Last Epoch Speedleveling Guide - Fresh Level 1 to Endgame in under 2 Hours!

Hello everyone, my name is Rabbit and today i'll be showing you how you can go from a fresh level 1 character with nothing to clearing endgame monoliths in just under 2 hours!
I'll be playing most of the campaign at increased speed so you don't have to sit around all day, but I have some valuable information spread throughout so I'll be timestamping everything!
Step by step guide: docs.google.com/document/d/e/...
--Timestamps--
0:00 The Plan
2:19 Start of the run
2:51 Grael and the Burning Forest
3:43 The Keepers Camp
4:47 The Storerooms Side Quest
6:30 Roleplay moment for inventory management
7:26 Haruspex Orian
7:52 Completing Chapter 1 and entering the Ruined Era
8:20 Last Refuge Outskirts Side Quest
8:30 Efficient Pathing for Evacuation
9:22 The Council Chambers
9:38 The Last Archive and Erzas Library
10:11 Pannion's Students
10:18 Council Chambers and Unique Reward
10:55 The Precipice
11:09 The Idol of Ruin and the Ancient Era
12:05 The Armoury Arena
12:35 Husk of Elder Pannion and End of Time
13:19 Picking your Mastery
13:41 Council Chambers and Chapter 3
15:00 The Cultist Camp and Side Quests
15:17 Welryn Docks Sidequest
15:32 The Symbol of Hope
15:53 The Ruins of Welryn (skip side quest)
16:13 Welryn Undercity
16:33 Waypoint to Town
18:24 The Lotus Halls
18:41 Time save for opening the bridge
19:58 The end of time and Chapter 4
20:30 Imperial Welryn
20:51 Soul Warden's Road
23:00 Admiral Harton and Chapter 5
25:55 The Oracles Abode (Time for Side Quests)
26:27 Shattered Valley Side Quest 1
27:27 Shattered Valley Side Quest 2
28:15 Council Chamber turn in and Risen Lake side quest
29:03 Shining Cove Side Quest and Temporal Sanctum Entrance
30:03 Oracles Abode Turn in
30:41 The First Monolith
31:38 Outro

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Part Two is live! kzbin.info/www/bejne/opLCqZJnjcmSadk

[@Bowyang]

yeah but u didnt continue as the same char in part 2

[@themaliciousrabbit]

@@Bowyang I didn't. Part 1 was a copy of my very first character of the cycle that I rolled offline for a fresh start scenario. I did the exact same thing here on it, I just didn't want to continue farming offline to get a key just for the video. I didn't have any intentions on continuing to play on offline after I hit monoliths, I just wanted to show people how it could be done starting with nothing.

[@ZolyoZ]

Thank you!!! i have been looking for quicker way to lvl up my alt. This was perfect! I finished upto here now going to PART 2!!

[@MoKardaras]

Thank you so much for doing this! Can't wait to test all that to go faster through all the builds I'd like to play!

[@DefiRules]

i played along, didnt made it in 2 hours, but almost, i might have wasted some time killing big packs following me into choke points like bridges to get a bit more early on XP ^^ its a good guide, you dont need to follow it 100%, its still better then normal campaign, thanks man!

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Glad you enjoyed! You'll get used to the run and get faster. The first time I did this run it took me like 2 1/2 hours and then the next time I was under 2. With leveling uniques I could sit under 1.5 hours pretty easily which is so nice for making alts!

[@DefiRules]

yeah thats what i thought too, i will give it a new try on my next one hahah :D Do you know if you can powerlevel with a lvl 100 Friend and just come back to pick up the Idols / Passives if you are done?@@themaliciousrabbit

[@zipitooverkill4262]

This is what a level guide should look like, great! Thank you and thumbs up!

[@mcrackenstan]

Thanks so much. These guides helped me heaps and I really enjoyed the content style.

[@someemptychannel]

Great video. Appreciate the guide, you've done well with the content cause no one has done it to this degree.

