Falconer Bleed Bomb Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.1)

Our base class is the Rogue, which acts as a generic brawler and marksman. 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 Rogue, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Bladedancer, Falconer and Marksman. 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.

For this build, we will be picking Falconer as our advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points in the Falconer Passive Tree. Our Passive Points will be aiming to improve our defenses through Armor and Glancing Blows. The nodes taken in Bladedancer are mostly used for converting Dodge into Glancing Blows. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Swift Assassin: Increased attack speed and added physical damage.
• 8 points into Steady Hand: Dexterity and Base Health.
• 5 points into Dodge and Parry: Increased Dodge Rating and Glancing Blow chance.

Our base class is the Rogue, which acts as a generic brawler and marksman. 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 Rogue, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Bladedancer, Falconer and Marksman. 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.

For this build, we will be picking Falconer as our advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points in the Falconer Passive Tree. Our Passive Points will be aiming to improve our defenses through Armor and Glancing Blows. The nodes taken in Bladedancer are mostly used for converting Dodge into Glancing Blows. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 5 points into Handler: +5% base Crit Chance and increased damage for the Falcon.
• 5 poinst into Crimson Skies: Grants a chance to gain a stack of Crimson Shroud when the Falcon hits an enemy.
• 1 point into Wilderness Scout: Base health and Dodge Rating.
• 5 points into Outlander's Tenacity: Gain 15% of maximum Health as Endurance.
• 3 points into Expert Duelist: Mostly traversal node, but does increase the damage we deal with  Puncture.
• 6 points into Tactician: Adds base damage to the falcon.
• 6 points into Sharpest Point: Taken for the Bleed Chance with Spear, as well as the increased range with  Puncture.
• 6 points into Evasion Tactics: Increases Armor, Dexterity, and Dodge Rating.
• 5 points into Relentless Talons: Provides Health gain per hit with the Falcon, as well as increased Falcon damage.
• 1 point into Intuitive Connection: Allows  Dive Bomb and  Falconry to be casted instantly.
• 1 point into Final Souvenir: Traversal node; we can not Dodge due to the Bladedancer tree.
• 6 points into Leog's Stratagem: Allows Caltrops to inflict Frailty from  Net.
• 6 points into Stymphalian Feathers: Boosts Armor by 6 per 2 Dexterity. Additionally, we increase Armor by 2% per enemy attacked by our Falcon in the last 4 seconds. (This effect can stack)
• 6 points into Tailwind: Reduces the damage we take while moving, and increases Movement Speed and Dodge Rating. The value is doubled if the Falcon has hit an enemy.

Our base class is the Rogue, which acts as a generic brawler and marksman. 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 Rogue, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Bladedancer, Falconer and Marksman. 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.

For this build, we will be picking Falconer as our advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points in the Falconer Passive Tree. Our Passive Points will be aiming to improve our defenses through Armor and Glancing Blows. The nodes taken in Bladedancer are mostly used for converting Dodge into Glancing Blows. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 5 points into Pursuit: Increased our Movement Speed.
• 8 points into Cloak of Shadows: Increases Dexterity and Glancing Blows Chance.
• 8 points into Shroud of Dusk: 32% chance to gain Dusk Shroud when hit.
• 8 points into Scarlet Stream: Melee and Throwing hits have a chance to cause Bleed.
• 1 point into Apostacy: All Dodge is converted to Glancing Blow Chance. You can no longer Dodge, unless its from Silver Shroud.

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.

The foundation of this build,  Net is used to automate a few things and will be the main source of Bleed for the build. Bleed is essentially how we will make the Falcon do damage with  Dive Bomb. Both Caltrops and  Puncture automate off this, allowing you to stack Bleed very quickly. On top of this, Netting an enemy will force the Falcon to deal 40% more damage to them.

• 4 points into Rending Wires: 200% Chance for Net to inflict Bleed.
• 1 point into Barbed Net: Net applies one extra stack of Bleed on hit.
• 1 point into Bold Throw: Net no longer moves us.
• 1 point into Net Trap: Net now places traps down and will release at nearby enemies when triggered.
• 1 point into Spear Trap: Net now uses  Puncture when triggered. How we use Puncture, this costs no extra Mana.
• 1 point into Trickster Artist: When you throw a Net, you now also drop Caltrops at your feet. These do have an initial hit component and can inflict Bleed.
• 3 points into Zone of Control: Caltrops are now 45% larger.
• 3 points into Advanced Engineering: Increases the area for Net.
• 1 point into Surprise Snare: Net can no longer be Dodged by enemies.
• 4 points into Exposed Bait: Your Falcon now deals an extra 40% damage to Netted enemies.

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.

 Puncture has one singular usage; applying ailments. You will never use this manually, it triggers off  Net. When triggered, Puncture will apply Bleed, stacks of Shred Armor, and stacks of Shred Physical Resistance.

