Recommended melee Lich passives?

[MaximB]

In some guides I see that in Acolyte they invest many points into Bone Aura (+20 armor),
I'm a beginner in this game, so I suspect that 20 armor (even +100 armor) isn't much at all mid-late game. so I'm not sure if it's a good idea to invest in it.

The guides I've seen also invested all points into Forbidden Knowledge (+1 Intelligence and 5% increased Necrotic Resistance) , and while the Intelligence bonus seems low, the resistance is nice, however items can also give you that resistance, so I'm not sure it's such a good idea to invest all points into this.

imo the best option is Blood Aura (+%6 damage).

What are your thoughts?

Also, can I reset those skills passive without losing points?

[Stephanos]

forbidden kwnowledge is good in my opinion...blood aura also

[MaximB]

What is better for suitability? the +10 HP passive (max +80 HP, which doesn't seems like a lot even mid game, maybe I'm wrong)
Or the +20 to armor skill? (I'm lvl 17 and have about 45 armor, so it does seems like a huge increase now, but not sure about mid-late game)

[andrew.thiele]

Don't forget to always look at a skills tooltip. It will provide several details about the skill, its damage effectiveness, scaling tags, etc. Hold the [Alt] key to display further information.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2840715801
You asked why take the Forbidden Knowledge passive node, well if you're using Harvest than each point of Intelligence adds +1 flat melee necrotic damage and flat damage is some of the strongest in the game.

How to reset Passive Points
Chronomancer Lerinne allows you to respec your passive points at the cost of gold. The gold cost is greater for passives higher in the Mastery trees than passives lower in those trees. This NPC can be found in most town hubs, as well as in The End of Time.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2840712858
Currently, you can only refund one point at a time, having to confirm each change. Passive nodes on the righthand side of Mastery trees are sustained by the passive nodes that come before so you may need to refund higher passive nodes to make changes to lower passive nodes, in some cases.

Helpful Resources
Just wanted to add that there's a lot of resources that can help you answer some of your questions, or offer you further guidance:

• The in-game Game Guide - press the [G] key while in-game to access it.
  
• LastEpochTools[www.lastepochtools.com] - community website that contains a crazy amount of resources for players that just keeps expanding.
  
• LE Tunklabs[lastepoch.tunklab.com] - another community website with a similar suite of tools and resources for players.
  
• Community Game Guide[forum.lastepoch.com] - contains all the information of the in-game Game Guide plus a lot more.
  
• LE Discord[discord.gg] or LE Forums[forum.lastepoch.com] or LE Reddit- tons more people that can help if you don't find the answers on this forum.
  
• Also, you can hover over stats on the Character Sheet to reveal further info, and use the [ALT] and/or [Ctrl] keys to display more information on certain objects; be it a skill's tooltip, a sub-skill's tooltip, a passive tree node, additional information when hovering over items, etc.

[MaximB]

Thanks,
I know that Harvest adds Int as dmg, but we are talking about +8 dmg (8 points in Forbidden Knowledge) which seems very little compare to the weapon dmg I get at this lvl (which is about 140 now), and those points might get me more dmg buf if I invest them into Blood Aura (+%6 dmg), or the defense\HP skills.
Maybe I'm wrong about the math, but from my understanding 1 int = 1 dmg to Harvest.

Also what are your thoughts about Bone Aura vs the HP bonus (+160 armor vs +80HP).
Which is better?
The bone aura seems much better as currently I have around 50 armor.