Marksman Frozen Puncture Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.0)

Our base class is Rogue, which fills the role of a stealthy melee or ranged user in Last Epoch. Upon finishing Act 1 in the campaign, your character will be offered an opportunity to select an Advanced Mastery. Each base class has three possible Masteries to choose from. For Rogue, you can choose between Passive Trees for Bladedancer and Marksman. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Rogue Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

Marksman is the Advanced Class used for this build, and also where the majority of our Passive Points will come from. The Marksman Tree will focus around picking nodes that increase our Dexterity, Damage Over Time, and our survivability through both Dodge and Ward. A lesser amount of Passive Points will come from Bladedancer and Falconer, focusing entirely on further enhancements to Dodge, Glancing Blows, and Mana economy. Each Passive Tree and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Steady Hand: Dexterity gain.
• 7 points into Guile: Rounds out our Resistances, saving us an affix on gear down the road.
• 1 point into Evasion: Pathing node.
• 5 points into Agility: Chance to gain Haste on Hit, and increased damage scaling off Movement Speed.
• 5 points into Dodge and Parry: As the name implies, provides Dodge Rating and minor damage reduction through Glancing Blows.
• 4 points into Sapping Strikes: Extremely important, used to ensure  Flurry will regenerate Mana back swiftly.
• 3 points into Coated Blades: Feel free to move points around here. Personally, at 3 points the build felt comfortable, but you may experiment here and see what suits you best. Ensure  Puncture isn't obliterating your Mana, but this node ramps damage up fast, and it's worth having.

Our base class is Rogue, which fills the role of a stealthy melee or ranged user in Last Epoch. Upon finishing Act 1 in the campaign, your character will be offered an opportunity to select an Advanced Mastery. Each base class has three possible Masteries to choose from. For Rogue, you can choose between Passive Trees for Bladedancer and Marksman. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Rogue Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

Marksman is the Advanced Class used for this build, and also where the majority of our Passive Points will come from. The Marksman Tree will focus around picking nodes that increase our Dexterity, Damage Over Time, and our survivability through both Dodge and Ward. A lesser amount of Passive Points will come from Bladedancer and Falconer, focusing entirely on further enhancements to Dodge, Glancing Blows, and Mana economy. Each Passive Tree and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Draining Arrows: Taken for Attack Speed to inflict ailments quickly.
• 8 points into Focus Fire: Provides a bump in Dexterity, but also makes enemies easier to hit.
• 10 points into Prolonged Demise: Boosts DoT damage with Frostbite.
• 8 points into Arrow Storm: While this is used to traverse to the next node, it comes with a nifty increase to Attack Speed that we can't pass up.
• 10 points into Covering Fire: One of the most important nodes in the build; Silver Shroud stacks force a Dodge the next time we're hit, and for each point into this node, the Dodge grants us 100 Ward, totaling 1000 Ward gain. If used properly, this can be used to bully boss mechanics to keep uptime and sustain damage.
• 10 points into Ethereal Arrows: Used in conjunction with the  Puncture skill tree, this provides a massive boost in damage to the build by increasing Mana cost on bow attacks.
• 5 points into Mana Warp: On the other side of the spectrum, this is used with  Flurry as a way to regenerate Mana on the fly.
• 1 point into Master Archer: Increases the area  Hail of Arrows covers.

Our base class is Rogue, which fills the role of a stealthy melee or ranged user in Last Epoch. Upon finishing Act 1 in the campaign, your character will be offered an opportunity to select an Advanced Mastery. Each base class has three possible Masteries to choose from. For Rogue, you can choose between Passive Trees for Bladedancer and Marksman. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Rogue Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

Marksman is the Advanced Class used for this build, and also where the majority of our Passive Points will come from. The Marksman Tree will focus around picking nodes that increase our Dexterity, Damage Over Time, and our survivability through both Dodge and Ward. A lesser amount of Passive Points will come from Bladedancer and Falconer, focusing entirely on further enhancements to Dodge, Glancing Blows, and Mana economy. Each Passive Tree and their points are broken down below.

