Last Epoch Items

Items in Last Epoch play a crucial role in character development and gameplay, offering a wide range of gear and tools to enhance your character's abilities and strategies. Rare Items are also the main incentive to progress through Last Epoch's various timelines and continuously fight tougher enemies. Whether it has been to trade with other players and accumulate wealth, or improve your character, Loot has always been the primary motivator in the majority of Action RPG games, and it's no different here. Below is an overview of item types, their rarity, and equipment categories, each with a brief description so that you understand the system better.

Item Rarity

1. Common (White): Basic items with no special modifiers. They serve little to no purpose except for low-level gear, or eventually perfect high-level bases with high Forging Potential may be the foundation of some crafting projects;
2. Magic (Blue): These items have one or two modifiers, providing specific bonuses beyond what common items offer.
3. Rare (Yellow): Rare items come with multiple modifiers, making them significantly more potent than common or magic items. Usually, rare Items with high Forging Potential, and specific high-level mods can get quite expensive and are what most players seek to do when attempting to start a craft.
4. Unique (Orange): Unique items have specific, predefined modifiers that can significantly influence gameplay and character builds. They often have unique names and lore and may come with Legendary Potential.
5. Set Items (Green): Part of item sets, these pieces provide additional bonuses when equipped together, encouraging players to collect the entire set for maximum benefits.
6. Exalted (Purple): These items possess higher-than-normal modifier values and are extremely valuable, offering powerful enhancements to your character. Exalted Items are also necessary for crafting Legendary Items

Types of Equipment

1. Weapons: The primary means for dealing damage, weapons vary greatly depending on the class and build, including swords, bows, staves, and more.

   • Melee Weapons: Such as swords, daggers, axes, spears, and maces, are used for close-quarters combat.
   • Ranged Weapons: Including bows and wands, allowing attacks from a distance.
   • Mage Weapons: Staves and scepters, typically used by spellcasting classes.
      

2. Armor: Provides defense and other bonuses, essential for survivability and stat enhancement.

   • Helmets: Protect the head and often grant bonuses to wisdom or specific skills.
   • Body Armor: Offers substantial defense and may have various stat bonuses.
   • Gloves: Can grant increased attack speed, additional damage, or other utility bonuses.
   • Boots: Often enhance movement speed or provide defensive bonuses.
   • Belts: These can provide extra health, resource management benefits, or other perks.
      

3. Accessories: These items offer unique bonuses and are crucial for fine-tuning builds.

   • Rings: Typically worn in pairs, rings offer a wide range of possible modifiers.
   • Amulets: Provide significant enhancements and can greatly impact a character's performance.
      

4. Relics: Special items that can provide powerful boosts and unique effects, often tailored to specific classes or builds.

5. Idols: a unique set of Items that provide various Passive bonuses to your character. Idol slots are unlocked during the campaign and come in different sizes so with limited space there is some planning necessary to maximize the effectiveness of your Idols. There are generic Idols, but also ones dedicated to specific Classes, offering unique bonuses to specific Class Skills or specific damage types

6. Off-hand Items: Used in the off-hand slot, depending on the type of Item, it provides either defensive or offensive stats, in many cases coming with a set of specific unique set of affixes,

   • Shields: provide extra base block chance which can provide very high defensive utility if your character is built around this defensive layer. It is usually used by Melee fighters that are more defense-oriented.
   • Quivers: required when you are playing with Bows, it provides bonus damage to Bow attacks, and can often boost the damage of specific Bow abilities or related damage types.
   • Catalysts: off-hand items commonly associated with Mage and spellcaster classes. Catalysts-based implicit mods are often Intelligence, Ward, and related Spell damage bonuses.
      

Understanding the variety and nuances of items in Last Epoch is key to mastering the game, as the right combination of gear can significantly impact your character's effectiveness in combat and overall gameplay.

Last Epoch Item Trading

The majority of Items in Last Epoch can be tradeable with other players as long as you are members of the Merchant's Guild. Trading items cost you Fervor which is obtained by completing quests and killing monsters while affiliated with the Guild, which shouldn't be an issue for any active player. Trading is possible via direct trades, Bazaar, and to a limited extent also via Gifting (the last option is available to all players regardless of the selected Faction). Trading is a core part of all ARPGs and is a vital activity to gear up your character faster. It is also technically possible to Buy, Sell, and Trade those Items with the use of real money, on secure marketplaces like Odealo. It is worth noting that trading is only possible with the use of Gold, and item-for-item trades are not allowed, even further increasing the importance of this in-game currency. At the same time, trading the most valuable and highest rarity equipment requires reaching higher ranks within the Merchant's Guild, making it necessary to be an active player to do so.