Bleed Falconer Guide
Last Updated:April 11, 2025|Changelog
The Bleed Falconer unleashes her trusted Falcon to apply multiple strong Bleed stacks to enemies, dealing Physical Damage Over Time and rending everything in sight. This build offers an agile Minion-focused playstyle.
Falcon Strikes from Falconry is your main source of Damage, while your other Skills focus on buffing it. Aerial Assault is your Movement Skill and provides a Damage buff with Rending Barbs. Net is your main source of Caltrops and it also triggers Smoke Bomb to provide powerful buffs. Use unspecialized Decoy to draw enemy aggro.
Blood Roost and Doublet of Onos Tull are recommended to play this build, as they provide incredible Damage. Additionally, items like Inheritance of the Erased, Razorfall and Red Ring of Atlaria are great for the build.
The Bleed Falconer is an amazing build that performs well in endgame. If you are looking for a minion build with a fast and active playstyle, this setup is perfect for you!
This build guide assumes you have a Level 70 Character.
Reach Level 70 with our Rogue Leveling Guide.
Check our Tier Lists to know how this build performs in the current patch.
If you are looking for a different playstyle, check all our Build Guides!
Skills
Falconry
Falconry is your main Damage source. Use its active ability, Falcon Strikes, to apply tons of Bleed stacks to enemies. Rending Talons grants a portion of your generic Bleed Chance to the Falcon. Take Side by Side to reduce the Cooldown by spamming Net. Falconer's Journey and Is it a bird? provide great Damage multipliers. Grab Hunter's Spoils to sustain your Health and Mana.
- Falconry: Rending Talons only works with generic Bleed Chance, e.g. the Chance to Bleed on Hit Affix or the implicit from a Dragonbone Axe. However, Damage Type specific Affixes like Chance to Bleed on Melee Hit do not work.
Skills showcase extra Skill Points in case you find +Level of Skills that may not be included in the Planners.
Passives
- Allocate Coordinated Fade to activate it when you use Decoy. In this setup, 1 Point is allocated. This means Decoy needs be the first Skill on your Action Bar, from left to right.
- Tailwind and Evasion provide great Damage Reduction when moving.
- Get extra Bleed Chance and Damage Reduction against DoTs with Crimson Shrouds from Crimson Skies.
Make sure to complete the Campaign to get all your Passive Points.
Gameplay
Skill Usage/Rotation
- Throw Net to apply its Buffs and create Caltrops.
- Use Falcon Strikes as your main Damage, applying Bleed stacks to enemies.
- Instantly consume all Bleed stacks with Dive Bomb.
- Throw Decoy when in danger to give yourself some breathing room and to get a stack of Silver Shroud thanks to Coordinated Fade.
- Move quickly around the map with Aerial Assault.
- Dive Bomb on enemy packs to keep the Buff from Gale of Blades active.
Bossing
- Take advantage of all your buffs and keep them active.
- Spam Net to apply as many Caltrops as possible to maximize the Damage gained from Rending Barbs.
- Use Falcon Strikes and then cast Dive Bomb to instantly consume all Bleed stacks.
- Recover the Cooldown of your Damage Skills by spamming Net.
- Use Decoy to distract the Boss. Use this window to reposition and DPS.
- Avoid telegraphed attacks and reposition with Aerial Assault.
- Keep track of your Silver Shroud stacks. This mechanic is a powerful defensive tool which guarantees to Dodge the next hit. This proves to be great especially against Boss mechanics that can be Dodged, enabling you to ignore them completely when you have Silver Shroud up.
Gear, Idols & Blessings
- Doublet of Onos Tull and Blood Roost are very important for the Damage they provide.
- Get the Dragonbone Axe Item Base as your Weapon. Stack as much Dexterity as possible to scale your Damage and Defense.
- Craft Corsair's Blood Cowl Reforged and Corsair's Boarding Shield Reforged on your Helmet and Shield to activate the Corsair's Set Bonus. This Set converts your Glancing Blow Chance to Block Chance.
- Inheritance of the Erased applies its stats to your Falcon and gives it Frenzy. As a Weaver's Will Unique, it gains random Affixes.
- Thorn Slinger provides Damage and Razorfall is great for speeding up the build.
- Anchor of Oblivion allows you to easily cap Endurance, on top of increasing Armor.
- Get a large amount of extra Bleed Chance by enchanting your Large Shadow Idols with Crimson Shroud duration and additional bleed chance per crimson shroud.
- Red Ring of Atlaria provides valuable stats and is usable even if you don't meet the threshold of 180 total Attributes.
Learn the basics for crafting gear with our Beginner Crafting Guide.
Make sure to complete the Campaign to get all your Idol Slots.
Build Scaling
Offensive Stats
- (Minion) Bleed Chance
- Minion Bleed Duration
- Dexterity
- % Increased Throwing Attack Speed
- % Increased Minion Damage
- % Increased Minion Damage Over Time
- Minion Physical Resistance Shred
- Minion Physical Penetration
Defensive Stats
- Health
- Armor
- Dodge
- Endurance
- Dexterity
- Block Chance
- Block Effectiveness
- Glancing Blow Chance
Scaling Tips
- Your Bleed Chance applies to the Falcon thanks to Blood Roost, Rending Talons, and Sky Assassin.
- The Falcon benefits from Minion Bleed Duration such as the one from Doublet of Onos Tull, while regular Bleed Duration only affects your own Bleed.
- Rending Barbs in Aerial Assault provides extra Damage scaling with Dexterity.
- Glancing Blow Chance is converted to Block Chance with the Reforged Corsair's Set.
- Dexterity grants additional Defenses thanks to Fencing Grace and Stymphalian Feathers.
- Red Ring of Atlaria: Grants Damage Reduction when you have at least 180 total Attributes.
- Silver Shroud: As long as you have one up, the next hit you take is Dodged instead. Allocate 1 point into Coordinated Fade to activate it when you use your Decoy.
- Dusk Shroud: Each grants 5% Glancing Blow Chance and 50 flat Dodge. Smoke Bomb provides them while standing inside of its fog.
Our Damage Explained Article covers all you need to know to scale Damage.
Learn all you need to know to scale Defense with our Defense Explained Article.
Loot Filter
Loot Filters are critical in Last Epoch. Making sure you highlight all the related valuable Item Bases, Affixes, Uniques and Idols is necessary to ensure your character's progression. Click on the Generate Loot Filter button down below then use the Paste Clipboard Contents button in-game to import it!
Here is the Endgame Loot Filter for this build:
Learn how to load and make Filters with our Loot Filter Guide.
Summary
Overall, the Bleed Falconer is an excellent setup that performs well in endgame. It has fast clear speed and great survivability thanks to its multiple defensive layers.
- Unleash Falcon Strikes to apply tons of Bleed stacks on enemies and then instantly consume the stacks with Dive Bomb. Use your other Skills to Buff your Falcon.
- Throw Net to apply its buffs and create Caltrops.
- Stack as much Dexterity as possible for both Damage and survivability.
- Your Bleed Chance applies to the Falcon thanks to Blood Roost, Rending Talons and Sky Assassin.
- Uniques like Inheritance of the Erased, Razorfall and Red Ring of Atlaria are great for unleashing this build's full potential.
Credits
Written by Volca.
Content Reviewed by Lizard_IRL.