I made a similar (but bleed-based) build that used caltrops, net, and puncture to apply bleeds. Caltrops stick around a long time and can easily cover a full screen, so anything that walks into them after also just dies (arena's, gates in mono, beacons in mono, mobs following you) and the chalice relic heals you to full whenever you kill anything because of sheer bleed stacks. Combined it with blood roost for even more sustain and it was extremely comfy to play. Didn't cross my mind to go for flat damage at all, but I'm curious how the two builds compare.

I was actually trying to make this build myself with no help. I saw that puncture and net were a good match but I didn't come to the conclusion of making a flat dmg build. The bleeding and dmg nodes on puncture are so strong and can stack so quickly. They do a lot of damage and Net has a lot of ways to bleed as well. There is also another Unique poison spear that works well. I think if you just use puncture via net and it stacks a lot of fast acting bleeds or poisons on mobs that it could do good dmg along with the flat dmg. I didn't flesh it all out because I was just conceiving it myself.

I suffered through a similar build idea myself. I was using Sierpin's as part of a bleed build and found that the falcon was just the bulk of it because the Rending Barbs node on AA is absolutely insane.

@LaSpiffy

3 ай бұрын

Same. Realization led me to using a Deicide Lance and it all clicked once I ignored my own dmg and put it all towards the bird

Nice! I was planning something like this for my first Falconer but bleed Falconer pulled me in. My plan was to focus entirely on shadow daggers though with shift+cascade(cascade can still be used on a 2h with shift) specced for shadow daggers and maybe smoke bomb (Ignoring falcon since I believe falcon's mark will not affect the shadow daggers) maybe also use an unspecced Sync strike to get the max 3 shadows and spec Puncture for Rapid Strikes, mana gen and phys shred to get 48 mana every triple use. Also the phys pen with shadow daggers idols/affixes. I think even with the nerf pumping more flat damage could be better? Its still 340% effectiveness so the passive Once and an exalted flat damage Sierpin's would be kinda nuts.

this build really speaks to the lack of viable melee skills in Last Epoch. Fractal Tree is such a powerful item but there's just no use-case

@nogerboher5266

3 ай бұрын

not only that but most melee on hit damage builds SERIOUSLY lack in damage compared to ranged, spell or damage over time builds OR they are straight up melee builds that have spells/procs do most of their damage opposed to melee damage skills which should be the case... for example, thats exactly the case with rogue, there are a total of 4 popular melee builds, that aren't even melee, 2 of which are detonating arrow based builds and the damage share of all 4 of these builds is only 10% melee 90% other... also, void knight is really, really weird, even more so than druid, i was either lucky or smart enough to make a void knight build that comfortably goes over 2.6k corruption (which i think im the first in the world to do so) and even then, the only reason i was able to do so is because most of my damage comes from a single long cooldown, high cost melee ability that requires/forces me to use 3 other spells to even make it viable as a choice for a build, which is by far the worst case out of all melee builds in the game, even though i did break the 2.6k corruption with it... LE really needs to buff melee classes and focus on making melee builds ACTUALLY MELEE and not reliant on spells or ranged or item/passive/skill procs etc. to make the build work... A MELEE CLASS SHOULD BE MELEE 90% OF THE TIME.

@spughety8098

3 ай бұрын

IMO one of the best things EHG can do for melee builds is take inspiration from Grim Dawn. If you use a melee attack with your cursor on an enemy, your character walks to them and attacks

Hi, frst of all thanks for your videos, what do you think about a marksman explosive trap melee chain detonating arrow, using double Jelkhor's Blast Knife, it seems to destroy everything!!

@PerrythePig

3 ай бұрын

incredibly strong, includes at least 2 bugs, needs to be bugfixed and likely subsequently nerfed. Cool build though -- I hope some form of it remains.

@filippotombai2967

3 ай бұрын

@@PerrythePig Oh didn't know about bugs, that explain a lot 😅

Well, i'm playing around with a staff(Bo's) based shuri Rogue if you think Spear is bad ;p It's like they had half a thought that Rogue's may use staff like a Monk type and made an item or two, but then scrapped the idea and left what they'd already made in game.

I hope to see more support for Spears in future class design. it sort of sucks to have a complete weapon type being ignored for the most part. I want a spear build that can do 300 corruption Last Epoch! We need more physical and melee builds that DON'T rely on "spell" procs or ward to survive. I want a literal tank with a 2h'er that mows down mobs, physical damage ftw.

I made and ripped this in HC up to 93. It was strong but HP just feels so bad vs energy shield

How do you change the mouse cursor?

@PerrythePig

3 ай бұрын

I use this: pandateemo.github.io/YoloMouse/

So i dont need to add spears back on my itemfilter.

A mid falconer build being infinitely better than the strongest forge guard build. Rip. It does make me excited for a potential rework in the future

I actually feel like umbral blades shadow daggers isn't the problem. The problem is that the rest of rogue absolutely stinks (or at least used to). Don't you find it alarming when the only viable marksman builds before 1.0 was a build that doesn't scale with marksman stuff (reign of winter) and hail of arrows? Even now, the best marksman build takes zero marksman passives and relies on a non-marksman skill (explosive trap). Rogue has historically been the least balanced class in the game and that problem remains. Synch strike and dancing strikes also suck imo for bladedancer. You can make them work, but e.g. dancing strikes is the most negative QoL ability in the game. If you were to nerf the few top tier builds rogues have to the point where abilities like multishot was good, an average rogue build would be like 1% the power level of all the other classes. The fact that shadow daggers exist has historically been the only reason rogue exists at all. As someone who loves rogue thematically, I really hope they rework the old stuff in a major way. Most rogue stuff is pre-buff shaman tier. 1.0 introduced a lot more build variety, I hope they take care to bring things up instead of just pushing the outliers down.

Dex b4 everything

@PerrythePig

3 ай бұрын

definitely the case for Falcon-based falconers. Not sure it's the best way to build this kind of thing

I got a Bident the other day that gives Lightning Support for Javelin and I considered pairing it with smite. But then I was like "smite stacks with attunement and javelin would need throwing damage and mana and just..... I'd love to see a subclass that gets spear support. And it seems most of the spears are only supporting javelin. I also wish they had more weapons (hammer throw not getting more damage from using a hammer frustrates me) that supported throwing. I'd love to see Falconer become the throwing/spear rogue spec. With marksman for bows and blade dancer for daggers > Apparently, the OTHER good falconer build atm is explosive trap with acid flask like you said. Specifically cold acid flask with a wand, which feels weird >

Unethical builds? Lmfao

OMG! How did you change your cursor!?!? I'm playing on a 35 inch 5K monitor and i lose my mouse ALL THE TIME! is this a mod or an option in game? because i cant find it...

@LaSpiffy

3 ай бұрын

YoloMouse is a paid app

@PerrythePig

3 ай бұрын

that has an unpaid version available here: pandateemo.github.io/YoloMouse/