Warlock Leveling Guide
Last Updated:July 7, 2024|Changelog
This Warlock leveling build bleeds her foes to death by showering them with a plethora of skills. The best part? You only have to cast Chthonic Fissure and it casts the other skills for you! You still want to use Spirit Plague and spam Chaos Bolts to effectively deal damage.
The Warlock plays at mid range of monsters as it destroys them before they come too close. If you are in a dangerous situation, you can rely on this build's impressive Ward generation after getting a few points in Rip Blood and Spirit Plague. In addition, you get tons of life on hit with Chaos Bolts, resulting in a large amount of recovery.
Overall, the Bleed Warlock is an amazing leveling build, as it provides insane damage, defense and recovery. It also scales really well into the end-game with powerful item bases and passive tree points. This combination makes Warlock leveling feel effortless.
Check out the Campaign Guide for an in depth breakdown of the campaign.
Gameplay
As we level the power of skills evolve, with some becoming stronger while others get weaker. To account for this, we transition from a setup that is optimized for early game to one that is more suited to tackling endgame content.
Early Setup
Use this setup until you unlock your Mastery.
- For single target, use Rip Blood.
- For clear, use Wandering Spirits on cooldown.
- Summon your Summon Bone Golem to take the aggro away from you.
- On bosses, use Bone Curse for extra damage.
- Use Transplant to move quickly through the chapters.
Final Setup
- For single target and clear, use Chthonic Fissure first, then Spirit Plague and spam Chaos Bolts.
- Limit your Spirit Plague cast, it applies stacks of Bleeds on yourself.
- If you are low on Mana, stop casting Chaos Bolts. If you are still struggling you can respec some of the points in Chaotic Rupture in Chthonic Fissure skill tree.
- You don't need to use Bone Curse or Rip Blood manually, it procs from Chaos Bolts.
- Use Transplant to move quickly through the chapters.
- Summon your Summon Bone Golem to pull aggro away from you. If he dies too often, replace him with Profane Veil and use it to avoid damage.
Key Leveling Notes
- Keep your character at the area level by killing monsters.
- To use this guide, you need to maintain at most a 5 level difference with the area.
- Press C to open the character sheet to find your level and TAB to find the area level.
- Only collect loot that serves as an upgrade.
- The loot filter reveals many items that might not be an upgrade for your character.
- If your inventory is full, stick gear with high value affixes in your stash and sell the rest.
- Don't sell gear that has high value affixes to a vendor.
- Instead, keep it to use later or destroy it with a Rune of Shattering or Rune of Removal.
- Always get the best weapon you can.
- Weapons are a core part of your power and getting a higher level base boosts your damage significantly.
- Early on, you can buy them at the
Gambler NPC in the Council Chamber town and in the End of Time town. - After level 40, they don't sell you higher item bases.
- If you want to enter the Monolith of Fate early, unlock all the passive points and idol slots from quests first.
- By the time you complete chapter 7, you will be ready to tackle the Monolith of Fate content.
- Crafting is powerful and important for enhancing your gear.
- Press F and place your item in the crafting interface to level up its affixes and craft new ones!
- Adding health or vitality on a few empty affix slots can increase your HP by a significant amount!
If you need help with crafting, check the Beginner Crafting Guide.
Skills and Passives
Passives and Skills provide powerful effects that dictate the playstyle of a Class and its Masteries. Remember that you can allocate Passives in the first half of any Mastery regardless of the one you chose.
Click on the Arrows at the top and on the Bar at the bottom to see Passive and Skill Trees Progression
Gearing and Side Quests Step by Step
Itemization is a vital aspect of your journey in Last Epoch. While prefixes and suffixes matter, what sets Last Epoch apart is the power of item bases. Many items have potent implicit attributes that can rival or even surpass modifiers.
Level 1 to 10
Items
- On the Warrior's Root Staff of Legions prioritize Spell Damage and Chance to Ignite on Hit.
- Imbued Silver Ring of Deflection is the best source of movement speed early on.
- Use Vital Skull Cage of Deflection, Blighted Brass Amulet of Deflection and Blighted Defiled Bones of Deflection for extra damage early on.
- On Scholar's Leather Boots of Deflection, prioritize Movement Speed and Increased Cooldown Recovery Speed to enhance your mobility.
Side Quests
- Storeroom Sabotuers for 1
Passive point. - Evacuation Quest for 1 Passive point.
Items on planner are for displaying item bases and affixes only. Ignore level requirements.
Level 11 to 25
Items
- Start equipping Idols with Vitality, any type of resistance, Health and Shared Poison Damage.
- Rejuvenating Gold Ring of Deflection provides significant elemental resistances, outshining other options at this level.
- Vital Witch Hat of Deflection provides decent amount of Mana Regeneration, increasing the damage window.
- Avarice gives you a decent chunk of elemental resistances and leech.
Side Quests
- Erza's Ledger Quest for 1 Passive point and Avarice.
- Don't talk to the Gambler NPC before completing this quest, otherwise you can't get Avarice.
- The Upper District Quest for 1 Passive point.
- An Ancient Hunt for extra
Idol slots. - The Lesser Refuge Quest for 2 Passive point.
- The Corrupted Lake Quest for 1 Passive point and extra Idol slots.
Items on planner are for displaying item bases and affixes only. Ignore level requirements.
Level 26 to 40
Items
- Acolyte's Coven Hat of Deflection and Rejuvenating Sapphire Ring of Deflection are going to be a great help to sustain the Mana cost of Chthonic Fissure and Chaos Bolts.
Side Quests
- Hidden Gems Quest for 1 Passive point.