[@reconhalcyon]

Great guide and run through. Currently making new characters to experiment with mastery skills. Thank you so much, looking forward to temporal sanctum video

[@chrishuang3520]

awesome video man! i saw someone else's and it literally took me longer to do because they didnt explain anything like you did. Thanks again!

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Glad you liked it!

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Video was getting long so I'm going to make a part 2 that covers the temporal sanctum dungeon skip and finishing act 9! It's very straightforward, just clear the dungeon and exit out of the back after the boss. From there just follow the main quest in chapter 9 and finish up your passives/idols.

[@bigal1093]

Looking forward to it. Subbing to make sure I don't miss it. 😁

[@tangentkatz]

Thanks for the written guide. Watched the entire video and wanted to try this to get my first online character leveled quickly, and being able to refer to the text is super convenient.

[@themaliciousrabbit]

@@tangentkatz No problem, figured it would be easier for people to just have a rough step by step to reference while they did their run.

[@mornedhel1]

Just what I was looking for, thanks!

[@br1580]

Thanks very much, exactly what i was looking for.

[@dmmbigcash6068]

Subbed. Great video. Look forward to seeing more content🏆

[@tugrahanzeybek1831]

Masterpiece of guide. Thank you.

[@raymondwang6272]

awesome video, this is exactly what i need now. Got my first character to 100 and about to start the second one :)

[@bigal1093]

Perfect timing for this! I'm getting ready to start my first Alt on Last Epoch but I was dreading running through all the campaign aspects again. Got this bookmarked!!

[@drumcorpful]

Thank you for this! GONNA copy paste this method od yours ❤️

[@MaricelaWorld]

Thanks man! very helpful

[@reborne8069]

Great video, such a nice content . I could improve by showing the passive/skills pages as a image in the end, in that way the people don't need to keep searching this at each part of the video and keep the progress more fluid. But, nice video !

[@woofwoofus]

Love the guide, very helpful. One point, I see you do what I'm seeing a lot of people do and that is dragging items out of your inventory to dump them. You can just Shift+Right Click to dump them way faster.

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Thanks for the tip, didn't know that.

[@DeputyFish]

thats a super cool hotkey what the heck

[@savadious]

This was good. THANKS !

[@VioJH]

Great vid bro, thanks for sharing

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Part two should be up later today. Got everything recorded for it, just need to make the last few edits and upload!

[@frankvanwoudenberg2930]

great stuff

[@dannycharlielange1635]

Haven't played the game since EA launch. Deleted all saves and getting ready to start playing again. Very interesting walkthrough! Suggestion: You should link part 2 in the description ✌️

[@deleriom]

Thank you!

[@try2fly]

Very useful. Ty

[@emanate0]

i've done the full campaign with all side quests 8 times now before any of this campaign skip was available. i'm happy they've added this

[@themaliciousrabbit]

While the campaign is good, it's a massive time commitment any time you want to make a new character so I'm glad LE has good ways to skip it.

[@nordvirus6671]

@@themaliciousrabbit That's why i dropped poe after 1,6k hrsof play time, no alternate lvling routes just hammers down all my hype for the new leagues

[@SuicidelG]

@@nordvirus6671 Yea, I play solely HC Poe and i'm just so sick of going through the campaign constantly. I'm not the fastest, but I can get a char to maps in 5-6 hrs and that still feels like forever.

[@doomzx8284]

How can I leave 69 likes to this video? AMAZING, THANK YOU ! I did it slower ofc by following this guide but man not having to be stuck at how to find quests for idols/passives saved me a lot of time and nerves...my last character I've done main story only and not only I didn't have most of the quests in my quest list, but I didn't know where to back track to find them and which ones to do...I spent more time finding side quests after campaign than the campaign itself....horrible experience.

[@ivohage]

A lot of people playing hardcore play campaign up until 7 (after killing tree) and then farm monos and later when they have temp key go back to just kill chapter 9 boss. Is a bit safer and works great as well.

