Paladin Aurelis' Judgement Endgame Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.0) (2024)

Last updated on Mar 19, 2024 at 08:00by EMP1241

Welcome to our Last Epoch Paladin Aurelis' Judgement build guide for the Sentinel class.Here you will learn everything about the Paladin play style, passives, skills, strengths, and weaknessesto conquer the world of Eterra.

Build Introduction

Smite legions of foes and watch them sizzle before you.Using Smite as the main driver. Using Healing Hands we are immune while dashing acrossthe battlefield. Using Multistrike, we will apply massive amounts of Lightning Damage directly, andovertime with Healing Hands. Any foe that manages to get close will need to deal withThe Aurelis, where the might of the gods will once again step in and lend a deathly hand.

Strengths

Massive critical strikes
Visually pleasing
Simple skill rotations and mobility
Simple bossing mechanics

Weaknesses

Must learn to manage Mana gain/loss
Heavy gearing requirements
Less defensive than other Sentinel Builds

Skill Selection

Our skill selection for this build focuses on amplifying our damage for Smitewith ample Critical Strike Multiplier while using the ever-powerful Holy Aura to keep usprotected and amplifying damage further. Our passives push an incredible amount of CriticalStrike Avoidance as well as our Endurance. This melee pseudo-caster will hand out heaps of damage,but is also capable of taking hits and healing the damage taken just as quickly.

Class and Skill Passive Trees

Class PassivesSkill Passives

Sentinel Passive Points

6 points into Juggernaut: Stat and Resistance increases.
5 points into Armour Clad: Increased Armor and Damage Reduction from nearby enemies.
8 points into Fearless: Increases our base Health and Health Regen.
5 points into Time and Faith: This node is variable, and can be decreased if necessary by adding pointsto Juggernaut. We need to find a balance in Mana gain and usage in order to make the best use from our Devotion.
1 point into Gladiator: This allows us to equip a sword in our off-hand.
5 points into Blademaster: This node can be saved for the end of the build if you notice attack speed is 'good enough' for bossing.It is only with bossing that this node becomes more prevalent.

3.2.

Paladin Passive Points

8 points into Conviction: Provides Damage Penetration and Damage increases.
8 points into Defiance: Increases Elemental Resistances and Attunement.
10 points into Valor: We add a large chunck of base HP and Healing effectiveness.
5 points into Blinding Light: We add 25% Blind Chance, which increases our Smite Damageand add 10% to our endurance.
3 points into Holy Icon: Increases Healing effectiveness, gives base Health, and Necrotic Resistance.
10 points into Dedication: Gives base Attunement and Mana Regen.
1 points into Faith Armour: Increases our Armor and Critical Strike Avoidance.
4 point into Prayer Aegis: Adds base Health, Endurance Threshold, and provides Haste when we are below the Threshold.
10 points into Holy Precision: Increases Critical Strike Chance with Spells and Critical Multiplier with Lightning Damage.
12 points into Reverence of Duality: Increases to Health, Damage, Healing Effectiveness and Mana.
12 points into Light of Rahyeh: We increase our lightning damage and movespeed significantly with thisnode.

In this section, we will break down each skill and highlight thekey passives we have selected to make the skill perform as best as possible in the build. Whilesome of these skills do allow for some variation to exist dependingon your own custom choices, we recommend utilizing the skill trees as presenteduntil you have a strong understanding of the build itself.

3.3.

Healing Hands

Healing Hands will be automated on our attacks. These attacks will add several stacks of Electrifywith increased damage, and will cause it to spread. This is additive to the Electrify from our Aurelis. This willalso be our movement skill.

3.3.1.

Order of Skill Points

4 points into Cleric's Hammer: This will cause healing hands to hit with our attacks from Multistrike.
1 point into Searing Light: Traversal Node.
2 points into Cleric's Wrath: This causes Healing Hands to do 60% more damage, from our 3 totalbuff tagged skills. (Healing Hands, Sigils of Hope, and Holy Aura)
4 points into Consecrated Storm: This will cause Healing Hands to apply Electrify.
4 points into Holy Winds: This increased our lightning damage over timem and causes Electrify to spread.
2 points into Virtue of Patience: This adds more damage to our Healing Hands.
1 point into Purity of Thought: This reduces the cost of Healing Hands.
1 point into Rahyeh's Chariot: This allows us to use Healing Hands as a movement skill.
1 point into Sun Shroud: We are immune while traveling with Healing Hands.

3.4.

Smite

Smite is the light show that will cause the demise of our enemies. We do not have use it on the bar, as it is not necessary to directly cast this skill.

3.4.1.

Order of Skill Points

5 points in Blinding Flash: Gives us a chance to Blind enemies, dealing 50% more damage to Blinded enemies.
2 points in Piety: Adds a chance to Electrify enemies.
1 point in Order of Lagon: Converts the skill to Lightning Damage.
1 point in Unbalanced Scale: Adds Lightning bolt to Smite, hitting three nearby enemies.
5 points in Sacrifice: 250% damage boost at a cost of 15% Health.
5 points in Atonement: Removes 100% of the Health cost associated with Sacrifice.
3 points in Conviction: Increases Smite's base Critical Strike Chance.
4 points in Deep Impact: Boosts Smite's Critical Strike Multiplier by 100%.

