Last Epoch 0.9 Necrotic DoT Lich Guide (Tanky, SSF, Starter)

[@nathanhulsey385]

Love the core of this build, but Skele Mages are inefficient. The "Skeleport" resets your CD on Reap. It's pointless to reduce the chances you can apply Marked for Death. Get two Blood Golems (you don't have to resummon often, if ever) with health-per-hit (more melee hits=more time in Reaper Form). Put the 5 points in the Ethereal Revenant passive: it procs every time you hit Death Seal (which is awesome). The Revenant is pretty tanky on its own. It is always up. So, 3 minions that DON'T DIE! (And no redundant skills). Get minion attack speed, some minion health leech, minion MfD on-hit (one idol, some 3rd-tier stats, and some passive points), and then prosper. You will rarely drop out of RF. I've gone through maps and arena runs with RF up constantly. Also, since you are applying damned on hit, you can technically get a +Wandering Spirits shard and spec 1-2 points in the Drained Will node. You stack shred-per-second, multiplied by how many spirits are summoned. You are channeling it, so shred stacks quickly (hard to come by and 100% worth it on bosses). Looks like a few folks figured this one out. When you finally drop out of RF, you want Locus Mortis to get some distance between you and a boss (or a pack of elites at high corruption). You can still get the Unholy Trinity buff since the Revenant/Golem combo can take some serious punishment. Put 1-2 points in Tower of Bones...threat generation and size mean Golems can tank for a bit and take the heat off you (you will be VERY squishy).

[@Adalon-]

I've been playing lich as well, though not a dot build. Its a necrotic curse/nuke build with blood rip as the main nuke. The new node in the tree that boost your spell power for casting it is really good. Also the bone curse is really powerful.

[@omgeeze]

thank you, def helped me customize my build to be more sustainable for monoliths

[@Meoang]

I've been looking for a lich build with wandering spirits and this looks pretty fun. Thanks for the guide.

[@Tenkiei]

You're welcome!

[@daethe]

You should pull those extra points in Wandering Spirits and put them in Drained Will, shredding the necrotic resistance should increase the damage a ton.

[@Ahzathoth]

Which skills specifically would you reallocate and why? I cant seem to get 5-7 points out to make effective/max the shred without compromising the play style.

[@daethe]

@@Ahzathoth Per the video, they're the extra points, I have no idea currently, this was five months ago. I haven't played in probably five months.

[@Ahzathoth]

@@daethe NP, ty for the response :)

[@insanityplea5502]

The only reason I liked my early build necros more is mainly cause its stupidly forgiving. You can Army Necro and just use Dread Shade as your only non-summon skill and it still works. Maybe not to a high corruption but for early-mid mono farming to get some gear/shards/runes/money to support a solid build meta next character. I mean, its not exactly hard to have your necro loot filter, get geared enough and feel satisfied then switch to another loot filter. Specially if your goal is a beastly lich or something. I just have bad feels on Lich cause I came back from not playing just as they nerfed like every lich build into the ground and not being someone that pays attention to crap like that, made a lich and got stuck on snake boss lady.

[@Reias85]

Playing a lich as my main, Started with this build but transitioned into a rip blood build as with gear i personally feel it scales better and has a lot better damage :)

[@seapeajones]

I was speccing into poison as well on all my DoTs, but it seems weak with generic scaling. Might refocus entirely on necrotic. EDIT: I went lich because I like the DoT play style more than summoning an army (have so many Occultists in PoE).

[@zodiak6504]

Hey.. loving it. Love the Lich. It's my goto class :) but, I have to ask, since you are locking your lich form in low life via death shroud, why not take 'dance with death' passive instead of, say, 'crippling insight' ?? that triple damage at low life HAS to be a must have.. no ?

[@Zalldo]

Ok i'm totally new to this game so i'm wondering, how do you get summon skeletal mage with the lich mastery ? Afaik it is a necromancer skill isn't it ?

[@francisladouceur3819]

Same question haha?! Wtf

[@Zalldo]

@@francisladouceur3819 I found out that you can put point into any mastery tree (up to a certain point if you haven't selected said mastery) and so unlock some spells like skeletal mage.

