Build Help - Acid Rogue

[xExekut3x]

Looking for some suggestions to help increase my damage. Wanted to go full acid, but it’s missing something.

Should I be complimenting it with another damage type? Am I focusing too much on acid damage? For gear, should I be focusing on damage over time and increased poison damage?

Wiped twice on the Majasa fight, both times in 2nd phase. Both times a one shot.

Going to level something else until I can figure this one out.

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[Llama8]

Bladedancer, Level 58 (LE Beta 0.8.4) - Last Epoch Build Planner

I changed the weapons to more appropriate ones (chitin daggers for the poison chance implicit, attack speed, poison chance & life on hit/chill) & you want to max Weapons of Choice (poison chance for dual daggers), and get poison chance per dagger on your helm & idols. That’ll increase your poison chance significantly. I also tweaked the Flurry tree to get more attack speed, Shockwave is nice but from memory it doesn’t hit targets that have already been hit by Flurry, so it’s an improvement to the AoE.

Or you could look through this guide:

Arborus's Poison OR Bleed Flurry Build, 300+ Corruption 10 Second Orobyss Kills, A Double Feature

[image] YouTube Build Guide + Gameplay + Arborus Interview : Arborus's Poison AND Bleed Flurry Blade Dancer, A Double Feature and Last Epoch Builds Special - YouTube Sadly no Build Summary this time as this is not my build, but I will post Arborus’s quick google doc setup : Thanks to Arborus for playing Bleed for me, as I cannot due to massive amounts of lag as of the moment.

[Llama8]

@Joewe

I have wanted so badly to make a poison rogue work, but sadly bleed ends up ALMOST ALWAYS being better because the base damage scales with physical damage.

No, that is just flat out wrong. Bleed is only better for low numbers of stacks, once you get into low-medium stacks poison will always out perform every other ailment due to its 6% uncapped resist shred.

@Joewe

It’s frustratingly difficult to make a viable poison-only build right now

Making a poison Rogue is trivial, I cleared up to lvl 90 monos in mostly lvl 2 gear (except weapons) on a Rogue (some deaths due to PEBKAC) with Umbral Blades.

@Joewe

unless you’re playing a class/build that can do so many hits per second that the poison stacks are somehow better than bleed.

Thats the easy bit for a Rogue.

@Joewe

Re: what to focus on, I was confused about this too, but the answer is essentially that POISON DAMAGE will scale anything that happens to deal a poison “hit” (which is very rare) as well as the poison ailment dot damage, whereas damage over time will only ever scale the ailment damage. It’s the same for all hit types- physical damage scales both a physical hit AND the bleed dot, but damage over time only scales the bleed.

For a properly built poison Rogue, the hit damage is irrelevant.