Do you often feel that some troublesome little things in Last Epoch affect your gaming experience? Do you want to get some mods to improve your quality of life? If so, then don’t miss this guide.

Here, we will share some quality of life mods to help you automatically pick up shards, glyphs and gold dropped in the game, making your game easier. We’ll also guide you through the installation process, which is actually pretty simple.

Before jumping in, I must remind you that since they require external mods to be installed, you can only use them in full offline mode. If you want to play online, this won’t help you. Now, let’s get started!

Recommended Mods Available

First, let me show you what these mods actually do. In Last Epoch, you actually get some quality of life improvements. But keep in mind that these mods also allow you to basically cheat your own game in a single player. You can maximize your character level, change mastery, increase stats or drop any item you want.

However, I will not discuss these cheating options. Because in my opinion, they ruin the mastery experience. By using these cheats, you lose all the fun in the game and therefore you will get bored with Last Epoch quickly. So what’s the point?

So the quality of life mods I use are: auto-pickup shards, glyphs and gold, disable material pickup notifications, auto-store materials, enhance item tooltips. You can also automatically pick up filtered items. But personally, I don’t like this option because I found that the loot filter in Last Epoch didn’t filter out enough items in order to allow auto pick up of items.

Auto-Pickup Mod

Back to shards and the gold pickup mod. With Auto pickup mechanic you can’t see Last Epoch Gold popping up on the screen at any time, so it makes the screen less cluttered.

Disable Material Pickup Notifications Mod

I also disabled material pickup notifications. If you decide not to disable these notifications, the quick UI pop-up for picking up shards will cause a significant drop in FPS. So if you decide to use auto-pickup, I highly recommend turning this feature on.

Auto-Store Materials Mod

Auto storing is also very helpful in preventing the extra unnecessary step of going into inventory and clicking Store Materials. Now you won’t even see that you are picking up these materials because you won’t be notified. This also means your inventory will fill up quickly.

There are very few options for this feature and I like the ability to store material every 10 seconds.

Enhance Item Tooltips Mod

We then made an enhancement to the item tooltip, which shows which loot filtering rule applies to that specific item.

There are many uses for this mod. One is when you want to organize your collection, or say you updated your loot filter and want to see which items are worth keeping, or you might want to see if the loot filter is working as expected? This is a neat feature.

Legendary Potential Filter Mod

Then we have my favorite QoL mod in Last Epoch, which is showing whether you already own a unique item and, if so, what legendary potential it has.

Because over time you will collect many unique items, and you just want to remember what legendary potential you already have. This feature can make our lives easier and help us clean up some junk, especially since the developers did not add legendary potential as a filter option.

Will Mods Be Banned?

Maybe this sounds good to you, but you might be worried about whether this could get you banned from Last Epoch. The answer is no. If you play in full offline mode, then you don’t have to worry about being banned!

How To Install?

So that being the case, how do you install these mods?

First, we need to download the required files. All mods require Melon loader, so even if you decide to skip some mods I’m using, you’ll still need to download Melon loader.

Next, we install Melon loader by running the exe file. In the installer, we click “Select” in the automatic click and point to Last Epoch game folder where the game is installed.

There we select Last Epoch exe file. Then we uncheck “Latest” in the version options and select version 0.6.1. This is an important step, as this mode may not work with the latest versions of Melon loader. Finally, we click Install.

Once the installation is complete, we’ll go to Steam to make sure we launch the game in full offline mode. Go to your library and go to Last Epoch page. Click the gear preference button on the right side of the screen and click Properties.

In the general window we have “Launch Options”. I selected it as “Always offline” because I didn’t want to have to answer this question every time I launched the game.

Next, you should launch the game at least once before installing any more mods. This ensures that all required files are created for Melon loader.

Also, we must also unpack the downloaded mod file. We copy the mod’s dll extension file and return to the game’s installation folder.

Now we can find the new folder created by Melon loader inside it. What we need here is “Mods” folder into which we will paste the mod’s dll files. Once we repeat this for all the mods we want to install, we can now launch the game.

Default enables item tooltip enhancements. We can’t turn them on and off from the game panel. However, auto pickups must be turned on manually.

Now you have the mod installed and ready to use. But to uninstall mods you need to delete dll files from mods folder or completely uninstall Melon loader to remove all of them.

Anyway, I hope you found this Last Epoch mod guide useful. While our options are currently very limited, I’m sure the modding community will make more mods over time. Looking forward to seeing you in the game!

Today, our focus will be on the Detonating Arrow Marksman of Last Epoch. With simple item swaps, no need for any passive or specialization point adjustments, you can boost your damage against bosses significantly. This offers the perfect balance for smooth Monolith runs coupled with remarkably rapid boss takedowns.

Melee Detonating Arrow

This is a Melee version of Detonating Arrow, and we can use Jelkhor's Blast Knife to accomplish this, which also grants additional specialization points for Detonating Arrow. By utilizing Eye of Reen and Julra’s Stardial, you can take the boss damage potential of this build to another level.

Eye of Reen provides an 84% chance to gain a stack of Reen’s Ire for 5 seconds on Melee crit, synergizing with the build's high critical strike chance. Each stack increases the Melee critical strike multiplier, amplifying the build’s damage and fire damage over time.

