Necromancer Fire Minions Endgame Build for Last Epoch

Our base class is the Acolyte, which acts as a generic spell caster and summoner. Our character will be offered an opportunity to select a Mastery class once we have completed the first act of the campaign. Each base class has three possible masteries to choose from, for the Acolyte we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Necromancer, Lich and Warlock. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Acolyte Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

For this Fire Minion build, Necromancer is our chosen Mastery. We will be utilizing the majority of our Passive Points in the Necromancer Passive tree. Our passive points will be targeting augments for our Minions and boosting their survivability and damage output. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 8 points into Forbidden Knowledge: Increases our Intelligence and Necrotic Resistances.
• 8 points into Stolen Vitality: Increases Health pools for both the player and minions.
• 5 points into Dark Rituals: Increases our minion's Attack Speed.
• 1 point into Soul Aegis: Grants our minions increased Armor.

Our base class is the Acolyte, which acts as a generic spell caster and summoner. Our character will be offered an opportunity to select a Mastery class once we have completed the first act of the campaign. Each base class has three possible masteries to choose from, for the Acolyte we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Necromancer, Lich and Warlock. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Acolyte Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

For this Fire Minion build, Necromancer is our chosen mastery. We will be utilizing the majority of our Passive Points in the Necromancer Passive tree. Our passive points will be targeting augments for our Minions and boosting their survivability and damage output. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 3 points into Elixir of Hunger: Grants Hunger buff for our minions.
• 8 points into Risen Army: Minion damage and attack speed.
• 3 points into Cursed Blood: Increases our Minion Damage.
• 8 points into Aegisfall: This is critical to our build, allowing all Minions to gain Armor Shred for 200%.
• 1 point into Blood Armour: Grants increased Health Regen and Regen for our Minions.
• 5 points into Mortal Tether: Increases our Minion's Health pool.
• 1 point into Unbound Necromancy: Maximum number of Skeletons increased by 1.
• 5 points into Frantic Summons: Increases both our Attack and Cast speed as well as our Minions.
• 3 points into Tyrant: Bonus Health for your character.
• 1 point into Tyrant's Legion: Increases our Maximum number of skeletons and grants them increased penetration.
• 5 points into River of Bones: Increases our Critical Strike Chance and our Minions, adding a Health leech for our Minions.
• 10 points into Moonlight Pyre: Increases our Minion's Fire and Necrotic Damage.
• 10 points into Heresy: Increases our Intelligence and Minion's Critical Strike Chance.
• 10 points into Rite of Undeath: Increases our Elemental and Necrotic Resistances as well as our Minions.
• 1 point into Disciples of Necromancy: Increases our Skeletal Mages count by 1.
• 5 points into Veins of Malice: Grants our minions Haste and Frenzy every time we cast a spell.
• 2 points into Blades of the Forlorn: Increases Minion Critical Strike Multiplier, Chill and Cold Damage.

Our base class is the Acolyte, which acts as a generic spell caster and summoner. Our character will be offered an opportunity to select a Mastery class once we have completed the first act of the campaign. Each base class has three possible masteries to choose from, for the Acolyte we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Necromancer, Lich and Warlock. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Points into the Acolyte Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Points into the Mastery Trees.

For this Fire Minion build, Necromancer is our chosen mastery. We will be utilizing the majority of our Passive Points in the Necromancer Passive tree. Our passive points will be targeting augments for our Minions and boosting their survivability and damage output. Each of the Passive Trees and their points are broken down below.

• 10 points into Apocrypha: This boosts our Intelligence and Mana Regen.

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.

Volatile Zombies summons our fire-based exploding zombies. The important element for these zombies is our skill conversion to Fire with the skill node Flammable Vitae. This creates the opportunity for massive Ignite stacking and decent AoE from their Repulsive Vomit and exploding damage when they die of course.

• 5 points into Forceful Commander: Increases summoning speed.
• 1 point into Daunting Blast: Increases minion stun chance.
• 2 points into Ravenous: Increases Minion damage to elites and bosses.
• 2 points into Pull of the Grave: We gain a kill threshold against enemies.
• 1 point into Path of Destruction: Increases the explosion Area of Effect.
• 2 Points into Necromantic Fervor: When zombies explode they heal the player.
• 1 Point into Vital Ward: Provides the caster with Ward instead of Health from Necromantic Fervor.
• 4 point into Army of Rot: Poison Chance on attack, converted to Ignite.
• 1 point into Flammable Vitae: Converts all Poison and Physical Damage to Ignite/Fire.
• 1 point into Repulsive Vomit: Zombies will vomit losing health each time.
• 3 points into Wretched Innards: More Damage from Vomit.
• 4 points into Putridity: Vomit can now Ignite enemies every second when they touch it.

The gearing in this build is very specific, granting us a lot of additional skill tree points, up to seven in some cases. The skill trees have included these additional points in them. If you do not have enough points take points out of the final nodes on the list.

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.