• 5 points into Wilderness Scout: Health and Dodge Rating.
• 5 points into Outlander's Tenacity: Boosts Endurance Threshold by 15% of max Health, and additional Dodge Rating.
• 4 points into Stamina of the Rover: Increased Dodge Rating and a you now gain Mana when you Dodge an attack.

Our base class is Rogue, which fills the role of a stealthy melee or ranged user in Last Epoch. Upon finishing Act 1 in the campaign, your character will be offered an opportunity to select an Advanced Mastery. Each base class has three possible Masteries to choose from. For Rogue, you can choose between Passive Trees for Bladedancer and Marksman. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Rogue Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

Marksman is the Advanced Class used for this build, and also where the majority of our Passive Points will come from. The Marksman Tree will focus around picking nodes that increase our Dexterity, Damage Over Time, and our survivability through both Dodge and Ward. A lesser amount of Passive Points will come from Bladedancer and Falconer, focusing entirely on further enhancements to Dodge, Glancing Blows, and Mana economy. Each Passive Tree and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Cloak of Shadows: Dexterity gain and additional chance to receive a Glancing Blow.

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.

 Puncture is mostly used for mapping and multi-target fights. Through uniques and multiple skill trees, Puncture becomes a menace. All Bleed and Poison chance is converted to Frostbite with  Troaka's Teeth. The skill is also forced to consume Mana through Penumbral Ambush which synergizes with other passives to provide a substantial boost in damage. This is our main avenue for inflicting a wide array of ailments onto enemies, and it does a fantastic job of doing just that.

In order to make  Puncture a feasible option with how we've built it,  Flurry is used alongside it in order to restore Mana quickly.

• 5 points into Perforate: Bleed Chance, which is converted to Frostbite.
• 2 points into Press The Attack: Grants Frenzy, which can be maintained at 100% uptime.
• 1 point into Cadence of Death: Synergizes well with Lethal Cadence if you are able to track your stacks.
• 3 points into Toxic Delivery: Poison Chance, which is converted to Frostbite.
• 2 points into Efficacious Toxin. Efficacious Toxin can only be applied at a single stack, thus we will not be maxing this node out. It is just enough points to ensure we can reliably keep the debuff up on boss fights.
• 4 points into Bloodthirst: At maximum stacks, grants another 180% Frostbite Chance.
• 2 points into Timing: Pathing node, but does come with a minor drawback of reduced Attack Speed.
• 1 point into Penumbral Ambush: Summons two Mirages to mimic your attacks for the price of adding a Mana cost to Puncture. This is required, as multiple other nodes will not work if this is not taken.

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 build is a classic builder/spender, with  Flurry being the resource generator for the build. It's scaled to fire extremely fast, meaning it will apply Frostbite fast enough to be able to keep up with  Puncture (only on a single target) and will regain our depleted Mana pool swiftly. Due to the high rate of fire, Flurry becomes a reliable source to proc  Icicle off our Unique Bow,  Reign of Winter. Icicle has an above average Freeze Rate on its own, helping to Freeze high Health enemies.

• 3 points into Alacrity: Increases Attack Speed by 15%.
• 2 points into Blood Revelry: Forced for pathing, but does add Leech to the skill.
• 2 points into Second Wind: Flurry grants 8 Health on Hit.
• 2 points into Sap Willpower: Gain 2 Mana on Hit.
• 2 points into Relentless: Successive hits of Flurry boost Attack Speed.
• 5 points into Adrenaline Rush: Each hit of Flurry will now grant a stack of Adrenaline Rush; used for the Attack Speed increase.
• 4 points into Inexhaustible: Doubles the duration that Adrenaline Rush stacks last.

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.