The focus lies on maximizing the Melee critical strike multiplier. By using the Traversal skill, we gain increased attack speed and double the effect on the Legendary Potential. For example, a 25% increased attack speed, using Shift would grant 50%, leading to over 1,000% critical strike multiplier potential when combined with Eye of Reen. Equipping 2 Julra's Stardials doubles this effect.

While the Jelkhor's Blast Knife can be equipped at Level 36, this build becomes fully viable once you’re able to equip these knives. Prior to that, you can use a bow for a ranged version of the build.

Eye of Reen requires a level of 70, meaning to utilize Legendary Potential, you'll need to clear Tier 3 Temporal Sanctum with a capable character. This build setup cost a large amount of Last Epoch Gold and requires the Core of the Mountain, only obtainable from Tier 4 Lightless Arbor.

Mana Management

Now, the biggest thing with this build is managing your mana. Automated Bombardment has an additional 70% chance for that Trap Sprinkler node to activate at the cost of 11 more mana. It also allows Explosive Traps to have a chance to throw at enemies within a nearby distance, and we can have the addition of Acid Flask with this build as well.

We can go in and just expend our entire mana pool and allow that damage to kill the boss all in one go. You’ll use Shift for mobility, or you can use it defensively to keep your character alive, and then you throw out a number of traps in the field that you want to develop with this build.

Skills & Specializations

Shift and Shuriken are a very popular combo for Marksman. Shift has a reduced cooldown and a chance to grant us increased movement speed, which can synergize with our passive tree, providing additional damage. The major function of Shuriken is to increase their duration and boost our armor while active. We can Shift, become invulnerable, cleanse ailments, and gain armor simultaneously.

Through these specializations, we can also gain Haste and cause Blind on enemies, enhancing our survivability. With Acid Flask, the efficiency of this build is greatly improved since it activates automatically.

Detonating Arrow is the skill we aim to trigger through explosive traps, primarily to deal massive damage. Lightning Tendrils penetrate a significant 60% of lightning resistance, while increasing the arming time of Detonating Arrow enhances its damage upon detonation.

Gear Recommendations

The best recommendation would be to swap Eye of Reen in for bosses, and if you have the Julra's Stardial with throwing attack speed on it, you would swap that in as well. For general Echo, you’ll actually want to run something with throwing damage and minus throwing attack mana cost. This will help your mana conservation and just give you a smoother experience through the Monoliths.

The Devotion is also a good option, adding some additional lightning damage and lightning penetration. Alternatively, you can also run the Apostate's Sanctuary, as this will give you more damage to bosses and rare enemies.

Foot of the Mountain will grant you a stack of Mountain's Endurance whenever you aren’t moving. This allows 100% of dodge rating to convert to Endurance Threshold, and you can get an enormous amount of Endurance Threshold, and you can easily hit this 60% Endurance cap even when you are moving. Pair that with some solid armor and a high chance to dodge.

The final Mountain item that we use in this setup is Peak of the Mountain. This just supplies an enormous amount of critical strike chance to the build and allows you to proc the Eye of Reen stacks even faster. Getting some Legendary Potential on the best pieces to swap for bosses that’ll help take the build to another level. And overall, the character is actually very tanky.

There are three dungeons in Last Epoch. Although it may be a little less compared to other MMOs, each dungeon is unique, with its own independent theme, mechanics and rewards. But all dungeons have one thing in common, Scheme.

In each dungeon, you explore a large area where you must find one of two available exits. Each exit provides perks unique to that dungeon and increases enemy health and damage. You repeat this exploration process twice and then must face the dungeon’s boss.

In this guide, let’s talk about each individual dungeon in Last Epoch and its mechanics. Don’t forget, to successfully pass all dungeons, it is crucial to reserve enough Last Epoch Gold.

Lightless Arbor Dungeon

First up, we have Lightless Arbor Dungeon. The unique mechanic of this dungeon is Crystal-like lantern that helps you deal with the ever-present darkness.

Crystals have a limited amount of light. Each time you take a hit, the light resource is consumed proportionally to the amount of health you gained from the hit.

You can recover the light resource by defeating the large orange crystals you find while exploring the dungeon. When your light runs out, you’re basically screwed. Because when enemies aren’t illuminated by your crystals, they deal more damage and take significantly less damage.

The boss of Lightless Arbor has two stages. In the first phase, you can’t actually deal direct damage to the boss. Instead, this phase requires you to burn the kindling located on either side of the area.

First, you need to destroy the wall protecting the kindling, and then you can burn the kindling while near it. During this stage, mobs will spawn and the boss will cast an AOE attack. After burning two kindling, the boss will collapse and you can approach them.

Here, you can actually directly damage the boss’ heart, which is located in the center of the arena. This phase will revolve around avoiding the two major attacks and dealing with the mobs the boss spawns.

The attack of the boss in this copy is actually very simple. First, he has an AOE attack, which requires you to be close to the boss. He then has a beam attack that you can easily dodge by moving to the other side of the boss. There is also a third attack, which forms a cone-shaped AOE in front of the boss towards you, so you’d better keep moving.

Lightless Arbor is basically the gold sink in Last Epoch for rewards. After defeating the boss, you can enter the vault room. At the vault door, you can choose the rewards you want to purchase.

