Void Knight Time Rot Hammerstorm Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.2)

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 be used almost entirely to bolster the damage Time Rot deals, taking nodes like Rot Grip and any node that enhances Attack Speed, Slow Chance, or Chance to Inflict Time Rot. We will need to place 15 points in Paladin in order to unlock  Symbols of Hope.

• 2 points in Juggernaut: Strength base and Resistance gains.
• 8 point in Fearless: Vitality and Health Regen.
• 5 points in Relentless: Increased damage and Stun defenses.
• 5 points in Armour Clad: Damage mitigation for enemies within melee range.

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 be used almost entirely to bolster the damage Time Rot deals, taking nodes like Rot Grip and any node that enhances Attack Speed, Slow Chance, or Chance to Inflict Time Rot. We will need to place 15 points in Paladin in order to unlock  Symbols of Hope.

• 5 points in Defiance: Attunement and Elemental Resistance, bolstering Endurance Threshold.
• 10 points in Valor: Endurance, Health, and Healing Effectiveness.

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 be used almost entirely to bolster the damage Time Rot deals, taking nodes like Rot Grip and any node that enhances Attack Speed, Slow Chance, or Chance to Inflict Time Rot. We will need to place 15 points in Paladin in order to unlock  Symbols of Hope.

• 5 points in Abyssal Endurance: Health, Resistances, and less damage taken from Physical and Void type attacks.
• 1 point in Devouring Blade: Pathing node.
• 4 points in World Eater: Adds Leech to the build, assisting in Health sustain.
• 5 points in Dark Maw: 10% increased Health, and a chance to absorb 5% of an enemies health when you kill them.
• 5 points in Doom Knight: Strength, Health, and a bonus of Armor for 5 points.
• 6 points in Rot Ripples: 60% Chance to inflict Time Rot, and Time Rot will spread to nearby enemies when the initial target dies. This is a very strong node, as the spread is an amazing way to kill enemies in echoes, but the bonus here grants Time Rot an extra 25% duration.
• 6 points in Patient Doom: Increased Void DoT and a good chunk of reduced damage against critical hits.
• 5 points in Rot Grip: The most important node in the passive tree. This scales Time Rot, and is the main driver for our damage.
• 8 points in Renouncement: This is taken mostly for the Cast Speed. While this does help Smite deal damage, this is an ailment build and doesn't do much hit damage.
• 5 points in Woe: Massive node. Void Penetration, Slow Chance, and Frailty Chance.
• 5 points in Singular Purpose: This node is trick, as you really want less than 30% Block Chance to fully utilize it. Read further into our gear section for more info.
• 3 points in Echoing Strikes: Mostly a pathing node, but does give us some Time Rot damage through Chance to inflict.
• 10 points in Time Legion: Big modifier, grants Melee and Throwing Attack Speed.
• 5 points in Abyssal Fluctuation: Major defensive node. 50% of Elemental Damage you take is directed into dealing Void Damage, and Void Damage deals 20% less.

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.

 Hammer Throw will be the most used button for the build, allowing you to hit enemies and apply Time Rot from the safety of range. Since Time Rot stacks cap at 12, we do not need a vortex of hammers surrounding us. Instead, this build opts to take chained hammers; this still provides AoE coverage, but provides a ton of multiplicative modifiers to on-hit effects, moreso than the whirlwind effect would.

• 3 points in Winged Hammers: 45% more projectile speed.
• 1 point in Steadfast Path: Pathing node.
• 2 points in Catapult: Adds four projectiles to Hammer Throw.
• 5 points in Force of Impact: 50% more damage multi.
• 1 point in Collision: 50% more damage, and hammers can not pierce.
• 1 point in Ricochet: Hammers no longer gain any of the special effects from the rest of the tree; instead, they chain from one enemy to the next. This node scales off the amount of hammers you would've thrown without the node being taken. In this case, you'll gain 80% more damage and 80% more attack speed.
• 2 points in Chaining Hammers: Hammer Throw now chains four times.
• 5 points in Weighted Hammers: Big damage boost, but Hammers travel slower.

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 will never be used manually. Instead, we rely on Adorned Raheyh Idols with Chance to cast Smite on throwing hit to proc the spell off  Hammer Throw. Smite, just like Hammer Throw, has some serious multiplicative damage nodes in it's tree. Essentially, Smite is being taken as an extra hit to enemies to quickly reach the 12 stack cap on Time Rot. This is great for mapping, and will quickly kill a handful of enemies to spread Time Rot stacks to nearby enemies. To enable even faster clear speed, lightning bolts have been added to Smite procs, allowing us to hit even more enemies at once, and creating quite the light show.

