Void Knight Devouring Orb Autobomber Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.1)

Our base class is Sentinel, which fills the role of a knight in Last Epoch. Upon finishing Act 1in 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 Sentinel, you can choose between Passive Trees for Paladin, Forge Guard, and Void Knight. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Sentinel Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

Void Knight is the Advanced Class used for this build, and also where the majority of our Passive Points will come from. The Void Knight Tree will focus around picking nodes that increase Void Damage, Vitality and Echo rate. This is also where we convert  Smite to deal Void Damage. 5 points are allocated to Paladin in order to unlock  Healing Hands and add Health.

• 8 points into Fearless: Vitality is used for Health and scaling our damage.
• 3 points into Juggernaut: Taken for a bit of extra Resistances.
• 5 points into Armour Clad: This is huge for our defensive aspect, as it provides a flat 10% reduction in damage taken for being in melee range.
• 5 points into Valiant Charge: Cooldown reduction for  Lunge.

Our base class is Sentinel, which fills the role of a knight in Last Epoch. Upon finishing Act 1in 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 Sentinel, you can choose between Passive Trees for Paladin, Forge Guard, and Void Knight. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Sentinel Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

Void Knight is the Advanced Class used for this build, and also where the majority of our Passive Points will come from. The Void Knight Tree will focus around picking nodes that increase Void Damage, Vitality and Echo rate. This is also where we convert  Smite to deal Void Damage. Minimal points are allocated to Paladin in order to unlock  Healing Hands and add Health.

• 6 points into Temporal Corruption: Converts  Smite to deal Void Damage, but removes the healing aspect.
• 10 points into Abyssal Endurance: Health gain, as well as Void and Physical Resistance.
• 10 points into Sorrow and Steel: Increased Void Damage.
• 1 point into Void Corruption: Part of the reason why we dump every point into this Passive Tree. For every point in Void Knight, we gain 1% Critical Multiplier, totaling 83% extra Critical Damage.
• 8 points into Void Bolts: Increased Void Spell Damage.
• 5 points into Renouncement: Smite will now scale off Vitality.
• 10 points into Eternal Form: Large amount of sustain through Health gain and Vitality scaling for damage.
• 5 points into Void Aegis: 25% chance to take 10% less damage with every instance of damage.
• 3 points into Echoing Strikes: 10% extra chance to Echo.
• 15 points into Dread: Huge node; amps up damage and significantly increases Movement Speed.
• 1 point into Avatar of Regret: Adds an extra 10% chance to Echo. For this build, the negative effects on the node do not impact us.
• 1 point into Void Flux: Built in panic button. If you get below 20% Health, shifts enemies forward in time by 4 seconds.

Our base class is Sentinel, which fills the role of a knight in Last Epoch. Upon finishing Act 1in 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 Sentinel, you can choose between Passive Trees for Paladin, Forge Guard, and Void Knight. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Sentinel Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

Void Knight is the Advanced Class used for this build, and also where the majority of our Passive Points will come from. The Void Knight Tree will focus around picking nodes that increase Void Damage, Vitality and Echo rate. This is also where we convert  Smite to deal Void Damage. 5 points are allocated to Paladin in order to unlock  Healing Hands and add Health.

• 5 points into Defiance: 15% Resistance for Cold, Fire, and Lightning. This is taken to unlock access to  Healing Hands.
• 10 points into Valor: Huge boost to Health, and increases the effectiveness of  Healing Hands.

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.

 Smite is the hardest hitting single instance of damage in the build. It will be used manually when dealing with Boss or Rare type enemies when  Devouring Orb alone isn't enough, and will also be auto-cast when  Lunge is used, helping clear maps. Everything in this Passive Tree goes into damage dealing nodes, and once you have your characters geared, Smite will have a 100% chance to crit.

• 3 points into Pillars of Light: 36% chance to double cast. This synergizes well with Echo casts, allowing for more instances of free damage.
• 5 points into Sacrifice: Smite deals 250% more damage, but consumes a portion of our Health on each use.
• 4 points into Atonement: Mostly removes the Health cost associated with Smite. 80% reduction feels comfortable when you consider Health Regen and the healing off  Healing Hands.
• 5 points into Conviction: Adds 10% to your base Critical Hit Rate for Smite.
• 4 points into Deep Impact: Adds 100% extra Critical Multiplier.

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.

 Healing Hands is going to add sustain for us with this build. There were two options to consider when making this, and it was either with Healing Hands or with  Sigils Of Hope. Taking Healing Hands saves us more than a handful of nodes in the Void Knight Passive Tree that would have otherwise gone towards Leech, and also opens up the ability for us to take the Blessing  Grand Emptiness of Ash instead of  Grand Hunger of the Void. Sigils of Hope also comes with one major negative side effect, which is its massive toll on your Mana. Healing Hands will cost us absolutely nothing to use in that regard.

Note that  Healing Hands will not trigger off  Smite when auto-cast off  Lunge. Smite will still incur the Health cost associated with it, however the Health Regen will cover for this on its own. Just be mindful if Lunging into a group of mobs while injured, it will not heal you.

