Beastmaster Spirit Wolf Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.0)

Our base class is the Primalist, which acts as a generic brawler 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 Primalist, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Beastmaster, Druid and Shaman. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Primalist Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

For this companion build, Beastmaster is our advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points the Beastmaster Passive tree, with a smaller investment of points into Shaman to round out the build. Our passive points will be targeting damage, sustain and damage mitigation for ourselves and our wolves. This will boost our companions and our own survivability and damage output. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Primal Strength: Increases our armor, subsequently also increasing our Companion Life and Damage.
• 5 points into Hunter's Restoration: Increases our health pool and heals us for 40 HP on any hit we land every 3 seconds.
• 6 points into Survival of the Pack: Increases the damage and life leech for both us and our Companions.
• 1 point into Hunter's Emanation: Allows our Hunter's Restoration to effect all our Companions as well.

Our base class is the Primalist, which acts as a generic brawler 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 Primalist, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Beastmaster, Druid and Shaman. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Primalist Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

For this companion build, Beastmaster is our advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points the Beastmaster Passive tree, with a smaller investment of points into Shaman to round out the build. Our passive points will be targeting damage, sustain and damage mitigation for ourselves and our wolves. This will boost our companions and our own survivability and damage output. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Ursine Strength: Increasing our armor, subsequently also increasing our Companion's Life and Damage.
• 1 point into Savagery: Opens a path into Hunters of the Deep and Lamprey Teeth.
• 1 point into Ambush: Continues our pathing into Hunters of the Deep, but also gives us the Aspect of the Shark effect.
• 1 point into Rending Maw: This continues our pathing into Hunters of the Deep, but also gives us a 20% chance to Shred Armor.
• 1 point into Hunters of the Deep: This gives the bonuses from Ambush and Rending Maw to our  Summon Wolf.
• 4 points into Boar Heart: Gives us a 15% damage reduction when we are hit.
• 4 points into Lamprey Teeth: This is both you and your companions primary health sustain node. Giving you and them a flat 6% damage leeched as health, as well as giving your Companions an increase of 80% to all health leech.
• 5 points into Porcine Constitution: This amplifies the effects of damage reduction from the Boar Heart node, giving an additional 15% to damage reduction.
• 5 points into Boar Heart: Gives us a 20% chance to gain the effects from Boar Heart whenever we hit an enemy with  Swipe.
• 5 points into Axe and Claw: This node adds flat melee damage to both us and our Companions.
• 1 point into Life in the Wilderness: This increases our companions survivability by giving them our current value of Endurance.
• 1 point into Nature's Embrace: Increases our Companion count by 1, giving us an additional wolf.
• 5 points into The Circle Of Life: This grants us and our Companions a 25% to gain Aspect of the Shark on kill, and gain 35 health on any kill.
• 1 point into Dragon Slayer: This will alow us the same chance to gain the bonus from The Circle Of Life when we hit a rare enemy or boss.
• 3 points into Ocean Maw: This will increase all effects from Aspect of the Shark buff, and increase its duration by 45%.
• 1 point into Feeding Frenzy: This alter the way Aspect of the Shark functions, now allowing it to stack 10 times, with reduced effect. However, after the third stack, the drawback from reduced effect are negated.
• 3 points into Cry of the Lynx: Three points are initially alloted but this passive will be maxed. This gives us and our Companions increased Critical Strike Chance when we use our  Summon Wolf active skill, which is  Howl.
• 1 point into Serrated Claws: One point is initially alloted, but this passive will be maxed. This gives you and your Companions an increase to their Critical Strike Mulitiplier.
• 10 points into Viper Fangs: This gives a 30% chance to trigger Aspect of the Viper, which give you and your companions 50% increase to attack speed.
• 1 point into Critical Bite: This gives you and your Companions more sustain, by leeching 3% of Critcal Strike damage as health, when you have Cry of the Lynx active.
• 10 points into Ancient Might: This you you and your Companions 10 to their base damage. This also gives us 10 strength, increasing our armor. Subsequently this also increases our Companions Life and Damage.
• 5 points into Cry of the Lynx: Finishing out this passive, further adding increased Critical Strike Chance when we use our  Summon Wolf active skill, which is  Howl.
• 5 points into Serrated Claws: Finishing out this passive, which will add an addtional 50% to both you and your companions critical strike multiplier.

