Last Epoch 1.1: Marksman Bleed Build Guide

The planned build focuses on playing a marksman with a bleed route and a bow, emphasizing excitement and potential challenges in Last Epoch's upcoming 1.1 update.

### Last Epoch 1.1 Marksman Bleed Build Guide
* 🏹  The player is excited to try a **non-meta Marksman bleed build** in the upcoming Last Epoch 1.1 cycle.
* 🩸  The build focuses on **applying and stacking bleeds** with the Puncture skill, utilizing its **high damage potential**.
* 🎯  The Marksman class is chosen for its synergy with **bow skills** and passives that **enhance bow damage**.
* 🧰  The gear setup includes unique items like "**Boots of the Frozen Deep**" and "**Chalice of the Void**," along with specific affixes to **boost damage over time**.
* 🌪️  Skills like **"Umbra Blades"** and **"Smoke Bomb"** are used for **crowd control and survivability**.
* 🔒  The passive tree is optimized for **increased bleed chance, damage, and survivability**, with adjustments based on **upcoming 1.1 changes**.
* 💡  The player emphasizes that the build is still subject to **changes and improvements**, especially after the **1.1 update**.
* 🎯  The guide concludes with an invitation for feedback and discussion, highlighting the **community's importance in refining the build**.

[Music] Last epoch 1.1 cycle starts around the corner, and every time I start to think about how I want to record this video. And every time I start to think about this character, I find myself very excited. Overall, the cycle is going to be starting in a few days. There are a lot of really interesting changes, and while excited, I'm very nervous. If the title of the video hasn't given away, I'm planning on playing something to me that's a little bit different. It might not be the most meta build. It might not be the best thing, but to me, this has been a lot of fun. I'm planning on playing a marksman. I want to go down the bleed route, and I want to play with a bow. Overall, these are all things that in the ARPG world make me very excited and very happy. And in some Tes thing, well, it's been a lot of fun. Originally, I wanted to play the character as multishot, and I wanted to pair it with frenzy because or flurry.

because flurry procs multishot, and it's really cool and it looks good, but in overall testing, it wasn't very good, and eventually I settled on puncture. Puncture has been overall a lot of fun. It has been very rewarding. It has felt very good. And today, I'm want to talk to you about just how I plan on doing things in my overall route in 1.1. Now, in last Epoch, when it first originally started and came out, I played circle of Fortune. I love circle of Fortune. This build will actually do really well in circle of Fortune, as all the gear I have right now is from circle of Fortune, and I'm honestly not too sure which way I want to take it. With it being a little bit of a niche, you know, a niche thing and stacking ailments, I might actually settle on merching skill to begin with. But overall, let's talk about what's going on. And let me put out a little disclaimer. This is a 1.1 build with 1.1 having so many

changes nobody really knows. Or I really don't know, I should say how things are going to handle and work out. Currently, the build works. It does what I needed to do. It can get to 300 corruption relatively easily. 300's a little rocky, but my gear on this test character is extremely bad. With good gear, it should work better. With the changes coming, it should work better, assuming I understand them correctly. This is going to be structured in the form of a build guide, but this is more or less like just me telling you what I want to do. Should you choose to copy this or use this to, you know, pretty much do the same thing, please be warned that this will be rocky, this will be bumpy. There will be tweaks and changes. And if you're looking to keep up to date with all the changes to the character, your best bet would be either to join my Discord, and I'll be posting about my updates as I go along, or check out the live streams, both here and YouTube, or well here and Twitch.

should say, and you'll be able to keep up with what's going on. And three, if I do end up changing the character drastically or make changes, I will post updates in the description down below with timestamps of when it was updated last, and I'll make a new video. So overall, you know, proceed with caution if you choose to copy down this route. Now, bleed in itself is really strong. I like the idea of bleed a lot. I like being able to stack a ton of bleeds. I think it feels really good. The character has fantastic clear. It can clear a lot of the screen. It has ultimate amounts of Pierce, can hit every single mob in front of it, and overall it has really good movement, especially with the evade skill coming out. We have the ability to shift everywhere that we want to go. We can use smoke bomb for, you know, just extra coverage. We have umbrell blades that we get to throw out everywhere to give us extra damage. And overall, it's just felt really strong and really good. It can

clear you know corruption 100. You know the greater Corruptions relatively well, and 300s are a little bit Rocky in itself, and the gear in itself that I have on the character in testing is not the greatest. Before we get into gear, let's just kind of take a look at how it plays and what we should expect if we go to a lesser corruption, and we start there just to give you an idea of how it functions and moves. We're going to go to a 167, and we'll hop right in. So we're just going to load right in, we're going to, you know, make our way, and you can see we pretty much just can cut down all of the mobs. A lot of people aren't going to like the fact that it's a DOT-based build. You have to deal and make a bunch of stacks. Mobs will die behind you, and if you have to go back, you'll probably have to go back and double-check for loot. Me personally, this play style doesn't bother me at all.

