Necromancer Fire Wraiths Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.0)

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 other Mastery Trees.

For the Fire Wraith build, we will be choosing Necromancer as our mastery. We are looking to maximize our Wraiths' damage, as well as supplementing that damage with  Dread Shade and  Summon Volatile Zombie. While  Drain Life will occasionally be cast on enemies, we will mostly be targeting our own Wraiths with it to refill our Mana. To this end, we will be utilizing the majority of our Passive Points in the Necromancer Passive tree. Our passive points will be targeting augments for our Minions to boost their damage output and add survivability and utility to ourself. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 6 points into Forbidden Knowledge: Adds Flat Intelligence and Necrotic Resistances.
• 4 points into Bone Aura: Adds flat Armor for both the player and minions.
• 5 points into Dark Rituals: Increases our minion's Attack Speed and gives us the same bonus for 10 seconds after casting a Minion Skill.
• 5 point into Stolen Vitality: Adds Vitality and increases Minion Health.

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 other Mastery Trees.

For the Fire Wraith build, we will be choosing Necromancer as our mastery. We are looking to maximize our Wraiths' damage, as well as supplementing that damage with  Dread Shade and  Summon Volatile Zombie. While  Drain Life will occasionally be cast on enemies, we will mostly be targeting our own Wraiths with it to refill our Mana. To this end, we will be utilizing the majority of our Passive Points in the Necromancer Passive tree. Our passive points will be targeting augments for our Minions to boost their damage output and add survivability and utility to ourself. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 4 points into Elixir of Hunger: Adds Health and Grants Hunger buff for our minions when we use a potion.
• 8 points into Risen Army: Minion damage and attack speed.
• 3 points into Cursed Blood: Increases our Minion Damage.
• 5 points into Reclamation of Souls: Adds Ward Retention and provides us with Ward when a minion dies.
• 5 points into Aegisfall: 4-5 points is about the most we put into this. Our minions will still sustain over 200 stacks of Armor Shred on bosses, which is more than enough.
• 5 points into Frantic Summons: Increases Cast speed for us and our Minions.
• 8 points into Tyrant: Increased Health for us, at the cost of reduced health for our Minions.
• 5 points into Frantic Summons: Increases both our Attack and Cast Speed as well as our Minions.
• 4 points into Cling To Life: Adds Vitality for us and all Resistances for our Minions.
• 5 points into River of Bones: Increased Critical Strike Chance and Leech for us and our Minions.
• 10 points into Moonlight Pyre: Adds flat Fire and Necrotic Damage for our Minions.
• 10 points into Heresy: Adds Intelligence and increases our Minions' Critical Strike Chance.
• 3 points into Rite of Undeath: Increases our Elemental and Necrotic Resistances and increases our Minion's Necrotic and Elemental Damage.
• 10 points into Blades of the Forlorn: Taken for the increase in Minion Critical Strike Multiplier.

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 other Mastery Trees.

For the Fire Wraith build, we will be choosing Necromancer as our mastery. We are looking to maximize our Wraiths' damage, as well as supplementing that damage with  Dread Shade and  Summon Volatile Zombie. While  Drain Life will occasionally be cast on enemies, we will mostly be targeting our own Wraiths with it to refill our Mana. To this end, we will be utilizing the majority of our Passive Points in the Necromancer Passive tree. Our passive points will be targeting augments for our Minions to boost their damage output and add survivability and utility to ourself. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 10 points into Apocrypha: Adds Intelligence and increases Mana Regen.

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.

 Summon Wraith is our main damaging ability, and the one we cast the most. While we do give them some Health and leech through some passives and gear elsewhere in the build, Wraith survival is not a priority since they will need to be resummoned periodically anyway. Fire Wraiths are closer in functionality to how a Totem would work for Primalist, serving the purpose of a turret rather than a permanent minion that follows you. While their damage is high, they are expendable.

• 1 point into Locus Of Resurrection: Causes Wraiths to be summoned at your mouse cursor, instead of next to you.
• 1 point into Locus Of Death: Gives a massive damage buff, but causes Wraiths to be unable to move.
• 5 points into Reapers: Adds flat Necrotic Damage to their attacks.
• 4 points into Wraith Bringer: Increases Cast Speed and Mana Efficiency.
• 2 points into Flame Wraith: Gives us a chance to summon Flame Wraiths instead. We maximize this chance through some idols as well.
• 1 points into Spirit Link: Improves the base Critical Strike Chance of our minions.
• 3 point into Dawn of the Fall: Adds more base Critical Strike Chance and gives them leech on critical hits.
• 3 points into Dusk of the Living: Increases Critical Strike Multiplier.
• 3 points into Necrotic Hunger: Increases the Necrotic Damage and leech from Necrotic Damage.
• 1 points into Haunting: Increases Wraith's maximum Health.

If you do not have enough points from gear for all of the passives yet, you can skip the last points suggested, from the bottom up. The most important 20 points are listed first.

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.

 Dread Shade is a buff that massively improves the damage output of our minions. However, you may not feel the need to cast it outside of Boss encounters, or some tough rares. Depending on your gear and Corruption level, your Wraiths' base damage will likely be clearing echoes fast enough that it's not necessary. Still, the damage it provides on bosses is quite dramatic, and we are taking passives to optimize this damage.