Our base class is the Primalist, which acts as a generic brawler 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 Primalist, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Beastmaster, Druid and Shaman. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Primalist Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

For this companion build, Beastmaster is our advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points the Beastmaster Passive tree, with a smaller investment of points into Shaman to round out the build. Our passive points will be targeting damage, sustain and damage mitigation for ourselves and our wolves. This will boost our companions and our own survivability and damage output. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 5 points into Sky Warrior: This reduces our cooldown for  Fury Leap. In addition, this gives you and your Companions increased damage.
• 1 point into Silent Protector: This is a travel point to get to the passive Totemic Fury.
• 5 points into Totemic Fury: This will give you a 25% increase to Attack Speed whenever we have a totem active. This can either be the  Summon Frenzy Totem or the Upheaval Totems which is automatically created when we use  Fury Leap.

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.

This skill is our primary method of attack. This is the skill that will also trigger Wild Calling, which will clear swaths of enemies from the front. For much of the content you will see, only  Fury Leap and  Swipe will be needed. However, it is important to know that some difficult engagements will need both  Howl and  Summon Frenzy Totem to be used. In the heat of battle, if you see yourself getting overrun or you have mispositioned yourself, you can use  Warcry to reset the fight.

• 5 points into Aspect of the Panther: Gives us five stacks of Aspect of the Panther.
• 3 points into Wild Calling: This enables our wolves to send forth a spirit wolf from all wolves under you control.
• 1 point into Feline Hunter: This gives us a flat 12% increased to your attack speed.
• 2 points into Lion's Strength: This adds an additional two stacks of Aspect of the Panther.
• 3 point into Sabertooth's Endurance: This is a traversal passive to get to Twin Fangs.
• 3 points into Twin Fangs: This enables each stack of Aspect of the Panther to give 12% to our Critical Strike Multiplier.
• 2 point into Way of the Hunt: This node gives us 10% more damage, but also allows us to leech 4% of the damage from  Swipe as health.
• 1 points into Wengarian Reach: This is a traversal passive, but also adds 6% more damage and increases the area of damage from  Swipe by 18%.
• 1 point into Culling.
• 3 Points into Trapper: This node adds significantly more damage when the enemy is Slowed. One of our weapon suffix's should have Chance to Slow on Hit.

Due to our gear, we have more points than the standard allocation of 20 points. The following nodes can be left at 3 and 1 skill points until you have acquired more from your gear bonuses: 3 points for Aspect of the Panther and 1 point for Twin Fangs, totalling 4 points.

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.

 Summon Wolf summons wolves, which add significant clear and damage to our  Swipe with Wild Calling. Individually, your wolves can and will kill on their own accord, however, their damage is addative to ours. They use your endurance and have sigificant sustain thanks to the passives in our Bestmaster tree and the unique ring  Ribbons of Blood. We use their secondary skill  Howl in order to get a massive damage output. Wild Calling is a unique node in  Swipe, because it scales from our damage and our wolves damage. We maximize their damage in this tree, as well as their survivability.

• 4 points in Lupine Endurance: This gives our wolves a large boost in their health pool.
• 2 points in Wolfen Recovery: This increases our wolves passive health regen by 150%.
• 1 points in Earthborn: Adding 100 base to the wolves armor and giving them additional 5% health leech.
• 1 points in Pack Hunters: This node will add our fifth wolf. This will increase our dps significantly, as it is another source of Wild Calling damage.
• 5 points in Savage Hunters: This node adds 75% damage to our wolves.
• 1 points in Legendary Bite: This passive gives our wolves even more damage, as well as stun and Critical Strike Chance.
• 5 points in On the Hunt: This enables our wolves to move and attack 40% faster.
• 4 points in Howl of Might: This gives a massive damage boost to our wolves, thats trippled when they howl for a total damage gain of 120% more damage.
• 1 point in Safety In Numbers: This allows us summon up to the maximum number of companions, or 6 wolves. If you do not have the  Artor's Legacy rolled with LP +2 to Summon Wolf, you can use  The Fang to allocate this node.

