monolith]

this + chain sacrifice sounds fun tbh

[lilac bear]

If you are using Exang, you gotta fully commit and get gloves and boots also.

However, I understand that this is no longer "meta" and stacking life and endurance is the way to go now.

[lilac bear]

There's a build that dr3adful did up there somewhere that you can use for inspiration.

[obtuse quest]

Hybrid is closer to the meta for acolyte

[fiery root]

that might be it, ive only got 5% on my gloves and I was using boots with that transport minions after using a traversal skill

[sinful monolith]

I just found it, the lich one, that would work

[lilac bear]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QJywEnaA

[stuck owl]

Necromancer, Level 93

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.4

Class:

Acolyte (20) / Necromancer (52) / Lich (16) / Warlock (18)

General:

▸ Health: 3,144, Regen: 20.92/s
▸ Mana: 136.97, Regen: 16.32/s
▸ Ward Retention: 199%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 4 Str / 4 Dex / 36 Int / 4 Att / 11 Vit
▸ Resistances: 97% / 88% / 98% / 94% / 91% / 183% / 24%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 25%, Threshold: 629
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (16)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 45% (2,536)

Used skills:

Bone Curse / Summon Volatile Zombie / Sacrifice / Dread Shade / Aura Of Decay

This build has a guide:

Doom Brand Bone Curse Cruelty Necromancer LE Build Guide Showcase Harbringers Of Ruin by Dr3adful

[sinful monolith]

I was looking at this one https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/oYXMWEwB

[stuck owl]

Lich, Level 100

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2

Class:

Acolyte (20) / Lich (93)

General:

▸ Health: 3,728, Regen: 14.4/s
▸ Mana: 169.69, Regen: 9.2/s
▸ Ward Retention: 170%, Regen: 15/s
▸ Attributes: 38 Str / 9 Dex / 78 Int / 0 Att / 4 Vit
▸ Resistances: 68% / 80% / 124% / 118% / 84% / 116% / 38%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 62%, Threshold: 746
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (36)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 45% (2,655)

Used skills:

Summon Volatile Zombie / Reaper Form / Infernal Shade / Transplant / Death Seal

This build has a guide:

Ante's LE Infernal Shade Zombie Spam Lich Build Guide Showcase by Dr3adful

[sinful monolith]

though it seems squishy xD

[lilac bear]

Well, I suggest you look at both 😛

[sinful monolith]

this looks neat

Ok so. How do you even make a loot filter for this ? Custom make one ?

[lilac bear]

You can give this a try:

[sinful monolith]

the "generate loot filter" is a good idea ?

[ancient spindle]

anyone want to give me tips for my build

[lilac bear]

I don't think people tip players for builds they make.

[ancient spindle]

oh not like pay me i mean like advice

[lilac bear]

I feel like your sarcasm detector might be on the fritz.

[ancient spindle]

yeah im runing on fumes

[lilac bear]

Also, the first step to looking for build advice is to link the build

[ancient spindle]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/mypillows/character/4nora

[lilac bear]

Then offer money

[ancient spindle]

im still trying to get new chest peice

i also got a belt upgrade but i dont have belt to merg it with yet

build just not doing what i thought it was going to do

[lilac bear]

I've no clue about Warlocks, someone might chime in though 🙂 best of luck.

[ancient spindle]

yeah seems like a dead spec this season

[obtuse quest]

Why is that off-hand doing there?

[ancient spindle]

i destoryed my good one trying to craft it better lol

that all i had in bank for offhands

forgot about that lel

[obtuse quest]

F

Why didn't you automate bone curse?

[ancient spindle]

first season idk what/how to

i been kinda winging

is that a passive skill or somthing?

i can join a voice channel and share screen if you want

[ancient spindle]

ok i moved some points around

i need to relevel it then i will get auto curse

[sinful monolith]

there's not much on the "OP" side for acolyte this season am I wrong ?

[ancient spindle]

my build i think does all necroitic damage i wanted to go more bleed/burn

[obtuse quest]

Nothing that breaks things in half, no.

[sinful monolith]

Is there a current "break things in half" build on another class though ?

[lilac bear]

Is Wraithlord not considered OP?

[obtuse quest]

Rogue, sentinel has two

[obtuse quest]

Abom is the OP one in Necro's arsernal.

[lilac bear]

I must be missing something then. I love my Abom, but I might be relying too much on perma version.

[sinful monolith]

Which builds are those 3 ? Sorry for asking in #💀┃acolyte

[obtuse quest]

Rogue still has falconer doing falconer things, and for sent iirc it's worldsplitter ES and judgement paladin

[obtuse quest]

Snapshotting is kinda part of making him delete bosses but ya

[lilac bear]

Ah, okay. My guy does everything quite fine. but I'm not trying to push 1k+ corruption, which I hear the Wraithlord can do quite well

[sinful monolith]

Thanks, heading there

[lilac bear]

The Abominaiton builddoesn't seem to generate the same levels of ward that WL does.

And I do not Snapshot, so there's that.

[obtuse quest]

Abom has bad clear, at the price of deleting most bosses much faster than wraithlord.

[lilac bear]

Does Abom still suffer from having too much move speed? Or is it safe to slot the haste node in infernal shade again?

I recall the AI would glitch out if the move speed got too high

[obtuse quest]

They fixed that at 1.2

[lilac bear]

Oh wonderful 🙂

[eternal heath]

would added curse damage apply to torment?

[obtuse quest]

Yes.

[eternal heath]

what about flat spell damage

[obtuse quest]

Yes, because torment is a spell.

[crisp ridge]

fyi, the tags are legit on that screen

like word for word it says what it scales with

[restive kayak]

when is a good time to swap from leveling build to stygian beam build?

assuming I got some of the core items

[eternal heath]

i got confused by it being damage over time, never made either DOT or warlock before

[crisp ridge]

the tags are at the bottom

use them for most things, it helps a lot

[crisp ridge]

u can basically as soon as u get coal.

levelling builds are pretty stupid

[restive kayak]

ok tyvm my friend

[fading topaz]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/torment-warlock-guide#skills-header https://www.icy-veins.com/last-epoch/warlock-chaos-fissure-endgame-build?area=area_8

which one is better?

[crisp ridge]

the one ur heart desires

[worldly breach]

doing c100 with whips comfy rn

[hardy anvil]

Question, I saw this wraithlord build variant on the ladder https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/youmumipa/character/youmu_mipa Does anyone know if there is guide/build/video. They use wraithlord with ghostflame and scales.

