Welcome to the Rive Void Knight build guide. This Void Knight joins the fray with Rive, engaging in pure melee combat and quickly moving around the map with Void Cleave. Brutally slash your enemies to pieces, while the echoes finish anything strong enough to survive the first cuts.
Maximize the Damage of Rive by scaling Void Damage and getting easy 100% Crit Chance with Focused Strike. Use Anomaly and Volatile Reversal for the great buffs they provide. Healing Hands supplements the Damage and provides utility. Void Cleave makes the build very mobile.
Thanks to Apathy's Maw and Peak of the Mountain, getting Damage is easy. The build can be played even without these Uniques, but you will be missing out on a lot of Damage. Additionally, Uniques like Darkstride, Titan Heart ,Shattered Chains, Omnis, Anchor of Oblivion and Oceareon are great for the build.
Overall, the Rive Void Knight is an amazing build capable of defeating all the content in the game. It's a fast mapper and has amazing single target DPS. If you are looking for a melee build that destroys the endgame, this setup is perfect for you!
This build guide assumes you have a Level 70 Character.
Reach Level 70 with our Void Knight Leveling Guide.
If you are looking for a different playstyle, check all our Build Guides!
- Tanky With Gear
- High Movement Speed
- Amazing Single Target DPS
- Great Scaling With Gear and Uniques
- Limited AoE
- Heavy Buff Management
- Requires Legendaries to Shine
- Melee Suffers Against Certain Enemies
Skills
Rive
Rive is your main Damage Skill. This setup focuses on maximizing its Damage. Focused Strike makes it easy to cap Crit Chance, and allows you to still Leech with Peak of the Mountain. Scrap Metal provides multiplicative Armor and Damage. Foe Cleaver is a big damage boost, as it doubles the Damage stats of a two-handed weapon.
Alternate 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.
- Echoing Strikes, Time Legion and Avatar of Regret are necessary for maximum Echo uptime.
- World Eater has enough leech to single handedly provide the build with enough sustain.
- Eternal Form is a massive increase to Health.
- Void Corruption is an easy source of Critical Strike Multiplier for almost no investment.
- Invest Points into Time and Faith for the Mana gain based on your needs.
- Maximize Dread for its Movement Speed.
Make sure to complete the Campaign to get all your Passive Points.
Gameplay
Dive in while spamming Rive to wreak havoc on your enemies. Make sure you are familiar with enemy mechanics to know when to use your Support Skills to stay alive. Pay attention to the telegraphed attacks of your enemies and stay out of their range.
Skill Usage/Rotation
- Move with Void Cleave towards enemy packs.
- Cast Anomaly and Volatile Reversal on top of enemies for their buffs and extra Damage.
- Spam Rive and destroy your enemies.
- Maintain Time Bubble with Anomaly at all times.
Mapping
- Rush to the objective with Void Cleave.
- 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.
- Make sure to hit the Boss with Anomaly to activate Mark of Rot.
- Use Volatile Reversal to ramp up your damage then spam Rive.
- Use Anomaly to maintain Time Bubble.
- Keep a Movement Skill off Cooldown for emergency situations or telegraphed Boss attacks.
- Use unspecced Rebuke to tank 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 stack as many other defensive layers 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 Critical Strike Avoidance
- Capped Endurance
- 5000+ Health
- 50%+ Armour Mitigation
- 100% Crit Chance with Focused Strike
- 350%+ Critical Strike Multiplier
- 800%+ Increased Damage
- 130%+ 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 Weapon with double T5 offensive Prefixes as soon as possible.
Milestone 2
Make sure your Critical Strike Avoidance 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
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
Farm Peak of the Mountain from Lightless Arbor. It provides a ton of Increased Crit Chance, making it easy to cap Crit with Focused Strike. Only use it with this Node specced, because without it, your Leech will be disabled.
Milestone 5
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. Also be on the lookout for Ornate Solar Idol with Increased Area With Rive And Forge Strike or Critical Strike Multiplier With Rive And Judgement Prefixes and either Chance To Shred Armor on Hit Suffix.
Milestone 1
When all your core Defenses are covered, start working on your Damage. Get Strength, Melee Attack Speed, Critical Strike Multiplier and Chance to Shred Armour on Hit to increase your DPS drastically.
Milestone 2
Farm Apathy's Maw to massively boost your Damage. It drops from Shade of Orobyss in any Monolith of Fate Timeline at 50+ Corruption. From the same Boss, farm Shattered Chains at 120+ Corruption.
Milestone 3
Darkstride and Quicksilver Coil are amazing for the Movement Speed they provide.
Milestone 4
Get Anchor of Oblivion to easily cap Endurance. Find Oceareon for all the great Ailments and stats granted by it.
Milestone 5
Increased Area for Area Skills is an useful stat for this build, getting it on at least one piece of gear helps with clearing.
Milestone 6
As you finish up your Empowered Blessings keep a decent Health pool, capped Resistances, Endurance and Critical Strike Avoidance. Keep an eye for Ornate Solar Idol with Increased Area With Rive And Forge Strike or Critical Strike Multiplier With Rive And Judgement Prefixes and either Chance To Shred Armor on Hit Suffix.
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
Omnis provides a convenient way to cap your Resistances, and valuable +1 All Skills. Farm it from the Shade of Orobyss in any Monolith of Fate Timeline at 200+ Corruption.
Milestone 3
Farm Titan Heart with Legendary Potential. This item provides a lot of %Health and Damage Reduction. Health Regen is disabled when using this item, but it's not a big downside for this build since it relies on Leech for sustain. Get at least Level of Rive on it.