• 4 points into Hand of Aurelus: Directly casting Smite will now trigger an instance of Healing Hands.
• 1 point into Divine Barrier: Taking for pathing.
• 1 point into Homeward: This node is required! If you alter this tree, do not remove this. This will force Healing Hands to center on your character rather than where Smite lands. This is important, as you no longer need to be in melee range to make sure you're healing, but on larger bosses (Reign of Dragons) it is impossible to make Healing Hands hit you consistently due to the hitbox of the boss.
• 4 points into Prayer of the Fallen: 100% Increased Healing Effectiveness.
• 3 points into Blessed Parish: Drops the Mana cost for Healing Hands to 0 by itself when using  Omnividence.
• 4 points into Urgent Healing: Adds an initial 140 Health to the heal.
• 3 points into Vow of Restoration: Healing Hands heals more over time.

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.

Normally the skill bar above is simply there to tell you which skills to place on the bar, but the order doesn't matter much. For this build specifically, you will want to place  Devouring Orb onto your right-click mouse button. This helps facilitate the autobomber playstyle. Devouring Orb will, in almost every situation, want to be pressed on cooldown. With the skill sitting around 2.4 seconds, this can be quite annoying to do. Instead, holding down the right-mouse button will auto-cast Devouring Orb for you the instant it is off cooldown, so long as you do not have another button (such as  Smite) held down at the same time. There are software programs or tricks with NUM Lock you can do to get the same result, without the need for you to hold a button down, but this removes player control, and it is not ideal. Devouring Orb has a short cast time associated with it, and in the event you need movement, having a program or setting forcing you to cast could mean your death.

With that being said,  Devouring Orb will be our main source of damage while mapping. The AoE damage on this skill is fantastic and will make quick work of any enemy near you. The skill will do a massive amount of damage when it comes into contact with enemies, but also casts Void Rifts when a nearby enemy dies, creating a chain reaction when killing mob packs. Devouring Orb will also periodically create Abyssal Orbs which float towards enemies and explode on impact.

• 1 point into Dark Moon: Orbs will now orbit you.
• 1 point into Abyssal Rush: While Devouring Orb is active (this will be 100% of the time) you have 6% extra Movement Speed and Cast Speed.
• 1 point into Cosmic Impact: Orbs now deal 80 base Void Damage on impact.
• 5 points into Extinction: Collisions deal 200% more damage.
• 5 points into Void Adept: 10% more Void Damage, from all sources, not just Devouring Orb. This is doubled if you have 90 or more Vitality. This is possible through gear, but requires high rolls on T7 affixes.
• 1 point into Hollow Orb: Increases the duration of Devouring Orbs by 40%.
• 1 point into Abyssal Emission: Orbs now cast Abyssal Orbs at enemies.
• 4 points into Chaotic Torrent: Abyssal Orbs are cast more frequently, but at a random rate defined by the tooltip.
• 4 points into Rift Caller: Devouring Orb and all sources of damage that come from it have 40% Void Penetration.

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.

 Lunge is the mobility skill in the build, but also serves the purpose of automating  Smite casts and allowing us to buff our attacks with Void Penetration. Smite used this way will not trigger  Healing Hands, but will reduce your Health, so keep that in mind. The Health cost is fairly low, and is not much of a consideration, especially if you have the HoT from Healing Hands ticking on you.

• 1 point into Disarming Blow: Chance to apply Frailty on hit.
• 2 points into Initiate's Onslaught: Pathing node.
• 1 point into Cull the Weak: Pathing node.
• 4 points into Holy Incursion: When Lunging from 10 meters or more, you will always cast up to three Smites on nearby targets. The chance gets lower when Lunge is used to close less distance.
• 2 points into Reckless Skirmish: You now apply Frenzy to yourself for 2 seconds on Lunge use.
• 1 point into Voidbringer: Converts Lunge and its effects to Void.
• 2 points into Dawn Charge: Pathing node.
• 1 point into Blade Stream: Pathing node.
• 1 point into Broadside: Pathing node.
• 5 points into Crusader's Fury: When dashing through enemies, each enemy will provide the player with 10% Void Penetration for 4 seconds.

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.

 Anomaly is used as a support skill for the build, offering Increased Void Damage and higher Cast Speed while shredding the Void Resistance from nearby enemies and inflicting stacks of Slow on them. Anomaly is cast on the player and will move with us. It is also insta-casted, so it won't interrupt uptime while attacking enemies. Most importantly is the 30% Cooldown Reduction associated with this skill. This is massive for ensuring the maximum number of casts from  Devouring Orb.

• 1 point into Void Touched: The main hit of Anomaly will apply Time Rot.
• 1 point into Immediacy: Enemies no longer move forward in time.
• 1 point into Time Bubble: Anomaly will now place a Time Bubble at the target location.
• 5 points into Temporal Mastery: Doubles the duration for Time Bubble.
• 1 point into Time Lord: The Time Bubble is now placed on you, and moves with you.
• 2 point into Manipulation: Time Bubble now increases our Cast Speed by 20%.
• 3 points into Swiftrest: Time Bubble grants you 30% increased Cooldown Reduction.
• 2 points into Exacerbate: Time Rot now lasts longer and has 20% Void Penetration.
• 5 points into Mark of Rot: Enemies hit by the initial blast from Anomaly will take increased Void Damage for 5 seconds.