Beastmaster Cold Squirrels Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.1)

Our base class is the Primalist, which acts as a generic caster, brawler, or companion summoner. Our character will be offered an opportunity to select an Advanced Mastery once we have completed the first act of the campaign. Each base class has three possible masteries to choose from. For the Primalist, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Beastmaster, Shaman and Druid. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Primalist Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

This build will be taking Beastmaster as its advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points in the Beastmaster Passive Tree, increasing our Companion Limit, increasing Minion Damage, and boosting the defenses of our own character. Druid's tree will also be used, focusing mostly on Increased Minion Cold Damage.

• 8 point into Primal Strength: Increases our Strength and Health Regeneration.
• 1 point into Harmony of Blades: Enables dual wielding at the cost of taking 9% extra damage.
• 1 points into Hunter's Restoration: Small increase to Health and gains Health on Hit.
• 6 points into Survival of the Pack: Increases our Melee Damage and gives us Health Leech. Applies to Minions as well.
• 5 points into Hunter's Emanation: Increases our Minions Damage.

Our base class is the Primalist, which acts as a generic caster, brawler, or companion summoner. Our character will be offered an opportunity to select an Advanced Mastery once we have completed the first act of the campaign. Each base class has three possible masteries to choose from. For the Primalist, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Beastmaster, Shaman and Druid. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Primalist Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

This build will be taking Beastmaster as its advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points in the Beastmaster Passive Tree, increasing our Companion Limit, increasing Minion Damage, and boosting the defenses of our own character. Druid's tree will also be used, focusing mostly on Increased Minion Cold Damage.

• 8 points into Ursine Strength: Increases our Strength and Damage Reduction.
• 8 points into Savagery: Increase Melee Damage for Squirrels.
• 4 points into Boar Heart: Grants us Aspect of the Boar on hit, reducing damage taken by 15%.
• 5 points into Porcine Constitution: Increases our Damage Reduction and Health Regen.
• 1 points into Lamprey Teeth: Adds Leech to the Squirrel's attacks.
• 8 points into The Chase: Increases our Minion's Attack, Cast and Movement speed.
• 6 points into Natural Fortitude: Increases our Strength and adds substantial Health Regen for you and Squirrels.
• 8 points into Cry of the Lynx: Increases our Critical Strike and adds Aspect of the Lynx buff, increased Critical Strike Chance and Stun Chance.
• 1 point into Nature's Embrace: Increases our Maximum companions by 1.
• 5 points into Serrated Claws: Increases Critical Strike Multiplier for you and Squirrels.

Our base class is the Primalist, which acts as a generic caster, brawler, or companion summoner. Our character will be offered an opportunity to select an Advanced Mastery once we have completed the first act of the campaign. Each base class has three possible masteries to choose from. For the Primalist, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Beastmaster, Shaman and Druid. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Primalist Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

This build will be taking Beastmaster as its advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points in the Beastmaster Passive Tree, increasing our Companion Limit, increasing Minion Damage, and boosting the defenses of our own character. Druid's tree will also be used, focusing mostly on Increased Minion Cold Damage.

• 5 points into Chitinous Plating: Increases our own Endurance and Armor, and adds Armor to our Squirrels.
• 7 points into Blessed Springs: Increases Cold Damage for Squirrels and Healing Effectiveness.
• 8 points into Blossoming Garden: Increases Healing Effectiveness, but also automates  Eterra's Blessing when we use  Fury Leap.
• 7 points into River Spirits: Increases Cold Damage and Freeze Rate Multiplier for Squirrels, and allows them to apply Frostbite to enemies.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. While some of these skills do allow for some variation to exist depending on your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presented until you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

 Summon Wolf will be converted into summoning Squirrels through the Unique helmet,  Herald of the Scurry. However, all nodes in this tree will apply to our Squirrels, and this tree is how we enable them to deal Cold Damage. Keep in mind, this build is gaining a ton of extra skill points from gear. If you're able to run two  Apogee of Frozen Light, you will have even more skill points, and those may be placed where ever you choose to do so.

• 5 points into Savage Hunters: Squirrels deal 75% more damage.
• 5 points into Tundra Stalkers: Adds 10 Cold Damage to the Squirrel's Melee Attacks and increases Stun Chance by 100%.
• 1 point into Frozen Fangs: Squirrels gain access to  Ice Bite, a melee attack dealing 40 Cold Damage.
• 1 point into Legendary Bite: Squirrels deal more Melee Damage and gain base Critical Strike Chance at the cost of slight Attack Speed loss.
• 1 point into Winterborn: Pathing node, but does add extra chance to Chill, helping to gain the benefits from  Apogee of Frozen Light.
• 1 point into Pack Hunters: Adds two Squirrels to your summon pool.
• 1 point into Victory Howl: Squirrels will have a small chance to use  Sciurine Rage when they kill an enemy.
• 5 points into On the Hunt: Increased Attack Speed and Movement Speed for Squirrels.
• 1 point into Relentless: Squirrels are immune to stuns.
• 4 points into Howl of Might: Adds more damage to the Squirrels' attacks.
• 1 point into Safety In Numbers: Adds two Squirrels to your summon pool.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. While some of these skills do allow for some variation to exist depending on your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presented until you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

