Sorcerer Black Hole Armageddon Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.0)

Our base class is the Mage, which acts as a generic spell caster. 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 Mage, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Sorcerer, Runemaster and Spellblade. 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.

For this Black Hole Armageddon build, Sorcerer is our chosen Mastery. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points for the Sorcerer Passive tree, with a strong investment of points into Runemaster to round out the build. Our passive points will be targeting augments for Lightning Damage and boosting our survivability. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 1 point into Scholar: Increases Health and Mana.
• 8 points into Arcanist: Increases Intelligence and Resistances.
• 1 point into Reactive Ward: Traversal node to move further in the tree.
• 5 points into Mage Flurry: Increases Attack and Cast speed.
• 5 points into Warden: Adds a 50% base to our ward retention.

Our base class is the Mage, which acts as a generic spell caster. 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 Mage, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Sorcerer, Runemaster and Spellblade. 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.

For this Black Hole Armageddon build, Sorcerer is our chosen Mastery. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points for the Sorcerer Passive tree, with a strong investment of points into Runemaster to round out the build. Our passive points will be targeting augments for Lightning Damage and boosting our survivability. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 5 points into Calculated Destruction: Increases Intelligence and Increases our Critical Strike Chance by 3% per Intelligence.
• 5 points into Arcane Momentum: Grants us Arcane Momentum Stacks.
• 2 points into Afterglow: Increases Spell Damage and Ward Retention.
• 8 points into Ceraunomancer: Increases our Lightning Damage, but also adds a chance to shock when we use our lightning skills.
• 5 points inot Rift Bolt: This node will add Lightning Penetration and allow us to Leech 1.5% of the Lightning Damage we deal as Health.
• 8 points into Crackling Precision: Increases Critical Strike Chance.
• 5 points into Arcane Obliteration: Increases Spell Critical Multiplier.
• 8 points into Arcane Insight: This node will further increase our Intelligence.
• 10 points into Dragon Mage: We need to immidiately grab Mirror Breath in order to take advantage of this node.
• 1 point into Mirror Breath: This will allow us to take advantage of the Dragon Mage, with a 100% increase to our Lightning Damage when we use  Black Hole.
• 5 points into Archmage: Increases Spell Damage by a base of 5, triple this if you are over 200 mana.

Our base class is the Mage, which acts as a generic spell caster. 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 Mage, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Sorcerer, Runemaster and Spellblade. 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.

For this Black Hole Armageddon build, Sorcerer is our chosen Mastery. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points for the Sorcerer Passive tree, with a strong investment of points into Runemaster to round out the build. Our passive points will be targeting augments for Lightning Damage and boosting our survivability. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 5 points into Unsealed Mana: Increases your Health and reduces damage from ailments.
• 7 points into Quintessence of Triumph: Increases your spell damage.
• 8 points into Arcane Focus: Further pushing our intel, and gaining ward whenever we cast a spell.
• 6 points into Transcendence: We add to our base health pool with this node, but also 36 ward per second if we have at least 60 Intel.
• 5 points into Runeword: Cataclysm: Increases your Critical Chance and grants stacks of Runeword.

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.

The  Flame Ward will be a significant gain to our Ward and Mana generation. It will also boost some of our offensive capabilities as well. NOTE: This skill is not on our skill bar, as  Frost Wall will be able to cast  Flame Ward for us.

• 5 points into Stalwart Defense: Increases your Ward with  Flame Ward.
• 2 points into Barrier: You take less damage under Flame Ward.
• 2 points into Shrewd Shielding: Reduces the Mana cost of  Flame Ward.
• 2 points into Dilation: Increases Flame Ward's Duration and reduces Mana cost.
• 1 point into Mental Aegis: Allows Mana to absorb 15% of the damage you receive, instead of Health.
• 4 points into Warmth: Increases our Mana Regeneration by 100%.
• 1 point into Infusion: Increase our Lightning Damamge (once converted by Lightning Ward) by 50%.
• 1 point into Lightning Ward: Converts the damage type of  Flame Ward to Lightning.
• 3 points intoThrough Flames: Adds 6 to our base Lightning Damage while  Flame Ward is active.

Please note, you may not have as many skill points to use until you have the required targeted unique  Vilatria's Storm Crown. All the player must do is remove a single point from the Through Flames node.

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.

 Frost Wall will be used as an offensive machine and a defensive safegaurd. This skill carries several automations, as it will utilize our scaled  Lightning Blast and give us our scaled  Flame Ward. Be sure to read in the Defesive section for further details.

