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Build your campaign around one damage family

Your 5 specialized skills should support each other. Gear works best when your main skills all scale from the same damage profile instead of splitting between unrelated elements.

• Character level caps at 100
• Specialized skills normally cap at 20
• Do not spread your active setup across different damage types while leveling

Take the story route and collect permanent rewards

Main story progression and side quests that grant passive points or idol slots should be handled early. These permanent rewards make every later leveling method more efficient.

• Quests, enemy kills, Monoliths, Arena, and Echoes all contribute XP
• Complete passive-point and idol-slot quests before serious Monolith farming
• Track missing permanent rewards from the map interface

Lock in your mastery when Chapter 4 opens it

Spend 20 points in the base class tree, complete the mastery quest, then choose your subclass at the End of Time. Start spending into mastery scaling instead of delaying the power spike.

• Mastery selection happens through Elder Gaspar
• Choosing mastery early keeps your leveling build on curve
• Respec passives and skills when needed, but keep the core identity stable

Use movement speed as a leveling stat

Movement speed is one of the strongest campaign accelerators because it improves kill rate, zone completion speed, and access to later progression systems.

• Silver Ring gives 3 to 8 percent movement speed per ring
• Advent of the Erased Boots can roll up to 20 percent movement speed
• Lessons of the Metropolis Boots can roll up to 17 percent movement speed

Craft often and keep replacing weak weapons

Weapon damage and simple crafted affixes do more for leveling speed than waiting for perfect drops. The campaign gets much smoother when you treat the crafting bench as part of the normal route.

• Use Rune of Shattering to stock shards for future upgrades
• Use Glyphs of Hope to protect item durability while crafting
• Update your main weapon after major zones instead of only after bad dry streaks

Use Monolith Arena Nodes and the first XP blessing

Once Monoliths open through the story, Arena Nodes are one of the best XP bursts in the game. They stay efficient until roughly level 58, then the route shifts toward the first key blessing.

• Rare and magical enemies grant 50 percent more XP than normal enemies
• Arena Node farming stays strong to about level 58
• Defeating the first Monolith boss grants Strength of Mind, an experience blessing

Unlock Empowered Monoliths around level 90

Empowered Monoliths are the real long-form endgame engine. Clear the required timeline sequence, then return to efficient farming with higher reward scaling.

• Complete Fall of the Outcasts, Black Sun, End of the Storm, and Reign of Dragons
• Then clear Spirits of Fire, The Last Ruin, and Age of Winter
• After unlocking Empowered Monoliths, farm Fall of the Outcasts again for Grand Strength of Mind

Enter the Monolith from the End of Time

The Monolith of Fate becomes available after the campaign. Your first timeline begins at Level 58, so this is the point where your character transitions from story progress into repeatable endgame farming.

Clear Echoes and Build Timeline Stability

Each timeline is made of echoes with random objectives and modifiers. Completing them builds Timeline Stability, reveals more of the web, and pushes you toward the timeline's quest echoes.

Finish the Timeline Quests and Kill the Boss

Every timeline contains three quest stages that lead into the timeline boss. Beating the boss is what converts your run into permanent account progress through Blessings and boss-specific loot access.

Take a Blessing and Move to Higher Timelines

After each boss kill, choose a Blessing. The general progression advice is to keep moving right across the Monolith islands toward higher-level timelines while collecting the Blessings and boss drops that help your build most.

Unlock Empowered Monoliths

Clear the normal versions of The Age of Winter, The Last Ruin, and The Spirits of Fire to unlock the Empowered Monolith. Empowered timelines run at Level 100, start with much higher corruption, and replace normal Blessings with stronger Grand Blessings.

Push Corruption with Shade of Orobyss

Corruption is the main risk-and-reward lever inside the Monolith. Higher corruption makes enemies and echoes harder, but improves experience and item quality, turning the Shade of Orobyss into a key fight for long-term farming.

Use Special Echoes, Woven Systems, and Echo Chains

Modern Monolith routing includes Beacon Echoes, Vessel Echoes, Shade triggers, Woven Echoes, Tombs and Cemeteries, and now Echo Chains and Omen Windows. These layers let players target stability, encounters, idols, corruption tools, and specialized rewards more efficiently.

Understand What a Loot Filter Actually Does

Loot filters highlight the affixes and item types you care about, recolor valuable drops, and hide low-value clutter. In Last Epoch, the system can highlight one wanted affix or groups of many affixes, making ground loot readable even deep into endgame.

Start from a Shared Filter or a Simple Template

A good first move is to begin with a general filter or a build filter from Last Epoch Tools, then tune it for your class and goals. This is faster than building from scratch and gives newer players a working structure immediately.

Import a Filter into the Game

Last Epoch Tools supports export and clipboard copy for filters. The normal workflow is to open the filter page, press Export, copy it to the clipboard, then paste it into the in-game loot filter menu so the filter is ready without manual XML editing.

