Last Epoch Tier List: Best Season 2 Masteries

Last Epoch sports a whopping 15 Mastery classes. Masteries are fundamentally a subclass that allows you to thin successful connected 1 facet of your build. They scope from accepted roles similar Sorcerer to much out-there options similar Falconer (which sees you flying astir the representation utilizing your vertebrate person for damage). It tin beryllium hard to take which ones to absorption connected with truthful galore options, but this Last Epoch Mastery tier list volition help.

How We Ranked the Best and Worst Masteries successful Last Epoch

What makes a Mastery strong, weak, oregon determination successful betwixt depends connected however galore cardinal checkboxes it ticks for imaginable builds. Every physique has a agelong database of things it tin usage to marque its wide (i.e. mapping) and bossing (i.e. azygous target), and defence arsenic beardown arsenic it tin be, but immoderate are stronger than others, oregon person stronger synergies than others.

For example, ‘more’ harm multipliers are stronger than accrued harm multipliers, truthful if a Mastery offers much of the former, it’s much apt to beryllium higher up connected this list. Be definite to work passives intimately to find however they standard harm — they volition archer you! There are besides stats similar captious deed chance, captious deed multiplier, level damage, armour shred chance, armour shred effect, and plentifulness much that propulsion a batch of weight.

Defensively, captious deed harm simplification oregon captious harm avoidance are, well, captious for astir builds, arsenic random harm spikes are a large mode to die, and these fto you debar them entirely. Resists are besides important — portion you tin ever get them connected cogwheel and idols, having the enactment to get them connected the Mastery passive histrion gives you flexibility. Meanwhile, harm simplification is arguably the champion mode to past successful the game, truthful of people it’s a reasonably uncommon stat to find. You besides person betterment (leech, wellness regeneration, health/ward connected hit, etc.) and eHP (Ward and/or Health) to interest about, and a ton of different things. All that is to say, immoderate Mastery that offers these successful a mode that’s constituent businesslike is much apt to beryllium toward the apical of this list.

As for Mastery skills, these are evaluated mostly based connected their numbers and harm imaginable for some bossing and clearing, with a small information fixed to however they consciousness to play. A accomplishment whitethorn beryllium S-Tier but if it feels clunky to play, that whitethorn lend to a Mastery ranking a spot little than it could. Of course, if you’re not the benignant to caput mechanics similar snapshotting, you’re invited to fertile a fixed Mastery higher.

Last Epoch Season 2 Masteries Tier List

• S-Tier: Paladin, Void Knight

Best wide clear, bossing, and defense, with nary important weaknesses

• A-Tier: Falconer, Bladedancer, Shaman, Druid

Strong clear, bossing, and/or defense. Lacking importantly successful 1 area

• B-Tier: Marksman, Lich, Beastmaster

Good clear, bossing, and/or defense. Lacking importantly successful 1 oregon much areas

• C-Tier: Necromancer, Forge Guard, Runemaster

Decent to bully clear, bossing, and/or defense. Lacking importantly successful 1 oregon much areas

• D-Tier: Spellblade, Warlock, Sorcerer

Poor to bully clear, bossing, and/or defense. Lacking importantly successful aggregate areas

S-Tier Last Epoch Masteries

S-Tier: Void Knight

If you privation to delete screens with a elephantine purple sword and ne'er die, Void Knight (and Erasing Strike) is for you. It scales good excessively erstwhile it transitions into the World Splitter version. A Warpath mentation is besides conscionable arsenic viable, and happens to beryllium some apical tier and caller player/casual friendly.

Void Knight has much mobility and effectual HP (eHP) than it utilized to, and sports the aforesaid immense wide and precise respectable bossing damage. It besides has the chiseled payment of being capable to determination and bash harm simultaneously, which is ever a immense boon for harm per 2nd (DPS), portion feeling precise creaseless to play.

In presumption of numbers, it sports 200% added harm effectiveness connected each skills (and 600 connected Erasing Strike), which is precise overmuch wherever you privation to be.

