Hello Travelers, Weve recently learned that our friends in the ARPG space have chosen a release date just a couple days after ours which would divide the player base and hinder the success of our Season 2 launch. Last Epoch is still a smaller studio in this space that looks towards each of its launches as a way to continue to sustain the studio financially and work on the things we are most passionate about. It is with a heavy heart that we are forced to move our release date of Season 2 - Tombs of the Erased, to April 17th. As we adjust our launch date, we invite our community to help us spread the word so that everyone can join in the Season 2 experience a massive update to Last Epoch that were thrilled to share with you. Judd Mox - Game Director

Welcome to the Eterra Monthly February 2025 Edition, Travelers! Twas the Season of love and we would love to dive in to our latest report with you.

Hotfix Rollout

Eyes on Eterra

A New Threat Looms

Walk, walk, fashion, Gregory.

Bringing Down the Hive

• Rogue Passive Tree
  • Coated Blades now only applies to directly used abilities
• Warpath
  • Warrior's Fury now only applies to direct uses of Warpath
• Bone Curse
  • Fixed a bug where Crippling Anguish had no effect when Signet of Agony is also allocated
• Summon Sabertooth
  • Fixed a bug where Ice Bringer was summoning Ancestral Sabertooths instead of casting Ice Vortex, and those Ancestral Sabertooths did not receive appropriate stats when summoned, making them considerably weaker than intended
  • Added a new node, Ancestral Hunter, which requires 2 points in Frost Fang. Your Sabertooth's hits have a 4% chance per point to summon an Ancestral Sabertooth that attacks nearby enemies for a short duration. Maximum of 1 point.
  • Added a new node, Ancient Bond, which requires 1 point in Ancestral Hunter. Your Sabertooth's hits have an additional 4% chance per point to summon Ancestral Sabertooths, and they deal 20% more damage per point. Maximum of 3 points.
• Ritual Lake
  • Fixed a bug causing some movement abilities to not adjust the character to the terrain.
• Deep Harbor
  • Fixed a bug where some portals in Deep Harbor would appear in an inaccessible place
• Dummies
  • Target dummies, such as those available at Champions' Gate, no longer have damage variance when hit.

Mikes Twitch Teasers

Community Build Spotlight

Meet the Team

• Im the Operations Producer at Eleventh Hour Games, where I support the Marketing, Community, Cosmetics, and Data teams. My role involves coordinating meetings, transforming ideas into actionable projects, and ensuring those projects are successfully executed from start to finish. Its all about keeping things organized, streamlining workflows, and helping teams bring their visions to life.

• As a passionate gamer, I wanted to transition from playing games to creating them. Three years ago, I contacted Eleventh Hour Games through their company email, asking if they needed any help. That led to an interview where I met Michael Bortolin, now the COO, and we immediately connected over our shared love of games. Our conversation was incredible, and they brought me on board. From there, I worked my way up from standard operations to my current role as Operations Producer.

• One of the biggest differences is the freedom. At Eleventh Hour Games, we have a passionate team and leadership that truly values input from everyone. Unlike larger studios, where roles can be more rigid, we have open discussions about the game's direction, and ideas are genuinely considered no matter where they come from. Its a highly collaborative environment where you get to contribute in ways you might not typically experience at a bigger company.

• It can definitely be a challenge, especially when youre passionate about what you do. But having a great partner Ive been with for 16 years makes a huge difference. Outside of work, I stay balanced by diving into hobbies that keep my attention, whether its gaming or riding my motorcycles. Those things help me unplug, recharge, and maintain a healthy work-life balance.

• Its all about finding smart solutions. While limitations like time, budget, or technical challenges can be restrictive, they also push you to think outside the box. I focus on prioritization, breaking big ideas into achievable steps, and collaborating with the team to find the best path forward. It also helps to stay flexible. Sometimes, the best ideas come from working within boundaries rather than against them.

• One of the biggest lessons Ive learned in indie game development is the importance of adaptability and a willingness to wear many hats. In a smaller team, you often need to step outside your primary role and take on new responsibilities, be it design, programming, marketing, or anything else that needs doing. This experience not only broadens your skill set, but also deepens your appreciation for the different facets that come together to create a successful game.

• For me, staying motivated and creative boils down to passion. Game development is exactly what I want to be doing, and that deep love for the craft fuels me even when projects get tough. Theres nothing quite like the rush of nearing a patch release, where everything youve worked so hard on finally comes together. Hitting that go live button and seeing players experience the new content is incredible. That excitement and sense of accomplishment keeps me pushing forward, no matter how challenging the journey gets.

• I find constructive criticism to be the most valuable type of player feedback. When someone can break down their experience step by step, whats working, what isnt, and why it provides a clear understanding of how theyre interacting with the game, this level of detail helps me see the journey through the players eyes and identify where we might need to make adjustments. Its incredibly motivating because it not only validates where were succeeding, but also gives us the insights we need to continuously refine and improve the overall experience.

• Im especially proud of the day-to-day problem-solving that goes on behind the scenes. There are always those odds-and-ends situations where the path forward isnt clear, and I love diving in to find clever solutions. Its incredibly satisfying to turn what initially seems like a dead end into a creative breakthrough, and that sense of discovery is a huge part of why Im so passionate about game development.

• My biggest piece of advice is to take the leap and commit to doing the work. Its not enough to sit around thinking about making games while playing them, you have to jump in, learn new skills, and adapt quickly. Game development can be challenging, but theres no feeling quite like seeing millions of people play and enjoy something you helped create. That sense of accomplishment and community is what makes all the hard work worthwhile.

• I just want to say thank you for being you. It truly means the world to us that you take time out of your busy life to play the game weve worked so hard on. Without you, we wouldnt be able to do what we do. Im eternally grateful for every moment you spend with our creation, and I hope it brings you as much joy as it does for all of us who worked on it.

Community Spotlight

Community Manager Cozy Streams!

What's Next

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COMING TO ETERRA WEDNESDAY APRIL 2ND, 2025

Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

Changes

• Added client support for system updates
• Added performance telemetry information for tracking FPS and frame hitches to support continued performance improvement efforts

Notes

Hello Travelers, and welcome back for the fourth installment of Making Last Epoch! For todays look at the world of game development within Eleventh Hour Games, were going to be taking a look at World Design and Narrative with our resident Lore Master and Lead Writer: Kyle Melberg. Kyle has made a couple of guest appearances on our weekly Developer streams to answer questions about the lore of Eterra, and today well be talking about what exactly World and Narrative is, and the process behind creating the expansive universe in which all the loot, lizards, and groles reside.

World & Narrative vs. World Design

Creating History

Lore within Limits

Notes from the Loremaster

Whats your favorite piece of existing lore in Last Epoch?

How about a lore tease for Season 2: Tombs of the Erased?

Closing

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Stay tuned for more details coming soon!

FOLLOW US

Hello Travelers! Its time for another recap with January 2025s Eterra Monthly! Lets see what we have in store!

Hotfix Rollout

Eyes on Eterra

Changes

• Character stat sheet entry for Less Damage over Time Taken

Fixes

• Fixed the Character Stats UI entries for Less Damage Taken and Less Damage Taken from nearby enemies
• Fixed a bug causing the extra spears created from the Divine Fury node or the Sierpins Fractal Tree item while the Siege Barrage node was allocated would not be fired from the correct position when cast onto large enemies.
• Fixed a bug where Smoke Bomb with the Cloaked Incursion node allocated would not visually expand
• Fixed a bug where closing the Bug Report menu with the Esc key after selecting the input field would result in being unable to control the character until closing the menu with the X button

Mike Twitch Teasers

Community Build Spotlight

Meet the Team

• Hi Sam! Could you tell us a little about your job and what it includes?
  • My official role is Lead Combat Designer but that maybe doesnt tell you much. I primarily work with monsters, player skills, and VFX. I help design the attacks and plans for pretty much every monster in the game, all the way from the lowest spider to the pinnacle Aberroth. Im the guy who makes player skills in engine, directing animation and then tuning speeds, hitboxes, etc in game. I also do a lot of VFX, or at least helping the VFX artists and moving them along. Making LE is a very collaborative process, so while I do all the things above, often times Im working with several other people, getting feedback or discussing ideas.
  • For monsters, in addition to doing the design and writeup for them, Im one of the guys in Unity implementing abilities, tuning animations, adjusting timing, buffing/nerfing attacks, and overall working on the in-engine part of making monsters fun and challenging to fight.
  • On the VFX side, Im more in a guidance position at this point, but still get a chance to work on some VFX from time to time. Since Ive been working on LE for quite a while at this point, I know a thing or two about how to make VFX for the game, so part of my job is passing on as much of that info as I can to the other VFX artists.
  • Ive been with EHG for what, like 7 years? I joined the team soon after Kickstarter, so Ive been here a while.
• What inspired you to get into game development and how did you end up at this studio?
  • Partway through college in one of my game courses, they were dividing everyone up to work on different aspects of game development. We had Character Artists, Environment art, C# dev, game design, sound, VFX. Nobody signed up for VFX, and I figured Id try to be a team player and signed up for that. A couple weeks later I had my very first VFX reel (mostly me, I also put a couple things made by others in here simply for ease of presenting at school). A few weeks after that I posted another reel with some more VFX work, and would you look at who commented! [previewyoutube=b2vlcWiBbuE;full][/previewyoutube]
    
  • At this point Id been doing VFX for not that long and you can see for yourself that my skills were not very good, so if someone was willing to take a chance on me, I was certainly willing to give them my best effort. Within a few days of that comment from Judd, I was in the project working on a new level up VFX and a warpath update (if I remember right). I still had 2 years of school left, so I worked on LE and went to school, and after graduating in 2020 I went ham on LE.
  • Since that time Ive gotten a tad bit better at making VFX and the game has grown into a success. Its been pretty cool to see the game and myself grow over the years.
• How do you balance working from home with your home life?
  • This one is tricky and one that Ive had to work on constantly. Its very easy to let work bleed into all parts of life. Slack (or Discord) apps on my phone make it easy to keep in touch but maybe too easy, and my work PC is the same as my gaming PC. Some things Ive done is making sure to take breaks throughout the day, take time to step away from my PC and play with my kids for a few minutes. Immediately after work in the evenings, I make sure to take time away from the computer for at least 30-60 mins, usually eating dinner and chatting with my wife. This kinda simulates going home from work. Ive turned off notifications on my phone for Slack. The app is still there, but its just sitting there waiting for me, instead of trying to poke me. If my kids come in wanting attention, as long as Im not in a meeting, Ill make sure to take a minute to spend time with them. Trying to keep my real life and family as the top priority and hoping that theyll feel that. Or at least look back later and realize it.
• How do you balance creativity with practical constraints like time, budget, or technical limitations?
  • Something Ive learned is that a large amount of the quality, maybe 80%, comes from the first bit of work, maybe like 30-40%. Then the last 20% of the quality comes from the remaining 60-70% of the work. Theres a sweet spot where your work is pretty darn good but hasnt taken loads of time to make, and the remaining effort to get it to practically perfect just isnt worth the time. Basically, Ive found a sweet spot between speed and quality that gets the most bang for my buck. This does take a bit of practice and understanding to really get down, but I feel thats how I was able to function as the sole VFX artist on the project for several years. Technical limitations are tricky and force creativity. Part of it is understanding the ins and outs of the program you use. The more I understand Unity, the more creative I can be with the various tools and options available.
• Whats the biggest lesson youve learned while working in indie game development?
  • Be flexible, and willing to jump in to help wherever its needed. For example, when I started as just a VFX artist, I did that for a while, but soon noticed that the monster side of the pipeline was headed up by one person who also had a ton of other responsibilities. So I stepped in and started learning monster stuff, just experimenting a bit on my own. With a lot of trial and error and some guidance I eventually became pretty good at making monsters, and now Im the go-to guy when there are bugs or questions about any specific enemy.
  • Going along with being flexible, at school I learned to rig and animate, and both of those skills came in very handy in earlier Last Epoch days. At one point I got a monster from the modelers, then I rigged it, animated it, put it in the engine and made the abilities for it, and then made VFX for it before sending to sound. One that comes to mind that is still in the game is the Desecrated Flesh, though I believe there are still a few others.
• How do you stay motivated and creative, especially during long or difficult projects?
  • Part of it is that its just my job, if I dont do my job, I dont get paid and then that can impact my family. So thats fairly motivating lol. One thing that really helps me is sharing the cool stuff that I work on. Seeing other people excited about it gets me excited to make more. The week after Aberroths release was one of my favorite weeks working on LE. Learning something new helps motivate me too. Theres always a new technique, tool, shader, etc that I can learn more about. The VFX world and community is growing and learning all the time, and there are countless awesome VFX artists out there. Its really fun to see what they make and what I can learn from it. There were many times throughout development where I saw a post and thought oh thats cool, I wonder if I can do that in LE and then I would experiment and find a way.
  • I feel rather lucky, because my context for long projects is different from other studios and games. Sometimes other games will work on things for years before players get to see anything. Look at big games announced that take 6+ years to make, the devs there are working on things behind the scenes the entire time. For us, we release a patch slightly more frequently and my work gets shown and we get an influx of positivity and excitement for the game. So for me, I always know that a new project might be just a couple months away if Im not enjoying my current one.
• What kind of feedback from players do you find most helpful or motivating?
  • Like Ive mentioned before, I love seeing people enjoy the game, particularly my work. It really energizes me seeing people excited and enjoying our game. Seeing metrics and numbers that people are playing our game is great, but theres something very energizing about a streamer trying out a skill for the first time and going oh this is cool. For example, Runic Invocation was a big project of mine, designing all the skills and doing some of the VFX for them, and it was quite fun to see everyone experimenting and trying out all the different combos when it released.
  • For critical feedback, being more specific is helpful. For example, saying oh the performance in this game sucks. is not very useful or helpful. But saying My framerate drops when I spawn a whole bunch of volatile zombies at once and they all explode on the same enemy is much more helpful. Basically, the more detail and specificity you can give, the better. Same thing goes for boss feedback. Lagons eye laser is hard to tell which way its going to come from is much better than Lagon op plz nerf. I do appreciate all the feedback that we get from players, even if I dont personally spend a lot of time in Discord or reddit reading through feedback. I find Im too sensitive to the negative/toxic feedback, and its not great for me to spend too much time sifting through that stuff to find the good stuff, but other people have done a good job of funneling useful, actionable feedback to me.
• Whats a feature or design choice youre particularly proud of that youve worked on?
  • I really love Aberroth. I spearheaded the design of the abilities, and built them all in engine. While I didnt do any VFX work for Aberroth, I did direct both animation and VFX . Im the guy who adjusted anticipation timings, hitbox sizes, attack speeds, etc, and built out the different eras and their mechanics. I think overall this boss turned out stunning visually, and the difficulty hit about where we wanted for a pinnacle boss. Something Im really proud of for myself and the team is that we made such a difficult encounter that feels FAIR. Thats something really important to me/us when designing bosses and enemies, I want to make sure that you always feel like you have a chance. The goal is that you never say, well that was stupid, I had no way to avoid that when you die, but rather go oh I can play better around that next time. Obviously we arent always perfect at this, and particularly some older content struggles to hit this goal. We are constantly making improvements though, and if you have feedback about any particular enemy or boss, please say something, we do try to read it all and fix what we can. Overall I think we did a pretty good job of that with Aberroth. I know it gets chaotic in the final phase of the fight with so many things to pay attention to, but I think we did a good job of still making it feel fair and reasonable, if very difficult.
  • Several years back we introduced the Rogue. I love rogues and that whole archetype in any game, so I was very excited to work on her in our game. I am the skill prototyping guy. If there is a new player skill, Im the one who will put it together, tweak timings, projectile speeds, critique animations, etc until we have a skill that is feeling good and is fun to use. I got to do that all over for the Rogue, and it was a blast. At that point I was also the only VFX artist, so I worked a lot on the design of the skills, then handed them off to myself to make them look pretty. Was a really fun time, and I think the Rogue turned out very fun to play in addition to being one of the most cohesive classes across all her skills.
• What advice would you give someone who wants to get into this industry?
  • Be good to work with. Someone who is very easy to work with, give feedback to, talk to, etc is so important. Try to be someone that other people think is fun to work with. Sure, you wont get along with everyone perfectly, but generally people shouldnt dread having to talk to you, or wonder if youll actually do what you say you will, or cause an argument.
  • Going along with the previous, be open and seeking feedback. Early in my career I didnt get this as well, and thought that if people gave me feedback that I sucked at what I did. I needed to be so perfect that my work was impossible to critique. But Ive flipped my mindset all around, and now if I get feedback its just an opportunity to get better at what I do, and Im happy when there are things to improve on.
  • Find what you love. I will say Ive been extremely lucky in my career. I got a job before I finished college that turned out to be a real career still several years after college. I got to do what I love from the start basically, working on VFX and then discovering a new love of monster design. That first step, the discovery, is really important. Early in my career plans I wanted to be an animator and work on like Dreamworks movies, but over time I discovered VFX and monsters and dove into it headfirst. Be open to new opportunities and learn whatever you possibly can. Especially when starting out, try all the different disciplines, learn some modeling, rigging, animation, sound, level design, anything, just to see what your favorite is.
  • Now a dose of reality. I know its hard to get games jobs right now. Like I mentioned above Im very blessed and grateful for the opportunities Ive had. Not everyone will be so lucky. So with that being said, play it safe, dont quit your day job to work on your game dev skills without a plan. Realize that perhaps being a game dev as a career isnt going to work out for everyone, and maybe just as a hobby is more realistic.
• Is there anything else youd like to tell our readers?
  • If there is desire for it, I can compile some useful VFX resources for anyone looking to learn VFX for games. We could possibly do some demos or more in depth VFX blog breakdowns if there is interest. (and I can get approval to post something like that).
  • Be kind to each other. The world is a scary place, and games are all our break from reality. All the people working on LE (and I would argue most devs working on their games) love the game they work on, and want nothing more than to make the players have a good experience. I know its easy to be toxic behind the anonymity of the internet, but the extra effort we put in to be good to the people we interact with makes the community, internet, and world a better place for everyone.
  • Thanks all for reading all of this, I hope some of it was interesting, and if you have follow up questions or would like VFX advice, comment below or find me on Discord, Id love to chat more!

Community Spotlight

Whats Next

Closing Remarks

Bug Fixes

Hello and welcome, Travelers to another exciting entry of Making Last Epoch. Today we have the pleasure of hearing from Anna Lyon, the Senior Technical Quality Assurance Tester for Last Epoch. She will be walking us through the Bug Fixing Process and how the team prevents Bugs from entering the live build of Last Epoch.

Bug Hunting

Locating the nest

• We have a couple of ways. One is that local hardware problems would be more rare. It would be a problem that looks strange and only comes up 1 in 1000 reports. If its serious enough, we will make a ticket trying to reproduce the Bug ourselves and attach these reports together to do an investigation when we have time. Another comes down to experience most of the time. In this line of work you see it all, and slowly form connections between Bugs present to roughly understand where it comes from, whether its a visual, mechanical or hardware problem, gets easier.
• The other is just trying to find a reproduceable case. If its a local problem you will most likely not run into a solid reproduction; or cases where players are able to reproduce the issue but our teams are not able to do so on our internal builds. Localized problems can even happen internally, this is why we always have more than one QA go through the same written steps to eliminate every possible difference to make sure the cause can be narrowed down to hardware.

• QA will go through the list of Bugs and either filter by day or a specific problem. For example if we are looking for skill related issues, we might look for issues where players called out skills like warpath to help narrow down the list.
• In Game Bug Reports, which are sent from the community, have all sorts of valuable info attached to them as well as any details the player offers describing what the problem is. The more detailed the report, the better everything goes for us. Some of the information automatically added to these reports includes: game graphics settings, server logs, player logs, zone name of the place they are in, a screenshot of the location, etc.
• A good source of information outside of what the player is describing in the issue, is looking at their player logs which include client specific errors (errors related to any visual loaded into the scene) and server logs (anything loaded in on the server). If there are clues to the problem here, which most of the time there are, we use this to update the internal report to point to a specific problem that is called out.

Replication and Recording

Its very scientific

• If its serious enough it might go to a dev to investigate what a possible source might be. This can be a very long and taxing process when we have very limited information to guide us. A developer could spend that time to fix Bugs we have reproduced reliably.
• It gets placed on-hold until we get reports of it again and reassess the details of the report to see if we can make a reproduction case with the new information. No bugs are ever forgotten and we do occasionally go through our On-Hold list to see if we can make any headway.

Fixing the Problem

Calling in the Cavalry

Welcome Travelers to the Eterra Monthly December 2024 Edition! We hope everyone had a happy holiday season and fantastic new year! Another month has passed, and were here with our boots on the ground to bring you the latest from Eterra!

Eterras Path Forward

Eyes on Eterra

Faction Waypoints

Controller Targeting Improvements

Bug Reporting Tool Changes

Bugs!

• Fixed a bug where Kermodes Cage did not give your Werebear Form white fur in Online.
• Fixed a bug where Reaper Form did not switch its model visuals to poison, cold, or blood themes based on conversions allocated in the skill tree in Online.
• Fixed a bug where Werebear Form did not switch its model visuals to lightning based on conversions allocated in the skill tree in Online.
• Fixed a bug where Spriggan Form and Swarmblade Form did not switch their model visuals to cold based on conversions allocated in the skill tree in Online.
• Fixed a bug where Overlay Map Opacity would sometimes reset when re-opening the settings menu.
• Fixed a bug where Transplants Bone Armor started on cooldown when allocated.
• Fixed a bug where Upheaval did not move its melee, area, and physical or cold tags to minion tags when Upheaval Totems is allocated.
• For example, Apogee of Frozen Lights +3 to cold and necrotic minion skills will now correctly apply to Upheaval when Upheaval Totems and Glacial Cascade are allocated.
• Fixed a bug where Lightning Blasts Halo Effect was unable to create Spark Novas.
• Fixed a bug where Explosive Trap would not create additional traps up to your maximum traps if you allocated Blast Rain and No Mans Land.
• Fixed a bug where leech provided by skill trees could ignore Boulderfists cannot leech affix if the player had no other sources of leech.
• Fixed a bug where the Coordinated Fade node would not provide stacks of Silver Shroud when the ability occupying the designated slot is a combo ability.
• Fixed a bug where using both Unbroken Prayer & Homeward on Healing Hands makes it so the ability is never actually cast while still going through the animation and consuming mana.

Mikes Twitch Teasers

Community Build Spotlight

Meet The Team

Community Spotlight

Vezidorogas Woodwork Project

Christmas Gregory Emote!

The Artwork is on the Wall!

• Wallpapers - What would you like?
• Forum Player Profile Icon Overhaul - with contest!

Whats Next

Hello Travelers, Today, were sharing our updated Roadmap, letting you take your first look at whats coming for Last Epoch, including what big features to look forward to in Season 2. Lets look at whats on the board with an updated Roadmap graphic before jumping into more information about Season 2.
As mentioned in our last update concerning the Season 2 timeline (previously referred to as Patch 1.2 - https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/patch-1-2-timeline-1-1-event-updates-and-cycle-poll/73654 ), weve restructured the features weve been working on for Season 2 to specifically address the greatest areas of feedback: expanding endgame content, better new player experience, and improved Dungeons, performance, and balance. While The Weavers presence has been previously known through namesake items, Season 2 will begin to truly bring her influence into the world of Eterra.

Season 2

Monolith of Fate Upgrades

Woven Echoes

Weaver Faction Tree

Dungeon Improvements

Sentinel Overhaul

Tombs and Cemeteries

Champion Enemies

Endgame Crafting additions

New Endgame Bosses

And more

Hello again Travelers! Were back with our second Making Last Epoch blog post and today we are joined by Wellington Weishaupt, our 3D Modelling Manager! Hell be sharing some insight into the process behind creating the in game models for the Acolytes Necropolis Gear and the Ronin MTX, from ideation to creation to implementation. Over to you Wellington!

Concept? Art!

From Paper to Pixel

Game Model (re)Creation

Baking Last Epoch

Texturing

Rendered Speechless

Travelers, another month has come and gone and it is now time for a look at whats happening. Lets dive into our third installment of, Eterra Monthly!

Eyes on Eterra

Comparing Off-hand Feature

Boss Ward

Evade Improvements

Dungeon Key Inventory UI

Twitch Updates

Mike's Teaser's of the Month

11-1-24

11-8-24

11-15-24

11-22-24

Build Spotlight

Meet the Team Spotlight

Discord Fun

A Taste of Eterra

Epoch Berry Pie

• 1 Frozen Pie Crust
• 1 sheet of flat pie crust dough (for topping)
• 2 lbs. blueberries , fresh
• 2/3 cup white sugar, heaping
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• zest of 1/2 a lemon
• 1/4 tsp Cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp All Spice
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1 Tbsp of butter, cut into small pieces
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 Tbsp Heavy Cream
• coarse sugar, for topping

Serve and enjoy! [/olist]

Whats Next

While we may not always have something we are prepared to share, you can sleep soundly knowing we are always working on something for you. With that said, Ive collected a touch of new information straight from our dev team for you this month. Thanks to Mikes teasers it was revealed that Volatile Reversal, the time bending Void Knight skill, is getting some much needed attention in Season 2. According to reports, the skill will be transformed into a combo in which the first time you cast it, it will hurl you forward in time to a targeted location. Recasting it again within 3 second will wrench you back to your original location. Both the leap forward and leap back will launch a devastating attack upon landing. This change comes with reduced mana cost and cooldown so it can become a new source of damage. Due to these changes, the team has also placed the Volatile Reversal skill tree, and several others, under the microscope and have made a large number of node adjustments to better suit the skills new functionality. While the details are still mostly under lock and key, I was able to collect a few new skill tree nodes for all you theory crafters out there. A few of the new nodes are: [table][tr][td]
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[/td][/tr][/table] Now, please keep in mind these are only a few of the nodes being added to the Volatile Reversal skill tree; there are heaps more and all with brand new effects to twist the skill to your will. With all of these new changes, its important to know this is one skill on a long list of adjustments being made. The team has also considered the effects this change will make across other skills in all three Sentinel class trees where Volatile Reversal would have created a lack of power in its absence. That now missing power has been added back to the other skills and passive trees in various ways to give them the strength they deserve. Because of this, Volatile Reversal can stand on its own as a skill. Originally it provided so much power to other skills, it felt necessary to use even if it didnt feel great.

Closing remarks

There is always something happening in Last Epoch. With the holidays quickly approaching and great things on our horizon, The team would like to wish you all, in advance, a heartfelt thank you for your support and a Happy Holidays. With that in mind, the team would like to let you all know that our December Edition of Eterra Monthly will be releasing on January 3rd rather than December 31st, to allow everyone time with their families as we enter the New Year. This has been Eterra Monthly; a report on the happenings and changes in the world of Last Epoch. We hope you have enjoyed this months report and will see you all again soon

[ 2024-11-29 17:39:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello Travelers, We are pleased to announce that the Last Epoch Soundtrack is available for players who purchased the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition of Last Epoch, purchased the Deluxe or Ultimate upgrade packs and Kickstarter backers who bought the Ancient Warrior (Alpha) or Ardent Gladiator (Beta) supporter packs or above. This Soundtrack includes 32 brilliant tracks from our fantastic composer Erik Desiderio! The Soundtrack can be found in your Last Epoch DLC in Steam if you have the following versions of the game;

• Players who purchased the Deluxe or Ultimate upgrades from our In-Game Store
• Players who purchased the Deluxe or Ultimate Editions of the game, including players who purchased the Deluxe or Ultimate upgrades, on Steam

• Deluxe or Ultimate Edition
• Deluxe or Ultimate Upgrade
• Kickstarter Ancient Warrior (Alpha), Ardent Gladiator (Beta) supporter packs or above

Track List

Welcome Travelers to the Eterra Monthly October 2024 Edition! Weve got a fully loaded report for you today, so buckle up, and lets get started.

A New Dawn for the People

Patch Review

Hotfix Rollout

Eyes on Eterra

Build Spotlight

Meet the Team

Hello Travelers! Welcome to the first in a series of behind-the-scenes Blog Posts, each focusing on one team or area of Last Epochs development! Today the Lead Composer for Eleventh Hour Games, Erik Desiderio, is here answering questions about what went into creating the iconic Last Epoch Theme song, how they get in to the mindset to portray the very feeling of moving through Eterra and what goes in to getting the music game-ready!

Forging a path

Lute Drops and Finding Ffion

Composing for Chaos

Outro

Victory Travelers! Thirty-one days after the Immortal Emperor let loose his loyalists legions into the world, the uprising has successfully been quelled. With a total of 760,523,009 skeletons slain, the Immortal Emperor has realized their grave error and been forced to pull his forces back to standard deployments. To reward your efforts in stopping this uprising, Yulia has managed to acquire a special item from the Emperors personal stash for you, which you will be able to claim from the in-game MTX shop (at no charge) to add to your cosmetic inventory. This marks the end of the Immortal Uprising Event. We hope everyone enjoyed all the event had to offer, and with Eterra returning to a more peaceful state, we wanted to go over whats happening in the trenches, and what to expect as we continue onwards to 1.2

End of Event Patch

Favor and Reputation Changes

• Reduced Faction Gambler item costs by around 35% on average and made them more varied.

Circle of Fortune

• Reduced the cost of most prophecies by around 30% (this varies case by case due to aggressive rounding).
• Reduced the cost of Exalted Helmet, Boot, and Relic prophecies by slightly more than 30%.
• Reduced the cost of Legendary Potential prophecies by around 50% in total.