- The Sapphire Tablet Quest for 1 Passive point and extra Idol slots.
Items on planner are for displaying item bases and affixes only. Ignore level requirements.
Level 41 to 58
Items
- Blighted Bone Amulet of Remedy is the best amulet base in the game as it gives a lot of resistances, which gives you more space for suffixes on your gear.
- Rejuvenating Spidersilk Sash of the Giant is a powerful base that helps you fix your Cold res when combined with Scholar's Heoborean Boots of Deflection.
- Scholar's Arcane Bracers of Life and Acolyte's Coven Robes of Insulation are your final Mana Regeneration upgrades.
Side Quests
- A Heoborean Cure Quest for extra Idol slots.
- Liberating the Nomads Quest for extra Idol slots.
- After defeating the Frostroot Warden boss and completing chapter 7 quests, you have reached the cap of 15 Passive points and 8 Idol slots. You can dive into the Monolith of Fate or you can choose to finish the campaign for a reward of +1 to all attributes.
Items on planner are for displaying item bases and affixes only. Ignore level requirements.
Early Monolith
Items
Important At this point, you have access to most of the best item bases in the game. Your upgrades come from prefixes and suffixes on items instead of the implicits.
Here is a recap of the best item bases :
- Weapon : Temple Staff or Crystal Staff
- Helmet : Coven Hat
- Body Armour : Coven Robes
- Belt : Spidersilk Sash or Praetorian Belt
- Boots : Heoborean Boots and Solarum Greaves
- Gloves : Arcane Bracers
- Amulet : Bone Amulet
- Rings : Sapphire Ring
- Relic : Cursed Bones or Homunculus Blood
Items on planner are for displaying item bases and affixes only. Ignore level requirements.
Monolith Progression
After beating the Abomination timeline boss and completing your first timeline, you have the choice to go between The Stolen Lance timeline and The Black Sun timeline. Go for The Black Sun timeline.
You want to do timelines on the right-hand-side of the Monolith progression as they provides more relevant Blessings for your character progression.
Level progression includes 1-10, 11-25, 26-40, 41-58 and Early Monolith, scroll to find the correct tab.
Warlock Uniques
If you are lucky you might get a Rune of Ascendance while leveling. Use this first on boots to get Unique boots such as Advent of the Erased, Eterra's Path, Blood of the Exile or Transient Rest.
Keep an eye out for useful Uniques such as Arboreal Circuit, Legacy of the Quiet Forest, Isadora's Tomb Binding, Woven Flesh, Transient Rest, Eterra's Path, Boneclamor Barbute, Salt the Wound, Thorn Slinger, Blood of the Exile, Flayer's Pride or Valdyr's Chalice.
Gear Stats Priorities
Best Prefixes
- Level of Wandering Spirits until you unlock your Mastery.
- Level of Spirit Plague, Level of Chthonic Fissure, Level of Chaos Bolts, Level of Rip Blood and Level of Bone Curse
- Shared Increased Bleed Duration
- Shared Physical Penetration With Bleed
- Shared Bleed Chance On Hit
- Increased Spirit Frequency with Chthonic Fissure
- Physical Penetration
- Physical Damage and Damage Over Time
- Cast Speed
- Chance for 3 additional projectiles when you directly cast Chaos Bolts
- Vitality
- Shared Physical Damage Leeched As Health
Best Suffixes
- Physical Penetration and Minion Physical Penetration
- Chance to Shred Armour on Hit
- Health
- Hybrid Health
- Fire Resistance, Lightning Resistance, Cold Resistance, Elemental Resistance, Physical Resistance, Necrotic Resistance and Void Resistance
- Health
- Chance to Chill on Hit
- Chance to apply Frailty on Hit
- Chance to Slow on Hit
- Armour
- Dodge Rating
Idols
- Chance To Inflict Bleed On Physical Spell Hit
- Spell Damage for Curses
- Physical Spell Critical Strike Chance
- Chance to Fear on Hit
- Health
- Health
- Health
- Vitality
- Armor granted by Bone Armor
- Increased Duration for Profane Veil
- Damage Over Time Taken
Loot Filter
Loot Filters are critical in Last Epoch. Highlighting all the related valuable Item Bases, Affixes, Uniques and Idols is crucial to your character's progression. As your gear gets better, remember to hide the rules that are no longer useful to avoid screen clutter.
Link : Download Lootfilter
Learn how to load and make Filters with our Loot Filter Guide.
Summary
This Warlock leveling build shines in its offensive capabilities. It melts everything in its way, making it a very solid mastery to play during the campaign.
- Use Rip Blood as your single target and Wandering Spirits on cooldown for clear until you unlock your Mastery.
- After that, use Chthonic Fissure first, then Spirit Plague and spam Chaos Bolts.
- If you are low on Mana, stop casting Chaos Bolts.
- Use Transplant to move quickly through the chapters.
- Summon your Summon Bone Golem to pull aggro away from you. If he dies too often, replace him with Profane Veil and use it to avoid damage.
- Always change your staff to the best base possible.
- Cap your Physical Resistance early to make the campaign look easy.
What's Next?
Congratulations, you completed the campaign and your first 3 Monoliths Timelines! What awaits you is unlocking Empowered Monolith after pushing through The Reign of Dragons, Spirits of Fire, The Age of Winter and The Last Ruin Timelines and activating the beacon in the middle of them. Then you can dive into dungeons, empower your character further and test your limits at the Arena leaderboard.
Check out our Warlock Guides and find the perfect Lich Endgame build for you.
Explore the Monolith of Fate with our Beginner Guide and learn how to farm Dungeons.
Credits
Written by Terek.
Reviewed by Tenkiei, Volca