The passive histrion offers absorption to and penetration for Physical and Void damage, leech and leech rate, harm reduction, accrued health, dilatory and chill resist, mana solutions, onslaught speed, and plentifulness more. Standout nodes see Sorrow & Steel (damage, armor, and country of effect successful 1 tidy package), Void Corruption (a immense magnitude of captious deed accidental and multiplier), and Mortal Cleave (culling, damage, and captious deed accidental each successful one). There’s adjacent much to mention, but you get the idea: Void Knight has it all.

S-Tier: Paladin

Developer Eleventh Hour Games (EHG) admitted it overdid it with the Sentinel rework, which is wherefore Judgement Paladin took 4 of the apical 5 spots successful the Terminate Uber Abberoth race. So, determination should beryllium nary uncertainty whatsoever this Mastery deserves S-Tier.

As with Void Knight, Paladin has highly potent skills, doesn’t die, and does monolithic damage. Judgement unsocial is obscene, offering 350% harm effectiveness and 200% captious multiplier against 15 mana outgo and 4s cooldown, paired unneurotic successful one-two healing and harm punch. The happening is, each azygous 1 of its different skills are astir arsenic potent, which can’t beryllium said for immoderate different Mastery. Symbols of Hope and Holy Aura some travel the harm and defence successful 1 theme, portion Healing Hands conscionable offers a metric ton of healing (primarily for those other pugnacious bosses).

The passive histrion offers the astir resistances successful the game, positive plentifulness of betterment and harm reduction, mana, onslaught and formed speed, block, armor, penetration, and more. Standout nodes see Covenant of Light (which buffs Healing Hands and Holy Aura simultaneously), Covenant of Protection, and Reverence of Duality and Convenant of Dominion, which collectively connection ridiculous amounts of damage, sustain, harm implicit clip mitigation, and defence (sometimes each astatine once).

Though Judgement steals the show, Bleed Hammerdin and Smite are beardown physique options arsenic good if you privation to spell a small off-meta.

A-Tier Last Epoch Masteries

A-Tier: Falconer

EHG has stated its extremity erstwhile nerfing overpowered (OP) builds is to marque them “just nether OP”, and that’s precisely what happened with the Falconer Mastery and its fashionable builds. Outrageously almighty erstwhile it launched, it’s present simply silly bully (the horror!).

Movement velocity connected this 1 is unrivaled, and harm is apical tier, acknowledgment successful portion to casual entree to captious deed multipliers and Dexterity scaling options. Even better, it has the enactment to employment some simultaneously acknowledgment to Aerial Assault: conscionable drawback your vertebrate and it’s bombs away.

Its lone existent weakness is defense. You'll request to usage Dodge alongside Silver/Dusk Shrouds and/or Glancing Blows to debar damage, keeping you connected your toes. An astir implicit deficiency of absorption options connected the histrion is simply a origin arsenic well, arsenic this puts a batch of unit to get absorption connected your Blessings, idols, and cogwheel erstwhile you mightiness similar different options.

You tin thin into the Falconer's deficiency of defence with a Zero HP Ballista Falconer physique that hits incredibly hard, but requires you to food incoming harm utilizing Silver Shrouds and Dodge. Safe to accidental we won't beryllium utilizing this successful hardcore.

Apart from Ballista, Umbral Blades is 1 of the apical Falconer builds, which tin beryllium built utilizing Shadow Daggers earlier you swap implicit to a Dexterity stacking mentation with Talons of Valor bow and Razorfall boots. If you similar the thought of slicing enemies up and dashing each implicit the spot portion flying astir connected your feathered friend, you’ll find it a joyousness to play. It is fastener intensive, however, particularly if you importune connected maximizing DPS.

A-Tier: Bladedancer

While Falconer is much popular, Bladedancer is astir arsenic beardown and well-rounded. Clear, azygous target, and defence are each wherever you’d privation them to be, acknowledgment to the suite of high-DPS skills, almighty passive support, and utile iframes from Lethal Mirage. If you privation a beardown but accelerated melee class, this is the one.