Set Early-Game Priorities

During leveling, the filter should show health, resistances, movement speed, your main damage affixes, and useful class idols. At this stage, the goal is not perfection; it is making obvious upgrades and shard targets easy to spot.

Tighten the Filter for Monolith and Dungeons

Once Monolith farming starts, the filter should become stricter. Focus on wanted bases, high-value Exalted affixes, LP Uniques, class idols, crafting shard targets, and the boss or timeline drops your build is actually chasing.

Separate Leveling Rules from Endgame Rules

A filter that works in the campaign quickly becomes too loose in Empowered Monoliths. Many players swap into a dedicated endgame filter once Exalted drops become common so the screen does not flood with low-value rares.

Use the New Season 4 Filter Tools

Season 4 raised the rule cap to 200 and added separate customization for map icons and item beams, rule-number display options, and several new loot filter sounds. These upgrades make it much easier to build precise filters for modern endgame farming.

Unlock the system and understand what it changes

The Weaver Tree modifies Monolith of Fate content instead of your class, skills, or passive tree. Its nodes can change echo rewards, add or remove encounter types, improve specific drop patterns, and create more targeted farming routes.

• Maximum of 50 Weaver Tree points
• Points come from Woven rank progression and first-time Woven Echo clears
• The tree affects Monolith routing, reward density, and special encounters

Start left if your first goal is early economy and faster tree growth

A common early route is the left side because it improves the flow of extra rewards and helps you snowball into more Weaver progression.

• Enthralling Bounty: chance for echo rewards to be doubled on completion
• Entwined Spoils: chance for echoes to spawn a reward that grants Woven Echoes
• Elder Sap: chance for echoes to spawn with the Memory Amber reward type

Push into Tomb and Cemetery support if you want more Woven activity

After the early economy package, many players continue north into the Tomb and Cemetery cluster because it improves access to Woven Echoes, increases density, and adds extra long-term payoff.

• Grand Catacombs: Tombs of the Erased become more common
• Necropolis of the Weaver: rare enemies in Tombs and Cemeteries gain an extra chance to drop Woven Echoes
• Burial Grounds: increased monster pack size in Tombs and Cemeteries
• Bountiful Sarcophagy: rare enemies in Tombs and Cemeteries can drop that timeline's boss-specific rewards

Branch by faction and immediate goal

The best next branch depends on whether you want more gold, more favor and rank progression, or more focused farming.

• Merchant's Guild players can justify picking the south-side gold nodes such as Zerrick's Aid and Golden Treasures
• Circle of Fortune players can justify rushing XP-focused nodes on the right side because faster leveling also improves favor and rank gains
• Imprint, Super Beacon, Nemesis, and arena-conversion nodes become more valuable once you know what content you want to target

Respec once your goal changes

The early route does not need to be your forever route. Once you have the points and resources you want, you can move into boss farming, champion hunting, or more specialized Monolith manipulation.

• The tree can be respecced later
• Economy-first is strong for early growth
• XP-first is stronger when faster leveling is the real objective
• Late routing can focus on encounter removal, targeted rewards, or higher-value special nodes

Respec passive points through Chronomancer Lerinne

Passive respec is handled by Chronomancer Lerinne. After speaking to her, you can reallocate passive points one point at a time without relearning them from scratch.

• Uses gold
• You must keep 20 points in your base class tree
• You cannot remove points that are required to keep deeper passive branches unlocked

Respec skill trees directly from the Skills menu

Skill respec does not need an NPC and can be done anywhere. Open the Skills menu, choose a specialized skill, and hit RESPEC in the upper-right corner of that skill tree.

• Remove Skill Points if you want to keep the same skill but change the node layout
• Despecialize Skill if you want to replace it with a different specialized skill
• Respecced skills return to their minimum specialized level rather than fully starting over
• Skills normally cap at level 20, though gear can add bonus levels

Use mastery respec at the End of Time for a full class pivot

Since Season 2, players can pay to respec mastery at the End of Time by talking to Chronomancer Lerinne. This resets all passive points and lets you pick another mastery from the same base class.

• Mastery respec also resets all passive points
• Your gear stays equipped, but it may no longer match the new mastery well
• The cost scales hard with level: level 20 = 5,000g, level 50 = 30,000g, level 70 = 100,000g, level 100 = 1,000,000g

Choose the right rebuild for the size of the change

Not every problem needs a full reset. Passive and skill changes are the fastest way to repair a weak build, while mastery respec is better treated like a soft reroll inside the same class.

• Use passive respec for pathing, thresholds, and defensive cleanup
• Use skill respec when the core skill is right but the node layout is wrong
• Use mastery respec early if you want a different mastery, because the gold cost ramps up later
• Plan to revisit gear and idols after a mastery change