Raven & Epigraph System

🗓 Updated: 2026-10-12

The Raven is the system that quietly separates accounts: it works like an extra hero for all your squads at once, and its epigraphs are where the mono-faction meta is actually enforced. The Raven is also the system most players neglect — a Raven stuck at level 1 is a classic mistake.

This page covers Raven levels and plans, gear strategy, epigraph rarities and the promotion order, and the rules that decide which epigraphs deserve materials.

What the Raven Is

The Raven is an extra hero for all your squads — its buffs apply everywhere at once, not just to one formation. Two consequences follow:

• Every point of Raven investment improves every march you field, which makes it one of the highest-value systems in the game.
• Crow Essence, its food, is the bottleneck on the entire system. Farm it early and never stop — the VIP shop and Sanctuary shop both sell it for exactly this reason.

The long-term goal is Raven level 110, where the final skill lands: +50% AOE damage to affected targets. That is the endgame of the system, and Crow Essence is what stands between you and it.

Raven Levels and Plans

Raven levels unlock the epigraph slots (called Plans) one at a time:

Read the table as the Raven’s true progression path: level 10 opens the whole epigraph system, and every 150 levels after that adds another slot to fill. Reaching levels 150, 200, and 250 also unlocks new visual looks and major stat boosts. The interface now features separate buttons for Skin selection and Upgrade Preview. Because each Plan slot carries its own epigraph buff, a stalled Raven level caps how many of those buffs you can even equip.

Raven Gear Strategy

Push Raven gear to level 8 — that is where the percentage buffs arrive, and percentage buffs are what make the gear worth wearing.

Side strategy, left versus right:

• Left side — HP and crit-damage-reduction. Easier to acquire, defensive value.
• Right side — ATK and crit-damage. The best offensive value in the system.

And one calendar rule: save your gear chests for Alliance Duel days. Opening them then earns Alliance Duel points — the same double-dip logic that governs speedups in the Economy guide.

Epigraphs: The Core Rules

Epigraphs slot into the Raven’s Plans and buff the heroes of a faction. The rarities behave differently, and the differences drive every upgrade decision:

• UR (gold) — buffs ONE faction only. The end goal, and the reason mono-faction squads are the meta. As of the August 20, 2026 update, Raven Epigraphs can now be upgraded up to 6 Stars (previously capped at 5★), unleashing massive percentage stat scaling.

• SR (blue) and R (green) — buff ALL factions, but cannot be promoted. They are the everyone-gets-a-cut tier, useful while you build toward UR.

The single most important rule: only upgrade epigraphs of your main squad’s faction. A UR epigraph that buffs a faction you do not field is worth nothing to you — and in the mono-faction meta, off-faction materials are exactly what the feed stock is for (see Quick Add below).

The Early Meta Epigraphs

The Epigraph Workshop

Crafting UR epigraphs requires Workshop level 20. Everything below that is building toward it.

The rarity ladder, and what each color is actually for:

One absolute rule: never recycle a golden epigraph unless you are certain. UR epigraphs are the scarcest permanent asset in the game — a recycled UR is not coming back.

Epigraph Promotion Order

Follow this order (from DrAction), promoting one slot at a time:

1. Mid — Defense slot (damage reduction).
2. Top — Attack slot (Raven Target).
3. Right — Support slot (damage reduction).
4. Left — Initiative slot (Defense% buff).

For Warrior sword epigraphs specifically, the community variant: Support (right) UR first, then Attack (top), then Initiative or Defense.

Rarity Comparisons That Surprise People

Star level can beat rarity in the damage slot. These are the verified comparisons players argue about most:

• A purple at 4 stars can outdamage a yellow (UR) at 0 stars in the attack slot — the community shorthand is purple DMG all the way.
• A shield UR at 0 stars is better than an SSR at 5 stars.
• Purple outperforms UR against King Blight until the UR reaches 3 stars or better.

The takeaway is not that purple is secretly the best tier — it is that a high-star epigraph of the right type beats a fresh UR of the wrong one. Star your epigraphs before you chase their rarity ceiling.

SSR, UR, and What Actually Upgrades

A common misunderstanding worth killing early: you cannot upgrade an SSR epigraph into a UR. What you upgrade is the Plan — the slot the epigraph sits in. SSR epigraphs are placeholders in that progression, not embryos.