• 2 points into Crystals of Protection: Increases the gains of Ward and Mana when walk through our  Frost Wall.
• 2 points into Boosted Kickoff: Grants Frenzy and Haste buffs when we touch the wall.
• 1 point into Prepared Wards: Activates  Flame Ward when we pass through the wall.
• 1 point into Biting Limit: Shocks enemies that come in contact with the wall, once converted with Crackling Barrier.
• 1 point into Crackling Barrier: This converts are  Frost Wall from Cold into Lightning.
• 1 point into Purifying Gate: This node ensures we are purged from any negative ailments upon passing through the wall.
• 3 points into Lightning Rod: This node will allow the  Frost Wall to cast scaled  Lightning Blast when we pass through the wall.
• 1 point into Charged Pylons: This will now allow the  Frost Wall to freely cast our scaled  Lightning Blast, even if we do not pass through the walll.
• 2 points into Amplified Currents: This allows the wall to cast  Lightning Blast more often, scaling up with the amount of time it has existed.
• 3 points into Marching Winter: This will increase Frost Wall's Area and Duration.
• 3 points into The Dark Cold: This causes the wall to deal more damage, per second it exists. This applies only to the wall, not the subskills that cast  Lightning Blast.
• 1 point into Howling Rift: This allows you to regain 50% of the Mana cost of  Frost Wall if you recast it with more than 50% of its duration remaining. (Recast in 3.5 Seconds or less to gain this benefit)

Please note, you may not have as many skill points to use until you have the required targeted unique  Vilatria's Storm Crown. All the player must do is remove a single point from the Marching Winter node.

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.

The  Lightning Blast skill will be our generic trash killer. However, this is not because it lacks effectiveness, it is because it is quick and has no Mana cost. This skill is double dipped from our  Frost Wall, as it will be utilizing this massive DPS skill as well. This skill will hit very hard because of the set pieces we are using.

• 3 points into Storm Razor: This gives the skill +3% Critical Strike Chance and adds more damage to the base of the skill.
• 2 points into Lightning Attunement: Because we and the  Frost Wall cast the same  Lightning Blast, it will not be uncommon to walk around with Lightning Aegis almost all the time. This is a massive boost to damage when used in cohession with our Idols. Lightning Aegis will also give us a massive defensive boost as well, allowing us to take 25% less damage across the board.
• 4 points into Overcharge: This adds a 40% Crit Multiplier and gives us a 24% chance to double cast.
• 1 point into Hypercharge: This node will give  Lightning Blast a 25% chance to quad cast.
• 4 points into Arcing Power: We take this so progressively add more chains to our  Lightning Blast. Adding another chain (up tp 4) everytime we cast  Lightning Blast.
• 1 point into Surging Influence: This node increases the chain range by 50%.
• 1 point into Closed Circuit: This node is incredibly helpful in traffic. When  Lightning Blast is used, it can chain off of you, giving you damage in critical strike chance.
• 2 points into Crackling Speed: Increases the cast speed of  Lightning Blast.
• 3 points into Shattershock: Since virtually everything you hit will be under the effect Shock, this adds more damage when hit by  Lightning Blast.

Please note, you may not have as many skill points to use until you have the required targeted unique  Vilatria's Storm Crown. All the player must do is remove a single point from the Closed Circuit node.

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 is our boss killer, as  Black Hole will cast multiple instances of  Meteor. We scale it to reduce the cooldown, and increase the amount of damage it can do (it was alot).

• 2 points into Stability: This increases the duration of the  Black Hole, thus increasing the amount of  Meteor's that will fall.
• 1 point into Endless Maw: Further increasing the duration, but adding a longer cooldown.
• 2 points into Weakened Reality: This causes enemies with 1 meter from the center to take 40% more damage.
• 1 point into  Singularity: Causes the  Black Hole to do 50% more damage.
• 1 point into Armageddon: This is where the magic happens. Several  Meteors will fall around the location of the  Black Hole.
• 1 point into Time Dilation: This is a traversal node.
• 4 points into Rifts: We all but destroy the pull area and strength of the pull, to massively reduce the cooldown and mana cost.
• 4 points into Catalyst: A massive increase in damage, at the cost of pull strength.
• 4 points into Umbral Core: Further adds damage to the  Black Hole.

Please note, you may not have as many skill points to use until you have the required targeted unique  Vilatria's Storm Crown. All the player must do is remove a single point from the Umbral Core node.

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 is the automated skill with  Black Hole, and being said, should be reserved for bossing or difficult encounters. The mana use is exponential but proper mitigation of mana is taken care of.

• 1 point into Force of Impact: Increases our Stun chance.
• 3 points into Rapid Descent: Causes the meteor to fall faster.
• 1 point into Twin Meteors: Adds another meteor at a great mana cost.
• 1 point into Distant Craters: This is a traversal node.
• 4 points into Mana Fall: This is a must, at drastically reduces mana cost.
• 3 points into Meteor Shower: Adds an additional three meteors to every cast.
• 1 point into Rapid Impacts: This shortens the amount of time it takes between meteors falling.
• 1 point into Rain of Fire: This adds an additional meteor to the cast.
• 1 points into Crushing Force: Increases overall damage and damage against Healthy mobs.
• 1 points into Infernal Descent: Increases damage, but lowers Cast Speed.
• 4 points into Stardust: This will almost double the damage, because our meteors will have a base of lightning.

Please note, you may not have as many skill points to use until you have the required targeted unique  Vilatria's Storm Crown. All the player must do is remove a single point from the Stardust node. (although this node should not be taken unless you have the set item)