[obtuse quest]

This looks like some massive self cook.

No info

[hardy anvil]

Thought so too. There a few of those running around: https://www.lastepochtools.com/ladders/tombs-of-the-erased/latest/softcore-1p/level/all/skill=ghostflame&class=necromancer But looks pretty unique, I am mostly wondering about the ghostflame choice

[abstract cedar]

Anyone know if theres a way to join merchants guild on my alt without going through the whole campaign and unlocking it?

[crisp ridge]

u unlock the option very very early

like first town

[obtuse quest]

Did your main join a faction?

[abstract cedar]

thats the other one I think

[crisp ridge]

both are there

[abstract cedar]

oh

[obtuse quest]

Doesn't matter, as long as they joined an item faction, the first town has an NPC that lets you join either on alts. This assumes your main is still alive and kicking.

[abstract cedar]

I will go look, thank you

sweet thanks!

[sturdy ember]

in general, if i want to make ghostflame my main skill (to apply witchfire) do i not spec chtonic fissure? ti seems kinda mana hungry if i try to do both

[obtuse quest]

I don’t think ghostflame will output more stacks then fissure, but I guess?

Also the overloads only check per cast not per sec

So if you hold down on the button it will never proc overload

[sturdy ember]

oh damn

[charred oriole]

Lich players leaving town like

[tulip galleon]

Are the empowered monoliths meant to be doable for everyone? getting a bit beat up on this cold archmage build, think I need more health/ward-gen for myself and for my minion
https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Cyan101/character/CyanGoesRawr

[obtuse quest]

Yes, if you have a decent build and no player skill issue, everyone can hit 300c

[tulip galleon]

Ah, interesting, perhaps I should farm the normal monos first?

[obtuse quest]

If you think you have a gear issue, yeah

[solar bear]

Which monolith to push corruption as a Fissure Warlock (maxroll build)?

[obtuse quest]

Any you think you’ll have the least trouble with

[solar bear]

So, I should just focus on COF, as the monolith is not so important for specific items?

[obtuse quest]

Unless you need a boss drop, yeah

[solar bear]

Okay, thank you

[obtuse panther]

anyone got a link to some build that focuses only on 1 skeletal mage? something like fred? tag me if you do please, thanks!

[haughty sedge]

I just realized, melee Lich out of all builds is probably the poorest match against Julra. Still doable, but there's a clear disadvantage being in a build that will eventually die if it doesn't get into melee.

[vivid valve]

I wish we can have in lich form in towns online

[charred oriole]

Would be cool but I just want health degen from nodes like Mind Over Body to be paused so we don't have to eat a potion immediately when we enter an echo.

[charred oriole]

I had no problem against her, having 2 movement abilities in Reap and Transplant makes it quite easy to go anywhere and dodge things. Lagon is also a piece of cake since he practically cannot hit you.

[obtuse quest]

Didn't even go into double digits tries

[brazen drift]

why my skeleton disappear when its not dead?

[obtuse quest]

Do you have something that makes it decay health?

[brazen drift]

aaaah, my golem consume it, nvm ty

[grand rover]

so whats the most powerful acolyte build this season? is it stigian coal lich?

[autumn elbow]

I assume its warlock

[vivid valve]

What corruption has warlock done so far

[obtuse quest]

Necro is probably better for boss pushing, Warlock might top for clear

[grand rover]

trying to determine if i keep building out my warlock/ switch mastery, or just do a different class

just doesnt feel like acolyte is "Deadly" this go around

and i hate snapshotting

[obtuse quest]

Acolyte is "balanced" considering sentinel touched the power ceiling along with falconer.

Lich is planned to get a touchup next season

[compact sorrel]

shout out to @silk vine for being super helpful with fixing my Wraithlord 🫡

[gaunt abyss]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BjeLGEvQ
relic fixed, still need to get t7 crit multi on it tho.
next step is to get t7 exlated to slam on uniqe

[stuck owl]

Warlock, Level 91

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Acolyte (20) / Lich (22) / Warlock (62)

General:

▸ Health: 1,393, Regen: 107.78/s
▸ Mana: 194.96, Regen: 11.28/s
▸ Ward Retention: 274%, Regen: 259/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 11 Dex / 74 Int / 1 Att / 14 Vit
▸ Resistances: 188% / 109% / 85% / 73% / 91% / 476% / 71%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 29%, Threshold: 279
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (44)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 28% (1,200)

Used skills:

Bone Curse / Chaos Bolts / Chthonic Fissure / Rip Blood / Profane Veil

[vivid valve]

I know the shade crit lich guy was comfortable doing 1400 c few days ago.

Dunno how far warlock has gotten

[plush hemlock]

i have been scammed

i wanted the crit mult, not the stun

[compact sorrel]

its always the stun 😄

[deep ibex]

Hey I was curious what you think about this build and where it stands?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EvsKzSsziNI&t=193s&pp=ygUKbWF0dGplc3RpYw%3D%3D

I was going to spec into this, because Id prefer not to play a build with only 1 big summon (unless it's just way better)

(Currently levelling with summon spam build)

[obtuse quest]

Oh, profane necro.
Archmage skeletal> Profane necro> Harvest Lich

[solemn mountain]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/skeletal-roid-mage-necromancer-guide is this build good without doing this snapshotting bullshit

[plush hemlock]

this is underwhelming

[dusky citrus]

Is there a lich leveling build or i should level with warlock?

[vivid valve]

Warlock

Then go lich at like 70 maybe. If you got the gear

[dusky citrus]

oh ok, thanks
yeah i wanted to go with infernal shade lich and it needs lvl66 for basic gear

[vivid valve]

Ya that's what I did too same build

It's real fun

I'm lvl 88 now about to start empowered I made around 20mill finishing regulars. That should be able to afford all the builds lp1 at least

With one T7 guaranteed each

[dusky citrus]

I hope i like it too
I don't really know what i am doing as its my 2nd char but i'll get there xD

[vivid valve]

I'll also try Stygian lich once I gear out the shade

[plush hemlock]

im playing coal lich. its very fun

lots of tanky

does need specific gear tho

[vivid valve]

I try to avoid builds that have red rings as their bis. It's impossible on MG 😂

[plush hemlock]

oh dont get me started on the amount of ring prophecies im grabbin

[dusky citrus]

just craft erasing strikes +4 and sell this is how my friend makes money

[solemn mountain]

anyone have a Summon Skeletal Mage archmage build ?