Which leads to the most common Raven mistake in the game: players hoard non-main-faction epigraphs instead of feeding them to the Raven via Quick Add — and then wonder why their Raven is stuck at level 1. Off-faction and low-rarity epigraphs are Raven food. Quick Add them; that is what they are for.

Video Breakdown: Do NOT Touch Your Raven Before This! (KorpezGaming)

Complete Raven gear, skills, and shop priority guide by KorpezGaming (DO NOT Touch Your Raven Before Watching This!):

📊 Client data tables

Verified values from game client data (v1.0.87), source: wiki-last-asylum.com.

Four tracks

Six equipment slots

Two sets

📚 Reference: Falcon Quests: types and Sanctuary level

Source: wiki-last-asylum.com, client v1.0.87.

Falcon Quests are handed out by the Falcon Tower itself: the list refreshes and the player picks from it. Each quest carries a quality from 1 to 5, quality decides the size of the reward, and there are 8 hours to finish. The point worth knowing is that which quests show up depends on the Sanctuary level, so city progress changes the draw itself and not only the payout.

Quest types

The set of quests is fixed, and they differ in what they cost in energy and what they bring back.

Sanctuary level decides what shows up

Quest quality is random, but the weights depend on the difficulty level, which maps one to one to the Sanctuary level. Difficulty cannot be raised on its own, as it follows the territory. At level 1, quality four is 18% of rolls and quality five 9%. At level 35, quality four is 41% and quality five 16%.

The Sanctuary therefore does more than raise the reward per quest: it reshapes the draw, and the expensive quests start turning up several times as often. That is one more reason not to stall it, and the game never spells it out.

Half the quests cost no energy at all, namely gathering, supply recovery, refugee rescue and digs, which makes them worth taking every time. Only combat quests cost energy, 10 for hunts and 20 for rally targets.

How many quests the tower holds

The Falcon Tower refreshes every 6 hours: a new batch of quests lands in storage, and a quest moves to the visible list once a slot there frees up. How many quests are visible, how many wait in storage and how many arrive per refresh depend on the tower level, and the table shows what each level gives. The level grows with the number of rewards claimed, and level fifteen takes 5000 quests.

Whether stockpiling pays

Stockpiling quests pays only for the Alliance Duel: on days one, three and five every Falcon Quest handed in brings 10 000 points. Players complete a quest but leave the reward unclaimed, and it stays in the visible list with a red dot until the right day. By player observation a completed quest never burns, an uncompleted one disappears after 8 hours, and Wandering Blight quests do not count against storage.

The ceiling of such a stockpile is the visible quests plus the storage, and the storage fills in under a day: 30 hours at tower level one, 18-24 hours from level five on. After that every refresh is wasted, while the tower hands out from 24 quests a day at level one to 52 at level fifteen. Stockpiling longer than a day therefore does not pay: on duel days two and four quests are completed and kept, on days one, three and five everything is handed in, and at the weekend rewards are claimed at once. Stockpiling does not affect the tower level, it only delays it.

Raven Leveling Without Mistakes: Workshop, Nest, Epigraphs, Routine

Field notes from the DTF leveling guide: the Raven lives in three places, not one — and order matters more than speed.

The three buildings. The Raven Workshop is background production: it generates materials over time with no flashy payoff, but progress sags without it. The Raven Nest is the main screen — level, evolution, new stages and squad bindings. The Epigraph Workshop is where most wrong choices happen: one bad craft or slot decision either lives with you as a weak boost or costs a reset.

Levels vs evolution. The Raven levels on Raven Fruit and evolves on Raven Essence, with an evolution step every 10 levels unlocking the next layer of progress. Essence is the binding constraint: Fruit arrives steadily through routine play, Essence always feels tight. Watch the next evolution threshold first — levels without their evolution step hit a ceiling fast.

Gear: build the base, then sharpen. Do not open chests and slam upgrades as they drop. Assemble the full set evenly first, then merge duplicates and raise gear deliberately. Some upgrades are sequence-gated — other slots must reach a level before a piece opens — so maxing one slot early leaves holes elsewhere. Treat gear as a kit, not a lottery.

Daily sources. Check every day: Alliance shop (assorted Raven materials), VIP shop (Essence and chests for diamonds), Expedition shop (higher-level Raven chests), Honor shop (rare late-stage chests), Sanctuary shop (Essence on rotation). Buy only what closes your current task — sweeping every item labeled “Raven” produces inventory without progress. Name the shortage explicitly before spending: Epigraph Workshop materials, or duplicates for merging.

