Bleed Javelin Paladin Guide
Last Updated:July 13, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Bleed Javelin Paladin Guide. Armoured and wielding a giant Shield, this Paladin unleashes a never-ending rain of Physical projectiles down the battlefield, resembling Zeus himself! Throw a barrage of Javelins to apply stacks of Bleed to enemies, a deadly Ailment that deals Physical Damage Over Time. As a Paladin, the build also has access to Holy Aura, a powerful support ability that blesses yourself and everyone else around you.
Cast Sigils Of Hope to gain powerful buffs, use Volatile Reversal to apply debuffs to your enemies and move quickly around the map with unspecced Shield Rush. Get Adorned Rahyeh Idols with Chance To Cast Smite When You Hit With Throwing Attacks to proc Smite through Javelin to further enhance the build's Damage.
This setup doesn't require any Unique to function. However, Items like Blood of the Exile, Salt the Wound, Valdyr's Chalice and Flayer's Pride are amazing for the build. Get them with Legendary Potential!
Overall, the Bleed Javelin Paladin is a flashy build capable of defeating all the content in the game. It's easy to play, has great Damage and is quite tanky. If you are looking for a galvanic build that fills the screen with projectiles and procs, this setup is perfect for you!
This article assumes you have a Level 70 Character.
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- Flashy Visuals
- Good Range and AoE
- Amazing Single Target DPS
- Insane Scaling With Gear and Idols
- Heavy Buff Management
- Vulnerable To DoT Damage
- Potential Locked Behind Idols
- Requires Mana Sustain Investment
Skills
Javelin
Javelin is your main Damage. Grab Siege Barrage and Spiked Bombardment to turn this ability into a deadly barrage that falls from the sky. Grab Excellent Balance to reduce its Mana cost.
Alternative Skills & Tips
Passives
Passives provide powerful effects that dictate the playstyle of a Class and its Masteries. Remember that you can allocate Passives on the first half of all Masteries regardless of the one you chose.
- Armour Clad grants Damage Reduction and is crucial for any Sentinel's survivability.
- Juggernaut, Abyssal Endurance, Holy Icon and Defiance provide tons of Resistances. Use them as needed.
- Place Points into Stalwart, Steel Aegis, Honour and Shield Wall for the Block Chance.
- Penance and Redemption provide tons of Damage.
- The stats granted by Reverence of Duality are extremely powerful.
Make sure to complete the Campaign to get all your Passive Points.
Gameplay
This Paladin uses Javelin to rapidly apply deadly stacks of Bleed and burn enemies alive. Remember that you don't need Smite on your Skill bar. Make sure you are familiar with enemy mechanics to know when to use your Support Skills to stay alive. Pay attention to their telegraphed attacks!
Skill Usage/Rotation
- Spam Javelin at enemies.
- Use unspecced Shield Rush or Lunge to move across the map.
- Cast Volatile Reversal on top of enemies for its buffs and extra Damage.
- Maintain 4 Sigils Of Hope if possible.
Mapping
- Rush to the objective with unspecced Shield Rush or Lunge.
- Proc the Haste buff from Holy Aura's Expedite Node for the additional Movement Speed.
- Be careful not to backtrack when using Volatile Reversal.
- Group mobs before using Volatile Reversal to maximize its Buffs.
Bossing
- Take advantage of all your defensive buffs and keep them active.
- Actively use Holy Aura to double the effect of its buffs.
- Spam Javelin at Bosses to build up Bleed stacks and then use Volatile Reversal on top of them to rapidly ramp your DPS.
- Keep unspecced Shield Rush off Cooldown for emergency situations or telegraphed Boss attacks.
Advanced Skill Tips
Learn more about how to maximize your gameplay in the Build Scaling section of this guide.
Gear
Gearing in Last Epoch revolves around finding Items and then using the powerful Crafting System to enhance them. As long as an Item has Forging Potential left, players can upgrade or modify their Affixes up to Tier 5. However, the powerful Exalted Tier Affixes are drop only and can't be modified by players.
Using the correct Item Bases allows you to make use of their amazing Implicits, this is fundamental for gearing efficiently. Combine Implicits, Passives, Idols and Blessings to cap your Resistances and other defensive layers, while fitting as much Health related Affixes or Endurance Threshold into your gear as possible. Plan ahead for your next upgrades and consider the final Blessings of your build while gearing. Finish up by farming Uniques with Legendary Potential and Sealing Affixes into Exalted Items to unleash all of your build's power!