much, and overall, it feels relatively good. I like it a lot, and you know, in terms of how it plays, I kind of get a kick out of mobs chasing after me and just falling over behind me. The play style itself requires you to be active. You have to move, you have to use your skills. It has a little bit of high APM, so if you're looking for something that's more of a one-button click and you don't really have to worry, this might be a little bit more difficult, but it feels really rewarding overall to play. You essentially have Umbrella Blades to give you a little bit of slow and chill the mobs. You have Smoke Bomb to give you some survivability. You have Shift or, yeah, Shift to move around, and you can see, you know, we cleared this one, this echo or monolith, relatively simple in testing. Moving up through monoliths has been relatively easy. The only time that it has been a little bit difficult is pushing deeper into the 300s or at the start of 300s. I don't

know, and this is where that disclaimer comes back in. I don't know if that's because the gear on this character is relatively on the poorer side, or because, you know, how bleed currently stands before the changes. Things are a little awkward when we look at the last def tool in PL. You'll see that there are big changes coming and things that'll make the car could do a lot more damage and just overall make it really strong. Now coming into this, this is a base 300. You can see right away it takes a couple more extra shots. Things still do bleed out, things still do take good damage, but you do need to invest a couple more shots into the character. The way that I have it currently built, it doesn't have a whole lot of life. It has a lot of gear that I pretty much just had in my stash laying around that I threw on it. And with a little bit of fine-tuning and more minmax gear, it should survive a lot better. In the current state of things, you could see I'm not even capped.

resistances. I'm barely capped lightning resistance when I have you know everything going on. I am crit capped though, so I don't have to worry about accidentally getting crit and killed. But you know, it could really use a lot of better gear. Okay, you can see we kill mobs relatively easily. We get good stacks of bleed on them right away, and there's nothing to worry about. I did manage to kill the boss or the monolith boss in 300 a couple times. He wasn't too bad. The biggest problem is, I guess I'm not used to being a little bit squishy, so I had to do some more moving. You see, if I like stood in that a little bit longer, I would have just died. But overall, the mobs, you know, they're dying, no real big issue. Our clear for the screen is relatively good. Our coverage is great. We can Pierce every single mob. And overall, you know, we don't really have too too much to worry about. We go in here, we have these to

help us clear we move all around and then we drop a smoke bomb. The biggest issue that I have, and I'm going to point this out. I was going to point this out again later, but the biggest issue that I currently have with the build is I need to work on Mana. I don't have a ton of Mana regen on my gear right now. My Mana regen is only 12. It's definitely going to need a little bit of Mana regen, but we'll cover that in a minute. But you see it did a 300, no problem. It did a 150 and change, no problem. And overall, the gear on the character right now, oh, that's pretty cool. Overall, the gear on the character right now is like very medium. The bow in itself is not even the right base. I am playing a bleed build with a poison bow 'cause this is all that I had. My armor is crit avoidance, crit chance. It just has a little bit of health and a little bit of bleed chance, some Mana. My helmet on this

character is damage over time. This helmet's actually pretty good. It has chance to bleed and some resistances. My necklace damage over time necrotic and poison resistance, or necrotic and Fizz resistance. This quiver has bow damage on it. Dam damage over time en chance the poison on hit. The belt physical damage that's really it some health. This has damage over time some Mana some resistances some health and coold down recovery which really doesn't do anything. This ring in itself just damage over time and crit chance and fire damage but yeah the gear on this character in itself like regularly unique regularly unique regularly unique and then all of these are just health and resistances to get started overall the character. This character for testing purposes isn't where I want the character to be. It is just good enough to get by to start testing the character in itself. We are going to be using as you saw puncture to put our dots. We are going to be using umbrell blades to chill and help us with the clear we're

going to be using shift to move around the map and leave some clones for um blades, and we're using smoke bomb as a defensive layer with some more clones. Shurikens just gives us a little bit more damage and survivability overall. Though we are looking for a bow that has damage over time on it because we are a DOT-based build, and we want to stack our damage over time. We are looking for more damage over time. All of the gear in this planner is set to tier five gear. None of this is going to be higher or lower because I don't know where people are going to play and what they're going to find. If you play coff, you'll odds are you'll find really good gear really fast. And if you're playing on Merchant skills, you'll be able to buy gear with everything that you need on it and be able to fuse things together relatively easily. Now this bow, we preferably probably want salvage Bow because it gives us damage over time. It has increased damage over time bow attack.

