TOP 5 BEST BUILDS OF CYCLE 1 | Last Epoch 1.0

In this video we recap the best builds of cycle 1 and highlight the brilliant minds behind these builds - please show the creators some love!
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1. Ghostflame by ‪@Skurge‬
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2. DA Marksman by ‪@Viettzz‬
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3. Frost Claw Runemaster
‪@FrozenSentinel‬
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‪@Cheez_Official‬
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‪@BinaQc‬
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‪@MacinBrzeski‬
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4. Static Orb by ‪@chunkypapa‬
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5. Healing Hands by ‪@colewalker5499‬
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6. Dive Bomb Falconer
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7. Wraithlord by ‪@MinMaxRPG‬
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00:00 - INTRO
00:24 - BUILD 1
02:15 - BUILD 2
04:08 - BUILD 3
06:06 - BUILD 4
08:16 - BUILD 5
10:50 - HONORABLE MENTIONS - BUILD 1
12:04 - HONORABLE MENTIONS - BUILD 2
12:37 - OUTRO
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[@FrozenSentinel]

Be sure to check out all the brilliant build creators in the description - What do you think will be the winners of Cycle 2?

[@edd2811]

Solo crab minion is new meta.

[@FrozenSentinel]

crab people!

[@russelljackson8153]

Frostclaw is probably my favorite build in any game ever - and thank you for helping me getting it up and running.

[@FrozenSentinel]

Absolutely! :)

[@ishouldtestit8904]

yeah it was great! already fell in love with the game thanks to this great build.

[@slugybrick3600]

Healing hands is dead. one of the BIGGEST NERFS is not mentioned anywhere in the patch notes. did they just forget, or maybe hope nobody saw it?

[@FrozenSentinel]

I think there was some multiplier nerf someone found in the planner not in the notes

[@Andre_vyent]

omg that was my main last cycle

[@cichybob763]

U mean divine build? Fck i just level one to 70 on SP :(

[@ddartx]

Great video man!

[@ishouldtestit8904]

great selection ;) thx!

[@Soundwave299]

I’m loving Rogue as a bleed build. I was hitting 90 bleed stacks in 3 sec by lvl 35. Tons of fun

[@Adanoft]

I will start the Cycle with a Fireball Mage. Paired with Arcane ascendant autocasting Lightning Blast. The buffs for Lightning Fireball and sorcerer looks nice.

[@minhphuoc22]

When i saw the thumbnail, i immediately thought about the healing hand build properly the same one i've seen from perry months ago. That setup was so fun to play, fast clear, tanky, lazy all in one.

[@FrozenSentinel]

HH was so crazy this season!

[@CubaSmileSauce]

Great content, great voice! Keep doing your thing young blood

[@FrozenSentinel]

Haha this is me with a throat infection lol - I sound pretty raspy

[@clprinceton]

Ooh i mainly used immortal frost claw build from someone named frostduke something something. It was excellent. Planning to use wraithlord next cycle depends on the balance changes

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yea I heard that guy had a good build :)

[@kamm3021]

🛑 Also about Wraithlord, all credit to david harbour for that unique existence, they made it for him apparently + you're showing a weaker version, a refined version can instantly kill T4 julra and go beyond 3000+ corruption easily

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yea I was looking for better footage, that's fair. I'm not versed in necro builds unfortunately.

[@impatientimp3292]

Just take Skurge's Ghostflame setup and combine it with Wraithlord's DPS(up to 11-12 mobs killed per second). Even better next patch with the mana regen while channeling buffs, altough you won't 1 shot bosses anymore by sacrificing 50 zombies.

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yea if that build could do more damage while being immortal it would definitely be #1

[@lizard_irl]

For sure not nerfed in 1.1!

[@lizard_irl]

Oh boy… 👀😵‍💫The nostalgia 👀🫣

[@FrozenSentinel]

Hey Lizard! Haha yea, some fun was had cooking up builds this season

[@luquiorra7490]

Hi! So ur frostclaw runemaster wont survive this cycle? Any ideas about best builds for start at new cycle?

[@FrozenSentinel]

It might, we don't know yet. I'm leaning on not in it's current state, there may be a new way to play it though.

