Allie's Void Knight Devouring Orb Autobomber Build Guide

NO Uniques Required - Extremely SSF/Cycle Start Friendly

VERY Fast Monolith Farmer

Extremely Tanky w/ Armour, 14% Base Leech, Vitality Stacking, 4K+ Ward from Healing Hands

High APM if you DONT Num Lock trick

Lunge - Target only Traversal Skill

Endgame Uniques are VERY Rare

This build is very simple to play! This build will revolve around constantly casting more Devouring Orbs to orbit arounds us due to Dark Moon 1/1 which will spawn Seeking Orbs with Abyssal Emission 1/1. These Orbs will go out and kill any far away enemies while the collision damage of Cosmic Impact 1/1 will kill anything near you. When we pair this with Anomaly to give us 30% CDR through Swiftrest 3/3 & insane Leech due to Void Maw 4/4, we will have a comfortable time having 3-4 orbs at all times. The nice thing is that both of these skills can be automated using the Num Lock trick (more on that below) so you never need to actually cast either of the skills yourself!

Optionally, you can press Smite to do more single target damage as Devouring Orb will struggle to have high single target damage which Smite completly makes up for! With nodes like Sacrifice 5/5, Deep Impact 4/4, and points on the Void Knight tree such as Temporal Corruption 6/6 and Renouncement 1/5, we can make Smite scale off of Vitality just like Devouring Orb while giving it massive multipliers!

On top of all of this, we will also be using Sigils Of Hope for a free boost in damage. With Last Wish 1/1, we shouldn't need to worry about it while doing Monoliths making it a passive buff. With them lasting 15 seconds normally, on Bosses it shouldnt be too bad to reapply them every few seconds.

We also now have Healing Hands as our new Mobility Skill due to Rahyeh's Chariot 1/1! This is an AMAZING skill for this build due to us not needing to rely on Lunge & the clunkiness of needing to have a target. Healing Hands also kinda just... breaks this build. Sentinel typically struggles in Endgame due to not being as tanky as other classes. Divine Barrier 1/1 kinda fixes that. With Hand of Aurelus 4/4 we can cast a Healing Hands every time we Smite. With PrefixExperimental Ward per Missing Health, we TECHNICALLY count as a Low Life build, allowing us to gain ~1000 Ward every time we Smite making us very very tanky. When combined with Guardian's Chant 3/3 which then takes 30% of the 1000 and gives us ~300 Ward per second, we should be able to hold ~5-6k Ward easily. This will make the build extremely tanky with no downsides. PrefixExperimental Ward per Missing Health isint even a big downside as we have so much Leech int he build that we will ignore the degen completly.

PLEASE NOTE - For PrefixExperimental Ward per Missing Health you want a TIER 1 roll. You want this to be as BAD as possible as we only need the mod but DO NOT want it to be higher than 4% as it will just drain us harder for no reason.

Num Lock Trick

If you want a visual example of how to set this up & how it works, I recommend to watch the section on it in the Video Guide!

The nice thing about this build because we want to use Devouring Orb & Anomaly on Cooldown every time they come up, we can automate it with Num Locking them! Now you NEED a Keypad on your Keyboard to make this work. If you don't have one you can probably find a way through your Keyboard's Software to setup a key to function as a Num Lock but I will not be covering that here.

The way this will work is simple, we want to go into our Keybinds in-game and to setup a secondary bind on the 2 keys that you will have Devouring Orb & Anomaly on. You want to turn your Num Lock on and to set the secondary binds to 2 numpad keybinds. In my case I set Ability 4 & 5 to also work as Numpad 8 and 9. Once this is setup, you will then put both Devouring Orb & Anomaly on those 2 buttons on your bar. You will then turn on Num Lock on your Keyboard, hold down the 2 Num Pad keybinds you setup for those 2 skills and, WHILE STILL HOLDING THE 2 KEYS DOWN, press Num Lock again to turn it off. If done correctly, your 2 abilities will be held down and the game will auto cast it.