[vivid valve]

How do I craft that

[plush hemlock]

i just julra'd a 1 LP null portent to grab some more tankiness xD

[haughty sedge]

I was talking relatively speaking. And I was not talking about Lagon. Lagon has two targets so you're never in a position where you can't hit stuff. If you time shift there's literally nothing to hit.

[tranquil laurel]

what i can do for speed run start monolith with my second caracther?

[dusky citrus]

rune of havoc to swap t7 to erasing strike mod

[vivid valve]

COF is way better I'll do that next season for sure

Stygian lich is way too expensive for me

[plush hemlock]

now back into age of winter and farm ring nodes

[haughty sedge]

Like, out of all builds nothing has more of a disadvantage in that fight than a build that dies if it doesn't hit anything.

[vivid valve]

But if I'm not a sentinel how do I get gear with erasing strike

[plush hemlock]

resist

[gaunt abyss]

ya, dono how far the torment will take me.
but above cirten corruption i think its a matter of how fast you can kill as evry litlle mob can one shot you

[dusky citrus]

he farms them on 2nd character

[vivid valve]

Oh I rather go play another game than do that

[dusky citrus]

Same

[vivid valve]

I'll just not do Stygian lich

But it shows how insanely better cof is

[gaunt abyss]

do you use the one raxx made?

[plush hemlock]

next prophecy without red ring

[vivid valve]

Hopefully I find some real big tickets items that sell for 100million so I can do Stygian build

[gaunt abyss]

it have like 0.14% drop rate man, chill

😮

[ebon narwhal]

hi guys!
im currently using this build https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/warlock-leveling-guide#changelog-header

Which endgame build would you recommend for that class, and for a smoother transition?

thanks 🙂

[vivid valve]

Abom build also used double RR right

[gaunt abyss]

indeed look hard

[plush hemlock]

1 in 24 from gaspar is not that chasey tbh

[gaunt abyss]

its 1 in 24 drops, and that already very low drop rate

can get propachy for uniqe gloves when killing boss/gaspar

depend on how bad you need it

[plush hemlock]

wasnt there an item base for increased rarity?

[tropic bobcat]

Why do you say Stygian is expensive? Granted I’m CoF, I got all the uniques up to aberoth, but Stygian coal is a very common drop

[plush hemlock]

i keep forgetting

[vivid valve]

Red ring 2x

[tropic bobcat]

I have neither and blasting

[vivid valve]

Yeah but knowing I possibly won't ever have bis I won't do the build until I have them

[tropic bobcat]

But you can play the build until you do have them 😄

That’s the game

[vivid valve]

No I'll play shade lich until then

I have all those items

[tropic bobcat]

You do you, just know you can switch if you do want to

[vivid valve]

For now I like shade lich

Also null portent LP I'm assuming will be insane price as well

[gaunt abyss]

dont think, as the main idea is you take less dmg if have over 180%.
so unless you keep dying no point

i think so

[plush hemlock]

spma ping me in 45.

i got a cake in the oven xD

cant forget it

[lilac bear]

banana phone?

[crystal escarp]

think i'm missed smth, max is to clear 300 corruption with this build and no way to make it care 1k+ https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qnegle1A 🥲

[stuck owl]

Lich, Level 98

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Acolyte (20) / Lich (64) / Warlock (27)

General:

▸ Health: 2,225, Regen: 0/s
▸ Mana: 456.5, Regen: 25.76/s
▸ Ward Retention: 144%, Regen: 30/s
▸ Attributes: 11 Str / 11 Dex / 72 Int / 1 Att / 14 Vit
▸ Resistances: 105% / 103% / 113% / 45% / 45% / 34% / 39%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 56%, Threshold: 621
▸ Dodge Chance: 2% (44)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 18% (596)

Used skills:

Marrow Shards / Reaper Form / Aura Of Decay / Death Seal / Ghostflame

[ruby oracle]

Hey guys I read somewhere that this node only applies to normal wraiths not the wraithlord, is this still the case

[wild eagle]

is this bugged? it doesnt always crit

[old hull]

Maybe? Wraithlord isn't technically a wraith, so idk. If it doesn't work, it might not exactly be a bug.

[ruby oracle]

Yeah I agree which is why I had to ask

The wording could work either way since the helmet states it only works with the summon wraith tree not the other trees that references wraiths

[atomic atlas]

o wow i just checked on a dummy and it doesnt seem to work

literally everyone uses that node

wait wtf lol

[ruby oracle]

Hah I was about to check after this mono so thank you for saving me the effort lol

[atomic atlas]

maybe im tripping im kinda dissapointed

u should check too

bruh thats an insane mod to miss out on

i guess its a taunt angle

[ruby oracle]

Yeah im saving up points in a mono ill check in a few

The missing health node looks good

not sure if I want to use mine to taunt yet it is a bit squishy

[obtuse quest]

This should work

[obtuse quest]

Only the bone curse part of the damage itself will crit

[obtuse quest]

marrow shard, aod

Errrrrr

[ruby oracle]

It does in fact work

[atomic atlas]

bless

why do ppl take lone watcher and pernicous pact

[wild eagle]

yeah i know but it still doesnt lmao

[rapid cloud]

Can someone give me a list of each minion build? So far ive tried Abom and Wraithlord c:

[atomic atlas]

zombies looks fun

[obtuse quest]

Do you have singularity or something?

[obtuse quest]

Archmage skeletal mages, profane mage skeletons, zombies

[finite galleon]

why are you burning with witchfire now kzb

[atomic atlas]

do you have lone watcher and pernicous pact? why both

[finite galleon]

zeckar has made a number of them too, like uhh, skelly rogues n revenant

pretty niche, but still

[wild eagle]

nope

[obtuse quest]

Because aod can suck one

[obtuse quest]

Hmmm, might have to bug report that

[finite galleon]

Yeah lone watcher doesn't do anything for the poison from what i've tried

[rapid cloud]

Might go back to perma abom

I love soul reave Abom but the resummoning

ugh

[finite galleon]

age of undeath = cringe

nuff said

[rapid cloud]

and Wraithlord, again love it, but it feels more like a totem/turret playstyle :P

Choices choices :P

[wild eagle]

i did but was it always like this?

