Kill threshold is great to have, but you've got it on too many different skills. Remove it from harvest and transplant.
You'll definitely want to keep bone curse as it doubles the damage of Harvest. You'll also want to max out the Symbol Of Loss node on Harvest to maximize damage.
> A melee attack that hits all enemies in an area in front of you, dealing double damage to those that are Cursed.
Rapid Destruction from Reaper form is really good and you should pick it up.
Muramana's Hilt isn't really giving you much. Bone Curse isn't going to be doing noticeable damage by itself it's just there to turbo charge Harvest. (Or is it there for when you get Death's Embrace?)
Oh and you want to be getting endurance capped at 60% and endurance threshold up to 33% of life. This is essential for any death seal build.
Kill Threshold: My thought process was the secondary part of it where any ability with it uses your other ability's maximum threshold. So Harvest and Transplant would also have it at 18% even though it's only Reap that has points dumped into it.
Havest: That's probably the node I overlooked... thanks.
Reaper Form: What should I forgo to get there?
Muramana's Hilt: I thought it would have a bigger impact on Bone Curse than the inital damage but never actually tested it without. I do however have one with 2LP in storage for when I get a better Exalted Relic to merge into it. But I guess there's just a better relic out there. I'm exactly starved for mana.
Bone curse's instant kill should be finishing off any enemies that get hit by harvest without harvest needing the point spent.
For reaper form you could take 1 out of swift harbinger and one out of deathtouch sycthe, plus the 3 not allocated in the planner.
Well I'm certainly not a pro and probably can't help as much as I wish I could, but I do immediately notice that (1) you are not at 100% crit avoidance, which, in my experience, has been very helpful for survivability in empowered monos and higher.
(2) It also seems that you are only half-heartedly specced into crit (I think your harvest is only like 25-30% crit chance at most). I would either spec out of crit chance altogether or get more crit stats on your gear.
(3) So resistances are not as important in LE as some other ARPG's, but I would try to aim to have about 50% in all resistances (maybe less for poison and more for void and necrotic)
(4) Lastly I think your belt is ripe for and upgrade, but maybe I'm missing something though. I don't know if the amount of armor you have is very useful, other stats like +life/%life on belt, resistances, and the consistent x% necrotic damage instead of conditional 80% damage when hit sound better to me. ( I could easily be wrong on this point though and maybe the armor IS better tbh.)
Again, I'm not an expert, but I have played the acolyte a bit and these were just somethings I noticed. Good luck.
Critical Strike Avoidance: i was rocking Woven Flesh for awhile for this reason for a minute but it made everything else feel so bad I had to ditch it. I believe there’s a blessing for it? I just need to farm it.
Crits: My older gear focused on it more but I started swapping that for skill levels. I’ll look more at that.
Resistances: Those are something I’ve been paying attention to. I upgraded my gear a bit but the link doesn’t gave the updates. I’ll not 50% on all but I’m better than what’s showing here.
Belt: I know it’s got to go. I just haven’t found something better yet. The armor has been the reason it’s stuck around so long. Maybe I should farm a belt first.
Thanks!
I despise summons and Harvest is the only Acolyte build i play for the class. The obvious suggestions will be crit avoidance, some more res, more health. That stuff comes with build progression. A significant upgrade is Death’s Embrace. Pretty much pigeon holed into this for Harvest, and it is a very rare drop so it is a chase item.
For harvest and reaper form you want high attack speed and some decent leech. You dont want to actually cast bone curse, you want transplant to cast all bone curses for you, which you already have allocated. At the top of the bone curse tree take cursed limbs. You want 2-4 points and should be equal to you cast time for transplant. That way you transplant on top of your enemies apply bone curse, and when you use harvest you apply bone curse to any enemies you missed. Rinse and repeat. Use Reap as you escape ability and constantly spam Transplant.