 Hail of Arrows has multiple uses in this setup. The first is building stacks of Dusk Shroud, helping to max out our Dodge and Glancing Blows chance. This should be the priority usage for the skill, and it is the reason we increase the area it covers; we need to be able to stand in it. Hail of Arrows will apply Chill for us, which is quite useful for slowing enemies down. On top of this, it comes with its own Freeze Rate once we've converted it to Cold, assisting to stop enemies in their tracks. While you should be using this to zone areas and kill of low Health enemies, always make sure you're able to stand in this when it's active. The duration is quite long, which is good because the Mana cost is high.

• 4 points into Volley: Doubles the size of Hail of Arrows.
• 5 points into Blot Out the Sun: Generates stacks of Dusk Shroud when standing in the radius of Hail of Arrows.
• 3 points into Steady: Hail of Arrows last 30% longer.
• 2 points into Pin Down: This will be converted to Chill.
• 1 point into Crystal Arrows: Converts the skill from Physical into Cold.
• 5 points into Frost Shots: Doubles Chill Duration and adds a Freeze Rate Multiplier of 200%.

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.

 Smoke Bomb will have you feel like you're cheating death. Simlarly to the Marksman Skill Tree, Smoke Bomb comes with the ability to generate stacks of Silver Shroud, forcing a dodge on the next instance of damage you take. This can be used a few ways, but most importantly it can save you from taking lethal damage on the fly, or allow you to greed extra damage during single hit boss mechanics, effectively deleting the next instance of damage you take. This works hand in hand with the Silver Shroud in the class tree, as this is forcing a dodge instance, and potentially popping 13 stacks of Silver Shroud instead of 10, increasing the Ward generated to 1300.

This skill will be used as the Traversal Skill in the build, which cuts the cooldown in half, and makes it possible to keep Dusk Shroud up constantly on our character. Combined with  Hail of Arrows, this will generate around 15 stacks of Dusk Shroud, providing a significant boost to the defensive layers of the build.

As an added bonus,  Smoke Bomb will give you a stack of Crimson Shroud when you kill an enemy from within the smoke. This will add Frostbite chance to  Puncture and significantly decrease the damage we take from DoTs.

• 2 points into Generosity: Mostly pathing, but 40% extra area for Smoke Bomb definitely is not a bad thing.
• 1 points into Enfeeblement: Defensive node, reducing enemy damage with Frailty.
• 3 points into Moonlight Bomb: Forces a dodge on the next damage instance, generating 300 Ward.
• 1 point into Cleansing Steam: Ailment cleanse, good for getting rid of DoTs.
• 1 point into Shrouded in Darkness: Generates Dusk Shroud, providing Glancing Blow Chance and Dodge Rating, for standing in the Smoke Cloud.
• 4 points into Rapid Concealment: Increases the rate at which we gain Dusk Shroud.
• 4 points into Lingering Fumes: Duration increased by 40%.
• 1 point into Concealed in Carnage: Getting kills inside Smoke Bomb grant Crimson Shroud.
• 1 point into Escape Tactics: While traversing with Smoke Bomb, we are now immune.
• 1 point into Cloaked Incursion: Point and click traversal skill, and cuts the cooldown in half.

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.

 Decoy is our trump card, providing an emergency exit for when we find ourselves in a bad situation. The skill gets converted to deal Cold Damage, and also inflicts Cold Resistance Shred stacks. While it deals a decent amount of damage, it does something more important and draws threat off of us while its active. Not only is this good for giving us some breathing room, it also does a great job of clumping enemies together, making them easy prey for the wide girth of  Puncture and  Hail of Arrows.

• 2 points into Boom: Mostly pathing, but does provide area and damage to the explosion of Decoy.
• 1 point into Frostfire Powder: Cold conversion! Adds Freeze Rate to the explosion.
• 3 points into Efficient Construction: Reduces Mana cost.
• 3 points into Sonic Detonation: Frailty and Cold Resistance Shred (once converted) stacks.
• 5 points into Ear Shatter: Ands more Cold Resistance Shred once converted.
• 1 point into Sound of Flames: Adds Cold Shred to the initial Sonic Wave that is emit when we drop Decoy.
• 4 points into Embedded Spikes: Pathing node.
• 1 point into Backup Buddy: Decoy now has two charges.