Necromancer Wraithlord Army Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.0)

Our base class is Acolyte, which fills the role of mixed spell caster and minion summoner in Last Epoch. Upon finishing Act 1 in the campaign, your character will be offered an opportunity to select an Advanced Mastery. Each base class has three possible Masteries to choose from. For Acolyte, you can choose between Passive Trees for Lich, Necromancer, and Warlock. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Mage Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

Necromancer is the Advanced Class used for this build, and also where the majority of our Passive Points will come from. The Necromancer Tree will focus around picking nodes that increase our minion's Attack Speed, Critical Strike Chance and Critical Multipliers. There are a few points placed in order to boost the defensive layers of the Wraiths, however these are minimal and just enough to make sure the Wraiths are not one-shot, as Wraith's have natural Health Decay when summoned, and the Wraithlord will continually summon more when they disappear, keeping you capped at near 100% uptime. For personal defenses, nodes are taken in both Acolyte and Necromancer in order to build Ward Retention.

• 5 points into Forbidden Knowledge: Boost to Necrotic Resistance and Intelligence.
• 5 points into Dark Rituals: Taken specifically for Minion Attack Speed.
• 4 points into Stolen Vitality: Increased Minion Health, but also boosts Vitality.
• 1 point into Mania of Mortality: Traversal node.
• 5 points into Unnatural Preservation: Taken for Ward Retention, but also supplies important Resistances.

Our base class is Acolyte, which fills the role of mixed spell caster and minion summoner in Last Epoch. Upon finishing Act 1 in the campaign, your character will be offered an opportunity to select an Advanced Mastery. Each base class has three possible Masteries to choose from. For Acolyte, you can choose between Passive Trees for Lich, Necromancer, and Warlock. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Mage Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

Necromancer is the Advanced Class used for this build, and also where the majority of our Passive Points will come from. The Necromancer Tree will focus around picking nodes that increase our minion's Attack Speed, Critical Strike Chance and Critical Multipliers. There are a few points placed in order to boost the defensive layers of the Wraiths, however these are minimal, as Wraith's have natural Health Decay when summoned, and the Wraithlord will continually summon more when they disappear, keeping you capped at near 100% uptime. For personal defenses, nodes are taken in both Acolyte and Necromancer in order to build Ward Retention.

• 8 points into Risen Army: Minion Damage and Attack Speed.
• 5 points into Grave Thorns: Huge boost to minion survivability with Health and Armor.
• 1 point into Blood Armour: Traversal node.
• 5 points into Reclamation of Souls: Ward Retention and additional Ward when a Wraith dies.
• 4 points into Cursed Blood: Increases the Necrotic Damage for Wraiths.
• 3 points into Mortal Tether: 45% Health increase for Minions.
• 4 points into Aegisfall: Provides 100% chance for Wraiths to Shred Armor on hit.
• 5 points into Frantic Summons: Minion Attack Speed boost.
• 8 points into Tyrant: 24% increased Health, converted into Ward due to low life.
• 8 points into Cling To Life: Vitality, used for Ward, and extra Resistances for Wraiths.
• 10 points into Moonlight Pyre: Added Necrotic Damage for Wraiths.
• 5 points into River of Bones: Adds Critical Strike Chance and Leech for Wraiths.
• 6 points into Heresy: Boosts our Intelligence and Minion Critical Strike Chance.
• 10 points into Rite of Undeath: Major increases to Resistances and Necrotic Damage for minions.
• 10 points into Blades of the Forlorn: Critical Multipler for Minions.

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.

 Summon Wraith will no longer summon actual Wraiths with this build due to  Wraithlord's Harbour. Instead, you now have access to the Wraithlord, which is a Minion that will summon Wraiths for you, and these Wraiths scale off your own Summon Wraith Passive Tree. While the Wraithlord himself can attack with Necrotic Beams, this build instead utilizes the ability for the Wraithlord to summon up to 20 Wraiths to decimate enemies with Melee attacks. As such, this skill will be used to increase the Melee capabilites for the Wraiths as much as possible, as well as adding in additional Wraiths to be summoned by the Wraithlord.

• 5 points into Reapers: Adds 20 Necrotic Damage base to Wraiths.
• 3 points into Necrotic Hunger: More Necrotic Damage and allows Wraiths to Leech Health with Necrotic Damage.
• 1 point into Wraith Bringer: Traversal node. We will not be summoning except for the initial summon for the Wraithlord.
• 2 points into Fallen Reclamation: Increases Wraith Movement Speed.
• 2 points into Covenant of Souls: Adds two Wraiths to your maximum Wraith pool.
• 1 point into Spirit Link: Adds base Critical Strike Chance to Wraiths.
• 3 points into Dawn of the Fall: Adds further base Critical Strike Chance for Wraiths, and they now Leech from Critical Damage.
• 3 points into Dusk of the Living: Adds Critical Multiplier for Wraith hits.
• 1 point into Locus Of Resurrection: Traversal node.
• 3 points into Dark Scythe: Wraiths get 30% extra Attack Speed.