The trick is that every time you choose not to purchase a reward, the next reward will be more expensive than the others. You can now see some items on the screen that are unique to that dungeon and cannot be obtained outside of the dungeon.

Soulfire Bastion Dungeon

Next, let’s talk about Soulfire Bastion. The unique system of this dungeon is your permanent immunity barrier.

Since Soulfire Bastion’s enemies and environmental hazards deal Necro and Fire damage, you can switch between barriers that prevent both types of damage.

You can tell which type of damage an enemy is using by the color: green is Necro damage, while red is Fire damage.

At lower levels or when your build is overwhelmed, it’s not as important to take advantage of this mechanic. But in tier 4 of the dungeon, you have to utilize this mechanic correctly to survive.

Soulfire Bastion boss also requires you to use the correct barrier. You should change the barrier based on the color of your flooring. It always starts with Fire damage. Both will mainly project a circular AOE that shrinks towards the boss. Therefore, I recommend using teleport or other Traversal skills to dodge AOE and avoid damage.

This boss has few other attacks and is easy to avoid. So just focus on the colors of the floor and AOE circles.

Now, speaking of rewards, Soulfire Bastion has a gambling-based reward system. Souls can be obtained by killing enemies in the dungeon, and can be exchanged for items at the end of the dungeon through gambling.

It’s important to note that switching barrier types in a dungeon also requires the use of soul currency, so the fewer you switch, the more you save.

Temporal Sanctum Dungeon

Finally, we have Temporal Sanctum. The unique mechanic of this dungeon is traveling between two different eras.

Some areas on the map were inaccessible when the gates were closed in one era, but open in another alternate timeline. So basically you’ll be constantly switching between eras, trying to find your way through the dungeon to one exit.

The boss Julra in Temporal Sanctum also requires you to switch between eras to avoid taking damage.

The first clear sign of an era of transition is the screen-wide AOE. This attack takes a moment to charge up, so you don’t have to switch immediately, but don’t wait too long or you’ll die. Once Julra attacks, she will enter another era with you.

Next, she projects a beam of light that rotates clockwise. You can dodge damage by keeping your character in the gaps between the beams.

Defeating the boss will net us the unique reward of all dungeons in Last Epoch: the ability to craft legendary items.

Legendary items are a combination of unique gear and Exalted Items. Legendary items retain all stats of unique items and have the affixes of Exalted Item added. This is your invincible best partner in Last Epoch dungeons.

That’s all for Last Epoch dungeon guide. I hope it’s useful for you. Good luck!

Welcome to this Lightless Arbor dungeon guide of Last Epoch! Today, I will show you the mechanics of both bosses in the Lightless Arbor dungeon with this Last Epoch guide. I will encompass fundamental principles to enhance your success, irrespective of the dungeon tier you’re tackling.

Lightless Arbor is known for dropping Unique Mountain items, collectively known as the Mountain Set. Items like Peak, Foot, Face, and Core of the Mountain are highly sought after and serve as BiS gear for many meta and powerful builds in the current game meta.

About The Dungeon

You’ll need to clear each tier in order to unlock the subsequent one. These tiers are going to have modifiers that increase enemy damage and health as you progress further. In this guide, we’re going to focus on Tier 4.

Tiers 1 through 3 are easy, and you should be able to clear the tiers as your character progresses and reaches higher levels. You may need a meta character or a powerful build to clear this dungeon successfully.

Navigate The First Floor

To progress through the dungeon, focus on locating 2 corners: either the lower left or the upper right. In these corners, you’ll find 2 doors leading to the next floor. Identifying the lower left corner early, marked by a special corner, indicates that the door to the next floor will be along that edge of the map.

Disregard the middle and right sides of the map, focusing solely on running along this edge until you find one door. After finding the first door, assess its modifiers, aiming for the lowest modifiers to enemy damage and health to increase success chances. Proceed to compare the modifiers of the second door before choosing your path forward.

Use The Burning Amber

Upon reaching the next floor, advance until you encounter a root wall. Destroying it grants access to Kindling inside. Approach the Kindling to initiate its burning process, indicated by its health bar increasing until it is full.

Alternatively, use the 'D' button to send your Burning Amber onto the Kindling, accomplishing the same outcome. This method is recommended, especially for dealing with boss mechanics. Locate the door in the pathways and proceed through it.

Bypass Blockades

Identical to the first floor, subsequent floors may feature blockades such as rocks or fallen tree parts. Aim to locate the lower left or upper right corner to proceed and navigate around blockades accordingly.

The doors will always be positioned in these corners, streamlining your search process and reducing your time spent. Upon reaching the upper right corner, continue along the edge, searching for potential openings.

Select The Next Door

After locating a corner, proceed along the edge, keeping an eye out for any potential openings where doors may be located. Assess the modifiers of both doors carefully, prioritizing lower modifiers for increased success chances. After selecting the preferred door, proceed through it to advance to the next floor.

Dungeon Boss Fights

Upon entering the pass-through room before the final bosses, you can interact with an NPC if desired. Although no door is shown on the mini-map, it will always be located in the northern direction. Clicking on it and selecting 'proceed' will bring you to the boss fight, where the battle begins as soon as you enter.

Mountain Beneath Exterior

It's advisable to head to the left side initially. Break the root wall and use Amber to ignite the Kindling. Move to the right side of the map afterward. If your damage output allows, break down the root wall on the right. Wait on the right side for the large AOE attack, which occurs first on the left side.