[@damianbadowski2389]

This guide is amazing, waiting for part two!

[@stoops417]

Great vid! It would be super helpful however if you used the Quest Names and added them to your Google Doc as well. Makes it easier to verify in the long run!

[@sfnoot]

Great vid dude, on the written guide at point 32 you refer to the "Risen lake" on imperial era as "Ruined Lake" that's a minimal suggestion to edit for someone that's just using your txt as reference

[@themaliciousrabbit]

I just updated it, thanks for the heads up.

[@monkeytown1239]

crazy 👍

[@Duzzy4]

Great content! Playing my first time and made it to monoliths. Seems like I can't get any gear in the monoliths that will be an upgrade because I'm under leveled for them. In my head I'm feeling like I may be behind on gear if I'm not able to grab any upgrades. What do you think about this? Should I just be under geared until I hit those levels?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

You should be crafting any big upgrades you need while you're leveling in monos. Check the vendor and the gambler. You should get to your 50's pretty quickly where you'll be able to start wearing the mono gear.

[@chicharones9640]

i wish you could have slowed the game down everytime you update the build while playing. Or is there somewhere were I can read up on this exact build???

[@Valkryn1138]

What are you looking for (generally) on items as you go? are you looking at the base for a fast low tier craft or at the rolls it has?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Typically the rolls it has or a good base. For armor i'm typically looking for resistances. For weapons I'm looking for flat and % damage for the most part. It just depends on your build

[@hakanakdag9491]

wow nice job. I gotta try this out. One question, do we have to click waypoints to activate them?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

You don't. Just need to run near them.

[@Nimoot]

A note at 4:50 you mention talking to the NPC? You don't need to do this, you can skip him and go directly into the storeroom and act as though you have the quest anyway. At 6:30 you can talk to her and the second you activate that 'RP' section, you can immediately teleport back, don't have to watch it. I will note at 10:33 ... you no longer have two choices, something about the other NPC is bugged so you can not get the necklace reward right now. At 11:18 you were DRAGGING items out of your inventory, just Shift+Right Click, it drops them on the floor ... much faster! At 13:00 you can ignore the rude guard, just run up top and talk to him, can avoid the first half of the chit-chat.

[@AriinPHD]

10:00 didnt they disable the gambler quest due to some people abusing a dupe glitch with it? you can -only- get the avarice right? or did they fix it?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

As of right now it seems like you can only get Avarice.

[@repp2328]

if you have leveling uniques and a ready key, would it be faster doing the lightless arbor skip after picking up the idols and passives in chapter 2, completing the corrupted lake quest and running straight to the ship and unlocking temporal sanctum, completing it and just doing the main quest and idol + passive sides in act 9? you will get your idols and passives maxed out from this iirc.

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Yeah if you had the keys then you could potentially do this, as long as you knew where you were going to get all of your passives and idols then you could definitely skip with lightless arbor. I haven't done it personally so I'm not sure if it's faster/slower and what changes you'd have to make to do so. Might try that soon.

[@SirNewtonable]

Is this doable with any build or is it the base dmg of glacier that allows you to be underleveled most of the time?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

You can do it with any build but some are faster than others. Glacier is a very strong leveling skill which does make things easier which is why this is a 1.5 hour run. You can still be sub 2 hours with any other class even if your leveling build isn't as strong.

[@anisqt]

Hey do i need to have one character finished the full campagn to make alt for this or i just follow this ?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

You can do this on a fresh account

[@Furyan555]

You don't need to talk to he guy when going to the storerooms. He'll wait for you outside if you go straight to the storerooms and destroy siege golem.

[@viperszgn8995]

hi man perfect video thanks you build stat gear site or link?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

I was pretty closely following the Spellblade leveling guide on maxroll. Here's the link maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/spellblade-leveling-guide#gameplay-header

[@enquestaba]

any tips on lvling on monoliths, i played a primalist minions based build and 35 to 50 was a painful long trip (i gambled and forge the gear but i only feel power after lvl 45).