Here are the Stat Goals for this build:
- Capped Resistances
- 100% Reduced Bonus Damage Taken from Critical Strikes
- Capped Endurance
- 4000+ Health
- 60%+ Armor Mitigation
- 2000+ Block Effectiveness
- 50% - 100% Block Chance
- 100% Increased Throwing Attack Speed
- 300%+ Physical Penetration with Bleed
- 70%+ Movement Speed
Gear Progression
Milestone 1
Aim for good Item Bases with four valuable T5 Affixes. The defensive rolls on T5 Suffixes are very important at this stage as they can easily cap all your Resistances when combined with Item Implicits, Idols, Blessings or Passives. Get a good Dragonbone Axe as soon as possible.
Milestone 2
Make sure your Critical Strike Avoidance or Reduced Bonus Damage Taken from Critical Strikes is capped. Remember that Woven Flesh is always an option early on. It can be farmed by killing the Abomination in the Fall of the Outcast Monolith Timeline.
Milestone 3
Get T1 Throwing Damage and Reduced Mana Cost on both of your Rings and some Mana Regeneration to spam Javelin. Fit as much Health into your gear as possible. Hybrid Health and Health are extremely valuable, but can be hard to find early on. Use regular flat Health until you find them.
Milestone 4
Get an Ironglass Shield with T5 Block Chance as soon as possible. Carapace Shield is also an option early on. Fit as much Health into your gear as possible. Hybrid Health and Health are extremely valuable, but can be hard to find early on. Use regular flat Health until you find them.
Milestone 5
Get a source of Life Leech. Bleeding Heart is the best option early on, since it provides a lot of sustain and is easy to find. Valdyr's Chalice also grants the build enough sustain, but this item is much rarer..
Milestone 6
Your goal is to get Adorned Rahyeh Idol with Chance To Cast Smite When You Hit With Throwing Attacks Prefix and 4 Large Rahyeh Idols with Increased Bleed Duration Prefix. For Suffixes you want Block Effectiveness, Physical Damage Over Time or Health.
Milestone 1
Upgrade your T20 gear with Exalted items, high value Sealed Affixes or ideally both. Obtain the Affixes included in the Planner, but prioritize the indicated Item Bases for their Implicits. Make sure to Seal highly efficient low tier Affixes.
Milestone 2
When all your core Defenses are covered, start working on your Damage. Get Chance To Bleed If Wielding An Axe, Physical Penetration with Bleed , Increased Physical Damage And Bleed Duration and Throwing Attack Speed to increase your DPS drastically.
Milestone 3
Get Blood of the Exile and Valdyr's Chalice for the Damage they provide.
Milestone 4
Farm Flayer's Pride from Abomination in the Fall of the Outcast Monolith Timeline.
Milestone 5
Salt the Wound is great for increasing your Damage by stacking Critical Strike Multiplier.
Milestone 6
Try to get Thorn Slinger with Legendary Potential. Look for Nemesis encounters in Echoes to add Legendary Potential or Affixes to any Unique with the Egg of the Forgotten.
Milestone 7
Keep looking for Adorned Rahyeh Idols with Chance To Cast Smite When You Hit With Throwing Attacks and Large Rahyeh Idols with Increased Bleed Duration. As you finish up your Empowered Blessings keep a decent Health pool, capped Resistances, Endurance and Critical Strike Avoidance. Your goal is to have Items with 4 valuable T5 Affixes, also known as T20.
Milestone 1
Continue upgrading your gear with T7 Exalted items and begin farming all your Uniques with Legendary Potential. Look for Nemesis encounters in Echoes to add Legendary Potential or Legendary Affixes to any Unique with the Egg of the Forgotten.
Milestone 2
Aurora's Time Glass is amazing for the survivability and stats it provides. If you use this item, getting Chance to apply Frailty on Hit on your Relic is recommended.
Milestone 3
Get all your Idols as optimal as possible. Keep stacking as much Health, Strength, Chance to Bleed on Hit, Physical Penetration with Bleed , Increased Physical Damage And Bleed Duration and Throwing Attack Speed as you can.
Milestone 4
Keep looking for Nemesis encounters in Echoes to add Legendary Potential or Affixes to any Unique with the Egg of the Forgotten.
