Leveling through Last Epoch’s campaign can become tedious without optimal gear, but certain uniques significantly accelerate progress across all classes. Prioritize items that enhance mobility, provide sustain, or deliver raw damage to breeze through early content.
Top Uniques for Faster Leveling
- Arboreal Circuit: Doubling these rings grants unmatched movement speed and spawns Illusory Trees, which taunt enemies while you dash through zones.
- Avarice: Offers elemental resistances and leech as an early quest reward, ideal for builds leveraging fire, cold, or lightning damage.
- Bleeding Heart: A powerhouse sustain amulet with life leech, perfect for melee or throwing builds—avoid for spellcasters due to self-bleed penalties.
- Firestarter’s Torch: Ignites enemies with Spreading Flames, drastically improving clear speed for fire-based builds.
- Mourningfrost: High mobility boots with attribute scaling, equippable as early as level 8.
- Taste of Blood: A level 13 axe with massive bleed chance, crucial for ailment-focused melee builds.
- Vipertail: Applies poison, slows enemies, and boosts attack speed/dodge, ideal for hit-based builds transitioning into endgame.
Additional Early-Game Staples
- Dreamthorn: Flat melee damage boost
- The Falcon: Extra movement speed
- Quicksilver Coil: Conditional speed bursts
- Prism Wraps: Elemental defense and crit scaling
- Lessons of the Metropolis: Early dodge chance
- Isadora’s Tomb Binding: Armor and damage reduction
- Grimoire of Necrotic Elixirs: Synergizes with potion mechanics
- Thorn Slinger: Physical damage and bleed support
- Tome of Elements: Elemental ailment utility
- Torch of the Pontifex: Ignite damage amplification
- Carcinization of Momentum: Reliable movement speed source
FAQ
What is the best unique for leveling overall?
Arboreal Circuit is the single best, since movement speed affects every class and build.
Which unique is best for sustain while leveling?
Bleeding Heart offers unmatched life leech for melee and throwing builds.
Are leveling uniques worth farming early?
Yes, especially Arboreal Circuit and Avarice since they are easy to get and immediately impactful.