Acolyte

Acolyte
A rebellious scion who disobeyed her masters to seek out forbidden magic, the Acolyte will let nothing stop her from becoming more powerful.
Details
Type:	Base
Master classes:	Lich Necromancer Warlock

Acolyte is one of the base classes in Last Epoch.

Master classes

Acolyte allows players to choose the following masteries:

• Lich
• Necromancer
• Warlock (planned)

Passives

The following are the Passives for the Acolyte and its mastery classes.

Icon	Passive Name	Passive Description	Class	Max Points	Unlocked Lvl.	Required Passive
50x50px	Soul Aegis	Your minions have 4% increased armour and protection per character level.	Acolyte	1	15	Dark Rituals
	Bone Aura	Grants you and your minions 15 additional armor per allocated point.	Acolyte	8	0
	Forbidden Knowledge	Grants 1 intelligence and 5 necrotic protection	Acolyte	8	0
	Unnatural Preservation	Grants 5% ward retention per allocated point. Grants 8 necrotic and poison protection per allocated point.	Acolyte	4	15	Mania of Mortality
	Blood Pact	You deal 12% increased damage per allocated point, but if you have killed an enemy in the past four seconds your current health is drained by 1% per second per allocated point.	Acolyte	5	10	Blood Aura
	Crimson Gluttony	Grants you and your minions 5% increased health regeneration per allocated point. Effects that drain a percentage of your current health per second drain 5% reduced health per allocated point.	Acolyte	5	15
	Dark Rituals	Your minions have 4% increased attack and cast speed per allocated point. This bonus applies to you as well, if you have summoned a minion in the past 10 seconds.	Acolyte	5	5
	Stolen Vitality	Grants you 1 vitality per allocated point. Grants your minions 9% increased health per allocated point.	Acolyte	8	5
	Blood Aura	You and your minions deal 6% increased damage per allocated point.	Acolyte	8	0
	Ethereal Revenant	If you drop below half health you summon a revenant with decaying health. The revenant has 50% more damage and health per allocated. You can only summon one revenant every 15 seconds.	Acolyte	5	10	Dark Rituals
	Mania of Mortality	When a nearby enemy, ally, or minion dies you have a 10% chance to gain 13 ward per allocated point.	Acolyte	10	5
	Putrid Demise	Grants 8 poison protection per allocated point. When you kill an enemy you have an 8% chance per allocated point to poison the enemies around them.	Acolyte	5	15