[finite galleon]

Not only do you need to resummon it, there're now woven echoes out there that require you to resummom it while being chased around by enemies, like that one that lets you reroll attributes on items

which is a soul crushing experience

but still

it's better than age of undeath

because that's cringe.

[rapid cloud]

Ahh I like age of undeath, I like my permanent dude. I just hate he cant access to 2 fun abilities in the tail slam and reave >:P

What does abom do when given the mage ability? Does it just passively proc while he punches shit

or does it actually cast it as an animation/

[obtuse quest]

No, it was working fine last patch

[finite galleon]

iirc it's an animation that's not very smooth either

[rapid cloud]

Oh no

[wild eagle]

Rip my entire build not knowing it doesnt crit lmao

[old hull]

It has a cast time, but pretty short ofc because it should have insane speed

[crystal escarp]

but it gives - armor or I'm wrong?

[old hull]

It gives you -armor, which helps you die

[obtuse quest]

You’re shreding your own armour to negatives, what are you talking about

[leaden wolf]

Man, it feels like warlock is in such a weird bad spot. So hard to get them built with any tankiness and they arent nearly the glass cannon that a marksman is. Not sure what role they build

[rocky pebble]

heya are there any other sites besides maxroll and icyveins for builds?
I'm trying to figure out how to setup an afk minion build where I just transplant around and let the army fight for me, no curses, no dots, etc

[obtuse quest]

How much armour do you have

[obtuse quest]

Letools

[crystal escarp]

with 6 stacs armor shred on me

[azure dawn]

thinking of making a warlock alt. whats the best warlock build atm? still torment warlock?

[obtuse quest]

How did the armour go up

[rapid cloud]

@finite galleon Do you play non acolyte minions by chance? :o

[rocky pebble]

only one build there... cold rogue

[obtuse quest]

You sure you searched properly? One of them takes builds from youtube as well

https://www.lastepochtools.com/builds/filter/language=en

[rocky pebble]

filtered by s2, that might be it, has much changed? are old builds fine?

[obtuse quest]

Necro didn’t change so last season works

[finite galleon]

Beastmaster yes, haven't tried anything spriggan related tho. Inexperienced with forge guard (only lvl 80 ish), and can't stomach rogue, so much so that i can't even bring myself to reach falconer.

[rocky pebble]

okay this'll work thanks

[finite galleon]

@obtuse quest kzb sama what's your secret to bearing the unfathomable burden that comes from playing rogue?

🤮

[obtuse quest]

I remember that it’s the fastest class in the game lmao

[autumn elbow]

Is the armor gained from reaper form affected by %armor stats in gear?

[obtuse quest]

Yes iirc

[fickle saffron]

I don't understand how the stygian coal lich build on maxroll works. It looks like my drain life is now a spell i cast on the ground and it procs lasers to whoever is near that area, but when i cast ripblood it relocates the drainlife aoe to wherever i cast my ripblood?

so does that mean it doesnt really matter where I cast my initial drainlife as ripblood is just going to relocate it anyways?

[obtuse quest]

Iirc the drain life moving is a bug

[finite galleon]

I'm the type of dude who never puts movement speed on his boots no matter what

maybe that's the problem

i like moving around slowly

[pearl snow]

??????

[finite galleon]

you wouldn't get it

[pearl snow]

Hell no

[eternal cave]

Is there a reason to run two Ashes of Mortality ?

[finite galleon]

cuz you aren't based enough.

[obtuse quest]

Ups the chance, so not really?

[tiny inlet]

Hi All, can anyone tell me which of these stats is most useful on this wand for stygian coal lich?

is it just the last 2 and rest are irrelevant?

last 3*

[chrome mason]

last 3 are fixed rolls, you want above avg on all of the rolls

30-40% on everything is nice

[tiny inlet]

thank you! so those ones are all relatively equal in value?

[atomic atlas]

whats the best fissure necrotis res stack build? is that a thing

[distant sand]

Hello fellow edgy people, I have a question regarding minion modifiers of items. When do those modifiers trigger? Do they trigger once during summoning? Does it make sense to equip different gear for summoning and for fighting?

Like for example +minion damage, crit. But also intelligence

[atomic atlas]

when u summon ye, hence snapshotting

u can julras rings and summon

[obtuse quest]

Torment

[grave flame]

@obtuse quest @vale jacinth hope you don't mind the ping, just wanted to say big thanks for the advice with swapping to Stygian Coal, currently tearing up ~340 corruption.

[lusty wyvern]

hey guys question for leveling - i have + damned chance on both chaos bolts and from chains of ruin. While running around casting fissure + chaos bolts I can see i am constantly triggering ignite overload, but I never see damned overload being applied - and hence no witchfire

is there some common gotcha that i am missing

[atomic atlas]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/BMMDdDPB
this one ?

[stuck owl]

Warlock, Level 99

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class:

Acolyte (20) / Lich (31) / Warlock (60)

General:

▸ Health: 1,195, Regen: 15.29/s
▸ Mana: 207, Regen: 11.92/s
▸ Ward Retention: 459%, Regen: 269/s
▸ Attributes: 11 Str / 9 Dex / 94 Int / 0 Att / 9 Vit
▸ Resistances: 100% / 80% / 87% / 110% / 103% / 504% / 105%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 20%, Threshold: 239
▸ Dodge Chance: 1% (36)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 45% (2,656)

Used skills:

Chthonic Fissure / Chaos Bolts / Rip Blood / Profane Veil / Spirit Plague

This build has a guide:

Torment Warlock Cycle 1.1.7 Build Guide Review by BabblingBike

[atomic atlas]

sheesh thats big spam

[distant sand]

and with buffs like dreadshade? Does it even make sense to have int on my gear then?

[atomic atlas]

what do you mean?

int buffs hp and dmg on minions

[distant sand]

I summon, buff and then run through my levels with transplant, casting nothing else

[atomic atlas]

i mean, you can do a lot with snapshotting.. just time to set up

[distant sand]

Does it make sense to have int on my items for fighting or just for summoning and buffing?

[atomic atlas]

int also has ward retention

[distant sand]

Im new to this

Ahhh

[swift steppe]

Anyone playing warlock in 1000+ corruption?