speed chance to apply bleed and Fizz pen. All of this really good stats to what we want the helmet, pretty much the same thing. We have a damage overtime bleed duration helmet. This, you know, more bleed duration means more damage. We have increased bow damage chance to bleed with bow hits, Critical Strike avoidance. We have some health. Our chest plate is very interesting. I have Dodge rating and damage over time and a little bit of armor on this base. I think this is a really good base. I like this base a lot. It gives us chance to apply bleeds on bow hit, which I think is going to be really strong because we want to stack our bleeds as high as possible. And I have been experimenting with ward gain on Shadow creation. You saw when we did the 300, the character was a little squishy. It took a couple of hits. It could definitely be built a little bit tankier. And Twitch shot suggested Ward gain than Shadow creation. This is due to the fact that, you know, we're going to create a shadow every time we shift. We're going

to create a shadow every time we drop smoke bombs, and we're pretty much just going to always be creating a shadow, and we should, in theory, be able to get some Ward just to give us a little bit of extra buffer. I don't know if this is the best mod yet for this armor, and it definitely is going to need some experimenting. There are other things that you can get on the armor. You can get physical pen with puncture, which might be pretty good. You can get more Mana if you need more Mana, more flat Mana. There's a lot of room or a lot of wiggle room on the body armor, and I really encourage you guys to experiment. I'm not really too sure where I'm going to settle yet with the body armor. I do want to get this mod and experiment with it. Currently in my testing, I don't have this mod, so I haven't been really able to experiment and test with it, but I have resistances and health on the

armor as far as suffixes go on all of your gear. Your resistances and your health as long as you get capped resistances. Cap poison, necrotic, fizz, and all that beautiful stuff. And you get some health. It doesn't really matter where the resistances sit, whether they're on the armor, the helmet, the boots, or whatever, as long as you get them and you move them around to where you need them to be, and you get capped out, you're pretty happy. The prefixes are where things get a little bit shaky, as Ward gain and Shadow creation is only on the body armor. Chance to apply bleed on bow hits only in a prefix, so forth and so on our right quiver. I like this quiver a lot. I like the chance to apply bleed on bow hit. I think that's really good. I like the increased damage over time, the increased bow attack speed, you know, some resistances, chance to apply more bleeds. Ideally, what we're aiming for is we're aiming to have the ability to apply a lot of bleeds. You can see.

based on the gear and the calculations in the last Epoch tools, we have a 53% chance to bleed. In theory, if everything goes well, every shot should put on five bleeds. But currently, while testing in-game, I only have a 76% chance to bleed. I don't know if this is calculating bow chance on hit or not, but you know, we would like to get as many stacks of bleed going as we could. Our necklace physical penetration, since it's going to help us deal a lot of damage, increase damage over time, Frailty to take less damage, necrotic resistance, physical resistance. I think bone amulets in itself are just insane and just really strong. Gold ring for more resistances, damage over time, Mana, critical strength, avoidance. We really, really, really want to be crit capped. We really don't want to hear that wonderful Clank to know that we're stunned, crit, and dead. It's just not what I want. The belt we have currently, a spider silk sash for increased physical damage, Mana.

regeneration Dodge rating health I think a really good option later on down the line is going to be Jungle Queen. This is one of those things that when you get rolling, when you have currency, when you've been lucky, when you found it, I think this is going to be like the bee's knees of a belt. I didn't want to Jungle Queen in this because realistically, you know, with 1.1 just starting and recreating a character and going down all the roads, you don't know what's going to happen, you don't know what your gear is going to look like, you don't know what you're going to find or what you're not going to find, and things become a little bit awkward and you know you just don't want to like set crazy high expectations. Then our other ring, we have a necrotic resistance and Ward Decay threshold. We want to essentially have some Ward Decay somewhere so that if we do end up using the ward gained, it decays slower or we have it, we don't

have to really worry the ring once again damage over time dexterity where we can put it Elemental resistance and health now we have three uniques in the build. I think these uniques are very good. These Boots give us movement speed bleed duration and More Physical ailment damage to moving enemies. I think these boots are out of this world and very good. This is just more damage on more damage and more damage. I think these boots are probably best in slot um according to this getting them with l P you know 2 LP should be relatively doable and it should be easy to like slam other boots into it. I think more movement speed on these boots are going to be really good because movement speed is great and you want to be able to move around and having a ton of movement speed is really really really good and from there probably more dexterity. I'm really not too sure yet I'll experiment a little bit as you know the cycle starts and we get into it this chalice for our off hand. I think is really good.

