Warlock Profane Veil Minion Eater Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.03)

Our base class is the Acolyte, which acts as a generic spell caster and 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 Acolyte, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Necromancers, 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.

Warlock is our advanced class for the build. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points for the Warlock Passive Tree, with a minimal amount of points taken within Necromancer and Lich. The Warlock passives will focus on increasing the Spell Damage for Curses, increases to Intelligence, and provide a significant increase to Haste. The points in Necromancer will be used as a way to increase Minion Health, but are mostly taken to unlock access to  Sacrifice. The Lich Passive Tree is used for extra Intelligence and increased Necrotic Damage.

• 8 points into Forbidden Knowledge: Intelligence and Necrotic Resistance.
• 1 points into Blood Aura: Taken to proceed through the tree.
• 1 point into Mania of Mortality: Taken to proceed through the tree.
• 5 points into Stolen Vitality: Vitality gain and Increased Minion Health.
• 5 points into Unnatural Preservation: Large gains to Ward Retention, Necrotic Resistance, and Poison Resistance.

Our base class is the Acolyte, which acts as a generic spell caster and 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 Acolyte, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Necromancers, 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.

Warlock is our advanced class for the build. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points for the Warlock Passive Tree, with a minimal amount of points taken within Necromancer and Lich. The Warlock passives will focus on increasing the Spell Damage for Curses, increases to Intelligence, and provide a significant increase to Haste. The points in Necromancer will be used as a way to increase Minion Health, but are mostly taken to unlock access to  Sacrifice. The Lich Passive Tree is used for extra Intelligence and increased Necrotic Damage.

• 5 points into Soul Stealer: Increased Mana Regen, plus extra Mana gain against Cursed enemies. This secondary effect has a cooldown.
• 6 points into Unholy Torment: Increases the Spell Damage and Area for Curse skills.
• 8 points into Occultist's Mind: Added Intelligence, and allows your Mana to scale with every point of Intelligence you have.
• 1 point into Ward of Malevolence: Taken to path to the next node.
• 8 points into Doom Herald: You take less damage, and deal more damage, while channeling. This applies to  Profane Veil for this build.
• 10 points into Malefic Body: Added Vitality and Intelligence.
• 5 points into Wither: Applies Withering on hit, and you now take less damage from enemies afflicted with Withering.
• 2 points into Chaotic Strikes: Taken for pathing, but does provide a small chance to deal double damage.
• 5 points into Wreak Havoc: Increased Critical Multiplier.
• 5 points into Fleeting Crone: Provides a significant boost to all Haste applied to us. Haste is gained through casting  Soul Feast for this build.

Our base class is the Acolyte, which acts as a generic spell caster and 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 Acolyte, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Necromancers, 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.

Warlock is our advanced class for the build. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points for the Warlock Passive Tree, with a minimal amount of points taken within Necromancer and Lich. The Warlock passives will focus on increasing the Spell Damage for Curses, increases to Intelligence, and provide a significant increase to Haste. The points in Necromancer will be used as a way to increase Minion Health, but are mostly taken to unlock access to  Sacrifice. The Lich Passive Tree is used for extra Intelligence and increased Necrotic Damage.

• 5 points into Grave Thorns: Increases to Minion Health.
• 5 points into Reclamation of Souls: Extra Ward Retention.

Our base class is the Acolyte, which acts as a generic spell caster and 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 Acolyte, we have access to the Mastery Tree Passives for Necromancers, 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.

Warlock is our advanced class for the build. We will utilize the majority of our Passive Points for the Warlock Passive Tree, with a minimal amount of points taken within Necromancer and Lich. The Warlock passives will focus on increasing the Spell Damage for Curses, increases to Intelligence, and provide a significant increase to Haste. The points in Necromancer will be used as a way to increase Minion Health, but are mostly taken to unlock access to  Sacrifice. The Lich Passive Tree is used for extra Intelligence and increased Necrotic Damage.