[obtuse quest]

25 stacks needed, if they die the stacks don’t count, your ignite chance might be much higher

[obtuse quest]

Ye

[atomic atlas]

oka ty i feel like i gotta use this item

[lusty wyvern]

hrrrmm ok - yeah my chance to ignite is 95% currently

but yeah, I just dont ever see the chains going out 🤷‍♂️

and i put a bunch of points into witchfire - worried im missing out on damage

ill watch carefully next time i fight something with more health

[obtuse quest]

What dafaq

[brazen drift]

how you get this one?

[atomic atlas]

redemptiond it. had different mods

[finite galleon]

Noice

although tbh this looks like the type of stuff that you dupe and slam with

[atomic atlas]

i need that pig looking neck

[finite galleon]

the heck's a pig looking neck

[obtuse quest]

The one thaT lets bone curse apply other curses

[finite galleon]

🐽

[atomic atlas]

the swine neck lol

[runic ingot]

are there any fun popular aura of decay builds or am I homebrewing one?

[finite galleon]

@obtuse quest

aisu is about to be your disciple

dew it

make em believe.

[runic ingot]

I'm a poe baby and my favourite skill was rf and this seems like that but cooler

[slate pond]

Tempting... On the other hand 4LP are "quite" rare. At the same time with that 96% I could drop potion health -> ward from Idols

[finite galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/residentsleeper-sleep-boring-snore-gif-11985580

[obtuse quest]

Wrong, it's RF but worse.
Do you want notes for your self cook?

[finite galleon]

[runic ingot]

notes would be perfect

[tawdry rock]

I just do poison stack and poison spread

[finite galleon]

kzb do you rly have it in you to crush aisu's hopes n dreams just like that?

[tawdry rock]

Scaling st DMG is difficult

[obtuse quest]

1. Both the application and the self-inflict scale with all your poison stats, including pen. Thankfully the self-inflict only considers sheet stats, not any buffs like poison overload.
2. Even with overcap and the lower poison damage AND the missing health heal from the nodes, you will STILL take damage, plan around that.
3. Armour shred convert is meant to KILL you, mess around and find out.
4. 1/4 of your poison chance applies to the aura's inflict, and 1/4 of that applies to self-infliction.
5. Poison Bolt counts as a hit of 0 damage, so it applies your poison chance normally.
6. This piece of crap isn't considered a spell.

[tawdry rock]

Its definitely worse than RF as in its not your main source of DMG but rather adding additional poison etc for everything else to do more dmg

[runic ingot]

thank you king

[obtuse quest]

Keep some sanity, you'll need it.

[edgy yew]

gonna say that with Beastmaster stormcrow, without snapshotting, the crows died all the time on Jura T4. But, I was level 77 at the time so I don't think that was a good time to even try the T4 😄

[obtuse quest]

How are you getting your armour up?

[crystal escarp]

this 2 nodes

[obtuse quest]

Oh, that armour is DURING ghostflame, now it makes sense.

[crystal escarp]

and i not use that

[obtuse quest]

Also, the ward consume nodes in Death Seal is STILL broken lmao

[obtuse quest]

Yeah that should give you like 10 self stacks at worse, which ghostflame indeed can cover.

But that's about it

That also means you're only inflicting about 30+ stacks at best no?

[crystal escarp]

want to find gear to make possible dmg up of marrow shards as they are main dps

[obtuse quest]

Marrow shards are stuck in the "The subskill does more damage" area.

[crystal escarp]

yeh, this max

[obtuse quest]

#💀┃acolyte message
Marrow shard related convo from here

[eternal cave]

What is a decent crit/crit multi for 300c?

[fast crystal]

🧑‍🔬 would minions trigger this 20% chance on their melee hits?

[obtuse quest]

In a crit build? Cap.

[obtuse quest]

No.

[fast crystal]

sadge

[eternal cave]

I guess throwing in crit into a torment build kinda is not a good idea

[runic ingot]

does the damage dealt from dots count for the leech from the lich passive?

[obtuse quest]

Torment is a dot, why would it need to crit?

[obtuse quest]

The mastery passive? Yes, any and all damage.

(Yes, you can technically leech from yourself.)

[distant sand]

Im running an abomination build and for some reason my abomination starts critting 100% of the time for 90k damage and then... its stopps and it just does 6-8k non crits. Also Im summoning 3 hoplites somehow, idk how. Is this related to my problem? Can someone help me out? 😄

[runic ingot]

tyty

[obtuse quest]

Hoplites is either an abom node, or your passives.

[eternal cave]

Going a dot build, but salt the wounds kinda plays with crit, so i was thinking of moving passives/fissure skills to include crit

[distant sand]

The abom node only summons them when the abom dies, so it has to be a passive.. thanks ill look into it

And the damage drop? 😄

[obtuse quest]

Salt the wounds plays with multi, not chance.

[eternal cave]

Probably better off going damned/fire rather than bleed/poison

[obtuse quest]

Not too sure tbh, dread shade drop? Makes no sense.

[distant sand]

i dont know why it would drop

do i need to reapply it constantly?

[eternal cave]

Multi might be easier to include then

[obtuse quest]

No, not anymore.

Yeah salt the wound only checks crit multi, which a torment build is technically building.

[eternal cave]

How are you liking witchfire?

[obtuse quest]

The relic makes it VERY usable, if it wasen't for it I would be losing my mind in timing my overloads tbh

WIth the relic I just make sure I sync my overloads and ignore other timings instead since the relic helps me apply it

[mystic stratus]

witchfire is hella fun for me rn also

fissure is a great build

[gentle relic]

sorry to ask, do you have a build link and how far in corruption someone has gotten with it so far?

[mystic stratus]

im curious too, ive been playing a few alts so im about to enter empowered today

ill let you guys know and link my build

monos have been a breeze tho everytthing first try in the game so far

[obtuse quest]

My damage at base empowered is good but my defense is kinda ass, I need more gear

[mystic stratus]

but i can tell im gonna get one shots soojn

possibly

ward is still working good for me

[obtuse quest]

I'm already getting two shot if it's a double crit lmao

💀

[mystic stratus]

i just took the armor nodes from base acolyte tree and the ghostflame ones, they are worth it

[mystic stratus]

damn ill have to see what happens for me

no one is playing this build apparently lol

[obtuse quest]

Otherwise I can take a few hits so I'm probably fine

[obtuse quest]

Nah, no one posted their setups because everyone here is stuck testing each of their versions of WF.