Icon	Passive Name	Passive Description	Class	Max Points	Unlocked Lvl.	Required Passive
50x50px	Aegisfall	Your minions have a 25% chance to shred armour.	Necromancer	8	15	Cursed Blood
50x50px	Blades of the Forlorn	Your minions have +7% critical strike multiplier per point. Your minions have +7% chance to chill on hit per point. Your minions deal 7% increased cold damage per point.	Necromancer	10	45	Rite of Undeath
50x50px	Cling to Life	Grants you and your minions 1 vitality per allocated point.	Necromancer	8	30	Tyrant
50x50px	Disciples of Necromancy	+1 maximum skeleton mages	Necromancer	1	45	Empty the graves
50x50px	Effigies	When you take hit on low health you have a 5% chance to consume one of your minions, stealing its current health to heal yourself. Your minions deal 10% increased fire damage and bow damage per point.	Necromancer	5	25
50x50px	Elixir of Hunger	+5 health per point. When you use a potion you and your minions gain Hunger for 1 second per point. Hunger grants 10% increased attack and cast speed and 10 health gained on hit.	Necromancer	8	0
50x50px	Empty the Graves	You have +4 armor and 2% increased health regeneration per point for each minion you control.	Necromancer	4	40
50x50px	Frantic Summons	You and your minions have 4% increased attack and cast speed per point.	Necromancer	5	25
50x50px	Heresy	+1 intelligence per point. Your minions have 5% increased critical strike chance per point.	Necromancer	10	40	River of Bones
50x50px	Moonlight Pyre	Your minions deal +1 necrotic damage with spells and attacks per point. Your minions deal +1 fire damage with spells and attacks per point.	Necromancer	10	30
50x50px	Putrid Retribution	When one of your minions dies you have a 4% chance to summon a putrid wraith from its corpse per point. Putrid wraiths throw poison at enemies, but their health decays at an accelerating rate.	Necromancer	3	20
50x50px	Reclamation of Souls	Gain 7 Ward per point when a minion dies. + 7% ward retention per point.	Necromancer	5	5
50x50px	Rite of Undeath	You have 15 additional necrotic protection and elemental protection per point. Your minions deal 15% increased necrotic and elemental damage per point.	Necromancer	10	40	Moonlight Pyre
50x50px	Rotting Army	Minions have 7% chance per point to poison with melee attacks and 17 additional poison protection per point.	Necromancer	10	35
50x50px	Tyrant	You have 3% increased health per point, but your minions have 3% reduced health per point.	Necromancer	8	25
50x50px	Tyrant's Legion	+1 maximum skeletons per point. Your skeletons have 5% reduced health per point, but deal 5% increased damage per point.	Necromancer	2	35	Tyrant
50x50px	Unbound Necromancy	+1 Maximum skeletons	Necromancer	1	20	Mortal Tether
50x50px	Unearthed Arms	Your minions deal +1 physical damage with melee and bow attacks per point. Your minions deal 5% increased physical damage per point.	Necromancer	8	20
50x50px	Veins of Malice	When you cast a spell you sacrifice 5% of your current health to give your minions haste and frenzy for 1 second per point.	Necromancer	5	45
50x50px	Wisp Weaver	When you use a minion skill you have a 13% chance per point to gain ward equal to the mana spent.	Necromancer	8	15
	Marrow Armor	You have 40 additional armor per allocated point, but 1% of your current health is drained per second per allocated point.	Necromancer	10	5
	Sharpened Bones	Your minions have 15% increased critical strike chance per point, but take 5% increased physical damage per point.	Necromancer	10	40
	Ward Vortex	10% increased ward gained from Wisp Weaver per allocated point. 10% increased ward retention per allocated point.	Necromancer	5	25
	Sharpened Souls	Your minons have 10% additional critical strike multiplier per point, but take 5% increased necrotic damage per point.	Necromancer	10	50	Sharpened Bones
	Reconstruction	You have 20% increased health regen per point if you have used a minion skill in the past 4 seconds.	Necromancer	10	10
50x50px	Blood Armor	You have 10% increased health regeneration per point, and your minions regenerate 2 additional health per second per point.	Necromancer	8	5
	Soul Drinker	When you trigger the effect of Life Drinker from using a potion, if the drained minion had more health than you needed, you gain 10% of the excess health as ward per allocated point up to a maximum of 100 ward per allocated point.	Necromancer	5	20	Life Drinker
	Reaper's Reward	You have 15% increased critical strike chance per point if you have used a minion skill in the past 4 seconds.	Necromancer	10	40
	Undead Devotion	When you take damage that would kill you, there is a 10% chance that you are healed to full health and all your minions die instead.	Necromancer	1	25
	Grave Thorns	Your minions have 5% increased health and armour per point. Your minions reflect 5 damage to attackers when hit per point.	Necromancer	5	0
50x50px	River of Bones	You and your minions have 20% increased critical strike chance and 4% of crit damage leeched as health per point. Your minions have 20% increased health leech per point. Your minions have 20% freeze rate multiplier per point.	Necromancer	5	30	Frantic Summons
	Cursed Blood	You and your minions deal 6% increased physical and necrotic damage per point.	Necromancer	10	5
50x50px	Taste of Death	You and your minions have 25 added physical and necrotic penetration per allocated point.	Necromancer	8	25
	Mortal Tether	Your minions have 15% increased health per point.	Necromancer	10	10	Blood Armor
	Risen Army	Your minions deal 4% increased damage per allocated point and have 2% increased attack and cast speed per allocated point.	Necromancer	8	0
50x50px	Undead Intelect	1 added intelligence per allocated point and 4% chance per allocated point to gain 5% less damage taken on minion spell cast for four seconds. You cannot have multiple instances of this buff at once.	Necromancer	20	45
	Mark of Punishment	When one of your minions dies you have a 10% chance per point to mark the nearest enemy to it for death for 5 seconds. Enemies that are marked for death take 30% more damage.	Necromancer	10	15
	Life Drinker	When you use your potion you drain the life out of a random minion and used it to replenish your health. The health you gain is equal to 20% of the minion's current health per point.	Necromancer	5	5	Reclamation of Souls

