Earthquake Beastmaster Guide
Last Updated:April 14, 2025|Changelog
The Earthquake Beastmaster heads into battle with Swipe, rapidly hitting all enemies caught in its path and releasing powerful Aftershocks. Nothing can stand in your way as you pummel your foes into pieces.
The build uses Swipe to trigger Aftershocks thanks to Idols with Chance To Create An Aftershock Under A Nearby Enemy On Melee Attack. Aftershocks are the majority of your Damage. Use Summon Frenzy Totem, Warcry and Summon Wolf to gain powerful Buffs. Use unspecialized Fury Leap as your Movement Skill.
This setup doesn’t require any Unique to function. However, Items like Scissor of Atropos, Nihilis, Seed of Ekkidrasil, Siphon of Anguish and Shattered Chains turn this build into an absolute powerhouse.
Overall the Earthquake Beastmaster is a strong melee build that performs well in endgame. If you are looking for a satisfying melee build that pounds its enemies into oblivion, this setup is perfect for you!
This build guide assumes you have a Level 70 Character.
Reach Level 70 with our Primalist Leveling Guide.
Check our Tier Lists to know how this build performs in the current patch.
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Skills
Earthquake
Aftershocks are your main Damage, and you scale them by specializing Earthquake. Crushing Wake and Shatterquake grant huge multipliers, while Shattered Earth provides additional Aftershocks. Lethargy grants a reliable Slow for Swipe's Trapper Node. You don't need to have this Skill on your Action Bar, so use unspecialized Fury Leap in its place.
- You can make Summon Wolf tankier by snapshotting it. Equip items with Minion Health and Minion Health Regen before you summon it. After it's summoned, you can swap these items out and the stats will stay as long as its alive.
Skills showcase extra Skill Points in case you find +Level of Skills that may not be included in the Planners.
Passives
- Place 15 Points into Shaman to unlock Earthquake.
- The Circle Of Life and Dragon Slayer provide stacks of Aspect of the Shark.
- Ocean Maw is important for more effectiveness and uptime of Aspect of the Shark.
- Feeding Frenzy allows Aspect of the Shark to stack up to 10 times, providing massive DPS.
Make sure to complete the Campaign to get all your Passive Points.
Gameplay
Skill Usage/Rotation
- Use Summon Wolf to summon your wolf.
- Use Summon Frenzy Totem for its buffs.
- Use your companion ability, Howl for its buffs and to proc Aspect of the Lynx.
- Cast Warcry for Berserker.
- Spam Swipe to deal Damage and generate Mana. Stack Berserker and Aspect of the Shark.
- Use unspecialized Fury Leap to move around the map.
Bossing
- Take advantage of all your buffs and keep them active. Fully stack Aspect of the Shark along with the Berserker buff from Warcry.
- Warcry can save you from incoming Damage. Time it against dangerous telegraphed Boss attacks.
- Warcry grants a brief Damage Immunity, use it to your advantage.
Gear, Idols & Blessings
- Get Adorned Heorot Idols with Chance To Create An Aftershock Under A Nearby Enemy On Melee Attack to trigger Aftershocks.
- Dual Wielding Scissor of Atropos provides huge Damage. Farm this Sword from the Lostwood Folly Woven Echo. As a Weaver's Will Unique, it gains random Affixes.
- Shattered Chains, Siphon of Anguish and Suloron's Step grant a huge boost to your Damage.
- Phantom Grip is useful for its Crit Chance. If you're able to cap your Crit without it, Flames of Midnight is a great alternative for its Swiftness buff, which grants 20% Increased Movement Speed at Level 100.
- Mantle of the Pale Ox is amazing for improving your tankiness, as a portion of the Damage you take is redirected to your Summon Wolf.
- Seed of Ekkidrasil is huge for survivability. Up to 28% of Damage is dealt to Mana before Health with this Helmet. Make sure you have Duality of Nature specialized to generate Mana with Swipe.
- Shattered Worlds from Uber Aberroth is very powerful for the permanent Haste and other valuable stats it provides.
- Omnis, Nihilis and Aurora's Time Glass are all good choices for the Amulet slot.
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
- Flat Physical Melee Damage
- % Increased Attack Speed
- % Increased Physical Damage
- % Increased Critical Strike Chance
- Critical Strike Multiplier
- Strength
- Physical Resistance Shred
- Physical Penetration
- Armor Shred Chance
Defensive Stats
- Health
- Armor
- Endurance
- Health Regen
- Leech
Scaling Tips
- Aspect of the Shark: Grants % Increased Melee Damage and Attack Speed. With Rending Maw, it also grants Chance to Shred Armor on Hit. By speccing into Feeding Frenzy, it can stack it up to 10 times, making it an extremely powerful buff. At 10 stacks, it provides 660% Increased Melee Damage, 88% Increased Attack Speed and 528% Chance to Shred Armor on Hit.
- Doom: Granted by Siphon of Anguish, this Ailment greatly increases the Melee Damage taken by enemies. 4% per stack, maximum 4 stacks. Shattered Chains scales this further, with an extra 5% more Melee Damage per stack.
- Cornered Beast: Provides 75% more Melee Damage for 5 seconds when you drop below 35% of your total Health.
- Aspect of the Boar: With Porcine Constitution, it grants 30% Damage Reduction.
- Ursine Strength: Grants 16% Damage Reduction against Nearby enemies.
- Cornered Beast: Provides 20% Damage Reduction for 5 seconds when you drop below 35% of your total Health.
- Immortal Vise: Up to 30% of Hit Damage taken from Bosses and Rares is dealt over 4 seconds instead. With the high Leech this build has, this effect is huge for survivability.
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 Earthquake Beastmaster is a ferocious melee fighter that performs well in endgame. It has amazing single target DPS and great survivability thanks to its multiple defensive layers.
- Spam Swipe and stack Aspect of the Shark and Berserker to reach amazing DPS.
- Maintain all your powerful buffs with Warcry, Summon Frenzy Totem and Summon Wolf.
- Use unspecialized Fury Leap to move around the map.
- While they are not mandatory, Scissor of Atropos, Nihilis, Seed of Ekkidrasil, Mantle of the Pale Ox, Siphon of Anguish and Shattered Chains are great Uniques that you want to get to scale the build to its full potential.
Credits
Written by Volca.
Content Reviewed by Lizard_IRL.