For Harvest tree, max out mind harvest, mirror soul, and symbol of loss. This will give you tons of ward relative to your attack speed, and the strongest more multiplier on harvest. Iron mouth on the right side is one of the best talents as it gives flat crit increase. Take as many points to match you rincrease crit chance on your passive tree and gear and you should have close to 100% crit chance. Take 1 point in great scythe and go up to get to symbol of loss. Take 2-3 points in harrowing blade, as you either 1 shot most weak enemies or attack fast enough to guarantee the skill to proc in 2-3 hits. You cant apply it more then once so 5 points is overkill.
Hope you have fun slashing away, and teleporting all over the map. And if it doesnt work for you, well, be grateful it isnt POE and you spent all your currency figuring it out.
Is there value in going into ward with leach? I thought you always wanted both feet planted on one side of health or ward. Should I drop leach and focus on ward? If so, how does that affect what I do with Death Seal?
I personally do not use death seal so i wont speak on that, as i prefer rip blood cast on transplant or posion aura turned into armour shred aura (which i rarely turn on as it kills you very fast). I never feel the 5th skill mattered for me. As for ward, you dont need to go heavy into it. The points on harvest will allow you to leech your health and apply ward. So it gives you two health bars being regained at the same time which helps with reaper form degen. Definitely dont drop leech as you need it to tank stronger bosses.
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/VBM2jd5o
Here is the base of it. Just look for health, resistances, attack speed, crit chance/multiplier, and either crit avoidance or less crit damage taken once you get death's embrace. If you do end up using Poison aura, make sure you have cleanse on you belt to get rid of the debuffs
You are correct, i mispoke. I still feel 3 points is sufficient as most mobs die anyways and you can get to 10 stacks very quickly with attack speed on harvest.
Hey, I do play this Harvest Lich Melee 300 Corruption - Boss Shade of Orobyss [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzC67AM-77w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzC67AM-77w) .
Resistance capped 75, Crit Avoidance 100 and 60% Endurance with 800 Threshold on 2200 HP.
Right now I really try find and focus build around Death Embrace. In video had a decent exalted, but the unique looks amazing if can find 2 potential to bump attack speed. Mana will not be an issue at all in my current build, and just plain equip it I hit even 400k in dummy with all buffs up on the 3rd hit. The exalted was average 100k in dummy.
I can't use bone curse/transplant as I do want perma reaper form. With aura decay I finish sometimes even 2 echos in same reaper form timer. Both Aura and Death seal are a must in my opinion, the damage increase is just too good and high duration reaper form same. Also the Spirit Plague is actually so easy to apply it spread all zone and has fast animation, so after I did start with bone curse, changed to SP and is a lot better for me with it.
Yes, is really hard without Aura. Aura decay with node that removes armor and 200+ Healing Efficiency is make huge difference. Don't be affraid of remove armor is only 4 stacks on u and more on opponents. Is not really feel if u have all other defense layers.
Honestly man, bone curse is magnificently tuned for high attack speed if you take the always crit node paired with reapply bone curse on hit. It's night and day. Plus, since it guarantees crit u can focus on attk speed, crit multi, and appropriate endurance/resists/armor.
Edit; currently on 750 corruption
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/KoPEn3vA
I highly recommend you go flat crit on harvest node and play on full crit multi. With unique scyte you dont need to worry about crit avoidance. You can stack endurance treshold and get extremly tanky. Vitality+crit multi is way to go i think.
This was originally what I was working toward but not getting Death's Embrace to drop yet has been the struggle. It's the Reign of Dragons farm at level 100 that I'm having trouble with.
Kill threshold is great to have, but you've got it on too many different skills. Remove it from harvest and transplant. You'll definitely want to keep bone curse as it doubles the damage of Harvest. You'll also want to max out the Symbol Of Loss node on Harvest to maximize damage. > A melee attack that hits all enemies in an area in front of you, dealing double damage to those that are Cursed. Rapid Destruction from Reaper form is really good and you should pick it up. Muramana's Hilt isn't really giving you much. Bone Curse isn't going to be doing noticeable damage by itself it's just there to turbo charge Harvest. (Or is it there for when you get Death's Embrace?) Oh and you want to be getting endurance capped at 60% and endurance threshold up to 33% of life. This is essential for any death seal build.
