Paladin Mastery Leveling Build for Last Epoch

This Paladin 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 uses  Rive with dual wield swords to dish out fast attacks as we dart around the battlefield with  Lunge. For defenses, we stick to Paladin skills  Holy Aura and  Sigils Of Hope to keep ourselves in the fight, regardless of what tries to stand in our way. This build was made for brawling, diving into packs of enemies and triggering our three strike combination with  Rive to cut down groups with ease. As a fail-safe for any major damage we are hit with, we can use  Volatile Reversal to rewind our position and restore our Health and Mana pools. This build works great with no reliability on uniques or must-have items.

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This build has fantastic mobility and damage; all you need to do is power up with  Holy Aura and  Sigils Of Hope, then head off to the battlefield. Use your  Lunge and  Volatile Reversal to jump across the map, grouping together enemies for your  Rive to cut down. Our damage is primarily focused into the third strike of  Rive, adding kill threshold, boosted Critical Strike Chance, damage and most importantly, Health Leech. The rest of our skills are used to round out the build and increase our mobility.

Your typical rotation is quite simple. Start with  Lunge, targeting a pack of enemies. Once you dash to them, use  Rive and cut them down. At this point, if you feel the need to reposition, you can use  Volatile Reversal to reset your position and buff your character.  Holy Aura and  Sigils Of Hope will keep your survivability high and allow you to constantly be searching for the next group of enemies to attack. Overall, this build is strong enough to crush the Monolith, with fast and very effective gameplay. As long as you keep your buffs going and are playing smart with your position while using  Lunge and  Volatile Reversal, you should not have any issues. However, be aware that while you are almost unstoppable with  Rive, your  Lunge skill does leave you vulnerable in between packs.

As for gearing, we will be targeting Strength based stats and some Health/Resistance for our brawler. You should aim to upgrade your gear using a loot filter to highlight the gear you need with the right affixes. This game also carries a substantial crafting system where you will be able to augment pieces of gear you find with either strong affixes or craft new one you can add to an empty slot. There is a deeper look at the crafting system in the link below.

Attributes	Offensive	Defensive
Intelligence Vitality	Increased Melee Damage Increased Physical Damage Increased Attack Speed Critical Strike Chance Critical Strike Multiplier Chance to Shred Armour on hit	Armor Resistances Damage Leeched as Health

As you go through the game, you 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. None of these have huge build changing affixes; the majority of them are solid items you can scale easily with. One of the 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.

A 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 - very helpful. So 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 and increase to potions. Don't leave this one on the ground if you come across it.

Our next targeted unique are the unique gloves  Fighting Chance. Despite their level 15 requirement, these gloves can be a massive damage boost and help accelerate you through the game. The only draw back is the increased damage taken, but everything else about them is amazing.

Speaking of accelerating, we must talk about unique boots, particularly the  Advent of the Erased. These boots boots can grant us Haste, and while this chance is small, it can happen on every kill. With a max roll of 11% it can trigger quite often.

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
• Resistances

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. We have several options available to our Paladins.