[@heyyoo8435]

im sure youve seen the patch note by now, do you think the frostclaw build will still be viable?

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yep it's s-tier still, check my latest video!

[@keithwinget6521]

I call that first one teflon warlock, because nothing sticks to you, and those boots sounds a little like that. I played a version of it that used the interaction between Cthonic Fissure's Return Below and Infernal Shade's Combustion to machine gun Infernal Shade detonations. Trouble is, the interaction was buggy and didn't always work. It's still not fixed. Would have been insane if it had been consistent.

[@SmexerP]

do you think frost claw runemaster will remain a top build or do you think they ll butcher it and make it unplayable for example by upping the mana cost etc?

[@ddartx]

They will probably increase FC mana cost

[@REIwAlexY]

@@ddartx and ward is getting hit as well so that's def AND off hit

[@FrozenSentinel]

I feel like Frost Claw will still be "good" in one form or another, it's just mechanically strong. Depending on how that new spark charge node in sorc tree ends up working there might be a oneshot Frost Claw build possibility, very excited for that.

[@SmexerP]

@@FrozenSentineli wanna use frostclaw as my league starter but if its trash ill have wasted my time into a gutted build. i just hope they didnt destroy ones ability to climb high corruption, id like to be able to get to 1k at least.

[@ddartx]

@@SmexerP I don't think it will become trash, even with the ward nerf the build does lots of dmg, if they nerf spark charges they kill every other build that uses it, if they nerf nova directly they kill other possibilities, I would guess they nerf FC elemental nova proc and FC mana cost that could potentially bring the build way down without killing it and people might have to rely way more into mana management

[@SinfulGFX]

The StarCraft music is making me want to go back and play it some more.

[@max417481]

Is this list both for cof and market?

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yea

[@prapulkrishna]

I’d like to see a decent Bow build. I wish multishot was stronger. Hopefully new cycle gives some flexibility for ranged marksman builds.

[@he11gun]

Is divebomb falconer still viable?

[@FrozenSentinel]

It should be, yea

[@nerdedkyle3515]

Detonating arrow was so amazing

[@FrozenSentinel]

rip

[@HTeeB]

After the patch notes do we think the Sentinel Divine Bolts/Healing Hands is still top tier?

[@FrozenSentinel]

Tbh I am not 100% sure, pretty big hits. You may want to ask ColeClass in the official discord

[@elwenlie]

Do you think it will stronger Warlock or Healing Hands Paladin overall on cycle 1 ?

[@FrozenSentinel]

In Cycle one I feel like HH paladin was way stronger, the warlock didn't do nearly as much damage

[@elwenlie]

@@FrozenSentinel what about on Harbinger cycle ?

[@FrozenSentinel]

We wont know until patch notes hopefully later today

[@ps6015]

Which build will still work in 1.1 ? I've stopped playing Last Epoch during early access like 2 years ago so everything is kinda new for me xD

[@FrozenSentinel]

Patch notes today (probably) so stay tuned for that

[@Kazyek]

Good stuff! Sad there weren't any giga-great Primalist build this time around. Best I've seen are dr3adful's storm werebear and Cookbook's Scorpion build, but they both are a step below these builds I believe.

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yea, hoping we seem some big stuff next season, Avalanche maybe

[@Andre_vyent]

dreadfull doesnt have decent builds

[@profentiex1529]

Does all of this build survives on 1.1? or we don't know yet until 1.1 releases for patch notes?

[@GerdionXT]

Ward will be more balanced - It will go down faster if u have more than 10k - so no more crazy ward stacking but if they want us to play more melee builds they need to fix hit boxs

[@FrozenSentinel]

We should get patch notes today (hopefully) - I expect FC to get a heavy nerf to mana sustain and possibly the nova AoE working on trigger. Also possible Runemaster nerfs in general, and also nerfs to ward sustain (confirmed). There may be new FC options though. I know much less about the other builds. DA Marksman probably nerfed.

[@profentiex1529]

@@FrozenSentinel I see, thanks for the info!😄. I'm trying to find some cool builds that can viable on 1.1. I guess I'll wait for now until the patch notes comes out.