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Minion builds struggle pretty hard in early monoliths because most of the time your minions die before they can kill most mobs. Just take it slow and stack up some minion health and damage, as much as you can.

[@zwischenton5214]

The HC run ends at 6:37. verry good so far :)

[@joltefftect7894]

tyty

[@Ashgar225]

I'm surprised you didn't shortcut most of chapter 3 with Lightless Arbor. Unlike the other dungeons, it's pretty doable at the level you actually get to the entrance.

[@themaliciousrabbit]

This guide is more centered around not having any dungeons keys as if it was a fresh account with the goal being unlock temporal sanctum and then go farm monoliths until you get a key. If you already have keys on alts then you could potentially skip using lightless arbor, there are several side quests in chapter 3 that I do for passives so not sure what i'd substitute them for if I skipped that chapter.

[@broodfusion]

What leveling uniques do you recommend? Asking for alt leveling? Thank you!

[@themaliciousrabbit]

I have a separate video on my channel covering the uniques I use!

[@broodfusion]

@@themaliciousrabbitThanks and subscribed! Keep up the great work!

[@carlosdias5669]

is there a skill tree passive point chart and what build did you do ??

[@themaliciousrabbit]

The maxroll spellblade leveling guide does the same. maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/spellblade-leveling-guide

[@aidanrivera7589]

So my main is 98 I’m wanting to reroll and level… so what’s my fastest route? Can I just go straight to temporal sanctum?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

You have to unlock the entrance on each character as well as unlocking the End of Time to get to monoliths and your mastery. If you have a friend then they can just teleport you to the temporal sanctum entrance but really I'd just follow this guide. I have a step by step version in the description. It'll get you where you want to go quickly.

[@Banjall]

You can choose your faction at the very first town on alt characters

[@sleepydee1745]

but you cannot use them until you get to the city and talk with them again, you only gain favor and the benefits of the ranks/drops. no prophecies at the start

[@Banjall]

@@sleepydee1745 but you can unlock and use the gear.

[@anisqt]

can u explain more about faction ? im new to this

[@Sn0rlaxzzz]

Definitely a great way to level for softcore. I’d argue going acts 1-7 then monoliths is probably better for hardcore.

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Yeah you can definitely do it like this. Some people like to go all the way through Heoborea and then skip, that way you unlock the arena waypoint and then you still get to skip lagons act.

[@jasonng8256]

Is there a way to get Temporal Sanctum keys? I'm level 75 now, done 7 monoliths already and no key drop. I dont know how to fast progress my campaign!

[@themaliciousrabbit]

No specific way. Looks for the chests in your monoliths, you can find one that gives you one of each key.

[@Nimoot]

Do the Monolith Levels that have a KEY on them ... or join Circle of Fortune and get Prophecies for keys that way.

[@michaelcombs2087]

If you do this can you still kill the final boss to get the +1 all attribute?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Yes, you'll still kill Majasa at the end of chapter 9 and get +1 all. You don't have to fully complete the campaign to get this bonus.

[@matetoth4329]

im watching without sound rn, but how did you craft while running? xd

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Just a few clicks lol

[@matetoth4329]

i ment how can craft if there is no crafter, but.. just press F xd sorry :)

[@gravi3553]

bro, how i can unlock the bazer before do 2 part of your video?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

The bazaar? You have to get into act 9 to unlock the faction hubs so if it's your first character you'll have to wait until you clear temporal sanctum.

[@blazedehart2748]

19:24 woah woah woah. You only need 1 of the bridge thingies to activate it??? Ive run the campaign 30+ times and gotten both of them every time 😭

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Pretty sure you're supposed to get both of them, but I think they just broke something with the quest and haven't fix it yet lol

[@Nimoot]

Better yet ... grab one and then teleport out to town and then back to the map via the map button (not your portal) you'll be in front of the doors immediately.