Time your movement or use traversal skills to dodge the attack. Utilize the 'D' key to manage the Kindling: return it to your character and then send it to the next pile. Dodge falling projectiles while waiting for the next AOE.

Avoid getting stunned, which is common in this encounter. Move to the left side to avoid certain mechanics. Return the Kindling to progress to the next area. If using a ward build, ensure it's replenished or wait for cooldowns.

Mountain Beneath Interior

The next boss encounter begins immediately and includes one-shot mechanics, so stay alert and prioritize safety. Aim to position yourself opposite to the single beam, as it splits and targets your character.

Maneuver around obstacles, dodge spinning orbs, and approach the boss cautiously to avoid the impending AOE attack. Successfully navigating these mechanics is essential for clearing Tier 4. Clearing Tier 4 offers advantages, including unique item drops exclusive to this difficulty level.

If you're not seeking these specific items, consider farming a lower difficulty level for easier gameplay. Despite potentially lower drop rates for other items, the lower difficulty modifier makes progression smoother.

Vault Of Uncertain Fate

After acquiring the Vault of Uncertain Fate, another entrance will appear, not shown on the mini-map. It leads to additional chests beyond the dungeon, which you can accept or decline. You can do this repeatedly until you run out of gold. There's no time limit, but accepting can be costly, so ensure you're prepared to spend the necessary Last Epoch Gold.

These modifiers are applied immediately, and you can continue declining or accepting as desired. The items from these chests are random, although you can influence them with modifiers. Exiting the dungeon leads to the next zone, Corrupted Lake, or you can use the map to navigate elsewhere.

Prepare for an exciting new guide on crafting the WraithLord Necromancer in the Last Epoch. This guide will be unveiling thrilling combos and sharing the tricks you can not miss, all aimed at unleashing staggering amounts of damage with the Necromancer. Without wasting time, let's just dive in!

Gear Setup

Relic: In our setup, a significant highlight arises from a particular relic - Ambitions of an Erased Acolyte, especially when the corruption level surpasses 2,000. This Relic, being a waiver item, cannot be directly crafted onto, but upon granting waiver status, its stats come into play.

Helmet: When selecting gear, our focus will be on the helmet called Wraithlord's Harbour, which emphasizes intelligence, critical avoidance, and increased health, while also boosting the levels of the WraithLord. Following a specific guide, having plus 4 ranks to Wraithlord is considered acceptable.

Comparing intelligence and Wraithlord, both offer similar stats, but prioritizing intelligence provides a slight edge in warding retention. With close to 1,200 warding retention, we can enhance survivability. While intelligence contributes to direct minion damage and skill levels, making it ideal for offense, opting for more defense may favor intelligence for increased ward retention.

Gloves: Moving on to the gloves, they enable us to stack uncapped cold resistance. The Frostbite Shackles may be familiar, often appearing in a variety of styles, especially Marksman's gloves. For optimal performance, aiming for tier 7 or at least tier 5 versions is crucial when crafting these gloves.

Belt: A standout feature of the build is the Jungle Queen’s belt, which offers up to 16 potion slots and the ability to summon zombies while consuming potions. To optimize efficiency, I suggest limiting the number of zombies summoned. Ideally, one should refrain from exceeding tier 4 for the Summon Zombies effect, ensuring that only 3 zombies are summoned with each potion use.

Boots: Similarly, our Last Steps of the Living boots play a vital role in granting additional warding based on missing health. Of utmost importance is the experimental affix, particularly for acquiring the minions teleportation spell. This traversal spell, facilitated by the experimental effect attached to the boots, is indispensable for the setup.

Weapon: Our weapon called Reach of the Graves serves to enhance the spell damage of our minions while also boosting casting speed, thereby amplifying overall damage output. You can also reserve some Last Epoch Gold to obtain better gear and ensure a smoother gaming experience.

Idols & Blessings

Now, briefly going through the idols and blessings. Half of the idols we choose are Stout Lagonian Idols with cold resistance and also increased health, while the other idol are opted to go for Large Immortal Idols with increased health and also health percentage together with more ward retention and also increased health. It also went for 1 idol for the chance to apply for Marked for Death, which will increase our minion’s narcotic damage.

In terms of the blessings, we’re going quite defensive with the Grand Echo of Solarum for increased void resistance, Grand Survival of Might for increased critical strike avoidance, Grand Body of Obsidian for increasing armor, and also Grand Resolve of Grael for increasing physical resistance together with Grand Grace of Water for additional ward decay threshold and also posing usage. You’ll be getting more warding and also more threshold.

Skill Rotations

When it comes to skill rotations, a key strategy is to accumulate a significant amount of warding before entering a dungeon. This ensures higher survivability, as warding is continuously replenished by defeating monsters along the way. Utilizing gloves that grant warding upon monster kills further bolsters this approach.

The rotation is straightforward: teleporting around while buffing the Wraithlord with both Infernal Shade and Dread Shade. The latter is particularly crucial as it provides a 100% critical chance.

During combat encounters, we can consistently use potions to summon zombies, capitalizing on the damage boost. This method not only buffs his minions but also enhances overall damage output, especially in endgame scenarios.

