Multishot Marksman Guide
Last Updated:October 5, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Multishot Marksman build guide. Turn into a DPS machine and cover the screen with a deadly barrage of Physical projectiles. Watch your enemies evaporate as they get blasted by your cascade of arrows! Unlike most Bow builds, this Marksman is designed to shootgun enemies with Multishot and has the tools to survive close range encounters.
Additionally, this Marksman utilizes Shift, Shurikens, Smoke Bomb, Dark Quiver and unspecced Decoy for additional buffs, utility, defense and mobility.
This Marksman has incredible range and AoE but struggles in Damage and Mana sustain without Uniques. Drelkor's Compass is especially important to easily sustain spamming Multishot without any Mana generator. Additionally, Items like Peak of the Mountain, Xithara's Conundrum, Nightbringer, Red Ring of Atlaria, Ravenous Void and Core of the Mountain are very important to scale the build's DPS and survivability.
Overall, the Multishot Marksman is a great build that has incredible range and AoE but relies heavily on gear to scale its DPS. If you are looking to fill the screen with arrows and kill enemies off-screen, this is a great build for you!
This build guide assumes you have a Level 70 Character.
Reach Level 70 with our Marksman Leveling Guide.
If you are looking for a different Marksman playstyle check all our Marksman Guides.
Skills
Multishot
Multishot is your main Damage Skill. Piercing Shots is crucial for good AoE. Take Giant Slayer and Point Blank for amazing single target DPS. Grab additional points in True Strikes if you need more Critical Strike Chance.
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.
- Take the Dexterity, Bow Attack Speed, Glancing Blow and Critical Strike Multiplier Nodes.
- Draining Arrows and Perfect Aim are crucial for sustain; grab them as soon as possible.
- Sharpshooter and Death from Afar boost your Damage tremendously.
- Grab Master Archer to gain more Arrows for Multishot.
Make sure to complete the Campaign to get all your Passive Points.
Gameplay
The gameplay is simple; shoot in all directions until all enemies are dead. Make sure you are familiar with enemy mechanics to know when to use your Support Skills to stay alive. Paying attention to the telegraphs of your enemies and staying out of their range is critical with this build.
Skill Usage/Rotation
- Cast Smoke Bomb and stay inside of its fog if it's a dangerous combat.
- Use Shift to proc Shurikens and gain their buffs.
- Get close to your enemies and start casting Multishot.
- If the Bladed Armor buff expires, use Shift or Shurikens again.
Mapping
- Cast Multishot from time to time while mapping to aggro mobs off-screen and to proc Haste from Agility for the bonus Movement Speed.
- When enemy density is high, use Decoy and redirect their aggro. Wait for them to group while you run towards your objective and then cast Multishot.
- Multishot's projectiles have a pretty long range. You can use this greatly to optimize your clear and mapping speed, especially if you are familiar with map layouts in the Monolith of Faith.
Bossing
- Take advantage of all your defensive buffs and keep them active.
- Stay close range to Bosses to maximize DPS
- Thanks to the Stun end game scaling of this build, keep track of what Bosses act weirdly while Stunned.
- Use Decoy to distract the Boss. Use this window to reposition and DPS.
- Shift can save you from incoming damage. Time it against dangerous telegraphed Boss attacks.
- Make sure you always have at least one Silver Shroud active, so the Concentration buffs stay active. Since Silver Shrouds last 10 seconds each, you can time Smoke Bomb and Covering Fire apart to make sure you always have one Silver Shroud active, or quickly recover them if they proc. If you do this properly you can always have this protection against hits that can be Dodged, including some major Boss mechanics!
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 Empowered 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
- Capped Endurance
- 20% - 40%+ Dodge Chance
- 2500 - 4500 Health
- 2500+ Endurance Threshold with Foot of the Mountain
- 40% - 50%+ Armour
- 35% - 100% Glancing Blow
- 600% - 1200%+ Increased Damage
- 300% - 400%+ Bow Critical Strike Multiplier
- 100% - 200%+ 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 Bow with Bow Critical Strike Chance as soon as possible.
Milestone 2
Farm Peak of the Mountain to reach 100% Critical Strike Chance with Multishot.
Milestone 3
This build can be very Unique heavy, so it's good to include the core ones like Xithara's Conundrum and Nightbringer even without Legendary Potential as soon as you get them.
Milestone 4
Ft 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
Make sure you have a source of Slow chance to always benefit from Pinning Shots. Aim for T5 Level of Multishot to invest more points into Multishot and T5 Increased damage per arrow with Multishot to increase your DPS significantly.
Milestone 6
While you look for this basic set of gear, start farming your Empowered Blessings and look for any Idols that can help you cap all your Resistances momentarily or increase your Damage output.