[@flip-griever2676]

im trying to lvl a friend does it count if i put the key in for him

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Yes you can use your key and have him tag along. If he's low level he might even be able to just teleport directly into the cache room and just walk out the back door.

[@GinjaLeviathan]

Just so you know you can no longer talk to the gambler for the erza's ledger quest, also I advise swapping magma orb for glacier when you unlock it as it works on large enemies very well, but I suppose it is personal preference

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Thanks for the info. I don't know of any builds that ever really went for that neck anyway. But it makes sense since the turn in icon is gone.

[@Xyecor]

hi i did the skip at the ruined world quest when u port back to town so its quicker but it bugged my quest and now i can not complete it the guy is not in the town and when i go back it just says go threw the door to the town but then doesnt do anything :/

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Did you do both steps? You have to do the symbol of hope quest in the welryn docks as well. I've done it the same way every time and i've never had any issue with them bugging out. Just make sure you have everything in that town done. You might not even have to do the symbol of hope but i'd check it out anyway.

[@Xyecor]

ok ill try that tyvm :) @@themaliciousrabbit

[@VoidRose]

Create a character, ask someone in chat (or a friend) to open your portal to the end of time, and then to the factions, done!

[@themaliciousrabbit]

That is definitely an option, you'll still have to run around the campaign collecting your passives and idols but there are definitely ways to speed things up if you have help. You can even have your buddy pre-farm the stability in the last 3 timelines and then you teleport into the boss room of each, immediately unlocking empowered monoliths.

[@hersin6717]

Did this whit my thorn totem build. Tried monolith lvl 20, felt so underpowered and went back at lvl 27 and been doing them since.

[@potato11teen]

Hey, can you share some of your methods. I'm currently playing a druid primalist with Sprigan form and feel under powered at lvl 40. What affixes and modifiers do you try and focus on and maybe some skill nodes you think need focus and some that may seem good but should be avoided.

[@hersin6717]

@@potato11teen Just look up your build on maxroll. Been following that.

[@AnaonYT]

thank you for the guide but I am 36 with my beastmaster and I can't complete any monolith, what did I miss ? I just get destroyed

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Craft some upgrades, minion builds tend to struggle in early monoliths

[@AnaonYT]

@@themaliciousrabbit I will try crafting, I am not on a minion build, I just have one Raptor and playing with the slashing ability

[@RobvanBode]

Wait... the time portal thingies have an animation? I just get instant loading screen..

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Some of them do, theres like 2 or 3 in the early campaign.

[@DestroyxDesign]

Why I cant open the door to go to sanctuary in the desert ? I dont get why it Dosnt opening

[@themaliciousrabbit]

You need to have the quest from the Shrine Maiden in the Oracle's Abode before the door will open.

[@torkalatorkala1807]

I just did monos as soon as I hit 15 and got VK mastery, went surprisingly well tbh. Not the best twink gear either

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Yeah some classes can do mono's super early. I did a few on cycle start at level 15 because the servers were basically bricked and it was pretty tough but I scraped by for a while until they put some hotfixes in. With some good twink gear you can easily do it early, but you'll have to double back and do your side quests anyway so I like to wait personally.

[@kristijannikolic307]

Doing this you are still missing some idols / passives, you also need to do soulfire bastion and finish the quests around there to get the last of them. Otherwise good guide however it would be nice to have explained that as well.

[@themaliciousrabbit]

The last passives and idols are obtained in chapter 9 after you've cleared temporal sanctum. But you could get them before if you really wanted.

[@draakisback]

Is there a reason why you don't do the other two dungeons that can skip the campaign? Are they just slower or...

[@themaliciousrabbit]

You still need to do parts of the first few chapters to get your passives and idols so that's why I don't skip them. I'm sure you could make a level route with the other dungeon skips but i'm not sure what all you'd be missing so that's why I just use temporal sanctum since you can get through the first 4 game chapters very quickly.

