Necromancer Golemancer 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 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 Acolyte, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Necromancers, 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 Golemancer build, Necromancer is our advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points for the Necromancer Passive tree, with a smaller investment of points into Lich to round out the build. Our passive points will be targeting augments for our Minions and boosting their survivability and damage output. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Forbidden Knowledge: Increases Intelligence and Necrotic Resistance.
• 7 points into Stolen Vitality: Increases Health pools for both the player and minions.
• 5 points into Dark Rituals: Increases Minion Attack Speed.
• 1 point into Soul Aegis: Scales Minion Armor per your own character level.

Our base class is the Acolyte, which acts as a generic spell caster and summoner. 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 Acolyte, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Necromancers, 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 build, Necromancer as our advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points for the Necromancer Passive tree, with a smaller investment of points into Lich to round out the build. Our passive points will be targeting augments for our Minions and boosting their survivability and damage output. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Risen Army: Minion Damage and Attack Speed.
• 6 points into Cursed Blood: Increases Minion Damage, but also opens the pathway to the next passive.
• 8 points into Aegisfall: This is critical to our build, allowing all minions to inflict Armor Shred.
• 1 point into Blood Armour: Taken for pathing to the next node.
• 5 points into Mortal Tether: Increases Minion Health.
• 1 point into Unbound Necromancy: Maximum Number of Skeletons +1.
• 2 points into Dark Retribution: This allows us to summon Skeleton Vanguards when a minion dies, giving us three free minions.
• 8 points into Unearthed Arms: More damage to our minions.
• 5 points into Frantic Summons: Gives us and our minions increased Casting and Attack Speed.
• 5 points into River of Bones: Increased Critical Hit Rate, Leech based off critical hits, and improves overall Minion Leech Rate.
• 3 points into Tyrant: Traversal node; the node attached to this is taken to increase Skeleton count.
• 10 points into Moonlight Pyre: Increases Minion Fire and Necrotic Damage.
• 1 point into Tyrant's Legion: Increases Maximum Skeleton count by 1.
• 10 points into Heresy: Increases Intelligence and Minion Critical Strike Chance.
• 3 points into Rite of Undeath: Increases Resistance for both our character and Minion.
• 2 points into Blades of the Forlorn: Increases Minion Critical Multiplier and adds Chill Chance.
• 1 point into Disciples of Necromancy: Adds an extra Death Knight to the pool of minions.
• 5 points into Veins of Malice: This grants our minions Haste and Frenzy every time we cast a spell. This works with the Traversal skill we use from  Summon Skeletal Mage.

Our base class is the Acolyte, which acts as a generic spell caster and summoner. 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 Acolyte, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Necromancers, 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 Golemancer build, Necromancer as our advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points for the Necromancer Passive tree, with a smaller investment of points into Lich to round out the build. Our passive points will be targeting augments for our Minions and boosting their survivability and damage output. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Chaos Flames: This boosts our Fire and Necrotic damage for our minions and has a change to inflict Damned.

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 Skeletal Mage has two unique opportunities to transform the skill using the Passive Tree. The skill is converted into a traversal skill through Grave Passage, and further augmented through the passive tree to allow us to transport up to nine Minions with us when used. We then convert the Skeletal Mages to Death Knights to fit the melee theme and create frontline attackers.

• 2 points into Splintered Dominion: Increases the range of the Death Knight's AoE.
• 4 points into Argonautic Speed: Increases Minion Attack Speed.
• 2 points into Ossein Frenzy: Chance to trigger Frenzy on hit.
• 1 point into Forbidden Arcana: Increases our Minions Damage per 25 maximum Mana.
• 1 point into Grave Passage: This changes the skill to not only summon Death Knights, but it can now be used as a Traversal skill.
• 3 points into Death's Cavalry: This allows us to take our minions with us every time we teleport with Grave Passage.
• 3 points into Leech Life: Increases the Death Knight's Health and allows them to Life Leech on hit.
• 1 points into Death Knights: Creates Death Knights instead of Skeletal Mages.
• 5 points into Celer Mortis: Increases Death Knight base Critical Strike Chance and Movement Speed.
• 3 point into Grey Merchant: Grants Death Knights Critical Multiplier and Health gained on Critical Strike.
• 1 point into Order of Death: Increases Maximum Death Knights by 1.

Due to our gear, we have more points than the standard allocation of 20 points. The nodes Celer Mortis, Grey Merchant and Argonautic Speed can all be lowered until you have more Skill points available from your gear, specifically your Relic prefix.

