Mastering the Monolith of Fates: A Comprehensive Guide to Last Epoch's Endgame

TLDRLearn how to effectively progress and gear up in Last Epoch's core endgame system, the Monolith of Fates. Explore timelines, complete objectives, and defeat bosses to unlock blessings and empower your character. Watch out for corruption as you progress for better rewards.

Key insights

🔑The Monolith of Fates is the core endgame system of Last Epoch, where you can stabilize shattered timelines and gain rewards.

💎Progressing in the Monolith of Fates allows you to unlock blessings that provide various bonuses to your character.

👥Exploring Echoes within timelines and completing objectives is important for stabilizing timelines and acquiring rewards.

🌑Beware of corruption, which increases as you kill Shades of Erebus and affects monster difficulty, loot drops, and XP gains.

🌟Empowered timelines offer greater challenges and rewards, and reaching higher corruption levels unlocks new unique drops.

Q&A

When should I start engaging in the Monolith of Fates?

You can begin in the Monolith of Fates after reaching the end of time and unlocking Mastery classes. However, it is recommended to at least unlock all passives and idol slots before fully diving into the endgame.

How do I progress in the Monolith of Fates?

To progress, you need to complete objectives in Echoes within timelines and defeat boss encounters. Each completed timeline stabilizes the Monolith and unlocks branching paths to higher level timelines.

What are blessings and how do they affect my character?

Blessings provide various bonuses to your character, such as damage resistances, utility stats, and increased loot drops. They can be obtained by defeating timeline bosses and are a crucial part of character customization.

What is corruption and how does it impact the gameplay?

Corruption increases as you progress in the Monolith of Fates and affects monster difficulty, loot drops, and XP gains. It also unlocks new drops and unique rewards from the Shade of Erebus. Higher corruption levels provide greater challenge and better rewards.

What is the significance of empowered timelines?

Empowered timelines offer increased challenge and rewards compared to normal timelines. They can be unlocked by defeating all level 90 timeline bosses and provide higher levels of corruption, unique drops, and blessings.

Timestamped Summary

00:00Introduction and overview of the Monolith of Fates as the core endgame system of Last Epoch.

05:00Explaining how to effectively progress through the Monolith of Fates and unlock higher level timelines.

10:30Detailed explanation of Echoes within timelines, their objectives, and the importance of stabilization.

15:45Understanding the concept of corruption and its impact on gameplay, rewards, and difficulty.

20:15Exploring the significance of blessings and how they provide customization and power to your character.

25:30Introduction to empowered timelines and their increased challenge, rewards, and unique drops.