Warlock Soul Feast Torment Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.1)

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, Warlock is our advanced class. We will place every non-base class Passive Point into the Warlock Passive tree. The nodes taken in Acolyte and Warlock will focus on Intelligence, Ward Generation, and augmenting our ability to abuse Curses. On top of that, we will be using Witchfire, allowing us to scale both Fire and Necrotic Damage through Ignite and Damned Chance. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Forbidden Knowledge: Increases Intelligence and Necrotic Resistance.
• 6 points into Stolen Vitality: Increases Health pools for both the player and minions.
• 1 point into Mania of Mortality: Gain Ward from any nearby death.
• 5 points into Unnatural Preservation: Increases Ward Retention and Resistances.

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, Warlock is our advanced class. We will place every non-base class Passive Point into the Warlock Passive tree. The nodes taken in Acolyte and Warlock will focus on Intelligence, Ward Generation, and augmenting our ability to abuse Curses. On top of that, we will be using Witchfire, allowing us to scale both Fire and Necrotic Damage through Ignite and Damned Chance. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 3 points into Chaos Flames: Increases Fire and Necrotic Damage, increases the chance to Ignite and Damned on hit.
• 5 points into Soul Stealer: Increases Mana Regen and at 5 points provides a bonus of Mana gain when you hit Cursed enemies.
• 5 points into Occultist's Mind: Increases your Intelligence and scales your Mana off Intelligence.
• 5 points into Harrowing Armor: Increases Health and Armor, scales Armor off the amount of Curses on an enemy.
• 3 points into Ward of Malevolence: Increases Ward Decay Threshold and Ward gained on kill.
• 6 points into Spirit Leech: Grants Health Leech, with extra for hits on Cursed enemies.
• 3 points into Imperishable: Grants more Vitality and Ward Decay Threshold scaled through Necrotic Resistance.
• 5 points into Dark Protections: Gain Ward per second, as well as less damage taken from Cursed enemies.
• 10 points into Malefic Body: Increases Intelligence and Vitality.
• 5 points into Chains of Ruin: Casting a Necrotic Skill has a chance to put Damned on enemies. At 5 points, allows you to chain Damned enemies with Damned Overload.
• 5 points into Infernal Lash: Casting a Fire Skill has a chance to put Ignite on enemies. At 5 points, allows you to chain Ignited enemies with Ignite overload.
• 5 points into Wither: Applies Withering on hit. Enemies inflicted with this deal less damage.
• 5 points into Chaotic Strikes: Your hits have a chance to do double damage.
• 5 points into The Ashen One: Increases Necrotic and Elemental damage. At 5 points, allows you to inflict enemies with Witchfire.
• 2 points into Encroaching Darkness: If you cast a Curse you will afflict Anguish on enemies around the target.
• 3 points into Wreak Havoc: Increases Critical Multiplier for Chaotic Strikes.
• 5 points into Grimhilde's Domain: When you have Ignite or Damned Overload your hits spread Witchfire.
• 5 points into Aspect of Death: Increases Health and provides a boost to damage for every negative stack of ailment on you, to a cap of 90. Ths node enables us to inflict Damned on ourselves every time an enemy dies or any time you or your minions take a hit.
• 6 points into Duskbringer: Adds Spell damage for Curses.

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.

 Soul Feast is the enabler for the build, automating several skills and Curses to make the build work. This spell will be used as the main spam skill, capable of killing low Health mobs by itself through Necrotic Damage and inflicting Damned and Torment on nearby enemies, so long as you have the Unique Staff  Wheel of Torment. Soul Feast doesn't just stop at killing enemies and making the build operate, but also acts as a defensive layer by generating Ward on every cast.

It should be mentioned, when  Wheel of Torment is equipped and  Soul Feast is used, you will inflict Torment on yourself. This pairs well with the Warlock node Aspect of Death, where it boosts our damage per stack of ailment on us.

• 3 points into Soul Seeker: Soul Fragments generate Ward, scaling off Intelligence.
• 3 points into Engorged: Lowers the Mana Cost and increases the Ward granted by casting Soul Feast through Greater Soul Fragments.
• 3 points into Wrest: Rare and Boss enemies now generate much more Ward than normal mobs.
• 1 point into Usurp: Soul Feast now grants Mana per Soul Fragment.
• 1 point into Hunger: Traversal node.
• 1 point into Poisoned Husks: Traversal node.
• 3 points into Hellmind: Soul Feast inflicts stacks of Damned based upon your own Intelligence.
• 4 points into Waning Life: Damned inflicted by Soul Feast now penetrates the Necrotic Resistance of enemies.
• 5 points into Bones of the Accursed: Increases Damage and Ward Generation based on how many Curses are on an enemy.

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.

 Chthonic Fissure is both used through automation and manually for this build. As stated above,  Wheel of Torment has a chance to spawn a Fissure when hitting a Rare or Boss enemy with  Soul Feast. While bossing, this is more than enough to get Fissure on the ground, however when dealing with larger packs of mobs that may not have one of these enemy types in them, and Soul Feast is not enough to deal with them, manual casting of Chthonic Fissure may be required. Regardless of how it is cast, the rest of the build functions off Fissure. This includes automation of  Chaos Bolts which can then force casts of both  Rip Blood and  Bone Curse.

