I really like your build videos. The first part is always fantastic, because you give a birds-eye view of how the build works and comes together before going into the details. I wouldn't even mind to have another short gameplay clip at the end after having understood the build in detail. What's nice about your build is how Spriggan Form and Entangling Roots are not only used for the Rage sustain, but also for armor and damage. It feels nice to have two (or more) purposes for a skill or node.
Thanks man I picked up that build and I am already lvl 70, so much fun to play, I had a pair of Eterra's Path lying around and still using them, they do a lot to keep my rage full.
Congrats on dropping the Omnis! Have not seen it for ages haha. We can also use Kermode's Cage armor to be a polar bear (especially legendary version)!
Great build! Though I'm more following Perry's set up. I dont find much point in mucking around with Thorn Totem. The weird thing with this build is how underwhelming the floating dot numbers are, yet everything melts lol
Ty for making me aware about the spriggan form nodes working in other shapes. Gonna try to make a werebear vine summoner build with wild command :). 200% inc minion damage -that stacks- on maul seems kind of nuts. Especially when it has 8 sec duration. And leaping strike has a similar node for 100% global dmg.
I tried this but encountered issues. Not sure if these are intended or bugs. 1. Seeds don't summon vines as often and unlike directly summoning vines that makes new vines replacing old vines, this doesn't seem to be the case for vines from entangling root. Nothing will happen to the seeds when you already have max vines summoned, need to wait until one of them expire before new ones can be summoned. 2. I thought vines has 100% summon chance when seeds get bursted but this is not the case. I have nectar of rejuvenation and when I walk over 3 seeds, only 1 of them becomes vines. 3. Frenzying thorns node of entangling vines doesn't seem to work at all on existing vines.
@@trankhanhnong8993 Great Vine limits ALL non direct casts of vines to 1 per every 3 casts, the way to make this work is without great vines. What I'm doing is ignoring the seeds, I'm using fury leap with rise/poisonous thicket -that's 6 vines per maul, at a 2.6-2.7 cd-. Also the best way to go vines imo is ignoring the frost conversion node, it's a trap tbh. It's much easier stacking phys dmg. My build uses fury leap, werebear, spriggan form, summon spriggan, and I'll be getting entangling roots with the minion support later; +50 added minion phys dmg for 8s is nuts with wild command stacking, and the 15 adaptive from spriggan companion aura.
@@Paroxy88 I on the other hand use the vines to stack poison though. Does the 200% minion damage affect poison damage too? And why do you think the frost conversion is a trap? I believe dev fixed this node in 0.8.4b no?
I realy like the play stile of the build ! But because i'm new to epoch i find it hard to picture what the best affixes and bases are for the gear. Can you say what optimal gear would look like?
Game functionality Q: what reason would there be for Entangling Roots not proccing every timefrom my Maul? It's not common, but I have noticed it on multiple occasions. Also, are there reasonable workarounds for no leech blessing (guessing not, but figured I would ask after hours and no drop). Greatly enjoying the build.
Hey! coming to LE during the holidays from poe/grim dawn. I wanted to play werebear and this looks SICK! Im going to play hardcore, you think this is viable if tweaked a little for more defenses?
Yeah just throw on a shield and you'll be cruising in HC. Make sure to pick up an Avarice for the 3% elemental damage leech (its a quest reward unique in the first act, look up last epoch build planner to see where you get it) and that will serve you until you get the spell damage leech from Rayeh.
Great guide a couple questions. Since they fixed swipe do you think a 2 hander would be better to avoid the %damage taken? Also what skills would you use for leveling before this build becomes viable? Thanks!
I would go with a 1h and a shield if you are not going to dual wield, because the attack speed % on your 1h sceptre too great. I would just level it as upheaval till level 40+
Hey~ Cool build man~ few questins. Is swipe cold damage or physical damage so? i put attack speed and dot damage on Tempest Maw, now which one should i get more among critical things, cold damage, dot damage, physical damage?
maelstrom's tags are cold, damage over time, spell. So elemental damage over time is your perfect setup. Attack speed and dot damage on a tempest maw is perfect.