The nice thing is that, this will keep going and not break no matter what, even if you are in town, as long as you dont Tab out. As soon as you do Tab out, it will break and you will need to do it again in the same way.

Leveling this build is incredily easy as we only need to get to Level 27 to unlock Devouring Orb & at Level 34 you unlock Renouncement 1/5 allowing you to stop using Hammer Throw & swap over to Smite fully unlocking the build.

If you want an in-depth explination of how to level this, id recommend watching the Video Guide!

Step by Step guide at the bottom

IMPORTANT: From Levels 1-27 we will be leveling with Hammer Throw. Hammer Throw does NOT benefit from any sort of melee bonuses, it is a throwing skill. Because of that, you don't care what weapon you use as long as it has a very high base Attack Speed. Even a Rowan Wand would be a fine item to level with due to the 1.02 APS. The higher the better, ideally find a Broken Sword or Poignard even if they have no stats on them.

The other VERY IMPORTANT thing is that Hammer Throw LOVES PrefixThrowing Damage & PrefixThrowing Damage and Reduced Mana Cost. You want to make sure these are on all of your gear. The provided loot filter will have any item with those mods on them highlighted in PINK text between Levels 1-27. Make sure to pick them up and use them or use a Rune of Shattering to get them as Affix Shards to put on your gear.

I CANNOT overstate how important PrefixThrowing Damage and Reduced Mana Cost is as the mana cost reduction will be massive especially early game. If you can find this Affix Shard or the roll on a Ring. DO NOT replace that ring until you can get the mod on your new ring.

Levels 1-34

To start our journey into Autobombing, we need to unlock both Devouring Orb & Renouncement 1/5 to convert Smite from PrefixAttunement scaling to PrefixVitality scaling. To get us there, we will be using Hammer Throw as its an incredibly strong skill early on with points like Iron Spiral 1/1 & Avatar of the Spire 1/1.

The Passive Tree for Hammer Throw can be found ABOVE this section in the Build Variant section.

Once we get Devouring Orb at ~Level 27, we will pick it up but not use it yet as it is awful with no Chaotic Torrent 4/4. We will specialize into it just so it gains experience. After your 10th passive point in it, you can start using it alongside Hammer Throw by using the Num Lock trick mentioned in the Gameplay section at the top. This will cause you to use Devouring Orb on cooldown which with a few Hammer Throw presses, should be more than enough to clear.

Level 34+

At Level 34 you will finally unlock Renouncement 1/5 which is whats needed to drop Hammer Throw for Smite. At this point, we Unspecialize out of Hammer Throw & specialize into Lunge. You are now playing the build properly and you just want to continue on to Anomaly and eventually Sigils Of Hope in Monoliths.

Step by Step Guide

1. At Level 4 Specialize into Hammer Throw & use Lunge to get around. Follow the Passive Tree for it in the Build Variant section above this one.
2. At ~Level 15 when you unlock Smite, Speciaize this slot into it to gain xp for it. You will NOT be using Smite until you get Renouncement 1/5 at ~Level 34 but, you want to pick it up now so its leveled.
3. At Level 20 you will unlock your 3rd Specialization slot we dont need this for anything currently and are waiting for Devouring Orb.
4. At ~Level 27, you will finally have enough Passive Points to unlock Devouring Orb. Use your 3rd Specialization slot to Specialize into it. Dont use Devouring Orb until you have 10 Passive Points into it and have Chaotic Torrent 4/4. Once you have 4 points into Chaotic Torrent 4/4, you can use the Num Lock trick to autocast it which is discussed in the Video Guide & in the Gameplay section. Keep using Hammer Throw and mix in casts of it between Devouring Orbs.
5. At Level 34 you will finally have enough points to unlock Renouncement 1/5. De-Specialize out of Hammer Throw and Specialize into Healing Hands once you have 5 Passive Points into Paladin. You can choose to put 5 points into it early to unlock this or keep using Lunge until you unlock Healing Hands. Follow the Passive Tree in the Skill Section of the Build Guide. This will be your new Mobility Skill with Rahyeh's Chariot 1/1
6. At ~Level 38 you will unlock Anomaly. Specialize into this with your 4th slot.
7. Blast the rest of the Campaign with ease until Monoliths!