I know at least two other people making their setups and they're also still testing like 300c

[mystic stratus]

well at least we arent all stuck copy pasting one streamers build 💀

i love the ability to make your own good shit in LE

[obtuse quest]

someone's doing a defensive version, someone's cooking with sinthia's mace affix, I'm cooking with firestarters with HS' buff

[mystic stratus]

and i have no idea what im doing but i like it

[trail citrus]

i keep getting 1 shot in echos. trying to understand what i can do to get more tanky. i'm very tanky vs bosses but in maps Ashes of mortality doesn't get a chance to build up and i only have about 2k ward and 1.7k hp. Can someone take a look at my planner to see whats the easiest thing i can do to get a bit more tanky? https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Qee7YmMQ

[stuck owl]

Warlock, Level 94

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Acolyte (20) / Lich (8) / Warlock (79)

General:

▸ Health: 1,724, Regen: 19.16/s
▸ Mana: 264.48, Regen: 17.12/s
▸ Ward Retention: 296%, Regen: 195/s
▸ Attributes: 2 Str / 14 Dex / 57 Int / 9 Att / 6 Vit
▸ Resistances: 139% / 98% / 73% / 107% / 70% / 192% / 73%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 24%, Threshold: 345
▸ Dodge Chance: 5% (142)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 23% (876)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 82%

Used skills:

Infernal Shade / Chthonic Fissure / Transplant / Spirit Plague / Bone Curse

[mystic stratus]

ive made this build like twice tho, once a pure necrotic version when i was super new, then my version of the bleed one, now witchfire, and honestly i like this one best so far

[obtuse quest]

More necro res, more health, endurance, amour+armour to dot defense

[trail citrus]

is there a good necro res target i should aim for?

[wide bronze]

is there any price check mod like poe? 1 by 1 checking is kinda crazy with so many unique drops

[mystic stratus]

just capped

[obtuse quest]

He's using bone clamor-
Wait you don't have imprishible.

[obtuse quest]

Not to my knowledge, not a MG player

[distant sand]

Im automatically summoning three vanguars and i dont know why. I dont have the passives for it and the only thing i have skilled is spawning 2 vanguars on abom death. But my abom doesnt die, also i summon 3 vanguards. Any ideas why this could happen? I really have no clue

[obtuse quest]

Necro has a passive where if any minion dies they can summon a vanguard.
Lich has a passive where if something dies there's a chance to summon a vanguard.
Iirc some other minions can also summon vanguards on death.

[distant sand]

Im a necro

[obtuse quest]

The lich node can be taken even as other masteries.

[distant sand]

can i disable this? for some reason my infernal shade is on my hoplite now and my dreadshade probably too. Also I want my inheritance of the erased buff go to my abom

(Thanks for answering all my questions btw :))

[eternal cave]

no and devs dont want one

[obtuse quest]

What are your other skills?

[distant sand]

i dont use any hoplite passive. My other skills are dread shade, infernal shade, skeleton warrior and skeletion mage. In none of those skills i chose a hoplite options

[crisp ridge]

sinthias gang!

[obtuse quest]

I was talking about you you know-

[lost garnet]

Does this happen inside the same map?

[crisp ridge]

im trynna commit to getting my mage working tbh

[distant sand]

Ah I mean vanguard not hoplite, translation

[obtuse quest]

Hmm, none of the skills should, try relogging and see if it still happens.

[distant sand]

This already happened yesterday... and i have a relogged three times since then

[lost garnet]

Minions snapshot in this game. Are you using different gear sets or only one set of gear?

[obtuse quest]

Gear shouldn't matter iirc, unless a unique is involved.

[heavy ferry]

Any filter for warlock on CoF?

[obtuse quest]

Filters are build dependant.

[distant sand]

I just tried snapshotting today. Yesterday I didnt and had the same problem

[halcyon tinsel]

any farming method to get this?? +4 cthronic

[mystic stratus]

very nice

[mystic stratus]

you can craft it actually

[lost garnet]

Everytime you swap zone your minions re-snapshot. So if he has an abomination created and swap to "tank gear". Then go to the market with said tank gear, and then back to Monoliths his minions willsnap shot the tankgear and do zdps

[mystic stratus]

using runes of havoc

glyph

ill send a video

[obtuse quest]

Slap one into the weaver tree and pray.

[halcyon tinsel]

okaaayy

[wide bronze]

Shame its annoying to look thru 1000 uniques

[mystic stratus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hD-gbx9CuQ

[halcyon tinsel]

the imprint?

[distant sand]

ahhhh

i didnt know this!

[obtuse quest]

Ye

[distant sand]

I spent all my gold on it haha

[mystic stratus]

it lets you take an affix and seal it as t7 so if you have any gear with +1 fissure you can make it +4 with glyph of havoc if you do it right

[obtuse quest]

Doesn't havoc not work on sealed affixes.

[mystic stratus]

not on sealed

[eternal cave]

They say they listen to suggestions, id add your voice to that channel

[mystic stratus]

you can make one into a sealed affix

[eternal cave]

I do know the guy who works on it wants to improve it but he didnt mention how

[obtuse quest]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/kzb/character/KzbUltiAco
Is my current cook if anyone's wondering

[mystic stratus]

like a normal fissure affix can get maxed, it just will probably be transferred onto a new piece of gear, im just learning to do it, i linked a video on it

[eternal cave]

300c?

[lost garnet]

@distant sand Yeah, the snapshotting mechanic is really inconsistent and a true example of spagetthi coding. Alot of bullcrap going on. If your Abom does no damage it's probably because you snapshotted yoru tank gear onto him.
To fix this, equip carry and damage items for him (If you're using Aarons Will) your Abomination will start degening disabling Age of Undeath(Think it's a bug).
Then swap zone -> Specc Abomination tree -> Portal back to Monoliths and your Abomination should be fixed and resnapshotted witht he correct setup

[halcyon tinsel]

okay.. so any place to farm rune?

[solemn mountain]

hey guys is anyone playing the Skeletal “Roid” Mage Necromancer build without the snapshot thing?

[mystic stratus]

echo nodes for runes and also can spec into enemies dropping runes in weaver tree

[lost garnet]

I don't but I'm a snapshot enjoyer and have an Archmage in my Abomination snapshot setup aswell for clearspeed since the Abom AI is mentally challenged.
With complete degenerate levels of Snapshotting my Abom crits 25 million per hit.
A fully snapshotted Archmage (No mana gear) does 110k per bolt for me on target dummies

[haughty sedge]

100c Harbinger Down. Still doesn't really feel good. It felt better before, but everything's so spongy now and outside of death seal I see my health dip very frequently. So I'm staying at 100c for a while, farming those blessings.

