How to Respec in Last Epoch: Skills, Passives and Mastery

Respeccing in Last Epoch means changing choices you've already made on your character, and where you go depends on what you're changing. Skill points are changed from the Skills window and cost no gold. Passive points and Mastery, the specialization your character picks within its class, are changed with Chronomancer Lerinne, the NPC marked by a purple brain icon, for gold. Each option has its own limits.

How to Respec Skill Points in Last Epoch

Changing the points in a specialized skill costs no gold, but the Minimum Skill Level sets the limit. Points up to that level can be rearranged freely.

1. Open the Skills window.
2. Select the specialized skill you want to change and open its tree.
3. Press Respec at the top right. The button shows the skill's Minimum Skill Level.
4. Choose Remove Points and take points out of the nodes you want to rearrange.
5. Spend those points on the nodes you want instead.

Anything above the minimum comes with a time cost. Removing a point lowers the skill's level without giving the point back, so you have to earn that level again through skill experience. Check the number on the Respec button first so you know how far you can go before that starts.

How to Replace a Specialized Skill

Sometimes you don't want to rearrange a skill at all. You want a different one. Despecialize Skill frees the slot so you can specialize in another skill your character already knows. Re-equipping the same skill straight away won't bring back the levels you lost, so use this only when you're really switching.

1. Open the Skills window and select the specialized skill's tree.
2. Press Respec at the top right.
3. Choose Despecialize Skill. The slot is freed.
4. Pick a different known skill for that slot.

The new specialization starts at the Minimum Skill Level. To help it catch up with your other skills, it may receive bonus XP, and the tree shows when that bonus is active above its XP bar on the left. Specialization slots open as your character levels, up to five, which matches the number of skills you can place on your action bar.

How to Refund Passive Points with Chronomancer Lerinne

Passive points are refunded with Chronomancer Lerinne, who you can find in towns such as The Council Chambers and The End of Time. Her purple brain icon marks her on the map.

1. Travel to a town and find Chronomancer Lerinne on the map.
2. Talk to her and choose the passive allocation respec option, Respecialize Passive Point Allocations.
3. Pick a refund method: remove points one at a time, or use a bulk option.
4. Confirm the gold price the game shows.
5. Spend the freed points again on the passives you want.

Single-point refunds suit small fixes. The bulk options clear a whole tree in one go. One bulk option refunds every point in a single Mastery tree, and the other refunds all points across your base-class tree and every Mastery tree.

Passive Refund Costs and Rules

Passive refunds don't have a set price. The gold cost depends on three things:

• How many points are invested in that node
• The node's level requirement
• Whether the node sits in a Mastery tree

The game shows the exact figure when you confirm, so there's no need to guess.

A refund can't leave an allocated node without the earlier points it requires. If you're clearing a branch, start with the nodes that come later in it.

Mastery trees also need a foundation. Before you spend points in any Mastery tree, your character needs at least 20 points in the base-class tree. Once you have points in a Mastery tree, the base-class tree must keep at least 20 points, so no refund can take it lower than that.

How to Change Your Mastery in Last Epoch

Changing Mastery is only possible with Chronomancer Lerinne in The End of Time. If you talk to her in other towns, she can only refund passive points.

1. Travel to The End of Time.
2. Speak with Chronomancer Lerinne and choose Respecialize Mastery.
3. Select one of the other Masteries for your base class.
4. Review the total cost on the screen.
5. Confirm, then rebuild your passive trees.

A Mastery change only swaps you between options inside your base class, so it can't move you to a different class. It also resets every passive allocation, so plan the rebuild before you confirm.

The game doesn't let you try a Mastery before switching, so read each option's skills, passive bonuses and passive trees first. A few minutes of comparing can save you a lot of gold.

Mastery Change Costs by Level

A Mastery change costs a base amount that scales with your character's level, plus the cost of resetting your passive points. The listed base amounts are:

For a level not shown, and for your character's full total, check the number on the confirmation screen, since it includes the passive reset.