The Weaver Tree in Last Epoch is one of those systems that looks simple at first glance but has a surprising amount of depth once you start mapping out your points. With Season 4 introducing new mechanics like Omen Windows, Echo Chains, and Corruption Runes, your Weaver Tree choices now carry more weight than ever. This updated Last Epoch Season 4 Weaver Tree guide walks through how the system works, which nodes to prioritize at each stage of the game, and how to set up your tree for specific goals, from league start all the way to high corruption farming.
Last Epoch Season 4 Weaver Tree Guide
The Weaver Tree is a passive tree tied to the Monolith of Fate endgame system. It lets you influence what types of echoes appear, what rewards they carry, and how often specific mechanics show up in your runs. You collect Weaver Tree points by ranking up within the Woven Faction (through memory amber) and by completing Woven Echoes for the first time.
Beyond echo manipulation, the tree gives you access to imprint slots (which let you duplicate and target-farm powerful items), the ability to block unwanted echo types from spawning (like Arena echoes), and ways to boost loot quality, experience gains, and faction favor. It is a flexible system with full free respec, so there is no permanent cost to experimenting.
Season 4 Changes to the Weaver Tree
Season 4 (Shadow Domains) brought several changes and additions that affect how the Weaver Tree fits into the broader endgame loop.
New Woven Echoes grant additional points - With new echo types like Omen's Veil added to the pool, there are now more sources of Weaver Tree points available as you progress.
Echo Chains now interact with the Weaver Tree - The new Echo Chain system lets you spend Timeglass Fragments to generate specific chain types, and your Weaver Tree setup influences what mechanics and rewards appear within those chains.
The Weaver Tree can now block or boost specific mechanics - You can increase the chance of a specific mechanic appearing in your echoes (Omens, Nemesis, Rift Beasts, etc.) or prevent unwanted mechanics from showing up entirely.
Imprinting received a nerf - Proc frequency is lower, and the chance for double tier-seven exalted items from imprints has been reduced. This makes your Weaver Tree Imprint node choices more deliberate.
Omen Windows feed directly into the Weaver Tree loop - Omen encounters drop currencies (Timeglass Fragments, Runes of Corruption) that tie into Echo Chains and the broader endgame, and Weaver Tree nodes can increase your Omen encounter rates.
Older guide information still holds up - Community consensus is that the Weaver Tree has not been fundamentally restructured between seasons. Nodes and strategies from Season 3 remain largely valid, with the exception of the Imprint nerf and the addition of Omen-related content.
With that context in place, here is how to approach the Weaver Tree from your first Woven Echo all the way through endgame farming.
Last Epoch Season 4 Weaver Tree Max Points Progression
Building up your Weaver Tree point total is a process that runs parallel to your Monolith progression. Here is how you accumulate points and the most efficient approach to doing so.
When Does the Weaver Tree Become Available?
You gain access to the Weaver Tree by completing a Cemetery of the Erased echo in the Monolith of Fate. This is a special echo that appears periodically on your echo web. After completing it, you reach the Altar of the Weaver, where you can place Woven Echoes into your echo web and begin spending Weaver Tree points.
How You Earn Points
There are two sources of Weaver Tree points. The first is ranking up in the Woven Faction, which requires memory amber. You earn amber by completing Woven Echoes and from certain Weaver Tree nodes that increase amber drops. The second source is completing each unique Woven Echo for the first time, each one you have never done before grants a point (shown by a green plus icon on the echo).
The Fastest Way to Accumulate Points Early
Your first few points should go into nodes that generate more Woven Echoes passively. Two nodes stand out for this purpose:
Woven Fortunes - Champions have a chance to drop a pile of Woven Echoes when defeated. This lets you accumulate echoes without relying solely on Cemeteries.
Echo Spawn Chance - Echoes have a chance to spawn with a new reward type that grants Woven Echoes. Combined with Woven Fortunes, this gives you a steady flow of new echoes just by playing the game normally.