Due to our gear, we have more points than the standard allocation of 20 points. Pulling 3 Points from Blinding Flash and 3 pointsfrom Deep Impact will alleviate this.

3.5.

Multistrike

Multistrike with Healing Hand will mop up swaths of enemies. The mechanic of 'Additional Swords' or 'Armaments' does not apply to singular targets. However, the implicits for the Aurelisallow Smite to proc when attacking a boss or rare with Multistrike. Upon gaining the functionality, the playerwill learn to engage with Multistrike, depending on the specific situation. Each Armament will act as a cast of Smite,and each cast of Smite will hit multiple targets. This is scaled to have a total of five Armaments, which is equivalent to five casts of Smite. The distancing is what matters here, being far will cast Smite, being close will not.

3.5.1.

Order of Skill Points

1 point into Way of the Sword: Increases the duration of Armaments.
4 points into Guarding Stance: Gives 120 Armor per stack (maximum of five) which gives us 600 Armor.
1 point into Flanking Strikes: You will always have at least one armament when using Multistrike.
1 point into Hallowed Arsenal: Each Armament Sword, is converted to a cast of Smite.
2 points into Bladed Focus: When at 0 mana, you will convert the stack of Armaments into Mana. Note: This node may notbe needed if you have ample mana regeneration. Simply move these 2 points into Guarding Stance and Way of the Sword.
3 points into Relentless Advance: Increases the Attack Speed of Multistrike by 15%.
3 points into Determination: This is a node to move further in the tree.
4 points into Sweeping Blows: This allows your now converted Armaments to be able to cast Smite at targets further away.
1 points into Victory Strikes: This gives you +1 to your currect stack of Armaments if you kill with Multistrike or the associated Smite casts.
1 point into Perfect Steel: This node gives you +1 to max Armaments.
1 point into Doctrine of the Anvil: This node gives you +1 to max Armaments at the expense of Attack Speed.

Due to our gear, we have more points than the standard allocation of 20 points. Pulling 1 Point from Sweeping Blows and 1 pointfrom Guarding Stance will alleviate this.

3.6.

Holy Aura

This is a skill that offers both a passive bonus, but also an amplified version when the skill is activated. We focus on usingthis as a damage amplification skill on high-health targets like bosses or elites. We also boost the skills passive capability to add to ourdefensive layers. The base skill, will give you a passive 30% increase to damage and 15% elemental resistance; when activated these bonuseswill double.

3.6.1.

Order of Skill Points

5 points into Shelter from the Storm: Increases Resistances and Endurance.
2 points into Vital Boon: Increases Health Regen.
1 point into Purification: Grants Cleanse on skill activation.
2 points into Call To Arms: Increases passive gain for Physical Damage.
3 points into Fanaticism: Increases passive gain for Attack Speed and Cast Speed.
4 points into True Strike: Increases passive gain for Critical Chance.
3 points into Extreme Zeal: Increases passive gain for Critical Multiplier.

3.7.

Sigils of Hope

Sigils Of Hope will be used to passively add damage to our build. It will also add defesive posturing with Healingeffectiveness. A player can "Burn" his mana by constantly recasting this skill, in order to gain major bonuses from Devotion.

3.7.1.

Order of Skill Points

4 points in Empowering Sigils: Gain 20% increased damage for each sigil active.
1 point in Last Wish: You have a small chance to automatically summon a sigil on kill.
2 points in Iron Sigils: Gain 30 Endurance Threshold per active sigil.
4 points in Enduring Hope: Sigils have increased duration.
1 point in Tetragram: Add 1 to the maximum number of sigils you can have active.
4 points in Invigorate: Gain 24% increased Healing Effectiveness per active sigil.
3 points in Quiet Mind: Sigils cost less mana to cast.
1 point in Polygram: Add 1 to the maximum number of sigils you can have active.

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Aurelis' Judgement Build Planner

Build Mechanics and Playstyle

This build uses Healing Hands to move around the battlefield. SpamSigils Of Hope as much as you can, keeping your Mana at a manageable amount,but low enough to benefit from the huge damage boost you gain from uniqueamulet Devotion. Multistrike your enemies down, until desired results.

The Aurelis' Hands build uses two specific uniques that capitalize our Smite Damage.

Devotion: Which allows us to have +1 Spell Damage per missing 5 Mana from our Mana Pool.
Aurelis: Gives us the ability to automatically cast Smite and apply severalstacks of Electrify with melee attacks with massive amounts of penetration for Electrify.

As mentioned prior, the key to exploiting these effects isto keep your Mana as low as you can. The good news is if you over spendyour Mana, Multistrike can give you enough Mana at anytime during a boss fight.While bossing, you can be less concerened about balancing Mana. Healing Hands will applyample amounts of hard hitting Electrify, while of course, your Aurelis will still be laying down its own Smite as well.

