Void Knight Erasing Strike Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.0) (2024)

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Class PassivesSkill Passives

SentinelVoid KnightPaladin

Volatile ReversalErasing StrikeVoid CleaveAbyssal EchoesSigils of Hope

Our base class is the Sentinel, which acts as a genericmelee fighter. Our character will be offered anopportunity to select an Advanced Mastery once we havecompleted the first act of the campaign. Each base class has threepossible masteries to choose from. For the Sentinel, we haveaccess to the Mastery Tree Passives for Void Knight, Paladin andForge Guard. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Pointsinto the Sentinel Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Pointsinto the Mastery Trees.

For this Erasing Strike build, we will be picking Void Knight as our advancedclass using the majority of our points in Void Knight passive tree. Theremainder of our points will be used in the Paladin passive trees. Our passivepoints will focus almost entirely on increasing Void Damage, Critical Multiplier, and boosting oursurvivability. Each of the passive trees and their points are broken downbelow.

• 8 points into Juggernaut: Stat and Resistance increases.
• 2 points into Fearless: Increases our Vitality and Health Regneration.
• 5 points into Armour Clad: Increased Armor and Damage Reduction from nearby enemies.
• 5 points into Valiant Charge: All movement skills have their cooldown lowered, this appliesto our Lunge, Void Cleave and Volatile Reversal.

Our base class is the Sentinel, which acts as ageneric melee fighter. Our character will be offered anopportunity to select an Advanced Mastery once we havecompleted the first act of the campaign. Each base class has threepossible masteries to choose from. For the Sentinel, we haveaccess to the Mastery Tree Passives for Void Knight, Paladin andForge Guard. Upon selecting a Mastery and placing 20 Passive Pointsinto the Sentinel Tree, you'll then be able to place Passive Pointsinto the Mastery Trees.

For this Erasing Strike build, we will be picking Void Knight as our advancedclass using the majority of our points in Void Knight passive tree. Theremainder of our points will be used in the Paladin passive trees. Our passivepoints will be targeting augments for our Void damage and boosting oursurvivability. Each of the passive trees and their points are broken downbelow.

• 10 points into Abyssal Endurance: Increases our Health, as well as Void and Physical Resistances.
• 6 points into Temporal Corruption: Boost our Void Damage.
• 6 points into World Eater: Melee and Void Damage leech health.
• 1 point into Void Corruption: Every point we have in Void Knight increases Critical Multiplier by 1%.
• 8 points into Void Blades: Increases Melee Void Damage.
• 8 points into Doom Knight: Strength and Health increases.
• 4 points into Woe: Increases Melee damage and grants increased Void damage and Armor on kill.
• 4 points into Singular Purpose: Increases Void Damage, but reduces Block Chance and Effectiveness.
• 10 points into Eternal Form: Increases Vitality and Health.
• 5 points into Essence of the End: Grants a chance to gain the buff Void Essence on kill.
• 1 point into Void Well: Uses stacks of Void Essence to restore Mana if you drop below 0.
• 15 points into Dread: Increases Void Damage and Movement Speed.

Our base class is the Sentinel, which acts as ageneric melee fighter. Our character will be offered anopportunity to select an Advanced Mastery once we havecompleted the first act of the campaign. Each base class has threepossible masteries to choose from. For the Sentinel, we have access to the MasteryTree Passives for Void Knight, Paladin and Forge Guard. Upon selecting a Mastery andplacing 20 Passive Points into the Sentinel Tree, you'll then be able to place PassivePoints into the Mastery Trees.

For this Erasing Strike build, we will be picking Void Knight as our advancedclass using the majority of our points in Void Knight passive tree. Theremainder of our points will be used in the Paladin passive trees. Our passivepoints will be targeting augments for our Void damage and boosting oursurvivability. Each of the passive trees and their points are broken downbelow.

The points in the Paladin tree are quite flexible, with the main goal being to take enough points to unlock the skill Sigils Of Hope.

• 8 points into Defiance: Increases Attunement and Elemental Resistances.
• 2 points into Valor: Increases our Health and Healing effects.
• 5 points into Blinding Light: Grants a chance to Blind enemies.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight thekey passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. Whilesome of these skills do allow for some variation to exist dependingon your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presenteduntil you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

This skill is designed to be a fail safe for health as well as boost your overall damage andMovement Speed. We can rewind time and revert any major losses to our character. We havealso augmented the skill to be another traversal skill, increasing our mobility. Whenthe skill is used it will create a Void Rift and any enemies hit by the skill willtake 30% more damage.