[@Torg7520]

Do we know yet which (if any) of these will survive into 1.1?

[@FrozenSentinel]

We just got patch notes, we can do the math but will need to see exactly how it feels. mostly numeric changes

[@EdgeOfEclipse]

about Da bug - its all about Copper Dust Arrow node, -20 res PER arrow on target

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yea I remember mcfluffin made a video on that a while ago, crazy stuff

[@EdgeOfEclipse]

@@FrozenSentinel even when EGH will fix bug this build will be strong af still, 10 lightning shred, 10 shock, 300-400 armor shred stacks, maybe not 7-8k+ corruption but few thousands for sure

[@davidbalo542]

Any idea with which build you gonna start?

[@FrozenSentinel]

none yet! Waiting for patch notes. Sorc and Avalanche both excite me

[@davidbalo542]

@@FrozenSentinel Yooo I’m in the same dilemma!!but in my opinion Sorc(meteor)could have fast map clear and boss killing than the avalanche

[@FrozenSentinel]

I'm pretty skeptical on meteor, maybe late game once you can get the mana stack tech going, who knows though until patch notes

[@davidbalo542]

@@FrozenSentinel I’m gonna wait until you post a build so I can follow your build this season!last season you made an amazing mage that unfortunately I didn’t build…

[@brokapotato5066]

when update?

[@FrozenSentinel]

July 9

[@waldiingsurrender1971]

Excuse me, healing hands was nerfed, is it still playable? (why voidknight instead of paladin) Im newbie from PoE, want's to know what am i doing, that's why i asked

[@FrozenSentinel]

HH should still be usable but im not sure about this form of it specifically, I didn’t personally play it in 1.0

[@waldiingsurrender1971]

@@FrozenSentinelmaybe try to play paladin? must be easier and tankier?

[@FrozenSentinel]

@@waldiingsurrender1971 I think so, Cole would be the expert on this though

[@waldiingsurrender1971]

@@FrozenSentinel how can i find his channel?

[@FrozenSentinel]

@@waldiingsurrender1971 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGjKc3tvjZqjr80

[@BetonPunk]

sub and like for starcraft music ;D

[@vazzeee]

Ward is going to get a rebalance and won't be this OP, right? Probably gonna change the meta, also the Ban Hammer is gonna fall on some of them :D

[@FrozenSentinel]

General ward changes have been published in the QoL blog post, I made a video on that. There will be additional changes to specific ward abusing builds

[@danjones3085]

Which sentinel class is best to play for the healing hands build?

[@FrozenSentinel]

not sure for 1.1 with the changes tbh

[@kamm3021]

🛑 About Nova Frostclaw credit to Macin Brzeski & SMK for the initial build conception. It was first constructed by them SMK even has footage of it in Last epoch beta way back Then other creators introduced it to the public then other creators & u started to refine it to what it is today

[@FrozenSentinel]

I did credit Macin for his work in 1.0 in the description, but versions of this went back before 1.0 and were theory crafted since the skill came out, the 1.0 patch just made it way way better and fixed the mana sustain. I couldn't really name any one person.

[@kamm3021]

I did check the description and saw your name above the video link I thought it was a self credit lol, yeah the video belongs to Macin 👍🏻

[@FrozenSentinel]

oops that was a mistake, I linked his video twice. I meant to credit macin, myself, retribution gaming, and bina for the contributions to Frost Claw

[@colewalker5499]

Can confirm. Build 5 is good.

[@FrozenSentinel]

Thanks for sharing it :)

[@maximou3887]

Hey, I was wondering which version is the strongest Paladin HH or Void Knight version with two 1h weapons?

[@colewalker5499]

@@maximou3887 VK most damage and fastest mono clears. FG Better in arena and surviving bosses. Paladin Probably better with a ranged divine bolt build but it’s close.

[@KingOppTre]

after seeing patch notes do you still think it's top tier for cycle start or something better to switch to later?

[@colewalker5499]

@@KingOppTre Substantially nerfed damage and ward. I would say this is one of the slowest for cycle starters.

[@mankindscraft4917]

is DA Marksman still alive mate?

[@mankindscraft4917]

and how cost is it?