Milestone 1
Keep upgrading your gear with Exalted Items with high tier Sealed Affixes. Get every stat in the right place and in the correct Item Base. Min/Maxing your gear in Last Epoch can be pushed to the extreme as Items with multiple Exalted Affixes and Legendary Potential are technically possible.
Milestone 2
Get as close to perfect rolls for all your Empowered Blessings and find all your desired Idols with the best in slot Prefixes and Suffixes.
Milestone 3
Continue farming all Uniques with the maximum Legendary Potential you can find. Remember that some Unique Items are extremely hard to get with multiple Legendary Potential. Good luck with the chase!
Milestone 4
Feel free to experiment with any crazy Unique, Legendary or Experimental items that you might craft, trade or find! The possibilities are endless!
Milestone 4
Unique Shields with Legendary Potential like Face of the Mountain and Bulwark of the Last Abyss allow the build to reach 100% Block Chance. If you manage to get one, build around them. Turn into an absolute unit!
Milestone 5
Get a GG rolled Nihilis for the stats it provides.
Learn the basics for crafting gear with our Beginner Crafting Guide.
Check our Unique Item & Set Farming Guide and learn how to get them!
Want to know more about Legendary Items? Check our Legendary Guide!
Blessings
Completing a Timeline in the Monolith of Fate lets you choose one of several randomized Blessings from its unique pool. Their benefits are permanent and persist even outside of the Monolith of Fate.
Empowered Blessings are a fundamental part of all builds, so getting the correct ones for each is key.
The sooner you reach Empowered Monolith, the faster you can start farming your desired Blessings!
Normal Blessings are not important as they are eventually replaced by Empowered Blessings. However they can still be a great source of Resistances, Critical Strike Avoidance or Life Leech for your build early on.
Pick up these Normal Blessings on your way to Empowered:
- Flames of the Black Sun
- Survival of Might
- Persistance of Will
- Bones of Eternity
- Embers of Immortality
- Body of Obsidian
Note: Don't target farm Normal Blessings. Get to Empowered Monolith as fast as you can.
Reaching Empowered Monolith unlocks all the level 100 Timelines and the ability to farm Empowered Blessings. Unlike Normal Blessings, these need to be farmed until you get the desired ones for your build. It is extremely important to get this set up as fast as possible to free up affix slots on your gear. Remember, the more value you get from your Blessings, the easier it is to craft efficient gear!
These are the core Combat Empowered Blessings for this build:
- If you are lacking Critical Strike Avoidance, start with Grand Survival of Might. Building Reduced Bonus Damage Taken from Critical Strikes is more optimal, so go for Grand Hemmorage of Marrow instead.
- Your second choice provides Block Effectiveness and Block Chance from Grand Bones of Eternity.
- Grand Body of Obsidian provides a huge amount of Armor that helps increase the survivability of the build.
- Farm Grand Bastion of Divinity for the Resistances.
- Grand Emptiness of Ash is amazing with Salt the Wound. Without this item, grab Grand Memory of Light.
These Empowered Blessings are flexible and depend on your current needs and goals.
These are valuable Empowered Drop Rate Blessings for this build:
- Grand Sight of the Outcasts is very valuable to help you find Large Rahyeh Idols with Increased Bleed Duration Prefix and Block Effectiveness or Health Suffixes. Once you find all your Idols, you can switch to the Grand Winds of Fortune and focus on Uniques instead or Grand Strength of Mind for Experience.
- You can go for Grand Grip of the Lance to find more Salt the Wound or Grand Right of Conquest for Blood of the Exile.
- Take Grand Scars of Blood to find more Dragonbone Axe.
Learn how to farm Blessings fast with our Advanced Monolith Strategies.
Idols
Idols grant your character bonuses when equipped in the dedicated Idol Container. Unlock all the slots of your Idol Container by completing the Campaign and some of its Side Quests. Remember that some Idols are Class specific and you won't be able to equip them with other non-compatible Classes.
These are the Idols recommended for this build:
- Get Adorned Rahyeh Idols with Chance To Cast Smite When You Hit With Throwing Attacks Prefix and Block Effectiveness, Physical Damage Over Time or Health Suffixes.
- Get 4 Large Rahyeh Idols with Increased Bleed Duration Prefix and Block Effectiveness, Physical Damage Over Time or Health Suffixes.
- If you're lacking Resistances, you can use Stout Lagonian Idols, Small Lagonian Idols or Small Eterran Idols to reach the Resistance cap.