it gives us bleed on hit. Bleed duration. Physical damage over time. Leech as health. And 20 Health gained on kill per stack of bleed on the target. I think this is going to be something very good. I think this is going to be really, really out of this world. I think it's going to be um just overall a really good source of sustainability because you know we we're going to need a way to like survive. And you know we don't want to just like roll over. So but I like this a lot. I think to this is going to be one of those items that like you know we'll be able to get with LP on it. It'll be able to work. And you shouldn't really have too much of a hard time whether you're going to buy it or farm for it yourself. The gloves I'm a little worried about um. I don't really know how rare these are going to be. These are really nice. They give us increased physical increase damage over time. Fizz resist. Poison resist. Bleed.

duration, poison duration, and our crit strike multi is converted to pen, which is really interesting. These gloves, I think in testing, have been really good. I'm not sure how rare they're going to be. I think they might be a little bit difficult to get. If they do end up being difficult to get, there are a lot of really good options depending on what you need. The build right now has a little bit of Mana issues, so if you don't need resistances, I think like getting a base with a little bit of Mana region on it's going to be really good. So probably Arcane bracers. And I was looking at this earlier, and I think if you can get a nice pair of gloves with some damage over time, maybe some dexterity, and you know, there's there's just like a lot of really really good options that you can do in itself, you know, on gloves. I think Dex is probably going to be our best bet because you're going to see really quickly that we're going to be stacking decks and overall.

decks is going to give us a lot of things that are going to make the character in itself really, really, really strong. As far as suffixes go on the gloves, we're pretty much just going to do the same thing that we've been doing. You don't want to do shred armor as it really doesn't apply to dots. You can do resistances, Critical Strike avoidance, Dodge rating, whatever your character really needs to fill the spots of what you're missing. The unique gloves currently have Fizz resistance and poison resistance, and that's where we're filling a lot of those gaps. So you might have to fill those gaps with some rare gloves. Our Idols, I'm still experimenting with the idols. The Idols are pretty much free range to whatever you think is best. You can do damage over time chance, the bleed Idols, you can do bleed on hit, bleed with bow hit Idols, you can do increased damage, physical damage over time, health, physical damage over time. You could do Idols very similar to what

I have here where I have increased Health, lightning resistance, health, and health. Health and fire. Pretty much use your Idols to fill in what you need. And as your gear gets better, we'll use the idols to just, you know, readjust to more fine-tune in min-max. Also too, is as we start to like get idols and refine our gear and put LP on our gear, get really cool uniques and slam them into each other, you know, it'll open a lot more doors and avenues of, you know, where to begin blessings. Blessings are also another one of those things that are really up to, like, doing what you need to do. I took Mana here because, you know, I feel like the character is going to need more Mana. I took physical resistance here to cap out the resistances, chanoly Frailty alongside of our amulet to make sure that we always have the mobs are always frail chance to apply bleed on hit and void resistance. In my testing, I have some really good blessings. I have uh Critical Strike multiplier, which doesn't

really do anything uh Critical Strike avoidance until I was able to get really good gear for Critical Strike avoidance. This is a really good option fire resistance cold resistance uh. I think I had lightning resistance somewhere too or did I get rid of that. I think I might have gotten rid of that cold fire crit multi yeah just fill out your blessings to what your character needs in the current moment because of the new changes that are coming you can like swap your blessings around freely so you should really just take advantage of what you need and farm out what'll get you rolling to the next stages overall though gearing in itself shouldn't be too hard just messing around I was able to find a lot of the gear and the gear that you're looking for. I'm actually working on a loot filter that I will post down below beina made a really good loot filter that was a master filter and I've just been kind of updating it as I go if you're looking for a loot filter on the gear this should have everything.

that you need. You will need to update this as you go, and if you're planning on playing in the Merchants Guild, you'll probably want to turn on different things that you will be looking for. Me personally, I'm going to be turning on a lot of the different idols, and I'm going to be adjusting the loot filter as I play. This loot filter that will be in the description for you is not a final set in stone. Use it at your own risk. This will have things on it that I am looking for. This will have things that I am progressing for. If you are going to copy this build, you are going to need to make adjustments. I have different modifiers that I want to shatter. I have different modifiers that I'm going to be looking for. And as I find modifiers and I increase my pool of runes, I'm going to be changing these things around. So please, if you do use the loot filter I have provided, please use it cautiously. It will work really well for cof, but you will need to

fine-tune it to your liking in your play sale as you go. Just, you know, putting that out there. Okay, so now that we've gone over the basic Gear and where it's going and what the skills are doing, let's jump more into like the actual skills, how they're working in the passive train, the skills. Like I had mentioned, originally I was going for a multi-shot mix with flurry, but flurry had its own disadvantages. It really didn't Pierce any of the targets. Multi-shot was every so often that it proed. It just didn't really feel smooth. And after playing and testing, puncture felt really good. Puncture is also really good for leveling. I found that and I've actually leveled with puncture before, and puncture itself just feels naturally really good. Now you saw when I fired my character, there was Mirage archers or, you know, mirages that like stood next to me and fired, and this is from this penumbral Ambush node. This is what makes the Mana cost a little awkward, a little.