Epigraph thresholds. Purple epigraphs open at Epigraph Workshop level 15 — before that you are not really in the system. UR epigraphs come later, on the next workshop stage with more expensive materials. Epigraph bonuses apply only to the matching squad type: if your main squad is Warriors, crafting Ranger epigraphs “for the future” burns scarce materials for zero current return. Pick the faction you actually field, fill one set, and leave side sets alone until the core is done. Inside a set the slots differ (attack / defense / support / general center) — fix the faction first, then tune by need: lacking damage means pushing the attack slot, a collapsing squad means defense, and the general slot means an even boost.

Duplicates are fuel. A second copy of the right epigraph is not a bad drop — identical epigraphs raise stars on the existing piece, and for UR pieces exact duplicates of the right item are the most valuable resource in the line. Wrong-type duplicates wait or go through reset redistribution; right-type duplicates get starred.

Evolution opens squads. Evolution is not just stats: it unlocks additional squad slots. You start with only the first squad, the second slot opens at the next evolution stage, and requirements keep rising. That is another reason to commit to your strongest squad early — there is physically nowhere to spread at the start.

Reset exists. Bad crafts are recoverable: reset rolls back an upgrade and returns the materials for redistribution. It is most useful when you switch main squad class, outgrow a temporary squad, or picked the wrong epigraph at the start. It lowers the cost of a mistake; it does not make blind crafting free.

Daily routine. Check the shops, keep the next evolution in mind, develop only the epigraph type of your main squad, and reset mistakes instead of living with them. Played as a daily loop the Raven compounds; played in bursts it feels expensive and vague.

Source: Last Asylum: Plague - полный гайд по Ворону. Как качать без ошибок, что делать с эпиграфами. by Гейм-Знаток on DTF.

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[0:00] What's up guys? Corpus Gaming here, and today we're going to discuss the Ravens, and it's going to be about the gears, the skills, and everything you need to

[0:07] get from the shop as well. You know what to do. If you like this guide, smash that like, hit that subscribe, and let's get straight into it.

[0:16] All right, guys. Here is the Raven, and you will unlock this in the game as well. It's kind of like a pet, and he will do a lot of damage, and it's going

[0:23] to be basically for all your squads. So, it's really a good investment for the wheels to really get into this, and don't really ignore the Raven, cuz it

[0:32] needs a lot of love, and it needs a lot of resources. And the reason why we need to discuss it, cuz there's a lot of things going on here. And we're going to

[0:41] start out off with the basics, and that is the stats. Here is also where you going to start off once you have unlocked this Raven. And what we have

[0:49] here, we got these skins that you unlock on certain levels, and these give out boosts as well. You start off with the Forest Raven, and afterwards you go to

[0:59] the Oath Eye, and then I have not unlocked this yet on this account. You get the Embers of War, and so forth, and so forth. You go to the Shadow Sentinel,

[1:07] and this is where it's getting crazy, and it's getting get really hard to get these, cuz the Raven Essence are a big problem inside Lost Asylum. A lot of

[1:17] people inside the community have also complained about this. It's just too much. At level 140, you will need roughly around 400 of these Raven

[1:27] Essence, maybe a little bit more. I'm not sure about those numbers, but the good thing is that let's go at the upgrade preview. At level 110, you will

[1:37] get his last skill. Maybe in the future update, it will change. I don't know that. I don't know. I don't have a glass ball to see in the future, but this is

[1:46] it for now. 110, you get the last skill, and it's going to increase damage taken by affected targets by 50%, and basically it's going to do an AoE attack

[1:54] on all targets, and his attacks are physical damage. So, for you guys, if you really want to protect yourself from this Raven, you really got to get a good

[2:04] chest plate ready up to protect yourself from it. He's also going to boost the other heroes as well in the squad, so that's why it's really needed to upgrade

[2:13] this. And at the end of this video, I will show you guys where to get the Raven essence and the Raven fruit. But for now, we are going to the Raven gear.

[2:23] So, here we are. This is the Raven gear, and as you can see, I'm already starting up a little bit. But this is really where the wheels can shine in this game.

