Spellblade Leveling Guide

This build is centered around the Cold Melee fantasy, if you want the fastest leveling build for mage, you can use the Skills and Passives from the Runemaster Leveling Guide. WARNING: You cannot change your mastery, so be sure to select "Spellblade!"

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 Shatter Strike.

• Glacier is your single target and clear.
• When you are low on Mana, use Mana Strike.
• Use Teleport to move quickly through the chapters.

Mid Campaign Setup

Use this setup until you unlock Firebrand.

• Shatter Strike is your single target and clear.
• When you are low on Mana, use Mana Strike.
• Use Enchant Weapon to boost your damage.
• Use Teleport to move quickly through the chapters until you unlock Flame Rush.
• Use Flame Ward to protect yourself from danger.

Final Setup

• For single target use Firebrand to build up 6 stacks and consume them with Shatter Strike.
• When clearing, reduce the number of Firebrand stacks in accordance to the monster health.
• When you are low on Mana, use Firebrand.
• Use Enchant Weapon to boost your damage.
• Use Flame Rush to move quickly through the chapters.
• Use Flame Ward to protect yourself from danger.

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!

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 progression includes 1-10, 11-25, 26-40, 41-58 and Early Monolith, scroll to find the correct tab.

Spellblade 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 Eterra's Path or Suloron's Step.

Keep an eye out for useful Uniques such as Yrun's Wisdom, Woven Flesh, Prism Wraps, Aurora's Time Glass, Suloron's Step and Diothaen's Bloody Nib.

Gear Stats Priorities

Best Prefixes

Best Suffixes

Idols

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

Summary

This Spellblade leveling build shines in its offensive and defensive capabilities. It kills bosses in seconds, makes you straight up immortal, making it a very good mastery during the campaign.

• Glacier is your main damaging skill before switching to Shatter Strike once you unlock your mastery.
• If you are low on Mana use Mana Strike, then Firebrand once you unlock it.
• Use Firebrand to reach max stacks before using Shatter Strike.
• Activate Enchant Weapon for a big damage boost.
• Use Flame Ward to protect yourself from danger.
• Use Flame Rush to move quickly through the chapters.
• Always change your Staff to the best base possible for your level when Glacier is your main damage skill.
• Always change your Sword to the best base possible for your level when Shatter Strike is your main damage skill. Use two handed swords before you spec into Gemini, then switch to one handed swords.
• 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.

Credits

Written by Terek.
Reviewed by Tenkiei.