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In Last Epoch, Corruption is an endgame scaling mechanic tied to the Monolith of Fate timelines that increases both the difficulty and the rewards of encounters. Raising your Corruption level makes enemies tougher-boosting their health and damage-but also improves experience gain and item rarity, rewarding players who push their limits.
The primary way to increase Corruption is by defeating the Shade of Orobyss, a unique boss that spawns at the edge of your timeline’s Echo web, usually on the Echo of a World tile. The further this Shade is from the center of your timeline, the more Corruption you gain upon defeating it-ranging from +2 Corruption near the center up to +10 or more at distant nodes.
For normal timelines, Corruption caps at 50 stacks, but Empowered timelines have no cap, allowing infinite scaling. Each time you clear an Empowered timeline’s final boss, you gain a stack of Gaze of Orobyss, a buff that increases the Corruption awarded from your next Shade of Orobyss kill. By accumulating multiple Gaze stacks, you can dramatically boost the Corruption gained per kill, sometimes earning over 20 Corruption in a single fight.
A highly efficient farming strategy involves moving diagonally across the Echo web, completing objectives quickly, and avoiding arena Echoes to maximize the number of encounters. Once you have max Stability, killing the timeline boss grants Gaze stacks, which you then leverage to kill the Shade of Orobyss for large Corruption gains. Repeating this loop resets the Echo web and lets you push Corruption higher and higher.
Pushing Corruption too high can make your timeline nearly impossible to clear. If you find yourself overwhelmed, you have two main options to reduce Corruption:
1. Kill the Shade of Orobyss near the center of your timeline: Unlike distant Shades, killing a Shade close to the timeline’s epicenter actually reduces Corruption slightly. This can be repeated multiple times to fine-tune difficulty.
2. Complete the Sanctuary of Eterra Echo: Unlocked after your first Shade kill, this Echo appears at the center of your web and allows you to reduce Corruption by a small or moderate amount, or fully reset it to the base value (0 for normal, 100 for Empowered). This is the most reliable way to manage Corruption if you get stuck.
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