Grabbing both of these early means you spend less time hunting for Cemeteries and more time actually progressing through the Monolith.
When Should You Start Investing in the Tree?
Most experienced players recommend waiting until Empowered Monoliths (100+ corruption) before heavily investing in the Weaver Tree. At that point, your character is strong enough to handle the dangerous enemies inside Woven Echoes, and the rewards scale much better. That said, you can start placing Woven Echoes and spending a few early points as soon as you enter normal Monoliths.
New Season 4 Echoes Grant Extra Points
With new Woven Echo types introduced in Season 4 (including Omen's Veil, the three-way Omen echo), there are more first-completion points available than in previous seasons. The Omen's Veil echo appears to grant its point upon full completion of the three-way encounter rather than partial completions, so plan to finish the entire fight.
Last Epoch Season 4 Best Weaver Tree Builds
The Weaver Tree is fully respectible at no cost, so your node setup should shift as your character progresses. What works during your first hours in Monoliths is very different from what you want when farming at 300+ corruption. Below are three complete setups covering each phase of the game, with specific node recommendations and the reasoning behind them.
Best Weaver Tree Build Setup Strategy for Leveling & Early Game
The early game Weaver Tree is all about snowballing your points, getting your first crafting materials, and building toward your imprint slots as quickly as possible. You do not have faction benefits yet, your gear is weak, and you need raw resources.
1. First Priority: Woven Fortune and Echo Generation
Spec into Woven Fortune as your first max-priority node. This single node lets champions passively feed you Woven Echoes so you can keep filling out the tree without constant Cemetery runs.
On the way to Woven Fortune, you pass through Double Reward Chance (echoes have a 20% chance to give you double rewards on completion), the Woven Echo spawn chance node (echoes can spawn with a reward type that grants Woven Echoes), and Elder Sap (increased memory amber drops). All of these are worth taking. The Incubated Silk node is mostly a travel point, but the small amount of extra amber it provides adds up over time.
2. Second Priority: Rush Toward Imprint Slots
After securing your echo generation, path toward the two imprint slots on the right side of the tree. These imprint slots are among the most powerful tools in the entire Weaver Tree system. Once you have them, you can imprint high-value Woven Echoes like False Temple or Lostwood Folly so they appear automatically in your echo web.
Getting both imprint slots online early lets you start juicing your maps immediately once you hit Empowered Monoliths. The path to reach them also passes through useful travel nodes, so very little is wasted.
3. Third Priority: Gold and Runes
Path down toward the gold and rune nodes. Early in a season, gold matters — you need it for stash tabs, buying items on the Merchant Guild, and general crafting costs. The node that gives Zerich a chance to accompany you increases gold drops noticeably, and the Piles of Gold node adds gold as an echo completion reward.
The rune nodes are where your early power spike lives. Runes of Havoc let you shuffle affix tiers on a four-affix item. This means you can craft a tier-one version of your desired skill affix onto a helmet that already has a tier-seven resistance roll, then use a Rune of Havoc to swap the tiers — giving you a tier-seven skill affix to slam into a one-LP unique at the Temporal Sanctum. This is one of the strongest early-game crafting strategies in Last Epoch.
4. Fourth Priority: Spider Link Packs and XP Nodes
Once you have gold and rune generation covered, grab Spider Link Packs. This node adds extra monster density to your echoes and, more importantly, removes Beacon echoes from your pool. Beacons are long, tedious echoes that slow down your leveling pace. Replacing them with dense, fast-clearing echo types is a direct time saver.
If you are focused on reaching level 100 quickly, you can also spec into the XP reward strategy at this stage. Block all non-XP echo rewards (block glyphs, block runes, block arena keys, block gold) so that experience tomes become the most common reward on your echoes. Pair this with the Double Reward Chance node you already took, and you have a 20% chance for double XP rewards on every echo completion.