• 5 points into Perforate: Adds 100% Bleed Chance.
• 5 points into Splinter: Shreds Physical Resistance on hit.
• 2 points into Cross Forward: Increases the range of Puncture by 30%.
• 5 points with Shatter: Adds Chance to Shred Armor on hit.
• 3 points into Timing: More damage, good for lower Health mobs.

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.

 Falconry is a mandatory grab to make the Falcon part of the build work. Through this skill we will enable the Falcon to deal more damage globally, enable the Falcon to deal our own ailment chances at an increased rate, add a Kill Threshold, and regain resources on Falcon kills.

• 1 points into Falconer's Journey: Your Falcon will do 1% more damage per level you are, and 1% per Dexterity.
• 3 points into Side by Side: When you hit an enemy with  Net, the skill reduces the cooldown on  Falconry.
• 4 points into Avian Stamina: The active portion of the ability hits additional times.
• 1 point into Hunter's Spoils: You gain Health and Mana when your Falcon kills an enemy or hits a Boss or Rare enemy.
• 2 points into Bird of Prey: Falcon strikes now instantly kill an enemy at 16% or less health.
• 2 points into The Blood Dance: When your Falcon kills an enemy, it will hit two more enemies.
• 1 point into Trained to Hunt: Your highest increased global damage now applies to the Falcon at 75% its value.
• 3 point into Is it a bird?: The Falcon has 12% more damage, the value is doubled for the active skill.
• 1 point into Agile Prey: The Falcon will do more damage to moving enemies.
• 4 points into Rending Talons: Our own ailment chances will apply to the bird at a 200% rate.

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.

 Dive Bomb is the nuke that we have been building up to with every other skill. There's two important nodes here; Exsanguinating Strike and Devastating Dive. The former will take all the Bleed stacks on an enemy and force them to pop instantly, using the stacks as a source of fuel for a damage increase for the Dive Bomb damage, while the latter just makes the skill hit incredibly hard and increases the chance for it to Stun.

There is one node in this tree that is used for defensive purposes, and that is Cloud Gatherer. If Dive Bomb lands inside of an active  Smoke Bomb, it will extend the Smoke Bomb's duration long enough to where it is possible to have 100% uptime on the skill.

• 3 points into Hindering Beak Strike: Traversal node.
• 2 points into Flesh Tearing Talons: Shreds two Physical Resistance stacks off enemies hit.
• 1 point into Exsanguinating Strike: This is what causes Dive Bomb to consume Bleed stacks.
• 4 points into Rushing Wings: There is normally a short delay to get your Falcon to use this skill; this removes it.
• 4 points into Devastating Dive: Huge damage gain, and a significant increase to Stun chance. This does increase the cooldown duration by quite a bit, so we need to reduce it through other nodes in the tree.
• 4 points into Rush of the Hunt: 48% Cooldown Recovery Speed.
• 3 points into United Assault: Every use of  Net will reduce the cooldown on Dive Bomb.
• 2 points into Focused Hunter: Decreases the Mana Cost significantly and adds more damage.
• 1 point into Cloud Gatherer: Extends  Smoke Bomb duration if Dive Bomb lands inside of it while active.

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 got a new paint of coat with 1.0. It can now be used as a traversal skill! This creates more than just mobility though; it ensures we can land inside of a group of mobs and instantly increase our Glancing Blow chance to 100% and boost our Bleed and Leech abilities. Only two points were taken in Rapid Concealment on purpose; generally, that amount will bump you to 100% Glancing Blows if you have all other item requirements. Take points out of Blood Bandit if you are undergeared. The Glancing Blow Chance is more important than the Leech.

We have also taken the ability to generate Silver Shroud, and it is the only way we can Dodge attacks. this is especially useful if you are in dire need to dodge a lethal attack and can't get away in time. Taking the node past this will allow  Smoke Bomb to cleanse.

• 2 points into Generosity: Traversal node, but does give us more room to move around inside of Smoke Bomb.
• 1 point into Escape Tactics: Changes Smoke Bomb into a movement skill, and we are immune during it.
• 1 point into Cloaked Incursion: You now leap forward with Smoke Bomb; it gains the Traversal tag, and has its cooldown reduced by 50%.
• 1 point into Enfeeblement: Traversal node.
• 2 points into Moonlight Bomb: Applies Silver Shroud on use, allowing us to Dodge the next mechanic for free.
• 1 point into Cleansing Steam: Cleanses all ailments on you on use.
• 2 points into Lingering Fumes: Traversal node.
• 1 point into Smoke Blades: Traversal node.
• 4 points into Hidden Blows: While inside of Smoke Bomb, you gain 200% Bleed Chance for  Puncture.
• 2 points into Blood Bandit: Adds Leech to our attacks.