Merchants Guild

• Bazaar purchase Favor cost changes:
  • Idols cost 600 (from 800)
  • Experimental affix tiers add 300 to Magic and Rare item costs (from 400)
  • Set items cost 240 + 4 x level requirement (from 300 + 4 x level requirement)
  • Uniques with 0LP cost 800 + 4 x level requirement (from 1200 + 4 x level requirement)
  • Uniques with LP cost 3000 + 1000 x LP^2 + 40 x level requirement (from 4000 + 1500 x LP^2 + 40 x level requirement)
  • Legendaries cost 6000 + 1000 per affix tier + 40 x level requirement (from 8000 + 1500 per affix tier + 40 x level requirement)
  • Exalted items cost 2000 + 200 per T6 affix + 1400 per T7 affix + 400 per Experimental affix tier (from 2500 + 250 per T6 affix + 1500 per T7 affix + 600 per Experimental affix tier)
  • Listing costs remain at 25% of buy costs with a minimum listing cost of 150.
• Rank Requirements
  • Measured from previous Rank, not cumulative;
  • Rank 3 requires 2000 reputation (from 3000)
  • Rank 4 requires 7500 reputation (from 11500)
  • Rank 5 requires 20000 reputation (from 37500)
  • Rank 6 requires 40000 reputation (from 75000)
  • Rank 7 requires 70000 reputation (from 125000)
  • Rank 8 requires 110000 reputation (from 200000)
  • Rank 9 requires 180000 reputation (from 300000)
  • Rank 10 requires 320000 reputation (from 500000)
  • Rank 11 requires 500000 reputation (from 750000)
  • Rank 12 requires 800000 reputation (from 1100000)

Loot Lizard Changes

• 4% fewer yellow and purple lizards.
• 27% fewer blue lizards.
• 25% more white lizards (the ones with orange beams that give Uniques).
• 7% more big green lizards.

• Loot Lizards now wait 40 seconds after last taking damage before burrowing underground to escape (increased from 20 seconds).
• Lizards drop 2 fewer shards on average.
• Yellow, purple, and green lizards drop slightly more Exalted items than before.
• White lizards drop slightly more Unique items at level 60+.

Event Cosmetic Reward

Continuing to 1.2

Changes

Event Modifiers

• Loyalist Undead enemies no longer spawn in Monoliths.
• Removed
  • Increased Favor and Reputation Gain
  • Increased Gold Drop Rate
  • Increased Random Unique Drop Rate

Favor and Reputation

• Reduced Faction Gambler item costs by around 35% on average and made them more varied.

Circle of Fortune

• Reduced the cost of most prophecies by around 30% (this varies case by case due to aggressive rounding).
• Reduced the cost of Exalted Helmet, Boot, and Relic prophecies by slightly more than 30%.
• Reduced the cost of Legendary Potential prophecies by around 50% in total.

Merchants Guild

• Bazaar Favor cost reductions:
  • Idols cost 600 (from 800)
  • Experimental affix tiers add 300 to Magic and Rare item costs (from 400)
  • Set items cost 240 + 4 x level requirement (from 300 + 4 x level requirement)
  • Uniques with 0LP cost 800 + 4 x level requirement (from 1200 + 4 x level requirement)
  • Uniques with LP cost 3000 + 1000 x LP^2 + 40 x level requirement (from 4000 + 1500 x LP^2 + 40 x level requirement)
  • Legendaries cost 6000 + 1000 per affix tier + 40 x level requirement (from 8000 + 1500 per affix tier + 40 x level requirement)
  • Exalted items cost 2000 + 200 per T6 affix + 1400 per T7 affix + 400 per Experimental affix tier (from 2500 + 250 per T6 affix + 1500 per T7 affix + 600 per Experimental affix tier)
  • Listing costs remain at 25% of buy costs with a minimum listing cost of 150.

Rank Requirements

• Reduced the reputation needed for most Item Faction ranks. Reaching rank 9 now requires 43% less reputation, and reaching rank 12 requires 34% less reputation than before. Changes are measured from previous Rank, not cumulative;
  • Rank 3 requires 2000 reputation (from 3000)
  • Rank 4 requires 7500 reputation (from 11500)
  • Rank 5 requires 20000 reputation (from 37500)
  • Rank 6 requires 40000 reputation (from 75000)
  • Rank 7 requires 70000 reputation (from 125000)
  • Rank 8 requires 110000 reputation (from 200000)
  • Rank 9 requires 180000 reputation (from 300000)
  • Rank 10 requires 320000 reputation (from 500000)
  • Rank 11 requires 500000 reputation (from 750000)
  • Rank 12 requires 800000 reputation (from 1100000)

Loot Lizards

• 4% fewer yellow and purple lizards.
• 27% fewer blue lizards.
• 25% more white lizards (the ones with orange beams that give Uniques).
• 7% more big green lizards.

• Loot Lizards now wait 40 seconds after last taking damage before burrowing underground to escape (increased from 20 seconds).
• Lizards drop 2 fewer shards on average.
• Yellow, purple, and green lizards drop slightly more Exalted items than before.
• White lizards drop slightly more Unique items at level 60+.

Bug Fixes

General

• Improved character pathing across a number of scenes, improving map navigability.
• Fixed issue that prevented 'Chance to Shred Armor on Hit' from being applied to applicable base types that are class specific.
• Fixed an issue where, after dying to the boss in the Sanctum of the Architect, characters couldnt move upon respawning.
• Fixed a bug causing the incorrect player character voice line to play upon entering the Shattered Road.

Offline

• Fixed a bug that occurred in Offline mode that would cause the player to be immortal after going through a Time Rift.
• Fixed an issue causing Offline players to teleport back to End of Time when using a Town portal during a fight with Aberroth instead of exiting the boss run as intended.

Skill

• Fixed a bug where Black Arrows created by Aerial Assaults node Darkwing Fall were not able to be picked up.
• Fixed Aerial Assault not being able to go over gaps. It now behaves more like Fury leap.
• Fixed a bug causing incorrect player rotation when spamming Shield Rush with "The Rush of Sacrifice" node in Online.
• Fixed a bug where Runemaster's Hydrahedron was targeting an un-targetable ballista in the Argentus bossfight.
• Fixed an issue where the maximum companions stat would be displayed incorrectly on a Beastmaster with Artor's Loyalty or the Natural Bond passive node unlocked.
• Fixed an issue causing arrows to get stuck in the air after hitting an enemy when the player uses Flurry.
• Fixed Evade clipping through stairs and other ramps.

Visual and Text

• Fixed a bug where the fly-by indicator from Void Rahyeh in The Black Sun didnt line up correctly with its dash.
• Updated skeleton visuals, including adding a double stab animation for the Acolytes Rogue Skeleton.
• Fixed an issue where Gaspars beams hitbox did not always line up with its visuals in Online play.
• Fixed some enemies using outdated descriptions.
  • For example, Void Prophets used the description of the old void prophets, "Always crits distant enemies", despite them having no such effect.
• Fixed an issue where Phoenix Shrine could block the view of Runes that Runemasters could have above their character.
• Fixed a visual bug where some fire torches appeared bright pink.
• Fixed a bug where multiple Forgotten Knights could appear on top of each other in the Shattered Road.
• Fixed an issue where the Boss Ward bar would not animate.
• Fixed a bug where in the second Quest Echo of Reign of Dragons, a VFX would never disappear during the Lightning Dragons fight. Also fixed a bug where the Lightning Dragons' shake attack would sometimes produce ability indicators that did not disappear afterwards.
• Fixed an issue where the tooltip for the 'Reduced Bonus Damage from Crits' stat was missing in the character stats menu.

Shrines

• Fixed a bug where shrines would spawn items in inaccessible areas in the Majel'ka Slums.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Reclamation Shrine displaying the visuals for its beam.
• Fixed a bug where shrines could be placed on top of each other and other random encounters such as Nemesis in Temporal Sanctum in Online.
• Fixed cases where shrines and Nemeses could spawn in inaccessible locations in the Ice Caverns.

Controller

• Fixed an issue where the Bazaar menu could not be navigated when using a controller.
• Fixed a controller targeting issue when using Terrify.
• Fixed a controller navigation issue where you cannot navigate down from the second specialized skill in the skill slot.
• Fixed an issue where abilities couldn't be used with a controller after navigating the action bar.
• Fixed several issues with controller navigation of the Passive Tree panel.
• Fixed a bug that prevented reaching the Party panel when using a controller.
• Fixed an issue where the prompt for additional information in Skill Nodes in Skill Trees wouldnt change when using a controller.
• Fixed a gamepad-related crash that could occur while opening the radial menu.
• Improved controller navigation of the Stash menu. Pressing Y/Triangle while hovering over a tab in the stash menu now opens the configuration window for that tab.
• Fixed a controller issue where the screen keyboard showed incorrect icons, and also adjusted the size of the screen keyboard keys.

UI

• Changed the Dungeon Key & Tier Selection UI so that it no longer shows for everyone in a party, preventing confusion about whether everyone in a party had to expend a dungeon key.
• Items duplicated via Rune of Creation or Lightless Arbor now properly show their mirrored images in the Bazaar UI.
• Fixed Class Masteries descriptions appearing squished and made UI scaling improvements.
• Fixed a UI scaling issue that could lead to the minimap appearing to move outside of its frame.
• Fixed a bug with the Loot Filter rule UI where the color picker would sometimes be visible for show rules.
• Fixed a bug where the Observatory reroll constellation button could not be interacted with in some circumstances.
• Updated confirmation popup for selecting a Mastery to make it clear which Mastery you are selecting.
• Fixed the Mastery selection panel for Acolyte showing the old icon for Reaper Form.
• Fixed the Mastery selection panel and the Passive Tree side banner showing the old icon for Forge Strike.
• Fixed a bug where clicking Empower on a Nemesis panel would reopen it.
• Improved item tooltip interaction behaviour.
  • CTRL then ALT shows ranges with comparison, while ALT then CTRL shows ranges without comparison.
• Fixed an issue with the close button access in tutorial tooltips where the visual button did not line up with the actual area that could be interacted with.

Performance

• Made performance improvements to the Character Select screen and several in-game scenes.
• Added further performance improvements related to opening the Stash.

Changes

Loyalist Undead

Bug Fixes

Changes

• Reworked the Isle of Storms quest, to avoid a possible progression block. The entire collect the Moon Fragments step has been removed, along with the two altars. The portal to Lagon's Temple now appears right after speaking with Liath in the Moonlit Shrine.
• Your efforts to unburden all the Loot Lizards of Eterra have been paying off! Many of the Loot Lizards are now safely back at home having been freed of their burdens. In response, the factions employing them are becoming more wary of sending their Lizards into the world.
  • Blue and White Loot Lizards now start spawning in area level 12 and above. This prevents players finding Idols before having any Idol slots unlocked in normal gameplay scenarios
  • Loot Lizards spawn less frequently, especially in the campaign
  • Loot Lizard shrines are less common, especially in the early game
  • Fewer lizards are blue, this makes the other types more common.
  • All Loot Lizards, other than the blue lizard, drop more of their main types of loot.
  • Lizard shrines are less common, especially early in the game
  • All Loot Lizards drop more crafting materials

Bug Fixes

• Fixed item labels being spread too far apart for many users.
• Reduced frame-lag that would happen when switching stashes via the cycle dropdown. Also reduced frame-lag when adding or interacting with stash tabs or categories.
• Fixed case with passive trees where two passive points of a node would be respecced instead of only one. Also fixed a case where pressing "enter" while confirming to respec a single node would result in a respec of all nodes.
• Fixed Gambler items overlapping after refresh.
• Fixed an issue where the keybind menu could break after re-entering the game through character selection.

Hotfix 1.1.7.3

• Reverted stash tab optimization changes due to inventory graphical issues. We will continue investigating this to get a new fix out as soon as possible.

Bug Fixes

Hello Travelers, Patch 1.1.7 - The Imperial Uprising Event is now live! Fight against the Immortal Empire over this month-long event with bonuses to Reputation and Favor gain, as well as increased Gold and Random Unique Item drops. This event also introduces Stash Tab Priority, Loot Lizards, and 28 new Shrines! A few reminders: [olist]

The Imperial Uprising event begins Thursday, September 19th, at 11:00am CT! The Imperial Uprising begins in just two days and runs from September 19, 2024 9:00 AM through to October 20, 2024. This event introduces Loyalist Undead, Loot Lizards, the Stash Tab Priority system, Bazaar improvements, UI Scaling, and more. Were excited to kick off this event with you in just a couple of days, and share with you today the patch notes for this event patch. As previously announced, and confirmed with a community poll: Coinciding with the start of the event, there will be a Cycle Refresh. This means all current Cycle characters will be migrated to Legacy, and a refreshed Cycle will begin with fresh economy and leaderboards. Please Note: To prepare the servers for the Cycle Refresh and event start, we will be shutting down our servers 24 hours before the patch, starting Wednesday, September 18th, at 11:00am CT Full patch notes here: Last Epoch: The Imperial Uprising Event Patch Notes

Hello Travelers! With the Imperial forces gaining strength and ready to begin their siege of Eterra on September 19th, weve been preparing several buffs to help you Travelers rebuke them.

Event Modifiers

• +50% More Favor Gain (Added with community feedback)
• +50% More Reputation Gain
  • As Reputation is gained from earning and spending Favor, this means youll be receiving a total of 125% more Reputation
• +50% More Gold Drop Rate
• +50% More Random Unique Drop Rate

Event Details

Expanded Imperial Forces

Loot Lizards

New Shrines

Stash Tab Priority

• Item Type (for example, Boots)
  • If only one selected item type, then you can also specify Sub types, such as Citadel Boots
• Rarity (this is also where you can choose Keys)
  • If you choose Unique, you can also then specify Legendary Potential and/or Weavers Will
• Class Requirement (For example, Mage)
• Level Requirement
• Item Faction Requirement

Bazaar Improvements

New Affix and Subtype selection

Cycle Refresh Poll Results

Steam Deck Updates

Closing

Greetings Travelers, Over the last week, we have been reading and discussing your feedback about our announced plans for the Event Cycle launching on September 19th and Last Epochs next large update targets. We want to continue this discussion with you today and get your feedback directly. We are holding a Poll for the next 48 hours regarding our Cycle Event and will act in accordance to your input. We think the details of this post are important for making an informed decision, but we want to make sure that the poll doesnt get lost in the mix. Poll Link: Cycle Refresh Feedback

1.2 Announcement

The Imperial Uprising Event

• Event Modifiers:
  • NEW: Favor Gain Bonus (Community Requested)
  • Reputation Gain Bonus
  • Gold Drop Rate Bonus
  • Random Unique Drop Rate Bonus
  • Additional Undead Enemy Spawns in Monoliths
• 20+ New Shrine types
• Addition of Loot Lizards
• Dungeon Quality of Life (QoL) Updates
• Stash Tab Priority System
• Merchants Guild Search Improvements
• Undead Enemy Updates
• And More

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug which could cause Fire Aura to stop dealing damage
• Fixed an issue where targeting for skills were broken for gamepad

Changes

Controller

• Turning is now allowed while casting skills, even if you cannot move, by pointing the left stick to the direction you want to turn.
• When using a controller the Radial Menu now opens when pressing the assigned button once, instead of holding the button. It can be closed by pressing the button again.
• Fixed Sanctuary of Eterra UI Panel not working with controllers.
• Opening the Inventory on controller now highlights the last active location.
• Added fixes for navigating the factions UI while using a controller.
• Fixed collision issues when navigating the Shattered Road.
• Improved map panning with controller. Map will now pan slower when zoomed in and faster when zoomed out. No change at default zoom level.

UI Changes

• Fixed Item Tooltip position when hovering over items on the ground.
• Fixed a bug where if the player clicked on an item within pickup range they would move to that item's location after picking it up.
• Fixed a bug that would stop you from moving when clicking a button over items dropped in the world.
• Updated Blessing swap confirmation to only play the animation if changing to a new Blessing.
• Fixed a bug where the Blessing panel could still be interacted with after confirming a selection.
• Fixed an issue where loot labels could be displayed too large.
• Fixed an issue where the "Display Damage Numbers" setting's UI checkbox would not visually toggle on, even though it was actually updating the setting.
• Removed Waypoint indicator from the Graveyard location on the World Map. This location never had a Waypoint.
• Fixed an issue where the map pan speed was not matching the mouse movement speed when zoomed in or out.
• Fixed some overlap issues with Circle of Fortune prophecy stars.

Bug Fixes

Forgotten Knight Faction

• Fixed Forgotten Knight Faction data loss bug which would occur when a formerly hardcore character dies.
  • This fix unfortunately does not restore the previously lost data however the team is looking into ways to address this separately and has a log of all affected players. We will update players when this fix has been deployed.
• Fixed a bug where the Rank 7 bonus from Forgotten Knights was not granting additional Corruption per Gaze of Orobyss.
• Fixed a bug where Forgotten Knights faction could be progressed despite not meeting the Corruption requirement when killing a Harbinger. This could happen if an alt character killed a level 90 Timeline Harbinger to join the faction and that Timeline had not yet been done previously.

Monoliths, Arenas, Dungeons

• Fixed cases where Arenas would not advance to the next wave.
• Fixed several Objective and Shrine spawner issues in many Monolith zones and added spawners to fix bugs or improve the play experience of these zones.
  • Added Patrol Objective spawners in Imperial Barren Slums, Imperial Warcamp and Imperial Boreal Forest.
  • Added more Shrine spawn points to Bloodworks, Festering Sewers, and Hidden Oasis.
  • Added more Boss Objective spawn points to Haunted Reef.
  • Fixed several issues in Lightless Pits and Jagged Outskirts.
  • Fixed Patrol Objective spawners in Serpentine Desert and Willow Marsh.
  • Fixed Patrol spawners in the Burning Forest and Festering Sewers.
  • Fixed several Spire and Player spawn points in Forgotten Graves.
  • Removed Solarum Ascent and Canyon Stronghold from the Monolith pool as the designs were old and no longer fit our Monolith standards. We're making new zones with similar aesthetics to replace them.
• Void Spires no longer spawn enemies.
• Spires stop targeting the player when they have not been in combat for a short time, so these Void Spires spawning enemies would often create a situation where it was impossible for the Spire to stop targeting the player.

• Fixed an issue where the Temple Guardian in the Monolith got attacked by other enemies.
• Fixed an issue where the totems during Gaspar Husk fight were registered as allies.
• Fixed an issue where Idols in Void Harton encounter would incorrectly show where their abilities are coming from.

General

• Adjusted Nemesis functionality: If a Nemesis dies after you have died and there are no other living players in the area, it wont drop its items. This is so it can be fought again in the future to obtain those items.
• Fixed a bug where enemies killed by Lightning Bolts from Unbalanced Scale node in Smite had an incorrect on hit and death VFX.
• Improved performance for several VFX and ailments.
• Fixed an issue where having too high attack speed could cause Flurry to skip attacks.
• Fixed an issue where using a Rune of Ascendance would consume the assigned glyph.
• Fixed a bug where the upgrade button in the Forge would not show up for a certain shard when using the Rune of Refinement.
• Fixed an issue where the Doom Pulses from Celestial Doom unique staff could sometimes be destroyed by ground colliders.
• Fixed an issue where some eggs in The Coral Pools during the To Shell With It quest were not interactable.
• Fixed an issue where MTX weapon skins could be rotated the wrong way on the character.
• Fixed a bug where some visuals would display over the Bulwark of Ruin cosmetic shield

Hotfix 1.1.6.1

• Fixed an issue where the Coral Pools zone could fail to load

Greetings Travelers! Prepare for the Imperial Uprising Event and celebrate with an awesome sale!
We are thrilled to announce the Imperial Uprising Cycle Event, which will launch on September 19th at 11 a.m. CST and run through October 20th. Plus, we are kicking off this event with a 20% discount on all editions of Last Epoch. Whats coming with the Imperial Uprising Event? - Steam Deck Verification & Improvements - New and Updated Shrines - Quality of Life Improvements to Dungeons - Loot Lizard Encounters - Stash Tab Priority System - Improvements to Bazaar Search - Month-Long Event Modifiers We will discuss more details in the Patch Notes for the Event Cycle & Refresh event on Tuesday, September 17th, at 11 a.m. CST.

The Cycle Refresh

Imperial Uprising Event Details

Steam Deck Verified

Hello Travelers, Earlier this month we released patch 1.1.5. However, a handful of unforeseen issues were discovered and we chose to rollback the game to 1.1.4 again in order to minimize impact on players. Today we will be redeploying patch 1.1.5 with the addition of a few extra changes. Below you will find all of the original patch notes that are still in effect as intended with a designated "What We've Added" section for your reading convenience.

Changes

• If a player is currently in a Dungeon run and receives a party invite, the invite will be blocked to avoid disrupting the run.
  • The Inviting player will receive a message "your invite was declined"
• Fixed an instance that allowed parties to rejoin ongoing boss fights when one of them didn't respawn.
• Timeline Search now persists between Echoes.
• Now controller focuses always on the top level modal during dialogues.
• Added localization to "Dodge while evading and increased dodge rating shard" affix.
• You can now press CTRL+F when using mouse and keyboard to automatically select the active input field in your currently opened panel such as Stash or Skill Trees.

UI Changes

• Improved the positioning and layout of tooltips.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed several controller navigation problems on the dungeon doors panel.
• Fixes cases where Stash Tabs existed, but were not visible due to being in an invalid category.
  • If anyone is still experiencing this after this update, please submit an in-game bug report.
• Fixed missing texture and checkpoint in The Courtyard in the Ruined Era.
• Fixed capitalization for some affix names in localization table.
• Fixed a bug preventing Necrotic Shroud and Divine Shroud glow material effect.
• Fixed a bug which caused summoned Bosses (Majasa Phase 2) to not show the correct Boss Health Bar in Online play.
• Fixed issue where the help (?) button on the Nemesis UI only searches "Nemesis" in the Game Guide, but doesn't actually open the Nemesis guide entry.
• Fixed a bug where Unique idol prophecies could drop non-unique idols.
• Fixed issue with showing tooltips when changing skills in hotbar using controller.
• Fixed a bug causing Reflect damage to not trigger Boss ward.
• Fixed a bug where Monument of Protection's added melee damage for Shield Rush was instead applying to Shield Bash.
• Fixed a bug where some minions, particularly totems, could sometimes get into situations where they would not attack despite having enemies within range.
• Added Gamepad Support for Vault of Uncertain Fate UI Panel.
• Fixed an issue where Dungeon runs would sometimes not get cleaned up properly in party play. This could result in bugs like being unable to start a new dungeon run or being unable to portal to your party members.
• Fixed invisible Forgotten Knight in the Shattered Road.

What We've Added

Changes

• Audio improvements to the Abomination Monolith Boss fight.
• Mastery Selection window now defaults to Select Another instead of Confirm when using a controller.
• Players can now click on the Harbingers icons on the Forgotten Knights faction panel to open the world map with the Timeline that Harbingers spawns in selected.
• Updated Lightning Web Runic Invocation VFX
• Improved performance when swapping between Stash Tabs that contain a lot of items.

Gamepad Improvements

• Controller navigation issues on Bazaar panel.
• Controller navigation on Forgotten Knight Faction panel.
• Added the ability to quickly move idols in and out of the idol inventory.
• Fixed next Era and previous Era icons swapped for the gamepad.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed certain dialogues not starting causing quests to be impossible to progress.
• Fixed issues with hovering on Minimus.
• Fixed an issue where the statues in The Courtyard could be clipped though.
• Fixed issue with being stuck in an idle animation after a loading screen.
• Fixed issue with map exit pings only displaying in the Divine Era in Temporal Sanctum.
• Fixed a bug where Tempering Blow node in Smelter's Wrath more hit damage per ignite was not capped at 150%.
• Fixed an issue where the Stash would close when entering a Town scene.
• Fixed a bug where Soul Cages were counted as bosses for Prophecies.
• Fixed a bug causing Argentus health bar and mini health/ward bar to remain after he flies away.
• Fixed an issue where item tooltips would sometimes continue displaying when UIs overlapped.
• Fixed a bug causing the Blessing tooltip does not show the roll string when comparing two Blessings.
• Fixed a bug where the Alpha Spine Hunter would have a health bar while in the introduction animation.
• Fixed a bug where Emperor Of Corpse Necrotic Explosion's VFX would not match the hitbox.
• Fixed a bug that would stop players from moving when clicking a button over items dropped in the world.
• Fixed an issue causing traversal skills to allow players to cross gaps/walls/blockers.

Changes

• If a player is currently in a Dungeon run and receives a party invite, the invite will be blocked to avoid disrupting the run.
  • The Inviting player will receive a message "your invite was declined"
• Fixed an instance that allowed parties to rejoin ongoing boss fights when one of them didn't respawn.
• Timeline Search now persists between echoes.
• Now controller focuses always on the top level modal during dialogues.
• Added localization to "Dodge while evading and increased dodge rating shard" affix.
• You can now press CTRL+F when using mouse and keyboard to automatically select the active input field in your currently opened panel such as Stash or Skill Trees.

UI Changes

• Improved the positioning and layout of tooltips.
• Added an option in Settings to adjust the tooltip scale.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed several controller navigation problems on the dungeon doors panel.
• Fixes cases where Stash Tabs existed, but were not visible due to being in an invalid category.
  • If anyone is still experiencing this after this update, please submit an in-game bug report.
• Fixed missing texture and checkpoint in The Courtyard in the Ruined Era.
• Fixed capitalized for some affix names in localization table.
• Fixed a bug preventing Necrotic shroud and divine shroud glow material effect.
• Fixed a bug which caused summoned bosses (Majasa Phase 2) to not show the correct Boss Health Bar in online play.
• Fixed issue where the help (?) button on the Nemesis UI only searches "Nemesis" in the Game Guide, but doesn't actually open the Nemesis guide entry.
• Fixed a bug where unique idol prophecies could drop non-unique idols.
• Fixed issue with showing tooltips when changing skills in hotbar using controller
• Fixed a bug causing reflect damage to not trigger boss ward.
• Fixed a bug where Monument of Protection's added melee damage for Shield Rush was instead applying to Shield Bash.
• Fixed a bug where some minions, particularly totems, could sometimes get into situations where they would not attack despite having enemies within range.
• Added Gamepad Support for Vault of Uncertain Fate UI Panel.
• Fixed an issue where Dungeon runs would sometimes not get cleaned up properly in party play, This could result in bugs like being unable to start a new dungeon run or being unable to portal to your party members.
• Fixed invisible Forgotten Knight in the Shattered Road.

Balance Changes

Witchfire

• Base damage increased from 300 necrotic and 300 fire to 600 necrotic and 600 fire.
• Grimhilde's Domain now grants Witchfire 2% more damage per 1% ignite chance with fire skills (from 1% per 1%), and 4% more damage per 1% damned chance with necrotic skills (from 3% per 1%). It now has alt text clarifying that these damage modifiers are additive with each other, but multiplicative with all other modifiers (this is not a change of functionality).
• Damned Overload's description has been updated to "You deal 2% more Damned damage to enemies per 1% missing health on you and 1% more damned damage per 2% missing health on the target" (previously stated it was giving 1% more Damned damage to enemies per 2% missing health on you). Its functionality has always matched this new description.

Earthquake

• All nodes which referenced the "initial hit" now instead describe it as the "initial slam". This is still referring to the damaging slam of Earthquake, as opposed to its Aftershocks. This clarification was made so that we could specify whether these effects apply generic more damage or specifically more hit damage. No functionality has changed in this regard, these are only clarifications.
• The Harder They Fall's description has been updated to clarify that it gives more hit damage for the initial slam (previously was ambiguous about whether it's more damage or more hit damage).
• Seismic Smash's description has been updated to clarify that modifiers to Aftershock damage on this tree apply to the initial slam (previously stated "Increases to Aftershock damage on this tree apply to the initial hit").
• Shatterquake grants 40% more hit damage to chilled or frozen enemies. It was previously described as "30% more damage to chilled or frozen enemies", and was actually giving two separate multipliers: 30% more hit damage to chilled enemies, and 30% more hit damage to frozen enemies. It was always a bonus exclusive to hits, but it being applied as two separate multipliers was unintended.
• Rupture grants 15% more initial slam damage (from 12%).
• Earthquake now has a damage effectiveness of 700% (from 350%).
• Earthquake's Aftershocks now have a damage effectiveness of 200% (from 100%).

Changes

UI

• Corrected some monster modifiers not being capitalized correctly.

Controller

• Gamepad can now navigate to Pet additional slots (the little slot that augments the pet).
• Allowed pressing R3 on a gamepad to pin/unpin quests on the map.

Localization

• Japanese, Chinese and Korean language improvements.

Skills

• Made the cooldown recovery indicator on ability icons show up when recovering additional charges, but at 65% of normal opacity.
• The off cooldown flash still occurs correctly when going from 0 to 1 charge and there's no equivalent flash when going from 1 charge to 2, etc.

Bugs

Aberroth

• Fixed an issue that allowed accessing Aberroth without having joined the Forgotten Knight faction.

Skills and Passives

Acolyte

• Fixed a bug where Necrotic Feast allowed you to drain mana from yourself or other players. People are friends, not food!

• Fixed a bug where Ghostflame would display incorrect active and inactive tags on the skill panel.
• Fixed a bug where Fuel of Anguish was giving critical strike multiplier per 100 missing health, instead of critical strike chance per 100 missing health.

• Echoes Inside has had its description updated, as it was contradicting its statline (it summons two additional wraiths, not three).

Mage

• Fixed a bug where Lucomancer's stacks could fall off earlier than intended.

• Sun and Storms typo fix.

