Rive Void Knight Guide
The Rive Void Knight joins the fray with Rive, engaging in pure melee combat. Brutally slash your enemies to pieces, while the echoes finish anything strong enough to survive the first cuts.
Maximize the Damage of Rive by converting it to Void and build a ton of Melee Attack Speed to gain stacking buffs from Flame Drinker's Blade and Scrap Metal. Devouring Orb, Anomaly and Symbols of Hope grant powerful buffs. Healing Hands provides utility while acting as your Movement Skill.
This setup doesn't require any Uniques to function. However, Items like Clotho's Needle, Siphon of Anguish, Shattered Chains, Anchor of Oblivion and Seed of Ekkidrasil turn this build into an absolute powerhouse.
Overall this powerful Void Knight is an amazing build that performs well in endgame. If you are looking for a melee build that obliterates enemies and is able to survive the hardest encounters, this build is perfect for you!
This build guide assumes you have a Level 70 Character.
Reach Level 70 with our Sentinel 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
Rive
Rive is your main Damage Skill. Convert it to Void with Temporal Warrior. Foe Cleaver doubles the Damage stats of a two-handed weapon. Consume Ignites with Flame Drinker's Blade to get Void Penetration and get another stacking buff from Scrap Metal. The pull from Challenge is great for both mapping and Bossing.
- Symbols of Hope: With Clotho's Needle, Sign of the Guardian is an option over Heavenly Justice for more tankiness.
- For your Movement Skill, unspecialized Shield Rush is an option over Healing Hands.
Skills showcase extra Skill Points in case you find +Level of Skills that may not be included in the Planners.
Passives
- If you lack Resistances, move Points from Unending Hunger into Abyssal Endurance.
- Honor and Steel Aegis are an option for extra tankiness with Clotho's Needle.
- With high Attack Speed, the Chance to Ignite on Hit Prefix on your Large Rahyeh Idol is enough to get maximum stacks of Flame Drinker's Blade. The Phoenix Strike Passive is a good source of additional Ignite Chance, if you need it.
Make sure to complete the Campaign to get all your Passive Points.
Gameplay
Skill Usage/Rotation
- Use Healing Hands or unspecialized Shield Rush to move across the map.
- Spam Rive and destroy your enemies.
- Always stay on the move to automatically cast Devouring Orb.
- Maintain Time Bubble with Anomaly at all times.
Bossing
- Take advantage of all your buffs and keep them active.
- Make sure to hit the Boss with Anomaly to activate Mark of Rot.
- Save Healing Hands for emergency situations.
- Stay on the move to automatically cast Devouring Orb. You can stutter step by holding down your movement key and attack key at the same time.
- Healing Hands grants Damage immunity while you move with it thanks to Sun Shroud, use it to your advantage.
Gear, Idols & Blessings
- Clotho's Needle is the Weapon of choice for its Damage, Crit and high base Attack Rate. Farm it from the Lostwood Folly Woven Echo. As a Weaver's Will Item, it gains random Affixes.
- Suloron's Step provide amazing Damage, but Darkstride is an option for slightly higher Movement Speed.
- Anchor of Oblivion allows you to easily cap Endurance, on top of increasing Damage and Armor.
- Siphon of Anguish and Shattered Chains are a huge Boost to your Damage. You also get Leech and other valuable stats from these items.
- Flames of Midnight provides the valuable Swiftness buff, which grants 20% Movement Speed at level 100. In addition, it grants Void Penetration.
- Seed of Ekkidrasil is huge for survivability. Up to 28% of Damage is dealt to Mana before Health with this Helmet.
- Eternal Gauntlets is the preferred choice of Gloves. Falcon Fists and Swaddling of the Erased are also usable for their Melee Attack Speed. Replace them with Immortal Vise when you get it from Uber Aberroth.
- Omnis and Nihilis are both amazing options 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 Void Melee Damage
- % Increased Attack Speed
- Vitality
- Strength
- % Increased Void Damage
- % Increased Critical Strike Chance
- Critical Strike Multiplier
- Void Resistance Shred
- Void Penetration
- Armor Shred Chance
Defensive Stats
- Health
- Armor
- Endurance
- Leech
Scaling Tips
- High Attack Speed allows you to get maximum stacks of Flame Drinker's Blade and provides more stacks of Scrap Metal. Make sure you have Ignite Chance from Chance to Ignite on Hit on your Large Rahyeh Idol or the Phoenix Strike Passive.
- 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.
- Titan Heart: Grants Damage Reduction.
- Seed of Ekkidrasil: Up to 28% of Damage is dealt to Mana before Health. Time and Faith provides Mana sustain when you attack with Rive.
- 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.
- Abyssal Fluctuation: This Passive grants Damage Reduction against Void Damage and converts a portion of Elemental Damage taken to Void. Combine it with Halted Scourge from Healing Hands for great results.
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.
FAQ & Mechanics
Once a guide is released, many players have questions on why and how we are approaching certain choices. In this section you can find the answers to the questions that have been asked the most.
Apathy's Maw provides lower DPS potential than Clotho's Needle, but it's still an amazing weapon for this build. Use the best Legendary one you have. High tier Melee Void Damage on your Weapon is the most impactful, as it will be doubled by Foe Cleaver.
Video Guide
Summary
Overall, the Rive Void Knight is a powerful destroyer that performs well in endgame. It has amazing single target DPS and great survivability thanks to its multiple defensive layers.
- Use Spam Rive and destroy your enemies.
- Stay on the move to automatically cast Devouring Orb for its buffs, including Void Essences.
- Maintain Time Bubble up at all times for the amazing buffs it provides.
- While not mandatory, Clotho's Needle, Siphon of Anguish, Shattered Chains, Anchor of Oblivion and Seed of Ekkidrasil 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.