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 summons Zombies, which spread Poison to enemies by puking on them and self-destructing. We will be spamming this skill, summoning these as Zombies as part of our DPS spam while the rest of our Minion army holds back the tide of enemies.

• 5 points into Forceful Commander: Increases summoning speed and Mana Efficiency.
• 1 point into Daunting Blast: Grants the Zombie's explosion a chance to Stun.
• 1 points into Ravenous: Increases damage against Elites and Bosses.
• 2 points into Pull of the Grave: Zombies gain a Kill Threshold at 16% Health on enemies.
• 1 point into Horrific Vessels: Converts the skill into Necrotic Damage.
• 3 Points into Grave Attunement: Increases Damage and Health Decay, but Zombies move slower.
• 1 point into Army of Rot: Traversal node.
• 1 point into Repulsive Vomit: Adds the ability to Vomit on enemies.
• 4 points into Corrosive Guts: Vomit will now Shred Armor every second.
• 1 point into Path of Destruction: Increases Zombie explosion Area.
• 2 points into Necromantic Fervor: Your character is healed by a portion of the Zombie's explosion.
• 1 point into Vital Ward: Grants Ward instead of Health from Necromantic Fervor.

Due to our gear, we have more points than the standard allocation of 20 points. The nodes Ravenous and Pull of the Grave can be lowered until you have more Skill points available from your gear, specifically your Helmet prefix.

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 Bone Golem is the focus of this build. Summoned to serve as our tanks, we have built Bone Golems to last with a strong defense and high Health pool. With three Bone Golems on the battlefield, your character should be quite safe from the majority of enemies.

• 5 points in Amalgam of Mages: More damage for our Golem and increased Stun chance.
• 4 points in Amalgam of Rogues: Increases the Golem's Attack Speed and Movement Speed.
• 3 points in Unnatural Speed: Increases Golem's Movements and buffs other nearby Minion's Movement Speed as well.
• 5 points in Hunger: Golem's gain Health on hit.
• 5 points in Amalgam of Sentinels: Increases Armor and Maximum Health of Golems.
• 4 points in Tower of Bones: Increases their threat generation and size.

Due to our gear, we have more points than the standard allocation of 20 points. The node Amalgam of Sentinels can be lowered until you have more Skill points available from your gear, specifically your Helmet prefix.

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 fairly straight forward skill that will attach to a Minion and buff their damage for a period of time. Once the buff fades, we simply reapply the skill to renew the buff. This skill boosts Attack Speed and Damage for all minions within range of the minion afflicted by Dread Shade. Since all of our minions are melee-based, it should buff all summoned minions.

• 4 points into Spectral Presence: Increases buff area.
• 1 point into Lone Watcher: Eliminates decay on the minion, but only one Dread Shade can be active at a time.
• 3 points into Dying Coven: Increases Attack Speed.
• 4 points into Grim Fate: Increases buff Area and Damage buff.
• 1 point into Blind Fury: Increases minion Attack Speed.
• 4 points into Lingering Doom: Reduces Health Decay and increases Necrotic damage.
• 1 point into Wisdom of the Dead: Increases Mana Efficiency.
• 1 point into Martyrdom: Grants Minions Armor based off of your characters Vitality.
• 1 points into Flesh Harvest: Increases all buffs depending on how much Health your Minion is missing.

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 built for high damage, good survivability and allows a hands-off playstyle. We will be limiting ourselves to summoning only two Wraiths at a time and eliminating the Health decay against them. Wraith's nodes will focus entirely on amplifying their Critical Hit Damage.

• 1 point into Locus Of Resurrection: Minions appear at target location.
• 2 points into Haunting: Increases Health.
• 1 point into Twin Spirits: Limits you to only summoning two Wraiths, but removes their Health decay.
• 3 points into Sequel of Avarice: Amplifies the Wraith's damage.
• 3 points into Dark Scythe: Increases Melee Attack Speed.
• 5 points into Reapers: Increases Necrotic Damage.
• 3 points into Necrotic Hunger: Increases Necrotic Damage and adds a Necrotic Health leech.
• 1 point into Wraith Bringer: Increases summoning speed.
• 1 point into Spirit Link: Increases Critical Strike Chance.
• 3 points into Dawn of the Fall: Increases Critical Strike chance and grants health leech on Critical Hit.
• 3 points into Dusk of the Living: Increases Critical Multiplier.

Due to our gear, we have more points than the standard allocation of 20 points. The nodes Necrotic Hunger or Dusk of the Living can be lowered until you have more Skill points available from your gear, specifically your Chest's Legendary Potential.