Farm Efficiently - Guide to Farming Imprints, Prophecies & Gear | Last Epoch Season 2

Farm Efficiently: Imprints, Prophecies & Gear (Last Epoch Season 2) — Summary by Bina

Overview

Practical methods to farm imprints, prophecies, and target gear in Last Epoch Season 2. Focus areas:

• What to place in the Weaver tree.
• Which echoes/maps to run.
• How corruption affects drops.
• Prophecy and lens tricks to increase yield (especially for red rings and exalted items).

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Imprint types & how they work

Weaver tree slots (what to place where)

• Kill/enemy proc slot (Echoing Riches)

  • Place a weapon or jewelry you want to duplicate.
  • Items can drop from kills inside echoes.

• Echo reward slot (Seleur / “echoing riches” behavior)

  • Imprints can trigger from the end-of-echo reward — open the middle reward device (not the side chest).
  • Some nodes (e.g., Seleur) collect rewards from surrounding echoes so one node can trigger multiple procs.

• Cache / Sealed riches (Unclaimed Trove / Lost Caches)

  • Place an armor or weapon to be imprinted when opening lost caches.
  • Best runs: Unclaimed Trove in Wrecked Vessels / Graveyard or Barnacle King vault.

• Champion / Warlord’s riches

  • Imprints proc when killing champions and can drop piles of sealed items.
  • The number of items in the pile corresponds to the number of affixes on the imprinted item.

Affix targeting

• Use high-stat or high-affix items as imprints to bias drops.
  • Example: high Weaver’s Will value on the imprint increases chances for high-WW drops.
  • High LP or a specific legendary affix on an imprint biases drops toward those traits.
• For Warlord’s riches, imprint items with many affixes to get larger sealed piles.

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Key farming strategies & setups

Red rings (COF-specific)

• Run Echoing Riches often; farm Weaver’s Gift items when targeting Weaver affixes.
• Use Unclaimed Trove (many caches) to farm sealed/cached imprints.

Champion imprint farming

• Rune Prison Complex woven echo (rare) is excellent: many exiled mages and extra champion possibilities.
• Tip: Don’t go to the middle to craft experimental affixes — loop the echo and repeatedly farm champions/exiled mage drops and favor.
• This yields many champion imprints and experimental-affix drops.

Map / echo layout (sustained farming)

• Use a central Lostwood Foley or Seleur node surrounded by multiple echoes (False Temple, Unclaimed Trove, etc.) to create a circle that generates lots of memory ember and sustain.
• A single Seleur can pull rewards from adjacent echoes, increasing procs per run.
• Balance False Temple (lots of enemy spawns → memory ember) and Unclaimed Trove (caches) to keep runs sustainable indefinitely.

Exalted gear

• Imprint exalteds where possible, but exalted is rarer than uniques.
• Target-farm exalteds with imprints and consider Nemesis / Conquer Tower runs which have high LP drop potential.

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Corruption and scaling

• Corruption affects imprint outcomes; exact mechanics are not fully datamined.
• Recommended corruption sweet spot: around 1,000.
  • Provides better rarity/favor benefits without the severe slowdown and poor XP beyond that point.
• Soft caps to be aware of: 100 (start of empowered bundles), 300, and 1,000.
• Only push corruption if you can maintain clear speed — favor/hour is often more important than raw drop rarity if runs slow down too much.

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Prophecies & lenses

Observatory (Divine Era)

• Use the Observatory to pick prophecies for Column of Fate (COF) runs.

Prophecy selection

• Fill your prophecy list with targets you want (runes, idols, uniques).
• Avoid low-value prophecies (e.g., those that “guarantee 1 LP” on uniques) — they cost a lot of favor for little gain.

Lenses

• Use lenses to:
  • Double uses, or
  • Double drops, and/or
  • Narrow prophecy types (e.g., filter to rings).
• Common lens choices: double uses, double drops, and a filter for specific prophecy types.

Watch icons vs text

• A “jewelry” prophecy icon can be any jewelry piece — if you want rings specifically, pick a ring-specific prophecy rather than generic jewelry.

Boss-prophecy repeat trick

• Use Glyphs of Envy to boost Timeline Stability to max.
• Kill the boss, then exit before killing the harbinger so you can repeat the boss quickly.
• This consumes ~50 stability per repeat instead of ~800, letting you chain boss prophecy procs efficiently.

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Other tips and reminders

• Always place high-affix or high-value items into imprint slots to bias drops toward those stats.
• Use TonkLabs (monoscaling data) for corruption, scaling, and numeric references.
• Focus on favor/hour efficiency: slower methods with marginally higher drop quality can be worse overall than faster, lower-corruption runs.
• Consult Bina’s deeper method videos for detailed guides (red ring farming, woven echo choices, boss-prophecy guides).

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Quick step-by-step (imprint-focused)

1. Decide your target (e.g., red ring, exalted affix).
2. Choose the appropriate imprint slot:
   • Echoing Riches for kill drops.
   • Sealed Riches / Unclaimed Trove for caches.
   • Warlord’s/Champion Riches for champion/exalted piles.
3. Use a high-stat / high-affix example item as the imprint.
4. Build a loop: center Seleur or Lostwood Foley surrounded by False Temple and Unclaimed Trove echoes to sustain memory ember and maximize procs.
5. Run at ~1,000 corruption unless you can maintain speed at higher corruption.
6. Use Rune Prison Complex for champion-focused runs.
7. Supplement with prophecies + lenses to target runes, idols, or uniques.

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Sources / people referenced

• Bina — video creator / presenter.
• Tonk / TonkLabs — community member / TonkLabs website referenced for monoscaling data.