• 3 points into Wisdom of the Dead: Increases Mana Efficiency.
• 1 point into Congregation of Shades: Increases our maximum Wraiths by 1.
• 3 points into Flesh Harvest: Increase the Buff Effect for every 3% of Health the targeted minion is missing.
• 1 point into Spectral Presence: Improves Dread Shade's area of effect.
• 3 points into Dying Coven: Increase the Cast Speed of affected minions.
• 4 points into Lingering Doom: Reduces the Health Decay on targeted minion, and adds flat Necrotic Damage to affected minions.
• 4 points into Grim Fate: Massively increases the area of effect and the damage provided, but increases health decay on targeted minion.
• 1 point into Symbiotic Apparition: Allows the buffs from  Dread Shade to also effect you.
• 2 points into Duskheart: Gives the effected minions a chance to inflict Damned on enemies.
• 3 points into Frenzied Phantom: Grants Frenzy to affected minions for a few seconds after being cast.

If you do not have enough points from gear for all of the passives yet, you can skip the last points suggested, from the bottom up. The most important 20 points are listed first.

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.

We use  Summon Volatile Zombie as our secondary minions, but we will very rarely be casting them ourselves. They will automatically summon a portion of the time when a minion dies. Only on boss fights, when you've got your maximum amount of Wraith out and you have an active  Dread Shade and you have casted  Drain Life, will you have both the time and Mana required to manually cast  Summon Volatile Zombie for some extra damage.

• 2 points into Forceful Commander: Increases Summoning Speed and Mana Efficiency.
• 1 point into Daunting Blast: Gives increased Stun Chance.
• 2 points into Ravenous : Large increase to damage against Bosses and Rares.
• 2 points into Pull of the Grave: Give our Zombies a kill threshold of 16%.
• 1 point into Path of Destruction: Increases Area of effect for our Zombies explosion.
• 2 points into Necromantic Fervor: Heals you for a portion of Zombie's max Health when they explode.
• 1 point into Vital Ward: Converts the healing from previous node to Ward.
• 3 points into Awakening Presence: Grants 30% chance to summon a Zombie whenever a minion dies.
• 5 point into Fervor: Increased Damage and Movement Speed for our Zombies.

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.

Casting all of our  Summon Wraith can cost a lot of Mana. To fix this, we are taking passives to allow  Drain Life to be cast on our own minions as well, giving us some much needed Mana on top of the normal health leech. Additionally, as we are increasing the total number of targets affected by a large degree, you may sometimes be able to drain from both your own minions as well as enemies.

• 3 points into Empowered Drain: Increases the damage.
• 1 point into Soul Blast: Casts  Soul Blast whenever a minion dies from  Drain Life.
• 1 point into Hecatomb: Allows us to target our minions, granting us Mana gained per second for each minion targeted.
• 4 points into Ravenous: Increases the amount of health leeched and increases damage against low health enemies.
• 3 points into Thoughtsteal: Reduces channel cost.
• 2 point into Insatiable: Increases Health Leech, but also increases channel cost.
• 1 point into Dark Shackles: Changes to a cast instead of a channel, giving us great mobility. Also increases the Mana cost significantly.
• 2 points into Enduring Night: Increases the duration of the Drain Life beam, but adds a higher Mana cost.
• 1 point into Grasp Of The Damned: Allows it to hit up to 10 additional targets, adds a Slow chance to the targets, and increases the Mana cost.
• 2 points into Condemnation: Applies a stacks of Damned each second. This is taken to increase the Necrotic Penetration on targets hit.
• 1 point into Malignant Discharge: Increases Necrotic Damage and area of effect of  Soul Blast.

If you do not have enough points from gear for all of the passives yet, you can skip the last points suggested, from the bottom up. The most important 20 points are listed first.

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 our traversal skill of choice. We are gaining a few survivability bonuses and some utility with our passives here. If you have acquired the suggested experimental mod on your boots in the gear section, you will be able to transport some of your minions along with you when you use  Transplant. This will save you from having to re-summon Wraiths as you move through maps, making clearing echoes feel a lot smoother and faster.

• 2 points into Fleeting Form: Increases the Cast Speed and Cooldown Recovery Speed.
• 2 points into Anemia: Reduces the Health cost associated with Transplant.
• 3 points into Bone Armor: Grants you  Bone Armor when you cast Transplant, providing Armor and reducing damage taken.
• 3 points into Apostasy: Increased duration of Bone Armor.
• 2 points into Plated Bone: Bone Armor effects are increased by 20%. (This was removed, points will be redistributed when the build is updated.)
• 1 point into Sticky Blood: Detonations now cause a Blood Pool to form, slowing enemies that walk through them.
• 3 points into Siphon: Blood Pools now heal you for 9% of your maximum Health when you walk through them.
• 2 points into Acolyte's Fervor: Grants you Haste and Frenzy for a few seconds after casting Transplant.
• 1 point into Reign of Blood: Creates an additional body that detonates on arrival, adding another Blood Pool for us to heal inside of.

There is no extra points needed for this skill. If you happen to have a few extra at some point while gathering the recommended gear, you could fill out Anemia.