• Clarified that Lost Knowledge triggers on direct casts only.
• Fixed Spelling of both versions of the Talons of Grandeur blessing.

Primalist

• Snowcrash now probably mentions it consumes mana rather than adds a mana cost.

• Fixed a bug where Fury Leap did not use cold VFX when the skill is converted to cold.

• Thunderous Strikes typo fix.

• Locust Master no longer mentions it buffs your Locusts, as that functionality was removed.

• Now uses the same text about cooldown recovery as Warcry.

• Now correctly mentions in the description how much this heals you and allies.

Rogue

• Side by Side now correctly says Falcon Strike.
• Removed the extra "your" from Rending Talons.

• Sundering Blows typo fix.

• Tinkerer's Combo now correctly says the effect can trigger once per 2 seconds (from twice per 2 seconds).

Sentinel

• Fixed a bug where Master of Arms did not grant its +2 strength with a two handed weapon if you were wielding a spear.

• Desynchronous Charge now properly states it removes the Traversal tag.
• Dark Regression increased mana cost now properly shows as a downside.

• Champion of the Forge threshold bonus now more clearly states that it grants additional critical strike multiplier while wielding a 2 handed weapon.
• Fixed missing e in Master of Arms description.

UI

• Fixed a bug which caused The Last Ruin, The Age of Winter, or Spirits of Fire timelines to show no "current blessing" when replacing a blessing in the confirmation window.
• Fixed an issue where the login panel's title background could extend past the edge of the panel.
• Fixed the height of NPC chat messages. Multiline NPC chat messages should no longer overlap.
• Fixed a bug where a summoned crab was not highlightable, therefore players could not see the crabs name.
• Fixed an issue leading to waypoints sometimes blocking projectiles.

Loot Filter

• Fixed the display categories for "Increased Area for Melee Area Skills (of Conquest), Mana and Mana Regen (Manaforged), and Mana and Mana Spent Gained as Ward (Transfusing) affixes in the Loot Filter Rule Affix Condition UI.

Controller

• In the battle with Aberroth, if the player is using a controller, the correct health bar is displayed on the UI. Additionally, the orb in this battle is not an auto-target for the controller.
• Fixed an issue where the UI menu controller could block player movement.
• Fixed an issue with gamepad where pressing the specialize button in the skill tree sometimes would not work.

Enemies

• Reworked the Winged Fire Boss abilities that created the firelines. It should be much more fair and avoidable now.
• Made the Winged Fire Boss projectile that goes out and back destroy itself when the enemy dies.
• Reworked Avalanche spell on the Wengari Patriarch to be less punishing and gave it a new, more clear indicator.
• Fixed a bug where the Wengari Patriarch and Matriarch had ward thresholds in the monolith.
• Fixed a bug where the screen shake from the Void Horror Slam was a couple seconds late.
• Fixed a bug where the Abomination Boss death animation would not play.

SFX

• Fixed the SFX for the MTX Embermane Tiger.

Settings

• Fixed an issue where the VSync dropdown was sometimes interactable when Limit FPS was enabled. These settings are mutually exclusive.
• Fixed layout issues with checkboxes in the Graphics settings panel.
• Fixed FPS slider labels making it look like the value was negative.
• Removed checkbox for unsupported motion blur setting.

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We have received a few reports of Forgotten Knight faction reputation being reset. As such we are reverting the recent change to SCF/SAF migration as the suspected cause in an effort to prevent players losing progression while we investigate.

Changes

• Reverted change: When you abandon the SCF challenge, the most progressed Forgotten Knights faction between SCF & SAF will be carried over.

Changes

Nemesis

Froststeel Nemesis

• Reduced the area of the Orbiting Cold DoT ability.

Stormsteel Nemesis

• Removed rotating lightning ability.

Poison Nemesis

• Poison pool deals 25% less damage.
• Poison pool now ends when the Nemesis is defeated.
• Poison spin attack deals 14% less damage.
• The across the screen projectiles now deal physical damage rather than fire.
• The poisons inflicted by the across the screen projectiles have 50% reduced duration.

Nemesis Panel

• If you manually press the close button while an item is in the Egg of the Forgotten swap slot, it will be returned to the inventory.
• If you close the whole nemesis panel while an item is in there (for example by pressing escape or closing the game), then the item will remain there, but the next time you open the Egg of the Forgotten panel, the swap sub panel will be open with the item visible.

Corruption Catch-Up Buffs

• Bonus Corruption based on the difference between the highest Corruption Timeline and the current Timeline is now always 95% of the difference (from scaling based on distance and being capped at 60%)
• When the difference between the highest Corruption Timeline and the current Timeline is greater than 40, or you have at least 8 Gaze of Orobyss, and the current Echo Web does not contain a Shade Echo, then completing an Echo will create a Shade Echo next to it.

Death Screen

• How much damage was dealt by the killing blow.
• How much overkill damage the killing blow had (i.e. how much damage was dealt beyond what was necessary to reduce the player to 0 health).
• Whether the killing blow was a crit.

Enemy Balance

Bitterwing and Gloomscreecher Bats

• Damage of ice breath attack scales up over the duration of the cast from 50% to 100%.

Blood Scorpions

• Deal 24% less poison damage.

Forged Soldier

• Its Flamethrower deals 11% less damage.
• Increased duration of Flamethrower attack by 30%.
• Its melee attacks are 20% slower.
• Reduced visual noise of their fire warpath ability.
• Ignites applied from its Fire Ground have 30% reduced duration

Gorgon

• Sand Twister deals 17% less damage.

Heorot

• Fixed indicator on Heorots triple ice nova attack displaying incorrectly after first cast.
• Optimized Heorots ice stab attack (performance and reliability).

Osprix Lightmage

• Holy Meteor attack range reduced by 60%.

Osprix Warrior

• Deals 12% less fire damage.

Sand Scorpions

• Added a visual indicator for the poison tail attack for theming.
• Sand Scorpions deal 24% less poison damage.

Scalebane Saboteur

• Increased the time till detonation of his thrown javelin ability by 25%.
• Changed visuals to better reflect and indicate impending explosion.

Solar Archers

• Their bow attack deals 12.5% less damage.

Spine Hunter Alpha

• Now idles for 1.3 seconds after howling.
• Reduced damage by 15%.
• Now tracks your movement slightly less well before leaping.

Spine Hunters

• Now tracks your movement slightly less well before leaping.

Storm Crawler Crabs

• Now always turn to the target before shooting their lightning beams.
• The rate of lightning beams has been reduced.

Tundra Stalker

• Reduced size by 30%.
• Damage of ice breath attack scales up over the duration of the cast from 50% to 100%.
• Their ice breath has 25% less chance to inflict Frostbite each second.
• Their leap deals 17% less damage
• Their melee attack deals 12.5% less damage

Ulatri Scavenger

• Damage of fire breath attack scales up over the duration of the cast from 50% to 100%.
• Their flame breath has 30% less chance to ignite each second.
• Reduced size by 20%.
• Reduced size of flame breath attack by 20%.
• Their leap deals 17% less damage
• Their melee attack deals 12.5% less damage

Undead Hydras

• The Snake Infection from their Poison Burst deals 25% less damage over its full duration.

Void Prophet

• Has 78% more health.

Voidfused Armor

• Grants 27% more experience.
• Grants 50% more gold when they drop gold.
• Grants 69% more items when they drop items.

Voidfused Earth

• Grants 50% more experience.
• Deals 14% less void damage.

Wengari Shaman

• Totem cast ranged reduced by 20%.
• Shield buff range reduced by 40%.

Enemy Damage over Time Balance

Wengari Spires

• Ground area deals 21% less damage over time.

Scalebane Sorcerer

• Their poison sphere spell now only applies 2 stacks of poison (from 3).

Lightless Arbor Heart Boss

• The Energy Wave no longer has 100% increased poison effect.
• The Volatile Bulbs no longer have 100% increased poison effect.

Poison Shade of Orobyss

• Its poison line attack deals 15% less poison damage over time.

Sturiax

• His phoenix spell deals 12% less damage over time.

Osprix Zealot

• Deals 12% less fire damage over time.

Headhunter Lavian and Venator Ealos

• Reduced the duration of Poison and Armor shred from their traps by 30%.

Skills

• Shield Bash SFX changed when the cooldown is removed to be less repetitive and annoying to hear in rapid succession.
• Hammer Throw's initial speed of Hammers increased which decreases over time.
• Hammer Throw now throws from the hand more reliably.
• Updated VFX for Base, Cold, and Physical versions of Avalanche

Systems

• When you abandon the SCF challenge, the most progressed Forgotten Knights faction between SCF & SAF will be carried over.

UI

• Lens tooltips are now visible when equipped in the Observatory panel.

Bug Fixes

Harbingers of Ruin

• Fixed an issue where killing the Harbingers in an Aberroth boss run would erroneously complete Kill Any Boss prophecy targets, which would drop rewards that may be missed when being sent to Aberroth.
• Experience granted by the original timeline boss is granted by the harbinger instead if one spawns. This prevents an abuse case where you could repeatedly kill the timeline boss for xp and then portal out before killing the harbinger to farm favour (from xp).
• Fixed a bug where void puddles would not dispel fire puddles they spawned on top of

Nemesis

• Fixed a bug where some of the Stormsteel Nemesis' abilities would persist after they die.
• Fixed a bug where some of the Froststeel Nemesis' abilities would be angled if cast on a slope.
• Fixed a bug where taking Replacing an Egg of the Forgotten with an MG tagged unique, could result in its tag changing to CoF if it gained legendary potential. This only occurred if the CoF bonus increased the legendary potential it gained.

Animations & VFX

• Fixed VFX and Animations for various enemies
• Fixed Aberroth's Absorbing Chaos ability (Big Donut before Timeshattering Slam) to make it fade out in the final phase, rather than instantly disappear.
• Fixed a bug with the Altar of Oblivion where the bottom section would disappear rather than disintegrate

Controller

• Fixed an issue with gamepad where toggling dropped items details did not work properly.

Enemies

Elder Gaspar

• Improved hit-box of tri-elemental beam to more tightly match visuals.

Possesed Construct in Soulfire Bastion

• Fixed a bug where sometimes their visuals would not appear.
• Added a failsafe to ensure that their entrance animation will not override any ability animations.

Ruby Captain Arjani

• Fixed a bug where entrance animation wouldnt play and played too quickly

Spirit of Grael, Son of Artor

• Fixed a bug where Spirit of Grael, Son of Artor could not be pierced by projectiles.

Ulatri Scavenger

• Fixed a bug where their Flame Breath attack didn't disappear when they died or were stunned.

Level Design

• Fixed Imperial Thetima very rarely spawning random encounters (e.g. Shrines, Nemesis) and only ever being able to spawn them in one spot.

SFX

• Vocal sounds were missing and have now been implemented for: Burning Pyromancer, Fire Lich Bone Golem Minion, Memory Vessel Skeleton, Imperial Soul Mage, Chaos Vessel Skeleton, Imperial Guard, Imperial Shadow Dungeon, Imperial Shadow
• Replaced SFX on the skill that procs when a Volatile Maw dies.
• Fixed an issue where SFX werent playing on subsequent earthquake impacts when specced into Seismic Tide.
• Revised volume of Flame Paladins vocalizations.

Skills & Passives

• Fixed a bug where Toxic Craving still applied the effects of one stack after all stacks were lost.
• Fixed a bug where Dancing Strikes's Rhythm could fail to trigger when using Windmill Ballet or Hidden Blade.
• Fixed a bug where abilities would sometimes fail to cast due to mana cost in online play, even if you had an effect from your skill tree that makes it free when out of mana.
• Fixed an issue with Ring Of Shields where the Shields were not visible.
• Fixed a bug where Runemaster's Never Late's threshold bonus was not doubling the additional critical strike chance of its buff, and was instead causing the Never Late buff to intermittently apply to spells without using a traversal skill.

Systems

• Fixed an error leading to reports of new offline characters not saving progress.
• Fixed an issue where required level to forge an item was erroneously including sealed, experimental, and personal affixes.
• Fixed a bug where a Timeline could lose stability if the player returned to the Monolith Hub after completing the first or second Quest Echo in the Timeline.

UI

• Improved cosmetics store item details, including adding a way to view which item types are supported for weapon/shield MTX.
• Fixed a bug where the main menu close button was not easily clickable.
• Fixed a bug where the player character would move to follow the mouse when dragging a scrollbar if the mouse moved outside of the UI panel during the scroll.
• Fixed a bug that could lead to garbled item labels and error spam.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed several sources of desync issues and disconnects

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Seed of Ekkidrasi's "Endurance applies to Mana" effect using uncapped endurance. This fixes the player becoming immortal with 100% endurance and 100% of damage dealt to mana.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Circle of Fortune's rank 10 bonus was not applying to boss uniques from arena, dungeons, Exiled Mages, and the Shade of Orobyss. As a result of this change Exiled Mage unique drops are now randomized per player, rather than being the same for each player.
• In online play, killing a Shade of Orobyss while dead now counts as a successful kill, granting stability and resetting your echo web. You are still able to respawn and collect your loot.
• Fixed an issue causing disconnection when entering towns.

Changes

• Changes made to Sturiax the Burning Sky (Osprix Firemage)
  • Slowed down meteor impact times by 0.3 seconds. (0.9 -> 1.2)
  • Phoenix Flamethrower damage ramps up over 1 second instead of starting at full blast.
• Added a new loot filter condition called Factions that will allow you to filter for faction-specific items.
• Increased XP reward for Harbinger and Aberroth quests.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where projectiles would get destroyed by nemesis spawn locations in offline play.
• Fixed a bug where the Monolith Of Fate side quest would not progress when talking to the Forgotten Knight in the End of Times.
• Fixed an issue where the Character migration prompt could show when you have the maximum number of characters.
• Fixed a bug where Shield Bash could not recover cooldown when stunning enemies if Incinerating Blows is allocated.
• Fixed a bug which prevented Online HC characters from using blessings discovered on other HC characters.
• Fixed a bug which prevented Online HC characters from using blessings discovered on other (including dead) HC characters.
  • This is retroactive and you will be able to use blessings discovered before this fix.
• Fixed the Scourge of the Depths helm and the Deep Watchers helm missing VFX.
• Fixed Crest of the Voidwalker portal MTX VFX.
• Fixed a bug resulting in an error "No translation found for tooltip..." when hovering over items.
• Fixed a bug causing CoF Rank 12 double rewards to be additive with Lens double rewards, rather than multiplicative.

Changes

Controller

• Added controller integration for Dungeon Door Panels and Boss Fight Confirmation Windows
• "B" or "Start" on Controller will now close the Nemesis panel

Visuals & UI

• Updated graphics for "Void Cultist" enemies
• Added Backer Reward painting to Arena Lobby
• Added death VFX to Weathered Statue enemies
• The mana cost displayed on ability tooltips now rounds to the nearest 0.1, rather than always rounding *up* to a whole number.
  • - It still prioritizes rounding up when it's in the range (0, 0.05] and would otherwise round to 0 despite having a positive mana cost. It's important to show a positive mana cost in this case to accurately indicate to the player that the skill can't be used when below 0 mana.
  • - Example: Previously, if a mana cost of a skill was 39.7, it would round the tooltip to 40. But if there was a mechanic that only happens with 40 mana cost, it wouldn't occur with that 39.7 mana cost. The skill will now display the mana cost of 39.7 mana to prevent this confusion.
• Displayed Mana Regeneration in Character sheet now rounds to the nearest 0.1 instead of rounding to the nearest whole number
• Added Indicator to Remove Only Stash Tabs

Nemesis

Nemesis Spawn Changes

Related Area Level Changes

• The Council Chambers is level 11 (from 10)
• Erza's Library is level 12 (from 11)
• The Shrouded Ridge is level 17 (from 14)
• The Ruined College is level 24 (from 23)
• The Great College is level 24 (from 25)
• The Felled Wood is level 26 (from 25)
• Soulfire Bastion, Soulfire Keep, and The Soul Furnace show on the map as level 37 (from 24, 24, and 90 respectively). This does not affect the level of the actual dungeon tiers.

Other Nemesis Changes

• Increased base nemesis spawn rate (before additional spawn rate from corruption) by 15%
• The nemesis icon is shown on the minimap at the same distance as the chat message triggers (from 67% of that distance)

Bug Fixes

Damage Conditionals

• Fixed a bug where some cases of damage conditionals applied their effects even when the conditional wasn't met. For example, Doom Herald's more damage to damned enemies while channeling was applying to enemies that were not damned.

Skills

Minions

• Fix Minions animation getting stuck after a Scene transition

Earthquake

• Fixed a bug where aftershocks would appear at your cursor location when casting Earthquake, rather than on nearby enemies

Explosive Trap

• Fixed a bug where Trapas was not applying its listed +3 mana cost

Falconry

• Fixed a bug where Side by Side could not be triggered by Explosive Trap
• Fixed a bug where Exposed Weakness could not be triggered by Explosive Trap

Flurry

• Fixed a bug where double tapping channeled Flurry could put you in a state where you are permanently Flurrying

Gathering Storm

• Fixed a bug where Excited Bolts consumed a percentage of maximum mana, instead of a percentage of current mana

Glyph of Dominion

• Fixed a bug where Runic Invocation's Power Word: Devastation was causing the glyph's hit to apply 5 frostbite stacks per Heo rune, instead of its damage over time applying 5 frostbite stacks per second per Heo rune

Reaper Form

• Players can now correctly set new skills when in Reaper form and when shifting out of reaper form

Serpent Strike

• Fixed a bug where Shattered Immunity's damage modifiers were applying as 4 separate multipliers, instead of as 2 separate multipliers

Storm Totem

• Fixed a bug where Gathering Storm's Tempest Weapon did not affect Storm Bolts cast by Storm Totem with Unmatched Storms

Controller

• Fixed a bug where "Lost Connection" popup would not focus when using a controller
• Fixed controller issue where you can't switch eras when focused on quest details
• Fixed a bug with controller navigation in the MTX Shop Panel
• Fixed an issue with navigating Item Faction ranks with a controller
• Fixed an issue where the gamepad radial menu would not show new skill and passive indicators upon leveling up
• Improved controller navigation on Choose Blessing panel
• Fixed an issue where closing a menu would also activate the Character's ability that uses the same button
• Fixed an issue where moving the left thumbstick while comparing items would move the character
• Fixed an issue where Item selection on DualShock controller shows Xbox prompt
• Fixed an issue where an unnecessary prompt would appear during the Boss fight in the Summit
• Fixed a bug where channeling skills did not count towards keeping ground item tooltips hidden.

Nemesis

• Fixed a bug which could cause a second non-functional Nemesis to appear in a scene
• Fixed being able to add duplicate new Legendary affixes with the second Nemesis empowerment
• Fixed not being able to gain suffixes with the second Nemesis empowerment
• Reduced LP rolls when adding more affixes to Legendaries with Nemesis to counter effect of fixing the no suffix bug
• Fixed a bug where the Blood Nemesis had a bloody VFX after death

Visuals

• Fixed a bug where Mage and Acolyte were holding Staves backwards
• Improved blending of Black Hole material in Alter of Oblivion
• Fixed incorrect postprocessing in the Monolith of Fate (hub), causing it to be too dark
• Disabled point light shadows in the Observatory, which was causing very heavy GPU usage on Ultra settings
• Fixed a missing Texture issue in The Outcast Camp
• Fixed an issue where player and NPC animations after a stun could desynchronize

UI

• Fixed loot filter rules tooltip showing behind the loot filter panel
• Fixed game guide link button not posting a valid link to chat
• Ladder search now returns results containing the search term rather then only those starting with the search term
• Fixed Factions Panel Title not being Localized for Circle of Fortune or Forgotten Knights
• Loot filter tutorial is now only automatically shown when there are no loot filters instead of anytime no filter is selected.
• The info button in the Choose Blessing panel now only shows the tooltip when hovered over and is not clickable.
• Fixed player faction icons not being displayed correctly for players already on the server
• Fixed several bugs with stat displays on Character Sheet
• Fixed a bug where ground loot wasn't clickable while a boss health bar was displayed

Enemies

• Fixed Misshapen Remains not dropping any loot
• Fixed a bug where the Scalebane Leader did not drop loot
• Fixed an issue with enemies that use the NPC version of Acid Flask were causing errors

Level Design

• Fixed a bug where various Monolith bridges were not interactable after completing a Timeline for the first time
• Fixed an issue where players could get stuck, and loot inaccessible in certain areas in Ritual Lake Monolith Echo Map
• Fixed a bug where an inaccessible stash appeared overlapped with the Forge in The Armory
• Fixed a bug where a respawn point in The Ospryx Warcamp was too high up
• In the Isle of Storms quest you now only need to find and return one moon fragment to the Moonlit Shrine instead of both.

What's next?

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug for controller players that could cause an equipped item to drop to the ground

Changes

Aberroth is now available for Offline modes

UI

• The Sorcerer's Passive 2nd Bonus now correctly shows '1% more damage per 2 mana cost, up to 50% more'

Bug Fixes

Localization

• Evade tooltip no longer shows twice
• Improvements to French Localization
• Corrected an erroneous '=' in the Old Tome dialogue

Controller

• Fixed an issue where interacting with the Alter of Oblivion with a controller could cause a crash

Cosmetic MTX

• Void Cleaver now correctly shows which weapon this is a cosmetic for.
• Aberroth's Memento now correctly shows it's name when moused over.
• Abyssal Legend and Abyssal Vanquisher supporter pack videos have been updated
• Oblivion shot bow image has been updated to show representative VFX
• Argentum Myrmidon gameplay video update - previously it showed a level of VFX that wasn't representative

Travelers, The time has come. The researchers have returned with the clues about Eterras history. Its up to you to decipher these clues and secure the knowledge they protect. Please remember the rules and follow them closely in order for your submission to be considered.

RULES

• All submissions must be made using an Online character. (Cycle or Legacy is your choice)
• All submissions must have your Account Name clearly in the subject line
• All submissions must use the Lore Hunt support form Not the In-Game Support Tool
  • Tickets that do not use this form will not be counted.
  • Multiples of the same submission will be disqualified
• All 8 answer screenshots must be submitted via a compressed file in the same ticket.
  • Screenshots must remain uncropped and display the entire UI
  • Cropped screenshots will be disqualified
  • Please be sure to put all eight screenshots in a folder and then right-click the folder and choose "Compressed (zipped) folder". This will compress into a zip file for us to be able to access.
• Do Not submit follow up tickets to determine answers or placement.
  • All Event winners and placements will be announced after the review process has ended.
• Incorrect or disqualified submission will not be notified.

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Hello Travelers! We would like to congratulate all the Travelers who have been making the push to Aberroth, and those who have managed to slay him. A special congratulations to Olio for making the world first Normal Aberroth kill. With Aberroth having been slain in the Online Cycle environment, we will now be releasing Aberroth to all Online Environments. We have run into an unexpected issue in Offline mode that prevents Aberroth from being accessed. Since todays patch also fixes a number of bugs including trade cancelled messages being sent out Town wide, Shade of Orobyss fixes, and a fix for global damage modifiers - we have chosen to release it without Aberroth for Offline Mode. For our offline Travelers - getting you access to Aberroth is currently of the highest priority. We will keep you updated as we can.

Changes

• Aberroth, Herald of Oblivion has been enabled in Online Legacy Environment

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Event Horizon required level 100 to equip. Is now correctly level 80.
• Fixed a bug where Trade Cancelled messages could be sent to everyone on the server in some circumstances
• Fixed a bug where Shade of Orobyss Echoes do not display correct tooltip, and were instead showing the previously selected Echo
• Fixed a bug where Aberroth's Fire Black Hole would lag behind the player instead of attaching to them
• Fixed a bug where Forge Guard's Weapon Master was not granting +75% Bleed Chance as a Threshold Bonus while wielding an axe
• Fixed a bug where global conditional damage was ignoring most tags (eg. "*100% more [Spell / Bow / Throwing / Minion / DoT] damage against High Health Enemies*" was instead giving "*100% more damage against High Health Enemies*"
• Fixed a bug which could cause a delay to visually displaying enemies for a couple of seconds after loading into an Echo
• Fixed a bug where players needed to reset keybinds to Evade on a controller
• Fixed a bug where Orion and Emberwing were not displaying a health bar in Offline
• Fixed a bug where Shade of Orobyss' Fire Cone fails to appear after the second time he casts it

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug causing some Bosses, such as Orion and Emberwing or Temple Guardian, to appear invisible and not move, meaning players were relying on attack visuals to defeat them.

This is a quick hotfix to immediately address a small issue with Evade. We will have larger follow-up patches for other issues in the coming days.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that allowed people to override Evade with any skill via drag/drop from skill screen.

This is a quick hotfix to immediately address some instances of disconnects. We will have larger follow-up patches for other issues in the coming days.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug which was causing some instances of Disconnects

Greetings Travelers, Patch 1.1 - Harbingers of Ruin is officially LIVE! With the start of Cycle 1.1, a whole host of new and exciting things come to the world of Eterra. We look forward to seeing you in the game! A few reminders: 1. Patch Notes for 1.1: https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/last-epoch-harbingers-of-ruin-patch-notes 2. Details on Aberroth and First To Kill: https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/pinnacle-content-poll-results/71606 3. Twitch Drops: Twitch Drops unlockToday. https://twitch.lastepoch.com/ 4. Support: If you are having issues with the game, the first step with Steam is always to try verifying integrity files, if that doesnt resolve the problem, or your issue is account-related, our support team will be ready and waiting right here:https://support.lastepoch.com/hc/en-us 5. Updates and Notices: If problems occur, be sure to join our Discord or pay attention to our socials, as those spaces will have the most recent updates. Discord link:[Last Epoch - Official Community1.0k](https://discord.gg/lastepoch) You will also see awesome new supporter packs in-game, and we heard you clearly about wanting a Get Everything pack! Check out the Abyssal Legends Pack in-game for an amazing deal that includes all the awesome cosmetics available for the Abyssal Supporter Packs, plus bonus content, all in 1 pack! https://youtu.be/d6MZ3rXFOTE Thank You, Last Epoch Team

Greetings, Travelers! We are excited to announce some fantastic news for our APAC community regarding localization updates. This includes the introduction of a new language and significant updates to existing languages in Last Epoch. Introducing Japanese Language Support Last Epoch is dedicated to supporting our Travelers from around the world, and this mission continues in Patch 1.1 - Harbingers of Ruin! With version 1.0, Last Epoch officially launched in nine languages: English, French, German, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Latin American Spanish. We have continuously improved the quality of these localizations and are thrilled to announce the addition of our tenth language. Last Epoch is bringing Japanese language support with Patch 1.1 - Harbingers of Ruin! Japanese players will soon be able to connect with fellow Travelers, sharing stories, strategies, and experiences, all with native support in the game. However, despite our best efforts to identify and address localization bugs, there may still be a few issues that Japanese players encounter during the first few weeks. We kindly ask our beloved Japanese community to actively share feedback and report issues through our customer service and the in-game bug report system so we can resolve them promptly. We are excited to see you all in the world of Eterra! ! Chinese and Korean Localization Status Update In addition to adding a new language, we have identified and addressed several critical localization issues in Simplified Chinese and Korean that have persisted in pre-1.0 content. Specifically, some areas displayed localized strings incorrectly or mixed localized language with English in one string. We have resolved these issues and expect the remaining ones to be fully addressed, along with the Japanese language update a couple of weeks after the 1.1 release. Rest assured, the current state of localization should show significant improvements with fewer issues compared to the 1.0 release. However, if you encounter any critical localization errors, we strongly encourage you to submit an in-game bug report with the localization tag so our technical team can address them promptly. Once again, thank you for taking the time to join us in this announcement and for your ongoing support of Last Epoch. We will see you all in the world of Eterra! The Last Epoch Team

Harbingers of Ruin is releasing Tuesday, July 9th, 2024, at 11:00am CT! Check out the full patch notes here: Last Epoch: Harbingers of Ruin Patch Notes Check out the Patch Notes Overview video with Game Director Judd Cobler Here: [previewyoutube=i6CnogUkGDM;full][/previewyoutube] Welcome everyone to the patch notes for Last Epoch: Harbingers of Ruin! Patch 1.1: Harbingers of Ruin is our first Major patch since launch, and with it, have focused on some of the largest areas of feedback we received from 1.0. This means more Endgame content with a new Pinnacle Boss system, a new Random Encounter system, Hundreds of balance changes, and the much requested Evade ability. In Harbingers of Ruin you will learn more about the history of Orenthia, The Forgotten Knight, as her past catches up with her. Align yourself with the Forgotten Knights as a new Faction, as you progress through the new Harbinger system, and eventually challenge the Leader of the Harbingers His eyes are upon you Traveler, his Harbingers are coming. Please Note: To prepare the servers for Harbingers of Ruin on July 9th, we will be shutting down our servers 24 hours before the patch, starting: Monday, July 9th, 2024, at 11:00am CT Last Epoch: Harbingers of Ruin will introduce:

• New Pinnacle Boss
• Harbinger Bosses
• New Evade Ability
• Nemesis System
• New Forgotten Knights Faction
• Hundreds of Balance Changes
• Blessing Stash and Swapping
• 30 new Unique Items
• and more!

The time is nearly upon us, Traveler. Each day, the darkness draws nearer and the ruin they bring with them grows stronger. The Headmaster of the Last Archive needs you if our history is ever to survive. On July 12th, at 11:00 am CST, return to the Steam News Feed to begin your quest. Join and compete against your fellow travelers as you embark on a hunt that will take you far and away from the confines of safety. The Researchers have discovered 8 clues relating to the history of Eterra and its people. It will be up to you to decipher these clues and secure the knowledge they protect. The first 50 participants to complete the event will be rewarded accordingly with all new In-Game Titles and Forum Badges.

