Raven & Epigraph Guide: F2P Upgrade and Shop Priorities
The Raven System is one of the most valuable long-term progression systems in Last Asylum: Plague. While most hero upgrades improve an individual character, Raven development provides global bonuses that strengthen your broader combat force.
Increasing the Raven's level and equipping stronger Raven Gear provides lasting improvements that support both PvE and PvP performance. Because these benefits scale with your account, steady Raven investment can produce substantial gains over time.
The system is built around five main components:
- Raven level progression
- Raven Fireworks milestones
- Raven Gear and gear quality
- Raven Workshop production
- Epigraphs and squad-specific bonuses
🎯 F2P / Low-Spender Priorities
Raven development takes time and scarce materials. Use these priorities to build a stronger main squad without spreading your resources too thin.
- Collect Raven Essence early. Plan around skill milestones, with level 110 as a major target.
- Work toward level 8 gear. The community guide identifies this as the target for additional percentage bonuses; check each piece's upgrade preview.
- Focus Epigraphs on your main squad type. Develop the bonuses your current lineup can use.
- Produce and collect Gear Chests regularly. Save opening them for the Alliance Duel phase that awards points.
- Prioritize affordable shop materials. Keep large diamond purchases low on your spending list.
🐦 What the Raven Does
The Raven supports your squads through its combat skill and progression bonuses. Its value extends beyond an individual hero, making it an important long-term investment.
Raven upgrades can improve important combat attributes such as:
- Attack
- Defense
- Health
- Overall combat performance
These improvements become increasingly valuable as your heroes and troops grow stronger. An account-wide percentage or stat increase affects far more total power on a developed account than it does at the beginning of the game.
📈 Raven Level Progression
The Raven evolves through several named stages as its level increases:
- Forest Raven: Levels 1–49
- Oath's Eye Raven: Levels 50–99
- Embers of War Raven: Level 100 and above
Raven progression continues up to Level 250, providing a long development path and a dependable source of additional power.
Continue leveling whenever materials allow, but balance Raven investment with the other systems needed by your main team.
Raven Essence is a key bottleneck. Start collecting it early from available rewards and shops. Plan around the next skill milestone while keeping enough resources for your main team's other upgrades.
🎆 Raven Fireworks Milestones
Raven Fireworks bonuses improve at important Raven level milestones:
- Level 1
- Level 30
- Level 50
- Level 70
- Level 90
- Level 110
These milestones provide additional improvements to the Raven's effectiveness. When planning upgrades, check how close you are to the next milestone and consider whether concentrating materials will unlock it sooner.
Why aim for level 110?
The community guide identifies level 110 as the final skill-unlock target and describes its benefit as a 50% AOE damage increase to affected targets. Treat that percentage as community-reported: check the current tooltip for the exact effect, targets, and duration before planning around it.
Another community reference reports that skill thresholds can be one level higher before the first evolution, including 111 instead of 110. Follow the requirement shown in your Raven screen. This is a skill milestone, not the end of Raven leveling.
⚙️ Raven Gear
Raven Gear is a major source of additional Raven power. The system contains six gear slots:
- Heart of Wisdom
- Feather of the Night
- Sharp Beak
- Tail of Wind
- Attacker's Claw
- Eye of Perception
Equip the strongest available piece in each slot. Duplicates remain useful because they can support future gear upgrades and fusion.
🎨 Gear Quality Levels
Raven Gear quality is identified by its level and color:
- Level 1: Gray
- Level 2: Green
- Level 3: Blue
- Level 4: Purple
- Levels 5–7: Orange
- Levels 8–12: Red
Higher-quality pieces provide stronger bonuses. Progress becomes more resource-intensive at advanced tiers, so use duplicates carefully and review fusion requirements before committing them.
Level 8 gear priorities
The community guide recommends reaching level 8 for additional percentage buffs. It describes the left-side pieces as providing HP and critical damage reduction, and the right-side pieces as providing Attack and critical damage. Confirm the bonuses on each piece's upgrade preview.
For offense, favor useful right-side upgrades when materials allow. Take affordable improvements in other slots while collecting what you need; compare actual fusion costs rather than assuming one side is always easier.
🏭 Raven Workshop
The Raven Workshop produces Raven Gear Chests over time. Opening a chest awards a random Raven Gear piece that can be equipped, saved, or used in gear progression.
