Reflect build ?

[astranabeat]

Any viable build in the game ?

I have other character at lv 90. Never see any item with reflect stat drop aside some unique. if I remember right. So I don't know if any reflect build exist in this game.

Played Warlord in Grimdown and it's fun. I want to recreate it in this game.

[Gilver Redgrave]

Yeah dont do it in this game.

In Last Epoch you only wanna get his when you have 100% Block rate and 85% block effectivenes. Other then that YOU DONT wanna get hit. Let alone get hit enough to reflect damage actually killing stuff.

[Astasia]

There is a reflect mod for body armor and shields, and Druids and Forge Guards have a couple reflect passives/skills. AFAIK there's nothing that makes it remotely viable or worthwhile though. It seems like a stat added because other games have it, without asking if it was actually doing anything here, which it's not.

For thorn builds it's really just Grim Dawn and Diablo 3/4 that has them. Path of Exile is removing their version of "thorns" next week. D2 had the aura and curse, I don't remember, I don't think it was much of a "build" though.

[Tyyne]

Doable? Yes. Viable? No. You only reflect the damage you take after all your defenses are taken into account and if your defenses are not good enough, you die. If your defenses are good enough, then you don't die but you won't be doing any reflect damage either.

[celticarmoury]

Meanwhile I am working on my 3rd Warder on GD. I do wish it was viable in this game. Not everyone wants to play a piano build.

[Gilver Redgrave]

Originally posted by celticarmoury:

Meanwhile I am working on my 3rd Warder on GD. I do wish it was viable in this game. Not everyone wants to play a piano build.

Yeah Reflect builds in GD are fun.
However Last Epoch misses a very vital stat which GD has:" Increased reflect damage." Without it its exactly as Tyyne said. Youre tanky as hell but because of that you dont send back any real damage aswell.

[UnknownOne]

I can pretty much guarantee they will beef this up in a future cycle. It's in the game now but needs some work,

On a side note, there's a build that will throw a bouncing shield, that scales with flat reflect damage, and decimates most mobs. So, you can stand there and do nothing and everything dies. However, you can use the skill yourself to deal more damage to bosses...

This build relies on a specific unique shield drop (which is easy to get). Go for sentinel->Forge Guard for this to work well.

Further, you can go for a fire damage vairant of this build which will have the entire screen burning to death while you afk.