strange and without this note clear feels pretty bad. Now I know people aren't going to be too thrilled about, you know, the Mana cost. I'm personally not too thrilled about the Mana cost, and I think there are ways to work around it, especially with a little bit of Mana regen, and you won't really have to worry. But this note in itself really makes this skill kind of like what I want it to be, and a big reason why we're playing with it. I don't know if you need this skill for the campaign and for leveling, but when you get to monoliths, you really want to be playing with the skill. And it also gives us a bunch of extra damage. Puncture in itself has a zero Mana cost, and the node, like I mentioned, is what gives it its Mana cost and problems. Puncture 2 has a chance to just apply bleed, which just innately does, which is just awesome. So you just have a base 30% chance to apply bleed. We come over here, we get another 40%. We come over here, we

get another 60% per stack of bleeding Fury, and we get a bunch of bleeding Fury here. So puncture just is perfect for what we want to do. It gives us tons of clear, tons of range, pierces all the mobs, and it just bleeds everything. Other cool things too is we have mind piercer here that gives us extra mana on Hit. And like I mentioned, puncture is very Mana intensive as is, but if we start stacking a bunch of Mana, we get physical penetration per 15 maximum Mana. So there is a really good argument to stacking Mana while using puncture because we just get a bunch of physical pen. And more physical pen means more damage, means more dot damage, and overall seems relatively good coming this way though. Um, toxic delivery gives us poison chance, which I know you're going to be like wait a minute, hold on, like what are we doing? Uh, that's awkward. We're bleed, but we take sanguine Obsession, which converts poison chance from all sources to bleed chance.

this is what makes the current bow that I have work. Um, anywhere that we get poison chance automatically becomes plea chance. And we pair it with ous toxins efficis toxins, which gives us a chance to take increased damage over time. One of the big things between testing at the time of recording and last Epoch tools is this node right here. Is a 25% chance to be applied. And in the current state of last Epoch, if we go over to this node, it's not updated. So we get, you know, changes that are coming on top of that too. Like I said, we're going to be playing with Umble braids. I'm not really sure if we're going to stick with the cold snap and the Subzero intrusion. There are a lot of things that are being changed with the way that cold works and chill. So these two points right here, as of right now, take them with an absolute positive grain of salt. Umble braids are those spinning blades that you saw that every time we Dash and we create a clone.

they were left behind. Essentially, umbrell blades will create a blade storm that'll hover and spin in place and deal a bunch of damage. And they'll also just slowly seek out enemies. So if you're fighting a boss or you're fighting a group of mobs and you sprint or shift all around, you create a smoke screen. You make a bunch of Shadows. It'll just essentially leave a bunch of umbrell blades that'll find the mobs and pretty much hunt them down and tick away and deal a bunch of damage, you know. And then whenever one of your shadows expires, they also leave behind an umbral blade. So you know, we leave a shadow, it expires, it creates a blade storm. The Bladestorm seeks out the enemy and so forth and so on. Um, this gives you physical throwing damage, which we don't really care about. And this note and this note, like I said, are what gives the umbrell blades the ability to chill, freeze, and give us a little bit more crowd control. If this ends up being bad post the changes, we'll

remove these points out of here. We can get more bleed chance here. We can get more attack speed here and Ward gain on recall, which we're never really going to use. We can pretty much just play around and figure out where we're going to want to put those extra two points. I'm honestly not too sure yet because we're not going to be working with the blades recalling, but we'll pretty much see. You could definitely put at least a point here and probably like another point here to just kind of get it rolling. Shift, we're doing all the basics and all the same stuff that we normally do with shift. We're taking increased cool down recovery rate and Mana efficiency. I know we're going to have a Dodge roll, but we'll not have a Dodge roll and a transversal skill so that we'll be able to move around really good. We're going to take momentum for Mo movement speed. We're going to leave behind a shadow. This is to pair with umbrell blades. We're going to get Mana.

back on use so that we can help maintain our Mana. We're going to be invulnerable while shifting, so that we have an eye frame, and we're going to get some Dodge rating for survivability. Also, we'll increase the amount that we heal, and we're going to leave behind shurikens that we can pretty much just set up whenever we shift. Shurikens, though they're going to be a little awkward, we're going to give them increased attack speed, we're going to make them, um, we're going to put out additional shurikens, and we're going to create a blade shield around us. This essentially is just going to give us a little bit more armor, a little bit more survivability, and a little bit more, um, just not dying. This will give us 30% armor, and as we scale our gear, we'll be a little bit more tanky, and it'll last for 45% longer. One of the other really cool things about the shurikens is we can have them Pierce.

