Void Knight Mastery Leveling Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.0)

Void Knight scales very well off Vitality, and as such, we will start the Sentinel Tree by taking Fearless. This build will only deal damage at melee range, so Armour Clad will be the next target, followed by Valiant Charge as this reduces the cooldown on both  Shield Rush and  Volatile Reversal. Take two points in Time and Faith in order to sustain our Mana after Shield Rushing. One extra point than what is required to start a Mastery Passive Tree is taken in order to dual-wield with Gladiator.

Prior to starting the Void Knight Passive Tree, make a quick detour into Paladin in order to unlock  Healing Hands. There is not much of a choice here, so we opt for the extra Resistances through Defiance.

The entirety of the rest of our Passive Points will get dumped into Void Knight. For the Tree above, you should prioritize the nodes Void Blades, Finality, and Eternal Form. The first and third node provide substantial damage increases, while the second gives us a Kill Threshold on every bit of damage we deal. You will have to take other nodes in order to access some of these, so fulfill those requirements as you come across them.

Echoing Strikes has great synergy with  Rive, as Rive does extra damage when it hits with an Echo. Taking the five points here will double our chance to Echo.

At the point of reaching level 70, and you've finished all quests, you should have a total of 21 points into Sentinel, 5 points into Paladin and 57 points into Void Knight.

 Rive will be your most pressed button for the build as the main source of damage you will deal. There is nothing terribly fancy with this, however we will be dual-wielding purposely to take advantage of Weapon Specialist. This allows Rive to scale off Vitality and allows it to scale similarly to how other Void Knight skills scale. This forces us to use an axe in the left weapon slot and a sword in the right. Follow up with Temporal Warrior before cutting back and grabbing Challenge as early as you can. The last node that should be taken is Ripples of Oblivion. This is because the Passive in the Void Knight Tree that increases our Echo chance is deep in the Tree, so we will not see the full effect of this until you reach that.

 Shield Rush serves as a way for us to quickly move from point A to point B. Even though this skill has a high Mana cost, we'll refund all of the lost Mana with melee attacks because of Time and Faith. Normally Shield Rush does require you to be using an actual shield, however Dark Rush allows us to use the skill without one. It is also the pathing taken to add Void Damage to the skill. Shield Rush does a decent amount of damage with its final hit, so stopping on a group of low Health mobs will likely kill them.

Once you've grabbed the ability to use this skill without a shield, immediately take Rush Mastery. This significantly cuts the Mana required to use it and will take a bit of the burden off your resources. From here, grab the Void Damaging nodes, Void Breaker and Temporal Strike. Warrior's Entrance should be grabbed after this. From this point, we finish off with Protective Speed. You may instead place these points into Critical Rush if you'd rather take the damage increase over the defensive one; it is purely based on personal playstyle and choice.

 Healing Hands will never be manually casted with this build. Instead, it is automated off  Rive in order to heal you as well as deal Melee Damage. The animation for it is a bit subtle when tied to Rive, but you can see little sparks of yellow come off your weapons when you use the skill if you look closely.

Your first pathing should be immediately upwards towards Cleric's Hammer. This automates it off melee attacks, in this case  Rive. The next goal here is to kill the Mana cost on it, otherwise we will constantly be low on Mana due to  Shield Rush usage. Purity of Thought and a single point in Blessed Parish should be enough to make it so you don't feel low constantly. Once your Mana is comfortable, immediately head towards Seraph Blade. This will scale Healing Hands with Melee Damage and provide a significant boost in our damage.

Beyond this, all other nodes are taken in an effort to boost the healing capability on the skill, which in turn takes a bit of pressure off Void Knight's typical need to have Leech.  Healing Hands is overall an extremely useful tool, and it will help greatly with your ability to kill and sustain while leveling.

 Volatile Reversal is used as a way to buff several aspects of our character. However, before we can do that, we want to take off how the base of the skill functions and changes our Health and Mana on use. These nodes are far too restrictive for leveling, and absolutely useless for this build in particular. As such, your first priority will be to grab Timelost Vitality followed by Timelost Wisdom. By taking these, we also immediately take the nodes before it that reduce the cooldown significantly. This is perfect, as the next nodes we want are Warped Time for the Attack Speed and Catching Up for the increased Movement Speed.

In the later sections of leveling, we will be taking the nodes that create Void Rifts as a way to increase the damage we deal to enemies for a bit of time after they've been hit by them. The Void Rifts won't deal much damage on their own, so they are used to buff our Melee attacks.

 Anomaly is taken entirely for the Time Bubble associated with it. Rush Time Lord and Immediacy, then cut back and go for Borrowed Time. This will turn the skill into an instant cast so it isn't interrupting our uptime. Up front without any other nodes, this bubble will shred Void Resistance from enemies and Slow enemies within it. Manipulation should then be grabbed for the increased Attack Speed. Red Shift is mostly quality of life, so it should be taken last.