Milestone 1
Farm a Legendary Drelkor's Compass with Bow Critical Strike Chance for a huge power spike. Make sure you keep 100% Critical Strike Chance with Multishot.
Milestone 2
Get Chance to Apply Frailty on Hit to decrease the Damage enemies deal to you. This Ailment is really important and should always be kept in mind.
Milestone 3
When all your core Defenses are covered, start working on your Damage. Get Exalted, Increased Damage per arrow with Multishot, Level of Multishot, Dexterity and Critical Strike Multiplier.
Milestone 4
Get Peak of the Mountain, Nightbringer and Xithara's Conundrum with Legendary Potential. Remember, the Nemesis encounters in Echoes can give your regular Uniques Legendary Potential.
Milestone 5
Farm a Legendary Foot of the Mountain with Exalted Movement Speed. As you finish up your Empowered Blessings keep a decent Health pool and capped Resistances.
Milestone 1
Upgrade you setup with T7 Exalted items, high value Sealed Affixes or ideally both. Obtain the Affixes included in the Planner, keep prioritizing the indicated Item Bases for their Implicits. Make sure to Seal highly efficient low tier Affixes.
Milestone 2
Keep farming Drelkor's Compass, Nightbringer, Peak of the Mountain, Foot of the Mountain and Xithara's Conundrum with multiple Legendary Potential. Aim for the indicated Affixes in the Planner for each slot.
Milestone 3
Get two Red Ring of Atlaria and make sure you have 180 total Attributes. Then farm Ravenous Void for additional Damage Reduction.
Milestone 4
Focus on finishing your Idol set up. Prioritize well rolled Increased damage per arrow with Multishot Prefixes.
Milestone 1
Keep upgrading your gear with Exalted Items with 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 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
Try to get a Core of the Mountain with two Legendary Potential and prioratize T7 Exalted Increased Damage per arrow with Multishot slam on it.
Milestone 4
Continue farming Drelkor's Compass, Nightbringer, Peak of the Mountain, Ravenous Void, Red Ring of Atlaria and Xithara's Conundrum with the maximum Legendary Potential you can find. Remember that some of these Items are extremely hard to get with multiple Legendary Potential. Good luck with the chase!
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:
- Echo of Solarum
- Bastion of Divinity
- Survival of Might
- Persistance of Will
- Protection of Heorot
- Resolve of Grael
- Heart of the Caldera
- Embers of Immortality
- Patience of Herkir
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:
- Get Grand Resolve of Humanity for the Resistances it provides.
- Once your core Defenses are sorted, grab Grand Emptiness of Ash for a great DPS boost.
- Farm Grand Body of Obsidian and Grand Bulwark of the Tundra for a huge survivability boost.
- Finally, Grand Crash of the Waves for the extra Stun Chance.
These Empowered Blessings are flexible and depend on your current needs and goals.
These are valuable Empowered Drop Rate Blessings for this build:
- Grand Favor of Souls is very valuable to help you find Ornate Majasan Idol with Increased damage per arrow with Multishot and Chance to Slow on Bow Hit. Once you find all your Idols, you can switch to the Grand Winds of Fortune and focus on Uniques instead.
- Take Grand Apex of Fortune, Grand Right of Conquest or Grand Vision of the Aurora depending on what type of Unique you are looking for.
- Lastly Grand Vigilance of the Damned helps you find more Exalted Bows.
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:
- Look for Ornate Majasan Idol with Increased damage per arrow with Multishot and Bow Critical Strike Chance. These Idols are great for increasing your DPS.
- You also want two Stout Lagonian Idols with %Health. Look for flat Health Suffix or Lightning Resistance if needed.
- Use the rest of your Idol slots to cap the rest of your Resistances. This is especially important before finishing up your Empowered Blessings.
- Increased Stun Chance
- Increased Stun Duration
- Health
- %Health
- Vitality
- Armour
- Elemental Resistance
- Lightning Resistance
- Necrotic Resistance
- Poison Resistance
- Void Resistance
- Chance to Slow on Bow Hit
- Increased Armour Shred Effect
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 entire build is designed around Multishot into a shotgun. For that reason, this Marksman focuses on enhancing its agressive identity and playstyle.
- Flat Bow Damage: With the amount of Multipliers this build has access to, you want to stack as much Flat Damage as possible. Nodes like Sniper's Gambit grant raw Flat Bow Damage and are extremely valuable for DPS early on.
- Xithara's Conundrum: Is one of the rare cases where an Item provides a source of Multiplicative Damage. 30% is no joke and the downsides from this Unique Amulet don't affect the build at all.
- Bow Attack Speed: The faster you attack the more Multishots!
