Multishot Marksman Guide
Last Updated:April 17, 2025|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 with 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 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
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.
- You can spec Escape Tactics in Smoke Bomb if you prefer an additional Backflip when using it.
Skills showcase extra Skill Points in case you find +Level of Skills that may not be included in the Planners.
Passives
- Draining Arrows and Perfect Aim are necessary 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
Skill Usage/Rotation
- Use Shift to proc Shurikens and gain their buffs.
- Get close to your enemies and start casting Multishot.
- Stay inside of Smoke Bomb if it's a dangerous combat.
- If the Bladed Armor buff expires, use Shift or Shurikens again.
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. 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!
- 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 to optimize your clear and mapping speed, especially if you are familiar with map layouts in the Monolith of Fate.
Gear, Idols & Blessings
- Drelkor's Compass is your first priority. Craft it into a Legendary with Crit Chance and Bow Attack Speed for a huge boost to your DPS.
- Peak of the Mountain provides a ton of Crit Chance. This build relies on Health on Hit, so disabling Leech has no impact on sustain.
- This build is 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.
- Get a source of Slow Chance to benefit from Pinning Shots. Aim for Exalted Level of Multishot and Increased damage per arrow with Multishot to invest more Points into Multishot and to increase your DPS significantly.
- Get Legendary Foot of the Mountain with Exalted Movement Speed for the Defense layer it provides.
- Finish your Idol set up. Prioritize well rolled Increased damage per arrow with Multishot Prefixes.
- Red Ring of Atlaria is usable even if you don't meet the threshold of 180 total Attributes. Combine this Ring with Ravenous Void to significantly increase your tankiness.
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 Bow Damage
- Dexterity
- % Increased Bow Attack Speed
- % Increased Physical Damage
- % Increased Damage While Wielding a Bow
- % Increased Critical Strike Chance
- Critical Strike Multiplier
- Physical Resistance Shred
- Physical Penetration
- Armor Shred Chance
Defensive Stats
- Health
- Armor
- Dodge
- Endurance
- Glancing Blow Chance
Scaling Tips
- Xithara's Conundrum: This 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.
- 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 you want Drelkor's Compass as your main weapon.
- Slow Chance: Apply Slow to benefit from Pinning Shots.
- Blind Chance: Apply Blind to benefit from Nightbringer.
- 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.
- Blind Chance: Apply Blind to enemies so they can't Crit you. Useful before capping Critical Strike Avoidance.
- Foot of the Mountain: Turn your Dodge into Endurance Threshold while standing still. This is way more reliable than Dodge for preventing oneshots.
- Red Ring of Atlaria: Grants Damage Reduction when you have at least 180 total Attributes.
- Ravenous Void: Grants Damage Reduction.
- Silver Shroud: As long as you have one up, the next Hit you take is Dodged instead. You get them from Smoke Bomb and the Covering Fire Passive.
- Dusk Shroud: Each grants 5% Glancing Blow Chance and 50 flat Dodge. Smoke Bomb provides them while standing inside of its fog. You take 35% less damage from Hits with Glancing Blows.
- Stun: Its effectiveness is linked to your Damage output. This build is able to perma Stun most enemies, even some Bosses.
- Ward: Xithara's Conundrum converts all Health gain on Potion to Ward, allowing you to spam Potions to gain huge amounts of Ward at will.
- Health on Hit and Crit: Draining Arrows and Perfect Aim provide the build with insane sustain.
- Evasion: The Damage Reduction while moving is great while escaping from threats.
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.
Video Guide
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Summary
Overall, the Multishot Marksman is an excellent setup that performs well in endgame. It has great DPS and survivability once it's geared up.
- 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!
- Items like Drelkor's Compass, Peak of the Mountain, Xithara's Conundrum, Nightbringer, Red Ring of Atlaria, Ravenous Void and Core of the Mountain are amazing for the build.
Credits
Written by Lizard_IRL.
Content Reviewed by Volca.