Lich Death Seal Endgame Build for Last Epoch

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

For this Lich Harvest build, we will be picking Lich as our mastery class. We will utilizing the majority of our Passive Points for the Lich Passive Tree. Our Passive Points will be targeting augments for our damage and boosting their survivability. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 4 points into Blood Aura: Adds flat damage.
• 8 points into Forbidden Knowledge: Increases necrotic resistance and intelligence.
• 8 points into Stolen Vitality: Gain Vitality points.

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

For this Lich Harvest build, we will be picking Lich as our mastery class. We will utilizing the majority of our Passive Points for the Lich Passive Tree. Our Passive Points will be targeting augments for our damage and boosting their survivability. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 10 points into Apocrypha: Increases our Intelligence and Mana Regen.
• 8 points into Survival of the Cruel: Increases our Health and grants Spell Damage Leech.
• 8 points into Dance with Death: Increases our Damage, triple this effect at low life.
• 5 points into Grasp of Fate: Increases our Necrotic damage.
• 8 points into Crippling Insight: Increases our Intelligence, but reduces our Health Regen.
• 8 points into Three Plagues: Increases our Physical, Necrotic and Poison Penetration.
• 5 points into Deathbringer: Increases our Critical Strike Chance, Attack and cast speed.
• 5 points into Darkguard: Increases our Critical Strike Chance and grants Ward on Critical Strike.
• 10 points into Necrotic Energy: Increases Necrotic damage for us and our minions.
• 5 points into Clairvoyant Insight: Increases our Critical Multiplier.
• 5 points into Ageless Ascetic: Increases our Attack and Cast Speed, Movement Speed, Leech Health.
• 5 points into Wands of the Fallen: Increased Spell Damage.
• 5 points into Soul Maw: Increased Damage Leech.

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

For this Lich Harvest build, we will be picking Lich as our mastery class. We will utilizing the majority of our Passive Points for the Lich Passive Tree. Our Passive Points will be targeting augments for our damage and boosting their survivability. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 6 points into Elixir of Hunger: Adds flat Health and increases our Hunger duration.

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.

Blood Rip is our main DPS skill. We will be triggering several buffs on our character as we stay in  Reaper Form and  Transplant to leap from pack to pack. This skill produces Splatter Blood pools and has a chance to auto trigger on each enemy you kill with the skill. It has solid damage and, with boosted Cast Speed, is ultra quick to use.

• 3 points into Hemomancer: Increases our Cast Speed.
• 3 points into Thirst: Decreases our Mana cost and increases our Cast Speed.
• 5 points into Splatter: Grants us a chance to create Blood Splatters.
• 1 point into Eviscerate: Increases our chance to make Blood Splatters.
• 4 points into Arcane Absorption: Grants us a global Spell Damage buff on hit.
• 1 point into Rip Spirit: Converts the skill and  Blood Splatter into Necrotic.
• 4 points into Run Dry: Increases our damage with this skill.
• 1 point into Blood Catalyst: Automatically recasts this skill on kill.

If you manage to acquire more points for this skill they can go into Crimson Flood.

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.

In this build, we aim to stay in Reaper Form as much as possible. We take advantage of several specific nodes in the skill tree to increase our duration and stack our damage. Please note while in Reaper form you are going to slowly lose health as you kill enemies which means we must prioritize health leech to counteract this.

• 1 point into Soul for a Soul: Increases damage, but lowers Healing Effectiveness.
• 4 points into Reapers: Gain more damage increases at the cost of Health.
• 2 points into Death Comes Quickly: 50% chance to gain Swiftness on kill. You can get 10 stacks of this at maximum. (This was removed, points will be redistributed when the build is updated.)
• 3 points into Rapid Destruction: Attack and Cast Speed increase.
• 3 points into Deathtouch Scythe: Increase base Necrotic damage.
• 3 points into Executioner: Increases Critical Strike Multiplier.
• 2 point into Haunting: Gain a chance to apply Marked For Death to enemies.
• 1 point into Swift Harbinger: Reap cooldown reduction.
• 1 point into Unholy Dominion: Separates Reap and  Transplant cooldowns.

Any additional skill points you gain from gear can go into maxing out Executioner, Deathtouch Scythe.

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.

This skill has perfect synergy with this build and is applied naturally through our movement skill,  Transplant. This buffs every aspect of our build and amplifies all of our damage abilities.

• 3 points into Iron Maiden: Increases damage.
• 1 point into Acute Infliction: Increases Bone Curse's damage, but lowers duration.
• 3 points into Brittle Bones: Grants kill threshold.
• 5 points into Cursed Limbs: Grants Bone Curse on hit after manual application.
• 5 points into Defile Defenses: Provides 100% Armor shred.
• 3 points into Marrow Thief: Chance to cast Bone Armor on yourself on kill.

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.

 Transplant is used as our movement skill to bounce from pack to pack, but it also is a trigger for applying  Bone Curse automatically in the area where we land. For the skill tree, we focus on lowering the cooldown, health cost of the skill and buffing our defenses whenever we use the skill.

• 3 points into Fleeting Form: Increases our cooldown recovery.
• 3 points into Anemia: Lowers the health cost of the skill.
• 3 points into Bone Armor: Bone Armor increases Armor and reduces damage taken.
• 2 points into Plated Bone: Bone Armor effects are increased by 20%. (This was removed, points will be redistributed when the build is updated.)
• 3 points into Apostasy: Increases  Bone Armor duration.
• 3 points into Acolyte's Fervor: Adds Haste and Frenzy buffs upon skill use.
• 1 point into Reign of Blood: Adds an additional detonations upon arrival.
• 1 point into Doom Bringer: Curses all enemies with  Bone Curse on arrival.
• 1 point into Sticky Blood: Adds pools of blood to Slow 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.

 Death Seal is the key to the low life aspect of this build. Death Seal locks our health at a certain value and holds it there, granting us a massive damage boost for the percentage of health we are missing. This skill amplifies our damage output, but does create some risk to your play style.

• 5 points into Corrupted Consciousness: Increases our damage related to our missing life.
• 1 points into Mortal Pulse: Activates a death wave every second.
• 4 points into Tachycardia: Increases the frequency of our death wave pulses and its Critical Strike Chance.
• 3 points into Desperate Shroud: Increases armor related to our missing life.
• 1 point into Deadlock: Sets the threshold of our low life at 33%.
• 2 points into Moratorium: Increases duration of the skill.
• 1 points into Soul Stability: Removes any health drain.
• 1 points into The Quick and the Dead: Adds Haste to our character on release of the seal.
• 2 points into Doomcall: Gain Damned stacks for more damage.

Any additional points you acquire put into Doomcall.