Important Workshop habits include:
- Keep chest production active.
- Collect completed chests regularly.
- Save chest opening for the Alliance Duel phase that awards Raven Gear Chest points.
- Upgrade the Workshop to reduce chest-production time.
Random drops will not always provide the piece you want, but consistent production gradually supplies the duplicates required for upgrading and fusion.
Collect now, open on the scoring day. Raven Gear Chests are commonly scored during Day 3, the technology phase. Check your active event rules before opening them, and use our Alliance Duel guide to plan the week.
🔧 Gear Fusion & Upgrading
As Raven Gear accumulates, duplicate pieces can be used to create stronger equipment through upgrading or fusion.
- Review the required pieces before beginning an upgrade.
- Avoid discarding duplicates simply because a slot is already filled.
- Prioritize upgrades that provide the most useful account-wide gains.
- Keep all six slots equipped, then prioritize useful upgrades toward level 8, with offensive pieces favored when damage is your main need.
Advanced gear takes time to build. Regular Workshop collection is the most dependable way to maintain long-term fusion progress.
📜 Epigraphs: Build Around Your Main Squad
For F2P and low-spender accounts, concentrate early Epigraph upgrades on the squad type you use most. A Warlock main should prioritize Warlock bonuses before developing Warrior or Ranger alternatives. Splitting scarce materials across all three types slows the team you rely on.
The community guide recommends prioritizing Attack early, with these starting choices:
- Frenzy Flock: an early offensive priority.
- Reversal Power: another recommended offensive option.
- Protective Charm: a defensive option when survivability is limiting your team.
Check each Epigraph's eligible squad type, current effect, and next upgrade before spending. Treat these picks as a starting point for your lineup rather than a universal ranking.
🛒 Raven Shop Priorities
The community guide recommends the following shopping order for F2P and low-spender accounts. Compare current prices, purchase limits, and competing needs before spending your tokens.
| Shop | Recommended purchases | Spending priority |
|---|---|---|
| Sanctuary | Raven Essence | Prioritize the weekly supply when available. |
| Expedition | Gear Chests and Raven Fruit | Look for affordable purchases that support your next upgrade. |
| Alliance | Raven Essence and Gear Blueprints | Target the material currently blocking your progression. |
| VIP | Diamond-priced Raven Essence | Low priority: avoid large purchases that crowd out better uses for diamonds. |
Shop availability and value can change. Review the current offers rather than buying an item solely because it appears on this list.
✅ Raven Upgrade Strategy
The Raven rewards consistency more than occasional bursts of investment. Use the following routine:
- Complete daily activities. Collect Raven materials from tasks and any available rewards.
- Keep the Workshop active. Avoid losing production time, collect completed Gear Chests regularly, and save opening them for the relevant Alliance Duel phase.
- Equip every gear slot. Replace weaker pieces whenever an improvement becomes available.
- Save duplicates for progression. Use them deliberately for upgrading and fusion.
- Advance Raven levels. Collect Essence early and work toward the next Fireworks milestone, with level 110 as a major skill target.
- Balance your upgrades. Maintain Raven progress without starving the hero, troop, research, or building systems supporting your main lineup.
- Focus Epigraph upgrades. Invest in your main squad type and choose offense or survivability according to your team's needs.
- Review weekly shops. Prioritize useful Essence, Gear Chests, Raven Fruit, and Blueprints at affordable prices.
📋 Quick Checklist
- Collect daily Raven materials.
- Maintain Workshop production.
- Open Raven Gear Chests during the matching Alliance Duel scoring phase.
- Fill all six gear slots.
- Save useful duplicates.
- Upgrade and fuse toward level 8 gear.
- Collect Essence and push toward the next skill milestone.
- Upgrade Epigraphs for your main squad type.
- Review weekly Raven shop offers.
Small, regular upgrades add up to meaningful account-wide strength.
Final Tip
Treat Raven development as part of your main squad's long-term progression. Its bonuses strengthen far more than one hero, and their value grows alongside your account. Maintain level progression, Workshop production, and gear upgrades consistently to build a lasting advantage in both PvE and PvP.
Additional references: Raven skills and equipment and our Alliance Duel guide.