The Marksman in Last Epoch is one of the best masteries for beginning players to choose, providing excellent damage and fantastic range. Here’s a complete build for Marksman, including skills, gear & gameplay tips.
Last Epoch’s levelling system has seen plenty of praise for its flexibility and intricacy. With each base class branching off into several Masteries, players can customize their character’s build in terms of passives, skills, even items are fair game to plan a build around.
The Marksman Mastery is one of the three choices available for Rogue players. Boasting some of best damage output in the game and perfect for group play, the Marksman is a first-rate pick for players looking to stomp through endgame content.
With a stat focus on Dexterity and Critical Strike Multipliers, the Marksman is a fast-paced build with a few elements to keep in mind. Here’s a complete build guide to follow, with skills, gear and gameplay tips.
Complete Last Epoch Marksman Guide
As with every class in Last Epoch, there’s many different ways to build a Marksman Rogue. Players can opt for low-mana builds focused on fast rotations and heavy procs, or elemental based builds which can demolish packs of mobs in a burst of fire or ice.
With the game’s first patch already live, there’s plenty of fun new builds emerging for players to try. One newer build which stands out pairs the unique longbow, Reign of Winter, with Blast Rain and Shift to provide maximum damage and maximum mobility in the field.
Check out the full guide for the Marksman Blast Rain build below.
Note: This guide is designed for a character level of at least 70 and will take players through Last Epoch’s endgame content. It requires the Reign of Winter longbow to be effective. This unique drops off Heorot in the Age of Winter Monolith Timeline.
Marksman Passive choices
Passives are abilities which influence each classes playstyle. Certain passives can provide better synergy with different Masteries and builds.
This Marksman build requires focus on nodes which boost Dexterity, Bow Attack Speed and Critical Strike Multiplier. The following tips are good advice for choosing passives which will synergize well with a build around Blast Rain.
- It’s essential to dip into Falconer for Raptor’s Wings to gain access to Explosive Trap and Blast Rain
- Draining Arrows and Perfect Aim will both be crucial, so spec points in the as early as possible
- Boost movement speed with options like Pursuit and Reflection
- Spec a point into Covering Fire to grant a Silver Shroud stack when Arrow Storm procs
Marksman Passive node point buy
The build for the Blast Rain Marksman dips into every Mastery available for Rogues. The point buy order listed below is the most efficient, but players can always customize the order to their own playstyle preferences.
| Passive | Points |
|---|---|
| Swift Assassin | 8 |
| Guile | 1 |
| Evasion | 1 |
| Agility | 5 |
| Evasion | 4 |
| Sapping Strikes | 1 |
| Raptor’s Wings | 5 |
| Sapping Strikes | 3 |
| Draining Arrows | 8 |
| Focus Fire | 1 |
| Assassin’s Quiver | 1 |
| Wound Maker | 1 |
| Concentration | 1 |
| Focus Fire | 7 |
| Meditation | 1 |
| Heightened Senses | 5 |
| Reflection | 4 |
| Arrow Storm | 1 |
| Covering Fire | 1 |
| Reflection | 1 |
| Sharpshooter | 4 |
| Barrage of Pain | 1 |
| Ethereal Arrows | 3 |
| Death From Afar | 5 |
| Perfect Aim | 5 |
| Ethereal Arrows | 7 |
| Barrage of Pain | 4 |
| Pursuit | 5 |
| Cloak of Shadows | 8 |
| Dodge and Parry | 5 |
| Steady Hand | 6 |
Last Epoch Marksman skills and tree breakdown
A Blast Rain Marksman works best from range. The build is designed to bring down enemies from afar and provide survivability and swift escapes in a pinch. It utilizes Explosive Traps and Detonating Arrows to deadly effect to take down mobs at range, while using Shift, Smoke Bomb and Shurikens to provide plenty of mobility.
Explosive Trap
Specing Blast Rain is obviously a core feature of the build. Blast Rain allows the Marksman fire traps with their bow attack, letting players rain down death from above.
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Picking both Static Mines and Coldsnap Mines adds additional elemental damage to explosive traps. A few points in Jelkhor’s Blueprint will help keep mana costs reduced too.
Detonating Arrow
The Blast Rain Marksman build is designed to use Explosive Trap to proc Detonating Arrow. Look at taking points in nodes like Suckerpunch Arrow and Beastslayer Arrow for increased damage multipliers.
Options like Copper Dust Arrow and Weak Spot are good picks for adding some debuffs to the rotation.
Shift
Shift provides this build with plenty of mobility, allowing players to escape sticky situations or kite enemies easily.
Some points in Momentum will give the build even more speed, while Molting grants a cleanse to remove status effects, a great pick to improve survivability.
Smoke Bomb
Smoke Bomb functions as an extra way to close gaps quickly, as well as granting a few other benefits which gel nicely with the build. There’s a nice DoT option available from Concealed in Carnage. Players can also spec Cleansing Steam for another way to clear status effects.
Shurikens
Shurikens is a great skill tree for this build. It provides a boost to armor thanks to Bladed Armor and another swift escape thanks to Acrobatics. Plus, as Shurikens will proc every time Shift is used, it gives a nice bonus to damage when leaping into the fray.
Marksman gear and stat priority guide
As mentioned earlier, Marksman’s most important stats are Dexterity, Endurance, Attack Speed and Critical Strike Multipliers. As always capping out resistances is worthwhile, as well as buffs to Movement Speed.
A safe approach to take when gearing a Blast Rain Marksman is to keep any eye out for drops with the following modifiers.
- Dexterity (aim to buff it to 100)
- Endurance (aim to max this stat out too)
- Glancing Blow
- Capping out Resistances
- Capping out Critical Strike Avoidance
- Movement Speed
- Damage Multipliers
- + Skill Level Affixes
This entire build is designed to work with the Reign of Winter bow to ensure maximum procs for Blast Rain damage and add some bonus cold from the longbow’s Icicle attack. Another piece of Unique gear players should consider working towards is Prism Wraps with Legendary Potential. This provides a nice Skill bonus to Explosive Trap, and allows players to max out more nodes than 20.
In terms of Idols, Large Idols which provide boosts to Health and Elemental Resistances are good picks for this build.