The Endgame for this build is to eventually farm a Omnividence or 2-3 LP Mad Alchemist's Ladle & Ravenous Void. These are both very very powerful but rare Uniques that will push this build to the next level. Since this build doesn't really need LP items, the rest of your time will be spent upgrading your Idols, and finding good Exalted items on the correct bases. Eventually a PrefixLevel of Devouring Orb Exalted Helmet will give you a very very large DPS boost and making a pair of PrefixExperimental Haste Effect boots with SuffixIncreased Cooldown Recovery Speed & PrefixMovement Speed will be a good upgrade.

IMPORTANT - To become even tankier you want to focus on getting as much PrefixIncreased Healing Effectiveness as possible to abuse Divine Barrier 1/1.

You will also be looking to add as much PrefixVitality as you can to all of your gear. PrefixVitality is how you scale your Smite & Devouring Orb damage while it also giving you SuffixHealth. You can eventually reach 3.5k+ SuffixHealth and, with proper Min-Maxing of stats, have so many free Suffixes to fit SuffixArmour that you can hit 4k+ SuffixArmour.

The super Endgame will be getting Double Exalted items and Sealing Affixes, allowing you to make some truly monsterous items and potentially looking for 3-4 LP Uniques to combine with.

Omnividence vs Mad Alchemist's Ladle

With the addition of Mad Alchemist's Ladle even post nerf, going Omnividence isint the surefire play anymore. That is because Catalysts such as Crystal Skull & Osprix Skull exist which give you ~5% base Spell Crit allowing you to hit 100% easier. Because Mad Alchemist's Ladle is pretty strong on its own, it already rivals Omnividence by itself. Getitng 2-3 LP on a Mad Alchemist's Ladle isint very difficult either which can allow you to get stats such as PrefixCast Speed or PrefixSpell Damage and Reduced Mana Cost allowing you to have even less mana issues. We also just havent mentioned the Catalysts themselves giving you useful stats on top of it. I think the play would be to use an Omnividence if you get one but to swap to a 2-3 LP Mad Alchemist's Ladle ASAP.

Loot fitler can be found in the link below!

This filter is designed to show you leveling gear for Hammer Throw for Levels 1-35 and then gear for Smite & Devouring Orb from Level 35+.

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

Filter Link - https://www.lastepochtools.com/loot-filters/view/VBML4NQ7

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

Patch 1.0 Changes

Quite a lot of new bases have been added to the game giving this build even more power! Terror Crown & Apocalypse Plate are going to not only make us tankier but give us a lot more DPS!

We also now have Eternal Gauntlets & Praetorian Belt giving us more SuffixArmour then ever & if you want more CDR you can always use Ascetic Gloves.

Healing Hands has finally been given a Passive Tree and oh wow.. it is good. Rahyeh's Chariot 1/1 is AMAZING as this allows us to drop Lunge finally giving us a good Mobility Skill that allows us to target where it goes. Divine Barrier 1/1 also just... makes us Immortal due to it giving us up to 10k+ Ward with us scaling PrefixIncreased Healing Effectiveness & using a low tier PrefixExperimental Ward per Missing Health to TECHNICALLY count as Low Life.

Lastly, how can we not talk about the addition of Vanguard Boots giving us 50% increased Haste effect which stacks with PrefixExperimental Haste Effect. This means we are even faster than before!

With more Damage, Tankiness, & a better Mobility Skill, VK Autobomber is looking great for Patch 1.0!