Last Epoch 1.0 Beginner Guide - Tips I Wish I Knew Before Playing in 2024

in this last Epoch beginner guide I'll give you some useful tips to help you play the game in a more efficient manner hopefully it'll also make it more enjoyable for you because these are things that I wish I really would have known before I began playing myself before we get into however a big shout out to last Epoch for sponsoring this video If you guys haven't picked up the game yet but you're interested you can use the link below to support the channel last Epoch has been an open Beta since April 2019 and has garnered a lot of attention from arpg fans the game is now on 1.0 version of the game with 1 million copies already sold and Counting last Epoch has a huge amount of customization which gives players a lot of freedom however with freedom comes choices and with choices will inevitably come mistakes and errors our goal in this last Epoch beginner guide is to reduce the amount of errors that might reduce the enjoyment of the game for a new player in last Epoch there are five classes with each class having three masteries or subclasses to specialize in this results in a total of 15 masteries to pick from and each has its own IDE identity and theme you will select your base class on the character creation screen from common arpg and fantasy themes such as acolyte primel list Mage Sentinel and robe as you would expect the name infers the play style of each class upon reaching the end of time which is roughly 2 hours in the last EPO campaign you face the decision of which of the three masteries for your selected class to choose this choice is permanent so read the descriptions and Choose Wisely you cannot undo this decision the good news though is that it does not take that long to get a new character to the end of time so you can make another character at any point if you decide you don't fancy the play style of your chosen Mastery however it's a good idea not to delete the first character or second character you made if this is the case as you may want to play that play style later on and you can have a semi- leveled up character to play when you do each Mastery comes with a signature skill that's not available to any other Mastery along with Mastery passive bonuses and choosing a Mastery also unlocks the rightmost half of the mastery's passive tree you can still allocate points and unlock skills in the other two Mastery passive trees for your class but only the first half of those trees this makes the choice of Mastery important you can resect your Mastery points in town at the NPCs with the brain icon for a modest fee of gold this allows you to play around and assign Mastery points as you get them without having to worry about wasting them however note that you cannot undo your Mastery selection itself you can only reallocate your spent points skills are the backbone of any character build and last Epoch has over 120 fully customizable unique skills with full skill trees and for each Mastery there are around 20 skills available to pick from these come from adding passive points in your base class tree and also from picking a Mastery and adding points in said Mastery tree as you allocate points to these Mastery trees you will see the progress towards unlocking the next skill on the bottom of the screen these skills can be specialized with their own skill trees by dropping them into your specialization slots in the skills and specializations window arrived at by pressing the S key as you get higher and higher character level you unlock more slots slots in which you can specialize skills eventually every skill you use will be specialized when a skill is dropped into a specialization slot you'll then gain access to its unique skill tree here you can select passives that boost the damage of the skill change its damage type or duration and even change the way said skill behaves in combat you will gain more skill points to spend here as long as you have the skill slotted up to a maximum of 20 points per skill you can change your specialized skills or resp them at any time but you will lose some experience towards skill points in that skill and you may even lose points to spend this gives you freedom to mess around and try different things but spend some time and read them first because you don't want to have to keep releveling up your skills if you've already done so no matter how much focus a class gives to one archetype it will always have access to skills from other archetypes Mage for example focuses heavily on spells but there's an entire Mastery in several other skills that focus on melee attacks primalist has both types plus a unique skill that can go either full melee or full spell depending on customization while Sentinel focuses on melee but still has access to powerful spells and Rogue adds a unique set of bow skills that no other class can use so an important part of learning how to have a successful playthrough in last Epoch is to identify skills that suit your play style and pick them and what other skills that conflict with your style and avoid them there's a very obvious example that comes with the prim list class as it splits its focus on both melee and spells the standard movement skill of the class is Fury leap which is a melee attack so it fits naturally into most melee primalist builds however the challenge comes when you build a spellcasting prim less that focuses on cast speed instead of attack speed and in this case you'll find Fury leap to be very clunky indeed if you take a quick glance at the primel skills you will not find another movement skill and you might be puzzled however upon deeper inspection there's a spell available from Prim less base tree that turns into a reversal skill your answer is summon stormcrow and it only takes four points into this skill's unique tree to change it into this now you have a spell that scales with cast speed and your gameplay will feel much smoother it can take some time to identify these skills as your natural instinct isn't to dive too deeply into what skills you're using immediately however taking some time to read through some of your skills unique trees can really help you if you're struggling unlike most other args last Epoch is the kind of game that encourages using crafting from the very beginning it's one of the most powerful aspects of the game as crafting is easy and straightforward while also having elements of complexity suitable for endgame crafting is balanced around picking up suitable items from drops and enchanting them as much as possible you don't rely solely on Crafting to the degree that drops don't matter but nor do you rely on drops so much that crafting