Bladedancer Mastery Leveling Build for Last Epoch

This Bladedancer mastery leveling guide is designed to get us started in the right direction with your new mastery, by offering a simple skill setup to assist us while we play through main story act of the game and begin the Monolith endgame. We have chosen a set of skills and passives that create an effective and yet simplistic play style that can rapidly push our character to level 70 and complete the main campaign.

This build zips around the battlefield using  Shift and  Smoke Bomb to confuse the enemy while you hurl  Shurikens at them automatically. For any enemy who gets too close, we unleash our  Cinder Strike against them, cutting them down where they stand. As a Bladedancer, we can employ our Shadows across the battlefield, triggering them to perform AoE attacks with  Shadow Cascade for fast clearing. This build is speedy, with boosts to Movement Speed and built in Haste and Frenzy buffs.

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This build feels fantastic to play, and has the added benefit of having an easy to understand rotation. We start with  Shift to leap into a group of mobs and, dropping a  Smoke Bomb to produce more Shadows. The clones are detonated like bombs using  Shadow Cascade, allowing each Shadow to perform their AoE attack. This attack will take out most of the mobs in a single strike and can even take our smaller Rare opponents. We will be weaving our  Shurikens in between skill casts to keep Bladed Armor on us and Shred the Armor off nearby enemies. Anyone within our reach should be attacked with  Cinder Strike, setting off an AoE hit on the first hit of the skills combination. This rotation will be repeated over and over, moving your character throughout the map as an ultra fast killer.

Attributes	Offensive	Defensive
Vitality Dexterity	Fire Damage Elemental Damage Physical Damage Physical Penetration Melee Critical Strike Chance Critical Strike Multiplier Melee Attack Speed	Armor Resistances Melee Damage Leeched as Health Health on Kill Health on Melee Hit Health Regen

As you go through the game we will come across many uniques, while the majority of low-level uniques should be set aside for leveling alts (Yay, for unlimited stash space), we will want to keep our eyes out for these specific items to assist with the build. While none of these have huge build changing affixes the majority of them are similar very good items you can scale easily with. One of themes you will see with these uniques is Movement speed, this affix accelerates gameplay even just from being able to go around faster the battlefield.

If you happen to come across the unique weapons  Humming Bee or  Firestarter's Torch, these two weapons will likely be your best options for a weapon until we find something we can craft with higher values in our 40s or 50s. Despite its level, these uniques carry some great damage that scales quite well with our build.

As for some unique armor pieces to keep an eye out for, the  Calamity and  Prism Wraps, both offer some nice boosts around Elemental Damage. These can really push our DPS up noticeably higher with  Cinder Strike. Add in Legendary Potential and you have some great items to keep for alt characters.

Another great unique for this build, is the  Bleeding Heart. This amulet is an easy quest pick up and grants us some Health Leech at early levels. Speaking of other leech items, you may come across are the unique gloves  Avarice and unique relic  Tome of Elements, both offering Health Leech to us. Be on the look out, they could literally save your life.

One of the best unique belts for Physical builds is the  Thorn Slinger with its extra skill point for all physical skills (which  Cinder Strike is considered) and increase to potions. Don't leave this one on the ground if you come across it.

Lastly, we must talk about unique boots, particularly the  Lessons of the Metropolis. These boots boots are a great defensive addition to our build with its boost to dodge and less damage taken while moving.

Despite the lower level of these uniques, they are quite valuable and can help push you that much faster to level 70. These can all be expanded into fantastic items if found with Legendary Potential for any future leveling needs. Good luck hunting and may your luck be high!

Idol slots are gained through the campaign, unlocking small bonuses and unique affixes for the player to discover and augment their builds with. The Idol screen consists of a grid system for the player to fill out with different sized idols, eventually filling in every part of the grid. As the Idol shape increases (1x1, 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, etc.) the stronger an affix you might find for your build.

The target Affixes we want to look for in our Idols are:

• +% Health
• + Health
• Chance to Shred Armour
• Resistances
• Increased Shred Armour Effect

There is a class idol for Rogues we will be searching for. It works specifically with our  Cinder Strike skill, increasing the AoE with the first attack. It's specific affix is below:

• Increased Area with the first attack of Cinder Strike

This build will carry you all the way to the start of the Monolith, where you will need to decide on an Endgame build to follow. Below are the options available for Bladedancers.