The Lich is one of the Acolyte's three Class Mastery options in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Last Epoch, capable of transforming into a Reaper Form that grants superior combat capabilities, but drains your health over time. This high-risk, high📖-reward playstyle𓂃 may not be suited for everyone, but that doesn't diminish its excellent clear speeds and survivability.

Compared to the Warlock, the Lich is a little more difficult to level with, but things even out in the endgame, and this ꧒build has the potential to be even faster than a Chthonic Fissure Warlock build, with the right setup. Below, we'll take a look at how to level a Lich through the campaign using Reaper Form and Death Seal.

Build Overview

This build combines the mobility gained from Transplant and Reap in Reaper Form with the damage of Death Seal, allowing you to speed through maps while blowing up packs. When Death Seal is on cooldown, we'll use Rip Blood for respectable damage and sustain. Bone Curse provides additional DPS and survivability in a large area, thanks to the Signet of Agony Specialization node.

With the Deadlock Specialization node for Death Seal, your health will automatically be set to 33 percent when you activate Death Seal, allowing you to immediately take advantage of the number of low-health bonuses we have, mainly in the Reaper Form tree.

However, this also means outside of Reaper Form, Death Seal is a death sentence, as you won't have the tankiness provided by Reaper Form to prevent you from dying. This also means that if you lose Reaper Form for any reason, you'll be a whole lot weaker, and may need to hang back for a few seconds until Reaper Form is ready again.

Transplant can also be used to help you evade danger when outside of Reaper Form, but be sure to get the Unholy Dominion node in the Reaper tree so that Reap and Transplant no longer share a cooldown. This will also provide a ton of extra mobility for getting between packs 🦄faster, making it easier to keep Reaper Form up.

Skills And Passives

The core of this build is the Lich Mastery skill, Reaper Form, as well as Death Seal, which doesn't unlock until you've put 30 points into the Lich Passive tree. This means untiꦫl then, you'll need to run a set of different skills.

Luckily, Rip Blood is the Acolyte's starting skill, and will be used for this build, so you can rely on that for the first section of the leveling process. Bone Curse and Transplant are also learned fairly early on, so you can get star🐎ted on leveling these Skills early in prepaꦜration for Reaper Form.

In Rip Blood's tree, focus on the Hemomancer and Arcane Absorption nodes to start, then move into the left side of the tree with Quenching and Mana Feast for better sustain. A few points in Thirst will also help with this. Eventually, you'll want to get the Rip Spirit node, as this will help Rip Blood scale with the rest of the build.

The Splatter and Eviscerate nodes are also important to pick up for extra AoE, but you can hold off on these until later. Especially hold off on Eviscerate, as the added Mana cos🥃t can make it more difficult to use Rip Blood for leꦚveling.

Once you get Reaper Form, the first Skill Specialization node you should get is Unholy Dominion, making it so Reap and Transplant no longer share a cooldown. Mobility is essential, especially early on, so that you can get between packs of monsters and leech their health to stay in Reaper Form.

From there, you'll want to pick up important damage nodes like Reaper's Curse and Rapid Destruction on the left side of the tree, then go for defensive nodes like Mistress of Decay, Soul Shroud, and Vile Shroud on the right side of the tree.

Finish off the tree by maxing out Death's Door, increasing Reap's damage while you're low on health. This node is only worth investing in once you have Death Seal and Deadlock active, however.

For Death Seal, start on the left side by maxing out Corrupted Consciousness, allowing you to unlock Mortal Pulse. Then, continue down this branch and get Desperate Shroud and Deadlock. On the right side of the tree, focus on getting the Doomcall node, as this will greatly scale Death Seal's damage, especially if you have the Marina's Lost Soul Unique.

In the rest of the tree, be sure to grab Tachycardia for even more damage.

Passive Tree

This build uses 20 points in the Acolyte passive tꦕree to unlock Lich, 10 poᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚints in the Warlock tree for some added Intelligence, and everything else in the Lich tree.

In the base Acolyte passive tree, during the leveling process, first put your points into Blood Aura and a few in Bone Aura.

If you're using Summon Skeletons during the leveling process, you can add a few points into Dark Rituals as well for added damage.

Once you have Lich unlocked, you'll want to respec your Acolyte tree so that you have eight out of eight points in Bone Aura and Forbidden Knowledge, and four points in Stolen Vitality or Blood Aura, depending on if you need more su⛦rvivabilℱity or damage, respectively.

In the Warlock tree, put five points into Soul Stealer, and the other five into Occultist's Mind. You can allocate these later, after getting the more important nodes 🤡in the Lic🌊h tree.

For the Lich tree, your first focus will be in the Dance with Death node, as this greatly boosts damage while below 35 percent health, which will be easy to maintain thanks to Deadlock. After that, Apocrypha and Grasp of Fate will get you to 20 points, at which point you can grab Unclosing Wounds and Crippling Insight.

For the rest of the tree, Deathbringer, Dark Guard, Clairvoyant Insight, and Ageless Ascetic are the most important damage-increasing nodes, while Three Plagues, Elixer of Death, and Soul Maw help with defense and sustain. Mind Over Body is also important, as it increases Intelligence and health drain, which helps keep your health low for Dance with Death.

Important Stats And Uniques

As you level this build, there are a few stats you'll want to be on the lookout for. Because of the high innate damage of the Reaper Form, Dance with Death, Death Seal, and Deadlock combo, you'll want to mainly focus on defensive stats to stay alive and in Reaper Form for longer.

That said, damage-boosting stats like Necrotic Damage and Cast Speed are always good, especially after you've unlocked the Rip Spirit node for Rip Blood. Here's how🎃 you should priorit൲ize your offensive stats on the gear you pick up throughout the campaign.

1. Necrotic Damage
2. Cast Speed
3. Intelligence
4. Critical Strike Chance
5. Critical Strike Multiplier
6. Necrotic Penetration
7. Armor Shred Chance

And here's how you should 𝓀prioritize defensive stats.

1. Health
2. Armor
3. Endurance
4. Leech
5. Intelligence

Uniques To Look Out For

While this build doesn't need much in the way of g🧜ear to get started, and doesn't rely on any ♏particular Uniques, there are a few that bring the build to the next level.

The Marina's Lost Soul Wand greatly increases Necrotic Spell Damage and Cast Speed, and inflicts you with Damned every time you cast a Spell, further scaling your damage thanks to the Doomcall node from Death Seal. Sinceꦯ Reaper Form and Rip Blood provide so much sustain, the Damned DoT is eওasily offset.

The Grimoire of Necrotic Elixirs is another great Unique that provides boosts to offense and defense when drinking a potion, and the Red Ring of Atlaria is another great defensive option that only gets better if you have over 180 total Attributes, which is easily achievable later on due to how much Inte﷽lligence we have built in꧋.

None of these Uniques are essential for the leveling process, but they will make things a lot smoother. If you happen to get a Rune of Ascendance, use it on a Wand first to try to get Marina's Lost Soul, as this will have the biggest impact on the build.

Unique boots like Advent of the Erased or Blood of the Exile are also good options to try for using a Rune of Ascendance, as these will provide increased Movement Speed, lettin❀g you move between packs faster and generally make it through the campaign quicker.