• 10 points into Apocrypha: Increased Intelligence and Mana Regen.
• 5 points into Dance with Death: Increased damage, more if we end up entering Low Life territory.
• 5 points into Grasp of Fate: Increased Necrotic Damage.
• 8 points into Crippling Insight: Large Intelligence gain.

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.

 Chthonic Fissure is used mostly to deal damage through Torment, which we inflict onto targets hit by the Spirits coming off Fissure. Torment damage is scaled through several interactions, including the Unique Staff we're using,  Wheel of Torment, the enemy having stacks of Ignite active, as well as our own Necrotic Resistance, which can easily be scaled up to around 600% or higher. While clearing maps, Chthonic Fissure should be casted manually, and should be used frequently, as this build will be moving through maps quite quickly. For boss fights, Chthonic Fissure may be auto-casted by using  Soul Feast, however this will only activate is there is currently no active Fissure.

• 2 points into Fragile Crust: Reduces the Mana spent if there is a Cursed Boss or Rare enemy nearby. This also works if you yourself are Cursed.
• 1 point into Spirit Gale: Enemies who died with a stack of Torment now have a chance to release a Spirit.
• 2 points into Damned Waters: Spirits now apply Damned.
• 3 points into Twisted Waves: Torment damage now scales off Necrotic Resistance.
• 1 point into Grim Tide: All Necrotic Damage from Chthonic Fissure scales with your Critical Multiplier stat.
• 2 points into Severed Wards: Spirits will now shred Necrotic Resistance on hit.
• 2 points into Stygian Current: Increases Spirit frequency.
• 1 point into Of Gloom and Flames: Chthonic Fissure now shoots out twice, once at the target location and again in the reverse direction.
• 2 points into Death from Below: Chthonic Fissure deals more damage if you're Cursed.
• 1 point into Fell Fire: Torment will now spread any Ignite stacks on a target.
• 3 points into Tombgorger: Torment deals more damage to Ignited, Poisoned and Bleeding targets.
• 3 points into Eradication: Fissure now deals more damage to Rare and Boss enemies.

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.

 Summon Volatile Zombie is the glue that connects the skills in this build together. Between  Profane Veil and the two Unique Rings ( Cycle of Putrescence) we use, you will have a constant supply of these necrotic ghouls at your side, dealing damage for you and creating Minions for you to absorb for Ward. Volatile Zombies will do four things for us upon death:

1. Zombie Health is converted to Ward for us when they die.
2. When a Zombie dies, it will cast  Sacrifice at a nearby Minion.
3. The explosion from Volatile Zombies applies Marked For Death to enemies hit.
4. When a Zombie dies, it creates a Skeleton Vanguard in its place.

The Mana cost for Volatile Zombies does not matter. We will never manually cast  Summon Volatile Zombie with this set up. Additionally, Zombies come with a 16% Kill Threshold, which is great for finishing Boss fights quickly.

• 2 points into Forceful Commander: Taken to path to further nodes.
• 1 point into Daunting Blast: Increased Stun Chance, but overall unimportant for the purposes of this build.
• 1 point into Ravenous : Volatile Zombies deal extra damage to Bosses and Rare enemies.
• 2 points into Pull of the Grave: Adds a 16% Kill Threshold to the skill.
• 1 point into Horrific Vessels: Zombies are converted to deal Necrotic Damage, scaling with the rest of the build.
• 1 point into Corpse Bane: Zombie explosions now inflict Marked for Death onto enemies it hits.
• 3 points into Fervor: Zombies deal more damage and now move faster.
• 1 point into Ferocious Horde: Mostly taken for pathing, but Zombies will move faster as their health decays.
• 1 point into Shepherd of Thralls: When a Zombie dies, it now summons a Skeleton Vanguard. These are used as Ward fodder for  Profane Veil.
• 1 point into Leap Attack: Zombies will now leap at targets.
• 2 points into Grand Sacrifice: When Volatile Zombies die, they will have a chance to cast  Sacrifice on a nearby Minion.
• 1 point into Path of Destruction: Taken for pathing, but does slightly increase the explosion size.
• 2 points into Necromantic Fervor: The maximum Health of a zombie is converted into healing for us when they die.
• 1 point into Vital Ward: The healing from the previous node is converted into Ward.