5. Fifth Priority: Rift Beast and Champion Nodes
As you accumulate more points, path into increased Rift Beast spawn chance and Rift Beast Bones. This gets you started on Primordial content and helps you acquire Evolution's End — an amulet that grants +2 to skills, all resistances, and movement speed. Many builds use this amulet as a strong early-game option until they find their target unique.
The champion and exalted item drop chance nodes are also strong picks here. More champions means more exalted drops, and exalted items are the building blocks of your endgame gear.
6. Early Game Nodes to Avoid
Do not take Fury Fortune (enraged rare enemies) if you play hardcore. Enraged enemies combined with Warden's Echo can spawn Soulfire Bastion dungeon rares that are extremely dangerous. In softcore, it is a fine pickup for extra runes and glyphs.
Skip Crystal Growth, Primordial Ambush, and Memories of Fortune at this stage. They are either niche, bait, or provide returns that do not matter until much later.
Best Weaver Tree Build Setup Strategy for Corruption & Loots
Once you reach Empowered Monoliths and start pushing corruption, your Weaver Tree priorities shift toward sustaining corruption gains, maximizing loot quality, and getting your imprint farming engine running.
1. Corruption Pushing: Timeline Stability and Gaze Stacking
Spec full points into the Anchored Reality node, which gives a 15% chance to gain bonus timeline stability when killing enemies. Filling the stability bar faster means you reach the timeline boss sooner, which means more Gazes of Orobis, which means faster corruption gains.
Pair this with reaching Rank 2 of the Forgotten Knights faction (10% chance for double stability on echo completion). Together, these two bonuses noticeably reduce the number of echoes required per corruption push cycle.
The optimal corruption push loop works like this: advance in one direction on the echo web (stability gained increases the farther you are from the center), stack at least four Gazes of Orobis by killing the timeline boss repeatedly, then defeat the Shade of Orobis when it spawns. If you can stack eight or more Gazes, the Shade echo appears immediately after your next completed echo — no waiting required.
Temporal Keystones are the shortcut. Spending these instantly fills your stability bar, letting you skip directly to the boss fight. Loot lizards are one of the best sources of temporal keystones, which is why lizard-related nodes become important at this stage.
Harbinger's Needle idols (dropped from Harbingers or Abberoth) grant extra Gazes when you kill the timeline boss. Only one Needle works per boss kill, but combined with temporal keystones, you can stack eight-plus Gazes in minutes and boost corruption by hundreds in a single cycle.
2. Loot Optimization: Nemesis, Champions, and Imprints
This is where your imprint nodes become the core of your farming strategy.
Commoner's Riches, Sealed Riches, and Echoing Riches are the three imprint nodes that drop similar items based on what you imprint. Place a double tier-seven exalted item into these slots, and champions you kill will have a chance to drop items with matching tier-seven affixes, base type, and forging potential. These are the primary way you generate endgame-quality crafting bases in Last Epoch. There is no reason to skip these nodes at any point once you reach this stage.
Faded Nemesis increases the frequency of Nemesis encounters in your echoes. Nemesis enemies are one of the best sources of double tier-seven exalted items in the game, especially early in your endgame progression before your imprint engine is fully online. Maxing this node and running Conquered Tower woven echoes (which contain eight Nemesis each) is a high-value farming loop.
Favor Cache Spawn should be maxed for Circle of Fortune players. Favor fuels your entire prophecy system, and falling behind on favor means falling behind on targeted item acquisition. For Merchant Guild players, favor still matters for ranking up and accessing higher-tier trade options.
3. Block Unwanted Content
At this stage, most players cancel Arena echoes entirely. Arenas are slower than regular echoes for web traversal, and the reward-to-time ratio is poor compared to champion-dense echo types. Blocking arenas keeps your echo web cleaner and your farming faster.
If you are farming XP alongside corruption, continue blocking non-XP echo rewards. If you have shifted to loot-focused farming, remove those blocks and let rune and glyph rewards flow again.
