Beastmaster Mastery Leveling Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.0)

Primalist passives are mostly used to provide a defensive boost by increasing Health regen, Flat Health, and Life Leech. The Strength gain is also important to start stacking our Armor base.

Plan to only invest 20 points in this tree, as that's the minimum requirement needed to unlock the Beastmaster passive tree.

This build will not utilize Druid or Shaman passives at all. Instead, we prioritize every point into Beastmaster. Aside from the fact this build does not use skills from the other two Mastery subclasses, Beastmaster is able to put points into several nodes that push base physical damage to both himself and his companions. Several nodes will add offensive bonuses like shred, leech, crit and attack speed. Again, these nodes are not solitary for the beast master, as the companions will be able to use these as well.

To start off, place the max amount of points into Ursine Strength, as this will give a large bonus to defensive layers by taking 16% reduced damage from melee ranged enemies and an increase to our armor base. We are then going to put several singular points in order to push ourselves further in the tree. Put a singular point in Savagery, Ambush, and Lamprey Teeth. From there, put four points into Boar Heart, giving us a an additional 15% damage reduction when we are hit. We will then max the next three nodes. Put five points in Porcine Constitution and Rending Maw, the former adding an additional 15% damage reduction the latter giving you 100% shred armor chance. Put a singular point in Hunters of the Deep to enable the aformentioned offensive effects to your companions. Follow the tree from there as shown, but prioriteze picking up the singular point in Nature's Embrace to gain another companion. The next major milestone would be Viper Fangs as this will give a massive boost to both you and the companions attack speed.

At the point of reaching level 70 and having finished all quests, you should have a total of 20 points into Primalist and 63 points into Beastmaster. It is at this point, you can consider following an end game guide or continue to use this until you aquire necessary gear for the swap.

Our main damage skill used for this build is  Summon Raptor. However, do not count out our own  Swipe damage, as we are scaled to have over 360% Critical Multiplier. The skill will also cull enemy targets when they reach 14% HP or less, making this a must for big targets. You will also rely on Swipe to empower your companions, as they will get the buff from Viper Fangs when you do.

While pathing  Swipe, prioritize Twin Fangs and Lion's Strength before other nodes. Follow the obvious pathing from there and leaving the cull node, Culling for last.

 Summon Wolf is a Beastmaster's best friend. These fuzzy friends have phenominal AI and will hunt down and tear apart enemies in the vicinity. These wolves are pack hunters, and will almost always go together. You can manually trigger their location with the "A" key, or whatever you have it defaulted to. They are failry resiliant with this setup; however, do not neglect them. Be sure to use  Fury Leap to keep them healed when they are low. Be aware, they are scaled with Life Leech.

When scaling this, you should work towards Safety In Numbers immediately, to get multiple wolves at one time along with your  Summon Raptor. Once this node is taken, work towards Pack Hunters, as this will give you the ability to summon another companion/wolf.

 Summon Raptor is a massive boost to our DPS. This prehistoric beast will tear apart the battlefield on the hunt the blood. When an enemy is Bleeding, it will do 50% more damage and double its Critical Strike Multiplier. To add insult to injury, this moster hits 4% harder per Bleeding enemy. This is why we scale Bleed on  Swipe, in order to have mulitple enemies Bleeding to feed the rage of the Raptor.

Initially, path towards Broken Tooth and Ravage. Scent of Blood should be maxed followed by Predator. Follow the only possible pathings from there.

 Summon Frenzy Totem is a massive gain to the Beastmaster and his companions. It will add 20 base damage and give them a more potent Frenzy. This will also give a large boost of 250% to Critical Strike Chance, all be insuring the enemies are torn to piece when your  Summon Wolf howls.

Path towards the node Lead The Pack before Revitalizing Totem. Then follow the only pathing available from there.

 Fury Leap has more than a few uses, as it will heal, empower, give us invulnerability while in the air, and of course be used as a traversal skill with our companions.

Prioritize Pack Leader to make sure the companions are always with you when you land. From there path to Battle Bloom, make sure you max Wings of Endurance on the way for the heals.