[@theangler1922]

It's because he didn't do any actual research for this method, he is just copying what other youtubers do and pretending its his own method. It's actually much faster to do the first two dungeons. The first one is much more difficult to do at level 18 without gear handed down, but if you can you can enter Soulfire Basin immediately, which gives you an immunity aura so if you can just kill the things you'll hit level 45 before you complete it, leveling insanely fast. Much faster than doing monoliths. You'll also skip a huge chunk of story, and the story leftover has all you need to complete your free points and idol slots, making it a much faster skip. Or if you want, you can backtrack slightly and do the temporal sanctum route.

[@themaliciousrabbit]

@@theangler1922 Well for one I never claimed anywhere that I was the sole creator of this route. Plenty of people having been clearing the campaign quickly long before me, I just wanted to make a video on what I like to do to make alts quickly. Secondly, you wouldn't want to do soulfire bastion as a way to skip the campaign.. The soulfire bastion entrance is in chapter 4 and the exit is in chapter 7 which means not only would you have to do half of chapter 4 anyway just to get there (and temporal sanctum's entrance is right at the start of chapter 5), you'd also have to do all of chapters 7 and 8 to get to chapter 9 or double back and complete chapter 4 anyway to unlock temporal sanctum... So soulfire bastion doesn't save you any time in regards to skipping the campaign because all we care about is getting to chapter 9 as soon as possible for factions and to kill Majasa for +1 all attributes... The whole point of doing temporal sanctum is it allows you to skip the largest part of the story while still getting to complete all of your passive and idol slot requirements. Temporal sanctum skips 90% of chapter 5 and all of chapters 6, 7, and 8. None of the other dungeons offer that amount of story skip... Not to mention that you need keys to run all of these dungeons and you will not have a lightless arbor key or soulfire bastion key by the time you get to those dungeon entrances, and while you could find them while doing mono's, going back to run them for campaign progression is a waste of time when you can just farm a temporal sanctum key and skip the largest amount of the campaign.. It's all about efficiency.

[@theangler1922]

@@themaliciousrabbit You don't have to do any of chapter 4 to get there little mouth breather. After you exit the first dungeon, you can walk right into SOulfire with progressing zero story. Even if you were braindead and wanted to run Sanctum, all you would have to do is finish soulfire, backtrack about 5 minutes and you can enter Sanctum. After unlocking your mastery you can skip about 90% of the story. Of course you would know that if you spent any time doing any research instead of regurgitating a hundred other videos. As someone who just did a solo "new' character run without any gear from other characters (Forgot what that challenge is called) You aren't getting keys for any of them early. I entered monoliths at level 25 and grinded to level 48 before I got the first key drop for any of them. I'm currently 74 and have cleared the age of ice and still don't have a single sanctum key, but 4-5 of the others. This clearly isn't a path for new characters.

[@draakisback]

@@theangler1922 yeah I mean, I've done the dungeon route and it took me roughly 1.5 hours to level my void knight alt. The reason I asked is because the first dungeon is definitely very challenging for most classes at level 15-25 specifically due to the boss mechanic. If you have no extra passives either, your Character is going to be slightly weaker than the average toon at that level.

[@EvandroPastor]

Post the full unedited run dude!

[@themaliciousrabbit]

I could make an unlisted post with just the raw speedrun footage and link it

[@chrisron2774]

Hey, small tip. You don't have to talk to most npc's. Example the keeper guard. Just click him to trigger the event, then you can immediately port back to town.

[@TTlvY]

You can go into monolith before completing the campaign? :O

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Yep! As soon as you get into the End of Time at the end of Chapter 2. After that you can go into monoliths.

[@bt220h]

@@themaliciousrabbitand thats the moment i couldnt get beyond. i was like level 30 and sucked balls. but then again, i suck at those games. at least compared to all the others. BUT then again its PvE, so who cares

[@Dabaldgorilla]

Can you export that leveling spellblade loot filter

[@themaliciousrabbit]

www.lastepochtools.com/loot-filters/view/jQeLwMAr

[@iask_95]

Now imagine how fast this would be if you use legendary uniques that you have on your main

[@Banjall]

It makes it easy

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Yeah I have a 2lp firestarter torch with t7 dot and ignite chance. I'll probably make another video about twink gear for leveling.