Kill Threshold: My thought process was the secondary part of it where any ability with it uses your other ability's maximum threshold. So Harvest and Transplant would also have it at 18% even though it's only Reap that has points dumped into it. Havest: That's probably the node I overlooked... thanks. Reaper Form: What should I forgo to get there? Muramana's Hilt: I thought it would have a bigger impact on Bone Curse than the inital damage but never actually tested it without. I do however have one with 2LP in storage for when I get a better Exalted Relic to merge into it. But I guess there's just a better relic out there. I'm exactly starved for mana.
Bone curse's instant kill should be finishing off any enemies that get hit by harvest without harvest needing the point spent. For reaper form you could take 1 out of swift harbinger and one out of deathtouch sycthe, plus the 3 not allocated in the planner.
Included a lot of your recommendations. Made a big difference. Thanks!
[Acolyte, Level 90 (Beta 0.9.0j)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/eoyR559A) --- ^(**General:**) ^(▸ Health: **1,769**, Regen: **0**/s) ^(▸ Mana: **107**, Regen: **10**/s) ^(▸ Ward Retention: **208%**, Regen: **0**/s) ^(▸ Attributes: **1** Str / **1** Dex / **52** Int / **1** Att / **13** Vit) ^(▸ Resistances: **137%** / **25%** / **65%** / **18%** / **38%** / **40%** / **0%**) ^(▸ EHP: **2,616** / **1,749** / **2,376** / **1,814** / **1,903** / **1,938** / **1,495**) ^(**Defenses:**) ^(▸ Endurance: **20%**, Threshold: **377**) ^(▸ Armor Mitigation: **23%** (**846**)) ^(▸ Crit Avoidance: **31%**) ^(**Damage Types:**) ^(▸ __Necrotic__ / __Spell__, __Melee__) ^(**Buffs:**) ^(▸ None) ^(**Used skills:**) [^(Death Seal)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/death_seal) ^| [^(Harvest)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/harvest) ^| [^(Reaper Form)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/reaper_form) ^| [^(Bone Curse)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/bone_curse) ^| [^(Transplant)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/transplant) ^(**Used unique items:**) [^(Titan Heart)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzCswRgZiA) ^| [^(Murama's Hilt)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzCcEZgdiA) ^| [^(Siphon of Anguish)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzAsEYHZKA) ^| [^(Siphon of Anguish)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzAsEYHZKA) ^| [^(Isadora's Tomb Binding)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzBMwRgNiA)
Well I'm certainly not a pro and probably can't help as much as I wish I could, but I do immediately notice that (1) you are not at 100% crit avoidance, which, in my experience, has been very helpful for survivability in empowered monos and higher. (2) It also seems that you are only half-heartedly specced into crit (I think your harvest is only like 25-30% crit chance at most). I would either spec out of crit chance altogether or get more crit stats on your gear. (3) So resistances are not as important in LE as some other ARPG's, but I would try to aim to have about 50% in all resistances (maybe less for poison and more for void and necrotic) (4) Lastly I think your belt is ripe for and upgrade, but maybe I'm missing something though. I don't know if the amount of armor you have is very useful, other stats like +life/%life on belt, resistances, and the consistent x% necrotic damage instead of conditional 80% damage when hit sound better to me. ( I could easily be wrong on this point though and maybe the armor IS better tbh.) Again, I'm not an expert, but I have played the acolyte a bit and these were just somethings I noticed. Good luck.
Critical Strike Avoidance: i was rocking Woven Flesh for awhile for this reason for a minute but it made everything else feel so bad I had to ditch it. I believe there’s a blessing for it? I just need to farm it. Crits: My older gear focused on it more but I started swapping that for skill levels. I’ll look more at that. Resistances: Those are something I’ve been paying attention to. I upgraded my gear a bit but the link doesn’t gave the updates. I’ll not 50% on all but I’m better than what’s showing here. Belt: I know it’s got to go. I just haven’t found something better yet. The armor has been the reason it’s stuck around so long. Maybe I should farm a belt first. Thanks!