- Increased damage per arrow with Multishot: This powerful Prefix has insane numerical values; an Exalted T7 of it on a Body Armour grants up to 510% Damage on its own. This is a priority when it comes to scaling the Damage of this build and one of the main reasons we want Drelkor's Compass as our main weapon. Remember that a source of Slow is necessary to benefit from Pinning Shots.
- Dexterity: Multishot gains 4% Damage per point or Dexterity. Additionally it grants 4 flat Dodge per point, which adds a nice defensive layer for the build.
- Physical Resistance Shred: 10 stacks increase the Damage enemies take by 50% (20% for Bosses).
- Chance To Shred Armour on Hit: Each stack of this Ailment reduces enemy Armour by 100 for 4 seconds and stacks infinitely. Enemies have 0 Armour by default and it can go into the negatives. At -1000 Armour a target takes 23.7% increased Physical Damage, while at -4000 Armour it takes 57.2%. With the amount of hits the build has, the stacks ramp up quickly.
- Critical Vulnerability: Unique to the Rogue this Ailment adds 2% flat Critical Strike Chance to your targets per stack (max 10 stacks). Get it from Wound Maker.
- Critical Strike Multiplier: Increases the Damage your Crits deal. Fully stacked Perfect Aim provides 75% on its own. Build as much as you can on your gear.
- Stun: Its effectiveness is linked to your Damage output. This build is able to perma Stun most enemies, even pinnacle Bosses.
- Glancing Blows: Thanks to the Marksman Skills and Passive Tree, you can easily get 35% Glancing Blow chance, and even reach 100% chance when using Smoke Bomb thanks to the Dusk Shrouds it provides. You take 35% less damage from Hits with Glancing Blows.
- Dusk Shrouds: Each grants 5% Glancing Blow Chance and 50 flat Dodge.
- Smoke Bomb: Provides Dusk Shrouds while standing on the fog. Additionally it has a Cleanse and gives Silver Shrouds on use.
- Silver Shrouds: As long as you have one up, the next hit you take is Dodged instead. You also gain 100 Ward per Silver Shroud once they proc to Dodge the incoming attack. They last 10 seconds each, time Smoke Bomb and Covering Fire apart to make sure you always have one Silver Shroud active, or quickly recover them if they proc. If you do this properly you can always have this protection against hits that can be Dodged, including some major Boss mechanics!
- Ward: A shield above your Health that is generated by certain effects, rapidly decays over time and is protected by Armour Mitigation. Silver Shrouds provide a burst of 100 Ward each when they proc. On top of that Xithara's Conundrum converts all Health gain on Potion to Ward, allowing you to spam Potions to gain huge amounts of Ward at will.
- Armour Mitigation: This build can get a ton of Armour. Just with the implicit Armour from your gear, Grand Body of Obsidian Blessing and Shurikens your Armour easily reaches 50%+ Mitigation.
- Dodge: Dexterity, Dodge, %Dodge and the extra Dodge provided by Dusk Shrouds, allow you to reasonably reach between 20% and 40% permanent Dodge, on top of Silver Shrouds. The Elusive Node on Shift provides a massive Dodge boost for 1 second and can provide up to 70%+ Dodge for the duration.
- Shift: This dash gives immunity frames while it's used thanks to the Shadowslip node. Time this Skill properly to avoid incoming damage or potential 1 shots.
- Decoy: Crazy support skill that Taunts. While Taunted, enemies focus the Decoy instead of attacking you. Can be used unspecced.
- Health: This build can stack a decent health pool for a ranged build. It's very effective when combined with all the other defensive layers this Marksman has access to.
- Health on Hit and Crit: Draining Arrows and Perfect Aim provide the build with insane sustain. With the amount of hits and how easy it is to Crit thanks to Critical Vulnerability, the build can recover all of its HP instantly.
- Evasion: The Damage Reduction while moving is great while escaping from threats.
- Red Ring of Atlaria, Ravenous Void and Foot of the Mountain: combine these 3 items to turn into a tank.
- Chill and Slow: Are Ailments that greatly reduce the Action and Movement Speed of your enemies. They are must haves on most builds, especially once you reach hard content with insane speed modifiers.
- 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
Overall Multishot Marksman is a great build that can deal with all the content in the game.
- Cover the screen with a deadly barrage of Physical projectiles.
- Cast as many Multishots as possible.
- Shotgun your enemies at close range!
- Use Decoy to distract and group your enemies. Take advantage of this to reposition and DPS.
- Stack the defensive buffs that Smoke Bomb and Shurikens provide.
- Shift can save you from incoming Damage. Time it perfectly for the Damage Immunity!
Credits
Written by Lizard_IRL.
Reviewed by Facefoot, McFluffin.