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.

 Sacrifice will never get used manually in this build. We rely on Volatile Zombies to automate this for us when they die. Aside from dealing a decent damage on its own, Sacrifice will also provide a substantial boost to our DoT damage as well. This is used specifically to boost the damage dealt with Torment. This also creates a consistent source of both Ignite and Bleed, two ailments that boost the damage Torment deals. This was explained in the  Chthonic Fissure Skill Tree.

• 1 point into Bone Nova: Sacrificing a Minion causes the explosion to deal damage with Bone Nova.
• 3 points into Lacerating Bones: Bone Nova has a chance to apply Bleed.
• 3 points into Avatar of Decay: A recent cast of Sacrifice increases your Damager Over Time by 60% for all applications.
• 1 point into Pontifex: Sacrifice deals more damage per Minion currently under your control.
• 1 point into Altar of Flames: Taken for pathing.
• 4 points into Burning Offering: Adds 100% chance to Ignite on hit.
• 3 points into Infernal Vindication: Increases global Damage Over Time after using Sacrifice.
• 3 points into Temple of Awe: Sacrifice hits in a much wider area.
• 3 points into Necrotic Audience: Sacrifice now deals more damage in a wider area as long as you control at least three Minions.

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.

 Summon Skeleton is taken as a way to replenish our Mana while also serving as a source of Ward through  Profane Veil consumption. Prior to getting the Experimental Affix Volatile Zombies Summoned on Pation Use, which comes on the Belt, you will need to manually summon Skeletons and consume them to start generating Zombies in the first place. After this Affix is acquired, you may still self-summon them periodically, if only ensure your Minion count stays above three for the bonus to Sacrifice damage and to make sure the Spell Damage buff is applied through Memory Catcher.

• 4 points into Unbound Necromancy: Cuts the Mana cost of Skeletons nearly in half.
• 4 points into Immortal: Skeletons have a 40% chance to resummon after death.
• 1 point into Grave Walkers: Increases Skeleton count by one.
• 1 point into Soul Catcher: Small Ward gain when a Skeleton dies.
• 3 points into Mind Catcher: Refunds 15 Mana upon Skeleton death. This solves Mana problems for the entire build.
• 4 points into Memory Catcher: When a Skeleton dies, the player recieves a 100% Spell Damage increase.
• 1 point into Marrow Tap: Taken for pathing.
• 2 points into Empty the Graves: When you directly summon a Skeleton, you now summon three of them.

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.

 Profane Veil will be used to consume Minions and generate Volatile Zombies, creating a never ending cycle of explosions from both these Zombies and casts of  Sacrifice. When the Zombies die, they will create Skeleton Vanguards who will then get consumed on your next cast of Profane Veil, creating a rotational loop for the build. While this does supply the build with a ton of damage, it will also generate Ward for us based on the maximum Health of the Minions we consume.

• 2 points into Eternal Blasphemy: Increases the duration and speed of Profane Veil.
• 5 points into Vampiric Pool: Consumes two Minions and converts a portion of their Health into Ward for the player, while also extending the duration you can stay in Profane Veil per Minion consumed.
• 5 points into Apocalypse: The two minions consumed from Vampriric Pool will summon Volatile Zombies, dealing increased damage based on your own Intelligence.
• 1 point into Loose Tongue: Drops the mana cost by 15.
• 1 point into Harsh Words: Decreased Mana cost, and Profane Veil now deals more damage.
• 1 point into Forked Tongue: Creates a second pool that detaches and seeks out enemies. This can also consume Minions.
• 1 point into Discourage: Taken for pathing.
• 5 points into Scorn: You deal more damage to Cursed enemies while in the puddle. This applies to every source of damage, not just Profane Veil.
• 2 points into Stream of Profanity: Using either  Soul Feast or  Chthonic Fissure will reduce the cooldown on Profane Veil.