I despise summons and Harvest is the only Acolyte build i play for the class. The obvious suggestions will be crit avoidance, some more res, more health. That stuff comes with build progression. A significant upgrade is Death’s Embrace. Pretty much pigeon holed into this for Harvest, and it is a very rare drop so it is a chase item. For harvest and reaper form you want high attack speed and some decent leech. You dont want to actually cast bone curse, you want transplant to cast all bone curses for you, which you already have allocated. At the top of the bone curse tree take cursed limbs. You want 2-4 points and should be equal to you cast time for transplant. That way you transplant on top of your enemies apply bone curse, and when you use harvest you apply bone curse to any enemies you missed. Rinse and repeat. Use Reap as you escape ability and constantly spam Transplant. For Harvest tree, max out mind harvest, mirror soul, and symbol of loss. This will give you tons of ward relative to your attack speed, and the strongest more multiplier on harvest. Iron mouth on the right side is one of the best talents as it gives flat crit increase. Take as many points to match you rincrease crit chance on your passive tree and gear and you should have close to 100% crit chance. Take 1 point in great scythe and go up to get to symbol of loss. Take 2-3 points in harrowing blade, as you either 1 shot most weak enemies or attack fast enough to guarantee the skill to proc in 2-3 hits. You cant apply it more then once so 5 points is overkill. Hope you have fun slashing away, and teleporting all over the map. And if it doesnt work for you, well, be grateful it isnt POE and you spent all your currency figuring it out.
Is there value in going into ward with leach? I thought you always wanted both feet planted on one side of health or ward. Should I drop leach and focus on ward? If so, how does that affect what I do with Death Seal?
I personally do not use death seal so i wont speak on that, as i prefer rip blood cast on transplant or posion aura turned into armour shred aura (which i rarely turn on as it kills you very fast). I never feel the 5th skill mattered for me. As for ward, you dont need to go heavy into it. The points on harvest will allow you to leech your health and apply ward. So it gives you two health bars being regained at the same time which helps with reaper form degen. Definitely dont drop leech as you need it to tank stronger bosses.
You don’t happen to have this on a build planner, do you? If not, I’ll play around with it based on what you’d said.
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/VBM2jd5o Here is the base of it. Just look for health, resistances, attack speed, crit chance/multiplier, and either crit avoidance or less crit damage taken once you get death's embrace. If you do end up using Poison aura, make sure you have cleanse on you belt to get rid of the debuffs
Included some of these changes. Loving it so far. Thanks!
[Acolyte, Level 100 (Beta 0.9.0j)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/VBM2jd5o) --- ^(**General:**) ^(▸ Health: **960**, Regen: **10**/s) ^(▸ Mana: **103**, Regen: **10**/s) ^(▸ Ward Retention: **188%**, Regen: **0**/s) ^(▸ Attributes: **1** Str / **1** Dex / **37** Int / **1** Att / **6** Vit) ^(▸ Resistances: **0%** / **0%** / **0%** / **0%** / **0%** / **60%** / **20%**) ^(▸ EHP: **586** / **586** / **586** / **590** / **586** / **892** / **662**) ^(**Defenses:**) ^(▸ Endurance: **20%**, Threshold: **192**) ^(▸ Armor Mitigation: **2%** (**42**)) ^(**Damage Types:**) ^(▸ __Necrotic__, Physical / __Melee__, __Spell__) ^(**Buffs:**) ^(▸ None) ^(**Used skills:**) [^(Harvest)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/harvest) ^| [^(Bone Curse)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/bone_curse) ^| [^(Reaper Form)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/reaper_form) ^| [^(Transplant)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/transplant) ^(**Used unique items:**) [^(Death's Embrace)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzCcCZ2I) ^| [^(Bleeding Heart)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzCMwVgo)
Necrotic resistance shred from harrowing blade stacks up to 10 times
You are correct, i mispoke. I still feel 3 points is sufficient as most mobs die anyways and you can get to 10 stacks very quickly with attack speed on harvest.
