How to play Primal Hunts in Last Epoch

Primal Hunts is one of several new additions in Last Epoch Season 3, and it can be a confusing mechanic if you’re new to the game.

You may likely wonder how you access these hunts in the first place, as they’re completely random. However, understanding the basic concept will let you participate in these hunts, and you’ll also get to win the available rewards consistently.

How to access Primal Hunts in Last Epoch?

The process of participating in Primal Hunts is available in the Campaign section at Area Level 10. To do so, you’ll have to look out for Mysterious Rifts. These are different from Torn Rifts, and you’ll find them to be rarer in comparison in Last Epoch‘s third season.

Torn Rifts and Mysterious Rifts, along with Echoes, can appear in the campaign. However, chances of encountering them in Quest Echoes and Arena Echoes seem minimal. I haven’t encountered any, and nor has the community.

How to use the Primal Hunt mechanic in Last Epoch?

The Primal Hunt encounters allow you to upgrade your Rift Beasts after you defeat them and add a hatchling to your inventory. After you have defeated a Rift Beast, you can pick one evolution out of three. Your chosen evolution will be applied to all Rift Beasts on the same Lineage. You’ll also get general loot and specific Primordial Materials.

You can get these evolutions by encountering a Mysterious Rift. These rifts will have Ancient Era enemies, and you must track and defeat your selected Rift Beast. You can then use your Rift Beast in Torn Rifts to defeat enemies and get more loot. You’ll need to play a few Torn Rifts before encountering a Mysterious Rift again.

When it comes to evolutions, you can’t select them more than once. However, there are over 60 evolutions to choose from. Additionally, every Lineage begins with four evolutions of its own, and they will reset once you complete them.

This is essentially the major nature of the grind related to the new Primal Hunt mechanic. Primordial Materials are obtained when you play and clear a Mysterious Rift. You can exchange them to earn valuable loot from the Hunt Master NPC. Plenty of useful items exist, including Rune of Evolution and Primordial Uniques.