Druid Lightning Swarmblade Endgame Build for Last Epoch

Our base class is the Primalist, which acts as a generic caster, brawler, or companion 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, Shaman and Druid. 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 Lightning Swarmblade build, we will be picking Druid as our advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points in the Druid Passive Tree. Our Passive Points will be targeting augments for our  Swarmblade Form damage and boosting our survivability. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Natural Attunement: Increases our Attunement and Resistances.
• 5 points into Hunter's Restoration: Increases our Health and provides Health on Hit.
• 1 point into Harmony of Blades: Allows for your character to dual wield.
• 6 points into Wisdom of the Wild: Increases our spell damage and minion spell damage.

Our base class is the Primalist, which acts as a generic caster, brawler, or companion 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, Shaman and Druid. 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 Lightning Swarmblade build, we will be picking Druid as our advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points in the Druid Passive Tree. Our Passive Points will be targeting augments for our  Swarmblade Form damage and boosting our survivability. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Ursine Strength: Gain Strength and Damage Reduction.
• 1 point into Savagery: Increases our melee damage.
• 1 point into Ambush: Grants us the Aspect of the Shark on hit.
• 1 point into Lamprey Teeth: Grants us Health Leech on Melee hit.
• 4 points into Boar Heart: Grants us Aspect of the Boar on hit.
• 5 points into Porcine Constitution: Increases our Damage Reduction and Health regen.

Our base class is the Primalist, which acts as generic caster, brawler, or companion 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, Shaman and Druid. 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 Lightning Swarmblade build, we will be picking Druid as our advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points in the Druid Passive Tree. Our Passive Points will be targeting augments for our  Swarmblade Form damage and boosting our survivability. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 7 points into Chitinous Plating: Increases our Endurance and Armor.
• 7 points into Spirit Warden: Increases our base Health and Mana.
• 5 points into Primordial Resonance: Increases our damage and Elemental Penetration.
• 5 points into Druidic Prowess: Increases our base stats.
• 5 points into Focused Wrath: Increases our Damage while Transformed.
• 1 point into Rancour: No Rage decay while not in combat.
• 5 points into Wind in the Leaves: Increases our Attack and Cast Speed.
• 5 points into Bush Stalker: Increases our Critical Strike Chance.
• 1 point into Woodland Beings: Increases our Minion Damage.
• 1 point into Natural Duality: Limits Druid to a single companion, but provides substantial companion buffs.
• 8 points into Rageborn: Increases our Critical Strike Chance and adds Rage gain on hit.
• 10 points into Hideskin: Increases our Health.
• 5 points into Impervious: Increases our Damage Reduction.

Our base class is the Primalist, which acts as generic caster, brawler, or companion 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, Shaman and Druid. 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 Lightning Swarmblade build, we will be picking Druid as our advanced class. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points in the Druid Passive Tree. Our Passive Points will be targeting augments for our  Swarmblade Form damage and boosting our survivability. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Shamanic Infusion: Bonus to Attunement, as well as Physical, Cold, and Lightning Penetration.

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.

 Swarmblade Form becomes our true form. Our hardened exoskeleton and massive bladed arms makes Druid perfect for diving into battle with the calamity of a storm. With abilities able to conjure all manner of storms (Tornadoes, Lightning Bolts and an Ice Cyclone) this skill has it all. Each one of our  Swarmblade Form's skills will trigger another spell, building more power. This build uses these auto-cast abilities, combined with their own skill trees to significantly increase our damage output and versatility on the battlefield.

• 1 point into Viper's Call: This makes our Armblade Slashes adopt the nodes from the  Serpent Strike skill tree.
• 2 points into Endless Pressure: Increases our Health and we gain Rage on hit.
• 1 point into Windfury Strikes: Allows the auto-cast of  Tornado.
• 2 points into Army of the Tempest: Reduces the conditions we need to cast  Tornado.
• 1 point into Earth Stinger: Increases our melee damage.
• 2 points into Needle-Like Sting: Increases our base Critical Strike Chance.
• 2 points into Grasshopper's Frenzy: We gain Rage on Critical Strike.
• 2 points into Locust Agility: Grants Armor and Dodge increases.
• 4 points into Water Strider: Allows our Dive Skill to cast  Maelstrom.