• 3 points into Fragile Crust: Lowers the Mana Cost as long as a Cursed enemy exists when casted.
• 2 points into Fell Fire: Torment spreads Ignite stacks.
• 5 points into Stygian Current: Increases frequency of Spirits.
• 1 point into Of Gloom and Flames: Chthonic Fissure is now casted twice; once in front of you, once behind. It now requires more Mana to cast.
• 3 points into Chaotic Rupture: Grants a 60% chance to converts Summoned Spirits into Chaos Bolts.
• 3 points into Severed Wards: Spirits now Shred Necrotic Resistance when they hit.
• 1 point into Spirit Gale: When enemies inflicted with Torment die, they can release Spirits.
• 2 points into Damned Waters: Increases Damned stacks on Spirit hit.
• 3 points into Twisted Waves: Increases damage, scaling off Necrotic Resistance.
• 1 point into Grim Tide: Necrotic damage increases per 1% Critical Multiplier.
• 3 point into Tombgorger: Increases Torment's Damage.

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.

 Chaos Bolts are the middle step for automation in the build, creating a bridge from  Chthonic Fissure to both  Rip Blood and  Bone Curse. Chaos Bolts are not only used for the automation effect, as they do considerable damage on their own. The damage on these necrotic fireballs is scaled by Curses and by hitting enemies that have been inflicted with stacks of either Ignite, Bleed, Frostbite, and Damned. If all five of these prerequisites are met, this comes out to 64% more damage dealt to enemies.

In order to proc  Rip Blood off  Chaos Bolts, it requires a substantial amount of Intelligence. 1 Intelligence is equal to a 1% chance to cast Rip Blood when Chaos Bolts hits. We absolutely want this as close to 100% as possible, ensuring consistent casting of Rip Blood and a reliable source of Ward.

To proc  Bone Curse, it is required that  Chaos Bolts hit a Cursed enemy. This is free in this build, as Soul Feast will be applying curses on hit and all enemies should already have Torment applied to them.

• 2 points into Abrupt Chaos: Increases Cast Speed and Projectile Speed.
• 4 points into Doom's Vindication: Increases damage dealt to Cursed enemies.
• 1 point into Exacted Libation: Automates  Rip Blood when Chaos Bolts hits an enemy, based on a percent chance scaled off Intelligence.
• 2 points into Devour the Damned: Health and Mana gain when Chaos Bolts hits a Cursed enemy.
• 1 point into Cursed Blood: Hits with Chaos Bolts now refresh Curses on hit, and also provide a larger Health gain.
• 1 point into Another Affliction: Automates  Bone Curse when Chaos Bolts hit a Cursed enemy. This can only happen every 6 seconds.
• 5 points into Condemned to Chaos: 100% Chance to apply Damned.
• 5 points into Mania in Flames: 100% Chance to apply Ignite.
• 3 points into Exult in Misery: Chaos Bolts deal more damage to enemies who have been inflicted with Damned, Ignite, Bleed, and Frostbite.

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.

 Rip Blood is casted automatically through our  Chthonic Fissure triggering  Chaos Bolts. This skill is setup as one of our skill trees, but is not apart of our skill bar as we do not need to manually cast it. Inside the tree we focus on Blood Splatter and converting the skill to deal Necrotic Damage in order to gain Ward instead of Health.

• 5 points into Splatter: Rip Blood will now cause Blood Splatters.
• 1 point into Crimson Flood: Increases Blood Splatter area.
• 2 points into Revile: Increases damage of Blood Splatter and allows it to Stun.
• 2 points into Arcane Absorption: Increases Spell Damage.
• 5 points into Run Dry: Rip Blood deals more damage.
• 1 point into Rip Spirit: Converts the skill to Necrotic.
• 1 point into Arcane Fortress: All Health gained through Blood Orbs is converted to Ward.
• 1 point into Hemomancer: Traversal node.
• 5 points into Quenching: Blood Orbs return more Ward.
• 1 point into Hematology: Ward returned is now scaled off Intelligence.

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.

 Bone Curse is triggered through  Chaos Bolts, but only gets used if an enemy already has a pre-existing curse on them. This can happen through either  Soul Feast or  Chthonic Fissure and Torment. Bone Curse can only be automated once every 6 seconds through Chaos Bolts. This curse will make enemies Slow, add a Kill Threshold, inflict Shred Armor and applies Marked For Death.

• 4 points into Crippling Anguish: Applies Slow.
• 2 point into Iron Maiden: Increases damage.
• 3 points into Brittle Bones: Grants an increase in damage and adds Kill Threshold.
• 3 points into Defile Defenses: Grants Armor Shred.
• 3 points into Marrow Thief: Grants a chance to gain Bone Armor.
• 5 points into Conflation: Increases Area of skill.
• 1 point into Sigil of Mortality: Grants Marked For Death on cast.
• 2 points into Reaper's Mark: Increases the duration of Marked for Death.
• 1 points into Misery: Converts the skill to Necrotic.