[@nonyabisness6306]

it's very doable. did my second char like this, but you do need a proper build otherwise you're gonna be lacking DPS, which is a pain.

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Yeah some builds, especially full minions builds kinda struggle in early mono's since your minions die a lot.

[@sargethfly]

could you please link skill and passive tree ? :)

[@themaliciousrabbit]

maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/spellblade-leveling-guide#loot-filter-header This is a slightly different version, but it's still a very good guide to follow! Should do you just fine.

[@sargethfly]

thanks for your time :), nice guide!@@themaliciousrabbit

[@GBIGBIGBI]

Gambler is still bugged and you cannot get the amu

[@bumcello6970]

I follow the guide but with a rogue full gear since I've already another charlater. It's take me 5 hours lol. For do two hours, you need to know perfectly your class, but the real problem is when you are 3X (me 36) when starting monolith, what's the goal? The gain of xp is not better than when you kill monster from your level, so at the end is take too much time for XP. You will die a lot in this monolith.

[@themaliciousrabbit]

The first main goal of endgame is to get to empowered monoliths as soon as possible because that is the best place to farm. Best drops, best experience, etc.. By doing this method you get to progress your normal monoliths much faster than what you would by doing the full campaign. It's not about the level of your character, but about your character's overall progression in the game.

[@bt220h]

@@themaliciousrabbiti still dont get what is the point of fighting in empowered monoliths? i get better gear, to do...more empowered monolith? whats the late game goal? i finish campaign twice, and i dont know why to progress with this game? it was fun, but i dont feel the need to grind for something, i have already seen.

[@FabianVilersBe]

I’m jealous. During a two hours play through I’d have lost connection at least 15 times.

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Imagine trying to do this on launch servers. Went from a 2 hours to 6 real quick lol

[@Illvana]

One minimal thing you can do, is skip talking to the npc for the storerooms sidequest, I normally just go in, kill the forged soldier, and I'm done

[@themaliciousrabbit]

I believe I tried that once but the entrance to the storerooms wasn't open so I had to go back. Could be wrong but I feel like you have to be on the quest.

[@Illvana]

@@themaliciousrabbitnot at all, it's the western entrance, instead of going north after the boss, go west, and you'll see it. I've died too many times on HC, so I've done this portion like 25 times before and after release, it still works 😅

[@uUbWhereUu]

I wish I'd found this earlier...

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Always time to make more characters!

[@KazKrabs]

Death not a big deal unless you’re hardcore 😂

[@vortexoku5570]

Feel ya brother

[@vortexoku5570]

Feel ya brother 😅😂

[@gravi3553]

Can you link buildplanner pls?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/spellblade-leveling-guide should be updated for new patch

[@GeorgeFlorian12]

What about the Lightless Dungeon skip ?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

You can do it if you have the keys for it, it will let you skip most of chapter 3 and the start of chapter 4. I don't do it because I like to get several passive points and idol slots from chapter 3 and if you do the lightless arbor skip you miss those or wind up having to backtrack and do them anyway. If you don't have a key then you'll be around level 15 by the time you get to the lightless arbor which is too early for most builds to start monoliths which is where you'll have to go to find the keys.

[@alexanderdraschwandtner7644]

Me in chapter 5 waisting 2h just to get to the city with lvl 24

[@johnsoderling4741]

how hardcore viable is this?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

You can do it on hardcore but you might want to wait a little longer to go into monoliths. Or just kill a lot more while you're running through the campaign so you can enter monoliths in your 30's or even level 40. It'll just take a bit longer.

[@webfabio6259]

im noob on this game but i dont understand why u say endgame if u still have yellow quest on ur hud?????