• 3 points into Time Sap: Chance to recover cooldown on kill.
• 3 points into Warped Time: Increases Cast Speed.
• 3 points into Catching Up: Increases Movement Speed after skill use.
• 1 point into Terminal Void Rift: Creates a Void Rift on arrival.
• 3 points into Dark Expanse: Increases our Void Rift Area of Effect.
• 3 points into Harbinger of Dust: Increases the damage taken by enemies who are hit by Void Rift.
• 1 point into Incipient Void Rift: Void Rift now happens at the start of the skill.
• 2 points into Traveller's Fatigue: Increases Cooldown Recovery.
• 1 point into Timelost Wisdom: Increases Cooldown Recovery, also removes Mana cost.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight thekey passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. Whilesome of these skills do allow for some variation to exist dependingon your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presenteduntil you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

Erasing Strike is one of our most powerful attacks in this build,capable of taking out Elite enemies in a single strike. The skill tree focuseson adding an additional charge for the skill, kill threshold, loads of VoidDamage increases and inflicting stacks of Armor Shred. These fouraugments are what make this skill devastating once fully leveled.

• 4 points into Merciful: Increases the Cooldown Recovery for the skill.
• 5 points into Erasure of the Living: Grants a 10% Kill Threshold and more damage.
• 2 points into Dust To Wind: Increases Area for the skill.
• 3 point into Mark of the End: Adds the ability to inflict Void Resistance Shred to enemies.
• 1 point into Twin Cataclysms: Adds an additional charge of the skill.
• 5 points into Obliteration: Increases Melee and Void Damage.

Any additional points go into maxing out the node Prophet's Onslaught as you can see in the image.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight thekey passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. Whilesome of these skills do allow for some variation to exist dependingon your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presenteduntil you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

Void Cleave is our main spam skill that dashes towards a group ofenemies, hitting in a conal AoE with a melee strike. The skill is augmented withthe ability to cast Abyssal Echoes automatically after we use the skill.Another key node we have added into this skill is Obliterator whichgrants Erasing Strike a guaranteed Critical Strike. This helps withour rotational gameplay in the build, casting Void Cleave and followingup with Erasing Strike, looping the two skills together over and over aswe move through the map.

• 3 points into Dark Pathway: Increased Cooldown Recovery.
• 5 points into Fraying Strikes: Adds Void Resistance Shred.
• 1 point into Resonating Cleave: Casts Abyssal Echoes when you use Void Cleave.
• 2 point into Into the Depths: Increases Damage and Area of the skill.
• 1 point into Precognition: Void Cleave can no longer be dodged.
• 3 points into Rift Maker: Skill applies Critical Vulnerability.
• 4 points into Champion of the Void: Increases Critical Multiplier and grants Mana on critical hit.
• 1 point into Obliterator: After using Void Cleave, Erasing Strike will always deal critical damage.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight thekey passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. Whilesome of these skills do allow for some variation to exist dependingon your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presenteduntil you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

This skill is triggered automatically and adds some fantastic utility to thebuild. We add Slow to this ability to help boost our damage withVoid Cleave and Erasing Strike against Slow enemies. We havealso augmented the ability to inflict Armor Shred to all enemies hit.

• 3 points into Crippling Waves: Adds slow to enemies.
• 4 points into Void Supremacy: Increases Void Cleave and Erasing Strike damage against slowed targets.
• 5 points into Deep Expanse: Increases the skill's AoE.
• 1 point into Vorpal Reverberation: Traversal node.
• 5 points into Rippling Corrosion: Abyssal Echoes will now inflict 5 stacks of Armor Shredto all enemies hit.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight the keypassives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in thebuild. While some of these skills do allow for some variation to existdepending on your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees aspresented until you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

This skill has perfect synergy with this build and a single cast can last for quitea while. We use the Sigils as an extra defensive layer to keep ourselves healed and toamplify our damage for every Sigil we have applied.

• 5 points into Empowering Sigils: Damage increase per Sigil.
• 2 points into Word of Alacrity: Increases Cast Speed.
• 1 point into Last Wish: Small chance to gain a Sigil on every kill.
• 1 point into Exigency: This makes the skill an instant cast skill.
• 2 points into Iron Sigils: Increases our Endurance Threshold per Sigil.
• 4 points into Enduring Hope: Increases Sigil duration.
• 1 point into Tetragram: Increases your Sigil count by one.
• 3 points into Decree of Flame: Adds Fire Damage per Sigil (converted to Void).
• 1 points into Sigils of Despair: Converts the skill to Void.