Bladedancer Sync Strike Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.1)

Our base class is Rogue, which fills the roll of an elusive fighter in Last Epoch. Upon finishing Act 1 in the campaign, your character will be offered an opportunity to select an Advanced Mastery. Each base class has three possible Masteries to choose from. For Rogue, you can choose between Passive Trees for Bladedancer, Marksman, and Falconer. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Rogue Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

Bladedancer is the Advanced Class used for this build, and also where the majority of our Passive Points will come from. The Bladedancer Tree will focus around picking nodes that increase our damage and give us a strong defensive layer to work with. A lesser amount of Passive Points will come from Falconer, which will focus on rounding out some more of our defensive stats. Each Passive Tree and their points are broken down below.

• 3 points in Steady Hand: This node will start to build up our Dexterity and base Health.
• 8 points in Swift Assassin: Early, this node will help us with Attack Speed, which will become less important. However we still use this node for the flat increase to our Physical Damage.
• 1 point in Guile: This is a traversal node to move further into this tree.
• 5 points in Evasion: This is a massive Damage Reduction node, as we take 25% less damage when moving and an increase to our Dodge Rating by 25%.
• 5 points in Agility: This node gives us a 25% chance to have Haste when we hit an enemy, and do 1% increased damage for each 1% Movement Speed.
• 1 point in Twin Blade: This node will allow us to equip the additional dagger we need in our Off-Hand.
• 4 points in Duelist: This is a defesive node, this increases our Dodge Rating. It also increases our damage by the same amount.

Our base class is Rogue, which fills the roll of an elusive fighter in Last Epoch. Upon finishing Act 1 in the campaign, your character will be offered an opportunity to select an Advanced Mastery. Each base class has three possible Masteries to choose from. For Rogue, you can choose between Passive Trees for Bladedancer, Marksman, and Falconer. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Rogue Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

Bladedancer is the Advanced Class used for this build, and also where the majority of our Passive Points will come from. The Bladedancer Tree will focus around picking nodes that increase our damage and give us a strong defensive layer to work with. A lesser amount of Passive Points will come from Falconer, which will focus on rounding out some more of our defensive stats. Each Passive Tree and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points in Cloak of Shadows: This node furthers our base to Dexterity and increases our Gancing Blow chance.
• 8 points in Once: This node will increase both our Melee Physical and Throwing Physical Damage base by 16.
• 8 points in Shroud of Dusk: We add a significant chance to gain Dusk Shroud when hit, while increasing our base HP.
• 5 points in Veil of Night: You gain a significant chance to gain Dusk Shroud on hit.
• 5 points in Blood Dance: This node will give us Melee Health Leech, as well as an increased leech rate.
• 6 points in Asuvon's Pact: We have a significant increase to damage while at full hp.
• 1 point in Argent Veil: When we dip below 70% hp, we have a 100% chance to dodge the next hit. 15 second cooldown.
• 5 points in Perfection: We gain up to 10 stacks of Perfection, will are empower our next defensive node.
• 5 points in Confidence: We gain 50 armor and 50 dodge rating for each stack of Perfection (up to 10).
• 1 point in Critical Eye: This node increases our Critical Strike two ways; increasing our base chance and inflicting Critical Vulnerability.
• 5 points in Shadow Master: This node will increase our Shadow's damage by 100% and add one to our maximum shadows.
• 5 points in All In: This node increases our Critical Strike Multiplier by a whopping 75%, but reduces non-critical strikes damage.
• 1 point in Exuberance: This node is taken to give us two stacks of Perfection per melee attack, instead of the standard one.
• 2 points in Hooked Blades: We take this node to Shred Armor and increase the effect by 25%.

Our base class is Rogue, which fills the roll of an elusive fighter in Last Epoch. Upon finishing Act 1 in the campaign, your character will be offered an opportunity to select an Advanced Mastery. Each base class has three possible Masteries to choose from. For Rogue, you can choose between Passive Trees for Bladedancer, Marksman, and Falconer. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Rogue Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

Bladedancer is the Advanced Class used for this build, and also where the majority of our Passive Points will come from. The Bladedancer Tree will focus around picking nodes that increase our damage and give us a strong defensive layer to work with. A lesser amount of Passive Points will come from Falconer, which will focus on rounding out some more of our defensive stats. Each Passive Tree and their points are broken down below.