Standout nodes connected the passive histrion see Pursuit (efficient harm and question speed), Argent Veil (makes dodge a batch much reliable), and Death’s Door (damage simplification for debased beingness builds). More broadly, Glancing Blows, Dusk Shrouds, and Dodge signifier a almighty antiaircraft layer, and Dexterity stacking, crit, leech, Frailty, armour shred and armour shred effect are each connected offer. In short, you person everything you request to succeed. The lone happening truly holding Bladedancer backmost is that it’s not rather arsenic implicit the apical numerically arsenic things similar Judgment Paladin.

In presumption of builds, you tin spell with Shadow Daggers, Shadow Cascade, Chakrams (take the Chakram node connected the Shurikens tree), oregon Lethal Mirage utilizing Black Blade of Chaos (requires a 2H sword of the aforesaid name). The Chakram mentation astatine slightest should beryllium Uber Abberoth viable.

A-Tier: Beastmaster

The summoner Mastery. It’s not arsenic tanky arsenic Void Knight oregon Paladin, but Beastmaster inactive took 2nd spot successful the Uber Abberoth race. Granted it’s partially owed to Storm Crows, which has apical tier DPS owed to snapshotting which isn’t Beastmaster exclusive, though the Summon Wolf companion buffs surely helped. In immoderate case, Beastmaster Summons is simply a proven archetype, though they instrumentality immoderate clip to get going.

You tin spell heavier connected the Beastmaster skills by gathering astir Poison Nova Scorpion (check retired CookBook’s version). It’s well-rounded successful presumption of harm and wide but usually suffers from debased question speed, truthful if you’re coming from thing similar Rogue, it’ll beryllium a shock. There are options to alleviate it—Haste via The Scavenger loop and accrued Haste effect connected idols, for example—but it volition ne'er beryllium a accelerated build.

The passive histrion offers ever-important harm reduction, health, healing, wellness regeneration, endurance for companions, crit support, and stun. There is a deficiency of damage, but you tin drawback this elsewhere.

A-Tier: Shaman

A melee and/or elemental Mastery, Shaman is 1 of the highest Arena pushing builds: it tin scope Wave 500-700+. The wide is rather fast, albeit not apical tier, with a akin communicative connected defense.

Tornado is simply a batch much harm than it seems, and the vacuum effect is great, making it the prima of the show. Earthquake and Avalanche spot small play owed to precocious mana costs and/or requiring Spriggan Form which is clunky. However, utilizing Aftershock idols tin beryllium invited for immoderate other harm (so you’re fundamentally utilizing Earthquake without suffering the problems of Earthquake). Summon Storm Totem is reasonably popular, arsenic well. If thing else, it’s a bully decoy with decent damage.

As for the passive tree, you get a batch of Penetration (though you person to spell done the defensively anemic Attunement to get overmuch of it), cooldown reduction, mana, car trigger skills, onslaught and formed speed, elemental harm packaged with resists, Haste, and a batch more. The item skills see Fist of Stone (stun, Endurance, and wellness regen each successful one), Lagon’s Answer and Conflux (auto and treble formed Storm Bolt alongside country of effect (AoE) and harm simplification is efficient, to accidental the least), and Swirling Maelstrom (more car casting fun, with health, mana, and Endurance Threshold connected top). There’s adjacent much to rave about, but you get the jist.

A-Tier: Druid

The shapeshifting Mastery, Storm Werebear is apical of the heap here. Boasting large DPS, it tin termination Abberoth (possibly adjacent the Uber version), bash 1000 corruption (the astir you ever privation to propulsion owed to severely diminishing returns), and astir 300 Wave Arena (and arsenic overmuch arsenic ~700). The eHP is precise nice, to boot. If you similar a combo playstyle and the thought of mauling enemies to decease portion filling the surface with tornadoes, this is simply a well-rounded, engaging Mastery to spell for. Its superior weakness is that it’s not precise accelerated astatine farming, though, truthful if you privation to advancement fast, Druid whitethorn not beryllium the close fit.

Taking Werebear replaces 4 of your skills with caller ones much fitting for a bear. Rampage and Maul athletics the ever appreciated bundle of question and competitory damage, portion adding successful Knockback for bully measure. Roar meantime offers Knockback and Stun, and tin beryllium configured to prolong Rage (basically carnivore mana). Its accomplishment histrion sports a nary cooldown mentation of Rampage (yes please), tin marque Rampage trigger Storm Bolt, and supports Stun, Rage and Health connected deed (via Invigoration), and reduces the cooldown of Maul, among different standouts.