Milestone 4
Focus on finishing your Ornate Solar Idol with Increased Area With Rive And Forge Strike or Critical Strike Multiplier With Rive And Judgement Prefixes andChance To Shred Armor on Hit Suffix. You also want Stout Lagonian Idols with %Health Prefix and Health Suffix. The Suffixes on these Idols can also have Resistances, use them as needed.
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
Farm the best rolled Nihilis you can find. Switch to the Grand Resolve of Humanity Blessing to cover your Resistances.
Milestone 3
Continue farming all the Uniques 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!
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!
Seed of Ekkidrasil Variant
This variant uses Seed of Ekkidrasil to get additional tankiness. It is an extremely high investment setup, as losing the Increased Crit Chance from Peak of the Mountain forces you to build it on Rings and Relic instead. With Seed of Ekkidrasil, a portion of the Damage you take goes to Mana, increasing your Effective Health Pool. Max out Time and Faith to generate Mana with Rive.
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
- Winds of Oblivion
- Bastion of Divinity
- Survival of Might
- Persistance of Will
- Protection of Heorot
- Resolve of Grael
- Heart of the Caldera
- Body of Obsidian
- Embers of Immortality
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 Crit Avoidance, start with Grand Survival of Might.
- Grand Emptiness of Ash grants a large amount of Crit Multi.
- Even though the build focuses on Void Damage, Grand Fury of the North is still useful for all the Physical Damage the build has.
- Farm the best rolled Grand Body of Obsidian you can get. It grants a large amount of Flat Armor that helps increase the survivability of the build.
- Finish up by farming Grand Crash of the Waves for the high chance to Stun enemies.
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 helps us find the best Idols for your build. 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.
- Take Grand Slumber of Morditas to find more Relics or Grand Embrace of Ice to find more Body Armours, such as Titan Heart.
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 1 Ornate Solar Idol with Increased Area With Rive And Forge Strike or Critical Strike Multiplier With Rive And Judgement Prefix. Get Chance To Shred Armor on Hit Suffix.
- You also want 1 Grand Solar Idol with Chance To Shred Armor on Hit Suffix.
- Stout Lagonian Idols with well rolled %Health and Health will make a big difference on your health pool.
- Any additional space can be filled with Resistances, Health, Armour and Increased Stun Chance depending on your needs.
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 Void Knight unleashes Rive on enemies, dealing high Void and Physical Damage. The build focuses on scaling Void Damage. This build also has good survivability thanks to the multiple defensive layers it can take advantage of.
- Melee Flat Damage: This build focuses on scaling Void Flat Damage, and it gets a ton of it thanks to the Foe Cleaver node doubling the Damage stats on a two-handed Weapon for Rive.
- Attack Speed: Attack faster for more Damage and Ailments.
- % Increased Damage: Anything that increases Void Melee Damage is welcomed.
- Strength: Rive gains 4% Damage per point of Strength. Additionally it grants 4% Armor per point, which adds a nice defensive layer for the build.
- Critical Strike Chance: This build reaches high Crit Chance easily thanks to Focused Strike. Peak of the Mountain and 3 Points in Decimation is all you need to cap Crit.
- Critical Strike Multiplier: Increases the Damage your Crits deal. You get a lot of it from Void Corruption. Build as much as you can on your gear.
- Volatile Reversal: The Harbinger of Dust Node applies a powerful debuff on your enemies that makes them take additional Damage. Food for Wyrms provides a big Damage multiplier.
- Level of Rive: This is a big boost to Damage since it allows you to invest in additional multipliers from the Skill tree.
- Void Resistance Shred: Time Bubble and Fraying Strikes are great sources of it.
- Physical Resistance Shred: Grand Fury of the North is useful for the Physical Damage the build deals.
- Armour Shred: Shredding Armor is good for all hit builds.
- Doom: Granted by Apathy's Maw 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.
- Armour Clad: Grants Damage Reduction and is crucial for any Sentinel's survivability.
- Endurance: It allows you to take up to 60% less Damage while below a certain Health threshold.
- Strength: Grants 4% Armour per point.
- Armor Mitigation: This setup can get a good amount of Armor Mitigation. Combine the Armor from your Item Implicits and all the %Armor this build has to reach 50%+ Mitigation.
- Health: This build can stack a very high Health pool that can surpass the 6000 mark without sacrificing other defenses.
- Leech: World Eater provides this build with enough sustain.
- Chill and Slow: 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.
- Titan Heart: Grants Damage Reduction.
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. As your gear gets better, remember to hide the rules that are no longer useful to avoid screen clutter.
Here is the Endgame Loot Filter for this build:
Learn how to load and make Filters with our Loot Filter Guide.
Video Guide
Summary
Overall, the Rive Void Knight is a powerful warrior capable of defeating all the content in the game. It's a fast mapper, and has amazing single target DPS, making it great for all endgame content. The build also has great survivability thanks to its multiple defensive layers.
- Use Void Cleave to charge across the battlefield.
- Spam Rive to destroy your enemies.
- Thanks to Focused Strike and Peak of the Mountain, capping Crit is easy and you're still able to Leech.
- Maintain 4 Time Bubble up at all times for the amazing buffs it provides.
- Use Volatile Reversal and Anomaly on top of enemies for extra Damage.
- While they are not mandatory, Darkstride, Titan Heart ,Shattered Chains, Omnis, Anchor of Oblivion, Oceareon and Nihilis are great Uniques that you want to get to scale the build to its full potential.
Credits
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Reviewed by Facefoot, LizardIRL, BinaQc