HOW TO ENTER

HOW TO PLAY

RULES

• All submissions must have your Account Name clearly in the subject line
• All submissions must use the Lore Hunt support form Tickets that do not use this form will not be counted. Multiples of the same submission will be disqualified
• All 8 answer screenshots must be submitted in the same ticket. Screenshots must remain uncropped and display the entire UI. Cropped screenshots will be disqualified
• Do Not submit follow up tickets to determine answers or placement.

Hello Travelers, Welcome to the second Pre-Patch Blog Post! Today were going to be highlighting some of the Quality of Life changes, as well as a few other changes, coming with the Last Epoch 1.1 : Harbingers of Ruin update on July 9th. While well be covering some hot topics today, fear not, the full Patch Notes will cover everything being added, changed, or fixed in 1.1! (*Looks at word count of the Patch Note post*) Make sure to set some time aside to read those.

Mechanical Changes

Changes to Blessings

Ladder Improvements

Monolith Timeline Search

Loot Filter Improvements

Item Faction Changes

Merchants Guild

Merchants Guild Ranks

• Rank 1: You can sell all items, and you can buy Normal, Magic and Rare items in the Bazaar or directly from other players. (Unchanged)
• Rank 2: You can buy Set items in the Bazaar or directly from other players. (Unchanged)
• Rank 3: You can buy Unique items with no Legendary Potential in the Bazaar or directly from other players. (Unchanged)
• Rank 4: You can buy Idols in the Bazaar or directly from other players. (Unchanged)
• Rank 5: You can buy Exalted Weapons and Offhands in the Bazaar or directly from other players. (Unchanged)
• Rank 6: You can buy Exalted Armor in the Bazaar or directly from other players - Boots, Gloves, Helm, Body Armor (Split from previous Rank 7)
• Rank 7: You can buy Unique Weapons and Offhands with Legendary Potential in the Bazaar or directly from other players. (Previously Rank 6)
• Rank 8: You can buy all Exalted items in the Bazaar or directly from other players. (Previously Rank 7)
• Rank 9: You can buy all Unique items, including those with Legendary Potential, in the Bazaar or directly from other Players. (Previously Rank 8)
• Rank 10: You can buy Legendary Weapons and Offhands in the Bazaar or directly from other players. (Previously Rank 9)
• Rank 11: You can buy Legendary Armor in the Bazaar or directly from other players. - Boots, Gloves, Helm, Body Armor (Split from previous Rank 10)
• Rank 12: You can buy all Legendary items in the Bazaar or directly from other players. (Previously Rank 10)

Circle of Fortune

Circle of Fortune Ranks

• Rank 1: Enemies have 35% chance of dropping twice as many items (Unchanged)
• Rank 2: 45% chance for Runes of Ascendance to be preserved when used on an item that requires at least Circle of Fortune Rank 1 (Unchanged)
• Rank 3: Whenever an Idol Drops, there is a 25% chance for two more to drop at the same time (Unchanged)
• Rank 4: When a Set item would drop, the whole set drops instead (Previously Rank 9)
• Rank 5: 35% chance for double item rewards from Monolith Echoes (Unchanged)
• Rank 6: Affixes are 50% more likely to be Exalted (Previously Rank 4)
• Rank 7: Exiled Mages drop twice as many experimental items (New)
• Rank 8: Uniques are twice as likely to have Legendary Potential (Previously Rank 6)
• Rank 9: T7 Affixes are twice as common (Previously Rank 7)
• Rank 10: Bosses have 150% increased drop rate for any specific rewards they have (New)
  • Specific Rewards refers to any items dropped by that Boss, for example Ravenous Void dropped by The Husk of Elder Gaspar
  • Bosses applies to all unique enemies that display a boss health bar.
• Rank 11: Items that would drop as Rare have 25% chance of becoming Exalted (Previously Rank 8)
• Rank 12: Prophecies grant twice as many items (Previously Rank 10 - Changed, formerly "Items from Prophecies are duplicated")
  • No longer duplicates the actual granted reward, but instead considers as if you had the prophecy itself twice, meaning it can roll different Uniques, for example.

Gaze of Orobyss Changes

Class Changes

Channeling Skills

Skill Changes

Disintegrate

Shield Bash

Avalanche

Passives

Sorcerer

Forge Guard

Shaman

Ward Balance

Outro

[previewyoutube=o3PXawGtwK4;full][/previewyoutube] Hello Travelers! Last Epochs first post-launch cycle arrives in just a couple of weeks on July 9th, and we cant wait to talk about it any longer! Today, were going to be covering the big new features you can expect with Harbingers of Ruin on July 9th! For those that were with us in beta, we had previously done a hype week with smaller blog posts leading up to the patch. This time around were going to be combining everything into two big posts, todays Whats New? and a second post that will come soon covering Quality of Life, and other changes. Then as we close in on patch day, well be releasing the full patch notes for everyone to have a look through and get ready for the Harbingers! Today, lets start by jumping into the new features with Harbingers of Ruin, starting with the new Evade Mechanic!

Evade

Nemesis

Banish

Challenge

Empower

Egg of the Forgotten

Harbingers and Forgotten Knight

Harbingers

The Forgotten Knight

Forgotten Knights Faction

Pinnacle Boss

Boss Defenses

Glyph of Envy

Harbinger's Needle

New Uniques

Closing

Greetings Travelers! Last Epoch 1.1 - Harbingers of Ruin is just over the horizon, and with its Launch on July 9th, we once again will be bringing two new Twitch Drops. First off: Head on over to www.lastepoch.com/twitch and make sure your accounts are correctly linked. Starting July 9th, you can head on over to the Last Epoch category on Twitch and look for users who have drops enabled. Then, watch for at least 2 hours each day on any drops-enabled stream to be rewarded that days drop! There are two cosmetic items available and they will be available three times each - in case you miss it the first or second time. You will not be able to get the same drop multiple times. Schedule: July 9th - 14th

• Tuesday July 9th - Gloomfeather Cosmetic Pet
• Wednesday July 10th - Midsummers Dream Cosmetic Back Slot Item
• Thursday July 11th - Gloomfeather Cosmetic Pet
• Friday July 12th - Midsummers Dream Cosmetic Back Slot Item
• Saturday July 13th - Gloomfeather Cosmetic Pet
• Sunday July 14th - Midsummers Dream Cosmetic Back Slot Item

Hello Traveler, Today is a very special day in Eterra and we invite you to celebrate. The Summer Solstice is upon us and with it the warmth and light of the summer sun is here to guide us through to the end of the year. On this day we come together to recognize all we have achieved thus far when the celestial light illuminates the world in vibrant detail. In ancient times, more than 12,000 years ago, people celebrated the turning of the world and the life and death of the seasons. The Summer Solstice was one of the greatest celebrations, marking the day when the sun hung highest in the sky and the day was longest. This tradition has survived the test of time and is still celebrated around the world today. In many cultures, people gather for festivals in reverence of the sun and the bounty it offered. These celebrations last for three days at minimum, encouraging community and an abundance of food and drink. Bon-fire jumping was, and still is, a popular tradition and it was believed the highest jump would predict the height of the crops for the year. While we dont have many fires to jump in Eterra, we still think the Primalist would win. Once the food had been eaten and the drink imbibed, they would settle down around that bonfire to share stories and record their history as the the day drew to an end. But just as they welcomed the longest day, we must acknowledge the approach of the longest night. On the horizon, a darkness brews, a harbinger of despair that we can do little to stop. We must prepare. Eterra needs your help.

The Light Before The Dark

Fixes cases where, after a shade echo, the player would have access to the incorrect timeline from the rest zone

Greetings Travelers, Last month, we released our 1.1 through 1.4 Roadmap and our plans for the upcoming 1.1 Pinnacle Boss. As always, collaboration with our community is a big factor in creating Last Epoch, and we use polls like this to help us make informed decisions. With that came the Poll discussing different ideas around the release of the new Pinnacle Boss and its timing. Well, thousands of you gave us feedback, and we are excited to share that information with you today. Our decision regarding releasing the Pinnacle Boss is as follows:

• We will proceed with our suggested plan, which involves a short delay in releasing the Pinnacle Boss to Offline and Legacy environments.
• After a week has passed since the launch of 1.1, the Pinnacle Boss will be released to all environments, even if it has not been cleared within those environments. More precisely this will happen on Tuesday the 16th.
• If the Pinnacle Boss is defeated within the first week, itll be released to all environments within the next working day. If Pinnacle Boss is defeated on Friday the 12th, itll be released to everyone on Monday the 15th, for example.
• Clearing the boss in any 1.1 Cycle game mode will count. It is also not required to be defeated solo.

Upcoming Bazaar Sales Cleanup

Changes

• Moved the spawn point in the Keeper's Camp by the waypoint
• Gathering Storm's Friends of the Tempest now requires that the minion's tag matches Gathering Storm instead of requiring that the minion's ability's tag matches Gathering Storm. This means that, for example, if Summon Wolf has the minion lightning tag, all attacks from your wolves can trigger Friends of the Tempest. This also fixes bugs where some converted minions, such as cold Storm Crows or cold Warcry Totem, could not trigger Friends of the Tempest when Gathering Storm is converted to cold.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where specific circumstances could cause a character to instantly revive after death. This could result in a hardcore character becoming a standard character without the feedback of having hit zero health (death screen).
• Fixed a crash when a stash tab's name has a specific mix of emoji's & line breaks.
• This was caused by a Stack Overflow in the text/ui layouting.
• Fixed a bug with Ring of Shields, where having unlocked "Rush Wall" node in "Ring of Shields" skill and then using "Shield Rush" would very often result in shields having incorrect rotation.
• Fixed a bug with Ring of Shields, where after using "Shield Bash" skill with "Wall of Shields" node unlocked, the shield wall disappears immediately after being spawned
• Fixed a bug with Ring of Shields, where after using "Shield Bash" skill with "Wall of Shields" node unlocked, the shields would remain attached to the player
• Fixed a bug where Warpath could cause Ring of Shields to change distance from the player.
• Fixed a bug where removing channels in chat settings would not remove them from channel selection in the input section.
• Fixed a bug where if a player had all chat channels disabled, then tried to send a player a direct message, the message would be sent to global if they did not already have an existing conversation with that player
• Fixed Smite not triggering Healing Hands while you are out of mana if both are free and you do not have the Desperate Measures node in the Smite tree.
• Fixed floating health bar location for Gaspar Husk, Volatile Zombies, Emperor of Corpses' Volatile Zombies, and Death Knights
• Fixed a bug where Enemy Crows, and Black Sun Rahyeh were on the wrong layer resulting in some decals laying on top of them.
• Fixed a bug where prophecies would not save correctly for some players causing them to re-roll
• Fixed a bug where the waves would start themselves in The Fall of Ledria quest echo
• Fixed "armor shred" and other affixes not appearing in the affix search for certain base types
• Fixed a bug where pressing Alt after picking up an item would open its tooltip
• Fixed a bug where some Sentinel helmets would not display on the character
• Fixed a bug where you could load into Echo of a World with no floor

Update - 14:25PM CST

[previewyoutube=Rer2_13tbao;full][/previewyoutube] The Harbingers of Ruin update comes to Last Epoch on July 9th. Join us as the fight for Eterra continues with the launch of Cycle 1.1 - Harbingers of Ruin.

Hello, Travelers, We are thrilled to give you an early look at what's coming for Last Epoch over the next few cycles!
As always, the team here at Eleventh Hour Games is dedicated to making the ARPG of our dreams, and we all know thats a process that takes time, determination, and commitment. As of this writing, we have brought on excellent new people, continue looking for more, and are developing new and exciting content faster than ever. Our roadmap continues to showcase that we have long-term plans for Last Epoch and its content, and we are excited to showcase it here today. Heres the thing about roadmaps, though: we are striving to be one of the best and most community-centered game studios in the industry, and oftentimes the best-laid plans of Groles and Gods need to change. While this could be for a variety of reasons; the primary one is you, the community. As each new cycle is released, we plan to collaborate with the community to let you know whats being worked on, listen to your feedback and suggestions for those plans, and continuously monitor how we can improve. Each of the items listed on the roadmap are just a few examples of key features we plan to introduce for that cycle and do not represent the only things being worked on. Rest assured; the team is working harder and developing faster than before while also expanding with many new team members to bring you the game you deserve and produce a whole host of other features we have planned beyond those listed on the roadmap! As we move toward each new patch, we also plan to update our roadmap to keep you informed of our plans and any changes that may have been made based on feedback we hear from the community! We plan to update the roadmap just after Update 1.2 and again after Update 1.4.

Pinnacle Content - Realm Release Timing Poll

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the second item suffix would sometimes not display.
• Fixed an issue where item tooltip comparison always required Ctrl+Alt to see affix ranges, regardless if you had auto-compare enabled. It once again only requires Alt with auto-compare enabled.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where ability buffering was not working online
• Fixed a bug where Bone Curse with Illusion of Pain would not fall off after 1 hit if the hit came from Chaos Bolts with Cursed Blood
• Fixed some instances of infinite loading screens when playing in a party

Changes

Bug Fixes

UI

• Several item tooltip fixes, including:
  • Fixed a bug where opening / closing an item tooltip would have a drastic performance cost
  • Fixed a bug where tooltip text could continue off the edge of the tooltip instead of wrapping
  • Fixed a bug where some languages with a larger text height could be missing information on tooltips
  • Fixed a bug where prefixes and suffixes had different line spacing on item tooltips
• Fixed a bug where some enemies were not displaying their top of screen health bars

Skills

• Fixed a bug where some skills, primarily traversal skills, would not work after a zone transition until using a different skill first.
• Fixed a bug where some scorpion enemies were unable to be targeted by Spirit Plague
• Fixed a bug where channeled movement skills could break if continued to be channeled after running into a wall
• Fixed a bug where every other use of Void Cleave with the Gravity's Edge node (traversal) would have its hitbox at the start of the movement
• Fixed a bug where skills could stop working after closing a panel until the panel was closed a second time
• Fixed a bug where the player's character was visible under the surface on certain locations during using of Synchronized Strike and Lethal Mirage
• Fixed a bug where Puncture's Stay of Execution, and Detonating Arrow's Aimed Shot nodes would play the VFX before the character animation when charged to max

Multiplayer

• Fixed an instance of a bug which could break all party interactions until re-logging
• Fixed a bug where players were unable to portal to other party members when both players were inside of an echo

Other

• Fixed a bug where Shade of Orobyss' "Starburst" ability would explode upon his death
• Fixed a bug where the falling rocks during the boss fight in Lightless Arbor could sometimes fail to display a telegraphing indicator before falling
• Fixed the invisible walls during the Elder Gaspar fight in The Chambers of Ruin, which could block projectiles
• Fixed a bug where Death's Embrace's Grim Harvest could trigger while at negative mana
• Fixed a bug where Enemy VFX could stop playing / freeze
• Fixed a bug where enemies would fail to play their death animation
• Fixed a bug where the B_Circle button would focus the action bar panel (skill bar) if it was previously selected

Changes

Systems

• Added Camera Smoothing options to settings: Normal (default/current), Low, and Off
• Added functionality to Character Delete screen
  • The screen will now display the character class/mastery/level
  • When deleting a character, you are now required to enter the character name to confirm the deletion

Controller

• The "B" button on controller can now be used to close keybind prompts
• After binding a controller button, the cursor now re-focuses on the corresponding binding

Other

• Reduced gold turn-in reward for Desert Treasure from 20k to 2k
• Added Buff Icon for Bone Armor (Acolyte)
• Improved performance when picking up Shards

Bug Fixes

Animations

• Fixed an issue where the Mage would T-pose during some animations
• Fixed several cases of back-slot clipping and floating capes
• Fixed a bug where the Sentinel idle animation with a 2H weapon would behave as if a shield was equipped

Controller

• Fixed a bug where if a panel was opened with keyboard and mouse, further button presses via controller would activate the assigned skills through the panel
• Fixed a bug where when opening the bindings menu, or interacting with it, with a mouse, would result in the bindings disappearing
• Fixed a number of bugs with rebinding controller configuration
• Fixed a bug where players would continue to run in the direction of their last input if the game became unfocused while moving

UI

• Fixed a bug where player health bars were not appearing in offline
• Fixed a bug where Forged Weapons' health bars could be displayed at top-of-screen instead of the boss' health bar
• Fixed missing Localization in the Gifting panel for resonances
• Fixed a bug where Item Tooltips would get stuck when adding a new tab to the stash
• Chat channels are now specific to cycle/non-cycle
• Fixed a bug where Husk enemies would not have health bars

System

• Fixed a bug in offline where players would not have full health, mana, and potions after logging in or reviving
• Fixed a bug where invalid offhand items could be equipped from the forge (eg. catalyst with a bow)
• Fixed an issue where monolith quest progress would reset if you left the zone/server after starting, but before completing the quest chain.

Skills

• Fixed a bug where Bone Curse "Signet of Agony" node's resulting aura would persist after de-speccing out of the skill
• Fixed a bug where Erasing Strike's "Ravenous Void" node's void beams wouldn't move in online play
• Fixed a bug where Volcanic Orb could be cast in incorrect directions, such as flying up when the cursor was over top of a ridge line
• Fixed a bug where if you teleported back to the monolith hub or rest area while a companion was downed, the revive UI would continue to persist even after being revived.
• Fixed a bug where Manifest Armor was not benefiting from Increased Area for Area Skills stats on items the player is wearing that are applied to Manifest Armor, such as on gloves
• Fixed a bug where the Gathering Fury unique bow's chance to repeat bow abilities was applying to non-bow abilities, and could kill the player if it repeated a Falcon ability
• Fixed a bug where Boardman's Plan's chance to summon a Storm Totem on hit with Tempest Strike was not working
• Fixed a bug where triggered instances of Tempest Strike were not benefiting from the Tempest Strike skill tree
• Fixed a bug where Bone Curse's Marrow Thief node would not grant 10% less damage taken
• Fixed a bug where Death Seal's Skeletal Sheath always granted Bone Armor for a fixed duration, ignoring the duration Death Seal was active
• Fixed a bug where Firebrand's Galvanize node would disable Brand of Arcanus
• Fixed a bug where Flame Rush could cause the player to become invisible

Hello Travelers, Today we wanted to connect with everyone regarding the recent gold exploit, as well as exploits in general within the online environment. We want to talk a bit about what were doing in regards to these issues, and what our plans for the future are. We take exploits within Last Epoch very seriously and ensure that any time an exploit comes up, we give it our full and immediate attention. We strictly enforce our Terms of Use when it comes to exploits and RMT (Real-Money Trading), and as such, one can expect that abusing such exploits or engaging in RMT, both buying and selling, will result in a permanent account ban. Since 1.0 has launched, we have been aware of two exploits. The first allowed duplication of items through the bazaar. We were made aware of this exploit three days after its first discovery, and deployed a fix for it the same day. The second exploit we became aware of was the recent gold exploit, which we created and deployed a fix for in less than 24 hours of being made aware of the exploit.

Current Actions

Moving Forward

Closing

Hello Travelers, In today's Hotfix, we are fixing a list of things for you!

Changes

• Improvements have been made to Monolith visuals and performance along with several bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where some channeled movement skills such as Rampage could end abruptly in the Alpine Halls monolith echo
  • Fixed issues with trees obscuring your view in the Hidden Oasis monolith echo
• Added a fix that will warn players when files must be verified.
• Fixed Loot filter toggle "X" sensitivity
• Fixed bugs where the following skills' damage areas were not scaling with area modifiers from their trees or from items
  • Abyssal Echoes
  • Dancing Strikes (not all parts of the combo were affected by this bug)
  • Erasing Strike (just the initial hit, not the void rifts)
  • Forge Strike
  • Healing Hands
  • Necrotic Mortar (from Summoned Skeletal Mages)
  • Reap (from Reaper Form)
• Fixed Passive and Skill Tree localization issues
• Updated visuals for Announcement banners
• Updated Unique Reward icon in Monoliths from Ring to a generic icon
• Added missing name to Graveyard

Bug Fixes

Skills & Passives

• Fixed a bug where the player's Falcon could fail to be unsummoned after the player has died
• Fixed a bug where Warpath would cause players to become stuck in place and unable to move
• Fixed a bug where Drain Life with Blood Pact and Ghostflame with Arteries of Malice would stop channeling when at very low current health
• Fixed a bug where Healing Hands was still scaling with cast speed instead of melee attack speed when Seraph Blade was allocated
• Fixed a bug where Gathering Storm was still scaling with melee attack speed instead of cast speed when wielding a staff and Lagonian Diplomacy was allocated
• Fixed a bug where Thunder Tempests from Tempest Strike's Cloudburst Conduit could not hit enemies
• Fixed a bug where Added Spell Damage Affix with Tempest Strike did not work
• The grace period for your minions now ends when your own grace period ends
• Fixed a bug where attempts to cast minion-targeted abilities like Dread Shade on minions that were in grace period would always fail
• Fixed a bug where stationary minions would never leave grace period, resulting in them never attacking

UI

• Fixed a bug where items sold in Online mode were displaying original price in the "Buy Back" tab
• Fixed a bug preventing Defensive Conversions from displaying in the character sheet online

Other

• Fixed a bug where Soul Embers would persist after the dungeon was completed
• Fixed a bug causing Void Despair to be invisible
• Fixed an error when leaving Offline mode
• Fixed a bug where, players spawning into a new location would reveal part of the map too soon.

Hello Travelers, In todays Hotfix, we are reverting the change to the cost of Despair Glyph Prophecies. With this, we wanted to talk a bit about why this change made it into the last patch, similar changes, and a bit more about our specific reasoning behind them.

Glyph of Despair Prophecies

Arena Key Sell Prices

Mid-cycle Changes

Thank you

CHANGES

• Reverted Favor cost increase for Despair Glyph Prophecies

Hello Travelers! Todays blog is a little different from our usual fare. As most of you know, Last Epoch launched on February 21, and the reception has been amazing. In the first week after launch, over 1.4 million of you logged in to play Last Epoch. At our peak, we had just under 265,000 players all roaming Eterra simultaneously. Thats good enough for the 39th highest all-time concurrent player count recorded on Steam, and were humbled by your support and enthusiasm for the game. Theres plenty of cause for celebration, but lets not ignore the obvious: Last Epochs launch was pretty rough for the majority of you who play online. Your patience and positivity have been amazing, but it was obviously not the launch experience that you or we had hoped for. Now that the initial launch woes are behind us, its time to reflect on the experience. What happened? We put a strong emphasis on testing our servers and infrastructure ahead of time, so what did we get wrong? Last Epochs backend team is here to give you a bit of a recap of what went on during the launch.

How Our Game Works

Preparing For Launch

The Morning Of Launch

The Next 5 Days

The Final Fix

Lessons Learned

Thank You

Changes

• Players can no longer stun themselves. An example of this was by using the Signet of Agony node in Bone Curse
• Replaced the XP Tome sound effect in Echo of a World
• Flagged more prophecy rewards as "rare/valuable" (which animates them to rotate and makes them slightly larger than other stars in the Constellation)
• Increased the favor cost multiplier for Glyph of Despair Prophecies
• You can no longer gain experience while in the grace period (the period of invulnerability after arriving to a new area)
• Added missing name in Graveyard
• Overhauled terrain, spawners, and shrines in the Hidden Oasis Echo Map to both improve visuals, and performance, and fix hideable issues with palms
• Overhauled visuals and added Scene Variants for Lightless Pits Echo Map

Bug Fixes

Skills & Passives

• Fixed a bug where Upheaval's "Master of the Totem" didn't buff Tempest Strike Totem damage and armor
• Fixed a bug where Storm Crow's "Arborist" didn't buff Tempest Strike Totem with Flat Spell / Melee Lightning Damage
• Fixed a bug where Swipe's "Avatar of Stone" doesn't buff Tempest Strike Totem, Warcry Totem & Upheaval Totem with Flat Melee / Spell Damage
• Fixed a bug where Storm Totem's "Fulgrite Core" wasn't providing Flat Spell Lightning damage based on character Shock Chance
• Fixed a bug where Tempest Strike's "Heorot Arsenal" node was not providing stats to the Cold Projectile that Tempest Totem shoots when each Tempest has been removed in the skill tree.
• Fixed a bug where Tempest Strike Totem, Warcry Totem, and Upheaval Totem were not benefiting from Spell Lightning Damage for Existing Totems (such as the Omen of Thunder Unique Item)
• Fixed a bug where directly transitioning from channeling Warpath to channeling Rebuke while at negative mana would not start mana regeneration.
• Fixed a bug where Fury Leap would play the landing animation in mid-air on long-range casts of Fury Leap
• Fixed a bug where the Acolyte's Wraith's weapons would drift during animation transitions
• Fixed a bug where Mirage hits on Puncture would not grant stacks of Bleeding Fury
• Fixed an issue with Acid Flask's "Alchemist Gift" throwing animation where the trap would spin in place then teleport to its destination
• Fixed a bug where Acid Flask's "Alchemist Gift" node did not have a throwing sound
• Fixed a bug where Healing Hands would not get a Fire tag when taking the Searing Light, or Skyfall Nodes
• Fixed a bug where the Spell Tag would be removed from Healing Hands with Seraph Blade when you also took Skyfall
• Fixed a bug where Ballista's "Armed Construction" node was giving 1% increased radius per dexterity instead of its listed 1% increased area per dexterity

Visuals

• Fixed a bug with the sword in the Fallen Ronin set was deforming in a weird way on the Primalist
• Fixed Terrain and floating vegetation in several scenes

UI

• Fixed a bug where some Game Guide pages couldn't be linked in chat
• Several Localization updates

Enemies

• Fixed bug where Void Despair would spawn in place for a brief second before starting its emerging animation
• Fixed a bug where the Idol (big worm) could become stuck after knocking guards off their platform in Last Refuge Outskirts

Controller

• Fixed a bug where advancing dialog with a controller would skip pages if there were multiple.
• Fixed a bug where menu options could still be selected with a controller while they are invisible/inactive on the Death Screen. This was resulting in potentially closing the respawn menu preventing you from being able to respawn.

Other

• Fixed a bug where your stats could become out of sync with the server. This could result in issues such as the client believing you had less movement speed than you did.
• Fixed a bug where Prophecies could be re-rolled on login in multiplayer
• Fixed a bug where you could not return to character select while in-game on an offline character
• Fixed a bug where Vsync was not applying during Splash Screens (this appears before the login screen)
• Fixed a bug with pickup range reliability in Multiplayer
• Fixed some instances of Gates blocking paths in the Preserved Sanctuary Echo map
• Fixed a bug which caused the game to freeze after switching inputs on the Skills panel

Known Issues

• When exiting a transform such as Werebear Form, your stat sheet may display your mana regeneration incorrectly. This is only a display issue.
• Gamblers Fallacy and Soul Gamblers Fallacy state they do not work with channeling skills
  • This was wording only and functionality has remained unchanged.
  • This is a change we are intending for 1.1, and the description change got through early. To be transparent, this is a change we are intending, though we are planning to go over Disintegrate at the same time providing it with buffs to compensate and stand better on its own instead of relying on this singular item interaction.

Hello Travelers, In between attempting to save the citizens of Eterra, and eradicating them, almost 70,000 of you have joined in with your voices to discuss mid-cycle balance changes. The turnout for this survey has been fantastic; and further, is in addition to the many discussions here on the forums and other platforms on the topic. We want to first thank you all for your enthusiasm on this topic driving it forward. Today, we want to share the results of the survey, as well as the decisions which have come as a result of the feedback.
For the purpose of reading the below results, the following information can help:

• Scale:
  • 1 - Strongly Disagree
  • 2 - Disagree
  • 3 - I have no opinion on this topic
  • 4 - Agree
  • 5 - Strongly Agree
• When we first started the survey, the scale was in reverse. We received immediate feedback about this, and swapped it before too many results came in. While the results below do not reflect this change, we made this change very early into survey so it had minimal impact on the results

OVERPERFORMING BUGS

MILDLY OVERPERFORMING BUGS

OVERPERFORMING BALANCE

MILDLY OVERPERFORMING BALANCE

MID-CYCLE LEADERBOARD RESET

PARTIAL LEADERBOARD RESET

NOTIFICATIONS VIA PUBLIC POSTS

CONCLUSION

• We will release fixes mid-cycle for bugs which result in an item, skill, or build highly overperforming
• We will add leaderboard functionality displaying which specific patch, or timespan an entry happened during.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where you could enter a Quest Echo regardless of Stability or Quest completion state
• Fixed a bug where a Lost Cache could be opened more than once in multiplayer
• Fixed an issue where if multiple characters shared the same name, only the first character with that name was showing on the character selection page.
• Fixed a bug where killing some Timeline Quest Bosses too quickly would result in the Quest state not progressing resulting in the Timeline Quest not successfully being completed
• Fixed a bug where the benefit from Infernal Shades Purgatory could persist through multiple casts of Infernal Shade
• Fixed an issue where the Delete prompt on the character select screen would not block clicks, allowing players to change the selected character being deleted.
• Moved the online/offline switch to be behind the Delete prompt fade on the Character Selection screen to prevent changing characters while having a delete prompt up.
• Fixed a bug where logging into specific characters would result in LE-52 Lost Connection to Game Server while other characters would connect without issue

Update - 07:47 PM CT

• Fixed a resulting bug which prevented players from skipping the first two Timeline Quests in Empowered Timelines

Hello Travelers! In todays patch we have previously mentioned skill changes, stash tab cost reductions, audio updates and more! We plan to release more information regarding the mid-cycle balance changes tomorrow. So if youre interested in seeing the results of the survey, and our plans going forward as a result of the feedback, please keep your eyes out for that post on our forums!