Spriggan Form is precise beardown arsenic well, bringing a ton of defence to the table, but is amended supported by Druid/Beastmaster, and truthful won’t beryllium discussed further here. Swarmblade is nary slouch either (just not with Locusts), portion Entangling Roots falls by the wayside. It’s not a unspeakable skill, but it’s mostly a buff accomplishment for totems, which proves clunky arsenic you can’t usage it reasonably from Spriggan Form.

As with everything successful the apical tiers, the passive histrion present offers much beardown nodes than we person country to spell into. There’s Spirit Warden for health, mana, and sustain, Focused Wrath for harm coupled with Rage decay complaint buffs, Bush Stalker (crit and leech connected crit), Fetid Resilience (multiplicative harm implicit time), Primal Shifter/Tiger Spirit (armour, damage, crit chance, and crit multiplier, each of which tin beryllium made to use to minions arsenic well), and Impervious (which grants harm simplification for doing melee damage). There’s plentifulness more, but the constituent stands: Shaman is intelligibly present to play.

B-Tier Last Epoch Masteries

B-Tier: Lich

The classical ‘sacrifice your beingness for bonuses’ archetype, Lich tin bent with the amended Masteries acknowledgment to potent skills similar Reaper Form and a meaty passive tree.

Drain Life has underwhelming stats, but tin beryllium utile with the Hecatomb node to person your minions into mana. Aura of Decay is an appealing accomplishment for the poison archetype (which gets a batch of enactment connected the passive trees), but unluckily is precise anemic successful practice, due to the fact that scaling applies to harm received and determination are nary large ways to mitigate it oregon crook it into an upside. Death Seal connected the different manus is excellent, providing a immense 300% harm effectiveness boost and reducing harm taken to half. As with astir things Lich, it’s somewhat risky but good worthy it.

As for Reaper Form, it’s lone 100% harm effectiveness but this increases a batch via the passive tree. Additionally, it’s a question skill, and it’s AoE harm that gains you health, making for a beardown all-rounder. Again, it drains you, but you tin flooded this with betterment options.

The passive histrion provides options for Intelligence stacking, mana, health, ward, recovery, and more. The standouts present see Dance With Death, Hollow Lich, Unclosing Wounds, and Ageless Plagues, each of which connection terribly businesslike harm buffs. There’s besides automatic minion procreation (Harvested Legions), captious onslaught accidental and attack/cast velocity buffs (Clairvoyant Insight), and Ageless Ascetic for buffs to movement, attack, and formed velocity arsenic good arsenic leech. Not the best, but besides not atrocious astatine all.

B-Tier: Marksman

Your classical Archer subclass. Hail of Arrows and Heartseeker are the fashionable builds. While not required, the erstwhile truly wants the Sanguine Hoard unsocial quiver, but it shouldn’t beryllium hard to prime up. If you similar the thought of mounting up a large bleed combo, it’s worthy playing. Meanwhile, Heartseeker is beauteous large if you similar the thought of car targeting projectiles. Just beryllium definite to spell with Bleed oregon Poison precise early, earlier transitioning into the Icicle mentation erstwhile your cogwheel is ready.

One of the strengths of Marksman is it offers tons of HP connected hit, and due to the fact that you thin to beryllium shooting retired a ton of projectiles, it tin deed a lot. Multishot is simply a spot anemic connected basal with 120% harm effectiveness and basal 6 phys, though this improves greatly with each the multiplicative harm nodes connected the passive tree, arsenic good arsenic immoderate level damage. Plus, it has a debased mana cost. Meanwhile, Hail is bully due to the fact that it doesn’t attraction astir crit and sports 325% harm effectiveness by default. Detonating Arrow is simply underwhelming numerically, truthful it’s nary astonishment it’s not played.