@@Dr3adful yeah man im happy with that. Other questions, on maelstrom tree, 1% spell damage per strength doesnt look worth. 85 strength is just 85% increased spell damage only for maelstrom. so on prefix other options look better than str dont u think? and dot damage option affect both circlr damage and dot damage? or only for dot? how about cold damage option? sorry for many questions
Why is the build in this video VERY different from the "Build Planner" version on lastepochtools? Is this outdated? Or is the build planner version outdated? You don't specify anywhere, at all.
Because between when I made the build and made the video and when I uploaded it, I played more and made some changes because the version in the planner is better.
Hi there. Noob here .. what is the order of filling out the passives? Primalist 30 then master druid (no points yet) then Shaman 10 then Beastmaster 22 and then start filling druid? And any tips how to level a druid? Thanks in advance. The build looks great.
I am running a very similar build, but I have hard times to actually find a good 1H weapon for it... crosschecking the damage output of my abilities when switching all kinds of weapons, it looks like a 2H polearm with base melee cold damage and melee cold damage as a prefix gives me the highest damage output so I am not entirely sure why Scepters are supposed to be the best weapons for this build.. is there any hidden reason why a 1H scepter + shield work better than a 2H polearm/weapon? (1st timer here in Last Epoch - just trying to figure things out)
I know I'm probably being very thick but why are the skill trees that you are fully explaining different to the skills that are on your q,w,e,r and when I went to the build planner it was different again.
thats because of werebear form. When you swap forms it will show different versions of the same skills, like Warcy is Roar and Swipe is Swipe but with different art etc. Its just something with Werebear you will get used to
How do you generate maelstrom stack so fast? I play a similar build (spriggan form thorn shield proc maelstrom at 45% chance) but maelstrom generates nowhere at fast as you and often drops below 6 stacks. And it feels super unfair that only werebear has easy access to warcry that gives 4 stacks every cast.
How rare is that chance to summon thorn totem idol. I am level 77 and have yet to see one. I don't see anything in your loot filter that would cause it to be filtered out. Guessing just RNG gods hate me?
i also dont understand how to have an active totem while in werebear form? why spec into the shaman tree for spell dmg and attack speed while totem is active if i cant cast totem and then get back into bear form in time?
I really like your build videos. The first part is always fantastic, because you give a birds-eye view of how the build works and comes together before going into the details. I wouldn't even mind to have another short gameplay clip at the end after having understood the build in detail.
What's nice about your build is how Spriggan Form and Entangling Roots are not only used for the Rage sustain, but also for armor and damage. It feels nice to have two (or more) purposes for a skill or node.
Really cool build, I think this is my favourite build I've seen so far from this patch. I'll for sure play it, thanks for sharing.
any time! I really enjoyed it too!
I'm running your build for my first entry in Last EPoch, just got my bearform and I'm rocking right now ;.)
Heck ya!
Thanks man I picked up that build and I am already lvl 70, so much fun to play, I had a pair of Eterra's Path lying around and still using them, they do a lot to keep my rage full.
100% this
Thanks for the build. Absolutely slaps
Congrats on dropping the Omnis! Have not seen it for ages haha. We can also use Kermode's Cage armor to be a polar bear (especially legendary version)!
Timber nailed... Good build.
Great build! Though I'm more following Perry's set up. I dont find much point in mucking around with Thorn Totem. The weird thing with this build is how underwhelming the floating dot numbers are, yet everything melts lol
Ty for making me aware about the spriggan form nodes working in other shapes. Gonna try to make a werebear vine summoner build with wild command :). 200% inc minion damage -that stacks- on maul seems kind of nuts. Especially when it has 8 sec duration. And leaping strike has a similar node for 100% global dmg.
I tried this but encountered issues. Not sure if these are intended or bugs.