When facing bosses, strategically summons the Wraithlord directly at the boss spawn location, simultaneously using potions to summon zombies and boost damage output before the boss even appears. This approach maximizes damage potential, allowing for a more efficient defeat of the boss.

However, it's essential to exercise caution with minion summoning post-boss spawn, as the Wraithlord may prioritize consuming minions over dealing damage. To optimize damage output, it's best to focus on dealing damage while the boss is present, rather than summoning additional minions after its arrival.

Check out these 9 strategies designed to optimize your journey in Last Epoch! Last Epoch offers a unique and enjoyable gaming experience. Take the time to explore its features and immerse yourself in its world.

Whether you're a newcomer to the game or simply seeking to expand your knowledge, delve into this guide and uncover valuable insights of its engaging gameplay and depth. Remember to invest in Last Epoch Gold to fully enjoy the game!

1. Enable Health Bars

Let's start with the first tip: enabling health bars. Make sure to activate health bars for both yourself and your enemies. This simple adjustment allows you to easily track your own health status and that of your adversaries, significantly boosting your chances of survival during gameplay.

2. Utilize Runes Of Removal

If you happen upon an item boasting desirable suffixes that you'd like to transfer to another item, employ the use of Runes of Removal. These handy tools allow you to safely extract the desired suffixes from the original item, converting them into versatile shards that can be applied to different gear.

If you find yourself falling short of your forging potential during this process, don’t worry! A simple solution exists: utilize a Rune of Shattering to dismantle the item and retrieve any remaining shards.

3. Leverage Glyphs Of Hope

When it comes to upgrading or crafting gear, it's essential to integrate Glyphs of Hope into your process. These glyphs play a pivotal role in preserving forging potential, while concurrently enhancing multiple modifiers. An example scenario involves increasing poison resistance to Level 5 at no additional cost, demonstrating the efficiency of utilizing Glyph of Hope in gear enhancement efforts.

4. Be Cautious With Glyphs Of Chaos

Exercise caution when employing Glyphs of Chaos to modify items, particularly noting that Tier 5 affixes are immutable. It's crucial to bear in mind that these glyphs not only change affixes but also upgrade them concurrently. Therefore, it's prudent to carefully consider the potential consequences to prevent getting trapped with undesirable modifiers.

5. Prioritize Monolith Blessings

As you advance towards the endgame, make it a priority to acquire blessings from the Monoliths completion situated on the right side of the map. These blessings provide invaluable defensive or offensive enhancements like cold resistance or life bonuses, greatly bolstering your character's prowess.

Conversely, the left side Monoliths completion primarily caters to item acquisition and drop rates, offering supplementary benefits that are advantageous but should be considered secondary in importance.

6. Utilize Quest Rewards

Maximize your gaming progress by utilizing the quest reward feature accessible through the map interface. By reviewing these rewards, you can strategically prioritize quests that offer valuable benefits such as passive point bonuses and idol slot unlocks. Should lore or quest completion be of secondary importance to you, consider bypassing quests with less desirable rewards to accelerate your progression towards endgame content.

7. Use External Resources

To locate the items you need, access the dedicated website and proceed to the designated items section. Explore the various categories available to refine your search, whether you're seeking powerful swords or other types of equipment. By targeting specific items through this streamlined approach, you can enhance and optimize your overall gameplay experience to suit your preferences and playstyle.

8. Equip Holy Aura Passive

For Paladin enthusiasts, it's imperative to ensure the Holy Aura passive is not just acquired but also actively equipped within a designated skill slot to fully harness its benefits. Even though it's categorized as a passive ability, Holy Aura necessitates direct activation within the skill slot to exert its influence and bolster your character's capabilities effectively.

9. Leverage Lenses For Prophecies

Circle of Fortune players can benefit from using lenses. If you want to find a specific item prophecy or you want to do a specific content prophecy, then use lenses. Original lenses are effective at changing item types, while larger lenses can alter the content of prophecies. Use them strategically to customize your Prophecy rewards according to your preferences.

Last Epoch is an action role-playing game that emphasizes collecting loot, so you'll probably get rid of a lot of unnecessary stuff eventually. What if you could trade an item for Gold instead of squandering it because it doesn't fit your build or class? The idea behind the Merchant's Guild, an item faction that lets you purchase and trade goods for Last Epoch Gold and Favor, is exactly that.

Where Is The Merchant's Guild Located?

Similar to the Circle of Fortune, your initial encounter with the Merchant's Guild occurs in Act 9 when you first venture into the Upper District of Mak'elka. 

There, you'll meet Zerrick, a dubious figure with connections to various factions in the city, including the Merchant's Guild. Zerrick will task you with a quest titled "Merchants and Fortune Tellers," directing you towards The Bazaar in Maj'elka.

How To Become A Member Of The Merchant's Guild? 

After arriving at The Bazaar, make sure to find Nama, the Faction Leader, to learn more about the Merchant's Guild and to join their ranks.

Apart from reaching this stage in the storyline with your initial character, there are no prerequisites for joining the Merchant's Guild. You don't need to pay Gold, expend Favor (at least not yet), or defeat a specific number of enemies to demonstrate your skills. Simply have a conversation with Nama!

The Mechanics Of The Merchant's Guild Faction

The Merchant's Guild is the simpler of the two factions in Last Epoch, focusing entirely on the buying and selling of items using Gold and Favor.