Changes

Campaign

• Moved Transition to Temporal Sanctum from The Ruined Coast so its not as easy to accidentally transition after combat.

Skills

• Changed Cloud Gatherer to only apply to any individual Smoke Bomb one time.
• Wandering Spirits now has 30% more spirit reveal frequency
• Wandering Spirits now has a base of damage of 20 (from 16.2) and damage effectiveness of 200% (from 180% actual, 140% listed)
  • These are compensatory buffs that were intended to be included alongside the change in 1.0 that made Wandering Spirits always fade out when the reveal duration ends, but the buff did not make it into release. Since the initial change was a nerf and did make it into 1.0, and this compensatory buff was always planned to be paired with the change, we're adding the buff in this patch instead of waiting for the next cycle.

UI / Visual

• Added Localization type to in-game bug reporting tool
• Improved player to player trade user experience so that you can no longer request a trade which requires a higher rank than the potential buyer possesses.

Audio

• Reduced the frequency of the Falcons CAWWWWs (attack vocal sounds)
• Updated audio for Healing Hands
• All chapter 6 scenes have new 2D ambient loop sfx
• The Barren Aqueduct has new music
• Soul Cage props in chap 6 have looping sounds again
• The Barren Aqueduct and Nests of the Fallen now have sounds for the running water on the ground in the aqueduct
• The large running water props in chapter 8 now have sfx
• Added looping sfx to the large rusty pipelines that cross the map

Other

• Reduced cost of Stash Tabs
  • Stash tabs beyond the first 6 previously cost 10000 more than the previous tab. Now stash tabs 7 to 16 cost 2500 more than the previous tab, and stash tabs beyond the first 16 cost 5000 more than the previous tab. This results in the cost of large numbers of stash tabs being reduced by around 50%.

Bug Fixes

Campaign

• Added a failsafe to Imperial Welryn for killing the commander early or off-screen.
• Fixed an issue where you could complete all Chapter 1 quests, but do not have the first Chapter 2 quest Last Refuge

Skills & Passives

• Fixed a bug where Profane Veils Vampiric Pool gave 40% of the consumed minions maximum health as ward, instead of the listed 4%
• Fixed a bug where Runemasters passive node Sanguine Runestoness threshold bonus (15% of health regen applies to ward) was scaling with points allocated
• Flame Whip now receives 4% increased damage per point of intelligence (this affects Flame Whip casts from all sources, and previously never received attribute scaling from any source)
• Fixed a bug where the effect of Chthonic Fissure's Eradication was not doubled when the player was cursed

Gameplay

• Fixed several issues with Heorot fight including Ice Spike stopping projectiles, and being frozen not stopping actions in multiplayer.
• Fixed bug where minions were not benefiting from items when being respawned after leaving towns in multiplayer.

Items

• Fixed a bug where casting Summon Skeletal Mage with Grave Passage allocated caused the "minions transported with traversal skills" experimental affix to not bring any minions with you
• Fixed a bug where a Two-handed weapon and off-hand could be equipped at the same time
• Fixed a bug where Circle of Fortune Prophecy Lenses could be socketed into locked sockets with Shift + RMB
• Fixed bug where Wraithlord would try to consume other players minions
• Fixed bug where Spine of Malatros Flame Whips were not receiving some scaling
• Fixed a bug where Stygian Coal's more Stygian Beam Damage per 10 current mana affix did not work
• Fixed a bug where Stygian Coal's Stygian Beams were not affected by Drain Life's Horrify, Condemnation, Unholy Mass, Stupefy, Soul Blast, and Ravenous nodes
• Fixed a bug where Chronicle of the Damned's chance to reveal a Wandering Spirit on kill would cause the player's existing cast of Wandering Spirits to stop releasing spirits
• Fixed a bug where the Wandering Spirit from Chronicle of the Damned's chance to reveal a Wandering Spirit on kill always instantly faded away
• Fixed a bug where items influenced by the Rank 8 passive from Circle of Fortune would not have the Circle of Fortune tag
  • They still have the "cannot be traded" tag
• Fixed a bug where Flame Whips did not benefit from Chthonic Fissure's Eradication when using Spine of Malatros
• Fixed a bug where Chthonic Fissure's Grasp of the Undying did not apply to Flame Whip when using Spine of Malatros
• Fixed a bug where only the "while cursed" benefit of Chthonic Fissure's Death From Below applied to Flame Whip when using Spine of Malatros
• Fixed a bug where Chthonic Fissure's Chronicles of Ruin did not apply to Flame Whip when using Spine of Malatros

UI / Visual

• Fixed a bug where right clicking a dungeon key upon first entering game would not open the map
• Fixed a bug where campaign prophecies could still appear while blocked
• Fixed a bug where enemies could appear invisible while playing in a party
• Fixed a bug where the gate in Soul Wardens Road wouldnt animate going down.
• Fixed a bug where The Mountain Beneath would walk through terrain in The Sheltered Wood
• Fixed bug where item tooltips could disappear when loot dropped
• Fixed some instances of players facing backwards after a scene transition
  • Please continue to report any instances of this issue via the in-game bug reporter

Audio

• Fixed a bug where mousing over a vendor inventory then back to your inventory it would play the item bought sound effect

Upcoming Changes

• We will be releasing a bugfix for Infernal Shade in a hotfix later this week

Greetings Travelers, As we continue our mission of collaboration with the community, we wanted to reach out and get as much feedback as we can on the topic of Mid-Cycle balance. In years past we have reached out to the community via a survey, and we found the feedback very valuable. Today, we are hoping to do the same once again. Previously, our decision on the topic of Mid-Cycle balance has been to avoid adjustments to skills and items that are overperforming but are not bugs and to avoid fixing bugs that result in those skills becoming significantly weaker. The exceptions here are bugs that cause server stability issues. To be clear, this small survey only focuses on bug fixes or balance changes that apply to overperforming skills or items. We will continue to fix bugs that result in skills and/or items receiving a buff. Things like server stability, Item Factions, or similar issues are not a part of this survey. We know that the conversation can be more nuanced than your typical agree, disagree, no opinion poll, but we also want to get the sentiment of the community at large. Please take a few minutes (its only seven questions) and let us know your thoughts. Link to Survey: https://forms.gle/4fZaNNP65oH7HFdA8 Thank You, Last Epoch Team

Greetings Travelers, Todays patch is centered around 2 specific hotfixes. BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug that was causing players that die during a Dungeon run to transition and immediately disconnect from the game.
• Fixed a bug where clicking on the transition object after Fire Lich Cremorus in Soulfire Bastion Dungeon was not correctly triggering the teleport to the Soul Gambler area.

Hello Travelers, For todays patch we have a bunch of fixes for controller, UI, skills, and more. Were also spending a moment to comment on Dive Bomb and Ghostflame. Read below for the full notes.

BUG FIXES

QUEST

• Fixed an issue where players would get the Immortal Empire quest before gaining access to that quest state of Elder Gaspar
• Fixed an issue that caused the elevator to the Council Chambers to never appear after defeating waves of monsters at the end of the Void Assault quest

CONTROLLER

• Fixed issues with interacting (such as opening a chest, or talking to an NPC) while using a controller
• Fixed an issue with mapping the Y/Triangle controller button
• Fixed issue with controller bindings disappearing when using a mouse
• Controller binding dialog can be closed by pressing the B / Circle button
• Navigation cursor refocuses the corresponding action binding button after an action is bound

UI

• Fixed an issue where once a party member enters the arena and you do NOT enter the arena, you cannot open any UI
• Fixed an issue so that Steam Required and License Required are separate errors
• Fixed issue where some enemies had no/only partial red outlines when hovered
• Fixed an issue where item tooltips displayed when the mouse was not hovering them
• Fixed issue causing no characters found to be overlaid on your character list at character selection
• Fixed inconsistent portraits for Maceth and Leyda

SKILLS

• Fixed a bug where Elemental Novas damaging area was not affected by increases to its area of effect
• Fixed issue where when returning to human form after transforming turns, the player model invisible
• Fixed most instances of a bug where channeled movement skills, particularly Flame Rush and Shield Rush, could lock the player into the movement and not visually move the player until the ability ended

OTHER

• Slightly Improved party transition times
• Fixed a visual gap in Festering Sewers
• Fixed weird visual triangles at top of screen in The Ancient Cavern
• Fixed issue with players dying prematurely by setting their actor to invincible as soon as we spawn them, then allowing grace period to overtake later
• Fixed issue with linking the game guide in chat
• Revert change from previous patch that was causing players to see other players running in place (reverted change was a fix aiming to fix players not animating when joining a scene).

CHANGES

• Require players to manually click to transition scenes during the campaign
• Various Bazaar UI/UX improvements
• Greatly reduced the sell price of Arena Keys and Arena Keys of Memory
  • Arena keys now sell for 175 (from 6500)
  • Arena keys now sell for 175 gold (from 6500)
  • Arena keys of memory now sell for 265 gold (from 7250)
  • This was done to remove the burden of optimal on MG players feeling like they needed to level up CoF and use arena key prophecies to farm gold effectively
• Added Prevention for CoF bonuses from doubling XP tome rewards in Monoliths
  • This is also technically a bug fix as the XP Tome Reward isn't a direct item reward. Item Factions are not intended to have an effect on experience gains, only how items are obtained.

GHOSTFLAME AND DIVE BOMB

CHANGES

Ghostflame

• Fixed a bug where Ghostflames Spirit Kindling could apply to the player if it had previously hit a Wraith during its lifetime and was not currently hitting a Wraith

Dive Bomb (hotfix soon)

• Changed Cloud Gatherer to only apply to any individual Smoke Bomb one time.

Last week, we announced a set of cosmetics that would be given to all players who played Last Epoch before March 1st, 2024. With servers more stable, we have now set our sights on granting those cosmetics. Were going to cloak you in the Autumnal Wrap - a thank you gift we announced during the launch weekend. Youll also be swarmed by all three bee pets from the Refer-A-Friend program. These cosmetics will appear automatically in your inventory over the next few days after this weeks patch. No extra steps will need to be taken on your end. The Last Epoch communitys patience, support, and positivity during the first week meant the world to our teams. We were humbled by the sheer volume of new and returning Travelers who wanted to explore Eterra.

This hotfix resolves a couple of memory leaks occurring in Monolith and Arena scenes.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a large memory leak that occurred in long sessions within Monolith and Arena
• Fixed a small memory leak that occurred in online play related to specific abilities

Bug Fixes

Skills

• Acolyte: Ghostflame: Fixed a bug where the ailment duration increase from Occult Embers did not apply to bleed duration when the skill is converted to physical by Arteries of Malice
• Sentinel: Smelters Wrath: Fixed an issue where its animation would break if it was the first ability used in a scene
• Primalist: Spriggan Form's Healing Totems can now have cold visuals if your Spriggan Form or Thorn Totems are cold converted
• Acolyte: Chthonic Fissure: Fixed an issue where Cthonic Fissure was causing a client performance dip.
• Fixed an issue where occasionally using a transformation skill (Werebear, Lich form, etc.) the player character would become entirely unresponsive
• Fixed a bug where the Falcon's thrown acid flasks could cause it to consume its own Falcon Mark
• Fixed a bug where Transplant was using the incorrect VFX showing some necrotic VFX at the original position
• Fixed a bug where Dive Bomb passive "Rush of the Hunt" was not scaling with points allocated

Controller

• Fixed an issue where NPCs that could not be interacted with would sometimes have an interaction prompt spawn when approached while using a gamepad.
• Fixed an issue where, when using a gamepad, it was not possible to specialize points in the Bone Curse skill tree without relying on the Virtual Cursor
• Fixed controller navigation on the Social Panel
• Fixed controller navigation on Choose Mastery panel
• Fixed controller navigation for "Quest Completed" popup
• Fixed a bug where some controller inputs on the map locked after navigating the quest list
• Fixed a bug where the Item Gifting D-Pad navigation could break if the player closed out of the Item Gifting window with an item still in it.
• Fixed a bug where Configure Stash Tabs did not work with the D-Pad Cursor
• Fixed a bug where the virtual keyboard could enter a state where it cannot be properly closed, locking the Player out of Gamepad inputs.
• Fixed a bug where Upheaval's VFX was playing when you were just summoning the totem

Misc

• Fixed an issue that would sometimes result in a disconnect on transition while in a party.
• Fixed an issue in the Forgotten Graves where the Infernal Husk patrols would fail to spawn a map marker.
• Adjusted the Music in scenes The Ancient Cavern, The Verdant Lakes, and The Ancient Forest
• Fixed bug where skipping Risen Lakes and having "Admiral's Dreadnaught" quest active or complete, then returning to Risen Lakes would make the quest "Immortal Empire" incompletable.
• Fixed bug where some enemies that join combat late were not animating.
• Fixed a bug where a Last Refuge Guard's death animation was looping
• Fixed Move Or Break Destructible left click option not working
• Fixed some clipping issues on Rogue and Acolyte, and fixed short Sentinel
• Fixed a bug where the Wraithlord would not despawn upon unequipping Wraithlord's Harbour

UI

• Fixed issue where game version was not showing new revisions
• Fixed a bug where an item label could fail to show if you were looking at another item when it dropped.
• Fixed a bug where legacy characters could show up as an incorrect hardcore character
• Fixed a bug where dodges did not display floating combat text
• Localization changes and corrections
• Fixed an issue where opening the Ladder menu did not properly close the inventory ui
• Fixed an issue where occasionally the overlay map zoom would default to extreme zoom in making it seem like the overlay map didnt work at all.
• Fixed a bug where occasionally, the gamble/purchase prompt in tooltip item appeared at a very large size
• Fixed a bug where non-equipable items (such as keys) would disappear if you tried to quick-move them to the forge
• Fixed bug where UI Elements for some passives were continuing to display after points in that passive were removed
• Corrected a layer issue with the Rogue T10 Helmet
• Fixed several Rogue and Acolyte animations
• Fixed an issue that would occasionally lead to a state where you can not see or pick up items on the ground.
• Fixed an issue where occasionally player characters would not load their gear visuals or display name (instead displaying the default name of a bear emoji)
• Fixed an issue in Thetima where quest icons above NPCs would not always update properly

Quests & Scenes

• Fixed an issue where a boulder was in the way in Lost Catacombs Monolith Echo Scene
• Added multiple failsafes for unlocking Heoborea waypoint after completing The Scorched Grove.
• Fixed object collision on railway-stop in The Osprix Warcamp
• Fixed unreachable chest in The Burning Pier
• Fixed NPC in The Burning Pier not animating
• Fixed ground texture in Forest Trails Monolith scene
• Fixed shrine placement in The Wengari Fortress
• Fixed a section of floor being visually missing in MakElka Lower District
• Fixed Alrics Cage not visually open in The Dreadnoughts Deck
• Fixed bug where If you die on the step for killing Yulia and then return to the zone later, the positions for the Soul Cages are not shown.

Changes

• Added a way to remember the last chat language selected so it doesn't always default to English, and uses the system lang the first time instead
• Added gold spawning animation
• Made performance improvements and added Scene Variants for five additional Monolith Echo Scenes, and improved performance for Welryn Outskirts
• Changed "Jump the Deck" completion to only complete when entering the next scene. This allows the quest tracker to continue pointing to the next scene if the player does not travel there for whatever reason.
• Now unlocks waypoint to End of Time after Pannion creates the Rift to chapter 2 to allow players to proceed without using the timerift
• Added check for completing Artem's Offer for players that had the quest before the previous patch.
• Added waypoint unlock for Lake Liath when you complete the Deep Harbor questline for players that leave after completing Deep Harbor, but don't proceed to Lake Liath.
• Added support for merging faction progress when leaving either Solo Character Found (SCF) or Solo Account Found (SAF) Challenges
  • When you abandon a SCF character this merges the faction progress with your SAF progress.
  • When you abandon a SAF character this merges the faction progress with your normal progress.
• Fixed the options in the settings panel so you can't accidentally abandon SAF as a SCF
• Switched Brigandine Boots to use T25 boots' 3D art for Primalist
• Added refresh on start function to social panel so it loads friends list on start instead of waiting for the social panel to be opened.
• Reduced size of Ulatri Scavenger's Firebreath ability
• Spriggan Form's Healing Totems can now have cold visuals if your Spriggan Form or Thorn Totems are cold converted
• Fixed a bug where the ailment duration increase from Occult Embers did not apply to bleed duration when the skill is converted to physical by Arteries of Malice in Ghostflame tree

More Fixes Coming!

Hello, Travelers! Wow, what an opening week for Last Epoch. We are absolutely floored by the turnout and response to the game. Having started as an after-hours passion project from die-hard ARPG fans, were in awe that Last Epoch reached 265,000 players online at one time this weekend, the #39 highest concurrent user count recorded on Steam - ever. We appreciate you all bearing with us as the load initially gave us trouble for online gameplay, but were happy to say that were holding mostly steady above 200,000 players in-game and have made improvements each day in the backend infrastructure to support the demand. Well continue to monitor and address any issues that crop up. I want to take a moment to talk to you all about whats coming next.

INCOMING HOTFIXES/POST 1.0 PATCHES

ONLINE SERVICES

LOCALIZATION

FUTURE CONTENT

SENTIMENT & REVIEWS

GAMEPAD SUPPORT

Server Stability

Bug Fixes

• Added failsafe when skipping speaking to Keeper Balthas, the quest does not work in the next area
• Added failsafe for if you leave after the Drake event but before speaking with the Keeper Guard.
• Fixed a bug where Gathering Storm's Rending Vortex did not affect Storm Bolt
• Fixed a bug where Healing Hands Skyfall was not working in online
• Fixed extra idols and set pieces from CoF rank rewards not being tagged as CoF items
• Fixed bug where no matter what the player has equipped in their weapon slot, the text in the "my stall" section of the bazaar always reads as "equipped two-handed sword" regardless of what the player actually has equipped.
• Fixed a bug where Flurry was aiming upwards if you were standing extremely close to the enemy
• Fixed a bug where abilities cast indirectly by Surge's skill tree did not require positive mana to trigger
• Fixed bug when returning to character select, the echo loading UI would break and stay broken for the remainder of the session
• Fixed bug where the monolith transition VFX/SFX was played when entering the game offline.
• Fixed a bug where Avian Arsenal did not work when Falconer's Mark was consumed by a spell, bow, or throwing ability
• Removed gate that was preventing movement from The Fractured Drain to The Barren Aqueduct
• Fixed bug where Glacial Path Portal was missing
• Fixed timing of Drake sequence where voice lines were playing over top of each other
• Fixed an issue where the player could see the Drake model appear in an inactive state just before the sequence starts
• Fixed bug where "sure you have questions" line from Balthus would not play just before the bridge on the players' first play through the scene
• Texture Fixes:
  • Black Wolf
  • Scalebane Leader
  • Soul Warden Sarcophagus closing
  • Haruspex Orian Model
  • Temple Guardian
  • Temple Guardian Mace
  • Bug Textures
  • Soul Bastion Icon
  • Torment Wheel Layer Correction
  • Uma NPC
  • Enemy Texture adjustments
  • Sentinel T15 armor set
• Fixed bug were Bow item Prophecies were resulting in no items dropping
• Fixed an issue where there were no prophecies when first interacting with telescope
• Fixed a bug where Artem can fail some part of the quest return interaction process and drop his item while not completing the quest.
• Fixed a bug where keys could be removed during dungeon run starting.
• Fixed a bug where a random wall was being shown in The Lotus Halls

Changes

• Increased Online Character Slots to 25
• Advent of the Erased's ward gained when you gain or refresh Haste now has a 1 second cooldown (previously none), but now gives 30-60 ward (from 15-35)
• Optimized shadows in Last Refuge Outskirts, The Ruins of Welryn, and The Summit
• Disabled refer a friend in social panel
• Made adjustments to the Emperor of Corpses's collision to make it easier for melee to get near it and to hit it with melee attacks
• Updated logs to show death logs on client

Travelers, We have heard your concerns with the current Refer A Friend system implementation and will be temporarily disabling it. Because we arent fans of letting a small issue ruin the fun for others, we will be granting everyone who owns a copy of Last Epoch all three of the bee pets. However, the teams here are very focused on getting services back up and working. As a result of us not wanting to take time away from that, we are going to hold off on granting these rewards until services are stable. Our current plan is to monitor the situation and grant all three bee pets, and the Autumnal Wrap (Cape) to everyone who owns Last Epoch no later than Friday, Mar 1st. We very much appreciate the continued support while we work through these issues. You can get consistent updates on Discord, Reddit, or our Forums. Discord: https://discord.gg/lastepoch Server Status Post: 1.0 Server Status Thread Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/

Travelers, Thank you so much for your incredible patience as we work hard to address the ongoing issues. Your support means the world to us! As mentioned in our previous updates, we've established an active update thread on both our forums and Discord: Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/lastepoch Visit our Forums: https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/1-0-server-status-thread/62977 To express our heartfelt gratitude for your patience, we're delighted to present you with a unique token of appreciation a complimentary in-game gift for your characters: The Autumnal Wrap back-slot item. We can't thank you enough for the love and support you have shown thus far. Anyone who owns a copy of Last Epoch while we are still solving our scaling connectivity issues will automatically be awarded the Autumnal Wrap. Thank you once again to those who continue to support us, sending us your positive messages, and continuing to spread that positivity while we continue the work on getting more servers up and running. Thank You, Last Epoch Team

Hello Travelers, Thank you all for the amazing support for our launch, hitting over 150,000 concurrent players! With this burst of volume, an issue was discovered within an API being used for our backend services. We immediately got into calls with several of our providers, and continue to actively be in the war room with them to get this issue resolved and get everyone online. For players who are looking for a solo experience, the fully offline mode has made it so you can get in game right away and start playing. Though, while this is available for those who are happy to play offline, we understand that's not a replacement for online play. It does not at all decrease our efforts to get players in-game online with friends and other travelers. We have an active running update on our #news channel at https://discord.gg/lastepoch, as well as on the discussions here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/899770/discussions/0/4338725580140385603/ Thank you for your patience as we get these launch jitters resolved. We're all hands on deck to get everyone in and playing the way they want. We have a whole bunch of servers ready for everyone once once we get this API issue resolved, and look forward to hearing about all your travels in Eterra!

Greetings Travelers, Today is a historic day for the Last Epoch team and everyone here at Eleventh Hour Games (EHG). What started as an after-hours passion project has blossomed into one of the most anticipated releases in the ARPG genre, and we are blown away by the support we have received. Thank You. Thank you to our families for putting up with us while we worked long into the night, and thank you to our community for supporting us even when all we had was a dream and a few vaguely Traveler-shaped pixels. We look forward to seeing you all in Eterra, atop leaderboards, and expanding across time in the Monolith of Fate. A few reminders: [olist]

Last Epoch is releasing Wednesday, February 21st, 2024, at 11:00am CT! Welcome everyone to the patch notes for Last Epoch's Release! Its been an amazing road to this point, and its unreal to be writing patch notes without using the term Beta Patch. With this patch Last Epoch will officially be leaving Early Access. We couldnt have made it to this point without all of you, our amazing community driving the world of Eterra alongside us. We can not say it enough, Thank you. We also want to mention again here that to prepare the servers for our release on February 21st, we will be shutting down our servers 24 hours before the patch, starting: Tuesday, February 20st, 2024, at 11:00am CT While the servers are down, authentication will not be possible. If you are already playing in offline mode before we take down the servers, you should be able to continue your play session, however offline will not be able to authenticate to log in once the servers are down. This is also a good point to note that one of the features being added with 1.0 is a true offline mode, which will prevent this kind of interference with offline mode in the future. Last Epoch 1.0 will introduce:

• Acolyte Mastery: Warlock
• Rogue Mastery: Falconer
• Item Factions: Circle of Fortune and Merchant's Guild
• New Primalist Skill: Gathering Storm
• Rework to Primalist's Skill: Tempest Strike
• New Paladin Skill: Healing Hands
• Resonances
• Full Offline Mode
• Scene Variant System & Lighting Improvements
• New Cinematics
• Full Controller Support
• and more!

Hello Travelers, and thank you for joining us for another pre-patch blog post! In todays post were going to be taking a look at some of the new items and affixes youll find in Eterra with our release later this week! Were expanding the range of base items for Boots, Gloves, and Belts, and with the new Armor Sets coming in as we talked about on Thursday, those will get new item base effects as well. Further, well take a look at a couple of new generic affixes, new mastery affixes, and a few of the new unique items youll be able to find February 21st!

New Item Bases

New Boots Bases

New Gloves Bases

New Belt Bases

New Helm Bases

New Body Armor Bases

New Affixes

Weapon Affixes

Class Specific Affixes

Warlock Affixes

• Idol: Sickening prefix - % Increased Damage Over Time while you have an Ailment Overload
• Body Armor: % Increased Spirit Frequency with Chthonic Fissure
• Helm: % Chance for 3 additional projectiles when you directly cast Chaos Bolts
• Relic: +X to level of Profane Veil, % Increased Damage Over Time

Falconer Affixes

• Idol: Scattering Suffix - % Increased Area with Caltrops, % Chance to shred Armor on hit with Caltrops
• Idol: Winged Prefix - % Chance to deal Double Damage with Falcon Strikes
• Helm: % Increased Damage with Dive Bomb, % Increased Area with Dive Bomb
• Body Armor: +X to level of Explosive Trap, %Increased Throwing Damage

Primalist - Gathering Storm Affixes

• Idol: Reckoning Prefix - % Increased Frequency of expending Storm Strikes
• Body Armor: +X to level of Gathering Storm, % Increased Area for Area Skills
• Helm: % chance to gain a Storm Stack when you use Gathering Storm and hit an enemy.

New Uniques

Sigeons Reprisal

Communion of the Erased

Falcon Fists

Spine of Malatros

Vial of Volatile Ice

Closing

Happy Saturday, Travelers! For todays pre-patch blog post, were taking a look at information regarding the three headlining features coming on February 21st: Trade Factions, the Warlock, and Falconer! There have been a lot of new Travelers recently joining us in the final stretch to release, so for todays post, were going to be covering all of the information regarding these three big features.

Item Factions

Warlock

Falconer

Closing

Hello Travelers, and welcome to day three of the pre-patch blog posts! Healing Hands is a skill which has existed in the Paladin tree for quite some time, without being able to be specialized. Theres various reasons we waited to create a tree for this skill, one of the bigger reasons being that we wanted this type of skill to be able to support nodes which help cooperation with other players. With our release of Last Epoch on February 21st, Healing Hands will finally be getting its long awaited skill tree. While Healing Hands at its core offers a large amount of support, focusing on healing, one should remember that the Paladin is not a back-line player. Healing to a Paladin means more than mending wounds, but also healing the world of its evils. As such, Healing Hands offers a great deal of customization for offensive ability as well, including multiple ways to make it a directly damaging ability.

Healing Hands

Clerics Hammer

Hand of Aurelus

Divine Bolt

Rahyehs Chariot

Seraph Blade

Unbroken Prayer + Skyfall

Closing

Hello Travelers, and welcome to day two of the pre-patch blog posts! In todays post were having a look at some of the new and updated enemies coming to the world of Eterra on February 21st. These enemy updates also marks the point where we have officially completed changing all models in Last Epoch to fully custom created models. This is largely a visual post showing off the new models our amazing enemy design team has put together. Get your eyes ready, and mind steeled for new horrors arriving in Eterra with the release of Last Epoch.

New Enemies

Void Prophet

Mildly Corrupted Cultist

Corrupted Cultist

Bone Scavenger

Bone Sculptor

Flame Paladin

Companions

Primal Raptor

Primal Scorpion

Primal Sabertooth

New Armor Models

Sentinel Armor Sets

Rogue Armor Sets

Primalist Armor Sets

Acolyte Armor Sets

Mage Armor Sets

Closing

Hello Travelers, Welcome to the first blog post of the pre-patch blog posts leading up to launch! For all the new Travelers joining us for 1.0, pre-patch blog posts occur during the week before Patch Day, in which we talk about some of the prominent features coming with the latest update. We will have a post every day, culminating in the Patch Notes on February 19th. Of course, the three most prominent features coming in 1.0 are Item Factions, the Falconer, and the Warlock; however, these are certainly not the only features arriving with our release of 1.0! Back in November, we talked about some of the updates coming with 1.0 (November Developer Blog). When covering Tempest Strike, we mentioned that the change to Tempest Strikes mechanics left a gap in the Primalist class for a low cost, spammable generator. Without further ado, and to kick off these blog posts, lets start by covering the new Primalist Skill - Gathering Storm, as well as some of the new Tempest Strike features coming February 21st.