1. Seeds don't summon vines as often and unlike directly summoning vines that makes new vines replacing old vines, this doesn't seem to be the case for vines from entangling root. Nothing will happen to the seeds when you already have max vines summoned, need to wait until one of them expire before new ones can be summoned.
2. I thought vines has 100% summon chance when seeds get bursted but this is not the case. I have nectar of rejuvenation and when I walk over 3 seeds, only 1 of them becomes vines.
3. Frenzying thorns node of entangling vines doesn't seem to work at all on existing vines.
@@trankhanhnong8993 Great Vine limits ALL non direct casts of vines to 1 per every 3 casts, the way to make this work is without great vines.
What I'm doing is ignoring the seeds, I'm using fury leap with rise/poisonous thicket -that's 6 vines per maul, at a 2.6-2.7 cd-.
Also the best way to go vines imo is ignoring the frost conversion node, it's a trap tbh. It's much easier stacking phys dmg. My build uses fury leap, werebear, spriggan form, summon spriggan, and I'll be getting entangling roots with the minion support later; +50 added minion phys dmg for 8s is nuts with wild command stacking, and the 15 adaptive from spriggan companion aura.
@@Paroxy88 I on the other hand use the vines to stack poison though. Does the 200% minion damage affect poison damage too?
And why do you think the frost conversion is a trap? I believe dev fixed this node in 0.8.4b no?
I realy like the play stile of the build ! But because i'm new to epoch i find it hard to picture what the best affixes and bases are for the gear. Can you say what optimal gear would look like?
One thing I don't get is why you use spriggan form at all? rage regeneration is no problem at all without it
Game functionality Q: what reason would there be for Entangling Roots not proccing every timefrom my Maul? It's not common, but I have noticed it on multiple occasions. Also, are there reasonable workarounds for no leech blessing (guessing not, but figured I would ask after hours and no drop). Greatly enjoying the build.
mana. If you dont have enough mana entangling roots wont drop. Bleeding Heart or Avarice are replacement.s
Hey! coming to LE during the holidays from poe/grim dawn. I wanted to play werebear and this looks SICK! Im going to play hardcore, you think this is viable if tweaked a little for more defenses?
Yeah just throw on a shield and you'll be cruising in HC. Make sure to pick up an Avarice for the 3% elemental damage leech (its a quest reward unique in the first act, look up last epoch build planner to see where you get it) and that will serve you until you get the spell damage leech from Rayeh.
lmao think 'warning! loot filter is all over the place' was an understatement :D nice build tho
Yo Dr3ad! Does spriggan form still work globally? I dont see it saying so in tooltips? Is the build is up to date ? Or do u have to tune it?
it does still work globally. I have another video I uploaded recently that update this version sir
@@Dr3adful My man, you're a legend and holy moly you answered real fast!
Great guide a couple questions. Since they fixed swipe do you think a 2 hander would be better to avoid the %damage taken? Also what skills would you use for leveling before this build becomes viable? Thanks!
I would go with a 1h and a shield if you are not going to dual wield, because the attack speed % on your 1h sceptre too great. I would just level it as upheaval till level 40+
can you start building toward this or do you need anything or a specific level before you swap to Cold DoT?
So is the idol how you are generating the totems? cause I see all the buffs for a totem out, but not how to get one out
Thorn Totem On Hit Idols
Does wetebear melee attacks count as physical damage so if u wanted to scale it a bit?
Hey~ Cool build man~ few questins. Is swipe cold damage or physical damage so? i put attack speed and dot damage on Tempest Maw, now which one should i get more among critical things, cold damage, dot damage, physical damage?
maelstrom's tags are cold, damage over time, spell. So elemental damage over time is your perfect setup. Attack speed and dot damage on a tempest maw is perfect.
@@Dr3adful yeah man im happy with that. Other questions, on maelstrom tree, 1% spell damage per strength doesnt look worth. 85 strength is just 85% increased spell damage only for maelstrom. so on prefix other options look better than str dont u think? and dot damage option affect both circlr damage and dot damage? or only for dot? how about cold damage option? sorry for many questions
@@killer4360 that's 1 adaptive spell damage per strength. That's flat damage
@@Dr3adful oh its tooltip must be changed
Hello there, just to be sure what are the stats usefull here ? ty
Why is the build in this video VERY different from the "Build Planner" version on lastepochtools? Is this outdated? Or is the build planner version outdated? You don't specify anywhere, at all.
