Falconer Fire Trap Ballista 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 trees will focus on scaling Dexterity, Mana Gain, and Defensive Scaling. 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.
• 1 point into Guile: Pathing node.
• 5 points into Evasion: 25% mitigation while moving and 25% increased Dodge Rating.
• 5 points into Agility: 25% chance to get Haste on hit and increased damage scaling off Movement Speed.
• 4 points into Sapping Strikes: We gain Mana when we throw our  Explosive Trap's, so long as we have the correct rings to give us 0 mana cost to throwing skills (-8 mana in total).

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 trees will focus on scaling Dexterity, Mana Gain, and Defensive Scaling. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 5 points into Handler: +5% base Crit Chance for the Falcon.
• 5 poinst into Raptor's Wings: 10% chance to gain Haste when you or the Falcon hits and enemy.
• 1 points into Wilderness Scout: Base health and Dodge Rating.
• 5 points into Outlander's Tenacity: Gain 15% of maximum Health as Endurance.
• 1 point into Crimson Skies: We have a chance to gain Crimson Shroud, helping to protect us from Damage Over Time.
• 8 points into Agile Hunt: Adds base Dexterity and gives our Falcon 1 Throwing Damage per 4 Dexterity.
• 3 points into Peltast: Throwing Speed increase.
• 6 points into Tactician: Adds base damage to the Falcon and Ballistas.
• 1 point into Coordinated Fade: Allows us to gain Silver Shroud when we use  Explosive Trap.
• 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.
• 6 points into Stymphalian Feathers: Gives us 6 points of Armor per 2 Dexterity. Additionally, we increase Armor by 2% per enemy attacked by our falcon in the last 4 seconds.
• 6 points into Tailwind: Adds 6% Damage Reduction, 6% Movement Speed 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 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 trees will focus on scaling Dexterity, Mana Gain, and Defensive Scaling. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Cloak of Shadows: Adds Dexterity and a small amount of Glancing Blow.

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 trees will focus on scaling Dexterity, Mana Gain, and Defensive Scaling. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Focus Fire: Adds Dexterity and reduces the enemies Dodge Rating.

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 damage skill. It will trigger multiple damaging effects an debuffs on the enemies that enable our damage further. Additionally, this also gives us a defensive layer with Dusk Shroud.

• 1 point into Minefield: Allows more mines to be placed.
• 3 points into Trap Sprinkler: We gain a 30% chance to drop a fresh mine when the thrown one explodes.
• 2 points into Siege Engineering: This gives us a 20% chance to drop a  Ballista when a mine explodes.
• 4 points into Jelkhor's Blueprint: Increased Throwing Speed, and reduces cost of Mana.
• 1 point into Smoke Traps: We gain Dusk Shroud when throwing mines.
• 1 point into Umbral Saboteur: We add 1 damage to our Explosive Trap base damage, per stack of Dusk Shroud on us.
• 2 points into Tinkerer's Design: Increased the area of the detonation and triggering of mines.
• 1 point into Coldsnap Mines: Pathing node.
• 1 point into Trapas: We throw a unconverted mine when ever we throw a converted mine.
• 1 point into Static Mines: Adds another converted mine, maximizing amount of mines thrown in a single cast.
• 1 point into Trapuchet: Mines will now be trown in a large AoE from the Trap Sprinkler node.
• 1 point into Instrument of the Alchemist: This causes  Acid Flask to be thrown when Trap Sprinkler triggers.
• 2 points into Ash Compartment: This adds damage to our  Explosive Trap and allows us to apply Fire Resistance Shred.
• 1 point into Adaptive Fuse: This causes the mines to explode instantly on fast moving monsters, and 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.

 Ballista will be automated on our  Explosive Trap, however, a player can manually cast this in order to ensure a maximum DPS swing in your favor. A player can do this risk free, considering our Traps are now free, and we gain Mana when throwing Traps. Ballista is our major killing component; they are scaled to hit hard, in a decently sized area. The scale their damage with us, and Dexterity. We all but ensure they Critically Strike with two of our Uniques. Both  Logi's Hunger and  Melvern's Writ both add up to 3% base Critical Strike Chance.

• 1 point into Shared Enhancements: This is a pathing node.
• 3 points into Heavy Bolts: Gives the Ballista 36% more damage.
• 2 points into Sharpened Tips: Adds 6% to the base Critical Strike Chance of the Ballista.
• 4 points into Perfect Aim: We give the Ballista 100% of our Critical Strike Chance and Critical Strike Mulitplier.
• 1 point into Agile Engineering: This is a pathing node.
• 3 points into Flaming Shots: This is a pathing node.
• 1 point into Explosive Delivery: This is a pathing node.
• 4 points into Armed Construction: The Ballista gains 8% more damage and 4% more area per Dexterity we have. This should be around 110 or so, depending if you you we able to aquire Legendary Potential.
• 2 points into Efficient Construction: This decreases the Mana cost significantly.
• 1 point into Practical Build: This adds 40% more damage to the Ballista.

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.

 Acid Flask will be fully automated with both  Shift and  Explosive Trap. There is no reason to have this on the bar. Acid Flask will help efficiently clear packs and Shred the Fire Resistance from enemies. This is used in cohession with the rest of our damage, which is almost exclusively fire.

• 1 point into Hindering Mixture: This is a pathing node.
• 4 point into Alchemical Proficiency: This reduces the Mana cost significantly.
• 1 point into Explosive Flask: This converts Acid Flask to Fire.
• 4 point into Firebomb Cocktail: Adds significant damage Acid Flask.
• 4 point into Piercing Debris: Adds 200% Critical Strike Chance and Critical Strike Multiplier to the Acid Flask.
• 4 point into Corrosive: Acid Flask gains 40% more damage.
• 3 point into Tempered Glass: Shreds 300% Armor from enemies hit by Acid Flask.
• 1 point into Smoulder: This causes us to convert the node from Tempered Glass to now Shred the Fire Resistance of 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 giving us a high chance to trigger our  Dragonfire from our bow.

• 3 points into Alacrity: Pathing node.
• 1 point into Fan of Blades: Pathing 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, resulting in more procs of  Dragonfire.
• 1 point into Massacre: Increased the Critical Strike Multiplier 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 keeping our Armor Mitigation in and between skirmishes. It is also a handy tool for trash clear, as our Acid Flask do pack a serious punch.

• 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 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.
• 2 points into Parting Gift: We have 100% chance to drop an Acid Flask where we Shift from.
• 2 points into Arrival Gift: We have 100% chance to drop an Acid Flask where we Shift to.