Yeah, I should/will get on to that.
Finally updated it to 0.7.8 with the passive trees.
hey man not sure if im missing something but the lunge skill tree seems to differ from that is live in game do you have any updates on this
Ah yes, I forgot to update that, I’ll have a look at it tomorrow.
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Walking through passives is a nice touch. Terrific guide. Unfortunately, I dislike 1 fps gameplay.
Now updated with a new Lunge tree.
Thank you for this great guide! Unfortunately the link you provided for the gear doesn’t appear to be working. Is there any way you can create a new link, or give a description of your stuff?
In what way isn’t it working? The link I gave (lastepochtools.com) was only to give you a link to an excellent site that will give you all of the affixes & bases.
I certainly took some liberties with your detailed gear section and made this gear plan. I kind of implemented a similar gear outfit to what Boardman21 does with some of his Sentinel’s (which includes quite a few very rare affix shards).
I’m sure you could fix it up to more represent your vision. 
Fun build. It looks like Void Bolts in the Void tree double dips? Shield Throw’s Eruption says it benefits from Spell Damage and of course Shield Throw itself now deals Void Throwing damage, so it looks like you’re benefiting from both of the added Void damage.
For now I put 2/5 into Temporal Corruption and 2/8 into Void Bolts to get to Orb.
Yeah, Void Bolts is good as it buffs the hit damage from Shield Throw (throwing attack), Eruption (spell, proc’d by hits from Shield Throw) & Devouring Orb (spell). Unfortunately neither Void Bolts nor the melee equivalent buffs Future Strike.
Had a quick monolith this morning & definitely need to tweak the build a bit, Devouring Orb was casting a lot more (I had ~7-8 up most of the time) & running into mana issues from the additional mana cost of Smite’s Fissure (since that doesn’t proc future strikes, maybe it’s worth speccing out of it to something else), so I need to either get more mana regen, lower Devouring Orb’s cost more (shift points in Orb Master over to Fleeting Orb would both reduce the cost & have it cast less frequently so much less mana spent) &/or spec out of Fissure.
Ok, so I’ve had a look at my gear in the gear planner & it’s not great, so lets have a talk about gear…
Helm
Bases - my preference (in order) would probably be:
- Winged Helm (crit chance avoidance implicit)
- Shadow Helm (increased void damage implicit)
- Dawn Helm (lots of armour)
Prefixes
Set glancing blow
Attunement/Vit/Mana
Not much choice for prefixes, so you might as well stick a set glancing blow here & then something like Attunement (damage buff for everything except Shield Throw & it’s Future Strikes)
Suffixes
A lot more choice here:
Crit Strike Avoidance
Increased Void Damage & added Void damage (very rare), “of Infinity”, the % would buff all of your damage and the flat added damage would buff your Eruptions, Smites & Fissure
Void/Necrotic/Poison damage taken as Physical (very rare) “of the Singularity”, “of Purity” & “of Cleansing”, probably nice if you can get them since they’ll give you 18%-30% of the relevant element as physical (since we have a lot of armour, this is a good thing).
Mana, Increased Shield Throw Crit Strike, or any other defensive affixes to round out your protections
Amulet
Bases:
- Oracle Amulet (6%-20% less damage over time taken) is probably the best, but drops at lvl 76
- Jade Amulet (increased throwing attack speed)
- Silver Amulet (increased crit chance)
Prefixes
Void Damage
Honourable mentions for set glancing blow, necrotic/void/poison protection, increased crit chance, depending on what your other gear has.
The “Throwing Damage & Fire vulnerability” (Cursed) affix seems like a nice idea, until you die to a fire hit & start wondering whether you would have survived it if you didn’t take that affix…
Suffixes
I went with poison protection & health, though added mana, elemental protection is probably not a bad idea.
Main Hand weapon
Bases:
Personally I went with a sceptre since it gives adaptive spell damage (buffs your Eruption & Devouring Orb explosions) and spell cost reduction. Wands are an option but don’t have the spell cost reduction which is nice.
Prefixes
Void damage
Crit chance
These are the only prefixes that will benefit you, so a bit of a no-brainer
Suffixes
Anything defensive would be good here:
Necrotic/Void/Poison protection, added mana, chance to blind on hit
Shield
Bases:
Either Solarium Shield (more block chance, my preference) or Kite Shield (more block efficiency for when you do block)
Prefixes
Block Chance (obviously)
Then either set glancing blow, Armour (%, so, nice), Block Effectiveness, Throwing Attack Damage. I’d probably avoid Health on Block since you get a lot from Regenerator.
Suffixes
Damage Taken on Block (% damage reduction, but it’s multiplicative with any other source such as the Forge Guard’s mastery bonus)
Armour & Protectins (flat, but adds to everything), increased health, a specific protection (void/poison/etc). You probably won’t need glancing blow, but you could take a suffix glancing blow if you really need it (but it won’t benefit from all of the prefixes).
