Rive Void Knight Last Epoch Build Guide - Maxroll.gg (2024)

Rive

Rive is your main Damage Skill. This setup focuses on maximizing its damage with Flame Drinker's Blade, Savagery and Ripples of Oblivion. Scrap Metal provides multiplicative Armor and Damage. Foe Cleaver is a big damage boost, as it doubles the Damage stats of a two-handed weapon.

Sigils Of Hope

Sigils Of Hope provides valuable buffs, but with a high Mana cost. Spec into Empowering Sigils for the extra damage. This setup also grants survivability with Iron Sigils and Sign of the Guardian. Grab Last Wish for a chance to cast a Sigil on kill.

Anomaly

Anomaly in this setup provides powerful buffs with Time Bubble. Take Decimation, Manipulation and Swiftrest for their buffs. With Time Lord, the Time Bubble moves with you.

Volatile Reversal

Volatile Reversal is a unique Movement ability with tons of utility. Harbinger of Dust increases enemy damage taken while Warped Time and Catching Up speeds up your build. It can also be used for extreme mobility and animation canceling so take the time to master this skill!

Healing Hands

Healing Hands is your Movement Skill and provides great extra Damage by proccing it with Rive through Cleric's Hammer. Seraph Blade turns it into a melee attack. Bane of Evil, Cleric's Wrath and Virtue of Patience grant great Damage.

Normal Blessings are not important as they are eventually replaced by Empowered Blessings. However they can still be a great source of Resistances, Critical Strike Avoidance or Life Leech for your build early on.

Pick up these Normal Blessings on your way to Empowered:

• Echo of Solarum
• Winds of Oblivion
• Bastion of Divinity
• Survival of Might
• Persistance of Will
• Protection of Heorot
• Resolve of Grael
• Heart of the Caldera
• Body of Obsidian
• Embers of Immortality

Note: Don't target farm Normal Blessings. Get to Empowered Monolith as fast as you can.

Reaching Empowered Monolith unlocks all the level 100 Timelines and the ability to farm Empowered Blessings. Unlike Normal Blessings, these need to be farmed until you get the desired ones for your build. It is extremely important to get this set up as fast as possible to free up affix slots on your gear. Remember, the more value you get from your Blessings, the easier it is to craft efficient gear!

These are the core Combat Empowered Blessings for this build:

• If you are lacking Crit Avoidance, start with Grand Survival of Might. If you're building Reduced Bonus Damage Taken from Critical Strikes, go for Grand Cruelty of Strength or Grand Resolve of Humanity instead.
• Grand Winds of Oblivion grants a large amount of Critical Strike Chance, freeing up affixes on your gear.
• Grand Heart of Ice provides Chill for this build, greatly reducing the Action Speed of your enemies. If you have Chill on your Weapon, you can go for any of the defensive Blessings available in this slot, for example Grand Bulwark of the Tundra.
• Farm the best rolled Grand Body of Obsidian you can get. It grants a large amount of Flat Armor that helps increase the survivability of the build.
• Finish up by farming Grand Crash of the Waves for the high chance to Stun enemies.

These Empowered Blessings are flexible and depend on your current needs and goals.

These are valuable Empowered Drop Rate Blessings for this build:

• Grand Favor of Souls helps us find the best Idols for our build. Once you find all your Idols, you can switch to the Grand Winds of Fortune and focus on Uniques instead.
• Farm Grand Chill of Death to find more Jasper's Searing Pride.
• Lastly, take Grand Slumber of Morditas to find more Relics or Grand Embrace of Ice to find more Body Armours, such as Titan Heart.

• Melee Flat Damage: This build focuses on scaling Physical Flat Damage, and it gets a ton of it thanks to the Foe Cleaver node doubling the Damage stats on a two-handed Weapon for Rive. Jasper's Searing Pride also provides some Flat Fire Damage with its Searing Blades buff.
• Ignite Chance: This Ailment provides a massive amount of Damage for this build. With the Flame Drinker's Blade node in Rive, Ignites are consumed and turned into Physical Penetration buffs. Jasper's Searing Pride provides all the Ignite Chance we need.
• Attack Speed: Attack faster for more Damage and Ailments.
• % Increased Damage: Anything that increases Physical Melee Damage is welcomed.
• Strength: Rive gains 4% Damage per point of Strength. Additionally it grants 4% Armour per point, which adds a nice defensive layer for the build.
• Critical Strike Chance: This build reaches high Crit Chance easily, as long as you have Melee Critical Strike Chance on your Weapon. Decimation in Anomaly provide a good amount of Crit Chance. The Grand Winds of Oblivion Blessing further helps with Crit.
• Critical Strike Multiplier: Increases the Damage your Crits deal. We get a lot of it from Void Corruption. Build as much as you can on your gear.
• Sigils Of Hope: They grant increased Damage in this setup.
• Volatile Reversal: The Harbinger of Dust Node applies a powerful debuff on your enemies that makes them take additional Damage.
• Level of Rive: This is a big boost to our damage since it allows us to invest in additional multipliers from the skill tree.
• Physical Resistance Shred: Since this build gets so much Physical Penetration from the Flame Drinker's Blade node, Physical Shred is not required. Resistance Shred and Penetration are additive with each other since they both reduce the resistance of the enemy.
• Armour Shred: Shredding Armor is good for all hit builds, but it is especially impactful for Physical. Getting Armour Shred stats on our Gloves, Idols and Helmet is a huge damage boost to the build.
• Doom: Granted by Siphon of Anguish, this Ailment greatly increases the Melee Damage taken by enemies. 4% per stack, maximum 4 stacks. Shattered Chains scales this further, with an extra 5% more Melee Damage per stack.
• Penetration: Flame Drinker's Blade grants a stacking buff for 3 seconds that provides 3% Physical Penetration per stack of Ignite consumed. This can result to over 300% Physical Penetration when Bossing.
• Finality: This passive provides a Cull. Great for Bossing.

• Armour Clad: Grants Damage Reduction and is crucial for any Sentinel's survivability.
• Block Chance: Block is a defensive mechanic that grants a chance to reduce the Damage taken from Hits. Whenever you take aHit, your Block Chance is rolled to determine if you Block the Hit. On a successful Block, a percentage of the Damage is mitigated. This build can have anywhere between 30% and 40% block. We get it mostly from Jasper's Searing Pride and Sign of the Guardian inside Sigils Of Hope.
• Block Effectiveness: The percentage of Damage reduced on Block depends on how much Block Effectiveness you have. The percentage cannot exceed 85%.
• Endurance: It allows you to take up to 60% less Damage while below a certain Health threshold. The Iron Sigils node from Sigils Of Hope makes this especially valuable for Sentinels.
• Strength: Grants 4% Armour per point.
• Armour Mitigation: This setup can get high Armour. Combine the Armour from your Item Implicits and all the %Armour this build has to reach 55% to 65%+ Mitigation.
• Health: This build can stack a decent Health pool that can surpass the 3000 mark without sacrificing other defenses. Health is very effective when combined with all the other defensive layers.
• Leech: World Eater provides this build with enough sustain. Siphon of Anguish grants even more Leech.
• Chill and Slow: Ailments that greatly reduce the Action and Movement Speed of your enemies.
• Frailty: This Ailment reduces the Damage dealt by enemies by 6% for 4 seconds. Stacks 3 times.
• Ward and Ailment Cleansing on Potion Use: Cleanse all Ailments on Potion use.
• Aurora's Time Glass: This powerfulUnique can save you from dangerous situations. Make sure its internal cooldown is ready before you engage your enemies.