• 5 points into Raptor's Wings: Gives us a chance to gain haste on hit, adding more damage while we have haste.
• 2 point into Wilderness Scout: Gives us base HP and Dodge Rating.
• 5 points into Outlander's Tenacity: Gives us base dodge rating, and 15% of our max HP as Endurace Threshold.
• 4 points into Stamina of the Rover: Increases dodge rating, mana regeneration, and gives us mana when we dodge.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill shine 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.

 Umbral Blades is one of the strongest, if not the strongest skill for the Rogue. This skill will have automation from our Shadows. These blades will also trigger  Shadow Daggers, which are arguably the strongest ailment in the game. These daggers have a 100% chance to critical strike at a 450% damage scaler with a base of 90 Physical Damage. This skill can be used directly by the player, however it is automated in the build. We rely mostly on our ability to  Shift at a constant rate. You will read about this automation further in the build.

• 2 points into Dawnfall: This node gives us a defensive layer with Dusk Shroud, but also boosts our damage with each Dusk Shroud we have with Edge of Obscurity.
• 1 point into Sword Thrower: This node is what starts to make  Umbral Blades hit very hard. Its drawbacks are negated by our ability to  Create Shadow.
• 1 point into Lethal Darkness: Inflicts a stack of  Shadow Daggers on hit.
• 1 point into Cacophony of Steel: This causes our blades to spin in place, making the  Umbral Blades hit three times per second with  Bladestorm. However, the real damage comes from applying  Shadow Daggers.
• 4 points into Steel Torrent: This node increases the duration and size of the  Bladestorm from Cacophony of Steel.
• 1 point into Loathing: We take this node in order to have the  Bladestorm home in on enemies. It is slow, but effective when used in packs from our Shadows.
• 3 points into Edge of Obscurity: This adds 6% more damage per Dusk Shroud we have, and this value is doubled while we are inside of Smoke Cloud.
• 1 point into Umbral Remnant: This is where our Shadows become extrememly lethal; upon their expiration, they turn into a  Bladestorm. This instace uses all the same benefits as before, but increased because we have scaled our Shadow Damage.
• 5 points into Jagged Carvings: We add 20 base Physical Damage to  Umbral Blades.
• 1 point into Precision Cuts: We take this node for the ability to have  Umbral Blades go exactly where we want, when we self cast.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill shine 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.

 Shadow Cascade is the second part of our automation in the build. This skill gives us and our shadows a ranged attack that can proc  Shadow Daggers on hit. It also it necessary, because after we  Shift our shadows will use  Shadow Cascade, causing them to expire and turn into  Bladestorm as listed before. This skill does not need to be on the skill bar, and we elect to use  Decoy in its place for crowd control or luring enemies into our Smoke Cloud.

• 3 points in Dismantle: Initially, two points will be put in. We need to rush into Shadow Elegance, once the points are allocated, you can put the third point in here.
• 1 point in Crushing Darkness: Take this node for the 30% more damage, but also to traverse through the tree.
• 4 points in Dagger Dance: This node allows us to have Dagger Throw when we use  Shadow Cascade. This also counts for our shadows.
• 1 point in Porcupine's Wrath: We take this node for a signifant boost in damage for Dagger Throw and increases the amount of daggers thrown from 4 to 7, but lose the melee function of the skill.
• 1 point in Shadow Elegance: This node is what will apply  Shadow Daggers from us and our Shadows. The Shadow Clones have a 20% chance to apply  Shadow Daggers, but there's a 100% chance from the player.
• 1 point in Onslaught: This node is imperative in order to restore Mana. Since this skill will be used constantly, we need to kill the Mana cost as much as possible.
• 2 points in Fight In The Shadows: This node will give us up to 24 Mana when  Shadow Cascade is used, gaining 6 Mana per Shadow. With only the singular Shadow, this will make the skill cost 6 Mana, completely manageable with standard Mana Regeneration.
• 1 point in Flow State: Deal an added 30% more damage, effective due to dual wielding daggers.
• 2 points in Daggerflow: This node effectively adds off-screen clear for our Dagger Throw.
• 4 points in Shadow Torrent: While using full Shadow Clones (4),  Shadow Cascade will have 48% more damage.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill shine 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.

 Synchronized Strike is our biggest hit in the build, however this is due to the instantaniously applied ailement of  Shadow Daggers that are applied on the strike. Since we have four Shadow Clones mimicing our strike, the strike applies five stacks of  Shadow Daggers to enemies in an AoE. However, it only takes four stacks of  Shadow Daggers to trigger the large hit. Any enemy that doesn't die instantly to this strike will still have a lingering stack on them. This skill rotation always causes another stack of the ailment to carry over.