4. Rift Beast Investment
Keep your Rift Beast spawn chance and Rift Beast Bones nodes active. The farming loop of killing Crystallized Rift Beasts (especially with the Rampant Coast woven echo imprinted) generates large quantities of Primordial materials. These materials are used to buy bags of memory amber from Scarven, which in turn lets you purchase whatever Woven Echoes you need for your farming strategy, whether that is more Conquered Towers, more Troves, or anything else.
5. Purge Horizon: Locking Your Corruption
Once you reach a corruption level where your build farms comfortably with fast clear speed and zero deaths, activate Purge Horizon. This node prevents killing Shades from increasing your corruption. You can then freely reset your echo web and keep farming at the same corruption level indefinitely without accidentally pushing beyond your comfort zone.
This is one of the most underrated nodes in the tree for consistent, efficient farming.
6. Corruption Catch-Up for Alt Characters
If you have already pushed high corruption on a main character, your alts can skip the grind entirely. Place a Confluence of Oblivion woven echo (dropped by the Shade of Orobis, or purchased from Mask at Rank 10 Woven Faction). Completing this echo syncs the timeline's corruption to the highest value achieved on your account. A second character can jump from 100 corruption straight to 1,000 or higher in a single echo.
Best Weaver Tree Build Setup Strategy for Endgame
The endgame Weaver Tree setup assumes you have most or all of your points and your build is strong enough to handle high corruption content. At this stage, you are min-maxing drop rates, chasing perfect items, and pushing the most rewarding content loops in the game.
1. All Imprint Slots Active
Every imprint node should be filled at this point. Your three main imprint slots (Commoner's, Sealed, Echoing Riches) should each contain your best double tier-seven exalted items. The two Woven Echo imprint slots should contain the echoes most relevant to your farming strategy.
For most players in Season 4, Rampant Coast remains the top pick for at least one Woven Echo imprint slot due to the Crystallized Rift Beast farming loop. The second slot should go to False Temple (for XP-dense shrine-heavy runs), Conquered Tower (for Nemesis farming), or whichever echo aligns with your current goal.
Warlord's Riches is the final imprint node and the most niche. Unlike the other imprints, it does not drop a similar item. Instead, it drops items with a sealed affix up to the tier of the imprinted item. This is only worth taking if you are chasing triple-prefix or triple-suffix items, the absolute ceiling of gear quality. For most players, this is the last node you invest in.
2. Champions and Loot Lizards: The Endgame Density Engine
Max out Exalted Challenger and Heroic Gauntlet to flood your echoes with champions. Then take Dual Destruction so champions appear in pairs. More champions means more exalted drops, more imprint procs, more Woven Echo drops (from Woven Fortune), and more loot lizard spawns (from the node that gives champions a chance to be accompanied by loot lizards).
Loot lizards are a surprisingly deep part of the endgame loop. They drop exalted items, temporal keystones, and other valuable materials. The full loot lizard path includes increased spawn rate, loot lizard shrines more common, loot lizard spawn from opening lost caches, and the guaranteed unique item drop from killing lizards. Since you are opening hundreds of lost caches through imprint farming, the cache-to-lizard conversion node provides consistent value.
The guaranteed unique from lizard kills is RNG-heavy, but it serves as an additional source of high-LP uniques over long farming sessions.
3. Exiled Mage Farming
If your build needs items that only drop from Exiled Mages (such as the Mad Alchemist Ladle for Lightning Blast builds), path into the Exiled Mage section of the tree.
Twin Mage Chance doubles the Exiled Mage spawn when you open a Rune Prison. Graveyard Prisons guarantees a Rune Prison inside tombs and cemeteries. Together, these nodes let you target-farm mage-exclusive drops at a reasonable pace.
For the Woven Echo imprint, the Rune Prison Complex is the ideal choice here, but it is extremely rare, it only drops from killing Exiled Mages (possessed or not; the rumor about requiring possessed mages is false). Be prepared to farm for a while before one drops.