On the passive histrion you’ll find enactment for dodge, crit, question speed, further arrows, damage, recovery, and heaps more. Some of the champion nodes among them see Heightened Senses (crit avoidance and crit multiplier), Thief’s Quiver (health and leech), and Death From Afar (stun and armour shred). As is emblematic for Rogue Masteries, it’s not going to triumph awards for defense, but you’ll ne'er person to interest astir harm oregon wide if you play your cards right.

C-Tier Last Epoch Masteries

C-Tier: Necromancer

Another summoner Mastery, this clip with undead flavour. With a reasonably beardown suite of skills and a passive histrion that covers a batch of bases, it’s fitting that Necromancer tin often deed 200-400 Waves successful Arena.

Summon Skeletal Mage is simply a nifty accomplishment successful that it reduces force wellness regeneration by 20% (most utile against bosses) and tin beryllium converted to a Traversal skill; you'll beryllium focusing connected a azygous almighty minion alternatively than an undead army, however. On the tree, you’ll find tons of enactment for Poison, Necrotic, Cold, and Fire, truthful there’s thing for astir everyone.

Sacrifice sees small to nary play due to the fact that the Mastery has unspeakable idiosyncratic harm enactment — it’s playable, but minions bash the aforesaid happening for you but better.

Dread Shade offers a immense level and accrued percent harm boost temporarily (at the outgo of health), and tin beryllium made to detonate your minions for large Necrotic harm (Doom Brand) oregon heighten Infernal Shade. There’s besides the enactment to person each Necrotic concern into Poison if that’s your jam. And past there’s the Beyond Death node which turns minions into exploding Zombies, Duskheart which converts Shade into a harm implicit clip skill, and Symbiotic Apparition which grants you Shade’s buffs.

Assemble Abomination, meanwhile, summons a almighty tanky minion. To marque the astir of it you’ll request to employment snapshotting (basically cogwheel and accomplishment swapping, which galore players despise), but it’s inactive tenable without.

Finally, Summon Wraith has respectable harm acknowledgment to Dread Shade and Wraith’s galore captious onslaught passives. As usual, there’s tons of enactment present connected the histrion for Fire, Necrotic, oregon Poison variations, but besides a Bleed one. And similar Shade, it tin person into a harm implicit clip accomplishment (Spectre of Death).

Notable notables connected the Necromancer histrion see Elixir of Hunger for health, accrued percent health, wellness connected hit, and attack/cast speed, and Rite of Undeath for 120 full resistances connected apical of a bully harm boost. More broadly, you won’t find yourself abbreviated connected betterment damage, minion support, armour and absorption shred, ward oregon ward retention, oregon crit successful some its forms. There’s not overmuch successful the mode of defence present extracurricular of betterment and minion tanking, which holds it backmost some.

C-Tier: Runemaster

Runemaster is simply a rarely-seen-in-RPGs caster archetype that lets you harvester spells unneurotic to marque unsocial spells (any Gauntlet fans successful the house?). While you don’t person to play it this way, Rune of Invocation — the accomplishment that enables this — is the crushed to play Runemaster, offering utmost versatility via invocations, galore with precise awesome harm numbers.

Hydrahedron is 1 of the highlights — casting this spell via Rune of Invocation is portion of what makes the Mastery and physique 1000 corruption viable. Defense is inactive a superior concern, but if you support connected the move, you should enactment alive. For those with a bigger budget, there’s Focus Autobomber, which uses the Brand of Deception and Runic Fortress passives to beardown effect. The DPS isn’t thing special, but it’s precise tanky. The thought present is to stack Strength, Intelligence, and Ward for armor and shock. As a bonus, it’s casual to play.

Flame Rush is simply a question accomplishment with morganatic harm numbers paired with harm reduction, and tin service arsenic a respectable harm accomplishment erstwhile desired. Frost Wall, meanwhile, tin brag astir a precise precocious 400% harm effectiveness, 100% accidental to chill, and Freeze chance. Plus, it’s a harm implicit clip skill, truthful it has little gearing requirements, and it’s a beardown bosser acknowledgment to Decree of the Burning Wind (on the Runemaster passive tree).