 Fury Leap is the mobility skill for the build, and doubles as a way to direct your Squirrels to attack specific targets, as they will leap with you! This skill does much more, as it also increases the Melee Damage your Squirrels deal and pulls enemies together, allowing  Ice Bite to have an easier time cleaving multiple enemies. Spamming this may not always be the play. While we have reduced the Mana cost by quite a bit, this build can sometimes suffer from a lack of Mana. On top of that, this skill grants us invincibility while we're jumping, so it can be used to cheese certain damaging mechanics.

• 5 points into Warrior's Entrance: Using Fury Leap adds Melee Damage to your Squirrels for 3 seconds.
• 1 point into Pack Leader: This enables the Squirrels to Leap with you.
• 1 point into Frenzied Onslaught: Using Fury Leap buffs Squirrels (and yourself) with Frenzy.
• 2 points into Wings of Endurance: Heals you and your Squirrels when you land.
• 1 point into Battle Bloom: Fury Leap now cleanses you and your Squirrels on use.
• 3 points into Crater: Increases area by 75% and reduces the Mana cost by 6.
• 1 point into Heorot's Protection: You are invincibile while Leaping.
• 2 points into Panther Strike: Taken for the Cooldown Reduction.
• 3 points into Ambush Predator: Pathing node.
• 1 point into Gravity: Landing will pull enemies together.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. While some of these skills do allow for some variation to exist depending on your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presented until you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

 Eterra's Blessing will mostly be automated in this build through both  Fury Leap and  Summon Frenzy Totem, however feel free to use it manually. More importantly, Squirrels hit by Eterra's Blessing will gain increased damage, Movement Speed and Attack Speed for 4 seconds.

• 5 points into Ardent Touch: Eterra's Blessing now increases the Squirrels' Movement Speed and Attack Speed.
• 4 points into Overgrowth: Adds a 50% chance for Eterra's Blessing to become an AoE heal, centered on the target.
• 5 points into Conservation: 50% Mana Efficiency.
• 5 points into Improved Blessing: Increases Healing Effectiveness.
• 1 point into Purge: The heal will now cleanse debuffs and ailments.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. While some of these skills do allow for some variation to exist depending on your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presented until you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

 Summon Frenzy Totem will act as a semi-passive DPS increase for the Squirrels. We disable the ability for it to effect us in order to make the buffs provided by the totem stronger for the Squirrels. Placing this nearby your Companions will result in Haste, Frenzy, and Increased Health Regen for Squirrels, on top of the ability for automated  Eterra's Blessing activation.

• 3 points into Revitalizing Totem: Increased Health Regen.
• 3 points into Symbol of Haste: Grants Haste for 6 seconds.
• 1 point into Symbol of Selflessness: All buffs are increased by 30%, but can only effect the Squirrels.
• 3 points into Rabidity: Frenzy is now 24% more potent.
• 2 points into Reinforced Totem: Frenzy Totems now last longer.
• 5 points into Reach: Doubles the area of effectiveness for the Totem.
• 3 points into Healing Pulse: As long as we remain close to our own Totem, this has a chance to automate  Eterra's Blessing for us.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. While some of these skills do allow for some variation to exist depending on your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presented until you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

 Warcry would like to be used on cooldown for this build. It grants the Squirrels immense increases to their Cold Damage, and greatly increases their chance to land a critical hit. While active, Squirrels will have a 100% chance to inflict Chill, meaning you will have a definite period of time where the unique effect from  Apogee of Frozen Light can be taken advantage of. As an added bonus, using Warcry makes us invulnerable for 1 second, similar to how  Fury Leap works.

• 1 point into Juggernaut: Makes you invulnerable for 1 second.
• 2 points into Deep Roar: Increases the area of Warcry by 40%.
• 1 point into Jormun's Wrath: Converts Warcry into a Cold Skill.
• 5 points into Frost Claw: Increases Squirrel Cold Damage by 250% for 4 seconds.
• 1 point into Bringer of Winter: Increases Squirrel Critical Strike Chance by 100% and guarantees they inflict a stack of Chill on hit.
• 4 points into Battle Cry: Another 100% increase to land a critical hit.
• 1 point into Staggering Roar: Ignore this node, it is only for pathing.
• 1 point into Kinetic Scream: Again, only a pathing node.
• 2 points into Eviscerating Howl: Warcry inflicts Bleed, but this can be mostly ignored.
• 1 point into Shallow Breath: 50% Cooldown Reduction.
• 1 point into Hastily Advance: Grants us Haste for 1 second.