all the enemies around us. So, if we're shifting in and out of mobs, the shurikens will hit everything. And they'll, you know, they'll also pierce. They'll have physical penetration on them, and they'll have a chance to bleed and shred all of their, um, their physical shred. My brain is like putting all this together and thinking about this, and it's all wild, and I can't wait to play it. I'm so excited, man. Oh, and lastly, we have smoke bomb. Smoke bomb is going to give us the ability to just drop a bomb at our feet. It'll blind enemies and grant you haste while you remain inside of it. Blind is being updated so that mobs that are blinded can no longer crit you. So, this will give us a nice little defensive layer if we drop it on some mobs before we get our crit cap. We're going to have it so that smoke cloud lasts longer. We're going to get it so that we can have a shadow clone chance. We're only

going to put one point in the Smoke blades. We don't really care too much about it, but we are going to make it so it's 100% chance to give us Shadows. For the umbrell blades, we're going to give it so that we have puncture bleach chance, which is all really cool. So everything kind of ties together. So we're going to have this give us 200% puncture bleed chance, and the shurikens are going to have bleed chance. So as long as you stay inside the smoke bomb and you know and we puncture enemies that are in it. So like you can drop it out, you can shift off to a boss, and drop a shadow and make an umbrell blade and smoke bomb on a boss, and then shoot a bunch of times and they get a whole bunch of bleed sacks. I know it's convoluted and complicated, but it works, I promise. We're going to get bleed chance per Crimson shroud. Pretty much you're granted a stack of crimson shot.

on kill one side a smoke cloud gain thing you bleed chance and less damage taken so you just drop the smoke bomb kill a bunch of enemies you get some Crimson chance more bleed we're going to cover an extremely large area we're going to get Frailty on the mobs we're going to get silver shrouds so that we don't die we're going to cleanse all of our ailments we're going to gain Health back we're going to gain Mana back and everything just kind of really works together and just really meshes really well and this is where I mentioned earlier that this is going to be one of those things where if you want a One Buton and build it might not be your best friend but if you're okay with pressing a couple of buttons it'll work out relatively well okay let's take a look at the passives now the passives are where a lot of things change and pretty much what made me want to play Marksman currently we'll start with or I guess we

should start with how it looks here, and then we'll compare it to what's in-game, and we can see the very big differences. We're picking Rogue because Rogue gives us Marksman, and Rogue gives us pretty much just everything that we want to do with essentially playing a bow character. We take Rogue, we're going to take a bunch of points of Dex and health. We're going to get some Dodge rating, we're going to get some evasion rating, and we're going to get some agility so that we get haste on hit chance. So, this pretty much says our increased damage per 1% increased movement speed because of this node. The faster we move, the more damage we'll do. And from testing sources of base increased damage will scale our bleed, which ends up working really well with the boots that we showcased earlier because we can get them with LP. We can put more movement speed on them. More movement speed means more damage. More damage means more survivability. And it all kind of like works together.

going to take glancing blows here because glancing blows is another defensive layer. And some Dodge rating. And we're going to get a health back and glancing blows pretty much. You take 35% less damage. I believe that it is when you take a glancing blow. So you take a glancing blow. You gain a bunch of Health back. You feel really good. Also, we gain a bunch of flat Health. None of the other nodes really do a whole lot. We take this Noe for attack speed and physical damage. Physical damage doesn't really do anything to like scale our bleed as we need percent fiz to scale our bleed. Um every third melee throwing your bow attack deals increased damage. This one's pretty nice. But I mean it's every third attack. Which makes it a little bit awkward. And then we get bleed on the third attack. You can move points around if you really want to like mess around with this. But I don't know how much this is going to be impactful considering the fact that it's every third attack.

there's a world where like we move some points around, and we try to get Five Points of dism bowel. Which you have to put one point here, three points here, and then five points here. Five stacks of bleed, that was a lot, but it's every third attack. So I don't know, it might be awkward, it might not be awkward, but this is definitely something to look into and play around with. We go to Blade dancer, we take eight points in Blade dancer. We want more glancing blows, and we want more flat dexterity just chance at glancing blows, and chance at glancing blows. You know just gives us a little bit more of an extra cushion and or defense layer. Coming into Marksman, we get bow attack speed, which is really nice. We get a bunch of Health gained, we get decks and Dodge, we get some haste after evading. This is another one of those points that I was mentioning earlier coming up in 1.1. We get a couple of new thresholds on the passive tree.

