Gold is the main currency of Last Epoch and is particularly important for developing characters and obtaining valuable items. Earning gold is an integral part of optimizing characters, obtaining powerful equipment, and customizing equipment.

Uses of Last Epoch Gold:

Crafting and Enchanting: Gold can be used to purchase crafting materials and tools, allowing players to spend gold to modify and enhance equipment that is very valuable to them.

Item Purchase: At the established value of gold, players can purchase potions and equipment from merchants to help in combat and upgrade.

Redistribution and Recasting: Using a certain amount of gold, players can change skill points or change item affixes, allowing players who spend gold to adapt new strategies and try different builds.

How to Farming Gold?

Players can earn gold by defeating enemies, completing quests, or selling useless equipment.

Gold Farming through Endless Arenas

Farming gold through arenas is a highly favored and easy method.

Here's how to go about maximizing your profit:

- Begin With a Regular Arena Key:  Don't use an Arena Key of Memory since gold earned per wave does not scale efficiently when starting at higher waves. Using a regular key, you start at zero wave and reap the maximum profits.

- Increase Gold Drop Rate:  Make sure to acquire the Fall of the Outcasts blessing and try to focus on the Grand version to reap better gold drop rates. While gold earned per wave does not scale significantly, this blessing will ensure extra earnings in the long run.

This technique can efficiently and conveniently generate gold and is the best for farming in a repetitive and stable environment.

Target Farming Uniques from Bosses

Boss farming is yet another useful strategy and can be particularly lucrative when trying to get certain unique items with Legendary Potential (LP).

With these high-value items, you could try to do the following things to improve the odds of obtaining them:

• Corruption in the monolith should be pushed to increase the chances of items rolling with legendary potential.
• Remember that corruption only increases the chances of Legendary Potential appearing on an item, not the number of LP rolls that can happen.

Any dedicated player that is willing to put in the time into boss farming will see significant benefits despite the patience needed with this strategy.

Farming Specific Nodes in Monoliths

While certain nodes corruption levels are particularly high, and farming these specific nodes can yield valuable items, with specific focus on rings, amulets, and body armor.

These items, notably those with multiple LP, are greatly valued in the market. Target farming specific nodes is an excellent way to add to your gold farming efforts alongside valuable loot.

Glyph and Runes Farming

Farming glyphs and runes can serve as a consistent approach to income when sold to vendors.

To further enhance this strategy, try the following:

• Harness the power of a Circle of Fortune character to obtain prophecies rewarding glyphs or runes.
• Use doubling lenses on rewards to increase the quantity of rewards, as well as the number of prophecy completions.

Important Note: During this process, please be careful not to hit the Transfer Materials button. Doing so will remove your runes and place them in your crafting materials bank, making them impossible to sell.  

This is a very efficient strategy for players looking to farm non-tradable resources while automatically earning consistent profits.

Rune of Ascendance Farming

The Rune of Ascendance, which enables the crafting of various base items into uniques, is a significant value farming strategy:

• Gain Runes of Ascendance through prophecies or alternate sources.
• Purchase bases from a gambler or farm them directly.
• Use the runes on rings or daggers for high-value outcomes:

Pro Tip: It is advisable to change into a Merchant Guild character before utilizing the Runes of Ascendance so that the results are tradable. Using these runes on a Circle of Fortune character will cause the items to be nontradeable.

This strategy is guaranteed to provide high-risk and high-reward opportunities for players looking to unlock shards of uniques.

Strategies for Filtering Exalted Drops and Idols

Custom loot filters can be very helpful for highlighting particular pieces of exalted items and idols that are worth a lot of money This includes wondering what gold paying idols to highlight have the potential modifiers that allow them to be worth upwards of 2M gold without any further LP attached.

Some helpful strategies include:

• Highlight affixes with high value, such as Tier 6+ intelligence on opal rings or other niche combinations.
• Why pay extra for idols that without any extra LP modifiers already have?

While requiring some familiarity with the item economy, it is equally tailored to experienced users looking to maximize rewards relative to their knowledge and effort.