Because between when I made the build and made the video and when I uploaded it, I played more and made some changes because the version in the planner is better.
Hi there. Noob here .. what is the order of filling out the passives? Primalist 30 then master druid (no points yet) then Shaman 10 then Beastmaster 22 and then start filling druid? And any tips how to level a druid? Thanks in advance. The build looks great.
Beastmaster, then shaman, then druid
@@Dr3adful thanks for reaction 👍
@@Dr3adful would that mean I have to wait til getting into druid to get the werebear form?
Did maul get nerfed? When you maul it does an aoe. When I maul the entangling roots comes out in a cone.
you probably don't have the node allocated
hey dread I am playing this build and I am wondering why you have totem items in here. we dont use aa totem on this buid it looks like?
we get thorn totem on hit iolds so we get the extra 25% increased attack and cast speed on the bottom of shaman's tree.
@@Dr3adful where in the build doers it grant thron totem on hhit?
@@brandoncarter2624 on the idol slot. There is a thorn totem chance on hit idol.
@@Dr3adful bro your awesome as aalways!!!! Completely forgot to check the items
So how do you Proc Thorn Shield? I can't figure that out
So I am doing thorn shield when hit, in the base druid passive tree. Its just a free way of getting a bunch of free armor scaling.
@@Dr3adful i see, thanks!
Bear go brrrrrr
I am running a very similar build, but I have hard times to actually find a good 1H weapon for it... crosschecking the damage output of my abilities when switching all kinds of weapons, it looks like a 2H polearm with base melee cold damage and melee cold damage as a prefix gives me the highest damage output so I am not entirely sure why Scepters are supposed to be the best weapons for this build.. is there any hidden reason why a 1H scepter + shield work better than a 2H polearm/weapon?
(1st timer here in Last Epoch - just trying to figure things out)
I know I'm probably being very thick but why are the skill trees that you are fully explaining different to the skills that are on your q,w,e,r and when I went to the build planner it was different again.
thats because of werebear form. When you swap forms it will show different versions of the same skills, like Warcy is Roar and Swipe is Swipe but with different art etc. Its just something with Werebear you will get used to
How do you generate maelstrom stack so fast? I play a similar build (spriggan form thorn shield proc maelstrom at 45% chance) but maelstrom generates nowhere at fast as you and often drops below 6 stacks. And it feels super unfair that only werebear has easy access to warcry that gives 4 stacks every cast.
Because we are using swipe and scaling attack speed, which gives us access to more maelstrom
Is there skill i should use to help me level untill i can class swap?
Why do you have 0 poison resistance?
Because most poison effects can be dodged or ignored
How rare is that chance to summon thorn totem idol. I am level 77 and have yet to see one. I don't see anything in your loot filter that would cause it to be filtered out. Guessing just RNG gods hate me?
they are a little rare. But You dont need it to make the build work.
So whats the best way to lvl this ?
usually upheaval with the staff cold nodes, and swap to this at level 40-ish
@@Dr3adful Dont really know aht upheaval is but will look into it. Ty for quick reply and ty for good build :)
nvm i see the skill
Thorn shield, why?
thorn shields are a lot of armor
thats still good?
yes it is
@@Dr3adful TY!
i also dont understand how to have an active totem while in werebear form? why spec into the shaman tree for spell dmg and attack speed while totem is active if i cant cast totem and then get back into bear form in time?
PLZ can SOMEONE explain how placing the totem is in the rotation? thx epoch builds
Thorn totem on hit idols are how we get our totems. We smack stuff with Swipe and it summons them for us, like I explain in the video.
@@Dr3adful awesome thx 4 the fast answer. i correct my question... to "u said it in the video."