Allie's Fred! Cold Archmage Skeleton Mage Necromancer Build Guide

Extremely Easy Low APM Playstyle

Simple Scaling Through Int Stacking

No Hard To Farm Uniques Required

Not Super Tanky Until Low-Life Swap

Struggles With T4 Julra Due to Minion AI

Medium Speed Clear w/ No Experimental Boot Mod

This build is very simple to play! Our whole playstyle will revolve around buffing our 1 ArchmageSkeleton Mage with buffs such as Dread Shade's All For One, Egoism, and Blind Fury which with Lone Watcher will have over 100% Uptime only requiring you to reuse the skill every ~30 seconds or so.

Optionally, while during Monoliths, you can use Infernal Shade which give Fred an insane amount of Movement Speed & Cast Speed through Infernal Shade's Burn Trail & Manic Pyre. Due to us taking Soulfire to keep Manic Pyre's ramped up Cast Speed permanently, that does mean eventually Fred will die. This only really happens after over +1 minute of Infernal Shade being active on him and it only happens if there are no mobs for him to Leech off of with River of Bones 5/5. In a typical Monolith, you might have to resummon him 1-2 times due to him dying to Infernal Shade but, this isint too big of a deal.

Outside of Fred, we will also be using support Summon Volatile Zombie which will give us healing through Necromantic Fervor & Vital Ward once we swap to Low Life. These Zombies will also be providing us Marked for Death & Kill Threshold giving them utility on bosses too!

Adding a leveling section here is a bit rough due to me needing to explain the passive tree and all of the swaps we will be making.

I'd highly recommend checking out the linked Video Guide for a breakdown on how to level this!

There is a build variant above this section that gives a quick TLDR on how to level all the way to Level 45.

From Levels 1-16 we will be using a combination of Wandering Spirits and Hungering Souls until we unlock Spirit Plague. With Spirit Plague, we will continue to play it until ~Level 45 where we have enough Passive Points to be able to unlock Dread Shade at which point we will fully swap over to Summon Skeletal Mage.

The Endgame for this build is looking for LP versions of Exsanguinous, Last Steps of the Living, Death Rattle, and Chronostasis. Getting PrefixExperimental Minions Transported with Traversal Skills on your Last Steps of the Living will be a big first goal as that mod will make your clearspeed spike through the roof. Otherwise, focus on stacking as much Intelligence as possible, with 110+ Int being reachable with good rolls on your gear.

Eventually, you can also consider swapping your gloves to Julra's Obsession and getting a PrefixCast Speed LP onto them. This would give Fred a big damage boost but, losing PrefixExperimental Ward per Missing Health is a big loss in health. If you have a pair of gloves with T7 Experimental Ward, you would go down from ~12k Ward to ~7-8k which in my opinion is probably not worth it.

Loot fitler can be found in the link below!

This filter is designed to show you leveling gear for Spirit Plague for Levels 1-45 and then gear for Summon Skeletal Mage for 45+.

This filter is also good as a general Endgame Monolith filter for this build.

Filter Link - https://www.lastepochtools.com/loot-filters/view/5BxXvZBv

To import it into LE:

1. Go to the Link
2. Click Export at the top & click Copy to Clipboard
3. In-Game: Go to Settings - Gameplay - Manage Loot Filters
4. Click the Green Plus at the top
5. Paste Clipboard Contents

IMPORTANT: This guide was meant to be made for 1.0 Release and utilizes Warlock passives for leveling. These wount be avaliable until Feb 21 unfortunately so, if you are looking to play this pre 1.0, instead of picking up Soul Stealer 5/8 and Chaos Flames 6/8, pick up additional points on Dance with Death 8/8, Desolation 8/8 & Lasting Stench 8/8 on the Lich Tree. After 1.0 Release this wount be relevant but its just a workaround to play/level the build for now.