What it is
Last Epoch Tools (lastepochtools.com) is the most-used third-party site in the LE community. It's run by an independent team since the game's Early Access (2020+) and positions itself as a generalist hub: it never claims to be the best at any single thing, but the most complete in coverage.
What it offers, main sections:
- Build Planner: web planner with class, mastery, skills, passives, idols, gear, and stats. No installation required.
- Item Database: complete catalog of uniques, sets, prefixes, suffixes with filters by tier, class, and type.
- Loot Filters: tool to create, share, and edit filters online, with a community gallery.
- Builds: auto-crawled collection of builds from YouTube and community submissions, sortable by patch version and class.
- Character Profiles: enter your account name and see your published characters — useful for showing your setup to friends without screenshots.
- Ladders: competitive ladder leaderboards with filters by cycle, hardcore, solo self-found.
- News: aggregated patch notes and dev updates.
Free, no signup required to read. Login to save builds and filters under your account.
What problem it solves
LE has a lot of critical info outside the game: affix tier list, which uniques matter, which blessings roll in which timeline, which builds are meta. The in-game client doesn't expose any of this comfortably — a unique's tooltip doesn't tell you whether it's good, nor does it show you which affixes you could roll.
Last Epoch Tools solves this by centralizing everything on a single domain. Instead of jumping between Maxroll for the build, ArreatSummit for the price, a wiki for the unique's lore, and a Pastebin for the filter, you open lastepochtools.com and do everything from there.
How it differs from Maxroll
Both are large hubs with planner + builds + guides + ladders, but their tone differs:
- Last Epoch Tools: community-driven bias. Auto-crawled builds, filters shared by any player, planner without editorial curation. More breadth, less opinion.
- Maxroll: editorial-driven bias. Builds published by staff with curated leveling + endgame, tier lists with editorial justification, long guides. More depth, more opinion.
Most players use both in different flows: Maxroll to pick the build and understand the why; Last Epoch Tools to share the final planner, import a filter from a specific creator, and review ladders.
What people use it for
Personal theorycrafting: open the planner from scratch (no published build), pick class and mastery, and start moving skills/passives/idols watching how stats update in real time.
Importing someone else's build: copy the share URL from a creator's planner (Maxroll, YouTube description) and open it in LE Tools to view, modify, or clone.
Creating a custom loot filter: the visual editor lets you define rules (color, sound, hide) by affix tier, item class, level requirement. More comfortable than editing XML by hand.
Importing another player's filter: copy a filter ID/URL from Reddit or Discord and open it in lastepochtools to inspect, export in the in-game format, and edit.
Looking up info on a specific unique: go to the DB, type the name, and see all affixes it rolls, LP value, and which builds use it.
Showing off your character: link your character profile in your Discord/forum signature so people see your gear without screenshots.
Who it's NOT for
- Theorycrafters who want deep DPS simulation: the planner is good for visualization but doesn't compute DPS with the depth of Path of Building for LE. For absolute min-max, complement with PoB.
- Players who want strong editorial curation: auto-crawled builds vary in quality. If you want a guarantee that the build is good, Maxroll or ArreatSummit.
- Mobile-first: the UI works on mobile but is designed for desktop. The planner is hard to manage on touch.
How it's used in practice
Go to lastepochtools.com.
To plan a build: click Build Planner → pick class and mastery → assign skills and passives using the visual tree → add gear with affixes from the DB. Stats update in real time.
To inspect an item: click Database → Items / Uniques / Prefixes / Suffixes depending on what you need. Side filters by tier, class, equipment type.
To create a loot filter: click Loot Filters → Create new → define rules in the visual editor → export as an
.xmlfile you'll copy to your LE save data folder.To share: every build, filter, or character profile has a unique URL you can paste into Reddit, Discord, etc. The planner supports versioning so old builds stay accessible.
Honest limitations
Build collection has no curation: most are auto-crawled from YouTube; some are outdated or meme builds disguised as meta. You have to filter by cycle/patch before trusting them.
Planner light on advanced calculations: for shock DPS, critical ailment scaling, or affix min-maxing, the planner falls short. Path of Building for LE covers that better.
Occasional Cloudflare: the site uses Cloudflare strict mode; during traffic spikes post season-launch a challenge page sometimes shows up for 2-3 seconds.
English only: no localization to Spanish, German, or other languages.
No dedicated mobile app: usable from a phone but ugly. The planner is desktop-first.
Moderate ads: there are banner ads and a newsletter prompt. Manageable with adblock; nowhere near the intrusive level of some competitors.
How to start
lastepochtools.com. No signup to read.
If you're new to LE: go to Builds → filter by current cycle (Season 4) → sort by views/likes to see popular builds. Click one → open planner to understand structure.
If you want to build your own: go to Build Planner → New build → pick class. The UI is self-explanatory: click a skill to open its tree, drag/drop gear from the side DB.
For loot filters: go to Loot Filters → search a popular one for your mastery → export → copy the file to
LastEpoch/Saved/Filters/→ activate it in-game with Shift+F.Optional account: signing up lets you save builds, filters, and characters in your permanent profile; without it you'll only have shareable URLs.
Recommended bookmark: the home (lastepochtools.com) by default takes you to the most recent builder. Useful when you're actively iterating builds.
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