Falconer Explosive Dive 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 Explosive Trap Dive Bomb 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 targeting defenses and massive increases for  Falconry and  Dive Bomb by adding Throwing Damage and base Critical Strike for our Falcon. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Swift Assassin: Increased attack speed and added physical damage.
• 3 points into Steady Hand: Dexterity and Base Health.
• 1 point into Guile: Traversal node.
• 5 points into Evasion: 25% Damage reduction while moving and 25% increased dodge rating.
• 5 points into Agility: 25% chance to get haste on hit and increased damage per % of movespeed.

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 Explosive Trap Dive Bomb 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 targeting defenses and massive increases for our  Falconry skill and  Dive Bomb by targeting added throwing damage and base critical strike for our Falcon. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 5 points into Handler: +5% base Crit Chance to our Falcon.
• 5 poinst into Raptor's Wings: 10% chance to gain Haste when you or the Falcon hits and enemy.
• 2 points into Wilderness Scout: Base health and Dodge Rating.
• 5 points into Outlander's Tenacity: Gain 15% of maximum Health as Endurance.
• 5 points into Agile Hunt: Adds base Dexterity and gives our Falcon 1 Throwing Damage per 4 Dex
• 3 points into Peltast: Throw speed increase.
• 6 points into Tactician: Adds base damage to the falcon.
• 5 points into Stamina of the Rover: Increased dodge rating and mana regeneration.
• 6 points into Avian Hurl: Gives 50% of our added trowing damage as melee and throwing damage, to the falcon.
• 1 point into Coordinated Fade: Allows us to gain silver shroud when we use our spam skill. (should be  Explosive Trap)
• 1 point into Intuitive Connection: Allows  Dive Bomb and  Falconry to be casted instantly.
• 6 points into Needle Like Precision: Critical Strike chance and Multiplier for the player and the falcon.
• 7 points into Finesse Them: Converts a portion our Critical Stike Avoidance to Critical Strike Multiplier for the falcon.
• 6 points into Evasion Tactics: Adds dexterity, increases armor, and increases dodge rating.
• 3 points into Relentless Talons: Falcons damage, now heals us for a .1% per dexterity we have.
• 6 points into Stymphalian Feathers: Gives us 6 points of armor per 2 dexterity. Additionaly, we increase Armor by 2% per enemy attacked by our falcon in the last 4 seconds. (This effect can stack)
• 6 points into Tailwind: We have 6% damage reduction, 6% movespeed and 6% increased 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 Explosive Trap Dive Bomb 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 targeting defenses and massive increases for  Falconry and  Dive Bomb by targeting added Throwing Damage and base Critical Strike for our Falcon. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 5 points into Pursuit: Increased our Movement Speed.
• 8 points into Once: Adds Throwing Damage and Dodge Rating if hit recently.

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.

 Explosive Trap is the our main enabler for the Falcon. Although our damage is minimal, it is used to generate damage for the Falcon, and shave time from the cooldown of the Falcon's skills. Additionally, this also gives us a defensive layer with Dusk Shroud.

• 2 points into Minefield: Allows more mines to be placed.
• 4 points into Jelkhor's Blueprint: Increased Throwing Speed, and reduces cost of Mana.
• 2 points into Subtle Sabotage: Reduces the Mana cost of mines.
• 1 point into Sky Signal: Gives the falcon 15% Penetration.
• 1 point into Free Lofting Bird: Upon explosion, the Falcon's skills are reduced in cooldown.
• 1 point into Smoke Traps: We gain silver shroud when throw mines.
• 1 point into Tinkerer's Design: Increased the area of the detonation and triggering of mines.
• 1 points into Coldsnap Mines: Traversal node.
• 1 points into Trapas: We throw a unconverted mine when ever we throw a converted mine.
• 1 points into Static Mines: Adds another converted mine, maximizing amount of mines thrown in a single cast.
• 3 points into Trap Sprinkler: We gain a 30% chance to drop a fresh mine when the thrown one explodes
• 1 point into Automated Bombardment: We now have 100% chance to drop a fresh mine when the throw one explodes.
• 1 point into Trapuchet: Mines will now be trown a in a large AOE from the Trap Sprinkler node.

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 will be the start and end of most fights. It deals massive amounts of damage, but be sure to throw enough  Explosive Trap's to crit before you use Dive Bomb in order to ensure the buff effects from  Talons of Valor.

• 4 points into Rushing Wings: Adds more damage and makes the dive animation faster.
• 4 points in Devastating Dive: Adds more damage and increases the Stun duration.
• 4 points in Rush of the Hunt: Increases the cooldown recovery of the skill.
• 4 points into Focused Hunter: Adds more damage and reduces the Mana cost.
• 3 points in United Assault: Reduces the cooldown when you use a throwing attack that hits an enemy.
• 3 points in Hindering Beak Strike: Slows enemies on landing, and increases the area of effect of the dive.
• 2 points in Featherfall: The Falcon now performs a throwing attack before diving.

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 will be used cohessively inbetween uses of  Dive Bomb. There should not be much time before either  Falconry or  Dive Bomb is off of cooldown thanks to  Explosive Trap. Make sure you are using this skill on bosses or large packs to soften them up. The falcon will also attack generically, with auto attacks and pelt enemies with hard hitting feather knives when not being summoned with Dive Bomb or Falconry.

• 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 a throwing attack, the skill reduces its cooldown.
• 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.
• 1 point into Go For the Eyes!: Your highest Critical Strike Chance will now be applied to the falcon at 75% its value.
• 1 point into Exposed Weakness: When you use a Throwing Attack and critically strike, your Falcon will gain your Critical Multiplier at 25% of its value. (This effect can stack twice per 2 seconds).
• 3 point into Is it a bird?: The Falcon has 12% more damage, the value is doubled for the active skill.
• 1 point into Feather Knives: Your Falcon will throw knives at enemies at random, automatically.
• 3 points into Sky Chaser: Significantly increases the rate at which the Falcon will throw Feather Knives.
• 1 point into Agile Prey: The Falcon will do more damage to moving 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.

 Shurikens is automated from  Shift and will not to be on the bar, nor casted manually. They will passively add Armor and give us a high probability to critically strike enemies that are near to us. Thus decreasing the cooldown of both  Dive Bomb or  Falconry.

• 3 points into Alacrity: Traversal node.
• 1 point into Fan of Blades: Traversal node.
• 1 point into Blade Shield: This causes the Shurikens to circle the player.
• 3 points into Bladed Armor: 30% increased Armor per Shuriken circling you.
• 3 points into Floating Blades: Increases the duration of the Blade Shield effect.
• 4 points into Ethereal Blades: Gives Shurikens 100% pierce chance, so they do not disipate when they hit an enemy.
• 4 points into Jagged Edges: This gives Shurikens a +4% base Critical Strike Chance, helping us reach crit more enemies, and reducing the cooldown for both  Dive Bomb and  Falconry.
• 1 point into Scintillant Steel: Reduces Mana cost of Shurikens.

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 our movement skill that keeps us moving quickly around the battlefield. It automates  Shurikens and is essential to topping up our life in between engagements.

• 2 point into Shadow Recuperation: Heals for 30 Health when we Shift.
• 5 point into Sleight of Hand: We throw  Shurikens when we Shift.
• 3 points into Velocity: Reduces the cooldown and Mana cost of Shift.
• 3 points into Momentum: Gain 50% increased Movement Speed after we Shift.
• 4 points into Swift Recovery: We gain Mana when we Shift, even more when we are below half HP.
• 1 points into Shadowslip: We are invulnerable while in the animation of Shift.
• 2 points into Elusive: We gain significant dodge rating, after we shift.