Gathering Storm

Frostbringer

Ranged Spell Conversion

Dual Wielding Support

Whirlwind Tactics

Tempest Strike

Druids Call

Tempest Sacrificing

Totem Support

Tempest Focus

Closing

Greetings Travelers, Weve got some seriously exciting news to drop Last Epoch is teaming up with Starforge Systems for an awesome collaboration, and its all thanks to you, our fantastic community! Your support has been nothing short of amazing, and its time to celebrate together. Over the next few weeks, get ready for some incredible giveaways and rewards were talking Last Epoch-themed PCs, slick cases that look like they came straight from Eterra, and Platelights to add that extra cool vibe to your gaming setup. We wanted to show our appreciation, and what better way than hooking you up with some seriously cool gear? This collaboration is all about you, the Last Epoch community, and we cant wait to share these awesome goodies with you. Over the next few weeks, these giveaways will be popping up on our social channels, partners spaces, and even in a few new places. To help you all get the best chance at scoring one of these amazing items, we will continue to update this thread over on our forums with the information you need! To kick things off in a fantastic way, we are giving away one of 5 decked-out PCs. This thing will come loaded with hardware, a sick custom Last Epoch print, and 5 interchangeable platelights, so you can rock your favorite class while you slay your way across time and Eterra. Giveaway List Giveaway #1 - Full PC, giveaway powered by VAST. Dates: February 12th, Winner announced March 15th. Link: https://vast.link/Last-Epoch
Link to Forum announcement: https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/last-epoch-starforge-collaboration-giveaways-master-thread

We're bursting with excitement to announce that over 1 million players have joined the Last Epoch community! This wouldn't have been possible without the incredible support of each and every one of you. From the day we launched into Early Access, you've been there with us, playing, providing feedback, crafting amazing theories, and spreading the word about Last Epoch. Your passion and dedication have fueled our drive to create the best possible game, and we are truly grateful. We know this news might not be fresh, but we were hard at work getting everything ready for 1.0 and wanted to make sure we took a moment to celebrate this achievement with you, our amazing community. Thank you to everyone who has played, theory-crafted, reported bugs, shared their experiences, and simply enjoyed Last Epoch. You are the heart and soul of this game, and we can't wait to continue this journey together as we approach 1.0 and beyond!

Greetings Travelers, Here is the timeline of what to expect with the launch Last Epoch 1.0 starting on February 21st and leading through the weekend!

Launch Time - Day 1

Online Version Downtime

Twitch Drops Begin - Day 2

Support Needs

Hello Travelers! As many of you may have noticed, with Last Fridays Release Trailer Announcement, we also announced the release of two new Editions for Last Epoch! The new Deluxe and Ultimate editions are available both in-game and through Steam and offer a bunch of our latest cosmetics for a great value!
https://lastepoch.com/pre-order Today, we wanted to spend a short amount of time discussing these new editions and answering some of the most common questions we saw over the weekend regarding both them and supporter packs in general.

New Editions

Editions and Supporter Packs

Closing

Hello Travelers! [previewyoutube=esrO1CocQ9w;full][/previewyoutube] Today, we are thrilled to showcase the Last Epoch 1.0 Launch Trailer: Echoes from the Void, and the opening of our updated Pre-Order Editions. Our Launch Trailer, Echoes from the Void, is the mysterious response to [Eterras CGI Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGwBxbOcLns). Along with the 1.0 Trailer Launch, we are proud to showcase our Deluxe and Ultimate editions, available for purchase now! Starting today and up to 1.0 Launch on February 21st, anyone who purchases, or has purchased, any edition of Last Epoch will get the exclusive Golden Guppy Baby Chronowyrm cosmetic pet. You read that right; if you already own Last Epoch, you will soon see the Baby Chronowyrm in your cosmetics inventory! If you already own Last Epoch and would like to score one of these editions without purchasing the game again, you can do so right here.

Deluxe Upgrade:

Ultimate Upgrade:

Hello Travelers, and welcome to our deep dive into our Trade and Item Faction systems arriving February 21st, 2024, with the Full Release of Last Epoch! Weve got many exciting features to share with you today. While we feel confident in what we are sharing with you today, these systems are being actively tested in our Community Testing program, and the details below are still subject to balance changes. [previewyoutube=SOo0Ule6dNY;full][/previewyoutube] [h1="a-brief-history"]A Brief History
From the launch of our Kickstarter campaign, we knew we wanted Trade to be part of the Last Epoch community, and through our time creating the world of Eterra we went through many discussions and iterations of how a trade system could exist. As many of you know, balancing a trade system is one of the most challenging issues to tackle in a loot-based game, as it drastically impacts the item hunt for all players. Many players do not want to play an ARPG unless there is a trade economy that gives additional value to their items and enables them to create builds more reliably. Many other players voice that a trade economy ruins their enjoyment of the item hunt and dont want to participate in those types of systems at all. While Last Epoch does offer a solo challenge mode which does mean all items are found by yourself, it also limits co-op. After polling the community and receiving thousands of responses we found that these two camps of players are divided shockingly close to 50/50. On December 22nd of 2022, we announced our plans for the Item Gifting System as our version of trade. This was designed to fulfill what we felt was the core necessity to trade, to be able to share items with friends youre playing with, while protecting the itemization systems we had built elsewhere in Last Epoch. Thankfully, our community was great enough to let us know that we needed to do more. So we got to work. After many design meetings and conversations with the community, Item Factions began to take shape - what we feel is a unique and exciting solution to the trade debate in ARPGs - a solution not seen before, and which we believe satisfies both sides of the conversation. Item Factions holds a place of pride for us, as its a direct showing of what can be accomplished when working closely with our community. So the very first thing we want to do when discussing item factions is to say this: Thank You. Thank you for being part of our community, being involved in the future of Last Epoch, and continuing to push us to innovate and drive Last Epoch forward to become a great ARPG we can all enjoy. [h1=what-are-item-factions]What Are Item Factions?
One of the most common suggestions we received - and what other games have tried - was to have different cycles for trade or trade-free. This solution wouldnt work for us as it would mean dividing the player base away from each other, increasing overhead for itemization, and balancing what would be effectively two games. So, the question became: how can we implement two different ways to find and acquire items without creating a division within the community? The answer? Item Factions. A fully integrated solution into the lore and mechanics of Last Epoch, allowing players to make a meaningful and rewarding choice in how they want to empower their loot hunt in Eterra.
On February 21st, within the world of Eterra you will find two Item Factions:

• Merchants Guild - grants the ability to trade items with other players through the Bazaar, and player-to-player
• Circle of Fortune - grants boosts to items you find yourself through Prophecies, and passive bonuses

Faction Rank Rewards for Lenses

Hello Last Epoch community! As we get closer to the upcoming 1.0 launch of Last Epoch on February 21st, its time to drop the details on what you can expect for Twitch Drops during the weeks after launch. First off: Head on over to www.lastepoch.com/twitch and make sure your accounts are correctly linked. Starting on February 22nd (Thursday), you can head on over to the Last Epoch category on Twitch and look for users who have drops enabled. Four total cosmetic items can be earned, and each day will be different. The following week, starting on February 29th, each item will be available one last time in case you missed it the first go-round. You will not be able to earn two of each.

Schedule:

• Day 1 (Thur the 22nd) - Mantle of the Prophesier cosmetic back slot item.
• Day 2 (Fri the 23rd) - Green Dire-Guana pet cosmetic item.
• Day 3 (Sat the 24th) - Merchants Mantle cosmetic back slot item.
• Day 4 (Sun the 25th) - Blue Seers Orb pet cosmetic item.

• Day 1 (Thur the 29th) - Mantle of the Prophesier cosmetic back slot item.
• Day 2 (Fri the 1st) - Green Dire-Guana pet cosmetic item.
• Day 3 (Sat the 2nd) - Merchants Mantle cosmetic back slot item.
• Day 4 (Sun the 3rd) - Blue Seers Orb pet cosmetic item.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where mini healthbars were not appearing over enemies or minions
• Fixed a bug where Flurry would collide with friendly players and minions
• Fixed a bug which could result in a Gray Splash Screen on client start
• Fixed an issue where Lagon would not drop potions in phases 1 and 3
• Fixed a bug which would result in enemies in arena not animating properly after spawning
  • This can still occur due to a different bug which we are still working on, however is far less frequent

Other

• Reduced the sizes of many textures loaded on client start. This should reduce the starting memory footprint when launching the client, as well as help the client launch a bit faster. Because this reduces the start-up memory footprint, we also expect this to help with many cases of crash-on-startup which were due to memory issues.
• Added support ticket submission to in-game bug report tool for players looking for support rather than to report an issue.
• Several backend improvements for performance improvements while playing in a party, as well as for longer game sessions
• Cleaned up a number of log events which were not logging useful information

Welcome Travelers, and thank you all for joining us for Novembers Developer Blog as we progress through the final stretch to 1.0. As many of you are likely already aware, yesterday saw the first reveal of our Cinematic Trailer for Last Epoch over on IGN. We want to thank everyone for the fantastic support we saw in regards to the trailer, its been a great morale boost to see the continued excitement for our 1.0 release. If you didnt have a chance to check out the Cinematic Trailer yet, please do so below! [previewyoutube=zGwBxbOcLns;full][/previewyoutube] Of course, on October 20th, we also announced our roadmap to 1.0, covering the main news articles to keep an eye out for, as well as our 1.0 release date of February 21st, 2024! Were all very excited for the big day and wanted to talk about both what to expect in regards to the roadmap, as well as share with you all some of the things weve been working on. Im sure youre all excited to hear about some of these things coming, so allow us to waste no more time and get into it!

Roadmap

January 11th - Item Factions

January 25th - Warlock Preview

February 8th - Falconer Preview

February 21st - Last Epoch 1.0 Launch Day

Other Features

Visual Improvements

Lighting and Shadows

Scene Variant System

Shaman Revisit

Tempest Strike

Endgame Rebalance

Echo Modifiers

Corruption Changes

Closing

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where a Lost Cache could be looted multiple times
• Fixed a bug where simultaneously exploding Volatile Zombies creating Infernal Shades could exceed the Shade limit
• Fixed a bug where holding Shift would not prevent movement
• Fixed a bug where Region Select was defaulting to US-Central
• Fixed a bug where Exiled Mage's Mana strike was not able to reach players
• Fixed a bug where closing the in-game Bug Report tool with esc would disable game inputs
• Fixed a bug where some Osprix enemies would appear invisible in Liath's Tower
• Fixed some instances of pink particle effects

Hello Travelers! A quick hotfix today to resolve an issue where a small number of players were unable to log in.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where some newly created characters were being generated with items using a newer version of item serialization that the live client was not able to deserialize preventing the character from loading, or any character if the item was placed in the stash.

What were Working on

Temporal Sanctum Progression Blocker (offline)

Volatile Zombie loop

• Fixed a bug where Volatile Zombiess Grand Sacrifice and Effigy of Combustion could trigger while on negative mana
• Volatile Zombie changes: Dreadful Horde and Giant Zombie now only have a 10% chance to trigger their effects on indirect casts (from always triggering), such as via Awakening Presence or the Experimental Belt affix
• Giant Zombie gives 120% increased mana cost (from 300%)

Other Fixes were working on

• Flurry collides with players and minions in online play
• Flurry is producing too many projectiles
• Weve seen reports of this still occurring since the last patch, and are re-investigating
• Flurry sometimes not hitting with very high attack speeds
• Detonating Arrow Cone is exploding in the wrong direction
• Flame Rush tracks Rune generation between skill uses
• Effigy boss (giant worm) can spawn loot off the map
• Skeleton enemies missing health bars and hover outlines
• Enemies in arena not properly animating after spawning
• Runic Invocations Unbridled Ruin not providing its damage bonus
• Teleporting back to town doesnt put you near your portal

Update - 17:42 CT

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the Soul Eater Backslot was on the wrong layer causing some decals to appear on top of it
• Fixed a number of abilities that, in online play, when used multiple times in the same scene would stop working or start behaving differently. The most common occurrences of this issue were:
• Blade Shield would not spawn Shurikens after first cast in a scene, if it hit an enemy
• Flurry would generate too many arrows and Multishot procs
• Cinder Strikes first attack would not deal damage
• Fixed a bug where Town Chat would be unavailable while in a town scene
• Several bugfixes for Town reliability and connection issues
• Fixed a bug where Frost Claw projectiles would be deleted when coming into contact with Water
• Fixed a bug where Osprix Raiders would appear invisible in Liaths Tower

Changes

• Added Keybind for Force Move. This is unbound by default.
• Removed Lost Caches from spawning in Arena Echoes

Bug Reporting Tool

• Updated dropdown options to better match types of bug reports
• Replaced Severity selection with a Unable to Progress checkbox
• Added additional information to Bug Report Tool for contacting support when looking for assistance rather than submitting a report

Travelers, Im thrilled to announce that Eleventh Hour Games is launching the long-awaited 1.0 version of Last Epoch on February 21st, 2024. After a journey that started with the dream of uniting genre enthusiasts to create the next great ARPG and forming an after-hours team through Reddit, to holding a successful Kickstarter 18 months later, and then building Last Epoch alongside our passionate community throughout Early Access were confident in saying that weve made something truly special. Last Epochs 1.0 launch will mark a new beginning for Eterra, and will set a new bar for quality, polish, gameplay feel, and visual excellence. Beyond 1.0, Eleventh Hour Games will bring substantial new content to Last Epoch every few months in what we call Cycles. These releases will contain additions and refinements to many aspects of the game, such as end-game content, skills, unique items, gameplay systems, quality-of-life features, etc. We understand that February is later than we had initially targeted for this release; however, our original December timeline became a bit crowded with other studios releases, and we didnt want to force the ARPG community to have to choose. By moving our date, well also be able to take advantage of a few more months of polish for our new systems and classes, complete more bug-fixing, and reinforce our team with a restful and well-deserved holiday break. We thank you all for your unwavering support and enthusiasm that has allowed Eleventh Hour Games to make this game for all of us. We hope you will join us in Eterra this February and invite your friends to join in a new co-op hack-and-slash experience! - Judd Cobler Game Director, Last Epoch

Hello Travelers, Were releasing a quick hotfix to address a few issues with Towns instances. This hotfix aims to resolve issues with Town servers zombifying preventing new players from joining the Town instance. The most common incarnation of this issue was preventing players from being able to log in with characters to the End of Time within a given region.

Changes

• Fixed a bug where Town servers would sometimes zombify preventing players from accessing the Town

Hello Travelers! Were releasing a quick hotfix today to resolve a progression blocking bug within Council Chambers. We are still working on a number of other bugfixes for a complete patch, but wanted to get this fix out ASAP.

Changes

• Fixed a bug where the barrier would sometimes fail to dispel in Council Chambers preventing access to The Sheltered Woods

Hello Travelers! We have a whole bunch of fixes were releasing in todays Patch. Two of the fixes we were targeting for this patch - Offline Temporal Sanctum Progression, and Ground Decals carrying over between echoes werent quite able to get in. The changes for these items unfortunately arent quite fixing them, and we dont want to delay all the other updates for them. While we continue to be hard at work on those bugs (and others), read below for all the fixes and updates out today!

Changes

Gameplay

• Fixed a bug that occasionally resulted in a duplicate player body after entering a new scene.
• Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented Rune Prisons from spawning their encounters.

Abilities

• Fixed a bug where Puncture would sometimes deal 1 damage
• Added Scaling Tags to Glyph of Dominion
• Fixed a bug where Frost Claw would leave a 'trail' on the ground when converted to Fire or Lightning
• Fixed a rare bug where some abilities could fail to hit
• Fixed a small timing issue with Runebolt
• Runebolts explosive skill tree node has had its placeholder name updated.

UI

• Fixed a bug where players were unable to Unhide Quests on the Map
• Fixed a bug where changing or disabling a Loot Filter would sometimes prevent players from closing the Loot Filter panel
• Fixed a bug where Medium Item Names was displaying Long Item Names
• Fixed a bug where clicking on quests on the Map would not always bring Players to the proper node on the Map Screen

Enemies

• Fixed ability pooling for Shade of Orobyss and Majasa
• Added ability pooling for a number of enemies to increase performance
• Fixed a bug where Exiled Mage's Mana Strike would fail to hit players
• Adjusted VFX for Winged Fire, and Dreadworm enemies
• Updated Skeletons weapon materials

Localization

• Fixed a bug where there was incorrect spacing between Hanja in Korean chat
• Added several localization updates

Items

• Fixed health recovery stacking from Death Rattle
• Fixed a bug with the Unique gloves Hand of Judgment which resulted in abnormally rolled values.

Other

• Fixed a bug that prevented some hardcore players from transitioning to softcore properly upon death.
• Implemented improvements to server stability and optimization
• Reduced matchmaking timeouts from 10min to 5min (This is not the AFK timer, but how long a server will wait for user connections, such as during a loading screen)
• Added several lighting improvements in Chapter H - Majelka

What Were Working On

• Decals persisting and layering from scene to scene.
• Progression blocker in Temporal Sanctum (offline)
• Transition times between scenes
• Rarely disconnecting immediately after connecting to a new server.
• Enemies in Arena and Monolith often do not animate properly
• Continuing localization and translation improvements

Changes

• Fixed the waypoint on the world map for Last Refuge Outskirts being unusable.
• Fixed the Hide/Show Quests function on the world map.
• Fixed a bug which caused error spam in The Immortal Summit.

What Were Working On

• Progression blocker in Temporal Sanctum (offline)
• Some skill projectiles are colliding with 'invisible terrain'
• Transition times between scenes can be quite long.
• Rarely disconnecting immediately after connecting to a new server.
• Sometimes, your player model is duplicated after entering a new scene and the camera gets stuck. Portaling out to another server usually fixes this.
• Rune Prisons can rarely fail to spawn an Exiled Mage.
• Enemies in Arena and Monolith often do not animate properly.
• Certain abilities failing to hit enemies correctly.
• Swapping loot filters can cause the loot filter interface to bug out.
• Textures can pile up on the ground as you load more monolith echoes, causing strange visuals and increased memory usage.
• Item name lengths are now Long when they should be Normal.

Changes

• Fixed a bug where using a Rune of Research could not create a Glyph of Insight.
• Fixed a bug causing projectiles to be destroyed early in the Ritual Lake echo layout.
• Fixed a bug which caused Frostclaws Glamdring node to scale with increased and more melee damage stats.
• Fixed a bug where submitting a bug report when your Log File was too large could crash the game client.
• Submitting a bug report now also includes the Log File for your previous session as well.
• Fixed a bug where Adanais personal item dropped as a Staff instead of a Dagger. This fix will not retroactively affect existing items.
• Fixed a bug where Frost Claw did not have localized text.
• Fixed visual issues with Frostclaws Fire and Lightning conversions.
• Fixed visual bugs with the Rogues appearance when creating a new character.
• Fixed a bug where players would stand completely still after certain skill animation ended, rather than returning to their idle animation.
• Summon Spriggan
• Upheaval
• Default Attack
• Ice Thorns
• Summon Scorpion
• Earthquake
• Updated animations for channeled Flurry when using a polearm or two-handed axe.
• Updated sound effects for Immortal Eye enemies.
• Fixed footstep sounds being incorrect for players.
• Replaced the very old sounds on Divine Bolt and Volcanus shard ability with newer ones.
• Fixed various minor environmental audio issues.

What Were Working On

• Transition times between scenes can be quite long.
• Rarely disconnecting immediately after connecting to a new server.
• Sometimes, your player model is duplicated after entering a new scene and the camera gets stuck. Portaling out to another server usually fixes this.
• Rune Prisons can rarely fail to spawn an Exiled Mage.
• Enemies in Arena and Monolith often do not animate properly.
• Certain abilities failing to hit enemies correctly.
• Swapping loot filters can cause the loot filter interface to bug out.
• Textures can pile up on the ground as you load more monolith echoes, causing strange visuals and increased memory usage.
• Item name lengths are now Long when they should be Normal.

Changes

• Added chat channels for Korean - this was an oversight. You can select what language chat channels you connect to on the Login screen.
• Various logging improvements to aid troubleshooting.

What Were Working On

• Transition times between scenes can be quite long.
• Rarely disconnecting immediately after connecting to a new server.
• Sometimes, your player model is duplicated after entering a new scene and the camera gets stuck. Portaling out to another server usually fixes this.
• Rune Prisons can rarely fail to spawn an Exiled Mage.
• Enemies in Arena and Monolith often do not animate properly.
• Certain abilities failing to hit enemies correctly.
• Swapping loot filters can cause the loot filter interface to bug out.
• Submitting a bug report with a log file thats too large can crash the client.
• Textures can pile up on the ground as you load more monolith echoes, causing strange visuals and increased memory usage.
• Item name lengths are now Long when they should be Normal.
• The Rogues visuals look incorrect when making a new character.
• Certain skills cause the player to not properly return to their idle animation.

Runes of Power, Patch 0.9.2, is coming Thursday, Sept 7th, 2023 at 11:00 AM CT! Welcome everyone to the Patch Notes for Beta Patch 0.9.2 Runes of Power! Over the last week weve been going over some of the major features to expect in this patch including the new Runemaster Mastery, Localization, Frost Claw, Item Caches, and Rune Prisons. This update brings with it a whole new way to play with the Runemaster, alongside new content with random encounters, and many more improvements! Last Epoch Beta Patch 0.9.2 - Runes of Power will introduce:

• Mage Mastery: Runemaster, including 5 new skills!
• New Base Mage Class Ability: Frost Claw
• One-shot Caches, and Lost Caches
• Localization
• Monolith Improvements
• In-game Bug Reporting
• New Models and Animations
• Twenty-one new Unique Items
• Balance Changes and Bug Fixes
• And more!

Welcome to the final Pre-Patch Blog Post before the release of the full Patch Notes for Runes of Power! Today were going to be looking at another new encounter mechanic were adding to Last Epoch in just three days! As mentioned in the Rune Prisons blog post, we wanted to improve the moment- to-moment feeling within the Campaign, as well as within Echoes. To bolster this, were adding two types of caches to the game: One-shot Caches, which can be found during the Campaign, and Lost Caches, which can be found within the Monolith of Fate.

One-shot Caches

Lost Caches

Monolith of Fate Improvements

Patch Notes Soon

Happy Sunday, Travelers! Welcome to the 0.9.2 Pre-patch Blog Post covering the new Rune Prisons and Experimental Items coming this Thursday in Runes of Power! An area weve felt is in need of improvement with respect to Last Epochs endgame system is the moment-to-moment gameplay of completing Echoes. This isnt something we feel can be fixed by any single change, however were still looking to improve this aspect of gameplay piece by piece. By introducing more random events that can happen in an Echo, it can help to reduce the sameness of each Echo, and feel like a much more dynamic experience. The first random encounter were introducing this Thursday is Rune Prisons.

Rune Prisons

Experimental Items

Experimental Crafting

One-shot and Lost Caches

Welcome Travelers to the third Pre-Patch Blog Post for Beta Patch 0.9.2 Runes of Power! Today well be taking a look at some of the new Unique Items, visual improvements, and quality of life features coming in Patch 0.9.2 on September 7th. This post is going to be quite a visual feast, so make sure you have your eyeballs ready for the images ahead!

Campaign Levels Visual Updates

Enemy Updates

Soul Cage

Soul Warden

Dont be so shy you two!

Quality of Life Updates

In-game Bug Reporting

Town Functionality

New Items

More to Come

Hello Travelers, and welcome to the Pre-Patch Blog Post for Frost Claw! Frost Claw is being added as a new skill for the base Mage class. This is in addition to the 5 Runemaster skills, meaning there will be a total of 6 new skills being introduced in Patch 0.9.2 - Runes of Power! As we were developing Runemaster for the Mage, and began receiving early feedback, one of the most common responses was was the lack of a spammable cold skill, particularly for use in generating Heo runes early. When we reviewed this feedback, we agreed that there needed to be an earlier access for the Runemaster to generate runes, as well as correcting the lack of a fast usage cold spell alongside Fireball and Lightning Blast. Because of this, we decided to address the gap within the Mage class in tandem with the release of Runemaster. Frost Claw helps to provide support for more elemental build options, supports all Mage Masteries, and is just plain fun.

Frost Claw

On Through the Snow

Volley of Glass

New Items and Visual Updates

Patch 0.9.2 - Runes of Power releases in just 7 days! Over the next week we'll be going over all the big new features coming in Runes of Power leading up to the Patch Notes on September 5th. We'll be covering the next mastery to reach Eterra: The Runemaster, a new Base Mage Skill, Rune Prisons and Experimental Items, One-shot and Lost Caches, a new Crafting Mechanic, a peek at some new Unique Items, and more progress in our ongoing efforts to improve Last Epochs visuals!

Gamescom

Localization

The Runemaster

Runic Invocation

Flame Rush

Frost Wall

Rune Bolt

Glyph of Dominion

A new Mage Skill?

Changes

• Made some configuration changes in advance of the Server Maintenance scheduled for tonight.

Server Maintenance

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug introduced by 0.9.1d which sometimes caused loading into Imperial Era Monolith Echoes to fail. Verifying game files did not fix this.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a race condition introduced by 0.9.1d which caused players to sometimes be disconnected after loading a zone.

Changes

• Improved how dynamic Solar Invaders (archers) are in combat:
  • Increased how much and how frequent they move between attacks.
  • Added another short fleeing state that can happen more often, not just after taking a lot of damage.
  • Reduced their kick damage by 25%.
  • Reduced their arrow damage by 11%.
• Majasas Blood Pools tick 4 times per second from 5 and deal 10% more damage per tick (resulting in 12% less damage per second). The ticks now always show damage number and hit vfx, so that it's clearer that they're dangerous
• Immobilized enemies no longer start using movement skills (immobilizing an enemy will not interrupt a movement skill in progress).
• Improved internal performance telemetry to assist our server optimization efforts.
• Overhauled the mechanics and visuals of Soul Cage and Soul Warden enemies.
  • Added new on-hit particle, hit flash and death flash visuals for Holy Fire, Holy Lightning and Blood abilities.
• Previously these visuals would look the same for all abilities of a given damage type. Now a Physical ability can use Blood visuals instead, for example.
• Added new loading screen art for Lake Liath zones, Divine Era Majelka zones, and various Imperial Era zones.
• Updated frozen breakables in the Tomb of Morditas.
• Added new emerging sound effects for spider enemies.
• Updated the vocal sounds for all Osprix enemies to match the new sounds added for the Chapter 1 rework.
• Added new sounds for Basic Attack that change with weapon type.
• Updated the Game Guide to add region selection and the Sanctuary of Eterra.
• There is now a confirmation prompt when purchasing a cosmetic with Epoch Points.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the game stuttering when spawning new enemy types in Arena starting in the second Arena layout of the run.
• Fixed a bug where the Sanctuary of Eterra window did not close after being used, allowing it to be used several times and causing it to block the screen.
• Portal cosmetics now apply to the portals you open after completing an Echo.
• Fixed a bug where item visuals and cosmetics would sometimes disappear after transitioning to a new zone.
• Fixed a bug where visual effects could project on top of some cosmetics.
• Fixed a bug that caused some "when landing" effects in Fury Leap's skill tree such as Frenzied Onslaught, Wings of Endurance and Battle Bloom to not apply to Maul with Werebear Form's Skull Crusher allocated.
• Fixed a bug where Earthquake's Aftershock did not scale with strength, and also incorrectly said it receives 40% increased damage per point of strength. It receives 4% increased damage per point of strength.
• Fixed a bug where Spirit Thorns did not apply ailments to enemies hit by more than one Spirit Thorn.
• Fixed a bug where when using Avalanches Precision node, the skill appears to not properly cast at the location of the Player's cursor after the initial cast.
• Fixed a bug where the visual for Lightning Blast and Lightning Smite would appear twice (once in its previous cast location).
• Fixed Bone Golems leap attack having a firey ground effect visual.
• Fixed Manifest Armor not having an outline in Online mode.
• Fixed a bug where lightning wolves' unique appearance would be reverted to the regular summoned wolf visual when they were hit.
• Fixed rare Void Despair enemies not having a visual effect for changing their triple projectile attack.
• Fixed a bug where the Ice Breath from Frozen Wolf enemies cast in the wrong direction in Online mode.
• Changed the positioning of off-hand weapons for Sentinels to prevent clipping.
• Fixed Humming Bee uniques facing the wrong direction when in your Offhand, and being invisible when used as an Offhand for Mages.
• Fixed a bug where quest item drops in the Council Chambers would happen for all players present in the zone, but would only happen once. If a player joined the zone later and tried to turn in a quest, they wouldnt get the item.
• Fixed a bug where players could rarely be in 2 parties at the same time, causing various buggy behavior with party functionality.
• Added a quest progression failsafe for the first Blood, Frost and Death quest echo: you can skip talking to the first Wengari if needed.
• Fixed the world map showing that the Fortress Gardens has a waypoint, when it does not.
• Fixed a bug where there was no quest pulse leading you to speak to Balthas in The Summit.
• Fixed a bug where Orians entrance animation could sometimes play while hes off screen in The Summit.
• Fixed the world map not fading nicely when switching between eras.

Notes

• Chat sometimes re-enables itself - also it says Chat is Disabled when it actually isnt.
• Rarely, a failed attempt to transition to another zone can become completed after loading a different character.
• Summoned Spriggans dont gain the Cold Minion tag when cold converted.
• The Journey To Majelka quest does not advance when talking to the Nagasa in SorethKa. You can move to the next zone without talking to them, however.
• You can get stuck in place if you join the Sanctum of the Architect after the fight starts.
• Further Ambush encounter and Chapter 1 enemy scaling changes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Item Linking not working. Press ctrl + right click to link up to 3 items in a chat message. Open the chat window and hover over a linked item to view it.
• Fixed a bug where Weaver's Will items upgrading caused a performance stutter.
• Fixed a bug where parties would sometimes incorrectly use US East for their server region rather than the desired region.
• Fixed a bug where the Burning Daggers created by Cinder Strike's Firebreathing were not affected by the Pillager's Gold unique.
• Fixed a bug where the Increased Chance to Find Potions affix had no effect. This stat only worked when provided by the unique affixes of The Scavenger and Melvern's Writ or by passive tree nodes. This bug also impacted the Pillagers Gold unique.
• Fixed a bug where Spirit Plague's Rotten to the Core node could not be allocated.
• Fixed a bug where Cinder Strikes area of effect was not increased by its Blast Wave node.
• Fixed a bug where Volatile Zombie's Necromantic Fervor also gained the benefit of the Vital Ward node without allocating it, and Vital Ward still gave the health gain from Necromantic Fervor when allocated.
• Fixed ground visuals projecting on top of Storm Crows.
• Fixed a bug where The Shrouded Plateau was missing terrain in some areas.
• Fixed the prices for Epoch Points in the store always displaying in $USD, rather than your local currency in Steam.
• Fixed the polearm visual variant of Multistrike and Vengeance being rotated incorrectly.
• Fixed a visual issue with Voidtouched Archivists Ice Mortar and Voidfused Armors sword attack.
• Fixed Wraith and Volatile Zombie minions from party members having minimap icons.