Upon entering The Bazaar, you'll notice various trade stalls scattered throughout the area, each offering a specific category of items, ranging from weapons to armor and accessories. Interacting with these vendors allows you to purchase items using Gold and Favor.

Similarly, you can set up your own trade stall to sell items, earning Gold for each sale but requiring Favor to list items for other players to buy.

Favor is obtained by defeating monsters, with stronger enemies yielding more Favor. Side quests, particularly in the late game, also provide significant Favor rewards.

Once you've accumulated a substantial amount of Favor, return to Nama to exchange it for Reputation. Increasing your Reputation unlocks higher ranks within the Merchant's Guild, each offering unique rewards such as access to better items with powerful affixes.

What Kind Of Rewards Can Be Unlocked By Different Ranks In Merchant's Guild?

At Rank 1, you will gain the ability to sell all items and unlock the option to purchase Normal, Magic, and Rare Items from players or the Bazaar.

At Rank 2, you'll be able to buy Set Items.

At Rank 3, you'll gain the ability to purchase Unique Items, excluding those with Legendary Potential.

At Rank 4, you'll have the option to buy Idols.

At Rank 5, you'll be able to purchase Exalted Weapons.

At Rank 6, you'll gain access to buying Unique Weapons, including those with Legendary Potential.

At Rank 7, you'll have the option to buy all Exalted Items.

At Rank 8, you'll be able to purchase all Unique Items, including those with Legendary Potential.

At Rank 9, you'll gain access to buying Legendary Weapons.

At Rank 10, you'll have the option to purchase all Legendary Items.

Until now, you could get dozens of legendary items in Last Epoch, but the truly powerful ones only appeared in the endgame. Among them,  Unique Leather Belt called Immolator’s Oblation is one of the key items you can get in the endgame, and it is crucial for all players who focus on fire builds.

In this guide, we’ll focus on explaining what Immolator’s Oblation does and how you can find and obtain this Unique Belt. Without further ado, let’s jump right in!

Immolator’s Oblation Belt Explanation

Immolator’s Oblation Belt requires players to be level 46, plus it comes with four Potion Slots and five additional modifiers. Below are all the modifiers of this Unique Belt:

• (46-100%) Chance to ignite yourself when using Fire or Necrotic Skill.
• (+4-6) Spell damage per stack of Ignite Fire or Necrotic Skill (max 40).
• (4-6%) When you directly use Fire or Necrotic Skill with each stack of ignite, you have a chance to gain Frenzy for two seconds.
• (10-16%) Increases Ignite duration.
• (100%) Potion has a chance to cleanse all Ailments.

Immolator’s Oblation Belt is a very useful piece of gear for any character who specializes in fire skills. So if you want to try wearing it in Last Epoch, I recommend spending some Last Epoch Gold to level up your build to be ready for the boss to fight ahead.

How To Get Immolator’s Oblation Belt?

There’s only one way to get Immolator’s Oblation Belt, and that’s by defeating the specific boss of Last Epoch. You can’t find it any other way, so you’ll need to farm this single boss until luck favors you and the boss drops the belt.

The boss you need to fight is Cremorus, the final Fire Lich boss of Soulfire Bastion Dungeon. This dungeon is located in Felled Wood area of Imperial Era in Last Epoch, and players will need Soulfire Bastion Key to enter the dungeon.

Collect Soulfire Bastion Key

It’s important to remember that you’ll need a key every time you want to run a dungeon. So if you want to beat the boss, you need to keep finding Soulfire Bastion Key until you get Immolator’s Oblation.

Soulfire Bastion Key can be obtained by completing Monolith of Fate, Arenas, and as drops from random enemies and bosses. Once you have one, you can head to the dungeon and enter.

Select Dungeon Tier

Before you get started, however, you need to choose which Dungeon Tier you want to complete. Immolator’s Oblation Belt only drops from Fire Lich Cremorus boss in Tier 3 and 4, so simply completing a Tier 1 or 2 dungeon will not drop the belt.

To reach Tiers 3 and 4, you need to complete the dungeon once on each previous level. This means you need to complete all three first tiers to reach Tier 4.

Of course, this also means that you need to find at least four Soulfire Bastion Keys to have a chance of getting Immolator’s Oblation drop from Fire Lich Cremorus boss.

Drop Rate

It’s important to note that you don’t get the belt immediately after defeating the boss, you may need to try several times to get it. For reference, Immolator’s Oblation has a 12% chance to drop at Tier 3 and an 18% chance at Tier 4. So, try it a few times. Maybe you will be the lucky one!

Today, I’m excited to present a powerful build of Last Epoch - Rive Void Knight. I embarked on this journey with a Void Knight and soon discovered its exceptional potential. Throughout this guide, we’ll delve into its intricacies, exploring the skills, passives, gear, blessings, and idols that make it shine.

Gear Setup

• Amulet: Bleeding Heart
• Helmet: Leonine Greathelm
• Body Armour: Apocalypse Plate
• Belt: Spidersilk Sash
• Boots: Citadel Boots
• Gloves: Plated Gauntlets
• Ring: Ivory Ring
• Weapons: Doom Star & Katana
• Relic: Code of the Erase Sentinel

This build doesn't actually have the necessary gear fixed. So you can choose the appropriate gear according to your own number of Last Epoch Gold.

Skills & Specializations

Rive: This is our main damage dealer, and what you want to actually take first is you want to go down and you want to grab these nodes first. Focused Strike is going to make it where Rive always crits. You never have to worry about crit chance with this build because the third swing of Rive is going to be a guaranteed crit.

This is an Echo Rive build, which means you’re going to get bonus damage, multiplicative damage to your Echo, and you want the boost to your Echo chance. You’re going to get multiplicative damage as well, and you’re going to get to kill threshold.

Lunge: This is going to be your movement skill. This is going to give you an additional charge. You also want to go heavily into Warrior’s Renewal so that your charge or your cooldown is lowered. You’re going to get a health potion. Basically, every time you Lunge, you’re going to restore some of your missing health, and you’re going to take physical penetration.

Healing Hands: The first thing you want to take is Cleric's Hammer. This will give your Rive 100% proc of Healing Hand, and then you want to take Seraph Blade. So you can get Fire Damage as a melee attack, and then once you have all of this, you’re left with a couple of points. You get some upfront healing every time you trigger Healing Hands, which is every single swing.

Volatile Reversal: This singular skill will take you back in time to restore life if you took a big hit. It will boost your attack speed, it’ll boost your movement speed, it’ll help you with repositioning, and enemies will take 30% more damage. It’s absolutely outstanding. You just got to practice it and get good with it, and there’s no right or wrong way to take this skill.

Void Knight: We are not a Paladin, so we have a fifth skill, and I have gone back into sigils since we don’t have Holy Aura. I try to automate it a bit through Last Wish, where you will trigger some sigils without having to click it. We’re just taking a boost to damage.

We’re taking global melee damage. We treat it as an instant cast, and then we get the extra sigil and add time to it, so it’s just a little stat boost. At the training dummy, when we do Echo, we use Rive to do 250,000 damage.

Passive Skills

Moving over to the passives, starting in the base tree. We’re just taking some melee physical, some strength, damage reduction, cooldown with life, and then we are dual-wielding. We are taking Void Corruption, which gives us one point, a crit multiplier for every point in this tree. By taking World Eater, we can increased some leech rate.

We’re taking Woe boost to our melee and armor on melee kill. We’re getting a boost to our overall life, and then the tree is the most important. So this is going to give you a 20% Echo chance, and then this last note is going to give you a 30%.

When you combine that inside your Rive treat, you’re literally going to be echoing all the time, and we’re taking Void Flux, which is going to help you if you’re about to die every 30 seconds.

We then come over to Paladin. Take Conviction and boosting our attunement. It just gives us a bit of resistance, but ultimately, you need 15 points into this tree to unlock sigils. You can use the last 3 points however you want and place them where you want, but I recommend placing them under Weapon Mastery.

Idols & Blessings

There are the 2 Idols you want - Ornate Solar Idol and Stout Lagonian Idol. You can gain crit strike multiplier for Rive, and a chance to shred armor on hit. Then you can take Humble Etreran Idol for life, life armor, and health, and then take some resistances that we need.

When it comes to blessings, we need crit multiplier, lightning resistance, all resistance, physical shred, and armor. So we can get Grand Emptiness of Ash, Grand Bastin of Divinity, Grand Resolve of Humanity, Grand Fury of the North and Grand Body of Obsidian. We put a lot of emphasis on armor, and when you're in combat, the armor is actually much higher. This is absolutely a very tanky build.

This method offers the quickest path to reaching Level 100 in Last Epoch, starting from Level 1. Additionally, it can expedite the leveling process for alternate characters. These strategies and techniques are designed to facilitate a smooth journey to Level 100.

Rapidly Leveling To 50 Through Main Campaign Skip

In Last Epoch, there are numerous methods to significantly boost your experience gain, potentially allowing you to bypass the need to complete the entire campaign. 

Firstly, I'll explain the main campaign skip technique, which enables rapid leveling up to 50.

Upon starting the game, you'll find yourself in The Old Road Cliffs during the Divine Era. Most of the campaign can indeed be bypassed, but you must reach a certain point before doing so. Initially, your first character must fully complete the campaign. However, subsequent characters created after this will have the option to skip most of the campaign. Here's how:

Once you hit level 15, you'll unlock the End of Time for your new character. Progressing to around level 20 or 22, you'll venture into the Ruined Era. Here, you'll locate the Lightless Arbor Dungeon, a level 22 dungeon. It's not necessary to have completed this dungeon previously - completion of the main quest line suffices. You'll need a Lightless Arbor Key for access.

As long as both characters are in the same area, regardless of being on cycle, offline, or legacy, you should be able to obtain one of these keys from your main. These keys commonly drop from various sources, particularly Monoliths. So, if you plan to create a new character after reaching level 50 with your main, ensure to run Monoliths to acquire several keys.

Once your main character reaches level 22, and you're prepared to bypass a substantial portion of the campaign, simply locate one of your Lightless Arbor Keys obtained from your main. Right-click on it, and you'll be directed to the dungeon. If you encounter any issues, you can manually navigate there from a waypoint. Upon arrival, proceed to the door, input your Lightless Arbor Key, and complete the dungeon. You'll find yourself in the Imperial Era afterward, granting access to the Soulfire Bastion Dungeon.