[2:33] So, if you are a wheel and you're starting this game, you really want to spend on these Raven gears as well. As a free-to-play player, you can also get

[2:42] pretty far. I'll show you guys where to get this in the shop uh after we've discussed this a little bit. So, basically, the left side is

[2:51] going to be a lot of uh going to be a lot easier. It's going to give you uh if you upgrade it, it's going to give you Raven HP. I don't really know what

[3:01] that is or what that is for cuz the Raven doesn't take damage. So, it's a bit confusing, and you get an a percentage crit uh rate taken, so you

[3:12] take less crit damage if you upgrade this as well. And here we have uh feathers of the night giving your hero a lot of extra HP. Look at that. It's

[3:23] crazy. And don't forget this is for every squad you have. So, if you have a second squad, they will also profit from this buff. And once you get to uh level

[3:35] eight, you also going to get a 5% extra HP on top of this. So, you really want to push to the level eight.

[3:44] And then we go to the sharp beak. And this is going to give your hero defense.

[3:51] And once you upgrade it to level eight, you're going to get uh 5% extra defense as well on top of it. And let's look on the other side what is cooking. And here

[4:03] we have the Tails of Wind giving your Raven uh defense. Again, I don't know why, but sure, why not? And this one is harder to

[4:13] upgrade. The The left side will get uh to level eight faster than uh the right side, and I don't know why, maybe because of the buffs.

[4:24] Uh this one is pretty bad, and this one's going to give your Raven extra attack, and that's pretty good cuz your Raven will do a lot of damage, and with

[4:33] Raven will do a lot of damage, and with this uh it will really increase a lot as you can see at level eight. You will get

[4:38] also 3% crit damage on all your heroes.

[4:42] Uh that is pretty amazing, but again, really hard to get. Let's look real quick at this one what he's getting.

[4:48] Also, once you get this to level eight, a crit rate up by 1%, which is great.

[4:54] And the last one is really uh the best one in my opinion, Eyes of uh the best one in my opinion, Eyes of Perspective.

[5:02] Perspecti- No, I don't know. I am not going to try that. And let's go to the preview here. And as you can see, at uh level eight, you get 9K uh attack

[5:14] damage, and you get another 5% uh hero damage dealt, and 5% attack 5% uh hero damage dealt, and 5% attack damage.

[5:22] I don't know why they have it double here. I don't know cuz for me it sounds the same, damage and attack. Maybe you guys in the

[5:31] comments can explain me what this is and what the difference is, but in my opinion, this is the same.

[5:38] Maybe it has to do with crit damage or something, I don't know.

[5:41] But again, this is the gear, and I'm going to show you guys right now where to get this.

[5:47] So, first off, let's start here at Sanctuary Shop and I will also do the Raven essence since we're here anyways.

[5:53] And here we have the Raven essence. You can buy 10 of them in the Sanctuary Shop. A must buy every week. Then we have the Expedition Shop. You can get

[6:01] the Raven gear chests as well. Buy them.

[6:04] And if you need Raven fruit, you can always get this. It is really cheap, so just buy at least five or something so you have 500k in the reserve. Then we

[6:12] have another Raven essence here that you must buy. Any African chest that you will need to buy for your Ravens. We will talk about the Africans after this.

[6:21] And then we have here the shards that you want to buy as well. And we are going to go You have here Raven fruit as well, but is it is a bit silly. Look at

[6:28] this price. 1k uh Expedition tokens for 10k Raven fruits. And here you can buy 100k for 100k for 12 for 2k. I I don't I don't understand.

[6:40] for 2k. I I don't I don't understand. But But okay.

[6:42] Let's go. They probably had an idea about that. Here we don't buy anything except the gear blueprints. I tell you this every time cuz I want you guys to

[6:49] remember that. Alliance Shop. Here we have the Raven essence, the Raven gear that we going to buy, the African chest, the Raven evolve guide. Again, the

[6:57] African and the evolve guide we will talk about later. And that is it for this shop as well. Then we have the VIP Shop and this is typically only for the

[7:06] whale players.

[7:08] If you're a low spender or a free-to-play player, don't waste your diamonds on this cuz it's just too much.

[7:13] It's 90k diamonds. It's It's for 50 essence 90k that is just that's getting too too crazy. So, only for the whales buy this essence. These African chests

[7:22] you can buy. I don't recommend it. Uh it's on your own. And that is it for the shops. We also have this Raven Workshop where we can get uh gears as well. Um

[7:33] gear chests and here we have the gear chests all lined up. I'm not going to open them. I'm going to wait for the appropriate Alliance Duel day. So, just

[7:42] wait with this. I know it's hard, but wait for it till you get to the Alliance Dual Day. Then we go to the next part and this is the skills. So, here we are

[7:50] at the skills of the Ravens and they're called Evergraphs, but I'm not going to pronounce that cuz I cannot I'm not a native English speaker and I

[7:58] will trip out of my words all the time.