 Summon Bone Golem summons our tanks, which grant us the space to fight without too much worry about being directly targeted. Golems are built to last with a strong defense and high Health pool, and include the ability to Taunt. The skill tree is very simple with all nodes focusing on defensive bonuses, however for this build, we will also be adding Pyre Golem to gift them with a new Fire Aura for damaging enemies all around them.

• 5 points in Amalgam of Rogues: Increases Attack and Movement speed of Golems.
• 4 points in Unnatural Speed: Increases Movement speed for all minions nearby your Golem.
• 4 points into Burning Bones: Grants chance to Ignite and increases DoT effects.
• 1 point into Pyre Golem: Converts Golems into Fire adding an aura dealing fire damage.
• 5 points in Amalgam of Sentinels: Increases Health and Armor of Golems.
• 4 points in Tower of Bones: Increases Golem's size and threat generation.
• 5 points in Hunger: Golems gain health on hit.

The gearing in this build is very specific, granting us a lot of additional skill tree points, up to seven in some cases. The skill trees have included these additional points in them. If you do not have enough points take points out of the final nodes on the list.

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.

We will be converting our  Summon Skeletal Mage into Pyromancers, amplifying their fire damage and ability to Ignite enemies. Additionally, we will also be transforming the skill through the skill tree, to make it a Traversal skill. This will grant us the ability to teleport us and our minions to a new location, giving us more mobility and quicker gameplay. We will also taking advantage of the additional skill tree points from our uniques to amplify their damage exponentially.

• 4 points into Putrid Essence: Poison Chance on hit (converts to ignite).
• 1 point into Pyromancers: Converts Skeletal Mages to fire.
• 4 points into Argonautic Speed: Increases Minions Attack and Cast speed.
• 2 points into Ossein Frenzy: Grants a chance to trigger a Frenzy.
• 1 point into Forbidden Arcana: Increases their damage related to our Maximum Mana.
• 1 point into Grave Passage: This changes the skill to not only summon minions, but it can now be used as a Traversal skill.
• 3 points into Death's Cavalry: This allows us to take our minions with us every time we teleport with Grave Passage.
• 5 points into Celer Mortis: Increases our Skeletal Mages base Critical Strike Chance and Movement speed.
• 1 points into Order of Death: Increases Maximum Skeletal Mages by 1.
• 3 points into Grey Merchant: Increases Critical Multiplier and allows for Minions to heal on Critical Strikes.
• 4 point into Flame Rot: Ignites last longer.
• 1 point into Inferno: Can only summon Pyromancers with increased health.

The gearing in this build is very specific, granting us a lot of additional skill tree points, up to seven in some cases. The skill trees have included these additional points in them. If you do not have enough points take points out of the final nodes on the list.

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.

 Dread Shade is a fairly straight forward skill that buffs our minions' damage for a set period of time. Once the buff fades, we simply reapply the skill to renew the buff. This skill boosts Attack Speed and Damage for all of our minions.

• 4 points into Spectral Presence: Increases the Area your Shade can buff minions.
• 1 point into Lone Watcher: Eliminates decay on the minions the Shade is near.
• 3 points into Dying Coven: Increases Attack and Cast Speed buff.
• 4 points into Grim Fate: Increases Shade's Damage buff and Area.
• 4 points into Lingering Doom: Increases Necrotic Damage buff.
• 1 point into Wisdom of the Dead: Increases Mana efficiency.
• 1 point into Martyrdom: Grants an armor buff from your Shade.
• 3 points into Flesh Harvest: Increases Shade's buff based on Minion's missing health.

The gearing in this build is very specific, granting us a lot of additional skill tree points, up to seven in some cases. The skill trees have included these additional points in them. If you do not have enough points take points out of the final nodes on the list.

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.

 Summon Wraith is built for high damage, good survivability and allows a hands-off play style. We will be limiting ourselves to summoning only two Wraiths at a time, but will be eliminating the Health decay against them so they don't despawn. Moreover, the Wraiths now have a special summoning option using one of our Idols: Chance for Summon Wraith to summon a Flame Wraith, adding to our list of fire minions. We use two of these Idols to guarantee the summon chance of summoning the Flame Wraith.

• 1 point into Locus Of Resurrection: Wraith summons at target location.
• 3 points into Haunting: Increases Wraith Health.
• 1 point into Twin Spirits: Limits you to only summoning two Wraiths, but removes their Health decay.
• 3 points into Sequel of Avarice: Amplifies the Wraith's damage.
• 5 points into Reapers: Increases Wraith's Necrotic Damage.
• 3 points into Necrotic Hunger: Increases Necrotic damage and adds health leech.
• 2 points into Wraith Bringer: Increases Summoning speed and efficiency.
• 1 point into Spirit Link: Increases Critical Strike Chance.
• 3 points into Dawn of the Fall: Increases Critical Strike Chance and Critical Strike Damage leeched as Health.
• 3 points into Dusk of the Living: Increases Critical Strike Multiplier.

The gearing in this build is very specific, granting us a lot of additional skill tree points, up to seven in some cases. The skill trees have included these additional points in them. If you do not have enough points take points out of the final nodes on the list.