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.

 Dread Shade's purpose for this build is to create an aura off the Wraithlord to boost the damage of all nearby Wraiths. We limit the Dread Shade to one active at all times, remove the decay, and then use it to increase damage, Attack Speed and Necrotic Damage for all affected Minions.

• 3 points into Spectral Presence: Increases the area for Dread Shade's effect by 75%.
• 1 point into Lone Watcher: Dread Shade no longer drains Health, but is limited to once instance being active.
• 3 points into Dying Coven: Increases the Attack Speed of all nearby Wraiths.
• 4 points into Grim Fate: Increases the area of Dread Shade and Minions within its range gain 100% more damage.
• 1 point into Symbiotic Apparition: You now also gain the effects of Dread Shade.
• 4 points into Lingering Doom: Adds 12 Necrotic Damage to all nearby Minions.
• 1 point into Wisdom of the Dead: Traversal node.
• 1 point into Martyrdom: Scales the Armor of all nearby Minions by your own Vitality.
• 3 points into Flesh Harvest: Increases all buffs within this tree scaling off missing Health. This is perfect for Wraiths, as they have natural Health Decay.

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.

 Harvest is used in the same fashion a maestro would conduct their band. In this build, Harvest is used to direct Minions to attack, but also operates as a way to boost the Wraith's Critical Strike Chance when we ourselves land a critical hit. This does require us to be within melee range, so keep that in consideration when attempting to get this buff onto the Wraiths. While aggressive gameplay is encouraged, you don't want to die while trying to get a melee hit off.

• 2 points into Finality: Adds Kill Threshold, but mainly for traversing the tree.
• 5 points into Legion of the Lich: When you crit, your Minions also gain an increase in Critical Strike Chance.
• 1 point into Undead Harvest: Minions will now prioritize the targets you strike with Harvest, as well as increasing the damage the enemies hit take by your Minions.
• 3 points into Mind Harvest: Using Harvest now grants Ward when it hits a Cursed enemy.
• 1 point into Mirror Soul: Grants additional Ward based on your maximum Health.
• 2 points into Symbol of Loss: Traversal node.
• 3 points into Spectral Whetstone: Adds base Critical Strike Chance.
• 4 points into Learned Weakness: Adds Increased Crit Chance when you hit a Cursed enemy with Harvest.

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.

 Bone Curse boosts the damage Wraiths deal by afflicting enemies hit with Shred Armor and Marked For Death. While it would be wise to reapply it manually if needed, this build automates Bone Curse with  Transplant, allowing for more aggressive and mobile gameplay and avoiding the cast time associated with Bone Curse itself. On top of this, Bone Curse comes with a Kill Threshold of 12%, which becomes increasingly more valuable the higher in Corruption you go.

• 5 points into Conflation: Forced for pathing, but increases the size of Bone Curse, making it beneficial.
• 1 point into Sigil of Mortality: Marks enemies for death for 2 seconds.
• 4 points into Reaper's Mark: Doubles the duration for Mark for Death to 4 seconds.
• 1 point into Misery: Converts Bone Curse into Necrotic Damage.
• 5 points into Defile Defenses: Applies Shred Armor stacks on application of Bone Curse.
• 2 points into Iron Maiden: Bone Curse now deals more damage. Taken to path to the next node.
• 3 points into Brittle Bones: 12% Kill Threshold.

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.

 Transplant is more than just a mobility skill; it automates  Bone Curse, applies Bone Armor, and activates Haste and Frenzy. Since this build is played at near 0 Health anyway, Transplant costs next to nothing to use. Once casted, Transplant will provide an extra 15 Melee Damage to all Minions.

• 3 points into Acolyte's Fervor: Grants Haste and Frenzy on Transplant usage.
• 1 point into Reign of Blood: Traversal node.
• 1 point into Doom Bringer: Automates  Bone Curse, which allows us to apply Marked For Death when using Transplant.
• 3 points into Fleeting Form: Reduced cooldown.
• 3 points into Marrow Blades: Adds 15 Melee Damage to Wraiths.
• 2 points into Anemia: Traversal node.
• 3 points into  Bone Armor: Allows for safety when playing a bit more risky by adding Armor and Damage Reduction when Transplant is used.
• 2 points into Apostasy: Increases Bone Armor's duration by 50%.
• 2 points into Plated Bone: Bone Armor effects are increased by 20%. (This was removed, points will be redistributed when the build is updated.)