4. Weaver's Will Items
If your build uses a Weaver's Will unique, the two nodes at the bottom of the tree become mandatory. Weaver's Will drop chance makes rare enemies in echoes drop Weaver's Will items, and the Lucky Weaver's Will node rolls the Weaver's Will value twice and keeps the higher result. Since Weaver's Will rolls are completely random, you need volume, expect to find many copies before landing the right combination of affixes.
You can also imprint Weaver's Will items, though imprints are generally more valuable for double tier-seven farming. Weigh this trade-off based on your specific needs.
5. Endgame Rune Farming
Once your gear and imprints are set, consider despeccing out of echo generation nodes (Woven Fortune, echo spawn chance) and moving those points into increased Rune drop chance. This boosts drops of Runes of Creation and other crafting runes that become the primary bottleneck in late-game crafting. Note that Runes of Ascension are purchased only and are not affected by this node.
6. Season 4 Omen Integration
With the new Omen system in Season 4, look for Weaver Tree nodes that increase Omen Window frequency and Omen-related drops. Omen Windows feed Timeglass Fragments and Runes of Corruption into your loop, which connect to echo chain selection and the new corruption item system. Since Omen drops include Idol Altars (which reshape your entire idol grid) and Omen Idols (small idols with power normally reserved for large ones), speccing into Omen frequency pays dividends across your entire build.
7. Nodes to Skip in Endgame
Memories of Fortune (increased memory amber drop rate) is largely unnecessary if you are running the Rampant Coast rift beast loop, which generates more than enough amber through material trading with Scarven.
Crystal Growth (crystallized hearts more common but beasts have more health and damage) is a trap. You already get crystallized hearts in abundance from the rift beast farming loop. The extra danger is not worth the marginal increase.
Primordial Ambush (random beast ambush in echoes) is risky with little reward. Avoid in hardcore entirely.
Boss Objective Echoes containing two bosses is low value. The extra unique drop is random and not target-farmable. Your prophecy system and imprint engine handle unique acquisition far more efficiently.
Tomb/Cemetery boss-specific reward from rares has an extremely low proc rate. Multiple experienced players report never seeing it trigger across full seasons of play. Treat this node as non-functional until proven otherwise.
Best Weaver Tree Nodes for Leveling and Endgame
To help you set up your owner weaver tree for specific farming, here we suggest some effective modes to pick:
Imprint Nodes - The Most Valuable Nodes in the Entire Tree
The Imprint slots are consistently regarded as the single most important nodes on the Weaver Tree, regardless of build or playstyle. There are four imprint slots total, and getting to at least the first two as quickly as possible is a common priority for league starters.
Imprints let you place a specific item into a slot. Champions you kill will then have a chance to drop a similar item, same base type, same forging potential, and similar tier rolls. If you place a double tier-seven exalted item into an imprint slot, it will try to drop another double tier-seven of the same type. This is the primary method of target-farming best-in-slot exalted gear in Last Epoch.
Three of the four imprint nodes (Commoner's Riches, Sealed Riches, Echoing Riches) work this way. The fourth, Warlord's Riches, functions differently — it drops items with sealed affixes up to the tier on the imprinted item, but the rest of the item is random. This makes Warlord's Riches only worth using if you are chasing triple-prefix or triple-suffix items, which is an extremely niche endgame goal.
Season 4 Note: With the Imprint nerf reducing proc frequency and double tier-seven chances, reaching all four imprint slots is even more important so you have maximum uptime on your target farming.
Double Reward Chance - A Node That Scales Everything
This node gives you a 20% chance for echo rewards to be doubled upon completion. On its own, that is strong. But when combined with reward-blocking nodes (which remove unwanted reward types so your preferred rewards appear more often), the doubling becomes extremely efficient. If you block everything except experience rewards, for example, you end up with double experience tomes at a 20% rate.