[halcyon tinsel]

echo nodes?

[solemn mountain]

i kinda want make a archmage build but have to switch all those gear before entering a echo i find kinda annoying u think the build do ok without it just go in and go out

[lost garnet]

@solemn mountain Depends on what you're looking to do. Minions are in a complete dumpsterfire balancewise right now and honestly reliant on snapshotting for endgame. If you're looking to just do regular monoliths and maybe push up to ~200 corruption I don't think snapshotting is required but not sure. This is my first season so don't really have much experience. All I can do is compare what my Archmage, Golems et.c does compared to laughable minions like the Abom.
I'm at 1k corruption now and my Abom oneshots almost everything and my skellies barely do anything. They're able to clear some white mobs.

Snapshotting isn't too annoying though, you only need to snapshot once. You don't have to snapshot inbetween Monoliths. Only when you ever change zone and get a loading screen.

[obtuse quest]

Nah, stuck in base empowered farming for gear

[obtuse quest]

Abom and wraithlord without snapshotting can hit 500c, but uberroth and any further is player skill dependant.

[mystic stratus]

the echos in the monolith

[lost garnet]

Yeah I don't doubt that. Are you pushing 500 then and barely making it or are those builds 'farming' 500?

[obtuse quest]

iirc depending on gear they can farm decently at 400-500

[halcyon tinsel]

this one?

[mystic stratus]

no...like...that works too. thats a blessing. i mean the literal little maps you enter on the monolith. some of them give you runes. they say the reward is runes. and it is

[lost garnet]

@obtuse quest Probably true, my view is pretty warped since I have no experience in this game and my Abom is oneshotting everything. Killed normal Abberoth in like 5 seconds.

[swift night]

I don't suppose anybody could take a look at my build and see if I am doing something wrong? https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QWej78Zo

[stuck owl]

Necromancer, Level 74

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Acolyte (20) / Necromancer (42) / Lich (12) / Warlock (13)

General:

▸ Health: 1,363, Regen: 36.65/s
▸ Mana: 195.37, Regen: 12.4/s
▸ Ward Retention: 82%, Regen: 15/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 1 Dex / 41 Int / 8 Att / 9 Vit
▸ Resistances: 57% / 90% / 65% / 60% / 56% / 134% / 55%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 29%, Threshold: 273
▸ Dodge Chance: 6% (107)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 20% (532)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 5%

Used skills:

Summon Bone Golem / Summon Skeleton / Summon Volatile Zombie / Summon Skeletal Mage / Infernal Shade

[lost garnet]

@obtuse quest I tried to rawdog this game and homebrew a Cold Golem + Skelly zoo army type of build which worked fine. But then I hit ~100-150 corruption and the game felt impossible so had to look up how to actually make minions work.

[obtuse quest]

Yup, that's empowered in a nutshell, the gate where bad builds go to die.

[obtuse quest]

Yeah, that's kinda abom's thing, boss deletion.

[lost garnet]

@obtuse quest Thing is you can make the bossing abomination infinite aswell and run him in Monoliths. Not sure if the community knows about it. From the guides I've seen people seem to just build him once, go into a boss and have him outleech the degen and then die once the boss is dead.

[whole igloo]

Abom is better than wraith lord ?

[obtuse quest]

You can, the problem is that his clear is much slower tham wraithlord's.

[halcyon tinsel]

do I clear all or focus on the top only?

[solemn mountain]

can someone send me a wraithlord guide?

[lost garnet]

@obtuse quest Yeah the clear is horrendous. The spectral Wraith blade ability thing helps alot with clear though. And if you really want to you can run other minions aswell to help with clear. After you've put Dread/Infernal Shades on your abom or other minions you can unlearn them and put in other minions instead. The shades remain indefinitely. Another avenue for abuse.

[obtuse quest]

Without the shades other minions do kinda crap damage compared to the big minions.

[mystic stratus]

so see how they have little number next to the circle, they are showing the approx level of the monolith, go from bottom up, left to right is in order, or specific ones first for specific boss or blessing rewards (you can look them up) each timeline has sort of a theme

[lost garnet]

@obtuse quest Yeah but I don't run the thing that disables the Aura on Dreadshade and my Abom gets 100% crit from gear so don't need that node either. And you can spread Infernal Shade on other minions

[mystic stratus]

so start with the one very below the screenshot and then up through the stolen lance and to the black sun if you wanna go in order

[halcyon tinsel]

ahh I see

but Im strong enough to clear the lv 90

at the end of the day, do I need to clear them all?

[whole igloo]

I followed this one : https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/keepers-wraithlord-necromancer

[stuck owl]

Keeper's Wraithlord Necromancer Build Guide

Game Cycle / Version

Harbingers of Ruin / 1.1.7

Class

Acolyte / Necromancer

Used skills

• Infernal Shade
• Dread Shade
• Transplant
• Bone Curse
• Summon Wraith

Used unique items

• Wraithlord's Harbour
• Exsanguinous
• Usurper's Mandate
• Blood of the Exile
• Death Rattle
• Ambitions of an Erased Acolyte

Tags

Boss Killer / Monolith Farmer / Arena / Minions

Created by keeper184 · Feb 20, 2025, 1:21 PM

[distant sand]

does my abom do spell damage if it consumes skeleton mages?

abomination

[old hull]

Only the spells it casts deal spell damage, such as its "hungering souls"-like spell it gets from consuming mages if you spec into that node.

[distant sand]

ahhh okay, thanks!

[atomic atlas]

that guide is good. you can also use apogee tolmat for a while

and keeper is in the cord u can search his messages

[tropic bobcat]

Is there a way to reliable add LP to a unique?

[atomic atlas]

nemesis 1-2

[haughty sedge]

AAAAAAAA!

[tropic bobcat]

But that also has a chance to make it legendary no? It can possibly brick it

[atomic atlas]

ye

[haughty sedge]

You have to understand, it's replacing something I've been using since campaign! I've gained about 300 life from this!

[lucid tide]

So I am getting 1 shot right at the start of empowered monos, havent followed a guide.

In terms of defense, is it mainly you focus all into 1 like ward? And then take no armor or dodge. Or is it a mix of them?

[haughty sedge]

Armor helps even when you use ward. But don't choose it instead of ward.