Changes

• Improved AFK detection: interacting with the UI, pressing buttons, etc. will prevent you being flagged as AFK. The time before being kicked has also been increased to 20 minutes.
• Because the Increase Chance to Find Potions affix was having no effect before, we're being cautious with the total amount that it can give. The maximum value at T5 has been reduced to 60% (from 70%) and the maximum amount at T7 has been reduced to 120% (from 140%). Additionally it can no longer roll on rings and any existing potion drop rate affixes on rings have been changed to armour affixes (the armour affix can still not roll on rings naturally).
• Reduced Bolroth Stomp hitbox size especially at the sides of the Bolroth.
• Bolroths now stop turning (finalize target) 0.35 seconds into their Stomp attack. Previously they could turn right until the end.
• Regular enemies in Monolith Ambushes gain 15% more health (from 10% more damage and 5% less health).
• Bosses in Monolith Ambushes gain 5% more damage and 5% less health (from 10% more damage and 5% less health)
• Minibosses in Monolith Ambushes gain 20% more damage and 150% more health (from 40% more damage and 150% more health)
• The Osprix Monolith Ambush contains 1 fewer lightmage.
• Added final 2d art for Pillager's Gold, Ambitions of an Erased Acolyte, and Gambit of an Erased Rogue.
• Improved the quality of the preview images for the Soul Eater cosmetic armor set.
• Updated the Game Guide and tooltip for Corruption to mention the Sanctuary of Eterra.
• Baby Scorpions no longer have minimap icons.

Notes

• Thank you for continuing to report bugs; we keep an eye on everything that comes through the Forums. Heres much of what were currently working on fixing or improving:
• Chat sometimes re-enables itself - weve found that this is caused by joining or leaving a party or town server (because this joins/leaves a chat channel).
• Rarely, a failed attempt to transition to another zone can become completed after loading a different character.
• Further Ambush encounter scaling changes.
• Adjusting new Chapter 1 enemies that are problematic when scaled to Endgame.
• The window for reducing corruption in the Sanctuary of Eterra does not disappear after being used.
• Maul with the Skull Crusher node is not affected by some when landing effects in Fury Leap.
• Shield Bash fails to cast sometimes when you have increased attack speed.
• Summoned Spriggans dont gain the Cold Minion tag when cold converted.
• There isnt a quest marker prompting you to walk to Balthas after defeating Orian and Emberwing in the Summit in Chapter 1.
• Cosmetics and armor visuals are sometimes invisible (usually fixed by re-equipping or going to the next zone).
• Echo Completed portals dont use equipped Portal cosmetics.

Changes

• The waypoint for Crumbling Ruin now unlocks as soon as you complete the Shard quest in the Keepers Camp, allowing you to continue the campaign even if the transition to Crumbling Ruin fails.
  • If you have a character that got stuck at the end of Chapter 1, going back to Keepers Camp should unlock the Crumbling Ruin waypoint in the Ruined Era, allowing you to proceed.
• Fixed a bug where making quest progress in a Town, then creating a new offline character could have the quest progress of the new character fast-forwarded to the quest state of the old character.
• Fixed a bug where Hardcore characters that died in Arena were not forced back to the Character Select screen.
• Fixed a bug where Hardcore characters that have died were still posting results to the Hardcore Arena leaderboard.
• Hardcore characters now connect to Standard chat channels after dying.
• Fixed a bug where Weaver Uniques did not immediately apply their newly gained affixes to the player when added or upgraded by the Weaver.
• Fixed a bug where creating a Weaver unique with a Rune of Ascendance could cause it to have 0 Weavers Will.
• Fixed a bug where stationary minions such as totems would stop attacking if given a move command via the A key.
• Fixed a bug where Lethal Mirage's Rending Darkness would cause mirages to sometimes target the player that cast it, accomplishing nothing.
• Fixed Stashes in the Keepers Camp not having minimap icons.
• Fixed some of Graels voice lines not playing in The Burning Forest in Online mode.
• Fixed sounds for Lethal Mirage not playing in Online mode.
• Fixed footstep sounds not playing correctly for summoned Bears.
• Adjusted some music and dialog mixing for Chapter 1.
• Added final 2d art for Dedication of an Erased Primalist and Code of an Erased Sentinel.

What Were Working On

Towns

Bug Fixes

• Item Linking is not currently working - there is a configuration issue between our testing environment and the live environment that we need to resolve
• Weaver Uniques being upgraded causes a lag spike.
• Rarely, a failed attempt to transition to another zone can become completed after loading a different character.
• The window for reducing corruption in the Sanctuary of Eterra does not disappear after being used.
• Missing terrain visuals in the Shrouded Plateau.
• There isnt a quest marker prompting you to walk to Balthas after defeating Orian and Emberwing in the Summit in Chapter 1.
• Cosmetics and armor visuals are sometimes invisible (usually fixed by re-equipping or going to the next zone).
• Echo Completed portals dont use equipped Portal cosmetics.
• Epoch Points are always shown as costing USD in the Shop, rather than local currency (the correct price is used when purchasing).

Rising Flames, Patch 0.9.1, is coming Thursday, May 25th, 2023 at 11:00 AM CT! Welcome everyone to the Patch Notes for Beta Patch 0.9.1 Rising Flames! Over the last week weve been going over some of the major features to expect in this patch. With a completely recreated Chapter 1, Last Epoch now starts off the experience adventuring in Eterra on the right foot. With new zones, creatures, and improved tools we draw ever closer to our 1.0 release. Last Epoch Beta Patch 0.9.1 - Rising Flames will introduce:

• Complete Overhaul of Chapter 1
• New "Weaver's Will" Item Type
• New Uniques
• New Ambush Monolith Activity
• Online Arena Leaderboards
• Town Functionality
• New Models and Animations
• New Enemies
• New Music
• And more!

Welcome Travelers to the final day of the Pre-patch Blog Post Hype Week!
One of our biggest goals closing in on our 1.0 launch of Last Epoch is getting existing content up to our latest standards. These improvements have been coming in across the board: Models, Animations, VFX, and UI updates. Over the years, weve been adding additional chapters to Last Epoch, and with that constant pushing of our standards for the campaign, our oldest chapters needed to be brought up in quality. With Rising Flames, we are pushing those standards even further with a complete overhaul of Chapter 1!

Reimagining

Rahyehs Warpath

Evolving Design

Applying Lessons

Towns

Server Selection

Best Foot Forward

Hello Travelers, and welcome back to the Pre-Patch Hype Week Blog Posts - Weekend Edition! For todays post, were going to be taking a look at some of the new enemies and models youll be encountering in Beta Patch 0.9.1 Rising Flames.

Enemies

Quill Hog

Bolroth

Rahyeh Soldier

Vine Crawler

New Models

Primal Wolf

Primal Bear

Unique Item Models

Storm Breaker

Acidfletch

Soul Bastion

A day of Rest

Introduction

How We Got Here

• $4.99 USD = 50 EP
• $9.99 USD = 100 EP
• $19.99 USD = 200 EP

Supporter Packs

• Eternal Traveler - $20 - (includes 150 EP)
• Eternal Templar - $30 - (includes 150 EP)
• Eternal Vanquisher - $40 - (includes 150 EP)
• Eternal Legend - $50 - (includes 150 EP)

Cosmetic Price vs. Value

Why Epoch Points at All?

Conclusion

Hello Travelers and Happy Friday! If you happened to read yesterdays post, you may have caught todays topic at the end, Weavers Will. Like any good cliff-hanger, well be continuing that conversation in todays episode of Pre-patch Blog Post Hype Week!

Weavers Will

New Uniques

Hey Travelers! If youve been waiting for your chance to put a little extra shine on your favorite hero of Eterra then todays announcement is for you - Rising Flames brings the beta launch of Last Epochs Cosmetic Store and our new Supporter Packs. We are very excited to bring some of these awesome upgrades to our community for the first time, and we cant wait to see all the amazing work our designers have created - wielded by, conjured by, and running alongside the Travelers of Eterra. As fans of the genre ourselves, we know that Cosmetic Stores come in all shapes and sizes, and so they inspire a wide variety of opinions from players. We get that. So let us take a moment to share our thoughts and guiding principles below.

Why are we introducing a Cosmetic Shop?

Will there be pay for power in Last Epoch?

Supporter Packs

Cosmetic Shop

Epoch Points

Last Epoch and MTX

Hello Travelers, and welcome to the second day of the Pre-patch Blog Post Hype Week! Originally we were going to be talking about towns today, but in a Shyamalan-like twist, we're going to instead be covering the new Reaper Form coming in Patch 0.9.1 Rising Flames!

Reaper Form

The Week Continues

Hello Travelers, and welcome to the first day of the Pre-Patch Hype week for Patch 0.9.1: Rising Flames! Over the next week and leading up to the May 25th Rising Flames patch, we will be revealing and talking about most of the major features coming in patch 0.9.1. For todays post, were going to be covering Ladders!

Ladders

Features

• Softcore
  • Solo (Account Found)
  • 1 Player
  • 2 Players
  • 3 Players
  • 4 Players
• Hardcore
  Solo (Account Found)
  • 1 Player
  • 2 Players
  • 3 Players
  • 4 Players

The Future of Ladders

Dungeons

• Likely fixed a bug that caused players to be unable to enter the Boss Room of Dungeons.
• We have spent many hours confirming this fix so were pretty confident its resolved but arent totally certain since the bug didnt happen 100% of the time. Please let us know if this bug still happens for you after updating.
• Fixed a bug where you could enter a Dungeon without consuming a key in some situations.

Monolith of Fate

• Fixed a bug where echoes could fail to spawn enemies, including bosses or quest objectives, if Ring of Shields was active while loading the echo.
• Emperor of Corpses' Soul Bomb now deals less damage the further you are from the center of the ability.
• Fixed a bug where monolith modifiers could be duplicated. If a timeline had an impossibly high number of mods, those duplicated mods will be removed the next time you enter an echo in that timeline.

Gameplay

• Fixed a bug where using traversal skills while you had certain other skills on your bar (including Summon Skeletal Mage) caused a stutter to build up with each use, resulting in a game freeze after enough uses.

Notes

Gameplay

• Fixed a bug where Temporal Shift could sometimes cast a second time after being used once, resulting in getting sent back to the era you were originally in.
• Fixed a recent bug where targeted abilities such as Lunge or Smite could fail to cast if they were the first ability you used in a scene.
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to target enemies that had yet to emerge with Lunge. Doing so would result in being unable to move after using Lunge.
• Fixed a recent bug where offline characters would have 0 potions when loaded rather than their maximum amount of potions.
• Fixed a bug where some breakable objects in various scenes continued to obstruct movement after they were destroyed in online play. This also sometimes caused players to get stuck in place, unable to move. The fixed scenes include The Majelkan Catacombs, The Rustlands, The Altar of Flesh, The Dragons' Grotto, and The Rotting Hoard. Please make a Bug Report if you still run into this.
• Fixed a bug where enemies could be pushed around in Online by walking into them.
• Fixed global conditional damage properties not working (except for unlimited damage per stack of ailment effects, which already worked). These effects are fixed:
  • More Spell Damage to Ignited Enemies on Soulfire
  • More Throwing Damage to Bosses and Rare Enemies on Bo's Anarchy
  • More Fire Hit Damage to Ignited Enemies on the Arcane Flames node on the Mage passive tree
  • More Void Damage to Stunned Enemies on the Shifting Power node on the Volatile Reversal tree
  • More Melee Damage per Bleed (up to 30 stacks) on the Wounded Prey node on the Summon Bear tree
  • More Damage per Poison (up to 30 stacks) on the Envenomed Prey node on the Summon Scorpion tree
• You can no longer type in the chat windows when you have chat disabled.

Skills and Passives

• Base Skeletal Mages now use a new ability called Dread Bolt rather than a version of Hungering Souls.
• Normalized the damage and cast speed of Skeletal Mage projectiles. Previously the Hungering Souls used by regular Skeletal Mages was much slower and weaker, while the attacks from Cryomancers and Pyromancers had hidden modifiers to cast speed and damage which made it difficult to understand their power.
• Dread Bolt: 30 base damage and 150% damage effectiveness, 50% chance to apply Damned on hit, no longer applies Possessed (which had a stack limit and could overwrite a player's stronger Possessed ailment). Dread Bolt now also has a higher projectile speed and does not have homing.
• Cryomancer's Ice Shard: 30 base damage and 150% damage effectiveness (previously 12 and 100%, with 90% more damage).
• Pyromancer's Fireball: 34 base damage and 170% damage effectiveness (previously 25 and 125%, with 40% more damage).
• All three now have the same cast speed, slightly slower than Pyromancer's Fireball used to be.
• This should result in close to the same DPS for Fireball and Ice Shard, and much higher DPS for Dread Bolt.
• Increased the projectile speed of all Skeleton Archer projectiles.
• Fixed a bug where Rampage's Intimidating Cry did not require Roar to be on your action bar in order for it to trigger Roar. The description of this node has not yet been updated to specify that Roar must be on your bar.
• Fixed a bug where Void Knight's Void Well passive had no cooldown. It now has a 3 second cooldown (from 10 listed, none actual) and sets you to 30% of max mana (from 20%).
• Fixed a bug where Sacrifice's additional chains from Catalyst of Horror and Sanguine Libation were not additive with each other, resulting in 2 fewer chains than intended while any points were invested in Sanguine Libation.
• Fixed a bug where Sacrifice consistently chained to 1 fewer minions than intended (this is in addition to the other fix).
• Fixed Bow Puncture snapping to targets more intensely than other bow skills.
• Fixed a bug where Arcane Momentum's stacks displayed were incorrectly. This is only a display change.

Items

• Fixed a bug where Fragment of the Enigma gave 2 Lightning Damage for Spark Charge per 10 max mana instead of the stated 2 Lightning Damage for Spark Charge per Intelligence.

Visuals

• Updated the visual effects for the Mortar abilities used by Skeletal Mages.
• Updated the visual effects for fireballs cast by Pyromancers (Skeletal Mage).
• Updated the visual effects for all Skeleton Archer projectiles.
• Fixed various visual bugs with the poison cone attack used by Scalebane Casters.
• Updated the indicator visual on the ground for Soul Spire attacks.
• Fixed broken particle effect visuals in Soulfire Bastion.
• Fixed a bug which caused part of the visual effects of some skills, notably Lunge, to play at an incorrect place (usually offscreen).
• Fixed visual effects applying to item models on the ground.

Enemies

• High Speed and Crit Chance Until approach monster mod changes
• Fixed a bug where the mod's vfx were invisible online.
• This mod's effects and vfx now start when the monster is engaged rather than when it spawns
• Fixed a bug where the Less Damage Taken From Distant Enemies monster mod's vfx were invisible online.
• Fixed a bug where the Shade of Orobyss's blood orbs did not visually seek out targets in online play, causing them to hit players unexpectedly.
• Fixed the Void Amalgamations melee attack visual appearing further away from itself than intended.
• Improved the visuals of the Void Amalgamations melee attack.
• Fixed a bug where Voidwings could be invisible in Online mode.
• Fixed Cremorus weapon appearing solid white.
• Fixed the Void Fiend not having an outline and being visible before emerging.
• Reduced the chance for larger splatter visual effects when hitting rapidly, but made that decreased chance fall off sooner than previously. This will result in fewer large splatters when hitting rapidly, but more large ones when having multiple seconds between hits.

Optimization

• Fixed a bug where Arcane Ascendance with the Acuity node could cause severe latency problems while on your skill bar.
• Greatly improved the performance of these minion projectile abilities:
  • Skeletal Mages now use Dread Bolt which performs better than Hungering Souls
  • Cryomancer (Skeletal Mage) Ice Shards
  • Pyromancer (Skeletal Mage) Fireballs
  • All Skeleton Archer attacks
  • Thorn Totem Thorns
• Fixed a bug where When-Hit VFX were playing more frequently than intended, causing some performance issues.
• Improved the performance of Spire abilities.
• Improved (reduced) how much RAM game servers use.

Notes

• Dungeon boss doors not always working (we apologize for this taking so long)
• Monolith Echoes occasionally breaking when playing as a Forge Guard
• Using a skill you dont meet the weapon requirements for locking you in an animation
• Rubberbanding, latency and performance problems
• Monitoring for any other ability use problems

This update fixes a regression in Spirit Plague, addresses a pre-existing bug that could affect the Emperor of Corpses fight, and improves our performance data collection. Were still working on bug fixes and general improvements as mentioned in out 0.9i post. Thanks for continuing to make bug reports and participate in our community.

Changes

• Fixed a bug where players could push enemies in Online mode by walking into them. This could cause positions to get out of sync between the client and server, for example in the Emperor of Corpses fight.
• Fixed a bug where Spirit Plagues Rotten to the Core node could not be allocated.
• Improved performance data collection on servers to aid in optimization efforts.

This update fixes a few regressions that were introduced by 0.9i. We are monitoring for any other bugs that are new to this update, and otherwise our priorities are the same as in our last post. Thank you for your patience and for reporting bugs.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where channeled abilities did not work in Offline if they were not assigned to the first action bar slot (Q by default).
• Fixed Disintegrate being invisible when converted to Fire or Lighting (the default visual worked).
• Fixed a bug where items that dropped while item labels are hidden (Z / Alt-Z) would still be hidden after turning item labels back on.

Monolith of Fate

• Restored The Rotting Hoards boss arena to its original size so that the Emperor of Corpses Soul Bomb attack can be avoided properly. Additionally, the damage of Soul Bomb has been increased back to the very painful amount it used to be.
• Fixed a bug where leaving a completed monolith echo via a town portal created before completion would grant rewards without applying the modifier from that echo. It now applies the modifier as well.
• Fixed an issue in Fallen Harbour echoes where one spire could spawn slightly out of bounds, making it unreachable for some builds.
• Fixed an issue in Boreal Forest echoes where two spires could spawn right next to each other which looked and felt weird.
• Fixed the shop inventory in Echo of a World never refreshing/refilling.

Gameplay

• Changing the behavior of the left mouse button now properly works in both Online and Offline mode.
• The attack used for breaking barrels is now distinct from the regular basic attack. It is faster by default, does not scale with attack speed, and uses a more appropriate animation while you have a bow equipped.
• Fixed a bug that caused certain damage multipliers based on ailments to not grant their damage bonus. The affected nodes and items were:
  • Abyssal Echoes's Embrace the Darkness
  • Arcane Ascendance's Chronoclasm
  • Firebrand's Inferno
  • Hungering Souls's Inspired Hunger
  • Summon Sabertooth's Snow Stalker
  • Summon Scorpion's Shock and Claw
  • Volatile Reversal's Food for Wyrms
  • Warcry's Horrifying Cry
  • Firestarter's Torch
• Fixed a bug where when continuously using an ability all uses after the first would be delayed slightly on the server based on your ping. This caused the creation of their visuals to be slightly out of sync with the animation.
• Fixed a bug where in both online and offline if you clicked to use an ability then clicked again to buffer another ability use, but clicked to move before that second ability use started, it wouldn't cancel that second ability use.
• Fixed a bug in online where if you held down the move button and then used two abilities in succession, where the second was a reactive ability such as teleport or snap freeze, the second ability would be instantly canceled by movement, but would still go off on the server.

Skills

• Updated many base skill icons, skill tree icons and passive tree icons throughout the game. This should create a higher quality and more thematic experience of browsing through skill trees and passive trees.
• Fixed a bug that caused skill levels and available skill points to display incorrectly in many situations when the player had a source of additional skill level from items.
• Fixed the elemental conversion / damage type icons in the skill trees window not showing in Online mode.
• Fixed a bug in online play where Druids could not switch the abilities on their action bar while transformed.
• Fixed a bug where moving to a new zone in online mode would cause a previously summoned Abomination to be resummoned as if it had not consumed any minions.
• Fixed Tempest Strike having a missing texture (pink blocks).
• Fixed a bug that caused Forgemaster node in Forge Strike to not spawn axes.
• Fixed a bug where Rip Blood's second Blood Splatter could apply Bone Curse through Cursed Limbs when triggered by Crimson Enlightenment.
• Static Orb's baseline effect of more damage and increased area based on distance traveled now also applies to Charged Ground.
• Fixed a bug where the area increase from Static Orb's Storm Burst node did not apply to Charged Ground.
• Charged Ground now has the area tag, and its description states that it benefits from Static Orb's damage and area bonus per distance traveled.
• Improved Blood Splatter's hit detection, fixing problems where it would sometimes not hit targets it should have.
• Updated the visual effects for Thorn Totems Rotten Core node.
• The Pillars of Heorot node for Thorn Totem now converts 100% of Physical base damage to Cold (from 50%) and increases Freeze Rate to 30 (from 15).
• Removed Thorn Shield's slight priority for targeting players over minions, and mobile minions over immobile minions, which we introduced in 0.9g. This was removed to avoid the negative impact it had on builds that target minions with Thorn Shield.

Dungeons

• Fixed a bug that prevented some players from entering Dungeons. The key was consumed and you could access the lobby, but the transition into the dungeon itself did not appear.
  • We are aware that players can sometimes not interact with the boss door at the end of Dungeons (the window to continue does not appear when you click). This seems to be more likely to happen to players that are by themselves. If this bug happens to you, joining a party should fix the problem. Otherwise, relog and try again. We are working on a fix for this.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Julra to fail to drop a boss-specific unique item or exalted item.

Item Visuals

• All loot now has an animation when it drops to the ground.
• Updated all loot models on the ground. They are more performant and look better.
• Added a generic bag model for small items such as jewelry, relics, and belts, and an idol model for idols.
• Updated all visual effects for items and gold on the ground, i.e. the vertical colored beams.
• Exalted items now have their own visual effect, rather than using the effect for rare items.
• Added a visual effect to potions on the ground to make them more noticeable in combat.
• Updated visual effects for all chests being opened.
• Added a special visual effect for the chest in Echo of a World.

Uniques

• Fixed a bug where item effects that relied on switching to or from a moving state didn't work in multiplayer. This fixes mods on the following uniques:
  • Stormtide
  • Transient Rest
  • Flight of the First
• Orchirian's Petals and Ashes of Orchirian now sell for 144 gold, from 250. If you know, you know.

Quests

• Fixed a bug where the time rift to The Ancient Cavern would not re-open if you returned to The Precipice.
• Fixed a bug that caused multiple you are here markers to show at once when zoomed out on the Imperial Era world map.
• Fixed a bug that could cause players to be unable to start the wave fight in The Risen Lake if another party member completed the fight while they were not present.
• Fixed a bug where you could still talk to Rouj Zabat after he died.
• Added a work around to prevent Chapter 7 quests being uncompleteable if you skipped around during party play (the quests will be completed when moving on to Chapter 8).
• Fixed a bug where the sidequest in Etendell could get stuck on the Defeat Winged Fire objective if you killed the Siege Golem before the Winged Fire.
• Adjusted the Sirens and Sailors and To Shell With It quests to prevent situations where killing the enemies available in the zone was not enough to complete them.

Animation

• Fixed a bug where if you left a form while walking your character would slide in human form instead of playing a walk animation.
• Fixed a bug where if you left a form while using a 2h weapon your character would hold it like a 1h weapon and use 1h weapon animations.

Enemies

• Fixed a bug where the indicator for Haruspex Orians stab attack wasnt always lined up properly online.
• Fixed a bug where the indicator for Argentus' ice spear stab wasn't always lined up properly online, and the skill itself was not shown.
• Updated the visuals and sound for Bitterwings ice breath attack.
• Fixed a big lightning particle effect being left on screen when Meruna Ogres died.
• Fixed a bug where Void Horrors that spawned from Beacons didn't have hit or death flash.

Sound

• Unique, Set, Exalted Legendary Items and high rarity crafting materials now have new drop sound effects.
• All other items now have revised sounds for when they drop.
• Monolith chest now has new looping and open sound effects.
• Updated ambient sounds throughout Chapter 3.
• Fixed the wrong music playing in The Courtyard.
• Fixed Admiral Hartons voice lines being too loud in the Immortal Citadel.

Login

• Fixed a bug which could cause an LE-51 error during login, preventing access to the game for some players.
• Increased the character limit for entering an email address when starting the game for the first time.

Optimization

• Improved the performance of Volatile Maws explosions.
• Improved the performance of Meruna Ogre abilities.
• Improved the performance of Bitterwing enemies.
• Improved the performance of Upheaval.
• Reduced the file size of some textures, slightly reducing the games install size.
• Fixed a small memory leak, improving the performance and stability of long game sessions.

Notes

• Improving server and client performance. Poor performance on either side can lead to some types of lag, among other problems.
• Maintaining game server and service stability.
• Monitoring for any data loss. We are confident that our online systems have stabilized but were still looking out for it.
• Fixing gameplay and systems bugs. We read through reports from you, the community, and we are also constantly doing our own testing.
  • This includes the dungeon boss door bug mentioned above.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where deleting a stash category could cause some stash tabs to become inaccessible, making it appear like the items were lost.
• Added a check to automatically fix any stashes that were affected by the above bug.

Notes

• We have fixes for reordering transform abilities, Abominations losing abilities on transition and Tempest Strike visuals.
• We have a fix for changing left mouse button behavior in testing.
• We have a fix for the Dungeon entrance bug and it has passed our initial testing. Since the problem does not affect everyone evenly, we are doing more testing to confirm.
• We are also working on a fix for Dungeon boss rooms sometimes being inaccessible, and Julra failing to drop her specific unique items.
• We are still actively working on client and server performance. This includes CPU, memory and network optimizations and should help improve situations that feel laggy.
• We are aware that unexpected server region / high latency issues are still occuring and are working on ways to improve this. Its a somewhat longer term effort than individual bug fixes.
• We are continuing to monitor for indications of save data loss, and things have looked good this week. We will investigate any reports thoroughly.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug introduced in Beta 0.9g which caused save data loss in Offline. If you returned to Login/Character Select by using the Leave Game button and then loaded any offline character, any updates to that character or the stash would not be saved.

Gameplay

• Fixed a bug which caused rubberbanding (being moved backwards) when using movement abilities or the Temporal Shift ability in the Temporal Sanctum.
• Significantly reduced instances of Lunge and similar abilities getting stuck in their animation, which prevented movement until another ability was used.
• Players can now respawn at the end of a Dungeon boss fight without being kicked out of the dungeon when the boss is defeated by other party members.
• Players can now choose to Abandon a dungeon or arena run if they dont want to wait until they can respawn.
• Fixed a bug where the main combat floor entrances in Soulfire Bastion had invisible reverse transitions. If you walked backwards into them it would reload the zone (ending your dungeon run).
• Fixed a bug where your character model was sometimes duplicated after transitioning to a new zone. The camera would remain locked on the copy, while the other one could move.
• Fixed a bug where Spires could attack players that were in Echo of a World.
• Fixed a bug where the western moon fragment altar in the Moonlit Shrine could sometimes become uninteractable.
• Fixed quest objective pulses not updating properly in The Fall of Ledria.
• Fixed some Osprix Vanguard enemies using an incorrect ability.
• Fixed the Initializing screen showing after login even when the queue system isnt active. This makes getting to character select slightly faster.
• Fixed a bug where the Leave Game button took you back to Login rather than Character Select.
• Fixed another rare server bug which could cause save data loss. We are monitoring telemetry to find any other causes that need to be addressed.

Skills

• Thorn Shield now has a slight priority for targeting players over minions and mobile minions over immobile minions.
• Fixed a bug where Shifts Deadly Ambush and Braskulas Hesitation nodes were applying to all non-channelled attacks, not just the next non-channelled attack after Shift.
• Fixed a bug where Meteors Cycle of Fire only granted its ward and mana for 4 seconds after gaining Craterborn, rather than for the full 6 second duration of Craterborn.
• Fixed a bug where Teleports Comet Rush did not refresh the duration of an existing Haste.
• Fixed a bug where your Vengeance tree sometimes affected an allys versions of Riposte and Iron Blade instead of yours.
• Fixed a bug where the Fulminating Caw node on the Storm Crow tree sometimes caused an allys increased lightning damage to apply to your crows instead of your increased lightning damage.
• Fixed a bug where the nodes on the Ballista tree that caused your stats to apply to your ballistae sometimes caused an allys stats to apply to your ballistae instead.
• Fixed a bug where the on-use sounds for some instant cast abilities would not play on the client of the player using the skill.
• Fixed the trails behind Acid Flasks, Hammer Throw hammers, and Axe Thrower axes in mid-air stretching incorrectly.

Chat & Social

• Fixed a bug where chat channel selection could be reset in some situations. This could cause chat to turn back on after its been turned off.
• Fixed gameplay messages that are shown in the chat window (i.e. Loot Filter Disabled) being hidden when Chat is disabled.
• Fixed commands for replying to your last whisper (/r) and changing channels (i.e. /party) not working.
• Added a /lfg command to switch to the Looking For Group channel.
• Fixed a bug where Whisper and Party chat messages could sometimes appear to be from the wrong channel.
• Fixed new chat messages sometimes being cut off halfway vertically.
• Added a sound effect for receiving direct messages.
• Fixed the friends list scroll view being shorter than intended, causing fewer friends to be visible at once.
• The Add Friend and Block Player pop-ups now auto-select the input box so you can type right away.
• Fixed sections in the friends list re-opening when they should remain collapsed.
• Fixed a bug where adding a friend could cause an existing friend to disappear from the list for a while.
• Made a few small improvements to the visuals of the friends list.