Reward-Blocking Nodes - Control What Drops
On the right side of the tree, you can invest in nodes that prevent specific echo reward types from spawning. You can block Glyphs, Runes, Arena Keys, Gold, and Experience. The strategy is to block everything you do not currently need, forcing the rewards you want to appear far more frequently.
For leveling, block everything except Experience. For farming, block everything except the reward type most relevant to your current goal.
Spiderlink Packs - More Density Without Beacons
Spiderlink Pack nodes add additional monster packs to your echoes and replace Beacon spawns. Beacons are generally considered slow and tedious echo types. Swapping them for extra density is a straightforward improvement. More monsters means more experience, more drops, and faster echo completion.
Faded Nemesis - The Best Source of High-Tier Exalted Items
Nemesis encounters are the primary source of double tier-seven exalted items in Last Epoch. Increasing their spawn rate through the Faded Nemesis node means more opportunities to find the exact affixes you need. Even in the late endgame, having more Nemesis encounters is always beneficial.
Loot Lizards - Easy Rewards for Minimal Investment
Loot Lizard nodes are low-cost investments that provide a wide range of rewards. Lizards drop piles of exalted items, Temporal Keystones (used to gain timeline stability without running echoes), and occasionally unique items. Several nodes also increase lizard spawn rates from lost caches and champion kills, making them synergize well with a champion-heavy tree.
The guaranteed unique item node from killing loot lizards is a lower priority but still provides an additional source of unique drops, which can occasionally roll with high Legendary Potential.
Rift Beast Nodes - Bones, Horns, and Primordial Farming
Rift Beast nodes increase the spawn rate of Rift Beasts and their bone drops. Bones and Horns are the primary currency for purchasing Primordial Uniques and Bags of Memory Amber from the Scarven vendor. In Season 3 and continuing into Season 4, farming crystallized Rift Beasts through the Rampant Coast woven echo has been one of the most efficient farming methods in the game.
Favor Cache Spawn - Faction Progression
This node increases the appearance of Favor Caches in your echoes. Whether you play Circle of Fortune or Merchants Guild, faction rank directly determines how powerful your rewards become. Maxing this node accelerates your faction progression noticeably.
Fury Fortune - More Runes and Glyphs (Softcore Recommended)
This node causes all rare enemies in your echoes to become permanently enraged (increased attack speed, cast speed, movement speed) in exchange for dropping additional runes and glyphs. The extra Runes of Havoc alone make this worthwhile for most softcore players, as Havoc runes are used constantly for tier-shuffling crafts.
Hardcore Warning: Enraged enemies combined with the Warden's Echo node (which spawns dungeon enemies in your echoes) can create extremely dangerous situations. Soulfire Bastion enemies in particular can kill even well-geared characters with little warning.
Purge Horizon - Lock Your Corruption Level
Purge Horizon prevents Shades of Orobis from granting corruption when killed. Once you find a corruption level where you farm comfortably and efficiently, activating this node lets you keep resetting your timeline web and farming indefinitely without your corruption creeping higher.
Nodes That Are Generally Low Value
Memories of Fortune (increased Memory Amber drop rate) — With the current Rift Beast farming meta providing large amounts of Amber through Scarven trades, this node rarely pays off.
Crystal Growth (Rift Beasts more likely to have Crystallized Hearts but are more dangerous) — Hearts are not the bottleneck in Rift Beast farming; Bones and Horns are. The added danger is not worth it.
Primordial Ambush (random Rift Beast ambush in echoes) — Too unpredictable and risky, especially in hardcore.
Abyssal Trap (random Shade of Orobis ambush) — Same issue. Unpredictable ambushes are dangerous in hardcore, and in softcore, there are better ways to farm Shades.
Boss Objective Doubling (echoes have a chance to contain two bosses) — The additional unique drop is random and untargeted. Not efficient compared to prophecy-based farming.
Tomb/Cemetery Boss Drop Chance — Multiple players report never seeing this node proc despite extended use. Likely bugged or the rate is negligibly low.