In fact, armor does more at lower armor values, so having some of it is always good.

[tropic bobcat]

Then it's not a reliable way is it

[lucid tide]

What amount of HP should you have in terms of the 1st empowere monos?

[haughty sedge]

It is the only way.

Also bricked uniques can be used as reroll fodder.

[haughty sedge]

Depends, you'll live with like 1.5k, but if you wanna get comfy, you'll need more.

Also it depends on how much ward you have. What you should be looking at is eHP.

(Effective HP)

[eternal cave]

ive had 8 items brick 🙂

[valid widget]

For not following a guide, your defenses can be best thought of as multiple layers. The more 'defensive layers' you can have, the tankier you will be. some common ones:

-armor
-resistances
-ward
-hp

Sources of taking less damage from your class tree and skills, such as the many warlock per curse nodes also count

[eternal cave]

Was just hoping for 1 lp lmao

[haughty sedge]

Even taking some armor will improve your mitigation.

[lucid tide]

im 1.5k now and like 500ish ward on average. So its mainly the big choregraph skills killing me.

Cant decide which one to focus on lol so i have a mix of everything

[eternal cave]

I came in with 1100 but iwas killing stuff fairly fast before dying

[valid widget]

If you're dying quickly, odds are you are significantly lacking in one of the main defensive categories and you could increase your ehp by 40% easily be investing in it

[eternal cave]

now im at 1400

[haughty sedge]

Resistances should be capped... At least.

[eternal cave]

My ward goes from 2k - 9k

[tropic bobcat]

Yeah that's why i asked, there could be an echo that adds LP, havent memorized them all, but alas

[valid widget]

1.5k hp and 500 ward is pretty low life total, you can probably push that up

[haughty sedge]

For poison resist, being overcapped is not a bad idea. Likewise for lightning resist.

[lucid tide]

Ya its my own mistakes killing me, but figured since im actually dyting now. Best to work on defesne 1st since the dps is good.

Not really sure which way to go. Like just stacking HP or going all into ward

[haughty sedge]

There's an echo that can raise the LP of something that already has it.... Or set it to zero.

Also imprinting a unique will apply the normal loot rules to any duplicates you drop.

[eternal cave]

I find ward stacking easier than hp, but im warlock

[haughty sedge]

So duplicates may have LP

[atomic atlas]

legendarys just used to reroll anyways not wasted. gear churn

[lucid tide]

Appreciate it.

[haughty sedge]

Well, there's also like, don't stand in the fire. You can get away with it in campaign sometimes, but in empowered it's not done.

Unless you have some very powerful mitigation and lots of health.

Having "A bit of every mitigation" isn't all that great, unless it's armor. A bit of armor does a lot.

It's better to have "A good amount of every mitigation"

[lucid tide]

Ya, its mainly if im working and not paying attention im dying. Which means I should start working on it now/learning it

So the over kill hasnt been more than 500hp, and is usually around 100hpish.

ive enjoyed the ward stacking with the zombies

[haughty sedge]

Anyway now that I have 2k health I'm gonna try Julra again.

[lucid tide]

on that quick note, what is your dodge/armor roughly as a gadge

[haughty sedge]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/A2mY3b4o

[stuck owl]

Lich, Level 82

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Acolyte (21) / Lich (74)

General:

▸ Health: 2,008, Regen: 40.51/s
▸ Mana: 224.41, Regen: 12.8/s
▸ Ward Retention: 200%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 7 Str / 1 Dex / 100 Int / 1 Att / 36 Vit
▸ Resistances: 76% / 75% / 70% / 75% / 76% / 94% / 54%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 70%, Threshold: 462
▸ Dodge Chance: 4% (72)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 27% (1,006)

Used skills:

Harvest / Transplant / Reaper Form / Bone Curse / Death Seal

[haughty sedge]

As you can see, I do not really do Dodge.

I should point out that the Armor value is raised when I use Reaper Form and Death Seal

When both are active I have 2757, that's 50% mitigation.

Well, 50% at AL82, not sure what it's at 100

[valid widget]

Hey all, I'm running into an issue with lich where I'm playing a low life build without death seal but as I am gaining damage into 300c the baseline 1% lifesteal is pushing me out of low life range despite all the health drains. However, I have been relying on life steal to keep me in reaper form.

I'm aware of the hollow point node that disables life leech, and am wondering of ways that I can run that and still stay in reaper form

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Q9q43LEQ
Some notes/blockers

--playing marrow shard cast on ghostflame build, so my health costs are extremely high. lifesteal is just scaling faster
--relying on ward, so death seal doesn't work for me here to maintain low life status
--i'm floating running +4 to marrow shards to get the health globe nodes but it doesnt seem like a lot of health

Generally looking if there are ways to make hollow point work while still sustaining reaper form. Any suggestions?

[stuck owl]

Lich, Level 94

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Cycle / Version:

Tombs of the Erased / 1.2.1

Class:

Acolyte (20) / Lich (55) / Warlock (32)

General:

▸ Health: 1,724, Regen: 14.5/s
▸ Mana: 333.29, Regen: 17.84/s
▸ Ward Retention: 330%, Regen: 123/s
▸ Attributes: 1 Str / 17 Dex / 125 Int / 1 Att / 5 Vit
▸ Resistances: 62% / 53% / 96% / 138% / 46% / 149% / 89%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 31%, Threshold: 363
▸ Dodge Chance: 9% (262)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 23% (895)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 53%

Used skills:

Reaper Form / Ghostflame / Wandering Spirits / Marrow Shards / Bone Curse

[eternal cave]

what is this lol

[crystal escarp]

cool, u as me but different xD #💀┃acolyte message

[valid widget]

yeah it's been fun. This life leech issue is a pain in my side right now though im losing tons of damage to doing too much damage haha

[crystal escarp]

this 2 passives is core of this build, u can check passive tree in my build, but its lack of dmg over 300corrupt

[tawdry rock]

I found a unique last night that has health leech on dot DMG. Was thinking of trying to change my low life build to this if possible

[eternal cave]

Just trade it to me, im already doing that

[valid widget]

I hear you, but I'm not able to run death seal with my version of the build because I'm using ward. Currently, I'm trying to disable life leech completely and find other ways to sustain reaper form

[lost garnet]

I've made a video on how to create a almost perfect abomination. I could link it if you want

[sturdy zenith]

I'm so close, need better rolled all res from dragon blessing