Runebolt is nary slouch either, offering a 200% crit multiplier and mana regeneration portion getting astir resistances with Decree of the Bountiful Ocean. Lastly, Glyph of Dominion measures up good numerically, portion providing guaranteed slow. There’s besides an absorbing enactment determination with Decree of Eternal Tundra for tons of ward per second.

As for the passive tree, there’s each kinds of enactment for Ward, mana, elemental debuffs, formed and question speed, reduced captious onslaught damage, cooldown recovery, and armour and harm for Fire builds and Freeze multiplier and harm for Lightning builds, among different things. It’s not outrageous similar you spot with the higher tier Masteries, but it’s inactive competitive.

C-Tier: Forge Guard

Forge Guard tin clasp its ain arsenic a Mastery, conscionable not arsenic good arsenic the large boys. To enactment it different way, they bash overmuch of what it does but better. Still, determination are immoderate unsocial physique options present that are large if you’re looking for thing different.

Skill-wise, Manifest Armor is bully arsenic a decoy and rewards STR/armor stacking (the superior unsocial physique option). Shield Throw offers precocious added harm effectiveness, portion Ring of Shields brings large defence to the array (especially with the Shield Crafter passive). Still, comparing it to Symbols of Hope, it comes up short, arsenic it’s situational and purely defensive.

Smelter’s Wrath has a batch of imaginable arsenic it scales discourtesy and defence and boasts 600% harm effectiveness. Unfortunately, it’s a channeling accomplishment with nary enactment to alteration that, truthful it’ll dilatory you down and permission you a spot vulnerable. Next, you person Forge Weapon with a beefy 600% harm effectiveness, alongside summons for defence which standard disconnected your weapon. Not atrocious astatine all.

In presumption of passives, the lone truly standout 1 is Guardian for a beauteous operation of health, stun chance, and regen. Steel Aegis, Iron Attunement, Walls of Solarum, and Osprixbane are surely nary slouches, but erstwhile evaluating the champion nodes successful different Masteries, Forge Guard leaves thing to beryllium desired. Apart from that, you tin find businesslike harm scaling passim the tree.

D-Tier Last Epoch Masteries

D-Tier: Spellblade

It whitethorn beryllium D-Tier, but adjacent D-Tier inactive means viable. Spellblade is not lacking successful DPS astatine each and is beauteous speedy, but tin conflict a large woody with defenses. The amended your positioning, the little you’ll get one-tapped, but it’s inactive going to hap occasionally. If you don’t caput that and similar the thought of combining magic with melee, it’s worthy a go.

Flame Reave is playable but underwhelming. The basal stats are beardown enough, but harm cuts successful fractional astatine a distance, AoE is limited, and the mana outgo is reasonably high. Worse, it lone hits erstwhile per cast, which is simply a large no-no erstwhile compared to skills similar Frost Claw that deed 20 times per formed (and for a batch much full damage), oregon Judgment connected Sentinel—mind you, conscionable astir everything comes up abbreviated there!

On apical of that, it lacks unsocial buffs and debuffs, and its assemblage power node proves ineffective successful practice. Too galore of the nodes necessitate downsides that aren’t worthy it, arsenic well. It tin inactive get you to the mid-game oregon truthful (around 500 Corruption), but not astir arsenic efficiently arsenic different skills, and dissimilar those, it volition deed a wall.

Enchant Weapon is simply a potent DPS boost (65% situationally and 15% permanently), and if going the Ignite route, allows you to trigger Ignites instantly; ever a almighty method of harm delivery. There’s besides immoderate ever-potent Leech for Lightning oregon Fire variations, and Chill for Cold. Surprisingly, determination is nary Freeze support.

Firebrand is akin to Reave successful that it tin deed 300 Corruption but not bash overmuch beyond that. It doesn’t person each the drawbacks of Reave and is rather enjoyable to play—imagine rapidly shooting occurrence beams astatine enemies up to mid-range—but unluckily the harm isn’t rather determination compared to apical skills, truthful you’ll person a harder clip than you request to erstwhile progressing, and volition yet autumn connected hard times. Still, if you’re looking for thing off-meta and don’t request the champion of the best, this is simply a bully accomplishment to spell for.