make Rogue really interesting. For example, in the base game, we don't get haste after evading. So now we'll just always have like a source of haste, which is really cool. We're going to come over here, we're going to take bow damage, which doesn't do a whole lot, Critical Strike damage, which doesn't do a whole lot. This node we only put one point here to get to one point here to get to Five Points here, the Five Points here are actually temporary as we want Critical Strike avoidance. Eventually we'll get Critical Strike avoidance on our gear, we'll get better bases put together, and we'll get Critical Strike chance on our gear. We can remove these six points or seven points here, and that's how we're going to find our ability to experiment here. So we have five, 6, 7, 8, and then then n, and we'll just like move some other points around. Concentration is a really interesting one. Concentration grants us more damage if you are hit by an enemy within four meters. You lose concentration, so as long as we just stay really far

away from where we are, and we don't get hit. We get concentration. Currently, concentration gives us increased damage in the base game, and will give us more damage going on after the update. So, it's a big source of damage right now. You see, concentration is increased damage in the current base of the game, but it will be updated soon to more damage. So, this is really nice. And with four points here or with points here, we get concentration cooldown speed so that it's always up. We're going to take Prolonged Demise for damage over time and damage over time while wielding a bow. So, damage over time taking minus 10%, and then we deal 70% more damage over time. We're going to put one point here for concentration cooldown and Dodge rating, and then we're going to put four points here so that we have less hit damage taken with concentration. This is a really nice node that isn't in the game right now. This node pretty much is just going to say that, you know, we're just going to

take less of a hit every time that we're hit, as long as we have concentration. So this gives us another, you know, source of survivability. Coming over here, we're going to take increased physical damage by 50%, increased chance to bleed by 50%. This is a really nice node. This gives us 50% more bleed chance, 50% more increased damage to bleeds. And with the upcoming changes, we're going to get physical red shred, which also scales our bleed damage, which is going to be really nice. Currently, once again, the game, in my testing, I can't play with fish shred because it's not in the game yet. And this node, once 1.1 comes out, should be pretty much massive. Coming over to Aeros storm, we're taking Aeros storm because we pretty much proc Aeros storm all of the time. Ever. It gives us more bow attack speed, which is really, really, really nice. And we, you know, we just want to have more attack speed. We're going to have Sharpshooter too, because we're

going to do the exact same thing. Sharpshooter just increases our bow damage. It lasts for a bunch of seconds. It gives us more of a base hit. I'm not really too sure if Sharpshooter is worth the one point, but playing with it, it seemed to be okay. This is another one of those one-pointers that when we remove all of this down here, we can move it towards going over here if we want to mess around with it. Sharpshooter is just like one of those things. Like I had a point, I put into it, I played around with it. It was fine, it was cool. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's whatever. We take Covering Fire so that we proc Aros Storm. We get a Silver Shroud. Silver Shrouds are really nice. They make it so that we just don't die, you know. You just dodge a hit when you have a Silver Shroud, and you gain Ward per stack. So like, it's just like a nice little, you know, like it's like a little catch-all if things go sideways.

and we take rain of arrows. I don't know if rain of arrows is actually good or not yet. Um, rain of arrows is like a little weird. It hits all the mobs in an area. Um, and it like it makes it really interesting. It's just like another source of bleed. I'm not sure if it's good or bad yet. I'm still really on the fence about it and becomes one of those places where we can just around and move another point. I haven't now and testing to just kind of like see some really interesting stuff but we'll see. We take ethereal arrows because it's going to give us more damage currently like I had mentioned before this is another one of those nodes that gets changed in the 1.1 update. We get increased mana mana regen both things that we need and we get bow Mana cost that gives us more damage. I did test this out in the base game to test how it works with bleed and currently it says you have increased mana and Mana regen.

and your bow skills will deal more damage based on their cost and and increase the damage. And without this node in the damage was X, and with this node in it was Y. And you can clearly see that this node is scaling the damage of bleeds. Also, currently it is increased damage at 500%, and when 1.1 comes out, it is going to be a more damage modifier at 100%. Lastly, I actually have two points in master Archer, but I get to actually remove them. I forgot we're not playing multi shut anymore, so we're going to take these out of there, and we're going to put these into Aeros storm. When we do, and if we decide to make the change to disembowel, we have these five, six, seven points here. 89 comes from here, so as soon as you make the change here, you can come like this. You can go 51, 1, and then you can do this and really mess around with this. I wouldn't make this change to dism Barrel dism bowel until you have the

