Completing the Nemesis System in Last Epoch: A Guide to Solving It

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Last Epoch offers a wealth of options to enhance your character’s abilities, featuring extensive skill trees and comprehensive gear crafting. This ARPG provides everything you need. As you make your way through the campaign, you’ll eventually encounter a Nemesis, represented as a purple corpse with a sword embedded in it.

Nemeses are indicated on the map by an orange circle, and engaging with them is definitely worthwhile. Here’s what you should know about the Nemesis system, including their loot and the effects of Empowering them.

Understanding the Nemesis System

A Nemesis encounter can be found in regular maps, Monolith Echoes, and Dungeons. When activated, it will showcase four items that you can obtain upon defeating it. You can either Challenge the Nemesis, Empower its loot, or Banish it completely.

Choosing to challenge the Nemesis rewards you with the four displayed items and some Shards. The next Nemesis you face will drop four completely different items.

By opting to Empower the Nemesis, its four items will be upgraded up to two times. These upgrades can change Rare and Exalted items into Tier 7 items or enhance their Forging Potential. Additionally, empowered Unique items can gain Legendary Potential or even transform into Legendary items with extra affixes.

While fighting an Empowered Nemesis, it will drop only Shards. After Empowering it twice, you’ll need to challenge it again to receive the enhanced loot after you defeat it.

Remember, the loot from a Nemesis is based on your level and will always contain at least one Unique item.

Nemeses in Multiplayer

In a multiplayer setting, each player experiences their own unique Nemesis loot drops. They can Empower or Challenge the Nemesis independently. When one player activates the Nemesis, it appears, allowing everyone to fight it; however, only the player who initiated the encounter will receive Empowered loot or specific drops.

Other players can activate the Nemesis afterward, ensuring everyone has a chance to empower it as well. This means you won’t lose your Nemesis loot if someone else activates it afterward.

The Egg of the Forgotten

Sometimes, Nemesis loot includes an item known as the Egg of the Forgotten. This allows you to include one of your Uniques that lacks Legendary Potential or Weaver’s Will in the Nemesis loot, enabling you to Empower it.

If you don’t insert an item into the Egg of the Forgotten, it will instead turn into a random Unique item.

The likelihood of finding an Egg of the Forgotten increases at certain levels, with up to a 60 percent chance of it appearing at level 100.