Body Armour
Bases:
Solarium Plate (crit strike avoidance)
Bronze Cuirass (crit strike)
Shadow Plate (void damage)
Dawn Plate (flat armour)
Prefixes
Nothing that really jumps out as must have, so Attunement/Strength/Vitality. I’d avoid “damage dealt to Mana before Health” though, it does weird things.
Suffixes
A lot of choice here, especially if you have some of the rarer affixes. You could stick another one of the very rare “Void/Poison/Necrotic taken as physical” affixes here, or some more generic protections & health.
Rings
Bases:
Ruby (health & stun avoidance)
Gold (% elemental protection)
Sapphire (mana)
Prefixes
Throwing Attack damage & mana cost reduction is a must have, but you only need 1
Avoid the flat added fire damage & increased fire damage taken affix for the reason stated above.
Apart from that, lots to choose from - increased crit chance, throwing attack speed (more shields, more damage, more health on hit!), void damage, set glancing blow (shouldn’t need it, but it’s an option), any of the other set affixes (but not set dodge, since dodge is anti-thetical to block), attunement/vitality/strength
Suffixes
Crit Strike Avoidance, void/necrotic/poison protections, even, mana regen, health or health regen
Belt
Any belt really, but
Ranger’s Belt (5 potion slots)
Noble Sash (mana & 3 potion slots)
Prefixes
Set Glancing Blow, since there’s not many interesting prefixes, might as well stick one here & get it up to t5, since you could not have a second prefix if you want.
If you do want a second prefix, extra potion slot is probably the best
Suffixes
Any of the usual defensive affixes, crit strike avoidance, poison protection, etc, even elemental protection.
Gloves
Bases:
Solarium Bracers (crit strike)
Noble Gloves (cast speed, so you spend less time being interrupted by Devouring Orb)
Lagonian Gauntless (flat ele protection)
Prefixes
Throwing Attack speed
Set Glancing Blow (if you need it), Attunement/Vit/Strength
Suffixes
The usual defences, or mana regen (rare)
Boots
The best movement speed boots you can get, so, Solarium Greaves or Heoborean Boots
Prefixes
Set Glancing Blow
Attunement/Strength/Vitality
Suffixes
Movement speed
Any of the usual defences
Relic
Bases:
Nothing really jumps out, so anything really, I went for a Stained Tome (+1-2 vit)
Prefixes
Decent amount of choice here, so any of the usual depending on what you’ve got elsewhere.
Set Glancing Blow, Throwing Attack Damage, Crit Strike, Attunement/Strength/Vitality, Void damage
Suffixes
Any of the usual defences, Necrotic/Void/Poison/Ele protection, Mana or Mana regen
Glancing blow slots:
That’s a lot of flexibility there, but since you only need 4x t5 set glancing blow or 5x t4s, I’d probably go with Belt, Relic, Boots, Helm & maybe Gloves.
Critical Strike Avoidance:
If you can get a helmet and body armour with crit strike avoidance as an implicit, you’ll only need an additional 70% from affixes even with minimum rolls, that’s 4 minimum rolled t4 affixes or 2 max rolled t5 affixes (or, heaven forbid, 1 & a bit t7 max rolled affix).
I’d probably put them on a Belt, a Ring, Boots & the Helm (though the uber-rare “damage taken as physical” would be much better placed on the helm).
i’m leveling this build now and it feels really good but i’m not a fan of ring of shields… it just doesn’t seem to contribute much to my survivability so far… but looking at the skills i have available i don’t see an immediately obvious replacement… any ideas? or thoughts on why RoS is a good choice that i’m just not seeing?
Yeah, I’ve tried Sigils of Hope since you can get up to 4 sigils up and you can spec them for extra block chance. My only issue is the mana cost of keeping them up on bosses, so I’ve also thought of speccing out of fissure.
i might try that out. i already specced out of fissues after reading your post above because i was also having mana issues. it’s better now but still can get OOM when the screen is really full.
since my post i specced into abyssal echoes just to see how it felt. i don’t think it can proc future strikes (tooltip says it can’t cause any “on hit” effects), but it did seem to contribute to dps pretty well. i went for the nodes that make it repeat cast (which thankfully doesn’t cost mana each time)… i’m still getting it leveled so i haven’t gotten all the mana efficiency nodes yet, but i’m keeping the cost around 30 mana. i also got the instant cast node so it doesn’t interrupt like devouring orb and the node that lets the DoT stack.
i just tap it once in a while and it repeats 5 times with about a second between, so i spread the DoT around pretty effectively and with all the various things we have hitting constantly the reduced duration doesn’t matter because the full DoT damage gets applied when things get hit.
i only made it about 6 echoes into my first timeline before i got killed by a necrotic/phys DoT (i think it was one of those fountain/aoe things, can’t remember the name of the enemy… not the bird or the barrel thing with the breath)… of course that’s the one thing i lack prots for. i also still haven’t gotten much GB gear. once i get that and necrotic prot sorted i think it’ll feel a lot safer.
i was also considering volatile reversal because that was extremely useful for mana management with malestan’s voidhammer build, but the mana spending is more predictable with that because it doesn’t have random smite procs.
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