Last Epoch Starter Build

Despite being a relatively new ARPG, Last Epoch has garnered a loyal following thanks to its unique mechanics and moderate difficulty. It also experienced a surge of popularity with Season 2 in April of this year.

Based on this, since its launch, Last Epoch has surpassed 3,000,000 copies sold! Perhaps this is why, after Season 2, Last Epoch has chosen to update seasons every 3-4 months, like most ARPGs - yes, Season 3 officially opens on August 21st!

Building on this momentum, Last Epoch Season 3, Beneath Ancient Skies, bringing you even more gameplay possibilities through updates and new content. Next, we'll provide a overview of what's new.

What Are The New Gameplays?

The new features primarily focus on new chapters, enemy types, and items. By exploring new content, you can farm Last Epoch gold and unlock new items, empowering you to enhance your character and experience even more combat fun.

New Content From Chapter 10

This chapter picks up where Chapter 9 left off. After the battle with Majasa, you'll continue your journey through the dense jungles of ancient times and locations previously visible only in ruins. Witness key events that shaped Eterra's devastated future as you pursue Apophis.

In Chapter 10, you'll experience 17 new campaign areas and 28 new enemies, as well as numerous variants of existing enemies that randomly appear in other game areas, including those in Chapter 10. Six new monolith echo zones have also been added:

• Serene Isles
• Nightbloom Forest
• Mushroom Caves
• Crystal Lakes
• Sky Garden
• Tidal Sands

To encourage you to complete this chapter as quickly as possible, completing Chapter 10 will grant you an additional +1 to all character attributes, which stacks with the bonuses from completing Chapter 9. This is one of the most effective ways to boost your character development in the early stages of Season 3.

New Enemies From Mysterious Rifts

After completing Chapter 10 and entering the campaign zone and Monolith of Fate Echoes, you may encounter Mysterious Rifts. Using one will transport you back to ancient times and place you outside the entrance to a new cavernous side area.

These caves are actually new side areas. At the cave entrance, the friendly NPC Skarven Bloodhorn, the Wengari Hunt Master, will speak with you, explaining the caverns and assisting you in your exploration.

Once inside, you'll find many new Last Epoch enemies from the ancient past. Defeating them will earn you a new currency called Ancient Bones, which you can trade with Skarven for additional items.

Note that at the end of each cave lies a Rift Beast guarding its lair. These powerful boss enemies possess a variety of traits and abilities, and they evolve during the encounter.

Defeating a Rift Beast not only grants you Ancient Bones, but also gold, Primordial materials, and occasionally a Primordial Unique - the drop rate depends on the boss's evolution count.

Furthermore, after defeating a Rift Beast, you can choose to continue evolving Rift Beast lineage or end it entirely. Choosing to evolve will grant all bosses in the lineage new traits and loot, as well as at least one required Primordial material.

What Are Torn Rifts?

After evolving a Rift Beast, if you haven't completed the lineage, you'll encounter Torn Rifts. These encounters will lead to an ambush by a Rift Beast from the current lineage.

However, if you defeat two to four Rift Beasts from Torn Rifts, the next encounter will revert to Mysterious Rifts, allowing you to return to Ancient Era and complete the quest by evolving Rift Beast again or ending the lineage.

Each completed lineage grants you a non-primordial unique item called Evolution's End. Once you've reached the maximum number of evolutions, the next time you defeat a Rift Beast in a cave, you'll end your current lineage and begin a new one.

New Items

First, to fully expand your Season 3 combat and build crafting options, Last Epoch introduces 30 unique items, including 5 Standard Uniques and 25 Primordial Uniques. Many existing unique items have also received functional updates.

In addition to new gameplay modes like Mysterious Rifts, you can also earn Primordial items through combat in Season 3. These items come in two types: the already mentioned Primordial Uniques and Primordial Exalted. You can only equip one at a time (regardless of type).

Primordial Uniques can enhance your combat effectiveness through powerful transformations, boosting your skill level or critical strike chance, or through other means. Primordial Exalted items can be crafted through the new Rune of Evolution.

Other Important Updates

In fact, in addition to the new content mentioned above, Last Epoch has made various optimizations and adjustments to most aspects of the game, including:

• Content updates, such as changes to the campaign and dungeons.
• Class and skill updates.
• Item, affix, and enemy balance.
• Item faction updates.
• Endgame faction updates.
• Quality of Life and other changes.
• Visual and sound updates.

In short, all the new content and changes in Season 3 will be fully revealed after 4:00 PM (UTC) on August 21st. All you need to do is plan your early leveling and farming based on our introduction to get a head start in the new season! Good luck!

Acolyte in Last Epoch is one of five classes, and it has three Masteries: Warlock, Necromancer and Lich. All three Masteries are powerful, but if you want to level up quickly, I would recommend you to choose Warlock.

Warlock is good at using curses to negatively affect enemies and also has a powerful ability to deal damage. This does not mean that Necromancer and Lich are not powerful, but they will encounter some resistance during the leveling process. If you don’t like using Warlock, you can also use a little gold to reset your Mastery.

How To Choose Skill?

Level 1-20

At this stage, Acolyte does not have many skill points and passive skill points to use, so your goal is to unlock Warlock, which you can unlock at level 16.