[8:01] So, we have here the chest that we can acquire that's going to give you shards as well and give you some Evergraphs.

[8:08] See it? See, I I cannot And here we have a reset once you have put some stars on a reset once you have put some stars on your

[8:14] skills, then you can reset them and get stuff back as well to really reset everything. Then we have the workshop here and once you have leveled up your

[8:23] workshop at level 20, you can build everything you want and you really want to save these ones up and build the ones you need. We have three sections on

[8:31] this, warrior, ranger, and warlock. And let's stay here a little bit to also see the descriptions. And as you can see, all the skills have the same stats. Is

[8:42] this lazy? Yes.

[8:45] Is this convenient for us?

[8:47] It's a bit boring, but still it's convenient. Then we have this one and this is also all the same. So, for the instructions, they will also be the

[8:56] same, but there's a difference. What skills do we need to prioritize? If you are free-to-play player, you will be prioritizing on the warriors cuz you

[9:06] will not have a good ranger squad or a warlock squad. If you are a low or medium spender, you want to get rangers or warlock. It really depends on which

[9:14] one you're spending, but you want to work on your main squad first. So, if you are a main warlock, you will get only the skills for the warlock and you

[9:23] will upgrade these. You will not upgrade the warriors the warriors or the rangers. You will upgrade the warlocks.

[9:29] And if you are a ranger main, then you don't want to upgrade warlocks or warriors. And that is basically it. And for the wheels, you got a lot of money,

[9:38] you can also donate to me or you can buy all these skills and get a beast and destroy everyone in Kingdom versus Kingdom. That choice is yours, not mine.

[9:48] And for these skills, what we want to focus on at first, and this is my own opinion, if you have a different opinion, if you have a different opinion,

[9:56] say it in the comments and I will really listen to it and we can discuss a little bit about it, but in the comments we can

[10:02] really talk about it. So, please, if you have an opinion about this, say it in the comments and we can discuss it.

[10:08] I think my own opinion is that you want to focus on the attacks. So, you want to get Frenzied Flock and Reversal Power. And after that, once

[10:17] you get Reversal Power, you get Frenzied Flock, then I think Protective Charm is the best cuz at the start all rangers will gain 4%

[10:27] defense until the battle ends. So, 4% is quite a lot. And if you have this maxed out, even as purple, you get 11% defense up. And of course, if you have

[10:37] an legendary one, you will get way more.

[10:40] But we have purple for now.

[10:42] So, this one five stars is going to give you 11%. That's quite a lot. And after that, you want to focus on the center.

[10:50] And this is really going to be the last And this is really going to be the last one.

[10:52] I think it's okayish, but still I think this one is for the rest of the day for the rest of the battle, so it will be quite better. And I already showed you

[11:03] guys where to get these chests to get this stuff and where to really buy this. We also have something I want to show you offers as well, but first let's go

[11:14] quickly here and this is the skills. And what we have here, all the things that you have extras or duplicates, you can add them here and you can level up the

[11:25] raven. And the raven has evolution stage as well. And here we have more info about it. And once you reach stage two, you unlock African plan two. And this

[11:34] means two squads can have Africans means two squads can have Africans Africans.

[11:39] After that, you get stage three and stage four, stage five, stage six, and stage seven. And once you have stage seven, you have put in around 20 K

[11:50] USD dollars. So, yeah.

[11:53] That's it for this. Let's go to one offer I do want to show you guys. So, it's quite important to get this one.

[12:00] If you want to spend it of course. And that is this one. This one is a good offer to buy if you are a spender cuz you will

[12:09] get an African choice chest. And you can basically choose what skill for the Raven you want. So, that is really a nice one to have. I think I

[12:19] have covered everything about the Raven here. And just yeah, just a quick summary of the things you want to start really early on in the

[12:29] you want to start really early on in the game collecting these essence. Cuz the higher your Raven is, the more you will dominate in arena and the more stuff you

[12:37] will unlock and get. So, farm these ones. You get them in the shop, you get them from the pirate chest in the falcon quest, and you can get them from

[12:47] spending a lot of money. And that is going to be really it's going to be an expensive one, but for the wheels, it's really important to get this.

[12:55] This is it for today. I hope you guys like this guide and it was helpful for you. You know what to do if you want to support this channel, smash that like,

[13:03] hit that subscribe. I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye-bye.

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