is irrelevant there's a good balance here crafting at a basic level is focused on acquiring apix shards which can give certain stats to items but also levels them up to improve their apix values AP fixes can be acquired from drops from breaking items using a rune of shattering or from removing AP fixes using a rune of removal note that these are stored in your inventory but if you click the transfer materials button it will free up space for you every piece of equipment drops with what is called forging potential value and crafting with items then depletes some of the forging potential the amount deducted from this value is random so RNG does play a factor in the amount that is consumed the higher forging potential an item has the more you can upgrade it and craft with it before its potential is gone and you no longer can when you get lucky while crafting items can reach the highest stats possible and when you get unlucky crafting stops before you can get good roles this system doesn't punish players for crafting with an item but inste said will always make items better even if they're not always a lot better so everyone is recommended to engage with the crafting system regardless of how high or low their character level you can get Runes of shattering from drops or buy them from vendors no more than four at a time for 2K gold each when you get an item with a desired stat but the item is not good enough to craft say it has the wrong item base you may shatter it the shattering breaks the item and gives players a random number of apix shards that were on the item with a little luck you'll get the desired apix shard you want so you can craft it onto another item when you get an item with high tier of the desired apix you might consider using Rune of removal instead since Rune of removal doesn't destroy the item outright it instead removes one Apex and gives you shards equal to the apix tier so a tier five stat will give five shards of that stat when targeted by Rune of removal this helps you build a reserve of rare apix shards that can be used when you find the item that you are looking for pair Rune of removal with a glyph of Hope when crafting to try preserving forging potential that way you can extract shards for more stats on the item and when the item depletes its forging potential resort to shattering it with a rune of shattering while leveling when you get a blue magic item you may use Rune of Discovery to fill out empty a fixes this is especially useful in the early game for accounts that haven't saved a lot of shards yet Runes of Discovery don't consume any forging potential when used on items they simply make items much more useful with the ability for upgrading further when you acquire more shards a glyph of Hope adds a chance for crafting to not consume forging potential this increases the total number of times an item can can be upgraded and results in better items overall so try to use these when you can or on items you plan to upgrade a lot these are not all the things you can use while crafting in last Epoch they are just some of the things and the most important ones to get you started we'll likely have an advanced crafting guide later on in case you have further questions so keep an eye out for that as I've explained using crafting requires good item drops to begin with and to avoid sorting through tens or hundreds of items last Epoch provides a carefully designed loot filter it's not an exaggeration to say that it's the best or one of the best loot filters in the entire genre of RPGs so the moment you start feeling your screen become too crowded press your loot filter hotkey which is shift F by default and start adding some rules rules in the item filter apply from bottom to top meaning the rule on the top will override the rules on the bottom so you should start with hiding items you don't need and then make rules as exceptions so for example you play a mage class that focuses on spell casting the only weapons relevant for spell casting are wand scepter and staff and the only off-hand viable is catalyst this allows you to hide every other weapon plus the lowest Rarity items the three rules we have on the screen are the bare minimum rules you need to clear screen clutter it'll get rid of 70% of things you don't want to see while leveling in the early to mid campaign after a while your clear speed will increase while rare yellow items drops increase this will again result in slowing down to check which items might be useful for you you might hit this phase after level 30 or 40 you need new rules in your item filter say you've decided you need a wand more than any other cter weapon and also your main damage type is fire your setup might look something like this if your main defense as a mage is Ward then you also need to rule to highlight off-hand catalysts with Ward retention and or Ward per second you'll see detailed info about item bases while picking up subtypes so you can highlight the ones with the most useful stats your rules might look something like this you may add similar rules for every item slot to highlight the most useful subtypes once you figure out what you need you can also highlight the most useful stats regardless of item type this is for shattering and removal purpose and recommended to do on rare stats it requires a higher character level so that your gold income is steady enough to keep buying Runes of shattering from vendors you may also use items found this way instead of breaking them if they fit your bill some of the very rare stats are element penetration on amulet and plus level to skill on helmet body armor and Relic there are also build defining defensive stats such as potion Health converted to Ward and Ward and ailment cleansing on potion use on Belt that covers the basics of constructing a functional loot filter that should have you set for a long way however there is a lot more advanced levels and that requires its own dedicated guide so stay tuned for that so that wraps up our last Epoch beginner guide I hope these were some useful tips for you I tried to make General tips that would benefit just about anyone playing this game and I didn't Focus specifically on classes we may do some class guides at some point but if you have further tips for players and there's things I didn't mention be sure to leave them in the comments and thanks again for last Epoch for sponsoring this video If you guys haven't picked it up yet and it interests you from what you've seen so far you can use the link below to support the [Music] channel

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Length: 11min 25sec (685 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 24 2024