It is recommended to get your auto-casting skills up quickly with at least one point into each of them, then back fill according to the list above. Any additional points need to go into Needle-Like Sting.

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.

A powerful companion who supports our character with a multi-functional aura. We have setup our  Summon Spriggan to equip an aura that heals, increases our damage, increases our Critical Stats, and adds a significant amount of dodge to the build. This is one companion you don't want to go anywhere without.

• 3 points into Aura of Life: Companion gains Healing Aura.
• 1 point into Aura of Loyalty: Increases overall power of companion's aura.
• 1 point into Aura of Evasion: Adds dodge to your companion's aura based on Attunement.
• 3 points into Aura of Kinship: Adds spell damage to companion's aura.
• 4 points into Aura of Retribution: Adds Critical Strike Chance and Critical Strike Avoidance to companion's aura.
• 5 points into Arboreal Vitality: Increases companion's Health.
• 3 points into Warding Bark: Increases companion's armor and Physical Resistance.

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.

 Maelstrom offers increased Physical damage and grants buffs for Frenzy, Haste, and Dodge. This skill also damages enemies with a conversion to Physical Damage, which can stun enemies when struck by  Maelstrom. We have also included the ability to cast Lightning Bolts on top of  Maelstrom's main damage. This skill is by far one of the best skills to use with auto-cast triggers from  Swarmblade Form.

• 4 points into Whirlpool: Increases Maelstrom's duration.
• 3 points into Sleet-Footed: Grants us a Dodge buff.
• 1 point into Power of the Storm: Allows Maelstrom to cast Lightning Bolts.
• 2 points into Strong Tides: Reduces Maelstrom stack requirement for casting Lightning Bolts.
• 1 point into Cyclone: Converts Maelstrom to Physical Damage.
• 4 points into Essence of Debris: Grants a chance to stun enemies.
• 1 point into Turbulence: Increases damage for Maelstrom.
• 2 points into Calm: Increases our Mana Efficiency.
• 1 point into Windswept: Grants Haste.
• 1 point into Windfury: Grants Frenzy.

Any additional points you acquire should be put into Turbulence.

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.

This is our main DPS skill. This skill is setup so Tornadoes are attached to us. They're auto-casted as we use our Armblades to slice up enemies. The synergy between  Tornado and  Swarmblade Form is fantastic and really helps to amplify the build with increases to Attack and Movement speed for running around the Monolith. We also have included a chance to double-cast our Tornadoes with each swing of our Armblades, for even more damage output.

• 1 point into Charged Storm: Tornadoes now cast Lightning bolts.
• 4 points into Frequent Lightning: We cast Lightning bolts more often.
• 1 point into Aspect of the Storm: Increases our Movement Speed.
• 3 points into Storm Dervish: Increases Attack and Cast Speed.
• 4 points into Lasting Storm: Increases skill duration.
• 2 points into Debris: Increases Tornado damage.
• 1 point into Churning Orbs: Tornadoes can now cast  Storm Orb.
• 4 points into Hurricane: Grants a chance to double cast Tornado.
• 1 point into Eye of the Storm: Increases damage, but Tornado is now attached to you.
• 1 point into Snap Gale: This makes Tornadoes instant-cast, but increases the cooldown to 4 seconds.

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.

This skill powers our standard attack while in  Swarmblade Form: Armblades. By adopting the  Serpent Strike skill tree as its own, we gain all sorts of boosts. This skill tree grants a solid defensive layer of dodge, adds a chance to shred armor and converts the skill to Cold, helping to freeze enemies in place for our Tornadoes to tear apart.

• 3 points into Culling Point: This gives us Kill threshold against enemies.
• 3 points into Slither: Grants Dodge per use of Armblades.
• 2 points into Gouging Spear: Grant us a chance to bleed on skill use.
• 3 points into Hydra Strikes: Increases our Attack speed.
• 4 points into Corrosive Venom: Grants Shred Armor.
• 1 point into Frostwyrm's Fury: Converts the skill to Cold Damage.
• 3 points into Coldfang: Increases chance to Freeze enemies.
• 1 point into Shroud of Winter: Increases Dodge rating.