Icon	Passive Name	Passive Description	Class	Max Points	Unlocked Lvl.	Required Passive
	Three Plagues	30 added physical, necrotic, and poison penetration per allocated point.	Lich	10	25
	Unclosing Wounds	You deal 14% increased damage per allocated point, but 1% of your current health is drained per second per allocated point.	Lich	8	20
	Life Barrier	Soul Barrier grants additional ward equal to your vitality	Lich	1	10	Soul Barrier
	Mind over Body	You have 2 added Intelligence per allocated point, but lose 1% of your current health per second per allocated point	Lich	20	45
	Clairvoyant Insight	10% added critical strike multiplier per allocated point.	Lich	5	35	Deathbringer
	Contagion Engine	20% increased damage from sources of damage over time if you have killed an enemy recently.	Lich	5	30	Three Plagues
	Desolation	You and your minions deal 7% increased damage over time per allocated point.	Lich	8	10
	Lasting Stench	7% increased poison damage per allocated point. 7% increased poison duration per allocated point.	Lich	8	15
	Elixir of Death	If you have used a potion in the past 4 seconds you have 50 additional elemental, void, necrotic and poison protection per allocated point, but lose 1% of your current health per second per point.	Lich	10	35
	Dance with Death	You deal 5% increased damage per allocated point. This bonus is tripled when you are below 35% health.	Lich	8	0
	Soul Barrier	When you drop below half health you gain 9 ward per allocated point. This effect has a 12 second cooldown.	Lich	10	5
	Bed of Souls	Grants you and your minions 4% increased health regeneration per allocated point. Grants 1 vitality per allocated point.	Lich	8	15
	Survival of the Cruel	You have 5 added health per allocated point. 0.5% of spell damage leeched as health per allocated point.	Lich	8	0
	Soul Maw	1% of damage leeched as health per allocated point. 5% increased health leech per allocated point.	Lich	5	45
	Deathbringer	10% increased critical strike chance and 3% increased attack and cast speed per allocated point.	Lich	5	25
	Spirit Lure	The cooldown on the effect of Soul Barrier is reduced by 10% per allocated point.	Lich	5	15	Soul Barrier
	Reaper	Enemies you bring below 2% health per allocated point with a spell or melee attack are instantly slain	Lich	5	15
	Darkguard	Grants 7 ward per allocated point on critical strike.	Lich	3	30	Deathbringer
	Crippling Insight	Grants 2 intelligence per allocated point, but reduced health regeneration by 5% per allocated point.	Lich	8	0
	Apocrypha	Grants 3% increased spell damage per allocated point and 1 intelligence per allocated point.	Lich	8	20
	Necrotic Energy	You and your minions deal 2 additional necrotic damage per allocated point on hit with spells and melee attacks.	Lich	10	30
	Wraith Bringer	When you kill and enemy you have a 5% chance per allocated point to summon a putrid wraith from its corpse.	Lich	3	5
	Decaying Form	13% chance to poison on hit per allocated point. 3% increased poison damage taken per allocated point.	Lich	10	40
	Grasp of Fate	12% increased necrotic damage per allocated point.	Lich	5	5
	Mental Cacophony	Grants 10% ward retention and 4 additional mana per allocated point	Lich	5	20
	Wands of the Fallen	10% increased spell damage per allocated point if you're holding a one handed weapon without a shield.	Lich	5	40
	Ageless Ascetic	1% increased attack speed, cast speed, and movement speed per allocated point. 1.5% of damage leeched as health on hit per allocated point.	Lich	8	40
	Symbol of Decay	10% increased damage over time per allocated point if you're holding a one handed weapon without a shield.	Lich	5	35
	Volatile Blood	Effects that drain a percentage of your current health per second drain 5% reduced health per allocated point. When you are stunned you have a 10% chance to release a wave of blood, dealing physical damage to surrounding enemies.	Lich	10	25
	Serrated Bones	You and your minions have an additional 7% chance per allocated point to inflict bleeding on hit.	Lich	8	5

There are no passives in this class yet

Skills

These are the Skills for the Acolyte and its mastery classes.

These are the Acolyte skills unlocked from your base character level.

Icon	Skill Name	Skill Description	Skill Type	Mana Cost	Cooldown	Level Unlocked
	Defile	Consume corpses in a target area, pulling any remaining life force from them to gain ward. Ward is a decaying shield that protects your health.	Spell	0		15
	Exhume	Raises three corpses out of the ground, which you can make use of with other skills.	Spell	14	3	22
	Harvest	A melee attack that hits all enemies in an area in front of you, dealing double damage to those that are Marked for Death.	Melee Attack	0		6
	Mark for Death	Marks enemies in a target area for death, causing them to take 30% increased damage for 8 seconds.	Spell	16		3
	Marrow Shards	Fires sharpened bones from your body. The bones pierce through enemies inflicting physical damage. Instead of mana, 9% of your current health is consumed to cast this spell.	Spell	0		4
	Rip Blood	Rips blood out of a target enemy dealing physical damage to it. An orb of the blood is drawn back to you, restoring 10 health when it reaches you.	Spell	3		1
	Sacrifice	Rips apart an allied minion, dealing physical damage to enemies around it. Added damage applies at double effectiveness.	Spell	25		10
	Summon Skeleton	Summons a skeleton warrior or skeleton archer to guard you. You are limited to 3 skeletons at a time.	Summon	20		2
	Transplant	Creates a new body for you at the target location, then detonates your old body to deal physical damage to enemies around it. Instead of mana 13% of your current health is consumed to cast this spell.	Spell		4	13
	Wandering Spirits	Reveals wandering spirits around you for 5 seconds. The Spirits wander at random dealing necrotic damage over time to enemies they pass through.	Spell	15	8	8

These are the Acolyte skills unlocked from leveling the Acolyte's base passive tree.

