Dwight Twil8ey was a young man with a restless spirit. He had always felt a deep longing for something beyond the ordinary, an enchantment that seemed to elude him in the everydayness of life. He yearned for magic. Dwight's search for magic took him on a whirlwind journey across continents and through realms unknown. From the bustling streets of New York City to the serene temples of Angkor Wat, he sought out mystics, sages, and fortune-tellers in hopes of unraveling the secrets of the arcane. His quest often led him to remote locations shrouded in mystery, where ancient rituals and esoteric traditions held the promise of transcendence.
His quest often led him to remote locations shrouded in mystery, where ancient rituals and esoteric traditions held the promise of transcendence. In the remote Amazon rainforest, he sought out the guidance of shamans who communed with the spirits of the forest and possessed ancient wisdom passed down through generations. Dwight's unwavering determination brought him to the hidden valleys of the Himalayas, where he trained under Tibetan monks in the art of meditation and harnessing the power of the mind.
Last Epoch – A Guide to Items
Every item starts as a base type with an implicit amount of damage, armor, or other stats. As you level up, you’ll discover many new base item types with much higher numbers and more interesting passive effects.
Video Version of this Same GuideFor example, Copper Rings give implicit crit chance, Ash Staves give adaptive spell damage + less spell cost, and the inscribed tablet relic gives implicit mana + less mana cost on melee skills. This game has a lot of different implicit modifiers when compared to other action RPGs, and they get pretty creative in the later levels. Getting the right base type will play a big part of your gearing process.
This game goes by an Affix system very similar to path of exile, where each item can have 2 suffixes and 2 prefixes. Any item with 2 or less affixes is considered a blue “Magic” item, and anything with 3 or more is considered a yellow “Rare” item. There’s a very large pool of affixes, some give very simple stat increases, but there are some unique class specific ones that augment specific skills. You can hold ALT on your item to see the tiers of each affix. These effects are significantly stronger per tier, up to 6. The gearing process in this game is all about getting as many high tier affixes as you can, which is done through crafting or from drops for your item filter to point out, both of which we’ll talk about later.
EXALTED
Affixes can only go up to tier 5 when you upgrade them in the forge. Stronger tier 6 affixes are possible to get on items only through really rare drops. Any item that drops with a tier 6 affix is considered a light purple “Exalted” item.
UNIQUE
Unique items are pretty rare, they all have their own special effects that are set in stone and can’t be crafted. There’s a large variety of unique items, from simple leveling ones like The Falcon that gives you movement speed when you hit an enemy, to super powerful game-changers like Woven Flesh that gives you overkill damage leeched as life, increased leech rate, and critical chance avoidance.
Some other examples of creative build-changing uniques are the Taste of Blood Axe that makes enemies tick bleeds twice as fast when you hit them, Transient Rest boots that gives you a percentage of your mana as ward when standing still, and Shroud of Obscurity that constantly drains current life for ward. Ward by the way is similar to the Energy Shield mechanic of Path of Exile.
SET
Green “Set” items are part of of two or more items that give powerful bonuses when worn together. These set pieces seem to be pretty rare, at least when starting monoliths, I hear they drop much more often in later levels, but there are a total 13 of them, I’ve only ever found 2. I have a Ruby Fang Cleaver that belongs to a two-piece set with a shield, that increases the levels of all fire and poison skills by 1,giving you an extra point for their trees. The other Set piece I found was The Last Bears Scorn, when paired with 2 other items from it’s set, you’ll get a ton of health regeneration whenever you stun an enemy.
LastEpochTools.com is an amazing website made by the same guy who made GrimDawnTools, that houses an item database where you can see every single unique, set, and even affixes currently in the game. Taking a quick look through the sets, the coolest one that popped out to me was the 3-piece “Potions no longer heal you, but instead give 40 necrotic damage and reduces your resists for 4 seconds. Expect many more sets when the game is fully released out of early access.
CRAFTING
Crafting in Last Epoch is very deterministic, you can add and upgrade any affix on any item if it has the space, but you have to be really lucky to not “Fracture” the item, leaving it uncraftable, or worse. The chance to fracture goes up with instablity that is added with each crafting action, so you need much less luck if you start crafting on an item that already has good affixes, rather than starting from scratch.
You can press F at any time to open up the crafting menu and throw your item into it. This menu shows prefixes on the left and suffixes on the right, both with 2 slots. If any slot is empty, you can add any affix that you have the shards for. Shards can be found pretty commonly from random drops, or from shattering items that we’ll talk about later. You can also upgrade any affix up to tier 5 if you have the shards.
Adding or upgrading any affix on this menu will add instability and increase the damage for a fracture that can leave the item uncreatable, or even lower the tier of affixes if unlucky. There are two “Support Glyphs” you can use in this menu to change the odds, both found from random drops.
The Glyph of Stability reduces the instability per action by 60%. This is perfect for when you’re just starting to craft an item.
The Glyph of the Guardian will reduce the chances of a fracture and reduce damaging fractures down to minor ones. This is perfect for ending a craft when your chance to fail is too high for comfort.
There are also several “Runes” used in this crafting menu to augment or destroy your items.
The most common rune you’ll use is the Rune of Shattering that destroys an item but rewards you a random amount of shards based on the item’s affixes. The vendor that resets every 10 minutes sells these, and they drop pretty commonly, so they’re very useful for collecting affix shards for the specific affixes you’re looking for.
The Rune of Refinement will re-roll all affixes within their tiers, but adds instability. You can hold ALT on your item to see the potential rolls of each affix, it’s usually not a big difference, so this rune is only for perfect min-maxing.