Equipment and Gear Affixes

For this build, we will be focusing on several main affixes for each pieceof non-unique gear, as well as working towards acquiring the specific Uniquesneeded to make this build operate correctly. Our equipment will focus on thesespecific affixes for the Implicits and Modifier stats.

Gear Slot	Implicits	Modifiers
Main Weapon (Wand)	Spell Damage Mana - Mana Cost for Spells	Prefixes Increased Spell Critical Strike Chance Mana/Increased Mana Regeneration Suffixes Chance to Shock Lightning Penetration/Minion Lightning Penetration
Off-hand Weapon (Sword)	Aurelis	Prefixes Spell Damage Critical Strike Multiplier
Head	Armor Critical Strike Multiplier	Prefixes +% Mana Flat Mana Suffixes +% Armor +% Health
Chest	Armor Increased Critical Strike Chance	Prefixes +% Mana Flat Mana Suffixes Armor/Reduced Bonus Damage Taken from Critical Strikes Increased Health
Gloves	High Armor Armor Mitigation also applies to DoT	Prefixes Increased Melee Attack Speed Flat Mana Suffixes Hybrid Health Flat Health
Ring	Critical Strike Chance	Prefixes Increased Lightning Damage Mana Regen Suffixes Needed resistances Health
Ring	Critical Strike Chance	Prefixes Increased Lightning Damage Mana Regen Suffixes Needed resistances Health
Amulet	Devotion	Prefixes Spell Critical Strike Chance Critical Strike Multiplier
Belt	Armour	Prefixes Increased Lightning Damage Mana Regen Suffixes Hybrid Health +% Health
Feet	Movement Speed Reduced Bonus Damage Taken from Critical Strikes	Prefixes Movement Speed Attunement Armor Suffixes Hybrid Health Health
Relic	Increased Armor Void Resistance	Prefixes Level of Smite Increased Mana Regen Suffixes Health Needed Resistance

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Uniques

Now, let's look at the required Uniques for this build.

6.1.

Devotion

Devotion: Plays a critical role in the build working effectively.As we have previously mentioned in this build, we must maintain a low Mana amount to trulymaximize this builds power. This amulet is part of that reason; as our Mana is lower we gainSpell Damage for each five Mana missing. This why not only do we want our regeneration to be justbarely enough, to stabilize our low Mana pool and hold it in place while we spam Cast Sigils Of Hope.We also want as big a Mana pool as possible to gain as much Spell Damage from the same level of Mana.This amulet can be target farmed on the Monolith Timeline "Age of Winter" from the "Unique or Set Amulet"echo rewards. If you get this item with Legendary Potential try to add Flat Mana and/or Spell Critical Strike Chance or Multiplier to it.

6.2.

Aurelis

Aurelis: This enables us to engage with packs or bosses with just an attack with Multistrike. This adds up to +2skill points to both Multistrike and Smite. It will also stack Electrify when hit with Multistrike, adding to the stacks alreadybeing applied by Smite, but with up to 84% penetration. It adds lightning spell damage to all attacks as well, making this a perfect choicefor Smite. This can be target farmed on the Monolith timeline "The Reign of Dragons"from the "Unique Sword or Dagger" echo rewards. If you get this item with Legendary Potential add Spell Damage and/or Critical Strike Multiplier to it.

Idols

Idol slots are gained through the campaign, unlocking small bonuses andunique affixes for the player to discover and augment their builds with. TheIdol screen consists of a grid system for the player to fill out with differentsized idols, eventually filling in every part of the grid. As the Idol shapeincreases (1x1, 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, etc.) the stronger an affix you might find foryour build.

For this particular build, we will be focusing on a Large Rahyeh Idol(1x3) that will add damage to our Smite along with some flat Health.These Idols are 1x3s and are class specific to Sentinels. They can roll upto 54% increased damage with Smite, so try to find the highest rollpossible. The other idols used to fill in the rest of the grid are going tobe focused on flat Health.

Blessing

Blessings are permanent buffs that are permanently applied to yourcharacter. These come in two different powers, Standard and Grand. Grandblessings are significantly stronger than the Standard Blessings. In total,there are 10 Blessing Slots, one for each Monolith Timeline. When you completea Monolith and defeat the final boss you will be awarded a choice of threeBlessing with a random value.

Blessing Name	Affix	Timeline
Grand Winds of Oblivion	+% Critical Strike Chance	The Black Sun
Grand Light of the Moon	+ Total Mana	Ending the Storm
Grand Bulwark of the Tundra	% Increased Armor	The Age of Winter
Grand Body of Obsidian	+# Armor	Spirits of Fire
Grand Body of Obsidian	+#% All Resistances	Reign of Dragons

The Blessings listed above cover the most important slots, with the remaining Blessing Slots being filledwith whatever the player may be lacking for stats.

Changelog

19 Mar. 2024: Reworked for 1.0. Added Healing Hands, Sigils of Hope. Changed Base Weapon, Affix Swaps.
21 Jan. 2024: Loot Filter added.
01 Jan. 2024: Guide added.

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