Critical Strike avoidance simply due to the fact that having crit avoidance is really really really strong, and you really don't want to die. But once you get the gear going and everything flowing, making that change is going to be very good. But overall, this is the build. This is what I want to play. Like I said, if you choose to follow this and you have questions, you know I'm available on my Twitch. I'm available on YouTube. You can stop by the Discord, you leave comments on these videos, or you have ideas on how to like min-max us a little bit better ways or ideas of where to take it. I'm definitely all yours. I like hearing from you guys a lot. You guys are the reason that I get to keep doing these videos and making this content and putting it out for you guys. And if you've made it this far in the video, I appreciate you. Thank you for subscribing. Thank you for everything that you guys do. You guys are absolutely fantastic, and I look forward to hearing about your adventures in 1.1. So for now

friends, I'm going to get this video out to you guys. I know it was a bit of a long one, and I'm sorry. I'll see you all on the next one.

[Last Epoch 1.1] Bleed Bow! Puncture + Umbral Blades Cycle Stater! Build Guide For COF and MG

Travic

Planning a Unique Marksman Build in Last Epoch 1.

The speaker is excited and nervous about starting a new cycle in Last Epoch 1.

1 with a non-meta marksman build focusing on the bleed route.

They have found the puncture skill to be rewarding and are considering different paths for the build.

The build offers strong clear, ultimate Pierce, and good movement, but requires high APM and active gameplay, performing well in lower corruptions but facing challenges in the 300s.

The speaker advises caution in copying the build and offers ways to stay updated on any changes.

Feedback on Character Build and Gear for Testing

The character's gear is currently mediocre and needs better optimization for survivability.

The build shows good damage output but requires more shots to kill, indicating a need for improvement.

The character's mana regeneration is lacking, and there is a clear need to work on it for better performance.

Optimizing Armor and Gear for Maximum Damage

Experimenting with different mods on the body armor is essential for finding the best setup.

It's important to focus on getting capped resistances and health on all gear pieces.

The goal is to maximize the ability to apply bleeds and prioritize items that offer damage over time and sustainability, such as the unique boots and off-hand chalice.

Analysis of New Gloves and Gear in the Game

The new gloves in testing have shown great potential but may be difficult to obtain.

Players have the option to customize their gloves with mana regeneration and dexterity to address the character's needs.

The use of idols and blessings is flexible, allowing players to adapt to their specific requirements and fine-tune their gear.

Additionally, a customizable loot filter is available for players to use, with the advice to make adjustments according to their own preferences and playstyle.

The skills have been adjusted based on testing, with puncture being favored over multi-shot and flurry for its smoothness and effectiveness, especially in leveling.

The penumbral ambush node adds mirages to the character, impacting the mana cost.

Strategies for Using the Puncture Skill in Last Epoch

Puncture skill's high Mana cost can be managed with Mana regen, and it provides extra damage and bleed chance, making it ideal for monoliths.

Stacking Mana while using Puncture can offer increased physical penetration and damage.

The Umbrella Blades skill not only provides damage but also offers crowd control with the ability to chill and freeze, although its effectiveness may change after future updates.

Shift should focus on increased cooldown recovery and Mana efficiency for smooth movement.

Building a Strong Marksman Character in the Game

The character build focuses on increasing survivability and armor while also enhancing attack abilities.

The use of shurikens is optimized by increasing attack speed, adding more shurikens, and allowing them to pierce enemies, causing bleeding and shredding.

The smoke bomb ability is utilized for defense, providing a blind effect to enemies and granting haste, while also incorporating shadow clones and umbrell blades for additional tactical advantages.

The chosen passives from the Rogue class prioritize dexterity, health, dodge and evasion rating, and agility to enhance damage and movement speed, ultimately improving the character's overall performance.

Optimizing Skill Nodes for Bow Build in the Game

Choosing the right skill nodes is crucial for maximizing the bow build's effectiveness, with a focus on glancing blows, flat health, and attack speed.

Blade Dancer and Marksman nodes are prioritized for additional defense layers, dexterity, and health gain.

Concentration and Prolonged Demise nodes are essential for increasing damage over time and survivability, while also reducing hit damage taken.

The build also emphasizes increased physical damage, chance to bleed, and Aerial Storm for consistent proc and bow attack speed.

Evaluating the Sharpshooter Build for Bow Damage in the 1.

The Sharpshooter node increases bow damage for a duration and can be worth investing one point in.

The Silver Shroud from Covering Fire provides defense and Ward, while Rain of Arrows offers a source of bleed, although its effectiveness is still uncertain.

Ethereal Arrows is crucial for increasing damage, especially with the upcoming changes in the 1.

Master Archer points can be reallocated to Aros Storm for a more flexible build, and a switch to Disembowel is recommended after acquiring Critical Strike avoidance.

Overall, this build focuses on bow damage and welcomes feedback for optimization.