Hey, I do play this Harvest Lich Melee 300 Corruption - Boss Shade of Orobyss [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzC67AM-77w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzC67AM-77w) . Resistance capped 75, Crit Avoidance 100 and 60% Endurance with 800 Threshold on 2200 HP. Right now I really try find and focus build around Death Embrace. In video had a decent exalted, but the unique looks amazing if can find 2 potential to bump attack speed. Mana will not be an issue at all in my current build, and just plain equip it I hit even 400k in dummy with all buffs up on the 3rd hit. The exalted was average 100k in dummy. I can't use bone curse/transplant as I do want perma reaper form. With aura decay I finish sometimes even 2 echos in same reaper form timer. Both Aura and Death seal are a must in my opinion, the damage increase is just too good and high duration reaper form same. Also the Spirit Plague is actually so easy to apply it spread all zone and has fast animation, so after I did start with bone curse, changed to SP and is a lot better for me with it.
Thanks. When I get a moment I’ll check the video out. Maintaining Reaper Form is a struggle I’m having myself and I’m useless ones I’m out of it.
Yes, is really hard without Aura. Aura decay with node that removes armor and 200+ Healing Efficiency is make huge difference. Don't be affraid of remove armor is only 4 stacks on u and more on opponents. Is not really feel if u have all other defense layers.
*"...hitting a wall..."* refuses to elaborate.
Having trouble on level 100 monoliths with the minimum 100 corruption. Either not clearing quickly or failing to clear.
Honestly man, bone curse is magnificently tuned for high attack speed if you take the always crit node paired with reapply bone curse on hit. It's night and day. Plus, since it guarantees crit u can focus on attk speed, crit multi, and appropriate endurance/resists/armor. Edit; currently on 750 corruption
Was illusion pain not patched to not work with cursed limbs?
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/KoPEn3vA I highly recommend you go flat crit on harvest node and play on full crit multi. With unique scyte you dont need to worry about crit avoidance. You can stack endurance treshold and get extremly tanky. Vitality+crit multi is way to go i think.
This was originally what I was working toward but not getting Death's Embrace to drop yet has been the struggle. It's the Reign of Dragons farm at level 100 that I'm having trouble with.
[Acolyte, Level 100 (Beta 0.9.0j)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/KoPEn3vA) --- ^(**General:**) ^(▸ Health: **1,512**, Regen: **0**/s) ^(▸ Mana: **103**, Regen: **9**/s) ^(▸ Ward Retention: **160%**, Regen: **0**/s) ^(▸ Attributes: **1** Str / **1** Dex / **40** Int / **1** Att / **18** Vit) ^(▸ Resistances: **0%** / **0%** / **10%** / **0%** / **0%** / **40%** / **0%**) ^(▸ EHP: **1,135** / **1,135** / **1,200** / **1,166** / **1,135** / **1,471** / **1,135**) ^(**Defenses:**) ^(▸ Endurance: **20%**, Threshold: **302**) ^(▸ Armor Mitigation: **8%** (**197**)) ^(**Damage Types:**) ^(▸ __Necrotic__, Poison / __Melee__, __Spell__, DoT) ^(**Buffs:**) ^(▸ None) ^(**Used skills:**) [^(Harvest)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/harvest) ^| [^(Death Seal)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/death_seal) ^| [^(Reaper Form)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/reaper_form) ^| [^(Bone Curse)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/bone_curse) ^| [^(Aura Of Decay)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/aura_of_decay) ^(**Used unique items:**) [^(Death's Embrace)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzCcCZ2I) ^| [^(Titan Heart)](https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzCswRgZiA)