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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.

Almost all Last Epoch items or gear are earned through combat, and honestly, this should be the core gameplay of any ARPG! Let your character continue to grow to deal with increasingly difficult enemies and bosses, to obtain better gear, and repeat until you are strong enough to no longer fear any opponent.

In Last Epoch, there is a special kind of enemy called Champion. As its name suggests, this type of enemy not only has powerful modifiers like ordinary elite enemies, but also comes with more dangerous special abilities, forcing you to be more careful when fighting against them.

Fortunately, these dangerous Champions are also generous enough. Although they are more difficult to deal with, they will drop special gear with Champion Affixes’ effects besides the regular Last Epoch Gold rewards after death. If you can get this gear and combine it with your Last Epoch Season 2 builds, you will be able to become more powerful this season.

Based on this, we will provide you with a detailed introduction to the specific effects of all Champion Affixes that these gears may have, as well as the best way to farm Champion gear.

Affixes And Champion Affixes

In the crafting system provided by Last Epoch, you can modify your gear by adding, removing, or changing affixes to make it more powerful. After obtaining new affix shards, you can attach them directly to the gear, or upgrade existing affixes. Affixes can be upgraded to a maximum of 5 levels, and higher-level affixes will only appear when they are dropped as items.

However, as a special affix, Champion Affixes cannot be removed or replaced, nor can they be upgraded, just like regular Sealed Affixes - permanently frozen affixes created by Glyph of Despair or a Rune of Research. In terms of specific effects, Champion Affixes are closer to unique items.

All Champion Affixes Effects

There are about 14 Champion Affixes (gear) in the game, and each affix has different gear types and specific combat effects. Considering that Champion enemies are very difficult to deal with and Champion Affixes drop randomly, it should be difficult to collect all Champion gear in a short period.

• Abyssal Champion’s - 2H Sword/Axe: Deal melee damage while charging Void Cleave.
• Carnage Champion’s - Amulet: Deal spell damage while reducing your spell health consumption.
• Death Grip Champion’s - Relic (Acolyte Only): Convert a portion of your current health to wards every second when you cast Necrotic spells.
• Infernal Champion’s - Ring: Damage enemies by summoning minions. Bring a certain number of minions to you when you cast a movement skill.
• Meteor Champion’s - 1H Axe/Dagger/Wand: Grants you a certain amount of fire damage based on the length of the fight, and converts bleed chance to ignite chance.
• Mirage Champion’s - Gloves: Increases your dodge rating and maximum shadows.
• Portal Champion’s - Helmet: Grants you a speed boost after you utilize dodge, and also increases your dodge rating.
• Profane Champion’s - 2H Axe/Staff: Increases your critical strike chance and maximum skeletons.
• River Champion’s - Helmet (Primalist Only): Deals minion damage and increases your maximum companions.
• Spark Champion’s - Belt: Deals spell damage and allows your Lightning Blast to combo up to 4 additional times.
• Storm Champion’s - 2H Spear/1H Mace: Gives you a chance to apply an electric shock when you hit an enemy.
• Venomous Champion’s - Gloves: Hitting enemies has a chance to apply poison and make them hit by Multishot.
• Volcano Champion’s - Belt: Increases your elemental critical strike chance and chance to cast Fire Aura on crit.
• Whirlpool Champion’s - Amulet: Gain a ward effect for one second each time you activate Maelstrom.

How To Get Champion Affixes?

Each Champion Affixes or gear can only be dropped by a fixed corresponding Champion enemy. Fortunately, the drop rate of Champion Affixes is not low, and you can concentrate on farming because Champion enemies are marked on the mini-map with an icon similar to a skull eye. This way, when you find multiple such marks around, you can temporarily put down the task at hand and concentrate on farming Champion Affixes.

In addition, you can further increase the drop rate of this affix through other Last Epoch mechanisms. For example, after joining Circle of Fortune, there is a skill that increases your chance of getting double the amount of loot from enemies by 35%; after a passive node in Weaver endgame faction is unlocked, it can increase the refresh rate of Champion enemies in Monolith of Fate.

Red Ring Of Atlaria

In fact, in addition to Champion Affixes, if your character level is high enough, you can also consider obtaining rarer high-level gear separately to further enhance your character, such as Red Ring of Atlaria. This ring will only start to drop when you reach level 80, so you can imagine how valuable it is.

Red Ring of Atlaria provides resistance to all elemental types, making it easier for you to reach the resistance cap. In addition, it also provides a series of very useful buffs such as movement speed, health regeneration, mana regeneration and dodge level.

Although the drop rate of this gear is not high, the sources of drop are quite rich, including chests, normal enemies, Echo rewards and so on. In addition, just like Champion Affixes, you can also increase its drop rate through special methods such as Weaver Tree.

In short, there are a lot of affixes and gear available in Last Epoch, but you can only enjoy the benefits they bring if you work hard enough, so please continue to explore!

Although players always want to experience new classes, it is always unrealistic for any MMORPG to continuously add new classes - this will also disrupt the overall operation of the game, so instead of directly developing new classes, setting up subclasses for existing basic classes is also a good choice! In Last Epoch, this subclass is called Mastery classes.

Not long ago, on April 17, Last Epoch officially launched Season 2. While bringing more new content, this season also adjusted part of inherent mechanisms, including various basic classes and Mastery classes. Based on this, we divide the 15 Mastery classes into the following 5 levels from high to low according to the current situation, and will focus on introducing the top 6 for you:

• S Tier: Paladin, Void Knight
• A Tier: Falconer, Bladedancer, Shaman, Druid
• B Tier: Marksman, Lich, Beastmaster
• C Tier: Necromancer, Forge Guard, Runemaster
• D Tier: Spellblade, Warlock, Sorcerer

1. Void Knight

Compared with the past, the mobility and effective HP of this Mastery class have been significantly improved through the adjustments brought by the season update, and the clearing ability and damage ability against bosses in battle are still very powerful, which also makes it still one of the most worthy Mastery classes in Last Epoch Season 2.

In addition, after entering Season 2, all Void Knight’s skills have increased their damage effect by 200%, and they can also continue to cause damage to enemies while moving in the arena, allowing you to kill more enemies by outputting more DPS to quickly accumulate Last Epoch Gold, and making your gaming experience smoother.

2. Paladin

The strength of this Mastery class lies in the fact that it not only has an extremely outstanding Judgement skill, but also has good combat performance in other skills. Judgement can provide you with 350% damage effect and 200% critical strike multiplier in battle, as well as double bonuses for treatment and damage, and even the required mana consumption and cooling time are only 15 points and 4 seconds, respectively.

Other skills worth using include Symbols of Hope and Holy Aura, which have good damage and defense effects, and Healing Hands, which can also provide a lot of treatment when your character faces a powerful boss.

3. Falconer

Falconer has been favored by Last Epoch players for its outstanding features since its launch. After the optimization of Season 2, the advantages of this Mastery class are now more prominent! The unmatched movement speed and the equally top-level damage output value of other Masteries allow you to easily defeat the enemy with a high critical hit rate and agility bonus. On this basis, you can also utilize Aerial Assault to throw bombs at the enemy.

4. Bladedancer

If you want to have a powerful and fast melee Mastery class, Bladedancer will be your best choice, because its powerful output skills, passive assistance and special Lethal Mirage can help you lock the target faster in battle while gaining considerable defensive capabilities.

If you want to maximize the passive skill effect of Bladedancer, it is recommended that you first unlock the following nodes on its passive skill tree:

• Pursuit: Increases damage and movement speed.
• Argent Veil: Improves your dodge ability.
• Death’s Door: Provides effective damage reduction when you choose low life builds.
• Glancing Blows, Dusk Shrouds, and Dodge: Provides you with dexterity stacking, crit, leech, Frailty, armour shred and armour shred while providing sufficient defense value.

5. Shaman

Shaman is a Mastery class that performs well in melee and elemental. Although its performance in damage, clearing and defense may not be as good as the best Paladin or Void Knight, it is still a Mastery worth choosing, especially if you are good at planning the arrangement and use of its skills.

First of all, Tornado can provide enough damage output and vacuum effect, Aftershock idols can continue to add some extra damage, and Summon Storm Totem can act as bait when other better skills are on cooldown, while providing more damage.

6. Druid

If you choose to utilize this Mastery class, then Storm Werebear will be your most important skill. It can cause 300 or even 700 points of Wave Arena in battle, and 1000 points of corrosion - this should be the highest value of corrosion you can get in Last Epoch Season 2, and the powerful DPS allows you to kill the boss Abberoth as a Druid.

However, the main reason why Druid is so powerful but not in the S tier is that its resource farming speed is relatively slow, especially not conducive to your completion of the necessary gold and XP accumulation in the early stage of the game. But if your character is already strong enough, Druid should give you a good gaming experience.

After our introduction, have you decided which Mastery class to choose in Last Epoch Season 2? If this is the case, quickly enter the game to complete your selection and defeat all enemies with your Mastery class!

When exploring the latest Last Epoch Season 2 Tombs of the Erased, you’ll be prioritizing gear that can boost your damage abilities, such as Shattered Worlds, whether it’s during the level up phase or the Monolith of Fate challenge.

This Unique Void Star Relic, which focuses on inflicting ailment, can improve your ability to inflict debilitating effects on enemies, and provide some buffs to your defense. Unfortunately, to get your hands on Shattered Worlds you’ll have to pass a rigorous test.

So, in this guide, we’ll show you how to effectively farm Shattered Worlds to speed up your exploration in Last Epoch Season 2. And in order to maximize its effectiveness after collecting it, it will also introduce you to the properties and modifiers it has, as well as the recommended builds to place this item.

How To Get Shattered Worlds?

Although Shattered Worlds is one of Unique items in the game, it doesn’t have many sources of acquisition. You can only find it in the loot dropped by defeating the pinnacle endgame boss Aberroth Threshold of Eternity Woven Echo.

But it is worth noting that you need to have a Corruption Level of 500, and you can get more Corruption by completing specific timelines or defeating The Shade of Orobyss to get additional corruption upgrades.

In addition, before starting this boss encounter, you also need to complete Harbingers of Ruin quest, which requires you to defeat 10 different Harbingers in 10 different timelines in Monolith and collect Harbinger Eyes.

After completing the quest, you can enter Shattered Road and interact with an Altar of Oblivion to start your fight with Aberroth. But you need to note that you still need to fight multiple Harbingers before you can see Aberroth, but fortunately their attacks are the same as before.

Although Harbingers here are less challenging than Aberroth, it doesn’t mean you don’t need to spend Last Epoch Gold on your build to improve defense and damage. After all Harbingers are defeated, you will be in the arena with Aberroth.

Since Aberroth is a boss with three combat phases, you should prepare for a long encounter before fighting, such as increasing your maximum health or carrying more potions that can instantly restore health or mana.

• In the first phase, Aberroth will use his weapons to deal very heavy Void damage to you. You can use it to use the gap between his attacks to rush to the center of the arena to avoid more area damage. But even if you dodge in time, you will still suffer an unavoidable heavy blow in this phase.
• In the second phase, Aberroth starts to use some elemental attacks to deal fire and frost damage to you, which will appear in the form of orbs. Void orbs are what you need to be most concerned about here, because when they miss you but land, they create void puddles that slow you down.
• In the final phase, Aberroth will use a combination of all the attacks from the first two phases. The best positions to dodge and deal damage are behind or below Aberroth, as he is not as flexible and cannot react quickly to your changing positions.

Upon defeating Aberroth, you will receive Threshold of Eternity Woven Echo, which has an unchangeable corruption level and echo modifier. In addition, you will find Shattered Worlds, a large amount of Last Epoch Gold, and other items that can greatly benefit you among the loot scattered around.

Uses Of Shattered Worlds

As we just mentioned, Shattered Worlds Relic not only improves the Ailment effect you apply to enemies, but also has modifiers that improve the overall attributes and skills of your character in Last Epoch.

For example, it can directly reduce the damage you take by 5%-10%, and let you ignore all the attack skills that the enemy casts on you that can slow you down, which are useful gains that directly increase your defensive capabilities.

Not only that, you also have the ability of Haste, which makes Primalist, a class that is already highly mobile, even more flexible. However, please note that this effect can only be triggered or updated once per second.

Of course, not only the defensive capabilities have such powerful gains, but also the offensive capabilities: your critical strike chance is increased from 1% to 5%, and the ability of your Frenzy buff is also increased from 10% to 100%.

What’s more, all attributes in your build are increased by 10 points and all skill levels are increased by one level. With the help of these powerful modifiers and abilities, Shattered Worlds will be a splendid choice for players who are looking for a build that combines high flexibility, high attack speed, and high damage capabilities.

Recommended Builds

Shattered Worlds’ main effect is to provide you with permanent speed-up and immunity to slow, so it will be more suitable for those who focus on high mobility. The following is the best build that can be recommended for you to use this relic in the current Last Epoch Season 2 Tombs of the Erased.

1. Storm Crow Beastmaster

In this build, players will focus on Summon Storm Crows to deal super high damage to monsters or bosses, and the improvement of Frenzy by Shattered Worlds can speed up the casting speed of these two skills and greatly improve the attack ability.

2. Rogue Falconer

Because Rogue is a class focused on ranged attacks, flexibility in the build needs more attention. The super high mobility provided by Shattered Worlds can maximize the movement speed and attack speed to enhance the overall DPS output.

3. Ballista Falconer

The same is true for this build. All the benefits of Shattered Worlds can make the kite tactics and long-range output that this build is most proud of becoming the best helpers to complete the challenge.

In addition to these three, some builds that focus on efficient farming and clearing will also get some benefits from Shattered Worlds: the additional movement speed can further increase the efficiency of clearing, and the improved survivability can complete each farming more safely.

The above is the current way to obtain Shattered Worlds in Last Epoch Season 2 and some recommended uses. I hope you can pick it up as soon as possible in the game, and take it through Empowered Monoliths and more challenging campaigns to get a better exploration experience. I wish you a happy game!

Like most ARPGs, in Last Epoch, finding the most suitable builds for each class will enable the class to play a greater combat effect based on the available skills. The special thing about Last Epoch is that it has set up 3 Mastery classes for each class. If you are willing to explore, you will find that these Mastery classes also have their own builds.

After the official release of Season 2 on April 17, each Last Epoch class has been adjusted and optimized to a greater or lesser extent, and the corresponding Mastery class mechanism has naturally changed. Based on this, this time we will use Mastery class of Lich in Acolyte class as a representative to introduce you how to build the best Leveling Build for Lich in Season 2.

Lich Leveling Build Overview

The basic feature of Mastery class Lich is that it can transform your character into Reaper Form, gaining powerful combat capabilities while also depleting your health over time. While the risk of losing health may be a deterrent, Lich’s excellent clearing speed is not to be ignored, which allows you to kill the most enemies in a short period, thereby increasing the speed at which you can farm Last Epoch Gold.

Based on this, Lich Leveling Build is mainly built around Reaper Form and Death Seal. The high mobility of Transplant and Reap in Reaper Form, combined with the high damage of Death Seal, allows you to destroy enemies while quickly crossing the map.

In addition, when Death Seal is on cooldown, Rip Blood can provide considerable damage and endurance, and Bone Curse can provide additional DPS and large-scale survivability-prerequisite that you have unlocked Signet of Agony Specialization node. Another node worth having is Deadlock Specialization of Death Seal, as it automatically sets your health to 33% when you activate Death Seal to enjoy the low health bonus effect.

While the combination of Reaper Form and Death Seal makes the entire build very effective, if you lose Reaper Form for any reason, you will be significantly weakened and will have to wait a few seconds until Reaper Form is restored again before you can continue using this build.

However, if you can get Unholy Dominion node in Reaper skill tree, you can use Transplant to avoid danger outside of Reaper Form. This is because Reaper Form and Transplant no longer share a cooldown, giving you extra mobility to easily maintain Reaper Form by moving between teams faster.

Best Active Skills

As we did in the overview, the core of this build is Lich Mastery skill Reaper Form and Death Seal. Since these two skills require you to invest another 30 points in the skill tree to unlock and start using them, before that, you can choose Acolyte’s starting skill Rip Blood for this build. In addition, Bone Curse and Transplant are also good at starting upgrading as soon as possible.

After successfully unlocking Reaper Form, you should first unlock its Specialization node Unholy Dominion to ensure good mobility, so that you can maintain your Reaper Form by shuttling between enemies and sucking their health. After that, it is recommended that you unlock Reaper’s Curse and Rapid Destruction nodes on the left side of the skill tree, and then unlock Mistress of Decay, Soul Shroud, and Vile Shroud on the right side of the skill tree as reliable defense nodes.

After unlocking another important active skill Death Seal, it is recommended that you first maximize Corrupted Consciousness to unlock Mortal Pulse, and then continue along this branch to unlock Desperate Shroud and Deadlock. And if you have Marina’s Lost Soul Unique skill, Doomcall node on the right side of the skill tree can also greatly increase the damage output of Death Seal.

Passive Tree Unlocking Solution

For Lich Leveling Build, first you must unlock Lich Mastery class with 20 points in the basic Acolyte passive tree. Later in the upgrade process, you need to allocate points to Blood Aura and Bone Aura. If you also use Summon Skeletons during the upgrade process, it is also a good choice to allocate a small amount of points to Dark Rituals, as this can further increase the damage.

Then you need to unlock and upgrade Intelligence in Warlock tree, and unlock all nodes in Lich tree. After unlocking Lich, you need to reallocate Acolyte passive tree to have 8 points each in Bone Aura and Forbidden Knowledge, or 4 points each in Stolen Vitality or Blood Aura - depending on whether you need more survivability or damage.

But in general, the most important node in Lich passive tree is Dance with Death, because it can greatly increase your damage output when your character’s health is below 35%. Interestingly, Deadlock can effectively maintain the character’s health at 35%. After that, Apocrypha and Grasp of Fate can provide you with 20 points to help you continue to unlock Unclosing Wounds and Crippling Insight.

Other recommended passives include Deathbringer, Dark Guard, Clairvoyant Insight, and Ageless Ascetic for increased damage; Three Plagues, Elixir of Death, and Soul Maw for increased defense and endurance; Mind Over Body for increased intelligence and health consume - helpful if you need to keep your health low during Dance with Death.

That’s it for the best skill allocation and usage for Lich Leveling Build, which will be useful if you plan to use this build in Last Epoch Season 2!

Last Epoch Season 2 reworked Sentinel, and this class is now better than before, and Paladin in Smite Hammer Paladin is a subclass of Sentinel.

Paladin has many advantages. First, it can provide various buffs to itself and teammates. Second, it has a powerful defense, which makes it not easy to die during the game. Some players may think that Paladin’s attack power is not strong, but in fact this is a misunderstanding.

Paladin can cause physical damage and spell damage, but his skill damage range is not as large as other classes. But relying on the two skills of Hammer Throw and Smite, Paladin farms gold and XP efficiently.

Pros And Cons

Pros

• Clear vision
• Can act as a tank
• Can cause huge single-target damage

Cons

• Need to pay attention to mana consumption
• Requires equipment to reach the critical hit limit
• Rely on buffs very much
• Susceptible to DoT damage

Build Requirements

This build does not rely on weapons and equipment, so it can save you a lot of Last Epoch Gold. The most important requirement of this build is that you need to use Hammer Throw to trigger Smite continuously, which is the main attack method of this build.

It is recommended that you get Storm Champion Weapon or Sentinel Idol. Storm Champion Weapon can increase the chance of casting Smite when throwing attacks, or rely on Sentinel Idol to drop a prefix suitable for Paladin: Chance To Cast Smite When Paladin hits an enemy with Throwing Attacks.

Smite Hammer Paladin Leveling Build Skills

Hammerdin Build (Level 1-20)

Skills

• Hammer Throw
• Rive/Vengeance
• Lunge
• Javelin
• Holy Aura

Passives

• Fearless (5 Points)
• Armour Clad (5 Points)
• Valiant Charge (5 Points)
• Time and Faith (5 Points)

In the early game, Smite damage is not that high, so Paladin still mainly relies on physical damage, and Smite is a skill that can only be unlocked at Paladin level 20. Therefore, before level 20, Hammer Throw is your main damage skill.

Hammer Throw:

• Mana Cost: 3
• Cooldown: 0 seconds
• 22 base physical damage, and 4% more for each point of Strength and Dexterity
• Critical Chance: 5%
• Effect: Throws a hammer that returns after a brief delay, and deals an additional 110% of the thrown damage on each hit

Iron Spiral and Catapult can change the shape and number of hammers, allowing your Paladin to hit more enemies at once, so be sure to add points to Hammer Throw.

Holy Aura is a powerful auxiliary skill that can bring 30% damage increase and 15% elemental resistance to Paladin. Expedite and Fanaticism nodes allow Paladin to use Hammer Throw faster.

Hammerdin Build (Level 20+)

Skills

• Hammer Throw
• Symbols of Hope
• Healing Hands
• Javelin
• Holy Aura
• Smite

Sentinel Passives

• Fearless (8 Points)
• Juggernaut (2 Points)
• Armour Clad (5 Points)
• Valiant Charge (5 Points)

Paladin Passives

• Conviction (5 Points)
• Phoenix Strike (5 Points)
• Rahyeh’s Strength (5 Points)
• Force of Devotion (6 Points)
• Faith Armour (4 Points)
• Holy Precision (10 Points)
• Prayer Aegis (5 Points)
• Covenant of Light (5 Points)
• Covenant of Dominion (7 Points)

At level 50+, Smite becomes the primary damage skill for Paladin. Smite can be transformed into a powerful lightning skill through Order of Lagon passive node. Conviction can increase Paladin’s critical chance, so you need to increase this node to the maximum.

Sacrifice and Atonement nodes are used to increase Paladin’s damage, although this will cause Paladin to lose health when using Smite. Paladin has a way to restore health, so you can increase these two nodes to 5 points.

At around level 70, this build is basically complete. As long as you throw your hammer at the monsters, Smite can kill numerous monsters in an instant, leaving a lot of materials and gold on the ground, just like Thor.

Equipment

Smite Hammer Paladin Leveling Build has a lot of equipment options. Here are the goals that your equipment should achieve.

• Elemental Resistances reach the upper limit
• Endurance reaches the upper limit
• 100% resistance to additional damage caused by critical hits
• 3000 - 4000 Health
• 60% - 70% physical damage resistance
• 2500+ Block Effectiveness
• 50% - 100% Block Chance
• 100% Smite Crit Chance
• 60% or more Throwing Attack Speed
• 500 or more Mana

In terms of weapons, before level 20, Paladin can choose weapons that increase physical damage, cause ignition or blood sucking. After level 50, Paladin will use Smite as the main means of attack, so a wand that can increase the chance of spell critical hits will be the best choice.

Blessings

• Hunger of the Void
• Bastion of Divinity
• Survival of Might
• Persistance of Will
• Bones of Eternity
• Embers of Immortality
• Body of Obsidian
• Mysteries of the Deep

These are the common blessings you can use during the leveling process. These blessings are not important. You need to make Empowered Monolith your goal.

Idols

• Stout Lagonian Idols: Increase resistance
• Small Lagonian Idols: Increase resistance
• Small Eterran Idols: Increase resistance
• Large Rahyeh Idols× 4: Increase Vengeance And Smite Damage
• Adorned Rahyeh Idols: Chance to release Smite when using Throwing Attacks

The above is the general content of the skills and equipment selection of Smite Hammer Paladin Leveling Build. Smite Hammer Paladin Build is a classic build of Sentinel, which has been tested by many players. Its upper limit may not be high enough, but its lower limit is high enough to bring you happiness.

If you’ve already gotten deep into Last Epoch Season 2, you’ve probably encountered one of the most powerful bosses in The Void, Harbinger of Hatred. This boss isn’t just an ordinary encounter, it has a Tank archetype and will provide you with an unprecedented challenge by combining powerful physical skills with devastating Void skills.

But this boss is not an optional enemy, which means you have to face it, and more importantly, defeating Harbinger of Hatred is not only the key to advancing Forgotten Knights Endgame Faction, but also a prerequisite for challenging Aberroth Pinnacle Boss. So prepare for the challenge of this Harbinger of Hatred boss early.

But don’t worry, here we will take you through the location of this boss, the equipment you need to prepare, and tips on dealing with Harbinger of Hatred’s attacks to help you survive this dangerous encounter. Without further ado, let’s get straight to it!

How To Find Harbinger Of Hatred?

First, the prerequisite for finding Harbinger of Hatred is to complete Black Sun timeline and defeat the enemy at the end, Rahyeh.

In addition to this, another key factor that affects Harbinger’s appearance is the corruption level of the timeline, that is, the higher the corruption level, the higher the probability of this boss appearing.

Specifically, your first encounter with Harbinger of Hatred will be around corruption level 100, and it will appear every 25 levels thereafter, up to level 300.

However, because the normal Monolith of Fate has a corruption level cap of 50, you must unlock the empowered versions of all timelines to continue this quest.

So, you need to complete the normal versions of three timelines first:

• Spirits of Fire
• The Last Ruin
• The Age of Winter

Then, immediately go to the central island connecting the three timelines and interact with the treasure chest there to activate all the empowered versions.

After completing the enhancement, you can continue to explore the Black Sun Timeline, complete each Quest Echo, and then continue to increase the corruption level to increase the chance of encountering Harbinger boss.

However, I must remind you that Corruption is a key mechanism in Monolith of Fate system. As your corruption level increases, the enemies you encounter will become stronger, but at the same time, it will benefit us with higher item rarity, more Last Epoch Gold and XP rewards, and loot drop rates. So there are both risks and benefits.

Equipment Priority

For equipment selection, you must prioritize Harbinger of Hatred as a boss that uses void and physical damage as the main damage output, so it is crucial to prepare equipment that can resist these types of damage. In addition, don’t forget to choose the right modifiers, which can make your battle path easier and increase your tolerance rate.

Like we said before, the stats and Echo Modifiers you should prioritize when choosing gear include:

Gear Stats

• Void Resistance: Harbinger of Hatred deals a lot of void damage, so stacking Void Resistance to avoid death is what you need to do first.
• Movement Speed: Many of this boss’s attacks have a foreshadowing effect, so you can avoid most of the damage by quickly dodging.
• High Life and Armor: As a tank-like boss, Harbinger deals a lot of physical damage, and a piece of gear with high armor and life is key to your survivability.
• Endurance Damage Reduction: This will help you absorb attacks and improve your tanking ability.

Echo Modifiers

• Avoid: This can increase enemy crit chance or dodge chance if your build relies on crits or ailments applied on hit.
• Take: Modifiers that affect rare enemies but not bosses, making them a safe choice to increase rewards without increasing difficulty.

Harbinger Of Hatred’s Attacks

Before defeating Harbinger of Hatred, you’ll first have to face Rahyeh, the Black Sun in the same fight. Watch carefully, because when Rahyeh falls, Harbinger will appear to take his place.

Since Harbinger of Hatred is a tank, not only does it have a lot of damage, but it can also absorb some damage to launch powerful AoE attacks, so you’ll have to stay alert and maneuverable to react to its different attack patterns.

Note that Harbinger of Hatred has a short period of vulnerability between powerful attacks, which is when you have the best chance to defeat him. You’ll need to seize this opportunity to maximize your damage output while avoiding a fatal blow from Harbinger.

Next, let’s look at the main skills you need to focus on when fighting Harbinger:

• Tank Slam: A cone-shaped ground slam that deals a lot of physical damage. When the boss raises the hammer, you must sidestep to avoid the incoming attack.
• Massive Tank Slam: A large-area slam with red telegraphs that deal heavy physical damage. Just quickly move away from the red telegraphed area to avoid the attack.
• Tank Echo Slam: Harbinger and its echoes will slam continuously, sending out lines of physical and void damage. Note that you can only avoid the waves by always placing yourself between the echo lines.
• Tank Void Combo: Three consecutive weapon swings followed by a powerful ground slam. You need to keep your distance from it during the combo and re-attack after the last combo.
• Tank Void Orbs: Lingering orbs will appear at this time, dealing void damage to any player that touches it. Keep moving to avoid these void orbs.
• Tank Void Portal Blast: Random boss portals will open around you, dealing physical and void damage to you, and you must stay away from them.
• Tank Void Rush: Harbinger will charge forward, dealing physical and void damage. Simply dodge sideways to avoid taking damage.
• Tank Void Turrets: There are void projectiles that scatter in a straight line, so you must stay out of the turret’s fire range.
• Void Slam: The boss will target a large area with its slam, so if you find it marked on the ground, dodge or move to an unmarked area.
• Void Meteors: Summons multiple meteors that deal moderate void damage on impact. You must keep moving to avoid the random meteors that fall.
• Void Flares: This causes a cone of void attacks that radiates outward in a pancake shape. Pay attention to the direction of the flares and move in the opposite direction to stay safe.

Rewards

After you defeat Harbinger of Hatred, you can earn some rewards for Forgotten Knights Faction, including World Splitter two-handed axe, which is essential for Void Knight builds, and the key quest items Harbinger’s Needle and Harbinger Eye.

These loot will not only optimize your build, but are also key items to continue your progress in Tombs Of The Erased. No matter what, Harbinger is a powerful opponent that you cannot avoid in the new season, so why not face it head-on? After all, the pleasure of winning by yourself is incomparable!

In Last Epoch, Exalted Items are highly sought after for their extra high-level affixes and amazing stat boosts. By using Exalted Items strategically and choosing your stat lines, you can create the perfect build to suit your play style. But it’s not easy to get these powerful purple items. You can find them from Monolith of Fate or late in the campaign, but the chance of dropping is very small to be honest.

So here, we want to show you some very efficient ways to farm Exalted Items in Last Epoch Season 2, so that your build doesn’t always have to be limited by the lack of suitable equipment. With the right settings, you can farm unlimited Exalted Items with high Forging Potential that you need. Then, you can also place them in Forges and use the new Rune of Havoc and Rune of Redemption to re-smelt them into a crafting base, ready to be used to make any item you want. So let’s get started.

Imprinting

Now, let’s talk about Imprinting strategy and how to make a lot of cool stuff. The basis of this strategy will revolve around Sealed Riches and Echoing Riches nodes, which not only increase the chance of a chest triggering, provide additional armor or weapon drops, but also provide a lot of echoed rewards, which are perfect for stacking unique items or rare items with ideal properties.

In my case, I have a Leonine Greathelm Helmet here, so whenever these two nodes trigger, we have a chance to get more Leonine Greathelm. In the meantime, it also provides 54 Forging Potential for other helmets, so on average, it will try to give us double exalted mods, which will eventually drop on two tier 7 helmets.

In short, with these nodes, you have a chance to see a Leonine Greathelm, the same Forging Potential, and exalted mods with the same level. You have to be a little lucky to see all three stacked together, but the point is, it will appear quickly in a day.

Farming Nemesis

During Imprinting process, you may see a lot of similar items that you can take and synthesize and re-smelt into crafting bases. Of course, this process requires a lot of Last Epoch Gold and time, as well as a little luck.

So you may want to ask, how can I get such a crazy Exalted item? In fact, many of these items are dropped from our old friend Nemesis.

In Monolith of Fate, some levels may contain long-lost equipment of warriors who have been defeated by Harbinger. These abandoned Exalted items will emit magical purple energy, and you can choose to enhance them and claim them as your own, but you must challenge and successfully defeat Nemesis before the owner.

Nemesis is an optional battle. After you interact with the accessory pile, you can preview four randomly generated items in the panel, usually one is a unique item and the rest are rare items. If one of the items is Egg of the Forgotten, it can be replaced with an Exalted item or a unique item with a Legendary Potential of 0 from the stash. If the egg is left where it is, it will be replaced with a random world drop unique item.

To start your strategy, what you ideally want to do is climb to the top of Weaver Tree, pick up Warden of the Dead and Graveborn Paths nodes, and then start fighting as many Nemeses as you can. Every time you enhance a Nemesis, it increases the potential of the items within it, and adds additional mods. Your goal with these Nemeses is to keep spawning them until you get everything you need.

Let’s say you want to farm helmets, find a Double Exalted Helmet, and then you can start farming. Even if it’s not the correct base it doesn’t matter, because you can farm a lot of helmets, and once you get a Double Exalted Helmet, you can re-print it on both slots using Rune of Havoc and Rune of Redemption for whatever the correct base you want to drop is.

In short, all you need to do is farm these Nemesis and get the base items to be able to spawn all of these Exalted items. If you have a lot of spare Last Epoch Gold, you can certainly get more bases and then run a bunch of these normally to increase your chances of getting an Exalted item with higher potential. But if you only have one copy of Woven Echo, then you can go to your tree and put it in Woven Riches and Loomed Riches slots, then start farming Nemesis until your items are ready, and then go from there.

Using Item Boosts

Also, to increase your odds of getting Exalted items, you can also try various boosting methods. Circle of Fortune is an excellent choice, as it increases the odds of getting Exalted items and level 7 affixes.

You can also stack Prophecies granted to Weaver’s Will items for targeted spawning. Using Prophecies Telescopes, players can choose the type of item they want to spawn, such as armor, weapons, or accessories, greatly increasing the drop rate of these items. Circle of Fortune and Lenses are key to further tweaking loot drop rates, greatly increasing your odds of getting the ideal item.

That’s it! Equipping your build with the best Exalted items will give you the best chance of surviving Monolith of Fate and the perilous battles, so it’s never a bad idea to spend a little time farming for those purple items! Hopefully, these tips and boosts will help you harvest the items you need faster! Good luck!

In many role-playing games, usable minions have always been the favorite of many players, because they can not only help the characters used by the players to resist some super damage from the enemy, but also inflict additional damage to the enemy to make the whole battle easier, and Last Epoch is no exception.

The minions provided to players in Last Epoch have very high damage output and health, and when they are matched independently of the character attributes, there will be a more unexpected effect. More interestingly, players can match minions with multiple talent specializations to get a nearly perfect combat helper.

Although the current game has entered Season 2 Tombs of the Erased, and the attributes of many gears have also changed, what will not change is that some class builds that focus on ranged attacks will be very willing to match minions with armor attributes or attack attributes. So this guide will introduce you to several minion builds that are still powerful in the current season so that you can make a quick choice.

1. Fire Wraith Army From Necromancer

Ever since the beta of Last Epoch, Fire Wraith Army has been performing amazingly well. It is still considered one of the best minions by players because it can safely run 1,000 corruption echoes.

The two Idols required in this build give you a chance to summon a Fire Wraith when you summon a Wraith, as well as Dread Shade, life drain, Volatile Zombies, and Transplant.

Since this build doesn’t have that much defense, you may want to choose Exsanguinous Body Armor, Boneclamor Barbute Helmet, and Death Rattle Amulet to keep yourself safe. In addition, Last Steps of the Living Leg piece, Phantom Grip Ring, and Ambitions of an Erased Acolyte Relic will have more beneficial buffs for this build.

You can also use Aberrant’s Call Scepter to increase your Melee Damage, Spell Damage, and Damage Over Time in battle. Most importantly, it will increase the level of Summon Wraith by 1-3, so it must be one of the most important items in the current build.

2. Thorn Totems From Shaman

Shaman’s ability to summon minions has made it one of the most popular classes in Last Epoch, and Thorn Totems is the most special one among the many summonable minions because it can have multiple forms: healing allies, damaging enemies, and customizing.

This Spriggan form may be the most frequently used form by players in Shaman mastery. Healing allies during battle and dealing tons of damage to enemies will further improve your ranged attack characters’ subsequent enemy damage skills, allowing you to smoothly earn all that Last Epoch Gold.

In the process of making this build, you may need to use Ferebor’s Chisel Dagger and Ferebor’s Ring to increase the critical chance of Totems minions, and Legacy of the Quiet Forest, Eterra’s Path, Stormcarved Testament, and Death Rattle.

3. Wraithlord From Necromancer

Wraithlord minion is another version of Wraith Army in the game, but in this version you will not use a large army but a large minion. It can help you resist the damage of some higher-level enemies as much as possible, so that the back-row minions with damage attributes can be more safely output.

The core gear in this build is Wraithlord’s Harbour Helmet, which can spawn a Wraithlord and bring you all the benefits of the skill tree that the normal Wraithlord has. The damage capacity of these skills will be adjusted accordingly based on the minion’s Minion Necrotic damage.

Additionally, other unique items like Exsanguinous, Death Rattle, and Last Steps of the Living are essential in this build, as they all provide some very high damage capabilities to this highly survivable minion.

For your skills in Wraithlord build, you also need to choose around Wraithlord, such as Dread Shade and Infernal Shade, which it uses in combat, and Transplant, which increases your movement speed.

4. Manifest Armor & Forged Weapon From Forge Guard

Manifest Armor minion build is very similar to Wraithlord build, both of which provide you with a powerful minion with super defensive capabilities in combat. This set of builds will be very suitable for players who want their characters to be extremely tanky against all sources of damage, and pairing it with Forged Weapon minion may make this build even more perfect.

In this collaboration, Manifest Armor minion is in the front to deal most of the damage from enemies, and Forged Weapon minion is in the back row to deal more ranged or elemental damage to enemies. To get the most out of this minion build, you might want to throw in items like Death Rattle, Phantom Grip, and Code of an Erased Sentinel.

Or you could go with some gear that has affixes that buff the melee and physical damage you have in your build, so that Manifest Armor minions have a chance to get in the first wave of attacks while resisting all damage.

5. Ballista Falconer From Rogue

The Ballista Falconer minion makes Rogue class, which was not very effective in Last Epoch Season 2 Tombs of the Erased, a member of the large minion club and has a special build method. With this specialized Ballista Falconer minion, some passive skills and gear used by the player will have some benefits to it, thereby enhancing the specific effectiveness of the build.

Recommended build options here are Boneclamor Barbute, 2 Phantom Grip rings, and Orian’s Descent, which will make these two minions more defensive and mobile; Death Rattle, Uethrin’s Stand of Authority, Kestrel of the Fox, Zeurial’s Hunt of Acid, and Melvern’s Writ will double the damage of these two minions.

The above are the 5 most worthwhile minion builds in Last Epoch Season 2 Tombs of the Erased and their specific effectiveness. I hope you can lead these little helpers who can bring you different benefits to complete the many challenges in the current season and earn more loot. I wish you a happy game!

Although Last Epoch was only released as its second season not long ago, the game has put a lot of effort into it, proving that this young MMORPG has the ambition to continue to grow.

In addition to some new content added to the endgame and new builds that can be used, in Season 2, some mechanics and systems that have existed since the game was released have also been changed based on player feedback over the past year. Based on this, this time we will introduce you to the changes to Mastery class and legendary potential, so that you can continue to use them as usual in Season 2.

What Is Mastery Class?

Like most similar games, one of the basics of character creation in Last Epoch includes the choice of class. There are 5 basic classes in the game, each with unique abilities, proficiencies, and general playstyle, allowing you to fully experience different Last Epoch gameplay.

On this basis, in order to continue to broaden the playability of these base classes, Last Epoch introduced Mastery classes, which provide you with more builds and combat possibilities as a second choice. Each base class has three designated Mastery classes to choose from, which not only enhance the base class capabilities, but also further customize your character development path through skill selection and nodes. These Mastery classes are:

• Rogue Mastery Classes: Falconer, Bladedancer, Marksman
• Acolyte Mastery Classes: Lich, Necromancer, Warlock
• Mage Mastery Classes: Sorcerer, Spellblade, Runemaster
• Sentinel Mastery Classes: Forge Guard, Void Knight, Paladin
• Primalist Mastery Classes: Druid, Beastmaster, Shaman

What Happened To Mastery Class In Season 2?

Before the release of Season 2, if you determined your Mastery class for your base class in Last Epoch, this result could not be changed later, and you had to create a new character to try a new Mastery class. Obviously, this has been an unnecessary hassle for you to experience Mastery class mechanic, but now, in Season 2 you can change your Mastery class (based on your base class) at any time if you need to.

How Do You Change Your Mastery Class?

First you need to go to End of Time to find the relevant NPC, Chronomancer Lerinne, who is just south of the waypoint and also offers to reset your Mastery class passive points. After speaking to her and selecting Respecialize Mastery, a menu will pop up with two additional Masteries for your base class.

Next, you can choose a new Mastery according to your schedule. It is worth noting that this Mastery class conversion process requires Last Epoch Gold, and the amount varies depending on your level and the passive points you invested in your Mastery. In addition, changing Mastery will also reset all your passive points, even those invested in your base class.

After completing Mastery class reset, you can assign the passive points that were also reset to the new Mastery class of your choice. Usually this reset will not affect your gear, but you can make further adjustments if necessary.

Legendary Potential

Last Epoch has a full crafting system that allows you to craft most of the items you want. Of these items, legendary items are undoubtedly the most valuable, providing you with the best stats and effects in the game. To craft legendary items, you must find some exalted gear and a unique item with Legendary Potential (LP).

While all unique items have the potential to give you LP, the drop rate varies from item to item. Interestingly, stronger unique items in Last Epoch have a lower chance of dropping LP, while less powerful unique items have a higher chance of dropping LP. Typically, a unique item can give up to 4 points of Legendary Potential.

How To Forge Legendary Items?

To do this, you need to prepare a Temporal Sanctum key, a unique item with Legendary Potential, and an exalted-rarity item. Unlike regular forging, forging legendary items requires you to throw an entire other item into the legendary item you want, destroying the former and transferring some of its affixes to the latter to complete the forging.

After you have prepared the required items, please go to Temporal Sanctum dungeon in Imperial Era Majasan Desert and complete it to go to the real Temporal Sanctum, and then place the unique and exalted items you brought with you in Eternity Cache here. Eternity Cache will then merge the items you placed and go back in time to Ruined Era, and you can then claim your legendary items from the cache.

If you don’t know how to get Temporal Sanctum key, you can farm in areas on level 54 and above, or directly farm Monolith of Fates, as there are some maps there that will drop the key. It is worth mentioning that Monolith of Fates sometimes drops unique and exalted items, so it can be said that this dungeon is your best helper in the process of forging legendary items.

Hopefully, the information we provide can reduce the trouble you encounter when playing Last Epoch Season 2 and complete your game goals faster. Have fun!