Bonk Knight - Erasing Strike Void Knight Build Guide

Excellent mapping and clear rate

Extremely high movement speed

High burst damage, crits for millions of damage

AoE crowd control and boss stun

Uses a lot of unique items

Melee playstyle comes with Melee problems

Health-based defenses, no Ward

Mana hungry

Skills Overview

This build is centered around the one-two punch of Void Cleave into Erasing Strike.

Each Void Cleave automatically casts Abyssal Echoes, both combining to shred the enemies defenses and amplifies our damage in multiple ways.

Follow it up with Erasing Strike, a screen-shaking massive bonk with a gigantic AoE radius and enough power to one-shot anything that isn't a boss. Simply point and click where you want to drop your nuclear bomb, and lift your weapon to see dust where your enemies used to be.

Anomaly provides a damage amp in the form of an AoE 4 second stun that even works on bosses.

Volatile Reversal is our biggest damage amp on a time reverse that puts us where we were 4 seconds ago.

Lunge is a free movement skill for extra fast mapping, since we don't need Abyssal Echoes on our bar.

Build Features and Synergies

Erasing Strike is extremely mana hungry. Some versions try to solve the mana problem by using a mana builder, like Vengeance or Rive. However, this build instead solves the problem with a heavy investment into Mana from gear, thus freeing up an entire extra skill.

Void Well is what generates Mana for us. Landing a Crit Erasing Strike grants one Void Essence stack per target hit. Having three stacks regenerates 1/3 of our max Mana when we bottom out. This is enough to sustain us as we plow through packs of enemies.

This build also focuses a lot around the Time Rot and Doom ailments, which are passively applied to targets we hit.

When Time Rot is built up to 12 stacks, Erasing Strike deals double damage. The idea is for the sequence of Void Cleave -Erasing Strike-Void Cleave-Erasing Strike to builds 12 stacks, unleashing its full power on the second bonk.

Erasing Strike will also Echo (a clone repeats the attack again) once guaranteed, with a good chance of echoing a second time. Each echo inherits all of our damage amplifiers, delivering a barrage of bonks for insane burst damage.

While leveling, prioritize Mana-related stats even above damage related stats. Erasing Strike has very high base damage and will one-shot most things you encounter. However, the damage train stops when you run into Mana problems.

Always take care of your Resistances, using Suffixes and Idols as you progress. The Idols you see on my planner is based on having optimized gear that already takes care of my resistances. As your gear is progressing, you might not have that luxury yet, so use your Idols to fix your resistances.

Mapping

Void Cleave into Erasing Strike is enough to kill most of the enemies you face. The Void Cleave has to hit at least one target for Erasing Strike to crit.

As soon as the objective becomes visible on the map, we can just sprint and Lunge our way there. Our lightning fast move speed will get us anywhere quickly and safely.

Exiled Mages are very easy with this build. Anomaly as soon as he comes out to Time Lock him, Volatile Reversal (if possible), and then two combos will kill the Mage before the stun wears off.

Bosses

Single-target encounters take a little bit more finesse, but our sheer burst damage is the key to killing bosses.

The best way to deal damage is in bursts of two or more combos in succession (a combo is Void Cleave into Erasing Strike).

• Two combos in a 3-second span results in huge damage (since it gets us to 12 Time Rot stacks for Final Hour and Food for Wyrms). This is the basis of our single-target damage, slaunching fully juiced Bonks into a highly vulnerable target.
• Three combos in a 7-second span regenerates Mana (since it gets us to 3 Void Essence stacks for Void Well). This is the basis of our Mana sustain, a perpetual machine of converting Mana into Bonks into Mana into Bonks, and so forth.

Valiant Charge and SuffixIncreased Cooldown Recovery Speed reduce the cooldown of Void Cleave, allowing for a chain of bursts as long as our Mana can sustain it.

Anomaly stuns bosses with Time Lock while shredding simultaneously defenses. It's a good safe way to start our attack sequence against bosses.

Volatile Reversal further amplifies our damage. Remember to be careful when using it to not teleport into danger.

We also have the option of swapping out Lunge for Rebuke as our free 0-point skill.

Thanks to Erasure of the Living 5/5, Erasing Strike automatically executes bosses at 10%.

(Video sample for bosses is on bottom of this guide)

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