[@themaliciousrabbit]

So this game works a little weird where you can skip around the story, but not complete previous parts of it.. Even after you complete chapter 9 and have all of your sidequests done, you'll still see the quest log telling you to go back to chapter 5 to continue where you left off. When I say endgame I mean the monolith system since that is where you spend all of your time after the campaign and this method lets you get there ASAP while not missing any valuable parts of the campaign but skipping most of it to save time.

[@WRXYDaddy]

My portals don't do that transition screen....

[@themaliciousrabbit]

I think they removed it, mine used to do that and now the last few characters haven't been having those transitions.

[@barklabutson166]

@Rabbit get closer to your mic or tune it up

[@metsmokers1354]

so what about idols and passives from quests?

[@themaliciousrabbit]

You end this with 13/15 passives and 5/8 idols. You get the last few passives and idols from a couple quests in act 9

[@WyMustIGo]

Learn to watch

[@Autaris]

Speed levelling "just do the campaign really fast"

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Well we get to skip half of it but yeah the first part is just optimizing the campaign

[@ex3maJI]

It`s all awesome, but u have to say that only OP classes like spellblade can do monolith on lvl 30.

[@themaliciousrabbit]

That's not true. I do the same strat on all of my classes. Thorn totem shaman, acid flask falconer, javelin paladin, Hydrahedron runemaster. Theyve all went into monoliths around level 30 with no issues.

[@ex3maJI]

@@themaliciousrabbit well warpath/smite paladin cant :(

[@natel7382]

Last epoch is good until you get to monoliths and the game just doesn't work very well. Every crazy battle fps dips to 40. I upgraded to a 4070s and it's a little better but still caca. D11+unity = game will always run like crap. Idk how people can game when it dips under 60 fps. I get motion sick so cant do it. Grim dawn has this issue but it never goes below 60 and that was with my 3060 ti. Hopefully they fix it but it will get worse with updates. It is unity after all. Ty for the guide.

[@austindav1s]

So we’re in soft core

[@themaliciousrabbit]

You can do this on hardcore as well, but you need to play slower and kill more so you don't get too underleveled. Can still do the same steps though.

[@adgenai]

And there is me that take 50h to do the main quests 🤣🤷🏻‍♂️

[@TerminalzPain]

I think D4 did skipping worse than LE, but I also think this skip is too long lmao....even if u follow this tutorial to the T, u still have to regrind mono's to Empowered, farm all ur blessings again.....I recommend just farm low lvl unique items and turning them in to very good lvling Legendarys, focus on movespeed and dodge/life whatever :D LE should make it so keys only drop from Mono's when you are above level 60 or so....or once you have acquired all Passive and Idol slots AND the +1 all stats from last boss, future chars can do each dungeon for a 3rd of idol slots and passive points from quest rewards and then kill last boss and campaign done. I also think once 1 char has reached Empowered Mono's future chars should be able to go straight to Empowered.

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Well yes you'd still have to progress through endgame like normal. I do think that unlocking empowered on all character would be a cool idea but normal mono's are meant to be where you level and gear your characters to prep for empowered so I could see why they wouldn't change it.

[@barryaitchison5565]

why so fast? 🤨🤨

[@Felrohan]

We don't use fextralife in this house

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Not sure what you mean by that but thanks for the comment anyway. If you think the guide is bad then let me know.

[@Felrohan]

oh, it's just that fextralife has been under fire numerous times in the past for having scummy streaming practices and abandoned/incorrect wiki entries in their database. You can look this up via Fextralife's beef with Asmongold, who exposed their questionable practices. @@themaliciousrabbit

[@jghost9]

Nice job, but real endgame isn't until you get into corruption in enchanced monos.

[@themaliciousrabbit]

Well technically endgame is the monolith system, but yes. Real endgame doesn't start until at least empowered monos.

[@XtraCrispy]

This game need 4x speed so we can do it in 30 mo. 😝