This Void Knight leveling build joins the fray with Rive, engaging in pure melee combat, inflicting devastating bleeds and quickly moving around the map with Void Cleave. Brutally slash your enemies to pieces, while the Summon Forged Weapon finishes anything strong enough to survive the first cuts. You also have access to a lot of buffs from other skills like Volatile Reversal and Anomaly.
This Void Knight build is a melee playstyle, as it needs to hit with Rive in order to summon Summon Forged Weapon and apply bleeds. In terms of defense, it has damage reduction with Armour Clad and Rebuke. It also has high amounts of recovery with Healing Hands proccing every time you use Rive.
Overall, the Rive Void Knight is a great leveling build, as it provides amazing defense, recovery and damage from its Skills and Passives. It also scales well into the end-game as gear affixes have a big impact on the build. This combination makes the Void Knight leveling look easy.
Check out the Campaign Guide for an in depth breakdown of the campaign.
This build is centered around the Melee Knight fantasy, if you want the fastest leveling build for sentinel, you can use the Skills and Passives from the Paladin Leveling Guide. WARNING: You cannot change your mastery, so be sure to select "Void Knight!"
- Easy Gearing
- Great Survivability
- Low Input Playstyle
- Great Damage Scaling During Leveling
- Limited AoE
- Too Much of a GIGACHAD?
- Rely A Lot On Weapon For Damage
- Melee Suffers In Certain Encounters
Gameplay
As we level the power of skills evolve, 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
Use this setup until you unlock Abyssal Echoes.
- Rive is your single target and clear ability. It summons Summon Forged Weapon that scale with your weapon stats.
- Use Lunge to move quickly through the chapters.
Final Setup
- To deal damage, use Rive. It also procs Healing Hands, massively healing you.
- Use Volatile Reversal and Abyssal Echoes in melee range to boost your damage until you spec into Void Cleave. At this point, don't use Abyssal Echoes yourself as it procs everytime you use Void Cleave
- Use Lunge to move quickly through the chapters until you spec Void Cleave.
- If you need to tank incoming damage, use Rebuke.
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Key Leveling Notes
- Keep your character at the area level by killing monsters.
- To use this guide, you need to maintain at most a 5 level difference with the area.
- Press C to open the character sheet to find your level and TAB to find the area level.
- Only collect loot that serves as an upgrade.
- The loot filter reveals many items that might not be an upgrade for your character.
- If your inventory is full, stick gear with high value affixes in your stash and sell the rest.
- Don't sell gear that has high value affixes to a vendor.
- Instead, keep it to use later or destroy it with a Rune of Shattering or Rune of Removal.
- Always get the best weapon you can.
- Weapons are a core part of your power and getting a higher level base boosts your damage significantly.
- Early on, you can buy them at the
Gambler NPC in the Council Chamber town and in the End of Time town. - After level 40, they don't sell you higher item bases.
- If you want to enter the Monolith of Fate early, unlock all the passive points and idol slots from quests first.
- By the time you complete chapter 7, you will be ready to tackle the Monolith of Fate content.
- Crafting is powerful and important for enhancing your gear.
- Press F and place your item in the crafting interface to level up its affixes and craft new ones!
- Adding health or vitality on a few empty affix slots can increase your HP by a significant amount!
If you need help with crafting, check the Beginner Crafting Guide.
Skills and Passives
Passives and Skills 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.
Click on the Arrows at the top and on the Bar at the bottom to see Passive and Skill Trees Progression
Gearing and Side Quests Step by Step
Itemization is a vital aspect of your journey in Last Epoch. While prefixes and suffixes matter, what sets Last Epoch apart is the power of item bases. Many items have potent implicit attributes that can rival or even surpass modifiers.
Level 1 to 10
Items
- On Deft Bastard Sword of Conflagration prioritize Chance to Bleed on Hit and Chance to Ignite on Hit. DoT damage in the early game is really high.
- Commander's Silver Ring of Deflection is the best source of movement speed early on.
- Commander's Sunrise Emblem of Deflection provides damage, which is important early on.
- On Vital Leather Boots of Deflection, prioritize Movement Speed and Increased Cooldown Recovery Speed to enhance your mobility.
Side Quests
- Storeroom Sabotuers for 1
Passive point. - Evacuation Quest for 1 Passive point.
Items on planner are for displaying item bases and affixes only. Ignore level requirements.
Level 11 to 25
Items
- Start equipping Idols with Vitality, any type of resistance, Health, Health on Kill, Chance To Bleed On Hit, Chance To Poison On Hit and Chance To Ignite On Hit.
- Deft Cultist Chopper of Conflagration is the best weapon base available for that level range.
- Blighted Gold Ring of Purity provide significant elemental resistances, outshining other options at this level.
- Avarice gives you a decent chunk of elemental resistances and leech.
Side Quests
- Erza's Ledger Quest for 1 Passive point and Avarice.
- Don't talk to the Gambler NPC before completing this quest, otherwise you can't get Avarice.
- The Upper District Quest for 1 Passive point.
- An Ancient Hunt for extra
Idol slots. - The Lesser Refuge Quest for 2 Passive point.
- The Corrupted Lake Quest for 1 Passive point and extra Idol slots.
Items on planner are for displaying item bases and affixes only. Ignore level requirements.
Level 26 to 40
Items
- Warrior's Imperial Halberd of Conflagration is a nice upgrade for Warrior's Cultist Chopper of Conflagration.