• 3 points in Dynamics: This node is extremely important, as it works in tandem with the prefix Mana Efficiency with Synchronized Strike on our armor. With both the prefix and this node we can reduce the Mana cost by up to 70%. This is required since we will be using this quite often as can be seen in the demo video.
• 2 points in Art of the Blade: This node is more traversal than anything.
• 1 point in Perfect Coordination: We take this in order to have our shadows hit the same area that we do, this ensures that whatever we hit in the AoE will have the final triggered ailement for our  Shadow Daggers.
• 5 points in Coordinated Cuts: Indirectly adding damage with Armor Shred is a nice bonus to our already hard hitting  Shadow Daggers.
• 1 point in Umbral Assassination: This is where the magic happens, as the strike will now apply the incredibly potent ailment of  Shadow Daggers from ourselves and two Shadows.
• 2 points in Growing Darkness: This will increase the area of our strike to hit in a larger AoE, nice for pack clears.
• 5 points in Foreshadowing: This causes any Shadow created in the last 4 seconds of  Synchronized Strike to have 200% increased damage. The Shadows for Synchornized Strike count.
• 1 point in Dark Allies: We add two more Shadows to the strike, which now ensure the final effect of our ailment,  Shadow Daggers, will instantly be applied.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill shine 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.

 Shift will be the bread and butter for just about everything we do in this build. It will massively buff our defenses, and trigger all of our damage. It also will apply  Shadow Daggers on any enemy it hits. This is how we will move around the Echo, as this is the primary reason we use the  Smoke Weaver unique daggers.

• 3 points in Velocity: This help us spam our movement skill, which will increase our defenses and proc our damage dealing skill at a rapid rate.
• 2 points in Momentum: We use this node to move further into the tree, however, the movement speed buff is nice.
• 1 point in Lasting Presence: This node is great for our Mana, and also our damage, as this Shadow will use  Shadow Cascade.
• 1 points in Dancing Shadows: This node is what makes the previous node functional, as well as after using  Synchronized Strike, we Shift away causing all the shadows to use  Shadow Cascade.
• 4 points in Swift Recovery: This node gives us 16 Mana whenever we Shift, helping alleviate any Mana issues we encounter. Indirectly, we gain 22 Mana each use from the Shadow using  Shadow Cascade. This gives  Shift a net cost of only 3 Mana.
• 1 point in Shadowslip: We are impervious to any damage while Shifting. Considering we are able to Shift every other second or so, this makes us invulnerable most the time. While not invulnerable we have a capped Dodge Rate of 85% 1 second after Shifting.
• 3 points in Elusive: This node will give you about 4000 Dodge Rating after Shifting, this is a massive bost to our defenses.
• 1 point in Unseen Strike: This is a traversal node.
• 2 points in Broad Sweep: This node increases the width we damage along the path, this includes applying the ailment  Shadow Daggers in the next node we take.
• 2 points in Hidden Blades: We apply  Shadow Daggers whenever we pass through an enemy with  Shift.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the key passives we have selected to make the skill shine 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.

 Smoke Bomb is used mostly during a dangerous encounter or a boss fights. It can be used freely to clear packs, as this skill will also apply the ailment  Shadow Daggers. Use this in cohesion with your unscaled  Decoy to have enemies run into the smoke cloud.

• 1 point in Thick Smoke: This node applies a stack of Slow every second they are in the cloud.
• 4 points in Eroding Fumes: We Shred Armor from the enemy every second they are in the cloud.
• 4 points in Swirling Fog: We double the rate of both Shred Armor and Slow, now being two times a second.
• 2 points in Knives in the Dark: Stacks of Slow now have a 70% chance to apply  Shadow Daggers. Since this now happens two times a second, it is a very good chance to apply at least 1 stack of  Shadow Daggers every second. In practice, this would normally apply 2 stacks of the ailment every second, and killing all packs in just 2-3 seconds.
• 4 points in Lingering Fumes: This causes the smoke cloud to last longer. The default is 4 seconds; this increases it to 5.6 seconds.
• 1 point in Smoke Blades: We don't normally stand in the cloud, but if we do, we gain stacks of Smoke Blades that increase our damage.
• 4 points in Umbral Assault: We generate a Shadow every second the cloud lingers, these shadows are exactly like our other Shadows, they can use  Shadow Cascade.