Other useful Idol Affixes
Make sure to complete the Campaign to get all your Idol Slots.
Learn how to be efficient with Idols with our Advanced Idols Setups Guide.
Build Scaling
This Paladin uses Javelin to unleash a deadly rain of projectiles that applies Bleed stacks to your enemies. Scale your Bleed Chance and Physical Damage Over Time as much as possible. This build also has decent survivability thanks to the multiple defensive layers it can take advantage of.
- Bleed Chance: This Ailment stacks and deals Physical Damage Over Time, which is your main source of Damage. The more Bleed Chance you have, the more stacks of Bleed you apply.
- Bleed Duration: Changing the duration of an Ailment that deals Damage affects the total amount of Damage it will deal, but does not affect Damage per second (DPS). This results in its increasing the total Damage the Ailment deals over its duration.
- Throwing Attack Speed: This build gets a ton of it thanks to the buffs provided by its Skills and Passives. The more you have, the faster you apply Bleeds.
- Strength: Hammer Throw gains 4% Damage per point of Strength. Additionally it grants 4% Armour per point, which adds a nice defensive layer for the build.
- Critical Strike Multiplier: Increases the Damage your Crits deal. By default this is not useful for ailments, but thanks to Salt the Wound, you can convert it into Physical Penetration with Bleed.
- Sigils Of Hope: They grant increased Damage.
- % Increased Damage: We get most of this from our Passive tree, Buffs and Strength. Any extra on gear is a bonus.
- Volatile Reversal: The Harbinger of Dust and Time Rifts Nodes apply powerful debuffs on your enemies that makes them take additional Damage.
- Physical Penetration: Conviction grants 16% Physical Penetration. Redemption and Increased Bleed Effect provide a lot of Physical Penetration with Bleed.
- Blood of the Exile: Provides more Physical Ailment Damage to moving enemies.
- Armour Clad: Grants Damage Reduction and is crucial for any Sentinel's survivability.
- Block Chance: Block is a defensive mechanic that grants a chance to reduce the Damage taken from Hits. On a successful Block, a percentage of the Damage is mitigated. This build can have anywhere between 50% and 100% block.
- Block Effectiveness: The percentage of Damage reduced on Block depends on how much Block Effectiveness you have. The percentage cannot exceed 85%. The Grand Bones of Eternity blessing is an exceptional source of Block Effectiveness. Additionally, Sentinels have access to the Block Effectiveness Suffix on their Idols.
- Endurance: It allows you to take up to 60% less Damage while below a certain Health threshold. The Iron Sigils node from Sigils Of Hope makes this especially valuable for Sentinels.
- Strength: Grants 4% Armour per point.
- Armor Mitigation: This setup can have high amounts of Armor Mitigation. Combine the Armor from your Item Implicits and all the %Armor this build has to reach 60 to 70%+ Mitigation.
- Health: This build can stack a decent Health pool that can surpass the 4000 mark without sacrificing other defenses.
- Leech: Bleeding Heart or Valdyr's Chalice provides the build with enough sustain.
- Chill and Slow: Are Ailments that greatly reduce the Action and Movement Speed of your enemies.
- Frailty: This Ailment reduces the Damage dealt by enemies by 6% for 4 seconds. Stacks 3 times.
- Ward and Ailment Cleansing on Potion Use: Cleanse all Ailments on Potion use.
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 crucial 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.
Video Guide
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Summary
This holy Paladin unleashes a never-ending rain of Physical projectiles down the battlefield with Javelin and applies Bleed to anyone that gets on his path. Overall this Paladin is an amazing setup capable of completing all the content in the game. It has great AoE, survivability and single target DPS.
- Throw a barrage of Javelins to apply stacks of Bleed to enemies, a deadly Ailment that deals Physical Damage Over Time.
- Get Adorned Rahyeh Idols with Chance To Cast Smite When You Hit With Throwing Attacks to proc Smite through Javelin to further enhance the build's Damage.
- Bless yourself and everyone else around you with Holy Aura, a powerful support ability.
- Maintain 4 Sigils Of Hope up at all times for the amazing buffs they provide.
- Use Volatile Reversal on top of enemies for extra Damage.
- While they are not mandatory, Blood of the Exile, Salt the Wound, Valdyr's Chalice and Flayer's Pride are great Uniques that you want to get to scale the build to its full potential.
Credits
Written by Lizard_IRL.
Reviewed by McFluffin, Volca