[@francisladouceur3819]

​@@Zalldo ooooh ok! Thank you

[@Vadava_]

@Tenkiei I am new to Last Epoch, but vastly confused as to how you got Summon Skeletal Mage as a Lich?

[@laurentiu.f8804]

you can put 5 points in necro as well and thats how you unlock mages

[@jmbs9833]

Where do i find the passivetree after the Levelingprocess? What do you take first in the 3 Trees?... Same with the Skillprogression? Am i blind?

[@Steamrawrler]

Judging by your question are you even playing the same game lol? Wtf are you asking 😂

[@donnieblue420]

Dawg gotta take a minute and figure out what you're asking lol

[@nitketti4942]

Hey, can i have your loot filter for this build?

[@gabemaurer4969]

I just made a lich and doing something very similar, only going petless using drain life with the node that makes it not be a channel anymore, instead of skeletons and spirit plague instead of death seal. Not sure how viable it will be with no death seal but I'll have to see.

[@Redrum_ZA]

Any chance to upload this to like maxroll or any other website to easily acces?

[@btackett2]

I am running a similar build but I do not run channel on spirits due to the bug that freezes you in place. Fun build, need to figure out a better way to keep my pets alive though, they die sooo much

[@GoldenH4Z3]

Would you say rotmind is a good unique for this build?

[@somedude1324]

Lich just looks cool

[@SpudNug69]

Yeah, shame it's been trash for at least a year

[@w1ldcard1986]

@@SpudNug69 why?

[@dojyr3130]

Are you able to play this build without being visually stuck in the reaper form the entire time?

[@Allthenameable]

why isnt the planner in the description?

[@Tenkiei]

explained in the video.

[@johnjackson1765]

is there a link for the endgame build?

[@chuck8042]

Hello its the guy who though lich was dogshit from your last video lol. Is in it better to have the node that cast only 1 hungering souls because of the node in death seal that makes it 70% chance that its only cast once? Also im using kinda the same build but i have bone curse (which is converted to necrotic damage and is an area around me) and spirit plague instead of wandering spirit and the mages. Should i change bone curse for wandering spirit or change spirit plague for wandering spirit. Im thinking of adding the mages but not specializing them and just putting them in a slot instead of im hungering souls because i never cast them manually. What do you think?

[@ZulSad0]

Mind to share your build? I’m kinda tired of using wandering spirits on every build for lich..

[@chuck8042]

@@ZulSad0 My build WAS using bone curse with physical converted to necrotic with an aura around me instead of casting but i tried with wandering spirit and it does more DPS. Currently im using Reaper Form, Death Seal, Hungering souls, Wandering spirit, Spirit Plague and the basic skeleton skill. Yes, i have 6 skill. I dont specialize the skeleton (i use the basic skeleton not the mage) and put them in a skill slot so that i can still get the 3 minion buff to hungering soul which i cast only with the death seal node. This makes it that i can put spirit plague (you can put bone curse if you want). Idk if its going to be good for the long run i just got to empowered monliths. Also i dont use channel on wandering spirit cos i dont like to stand still.

[@stevenward4830]

Why didn't you take death knights?

[@drfrosty21]

Definitely going to try this build. One question though, have you tested how it performs when using Harvested Legions instead of the Mages to get 3 summons? This could potentially free up a skill slot if it's consistent enough.

[@Theevilrhino]

I have been running that set up and can confirm it’s pretty good. I pick up transplant instead of the mages and spec into the reaper form passive that puts reap and transplant on different cooldowns so I can just fly around maps. I will say that while leveling there are points where it felt kind of bad since when you start to hit level 40-50 the minions will die and throw off the unholy trinity but that’s a pretty limited by taking some of the passive nodes that give both you and your minions extra armor / life etc. For bosses I would recommend swapping transplant for skeletons since you should be fine with just reap and you’d rather have the unholy trinity always up

[@binocular2011]

What about the maxroll lich guide compared to this? Better or not?

[@ThePlazmaSkill]

Both builds - suxx. You should use bone curse(single target) ip blood\transpant\hung souls(big soul with trinity)\death seal skills. This build is good for clear and finish off bosses in 1-2 seconds.