Icon	Skill Name	Skill Description	Skill Type	Mana Cost	Cooldown	Level Unlocked
	Summon Bone Golem	Summons a bone golem, which attacks slowly, but retaliates with a bone nova when it takes 100 damage.	Summon	60	10	10
	Detonate Corpse	Detonates the corpse of an enemy, dealing physical damage to living enemies around it. Added damage applies at double effectiveness.	Spell	45		20
	Hungering Souls	Calls forth five hungering souls that seek out enemies, on hit they deal necrotic damage and then possesses the target. Possessed enemies take necrotic damage over time for two seconds. Enemies cannot be possessed by multiple souls at once.	Spell	11		5

Icon	Skill Name	Skill Description	Skill Type	Mana Cost	Cooldown	Level Unlocked
	Aura of Decay	Toggles aura of decay, which poisons you every second, and leaves a trail of decay. Enemies near you or in the trail are poisoned three times per second. You take 45% less poison damage while aura of decay is active.	Aura	0	1	10
	Reaper Form	Take on the mantle of death itself and transform into a Reaper, temporarily gaining the Reap ability. While in Reaper Form, your health regeneration does not apply and your health decays over time. When your health reaches 0 instead of dying you transform back to human form and are healed to full health.	Spell	0		30
	Soul Feast	Feasts on the souls of all enemies marked for death, dealing necrotic damage to them, and drawing a fragment of each of their souls back to you. The soul fragments each grant 5 ward when they reach you.	Spell	20		15

Lich Shapeshifting Skills

Icon	Skill Name	Skill Description	Skill Type	Mana Cost	Cooldown	Level Unlocked
	Reap	A short ranged dash that deals melee damage to enemies you pass through and returns health to you for each enemy hit.	Melee Attack	0

Icon	Skill Name	Skill Description	Skill Type	Mana Cost	Cooldown	Level Unlocked
	Summon Skeleton Mage	Summons a skeleton mage to assist you. You are limited to 2 mages at a time.	Summon	27		5
	Summon Wraith	Summons a wraith that rapidly fades from this world, but will seek and attack your foes while it remains. There is no limit to the number of wraiths you can control at once	Summon	20		5

There are no Warlock skills yet.

Backstory

The Acolyte hungered for knowledge, her apprenticeship under the Elders of Welryn leaving her bored and restless. Her master was a kind man, he spared her the bellows and caning that other apprentices endured for their mistakes, but still, the Acolyte was not satisfied. She wanted to be more than these gray men and hunched women who poured over books in dusty halls. The Acolyte wanted power.

The Acolyte had always harbored an interest in the dark arts. From the tales of Lagon’s ever-living drowned servants to the folk beliefs of mysterious things that stalk the forests surrounding Welryn. Witches and vampires that fed on the souls of the living that legends tell drew upon the rotting power of a something deep under the earth, something dead and powerful.

The Acolyte still remembers it, the feeling when they first recited a chant learned from a crone she met outside the city walls. A mouse tied to the glyph sketched into the dirt. The power of its soul, no matter how meager, as it flew into her, and the sight of its tiny skeleton tearing its way from the little corpse. The Elders found her dark experiments, but she had grown clever. The Acolyte managed to escape the walls of Welryn before the justice of the Elders could reach her.

She spent years traveling the lands of Eterra, gathering knowledge and practicing her arts until one day word came to her of Welryn’s conquest. She never thought of herself as sentimental, but this turn of events intrigued her. Would the Elders who ousted her now be in chains? Would the tomes they forbid her from now be ripe for the taking? The only way to know would be to travel back to her old home, to Welryn.

Starting Stats

The Acolyte begins with 2 Intelligence and 1 Vitality.

Starting Equipment

• Acolyte's Sceptre
• Refuge Armor
• Traveller's Belt

Physical Appearance

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  A front view of the Acolyte character model

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  A left side view of the Acolyte character model

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  A back view of the Acolyte character model