Terek has been playing Last Epoch consistently since 2020, along with streaming and creating videos on YouTube. He fell in love with Last Epoch after putting too many hours into PoE and D3, so much so that he decided to speedrun it! He has been consistently pushing boundaries of what is possible in Last Epoch through his speedruns and has established most of the leveling strategies used today. Learn about Skills and Passives for the Rogue Marksman Leveling Build.
Marksman Passives
Passives provide powerful effects that dictate the playstyle of a Class and its Masteries. Remember that you can allocate Passives in the first half of any Mastery regardless of the one you chose. Powerful skills and nodes are usually found in the masteries tree.
Don't spend any passive point past 25 points invested until you get your Mastery!
Skills
Puncture
At level 5 spec into Puncture. It gives you tons of Bleed chance through Bloodthirst. After you specialize in Detonating Arrow, use it as a way to buff your Bleed chance and replenish Mana.
Shift
Shift is the second specialized skill and your movement skill. Use it to move around quickly and time it properly to become immune to incoming damage thanks to Shadowslip. This setup also provides a short Movement Speed buff and procs 5 Shurikens plus an Acid Flask giving you Haste.
Detonating Arrow
Use Detonating Arrow and its Lightning Tendrils to proc tons of Bleeds. Get stacks of Bloodthirst from Puncture before using Detonating Arrow to boost your damage.
Acid Flask
Use Acid Flask on bosses to get more DoT Damage with Amatoxic Pools. It also procs with Shift to give you Haste, a 30% Movement Speed Buff.
Shurikens
Don't equip Shurikens on your Skill Bar, instead equip unspecced Decoy and use it as a panic button to Taunt enemies. Shurikens automatically proc every time you use Shift and Bladed Armor provides a substantial %Armour buff.
Gameplay
As we level the power of skills shift, with some becoming stronger while others get weaker. To account for this, we transition from a setup that is optimized for early game to one that is more suited to tackling endgame content.
Early Setup
- At level 5 spec Puncture and use it as your main damage skill until you spec into Detonating Arrow.
- At level 8 spec Shift and to move quickly through the chapters.
- Use Decoy to taunt monsters and get out of dangerous situations.
Final Setup
- When you unlock your mastery spec into Detonating Arrow. Use it after getting the buff from Puncture.
- Use Puncture to generate stacks of Bloodthirst giving Detonating Arrow massive bleed chance.
- At level 35 spec into Acid Flask. Don't use this ability manually, it will proc from Shift.
- At level 50 spec into Shurikens. Don't use this ability manually, it will proc from Shift.
- Use Shift to proc both Acid Flask and Shurikens. Giving you a massive movement speed and armor boost.
- Use Decoy to taunt monsters and get out of dangerous situations.
