Last Epoch - Fastest Leveling Acolyte Minions Build in Tombs of the Erased!

Summary

In this video guide, the player demonstrates an efficient minion-based build in *Last Epoch*, focusing on a mix of skeletal archers, pyromancers, golems, and explosive zombies. The goal is to breeze through the campaign with minimal effort, using powerful synergies like Infernal Shades, which deal fire damage, and the zombies' explosive effects that heal the player. Key strategies include maximizing minion damage, using curses to amplify damage, and focusing on mana regeneration. The guide also covers leveling, skill allocation, and endgame strategies, ensuring players can continue seamlessly into high-level content without difficulty.

Takeaways

• 😀 The build focuses on minion gameplay, with a combination of warriors, mages, golems, and exploding zombies.
• 😀 Volatile zombies are a key part of the strategy, dealing explosive damage and healing the player as they explode.
• 😀 The player can summon minions, teleport forward, and re-summon dead minions mid-combat for continuous damage and healing.
• 😀 Starting with skeletons and focusing on archers, the build transitions to include a bone golem for tanking and threat generation.
• 😀 The key skill for healing and dealing damage is the Volatile Zombie, which is upgraded for movement, damage, and cost-efficiency.
• 😀 Effigy of Combustion grants zombies a chance to summon Infernal Shades on death, which deal surrounding fire damage to enemies.
• 😀 The Chaos Flames skill is chosen to increase fire and necrotic damage, enhancing both minions' damage and their ability to ignite enemies.
• 😀 At level 35, the player unlocks skeleton mages and focuses on pyromancers for additional fire damage and ignition.
• 😀 Minion health, damage, and mana regeneration are prioritized through gear and passives to sustain the minions and the player's survival.
• 😀 The Infernal Shade mechanic is enhanced for rapid explosions, making use of the Volatile Zombies to create continuous combusting shades.
• 😀 The build allows for a smooth transition into endgame content, with flexibility to further specialize into other minion builds like Golemmancer or Wraith Lord.

Q & A

What is the core focus of the build described in the script?

The core focus of the build is on summoning minions, specifically skeletal archers and volatile zombies, to deal damage and support the player through healing and explosive effects. The player uses a combination of necromancer and warlock skills to optimize minion damage, especially with fire-based effects like Infernal Shades.

How does the player ensure they survive while zooming through enemies?

The player survives by relying on the healing effects of their volatile zombies, which heal them as the zombies die. Additionally, the player dodges into enemies, taking damage, but the zombies' healing mechanics instantly restore their health and mana, allowing them to keep progressing without dying.

What is the role of the Bone Golem in this build?

The Bone Golem acts as the super tank, drawing threat away from the player and protecting them. It's essential to boost the Golem's threat generation and survivability through armor and health bonuses, ensuring that it can effectively absorb damage while the player focuses on summoning and dealing damage.

What is the purpose of the 'Effigy of Combustion' skill?

The 'Effigy of Combustion' skill grants zombies a chance to summon Infernal Shades upon death. These Infernal Shades deal surrounding fire damage to enemies, significantly enhancing the build's damage output by applying additional fire-based effects to the enemies.

How do the Volatile Zombies contribute to the damage output?

Volatile Zombies explode on impact with enemies, causing significant damage. They also apply Infernal Shades to enemies, which adds fire damage to the surrounding area. Additionally, the zombies heal the player when they explode, making them a core component of both offense and survivability.

Why does the player prioritize the Warlock tree over the Necromancer tree early on?

The player focuses on the Warlock tree first because it provides the Chaos Flames skill, which boosts both fire and necrotic damage. This synergy enhances the minions' ability to ignite enemies and apply additional fire damage through their attacks, making it a key part of the build's effectiveness.

What effect do the Pyromancers have on the build?

Pyromancers significantly increase the build's fire damage, as they apply fire-based attacks through their projectiles. Their fire attacks can ignite enemies, adding even more damage over time. The Pyromancers further enhance the synergy with the Infernal Shades, making the overall damage output more explosive.

How does the player maintain a consistent supply of mana?

The player maintains a consistent supply of mana through intelligence-based passive bonuses and mana regeneration from items and passives. By stacking intelligence, the player also gains additional mana per intelligence, preventing any mana shortages during combat, even when spamming skills.

Why does the player emphasize reducing the duration of Infernal Shades?

Reducing the duration of Infernal Shades allows the player to continually summon new Infernal Shades on enemies, triggering multiple explosions. The shorter duration results in more frequent combustion effects, leading to higher damage output through continuous explosions rather than one prolonged effect.

What are some important item and stat priorities for this build?

Key item priorities for this build include minion damage, minion health, and movement speed, along with mana regeneration. The player looks for items that boost minion spell or bow damage and ensures they have high elemental resistance to survive tougher encounters. Specific affixes like 'plus one to all minion skills' can also provide additional benefits.