The process repeats similarly for this dungeon. Acquire a Soulfire Bastion Key from your main, journey to the dungeon, and complete it. Subsequently, you'll be transported back to the Divine Era. Further progression will lead you to The Shining Cove in the Imperial Era. Upon reaching level 31, passing through a time rift located at The Shining Cove will take you to the Ruined Era, specifically to the Ruined Coast.

Commence Your First Monolith Journey

At this stage, it's usually around level 30 to 35. So you've accumulated a certain amount of Last Epoch Gold and your character should be equipped with semi-decent gear. Next, you'll begin your initial Monolith run starting with Fall of the Outcasts.

You might be concerned about the challenge ahead, even at this level range. However, the leveling pace is significantly faster compared to completing the entire campaign. It's advisable to prioritize your highest resistances, choose areas where you anticipate favorable outcomes, and engage in battles against easier or weaker foes rather than confronting particularly challenging bosses in certain Echoes.

Sometimes, focusing on swiftly completing objectives to maximize XP gains is essential. Despite encountering occasional setbacks, this approach proves to be much quicker than traversing the entire campaign. Through consistent Monolith runs, you can easily progress to levels 50 or even 55 from this point onwards.

Idols/Passives

The subsequent significant inquiry pertains to obtaining your passive point rewards and Idol slot rewards, visible in the bottom left corner of the screen. At this juncture, you likely possess only half of these rewards, if you're fortunate.

However, there exists a straightforward method to acquire the remaining rewards swiftly, enabling you to fully maximize your character's potential by attaining all passive points and Idol slots.

Upon reaching the Ruined Era and navigating to the Ruined Coast, you'll encounter The Temporal Sanctum Dungeon. By this point, you should have acquired keys for accessing this dungeon, allowing you to embark on a run through it. Upon completion, you'll be transported back to the Divine Era. This marks yet another significant campaign bypass, placing you just outside the Maj'elka Upper District, where the Circle of Fortune and the Merchant's Guild are accessible. You can make your decision regarding which path to pursue from this point.

Furthermore, it's crucial to complete the concluding quest titled "Apophis and Majasa" to obtain additional skill points and rewards from defeating them. Additionally, complete the main quests such as The Radiant Dunes, along with any side quests available in the Maj'elka Upper District. By diligently completing these quests, you'll progress through the main quest line to Majasa and ultimately max out your passive point rewards and Idol slots.

In summary, leveraging the campaign skip method facilitates faster leveling and the acquisition of all Idol and passive points. Once achieved, you can focus on engaging in races and completing the Monolith for endgame content.

Blessings

Additionally, regarding leveling, there are a few more tips worth mentioning.

In the Fall of the Outcasts Monolith, your initial Monolith endeavor, you'll encounter the option to acquire increased experience through Blessings. I consistently opt for this choice, as it doesn't significantly impact other selections available.

Integrate A Movement Skill Into Your Character's Build

Another effective strategy for leveling in Last Epoch involves incorporating a movement skill into your build. 

Regardless of your chosen build or whether you're experimenting with different approaches, nearly every class and specialization in the game offers a movement skill.

For instance, Warlocks have Transplant as their movement skill. I've personally utilized this skill since the outset of my Warlock journey, investing points into it as I progressed through levels. This ability allows me to traverse the map swiftly, expediting content completion. Naturally, the faster your movement speed, the quicker you can navigate through early-game content and level up simultaneously, making this aspect highly significant.

Early Movement Speed Buff

Ensure that your boots are equipped with Movement Speed, specifically opting for a pair that offers double Movement Speed. This entails having Movement Speed as both an implicit effect and an affix.

Here's a straightforward tip: rather than waiting to chance upon suitable boots, if you already possess a main character at this stage, you likely have Runes of Ascendance. Utilize these runes on your new character by acquiring any pair of boots available. Apply the Rune of Ascendance from your main or lower-level character to elevate these boots to legendary status. 

Legendary boots commonly provide dual sets of increased movement speed, along with other beneficial effects ideal for early-game progression. This facilitates a swift increase in movement speed right from the outset. Additionally, unique greens may also feature movement speed bonuses, offering alternative options to enhance your mobility.

Empowered Monoliths

Once you reach level 50 and have completed your initial Monolith, you can continue leveling rapidly. As you progress to the Spirits of Fire, The Last Ruin, and The Age of Winter Monoliths, refrain from engaging in Corruption until all three are unlocked.

Upon completing these Monoliths, you'll gain access to the level 100 version of the Corrupted Monolith for each. This advancement enables you to access level 100 content directly, facilitating even faster leveling due to the higher level cap and increased XP yield.

A helpful strategy for Monoliths involves focusing initially on advancing through the Monolith until your Stability reaches the third lock, known as the Quest Echo Unlock. This lock corresponds to the main quest line for that particular Monolith. Once unlocked, proceed to complete all three quest Echoes. Given the goal of leveling quickly, there's no need to revisit these Echoes repeatedly. Instead, upon unlocking the third quest, complete all Echoes and move on to the next Monolith. Return later to tackle the empowered version.

During Echo encounters, combat with enemies is inevitable. To expedite progress, utilize movement abilities and speed, especially during early Echoes, to swiftly reach the quest objective. Prioritize completing the main quest within each Echo to maximize your progression, allowing you to tackle more Echoes and complete more Monoliths efficiently.