[@FrozenSentinel]

No idea, I don't have much insight into that build

[@LordNerfherder]

Things like the stunlock will obviously be nerfed.

[@FrozenSentinel]

They mentioned a stun duration cap on bosses in a past blog post but it wasn't in the patch notes, at least not when I first looked at them, maybe they missed it initially

[@reLOAD24]

Man its nerfed a lot of skills got nerf also your second build marksman

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yea this was just a review of 1.0, the marksman is supposedly still fairly strong after nerfs

[@user-ne2zx3nd2k]

You forgot the most broken build by far - exploding ballistas. First people to reach 2,3,4,5,6 and 7k were all exploding ballistas and only when season died and all ballistas quited after the nerf, after a month of them doing so that 8k guy slowly reached 7 and then 8k, when nobody is already playing for a month.

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yea it was broken, it was bugfixed fairly early on though. otherwise i could have included the profane veil abusers too

[@babyappa1122]

When is Beastmaster gonna have a good build :(

[@FrozenSentinel]

It did! Cookbook put together a very strong one, Dr3ad highlighted it on his channel

[@Dr3adful]

See I had planned to make a video like this recently, and went and did research and 2 out of 5 of them at least were bugged and I usually don't make videos on bugged builds, good that someone else did it instead.

[@FrozenSentinel]

Honestly I feel like every day I find out something that I previously thought was intended is actually a bug. Eg. the Frost Claw Gift of Winter thing; It seems to work according to the description but apparently this is a bug. Also the trigger bypass thing, it's been around for so long and been widely known for so long, apparently also a bug (this one makes sense at least). The only build on this list I personally considered "bugged" is the DA Marksman, this has nodes causing it to do something like 100x more damage than intended, the rest have "bugs" but definitely are small peanuts compared to DA or the old profane veil thing that got patched.

[@Dr3adful]

@@FrozenSentinel i am convinced that we are being gaslit. Totally not conspiracy theory at all

[@SithLordBishop]

Do the other 3

[@ms0099rg]

I like this game … but playing with friends made me quit. Hopefully this fix it

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yea multiplayer isn't great, hopefully it improves

[@TheKozary]

look at us when we get old and decrepit sitting down playing ez pz games holding E like our life depends on it. I myself heavily relate to your direction in gaming.

[@FrozenSentinel]

Ayyyy long time no see, how have you been, what are you playin these days. Absolutely gone are my FPS days :)

[@TheKozary]

@@FrozenSentinel been pretty sick but unrelated to my relentless alcohol abuse and living hard n fast. Good to see you are still alive and kicking Just playing coop or 2v2 games with a mix of single players generally whatever i can get away with being a "toxic aussie" in. Just dropped CSGO couple years ago after vax raped me.

[@FrozenSentinel]

@@TheKozary sorry to hear that, yeah us folks aren't getting any younger. We seniors of the gaming community now. I think that's just the way of things, less need to constantly be competitive, probably not a bad thing lol. Never change my guy :)

[@MrTr4d3r]

Build 4 unplayable now..

[@FrozenSentinel]

Why, what changed?

[@MrTr4d3r]

@@FrozenSentinel cooldown on wall? Or I Miss something 😁

[@FrozenSentinel]

not sure that this matters that much, would need to ask chunky

[@MrTr4d3r]

@@FrozenSentinel u can't spam the wall, so maybe the mobility is cancel.. or is there any tips for cancel the cdr?

[@Thorkou]

Ill be honest all of those builds just look so boring to me... Its sad that builds like lightning wolfs, lightning spell blade, lightning shaman just cant even compete with these builds... lightning in gerneral is always overshadowed.. except for orbs which is my least favorite lightning skill lol.

[@FrozenSentinel]

lightning frost claw :D

[@cashandraven2369]

You're showing OLD values on Ghostflame and not taking into account the mana changes, so this guide is spreading lies.

[@FrozenSentinel]

I think you misinterpreted the point of the video. This is not a "guide" nor is it a suggestion on 1.1 builds, I am simply highlighting the builds that were strongest in 1.0

[@xxxxdddddss]

so which of these are nerfed?

[@FrozenSentinel]

All of them, most are still playable / still strong though, or have similar alternatives