The Rune of Removal will remove a random affix from an item and add instability. This is useful when you pick up an item with some good stats, but one or two affixes you don’t want. This rune can potentially remove those bad affixes to make room for good ones, or it can brick your item.
The Rune of Cleansing removes all affixes from an item and removes instability. This rune is good for when you find a rare item but only care about the base type, letting you clear it and start crafting from scratch. Usually it’s too hard to craft good endgame gear from scratch, but this method is great while leveling and you just need tier 1 or 2 affixes.
Finally, the Rune of Shaping will re-roll the base implicit on the item, but add instability. Once again you can hold down ALT to see the rolls for each implicit, just like the rune of refinement, this is only for min-maxing perfect gear.
LOOT FILTER
Last Epoch hands down has the best item filter in any Action RPG I’ve played, and allows for full in-depth customization in-game! You can find this in the settings menu under Gameplay. This lets you do basic loot filter things like hide or show items based on their rarity, level, class, base type. and more. You can also go a step further and Show, Emphasize or recolor certain Affixes that you’re hunting for, which is really important when looking for an item to craft on, or just to shatter for extra shards. You can select several affixes for one rule, and even use the advanced options to tell the filter what Tier the affix needs to be, or the what the total tier of affixes on items need to be. You can even add a Character Level Dependency for each seperate rule, so you can set up a rule to recolor an affix you’re looking for at tier 1 or above when you’re below level 20, then duplicate it, increasing the tier and level as you’ll eventually start to see higher tier affixes. Remember to Re-order all of your rules by dragging them around, the ones on top take priority over everything below.
That’s just how mine is set up, you can do a ton of different things with this filter. If you don’t want to do all that menu crawling, you can find many different loot filters made by the community online. I’ll link one popular forum thread with a casual Loot Filter for all classes made by Heavy. Just copy the content in any of the pastebin links, go to add a filter in game, and just click paste clipboard contents! I’ll also put the filter I’ve been using for my melee void knight that you could use as a template, just switching out the affixes for what your build needs.
My Custom Melee Void Knight Filter – https://pastebin.com/4Q3EMe3n
IDOLS
All of the Idol slots are locked at first, but you’ll unlock them gradually as you complete some main and side quests. Idols are simple pieces of gear that can only have 1 Prefix and 1 Suffix, all from their own special pool. Class Specific Idol Affixes are some of the most unique and build-augmenting effects available in the game, but you can’t craft them, so you have to be very lucky to get the perfect one. Idols come in all shapes, sizes, and lengths. The larger ones usually have much more powerful bonuses, so it becomes a puzzle of how to best fit them.
CONCLUSION
That’s most of the items in Last Epoch! At least the ones you can equip and use for crafting. I didn’t talk about Blessings in this video, because that’s something I want to tackle in the future in a video all about the Monolith of Fate endgame system! The item mechanics of this game look simple from the outside, but becomes pretty in-depth and customizable when it comes to affixes. Thanks for getting this far, I hope you enjoyed the video! and I hope you’re enjoying Last Epoch as much as I have been!
You can press F at any time to open up the crafting menu and throw your item into it. This menu shows prefixes on the left and suffixes on the right, both with 2 slots. If any slot is empty, you can add any affix that you have the shards for. Shards can be found pretty commonly from random drops, or from shattering items that we’ll talk about later. You can also upgrade any affix up to tier 5 if you have the shards.
He immersed himself in ancient texts and practiced rigorous physical disciplines, seeking to unlock the dormant energies within. With each passing year, Dwight's fascination with magic grew deeper, even though he had yet to encounter the supernatural forces he sought. His friends and family began to worry, perplexed by his relentless pursuit of the intangible. They urged him to embrace the ordinary and find contentment in the mundane. But Dwight couldn't be deterred. He had caught glimpses of the extraordinary in fleeting moments: a shooting star streaking across the night sky, a synchronistic encounter that defied explanation, or a melody that stirred the soul. These were glimmers of the magic he believed lay hidden in the world. As time went on, Dwight began to realize that perhaps the magic he was searching for wasn't in some far-off land or exclusive to a chosen few. It could be found in the everyday wonders that surrounded him: the laughter of a child, the grace of a sunset, the love shared between kindred spirits. Dwight's perspective shifted, and he realized that the magic he sought could be cultivated from within. It was not an external force to be discovered, but a dormant power waiting to be awakened. He embraced mindfulness and gratitude, channeling his energy into creating beauty, love, and joy in the world. In the end, Dwight Twil8ey found his magic not in a fantastical realm or in the hands of a sorcerer, but within his own heart and spirit. His relentless quest had led him to the realization that true magic was not something to be obtained, but something to be cultivated and shared with others. And so, armed with a newfound understanding, Dwight embarked on a mission to inspire others to discover their own magic. Through storytelling, music, and acts of kindness, he sought to ignite the spark of enchantment that resided within everyone. Dwight's journey had evolved from a search for the external to an exploration of the internal, from seeking magic to becoming magic. And in the process, he discovered that the greatest magic of all was found in the connection and love shared with others. So, as Dwight Twil8ey continued to explore the world, he did so not in search of the magic that eluded him, but as a beacon of light, reminding others that they too possessed the power to create their own magic..
Reviews for "Dwight Twil8ey's Magical Pursuits: A Tale of Wonder and Curiosity"
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4. Matthew - 2 out of 5 stars - "Dwight Twil8ey Looking for the Magic" had an interesting concept, but it failed to deliver. The narrative was confusing and fragmented, making it difficult to understand the plot. The characters lacked depth and felt one-dimensional, making it hard to care about their journey. The pacing was inconsistent, with long periods of stagnation followed by rushed resolutions. Overall, this book left me feeling unsatisfied and underwhelmed. I wouldn't recommend it to others.