Before you unlock Warlock at level 16, you can rotate between using Wandering Spirits and Rip Blood, which are enough to deal with most enemies in the early stages. After you reach level 7, you can use Bone Curse skill to further increase your damage.

After you unlock Warlock, you need to learn Chthonic Fissure and Chaos Bolts, which will replace Wandering Spirits and Rip Blood as your main damage-dealing skills.

You can allocate some points to Acolyte talent tree, but be careful not to allocate too many points, because you need to save more points for Warlock talent tree.

• (Acolyte) Forbidden Knowledge: 8 points
• (Acolyte) Blood Aura: 6 points
• (Acolyte) Mania of Mortality: 1 point
• (Acolyte) Unnatural Preservation: 5 points

Level 20-35

After acquiring the new skills, Chthonic Fissure and Chaos Bolts become the player’s main damage-dealing skills. After encountering a monster, you need to cast Chthonic Fissure first, and then continue to cast Chaos Bolts until the monster is dead.

The advantage of this skill combination is that it is fast and safe, and you can steadily farm Last Epoch Gold and XP even in the early stages of the game.

Here are the points you assign to each skill:

Chaos Bolts

• Abrupt Chaos: 1 point
• Doom’s Vindication: 2 points
• Devour the Damned: 1 point
• Cursed Blood:1 point
• Another Affliction: .1 point
• Mania in Flames: 3 points
• Condemned to Chaos: 3 points

Chthonic Fissure

• Fragile Crust: 3 points
• Death from Below: 1 point
• Mantle of Flames: 4 points
• Fell Fire: 2 points
• Stygian Current: 2 points

Bone Curse

• Conflation: 5 points
• Sigil of Mortality: 1 point
• Reaper’s Mark: 2 points
• Defile Defenses: 2 points
• Marrow Thief: 2 points

Transplant

You need to focus more on Transplant at this stage. This is a powerful movement skill. Using it will cost you some health, but it will put you in a safe position.

Here are your points to allocate for Transplant

• Acolyte’s Fervor: 2 points
• Reign of Blood: 1 point
• Doom Bringer: 1 point
• Fleeting Form: 1 point
• Anemia: 2 points
• Bone Armor: 2 points
• Apostasy: 3 points

Level 35-50

Warlock will become more powerful at this stage, and you’d better find a merchant to spend some gold to exchange for a nice staff. At this stage, you can complete the entire story content and add a trade faction.

The skill you need to master at this stage is Profane Veil. When you learn Profane Veil, you have all the skills you need to master. This is a powerful survival skill with a 10s cooldown. As long as you use it well, you can avoid most of the fatal attacks from the boss.

Here are the mastery points required for Profane Veil:

• Loose Tongue: 3 points
• Hell Fire: 3 points
• Eternal Blasphemy: 3 points
• Unholy Renewal: 1 point
• Harsh Words: 2 points
• Forked Tongue: 1 point
• Desecrated Graves: 1 point

Level 50-70

At this level, you have reached Monolith of Fate and acquired all the skills you need:

• Chaos Bolts
• Chthonic Fissure
• Bone Curse
• Transpant
• Profane Veil

In this stage, you can add the last passive points you need to your build:

• (Acolyte) Forbidden Knowledge: 8 points
• (Acolyte) Blood Aura: 6 points
• (Acolyte) Mania of Mortality: 1 point
• (Acolyte) Unnatural Preservation: 5 points
• (Warlock) Soul Stealer: 5 points
• (Warlock) Spiteful Decay: 5 points
• (Warlock) Occultist’s Mind: 5 points
• (Warlock) Harrowing Armor: 5 points
• (Warlock) Dark Protections: 5 points
• (Warlock) Chains of Ruin: 5 points
• (Warlock) Infernal Lash: 5 points
• (Warlock) The Ashen One: 5 points
• (Warlock) Grimhilde’s Domain: 5 points
• (Warlock) Grasping Damnation: 5 points
• (Warlock) Wither: 5 points
• (Warlock) Fleeting Crone: 2 points
• (Warlock) Encroaching Darkness: 1 point

Equipment Recommendation

The best equipment for Acolyte still needs to be crafted after entering Monolith of Fate. During the upgrade stage, you only need to look for weapons and equipment with useful affixes. You can pay more attention to the store, or go to the gambling merchant and spend gold to gamble on weapons.

Priority Affix

• Increased Necrotic Damage
• Increased Mana Regen
• Increased Cast Speed
• Chance to apply Ignite
• Chance to apply Damned

Useful Affixes

• Intelligence
• Armor
• Resistances
• Flat Health
• Ward per Second/Ward Decay Threshold

Blessings

As a spellcaster, Acolyte lacks survivability, so when choosing Blessings, it is important to increase resistance and life.

• Flames of the Black Sun: Chance to apply Ignite on hit
• Resolve of Humanity: All Resistances
• Resonance of the Sea: Ward per Second
• Body of Obsidian: Increased Armor
• Bulwark of the Tundra: Increased Armor

The above is all about Acolyte Leveling Build. According to this content, you can smoothly enter the endgame, and then you can use gold coins to reset your skills and play the build you want.