There's one more thing  Smite provides, and that's a major buff to Attack Speed when it hits an enemy. This is a very powerful buff for this build, as Time Rot damage scales directly off these stats.

• 2 points in Blinding Flash: Smite hits have a chance to Blind, and Smite deals more damage to Blinded enemies.
• 5 points in Sacrifice: Huge multiplicative 250% node.
• 1 point in Fallen from Grace: Converts Smite into a Void skill.
• 2 points in Piety: Pathing node.
• 1 point in Order of Lagon: This is the node for Lightning conversion, however the Void conversion takes priority and this node does nothing.
• 1 point in Unbalanced Scale: Each Smite cast now drops an extra three lightning bolts.
• 1 point in Holy Wave: Pathing node, Smite no longer heals due to Void conversion.
• 3 points in Righteous Fury: Pathing node.
• 4 points in Righteous Flurry: Hitting an enemy with Smite grants us extra Attack Speed, buffing Time Rot.

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.

 Abyssal Echoes is taken for one main reason; it's a huge buff to Time Rot. On self-cast use of Abyssal Echoes, we gain a ton of chance to inflict Time Rot for a short period of time. This is one of the scalers used in Rot Grip, and probably the hardest one to find. You don't need to actually hit anything with it to obtain the buff, simply using the skill will grant Nethar Coating to us and provide a significant damage boost.

• 3 points in Crippling Waves: Echo hits apply three Slow stacks on enemies.
• 1 point in Freedom of Movement: Slow on you is now converted to Haste. Especially in Patch 1.2 with all of the Posesseed enemies, this is great.
• 1 point in Vorpal Reverberation: Pathing node.
• 4 points in Embrace the Darkness: Using Abyssal Echoes grants Nethar Coating, providing a massive 20% Attack Speed boost to melee and throwing, and more damage dealt to Blinded enemies.
• 3 points in Abyssal Tendrils: Nethar Coating from the previous node now also gives you a 45% chance to apply Time Rot, boosting it's damage through Rot Grip.
• 1 point in Turbulence: Abyssal Decay inflicted by Abyssal Echoes lasts longer.
• 1 point in Myopia: Abyssal Echoes now Blind enemies.
• 1 point in Fragility: Mostly pathing node, however Abyssal Decay no longer gets consumed on hit, and instead acts as a normal DoT.
• 3 points in Crumbling: Debuffs enemies hit by Abyssal Echoes, causing them to take 24% increased damage. Due to how this is applied, it acts as a multiplicative damage increase.

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.

 Symbols of Hope is used entirely as a passive buff to the build. Once they've been converted to Void, each Symbol will provide a boost to Void Damage. Additionally, these provide a vast amount of Endurance Threshold, something the build needs to function defensively. Avoid activating this skill, as the loss of Symbols will not be worth it for the active effect.

While it would be ideal to have five Symbols active, we just don't have the points while still converting to Void.

• 5 points in Empowering Symbols: 25% increased damage per Symbol.
• 3 points in Decree of Flame: Pathing node.
• 1 point in Symbols of Despair: Void conversion, and increased Void Damage per Symbol.
• 3 points in Celestial Concentration: Increased Mana per Symbol.
• 5 points in Iron Symbols: Endurance Threshold per Symbol.
• 2 points in Enduring Hope: Pathing node.
• 1 point in Tetragram: +1 Symbol.

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.

 Devouring Orb will spawn as we walk. This was taken mostly for the global Void multiplicative, but Devouring Orbs will generate  Abyssal Orbs, seeking out nearby enemies and applying Time Rot for us. All Orbs created come with 50% Void Penetration and will apply a ton of stacks for us, easing up the pressure on us to manually hit enemies. Depending on gear and Corruption level, it is possible to complete an Echo without ever pressing a button.

• 5 points in Void Adept: 10% more global Void Damage, 20% if you manage to get above 90 Vitality.
• 1 point in Hollow Orb: Devouring Orbs now last 40% longer.
• 1 point in Abyssal Emission: Devouring Orbs now create Abyssal Orbs.
• 1 point in Dark Moon: The Orbs now orbit you, but last 50% less time.
• 1 point in Abyssal Rush: Devouring Orbs now cast automatically while you walk, dependent on their cooldown.
• 2 points in Sightless Star: 16% chance for Devouring Orb to have only half its cooldown.
• 5 points in Rift Caller: 50% Void Penetration for all Orbs related to this skill.
• 4 points in World Rot: Orbs last longer, and have an extra 100% chance to inflict Time Rot.