Surge offers mobility, damage, tons of crit, and debuffs (including Stun), arsenic good each all kinds of elemental and Ward support. Meanwhile, Shatter Strike loves crit portion besides providing immoderate defence and discourtesy successful the signifier of acold debuffs, culling, Knockback, armor, Ward, and more. All successful all, you perfectly volition not person issues scaling damage, and it won’t adjacent necessitate overmuch gearing, though obviously, amended cogwheel volition instrumentality it adjacent farther.

As for the passive tree, it provides ward enactment successful each form, and intriguing nodes similar Flame Walker for immoderate mobile occurrence harm and occurrence absorption shred, and Arcane Shielding and Shattered Aegis for harm simplification and armour (worth the 10 points). Apart from those, you’ll find resistances, damage, health, and mana available. Unluckily, there’s small enactment for Parry. It’s a decent histrion for sure, but there’s thing outrageous to assistance it support up with the apical tiers.

D-Tier: Warlock

Warlock builds are focused connected harm implicit time, which makes them casual to cogwheel and successful that sense, precise caller subordinate and casual friendly. Curses are besides a large element, amplifying harm by debuffing enemies. While builds similar Witchfire are viable, they don’t bash overmuch amended than different Masteries, and truthful seldom propulsion acold connected the ladder.

Cthonic Fissure, Profane Veil, and Chaos Bolts are your prima skills, each slotting into some the fashionable Bleed and Witchfire (Fire/Necrotic damage) variations. The harm they bring is what keeps Warlock astatine each competitive; Profane Veil adjacent offers immoderate antiaircraft inferior by making you invincible to everything but harm implicit clip temporarily portion granting harm implicit clip itself.

Defense is wherever it each benignant of falls apart. While you person entree to precocious eHP and betterment (and Profane Veil) acknowledgment to nodes similar Spiteful Decay and Spirit Leech, that’s astir it, which is simply a acold outcry from the amended Masteries.

Fire/Necrotic absorption builds volition find The Ashen One passive is simply a must-grab for Witchfire, portion Crimson Favours and Cauldron of Blood serves Bleed builds well.

D-Tier: Sorcerer

The classical caster class, Sorcerer is precise overmuch viable, but unluckily doesn’t bash a batch to basal out. Frostbite Frostclaw is 1 of the amended builds available, proving itself arsenic an all-rounder, but suffering from mana issues and lacking speed.

Skill-wise, you person immoderate beardown stats connected Static Orb, and arsenic ever vacuum skills similar this (and Black Hole) clasp their own. It gets much absorbing with accomplishment nodes similar Static Armor that assistance a situational 25% little harm taken, and Overwhelming Barrage which dramatically increases stun chance. There are besides options to person it into a acold and Freeze accomplishment for yet different antiaircraft layer.

Ice Barrage sports immoderate respectable numbers arsenic well, and its 40 Freeze complaint is competitory with Frost Claw — adjacent better, it car targets enemies, and has the enactment to creating a Chill effect AoE oregon a shield that blocks projectiles.

Arcane Ascendance is almighty but prohibitive, owed to its precocious mana outgo (somewhat offset connected the tree), deficiency of crit, and lacking secondary damage. Still, its histrion makes it rather versatile, providing entree to Knockback, Slow, Haste, car casting, and more.

As for Black Hole, this is simply a potent azygous accomplishment with 600% harm effectiveness and immoderate vacuum utility. It’s arguably champion utilized arsenic azygous target, but tin beryllium customized for clear. On the histrion you’ll find adjacent much inferior successful Knockback and Blind, and options to person into Fire oregon Cold for builds focused connected those elements.

Lastly, Meteor has immense basal stats (190 occurrence + 950% harm effectiveness), but astatine a precocious mana cost, demanding you physique astir it with mana stacking and Archmage, whjch aren’t successful a large spot.

On the passive histrion you get tons of ward enactment successful each its forms, important harm buffs, and formed speed, elemental debuffs, leech, and penetration. It’s surely not the full package, but it’s not nothing, either. The Mana Bulwark node — which deals harm to mana earlier wellness — is tempting, but unluckily this is an ineffective mechanic successful practice.

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