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.

 Summon Frenzy Totem is one of our strongest skills we can use when clearing or killing more difficult content. Not only does this give you and your wolves significant flat base damage, it will also all but gaurantee you and your wolves will critically strike enemies.

• 3 points into Rabidity: Increases the effects of Frenzy applied by the Totem.
• 3 points into Reckless Frenzy: This node adds 12% more damage and adds 8% to our attack speed. We also take more damage, but this is mitigated by our leech and Endurance.
• 5 points into Bestial Frenzy: This node adds 20 base physical damage to all of our Companions.
• 5 points into Lead The Pack: When the totem is active,  Howl, you and the wolves will have an increase of 250% to Critical Strike Chance.
• 1 point into Furious Cry: This will reset your wolves Howl ability when Frenzy Totem is used.
• 5 points into Grounded: This will now summon the Totem in front of the player. This also adds 20 base damage to your  Swipe, subsequently, increasing the damage to Wild Calling.

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.

 Upheaval will not directly interfaced with. This will be automatically casted when we use  Fury Leap. We will still have significant use for  Upheaval, as it is a tremendous utility skill we use. It slows enemies, gives us attack speed from Totemic Fury, and thanks to Upheaval Totems, it can clear left over trash we leave behind.

• 2 points into Inexhaustible: This adds a chance for Upheaval to shred the enemies armor.
• 1 point into Maiming Rubble: We give upheaval a 15% chance to Slow, however, this is doubled while using a two-handed weapon.
• 1 points into Mantle Strike: This node will ensure Upheaval cannot be dodged, but more importantly adds 2% to it's base Critical Strike Chance.
• 4 points into Crust Rupture: Adds 100% to Upheaval's Critical Strike Multiplier.
• 1 point into Upheaval Totems: This allows us to create a Totem when we land from  Fury Leap. The Totem will automatically engage enemies.
• 5 points into Terrain Delving.
• 4 point into Glacial Crash: This adds 40% Physical Penetration for Upheaval, however, this value is doubled when using a two-handed weapon.
• 3 point into Terraforming Clash: Travel passive for Earthbreaker.
• 1 points into Earthbreaker: This adds significantly more damage to Upheaval.

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.

 Fury Leap is our primary method for starting any fight. Not only are you immune to all damage while leaping, it provides you and your Companions a flat damage bonus and will also buff you and the Companions with Frenzy. Leap also gives you boost of healing and cleansing any ailments on you and the Companions. In terms of automation, Leap will cast  Upheaval upon landing, which then triggers Upheaval Totems, giving you a Totem that casts  Upheaval for you automatically.

• 5 points into Warrior's Entrance: Gives you and your Companions 15 bonus damage for 3 seconds.
• 1 point into Pack Leader: This allows your wolves to leap with you, so you are never in any fight alone.
• 1 point into Frenzied Onslaught: This node allows you and your companions to have Frenzy when you land.
• 2 points into Wings of Endurance: Restores 100 health to you and all your companions.
• 1 point into Battle Bloom: This node will purge all ailments from you and your companions.
• 1 point into Wind Hammer: This is a traversal point.
• 3 points into Brutal Impact: This will allow  Fury Leap to have a larger Critical Strike Mulitplier.
• 1 point into Violent Upheaval: This node allows us to automate  Upheaval when using  Fury Leap.
• 4 points into Panther Strike: Reduces the cooldown for  Fury Leap by 24% and adds more damage by the same value.
• 1 point into Heorot's Protection: We are immune to all damage while leaping (in the air).