- Sentinel's Spiked Helm of Purity is a powerful base that helps you fix your physical res when combined with Vital Forge Plate of Life
Side Quests
- Hidden Gems Quest for 1 Passive point.
- The Sapphire Tablet Quest for 1 Passive point and extra Idol slots.
Items on planner are for displaying item bases and affixes only. Ignore level requirements.
Level 41 to 58
Items
- Piercing Bone Amulet of Frailty is the best amulet base in the game as it gives a lot of resistances, which gives you more space for suffixes on your gear.
- Warrior's Spidersilk Sash of the Giant is a powerful base that helps you fix your cold res when combined with Warrior's Argent Crest of Sparks.
Side Quests
- A Heoborean Cure Quest for extra Idol slots.
- Liberating the Nomads Quest for extra Idol slots.
- After defeating the Frostroot Warden boss and completing chapter 7 quests, you have reached the cap of 15 Passive points and 8 Idol slots. You can dive into the Monolith of Fate or you can choose to finish the campaign for a reward of +1 to all attributes.
Items on planner are for displaying item bases and affixes only. Ignore level requirements.
Early Monolith
Items
Important At this point, you have access to most of the best item bases in the game. Your upgrades come from prefixes and suffixes on items instead of the implicits.
Here is a recap of the best item bases :
- Weapon : Great Axe
- Helmet : Augury Helm
- Body Armour : Forge Plate or Solarum Plate
- Belt : Spidersilk Sash or Praetorian Belt
- Boots : Shrine Boots and Solarum Greaves
- Gloves : Plated Gauntlets
- Amulet : Bone Amulet
- Rings : Coral Ring or Opal Ring
- Relic : Argent Crest
Items on planner are for displaying item bases and affixes only. Ignore level requirements.
Monolith Progression
After beating the Abomination timeline boss and completing your first timeline, you have the choice to go between The Stolen Lance timeline and The Black Sun timeline. Go for The Black Sun timeline.
You want to do timelines on the right-hand-side of the Monolith progression as they provide more relevant Blessings for your character progression.
Level progression includes 1-10, 11-25, 26-40, 41-58 and Early Monolith, scroll to find the correct tab.
Void Knight Uniques
If you are lucky, you might get a Rune of Ascendance while leveling. Use this first on boots to get unique boots such as Eterra's Path or Transient Rest.
Keep an eye out for useful Uniques such as Titan Heart, Woven Flesh, Bleeding Heart, Thorn Slinger, Blood of the Exile, Flayer's Pride and Valdyr's Chalice.
Gear Stats Priorities
Best Prefixes
- Level of Abyssal Echoes, Level of Volatile Reversal, Level of Rive, Level of Healing Hands and Level of Void Cleave
- Physical Penetration
- Damage Over Time
- Melee Attack Speed
- Vitality
Best Suffixes
- Chance to Bleed on Hit
- Physical Penetration and Minion Physical Penetration
- Chance to Ignite on Hit
- Health
- Hybrid Health
- Fire Resistance, Lightning Resistance, Cold Resistance, Elemental Resistance, Physical Resistance, Necrotic Resistance and Void Resistance
- Health
- Chance to Chill on Hit
- Chance to apply Frailty on Hit and Chance to apply Frailty on Melee Hit
- Chance to Slow on Hit
- Armour
- Dodge Rating
- Increased Cooldown Recovery Speed
Idols
- Increased Bleed Duration
- Chance to Bleed on Hit
- Chance to Bleed on Hit while at High Health
- Physical Damage Over Time
- Damage Over Time
- Shared Physical Damage
- Increased Area With Rive And Forge Strike
- Chance to Ignite on Hit
- Chance To Ignite While At High Health
- Health
- Health
- Vitality
- Armor
Loot Filter
Loot Filters are critical in Last Epoch. Highlighting all the related valuable Item Bases, Affixes, Uniques and Idols is crucial to your character's progression. As your gear gets better, remember to hide the rules that are no longer useful to avoid screen clutter.
Link : Download Lootfilter
Learn how to load and make Filters with our Loot Filter Guide.
Summary
This Void Knight leveling build shines in its offensive and defensive capabilities. It can tank almost everything, establishing it as one of the most robust mastery to level during the campaign.
- Use Hammer Throw as your main damage skill until you unlock Rive. It also procs Healing Hands, massively healing you.
- Use Volatile Reversal and Abyssal Echoes in melee range to boost your damage until you spec into Void Cleave. At this point, don't use Abyssal Echoes yourself as it procs everytime you use Void Cleave
- Use Lunge to move quickly through the chapters until you spec Void Cleave.
- If you need to tank incoming damage, use Rebuke.
- Look for Axes with a Chance to Bleed on Melee Hit implicit like Cultist Chopper, Imperial Halberd and Great Axe.
- Cap your Physical Resistance early to make the campaign look easy.
What's Next?
Congratulations, you completed the campaign and your first 3 Monoliths Timelines! What awaits you is unlocking Empowered Monolith after pushing through The Reign of Dragons, Spirits of Fire, The Age of Winter and The Last Ruin Timelines and activating the beacon in the middle of them. Then you can dive into dungeons, empower your character further and test your limits at the Arena leaderboard.
Check out our Void Knight Guides and find the perfect Void Knight Endgame build for you.
Explore the Monolith of Fate with our Beginner Guide and learn how to farm Dungeons.
Credits
Written by Terek.
Reviewed by Dredscythe, Volca