Experience is gained by completing quests, slaying enemies and from other rewards, such as Monolith Echoes. As you gain experience, your character and skills will level up, allowing you to customize and make your character stronger. The maximum character level in Last Epoch is 100. You can still gain experience at level 100, it just won’t increase character level anymore.
A common way to increase the amount of experience gained is by increasing Corruption in Monolith of Fate, but there are other ways to increase experience such as Experience Shrines. Items in Last Epoch do not provide bonuses to experience gained.
Magic enemies provide 50% more experience gained when slain.
Rare enemies provide 200% + additional 4% per level, which means that level 100 rare enemies provide 600% more experience when slain.
Boss enemies do not have an experience gain multiplier, but have a much higher base experience reward when slain than other enemies.
If a lower level player is in a much higher level area, they gain experience from slaying enemies as if the area was up to 10 levels higher than their character. For example, a level 20 character in a level 40 area would gain experience as if the area was level 30.
When playing together with other players and there are big level differences, the previous 10 level difference can go down to a minimum of 2, based on the level difference between the characters. For example, if a level 10 character and a level 70 character were playing together in a level 40 area, the level 10 character would gain experience as if the area was level 12, and the level 70 will gain experience from level 40 area as normal.
Players that are 5 or more levels below the starting level of a chapter will gain less experience from completing quests relative to their character level. For example, completing quests in Chapter 9 will grant much less experience to a character that is level 5, than to a character that is level 50.
Additional bonuses which increase the experience gained in Arena and Monolith Echoes won’t apply to characters under level 50, but they will still gain the unmodified amount of experience from slain enemies.
The amount of Favor gained while aligned with an Item Faction is based on the experience you gain.