Items

• Cindersong now also grants +1 to Fire Spells. Also improved the clarity of its tooltip.
• Unused dungeon keys are now returned back to your inventory when closing the dungeon entrance window (if you have space).

Visuals

• Fixed a bug where the water in Ritual Lake echoes would cause visual effects to become invisible.
• Reduced the overall brightness of Imperial Metropolis and Snowbound City echoes to make it easier to see.
• Updated the visuals for Drain Lifes poison explosion.
• Updated the visuals for abilities used by Profane Flesh.
• Fixed the visuals and damage for Profane Flesh sometimes not lining up with its animations.
• Fixed Profane Flesh snapping to face new targets rather than turning.
• Fixed Ruby Nagasa not animating properly on death.
• Fixed Infernal Husks not animating properly.
• Fixed Apophis sliding at the beginning of the cutscene in MajElka Upper District.
• Fixed Liath having glitchy animations in Island Battlefield.
• Fixed the Timeline Conduit in the Shade of Orobyss arena having a red outline.

Optimization

• Fixed a bug causing memory usage to go up on the client over time, particularly in Monolith. We tested the fix by playing through 10 campaign zones and 10 echos, and found that the fix reduced memory usage by more than 1 GB at the end of the test.
• The visual assets for enemies were not being properly unloaded when moving to different zones.
• RAM usage definitely still goes up over time, and we are currently investigating this further.
• Replaced several lightning visual effects with new ones which are much more performant.
• Improved the performance of death visual effects for various enemies.
• The ice projectile ability used by Ice Elementals is now pooled, which mitigates FPS drops caused by this enemy.
• Updated the Wengari Axe Throw abilitys visuals to be more performant.
• Fixed an issue that could cause unnecessarily large patch downloads. Unfortunately, the fix cant help the download size of this patch, just future ones.

Notes

• Deleting stash categories causes items to go missing (weve confirmed no items are being deleted)
• Players sometimes being unable to enter dungeons (this doesnt affect everyone evenly which makes it harder to track down
• Changing left mouse button behavior (i.e. move to attack)
• Re-ordering skills while transformed
• Abomination forgetting what minions it consumed after moving to a new zone

Gameplay

• Fixed a rare bug which could lead to large online save data rollbacks. Were still working on identifying any other causes of rollbacks and fixing them.
• Fixed a bug where Druid Transform builds could sometimes end up with scrambled action bars, with incorrect and mispositioned abilities, which also caused the Human Form action bar to become blank.
• Fixed a bug where traversal skills such as Lunge would consume more than 1 charge of the ability when used, and also consumed more than 1 charge of other traversal skills that share a cooldown.
• Fixed a bug where an uninteractable reward rock could sometimes appear in Echo of a World, preventing interacting with the real reward rock.
• Fixed a bug which caused ability use to be prevented if you were holding down a key after using a movement ability. This caused Dancing Strikes to be used much less frequently when holding the button than when rapidly pressing it.
• Fixed a bug where quick selling items was not blocked on the client while gambling. This could cause the client to become out of sync with the server, with items appearing to be duplicated or lost. This was a visual/clientside bug; no items were lost or duplicated.
• Fixed a bug where the Liath and Thetima quest could get stuck on the Speak with Yulia in Thetima objective.
• Fixed some skill, passive and affix typos.

Account Creation

• Fixed a bug which caused LE-51 errors to be shown if a problem occurred while picking a display name, rather than an error message that tells you what went wrong (i.e. name already in use, invalid characters, invalid length, profanity filter).

Enemy Fixes

• Fixed a bug where some Void Despairs would have an outline appear after killing them.
• Fixed a bug where some Void Despairs didn't have a health bar.
• Fixed a bug where Void Despairs would sink into the ground immediately upon dying.
• Fixed a bug where the Void Penance didn't have a top of screen health bar in multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug where the indicator and animations for the Idol of Loathing would not re-time properly when it was chilled.

Notes

Quests

• Fixed a bug where the portal to return to Thetima would not appear after killing Lagon. The waypoint to SorethKa is unlocked however, so that can be used to progress without redoing the fight.
• Fixed a bug where the Saving Last Refuge quest could become uncompletable in some situations. Talking to Gaspar again should fix the quest if its bugged for you.
• Fixed a bug where the interaction to jump over the railing on the Dreadnoughts Deck would not appear if you left the zone after speaking with Alric.

Gameplay

• Fixed a bug which caused your item visuals and account name to fail to display and would display the default account label (usually fixed by moving to a new zone). This fix may take a little while to be fully in effect.
• Fixed a bug that caused Minion icons (top left of screen) to sometimes disappear.
• Fixed a bug where the Shade of Orobyss' concentric ring explosions could occasionally deal damage a second time, 2 seconds after the first.
• Fixed a bug where leaving a dungeon via a player portal could sometimes cause other players to be unable to portal to you (LE-70).
• Fixed LE-67 errors occurring if you clicked a dungeon door after someone put in a key and clicked Enter, but did not select a tier.
• Fixed a bug where hardcore characters that had died still showed as hardcore in some parts of the UI.
• Added tutorials to the start of the game for joining a party and re-assigning skills. We have other tutorial changes in progress.

Notes

Flame Reave

Future Fixes

• We are monitoring issues with logging in and connecting to servers (i.e. being able to at all, and the speed of doing so). These issues are typically addressed on our backend, which happens separate from client/server releases.
• We are continuing to investigate reports of progression rollbacks and improving our telemetry to diagnose causes.
• Weve identified the cause of skills on the actionbar being scrambled/un-set when playing Transform build and are working on a fix.
• Weve seen reports of Lunge causing the player to get stuck but havent found a consistent way to cause the behavior. Any details you can add in a bug report (types of enemies, location onscreen, recordings) would be helpful.

Gameplay

• The Death Recap screen (you were killed by X with Y damage type) now works in Multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug where offline characters could not unlock empowered monoliths at the timeline catalyst. You can go back to the catalyst on existing characters to unlock it.
• Fixed a bug where a reward rock could incorrectly appear after completing a Quest Echo in offline (Quest Echoes dont have echo completion rewards).
• Fixed a bug where return portals did not appear in the Council Chambers or Outcast Camp after taking a town portal to those zones.
• The following interactions now require a click rather than happening when you hold down the left mouse button and hover over the object:
  • Using the Town Portal (both to town and from town)
  • Open the Stash
  • Talking to most NPCs
• Defeating the following chapter bosses now unlocks the first waypoint of the next chapter, in case you logout or disconnect before continuing:
  • Admiral Harton
  • Spymaster Zerrick
  • Harton/Zerrick Rematch
  • Lagon

Skills

• Fixed a bug where the skill tooltip incorrectly displayed when opening a skill tree.
• Fixed a bug where channeled skills kept recasting in multiplayer, causing casting vfx and sounds to play repeatedly.
• Increased the basic melee attack range of Assembled Abomination by around 100%.
• Fixed a bug where Flame Reaves Rhythm of Fire could not gain stacks from any source.
• Fixed a bug where using Fury Leap at a very long distance could cause you to get stuck in an animation pose until you used another ability.
• Fixed a bug where Lunge would lock you in place when targeting destructible objects.
• Fixed a bug where Rip Bloods Coagulated Blood was not affected by increased area.
• Fixed a bug where Swarmblades Locusts sunk into the ground and did not animate.

Save Data

• Fixed a bug where offline characters could be overwritten when creating a new offline character after deleting one.

Enemies

• Temporarily massively reduced the damage of the Emperor of Corpses Soul Bomb. The arena for this fight was made smaller in the lead up to 0.9 without the boss abilities being changed to account for this. We plan to return the arena to its original size soon.
• Void Worms have a less intense visual effect when they die.
• Fixed a bug where Infernal Fleshs abilities would sometimes indicate in the wrong direction in multiplayer.
• Fixed Spymaster Zerrick not having a boss-style healthbar when hovered over.
• Fixed the stone blocks in Liaths Sanctum not having a sound.
• Updated the emerging sound for Void Despair.
• Fixed the Hollow Druants Entangling Roots skill not having sounds.

Items

• Fixed The Throwing Damage and Mana Cost affix incorrectly showing that its damage had a physical tag.
• Fixed the Travelers Backpack not appearing when equipped. Were still working on granting this cosmetic to all players.

Notes

• We are investigating other reports of data loss associated with online characters. While these reports are fairly uncommon this remains our top priority. This build introduces some additional logging that will help us investigate.
• We now know what is causing characters to sometimes appear without their armor and the default display username ( ) to appear which is a failure to load this data and are working towards a fix. This is only a visual bug that is usually resolved when switching to a new zone.
• We will continue to monitor your feedback and put out additional hotfixes as necessary for skill bugs, multiplayer systems, and so on.

0.9d Changes

• Fixed a bug with the chat system that caused a hugely excessive amount of calls to our backend services (this shouldn't change anything on the player side).

The Convergence, Patch 0.9, is coming Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 11:00 AM CT! Welcome everyone to the final day of our Pre-Patch Blog Post Hype Week! Over the last year, we have been working on a very large number of improvements for Last Epoch alongside the addition of the Multiplayer Beta. With all these changes stored up, we have a lot of notes and changes ready for you to look over. Because of the sheer number of these notes, we've decided to release them a few days earlier than we usually would in order to provide a chance to read through the areas you might be interested in and prepare for patch day! In preparation of the launch of the new client on March 9th, we will be taking the current log-in servers offline approximately 4 hours before the patch launch in order to migrate accounts to the new servers. (This will not transfer any characters, or other progression, just getting everyone set up to be able to log-in to the new servers). Last Epoch Beta Patch 0.9 - Convergence will introduce:

• Multiplayer!
• New 3D models for new and existing Uniques
• New Armor sets for Acolyte, Mage, Primalist, Rogue, and Sentinel
• New Unique Items
• Balance Changes, including almost every skill in the game
• Performance Improvements
• New Music & Sound
• New Player animations, and skill VFX
• New Bone Golem and Manifest Armor models
• New Enemies
• Reworked Zones
• New Monolith Maps
• Bug Fixes
• And more!

Hello, Travelers! Its officially the start of Patch week, with only four more days to go until 0.9! In todays blog post, were going to be getting a bit technical. Performance and Optimization has been a major goal for us over the last year and something weve made a lot of improvements regarding. We also know this is a very important topic for many users, so we want to talk about all the things weve been working on. In short form, Performance coming to patch 0.9 has improved considerably, and well continue to improve it! If youre interested in the extended version with how were accomplishing that? Well, lets dive into that. Over the years, our team has been busy building a content-rich and fun game. With regular updates, we provided a lot of new content often. While we always had performance in mind and tried to keep performance in check or improve it over time, we were never as focused on improving performance as we have been and continue to do so. Many things affect the performance of the game, and today we would like to share more about the visual effects optimization improvements we have made for patch 0.9.0 and beyond. Visual effects (VFX) are present in every corner of the game. If you are casting fireball, throwing magical hammers, getting hit by void enemies, seeing flickering torches in the dark dungeons, or just standing in the rain, there are almost always several visual effects playing on your monitor. Over the years, weve added thousands of visual effects to the game, and as we are now also adding multiplayer functionality, we understand we need to have the performance in a good place, and VFX can and does affect the performance in moment-to-moment gameplay. We have been going through every single visual effect we have in the game, benchmarking it, and making sure it is up to our standards both from visual and performance perspectives.

Runtime Instantiation and Pooling

Shaders, Overdraw, and Rendering Paths

Overdraw

Rendering Paths and Visual Effects

Projectors and Trails

Working around engine limitations

Improving scene baseline frame times

We are not done

Hello Travelers, and happy Saturday! The weekend may have arrived, but that doesnt mean the Pre-Patch Blog Post Hype Week has been paused! In todays post, were having a look at a few of the new enemies youll encounter in Eterra, as well as a few of the new high-level armor designs youll be able to find during the Convergence in Beta Patch 0.9.

New Enemies

The Void Grub

The Void Drone

The Flying Void Worm

Updating Armor Sets

Primalist - T60

Acolyte - T60

Mage - T50

And Another One

Good day Travelers! Welcome back to another day of the Pre-Patch Hype Week Blog Posts! Today were going to be taking a closer look at some of the skill updates and changes coming in Beta Patch 0.9! Skills are the topic that most often tends to take the spotlight in any ARPG. Whether youre slicing through enemies with vicious heavy swings of a weapon or calling down meteors to destroy swaths of enemies in a single act, skills play one of the most defining roles in the experience of an ARPG. Thats why for 0.9, weve revisited many of our skills to improve their combat feel. In some cases, this can mean mechanical adjustments to better allow a skill to fulfill its fantasy. In others, it may mean visual changes to convey the impact behind it better, and sometimes, it may mean both. With 0.9, weve gone through and adjusted over 90 skills to some extent, and in todays blog post, were going to be covering a few examples of different skills which received some changes, and what those changes bring to the table!

Manifest Armor

Bone Golem

Rive

Lightning Blast

And so many more

Hello Travelers, The Pre-Patch Hype Week continues! In todays blog post, were going to be covering some of the improvements in level design. Everything from the lighting, assets, and layout of the area youre fighting (or dying) in has a very significant impact on not only the gameplay feeling itself but also immersion. These visual aspects can convey a lot of feeling and emotion behind the meaning of a scene and help establish it within the world, making each scene feel unique and impactful. The physical layout of different areas is also quite crucial in an ARPG due to how the camera angle works, how movement works, and how players interact with it. As a quick example, ever notice how most maps like to go up and to the right? This is because you have the most visual area in the top of the screen, as well as for many people reading left to right leads to a natural tendency to go right first. Of course, there are exceptions to provide uniqueness, but there are many small rules that go into making maps for an ARPG. But today, were going to be covering some of the improvements weve been making since 0.8.5, and showcase some of these improved scenes!

Updated Scene Assets

New End of Time Zone

Volumetric Lighting

Vegetation Shaders

A new view

Hello Travelers, We are officially on the road to Last Epoch: Convergence, which means its time for Pre-Patch Hype Week! In the coming days, were going to be covering some of the major updates coming alongside our Multiplayer Beta in Patch 0.9 - Convergence. While the main feature of this patch is, of course, the new Multiplayer environment, we also want to highlight many of the other improvements coming in Convergence. In todays blog post, were starting off in the world of sound, covering some of the fantastic new SFX and music that the team has been working on. Sound plays a critical role in any game, from Combat Feel to atmosphere; sound design can immerse you in the experience or take you out of it. Of course, our goal is the former, to create sound and music which emphasizes the gameplay. For todays look at Sound in Patch 0.9, weve got some direct insight to share from our team members who breathe life into the audio-world of Eterra. To really dive into some of the sound reworks, weve brought in our sound designer John, to talk about their experience in creating a few of these new sound effects, their ideas behind them, and some details regarding what goes into making a sound effect for an ARPG. Then for Music, weve brought in our Music Composer, Erik, who weve shared insight from before, to once again share their insight regarding some of the new tracks, which help set the tone and atmosphere in Last Epoch. So without further ado, Lets let John take it away!

Sound Design

Meteor SFX Rework

New Bone Golem Vocals

Void Knights Echo SFX Rework

New Music

Ruined Era Music

The Ulatri Cliffs - Ruined Era

The Council Chambers

The Ritual Site

An exciting week ahead!

Hello Travelers, Weve heard you and we have some exciting news to share with you today. You may recall back in December we released our plans for Item Gifting in Last Epoch. Since that time, weve been engaged in an ongoing conversation with the community about Trade. Many players expressed they were excited by our decision to champion finding loot, and many others have voiced their disappointment, letting us know that they were sincerely looking forward to trading their treasures in Eterra. Weve made it clear in the past that we want Last Epoch to be a place where you can come to slay monsters and find great gear upgrades, and it still will be. However, it is equally important to us that we remain a studio that listens and is grounded in our community. In short, we want Last Epoch to be the ARPG that rewards you for hunting items the way you most enjoy, no matter which side of the trade conversation youre on. So, weve been hard at work discussing, debating, and consulting with some of our trusted community members, and were happy to present you with the following:

Item Factions

• You can have different characters in the same Cycle in different factions
• Faction reputation is shared account-wide
• Faction reputation resets each Cycle
• When a Cycle ends and characters are transferred to the permanent non-Cycle environment, their Faction progress will be carried over

The Factions

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Thank You to Our Community

Thank you for all the passion and constructive criticism youve shown in these conversations. Weve been listening carefully, collecting your feedback and creating a solution that champions the diverse nature of our players. We are building Last Epoch for all of you, with all of you, and as ARPG gamers ourselves that came together to make this game, we value your ideas and opinions. We are very excited about introducing Item Factions and invite you to continue the conversation with us. Its worth noting that these systems will not be included in Patch 0.9, but we will be aiming to get them into subsequent patches this year. Resonances may be added sooner than Factions on account of their smaller scope.

Still have questions?

Check out our FaQ over on our forums! Thank You, Last Epoch Team

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Hey Travelers! Signup for Last Epochs Free Multiplayer Beta Playtest is now live on Steam! If youve been waiting for the right moment to introduce your friends to Last Epoch, there is no better time than right now. You dont need to own a copy of the game; all you need is a Steam account. Head over to our steam page and hit the sign-up button!
When can we sign up? Right now! When can we play? Thursday February 23rd @ 10am CST through Monday February 27th @ 10am CST What the Free Multiplayer Beta includes

• First Look at the upcoming 0.9 Patch
• Play for free with up to 3 friends in your party!
• Adventure through the first 4 chapters
• Access to 12 Class Masteries.

Hello Travelers! Yesterday we announced our 500,000 units sold milestone, and today we present to you a gift from the entire Last Epoch team! Introducing, the Travelers Backpack. This exclusive gift is our way of thanking you, and commemorating our shared journey with all of you who were with us from the start and those of you who are joining us just before we step into the world of Eterra together.
Spoiler Warning - Below is a list of each item on the backpack itself. [expand type=Spoilers]
Starting in the Top Left, and going around clockwise! [olist]

Orians Eye - Always watching you. Waiting. :slight_smile: [/olist] [/expand] If you happened to notice either in the game or watching someones stream, we had a sneak peek at this item during our last 2 events.
The Travelers backpack back slot cosmetic will be given to ALL owners of Last Epoch who own a copy prior to the Multiplayer Beta Patch 0.9, coming on March 9th, so there is still time to get the game and the backpack! If you are thinking about jumping into the world of Eterra there is still time to also get the original supporter packs, but those will be going away during our March 9th release, and a new set of supporter packs will become available. The price for Last Epoch will still remain the same, so you dont need to worry about a price increase when the launch happens. A note about current supporter packs and upgrading: [expand type="A note about current supporter packs and upgrading:"] If you purchased the game through our website, and would like to upgrade your supporter pack, you can have this done through a support ticket to the link below. If you purchased the game through Steam, or via a Steam Key, and youd like to upgrade your supporter pack to a higher tier pack before 0.9, we cant technically do an upgrade. However, since your purchase on Steam is already considered the Ardent Gladiator supporter pack, and you wish to upgrade to one of the other packages (only available until March 9th), we can offer an additional 350 cosmetic coins as we cannot refund Steam purchases in any way. We can do this for you by submitting a ticket to the link below after purchasing the desired pack. Link: https://support.lastepoch.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=1260808459030 [/expand] Thank you to everyone who has helped us on this incredible journey and we look forward to seeing you all showing off your Backpack! Thank You to everyone, Last Epoch Team

[ 2023-02-16 19:32:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello Travelers, First and foremost, we would like to thank all of you who participated in the Pack the Server Event Week. We understand it was a lot to ask to sign up for the event, and changing around branches on Steam to get involved, and we greatly appreciate everyone who took the time and effort to do so. This event was able to provide us with all sorts of great information from not only our backend systems but all sorts of feedback provided directly by all of you. Bugs were encountered and squashed. The servers struggled and were improved. Over the course of the event, we released several hotfixes to improve and fix various issues brought to our attention, and eventually even released the last remaining endgame system to the event, the Arena, alongside a number of server-side improvements which made it possible. One of the things we were able to test to great results was our ability to quickly develop and QA changes based on feedback, complete a build for the fix and release the build within a short timeframe. On the day the event started, the client released at 10:00AM CT, then only 6 hours later were able to release the first hotfix for several bugs, as well as adjust to feedback changing the beta disclaimer to only display once per account. Over the event, we also continued to get a lot of great feedback regarding the various performance, scenes, VFX, and SFX sounds, which were great to read and feel the excitement for 0.9. Overall, we were very happy with the results of the event. As we continue to close in on 0.9 (less than a month away!) were focusing almost entirely on resolving the remaining bugs as all core systems for 0.9 are in place. That means all the little bugs regarding quest state tracking, channeling skills, controller adjustments, and continued endgame server performance are the items on our remaining hitlist for 0.9. Of course, we still have one more upcoming event on Feb 23rd, the Open Beta Event, in which all steam users are able to participate, even if they dont currently own Last Epoch. Over the coming weeks, we will be posting more information regarding the launch of 0.9 Convergence, some more specifics on some of the changes you all got to experience, and of course as we close in on patch day itself, the much-anticipated patch notes! Thank you, everyone, we hope you enjoyed your time during this preview of 0.9, with the zone reworks, skill changes, and of course the early multiplayer beta allowing us to get the servers tuned for the much-anticipated release of the multiplayer beta on March 9th. We hope to see you all there on March 9th for Beta Patch 0.9 - Convergence!

Hello Travelers! This past weekend we held our first of multiple multiplayer events, the Invitational, which went exceptionally well. The aim of this event was to gather feedback, test our live operations procedures, and give the community their first full look at playing together with friends in Last Epoch. We were able to capture a ton of significant data and feedback to help us prepare for the multiplayer release coming with Last Epoch: Convergence on March 9th. From what we observed, many of the participants thoroughly enjoyed the new and updated campaign zones, all the VFX, SFX, and music changes, which was fantastic to hear. We also received a lot of positive feedback regarding the ease of grouping up, and generally feeling great playing together for hours on end, outside of a few minor bugs (were on them!). Some issues that we are aware of and have been actively working on did rear their heads during this event, such as server-side performance in end-game activities and specific late-game team strategies that were providing too great of a bonus for groups. While we were aware of these kinds of things, from the event, we were able to get a better view of where these impacts are coming from, have made some adjustments to our priorities, and have already made some changes for the next events. We want to go over some of this feedback and what kind of differences you can see between the Invitational event, future events, and Patch 0.9.

What were working on

Server-side performance

Gameplay

Itemization

Onward to 0.9!

Hello Travelers! March 9th is getting closer by the minute. With only a bit over a month left, that means It's getting time for pre-patch events! Everything is kicking off this Friday, January 27th, with the Invitational event! For this event, many of your favorite Last Epoch streamers will playing and streaming the internal test version of Last Epoch Patch 0.9.0 - Convergence. If you've been paying attention to our streams and dev blogs, there will still be all sorts of new features to catch, including balance changes to almost every skill, item changes, more than a dozen new unique items, visual reworks, new music and SFX, and more! So make sure to tune into your favorite content creator this weekend to get their point of view on Multiplayer and Patch 0.9.0 Convergence. Here is a short list (though it's not final) of content creators who you should be able to catch throughout the weekend streaming!
Presented in no particular order: - GhazzyTV - Lizard_IRL - McFluffin - Ter3k - Heavy_GamingTV - QuietForMe - AaronActionRPG - Palsteron - crouching_tuna - PerrythePig - dr3adful__ - VisionGL - Thyworm - jaytheproduct - TheAristotelian - RektbyProtos - BorOfSol - DmGamingEu - VulkanARPG After this event, make sure to keep your eyes peeled on our social media channels as we will then be posting more information regarding the February 2nd Pack the Server party, open to all Last Epoch owners. This will include information on how to get your account registered and put in queue for the event! Finally, on Feb 23rd will be the Multiplayer Open Beta Weekend, which will feature a special trial version of Last Epoch available to all steam users to try out Patch 0.9 and multiplayer up to Chapter 5! So if youve been watching Last Epoch, and have been waiting for an opportunity to give it a try, this event will provide you an opportunity to not only try out Last Epoch, but also the upcoming patch! We're again really excited about these events, and hope to see you all this weekend with the first Pre-patch event!

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. The Stream Charity for December is Salvation Army International. All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. The Stream Charity for December is Salvation Army International. All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

If youve been following Last Epoch, youre probably aware that our plans for how trading will work in the game have evolved significantly over development. In this dev blog, I'll explain the reasoning and design process that brought us to our current plans, what those plans are, and how they relate to patch 0.9.

Economies and Our Evolving Philosophy

Specific Item Acquisition

Sharing Discoveries

Item Gifting in Patch 0.9

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. The Stream Charity for December is Salvation Army International. All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Hello Travelers, and welcome to our Development Blog post for December 2022! Earlier this week, we made an exciting announcement for Last Epoch: The date for our highly anticipated Multiplayer release is locked in on March 9th, 2023! Youll be able to join forces with your fellow Travelers in Eterra with Beta Patch 0.9.0, but thats not all it will bring. This major content patch will also be coming with all sorts of other performance, combat, and gameplay feel improvements that you can enjoy with your friends. You may not even have to wait until March to get your hands on these changes - join us early during our upcoming MP Launch Roadmap Events detailed below! Weve been hard at work on this next major patch, and we continue to be excited about its release. Of course, we wanted to release it before the end of the year to make a nice Christmas Event, however, as always we continue to prioritize quality over speed. We want to make sure that 0.9.0 lands with the level of quality both you and we all expect from our major releases, with a fun and stable multiplayer, a complete online experience, and all the great improvements to gameplay and performance. We know its a long wait since the last major update, however, were dedicated to making sure this next one sticks that landing we all strive for as fellow fans. In this blog post, well be covering some of the features coming in this next major update, as well as providing some developers insight into the features as we like to do. Well also be covering some of the big features of multiplayer, further Combat Feel improvements, Skill updates, and more. All this info is only a scroll away!

Upcoming Events

Jan 27th - 29th - Multiplayer Beta - Invitational Weekend

Feb 2nd - 12th - Multiplayer Beta Week - Pack the Server Party!

Feb 23rd - 26th - Multiplayer Beta - Open Weekend

Multiplayer Updates

Monolith Navigation

Echo Rewards

Dungeons

Gameplay Improvements

Skill Updates

Swipe

Shield Rush & Rive

Harvest

Reaper Form

New and Updated Enemies

Temple Guardian

Idol (Giant Worm Boss)

Void Despair

Voidfused Earth

Re-worked Zones

Previous Updates

Almost There

Stay tuned for a full development update with more information on each of these events later this week!

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. The Stream Charity for November is Child's Play. "a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 185 hospitals worldwide." All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. The Stream Charity for November is Child's Play. "a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 185 hospitals worldwide." All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. The Stream Charity for November is Child's Play. "a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 185 hospitals worldwide." All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development. The Stream Charity for November is Child's Play. "a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 185 hospitals worldwide." All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development. The Stream Charity for October is Oceana. "Oceana is dedicated to advocating for science-based fishery management and restoring the worlds oceans." All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development. The Stream Charity for October is Oceana. "Oceana is dedicated to advocating for science-based fishery management and restoring the worlds oceans." All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development. The Stream Charity for October is Oceana. "Oceana is dedicated to advocating for science-based fishery management and restoring the worlds oceans." All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development. The Stream Charity for August is Good Sports. "Good Sports drives equitable access in youth sports and physical activity, by supporting children in high-need communities to achieve their greatest potential, on the field and in life." All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development. The Stream Charity for August is Good Sports. "Good Sports drives equitable access in youth sports and physical activity, by supporting children in high-need communities to achieve their greatest potential, on the field and in life." All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development. The Stream Charity for August is Good Sports. "Good Sports drives equitable access in youth sports and physical activity, by supporting children in high-need communities to achieve their greatest potential, on the field and in life." All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development. The Stream Charity for August is Good Sports. "Good Sports drives equitable access in youth sports and physical activity, by supporting children in high-need communities to achieve their greatest potential, on the field and in life." All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Hello Travelers, and welcome to the September Development Update! We have big news for you today: The CT Multiplayer Build for Last Epoch is going online 24/7 starting in early September. This means our Community Testers will be in full multiplayer test mode (by the way you can apply here) all day, every day as we polish, improve, and prepare for our upcoming Multiplayer Launch. Well be diving into the details regarding Multiplayer development in its dedicated section below. In todays Development Update youll also find details on our continued improvements to performance, optimization, combat feel, and upcoming mechanical balance changes, all coming in our next update.

Multiplayer Progress Update

Progress Since Last Update

Features and Gameplay

Online Experience, Stability, and Services

Multiplayer Alpha: Online 24/7

Invitation waves and future expansions

Upcoming Performance Blogs

Melee, Bow, and Throwing Damage

Ailment Changes

Updated Models / VFX

Totems

Spells

Enemies

Sound Design Updates

Closing

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream with Senior Game Designer Mike. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development. The Stream Charity for August is Good Sports. "Good Sports drives equitable access in youth sports and physical activity, by supporting children in high-need communities to achieve their greatest potential, on the field and in life." All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike starts a new build for August. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development. The Stream Charity for August is Paws with a Cause. All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike starts a new build for August. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development. The Stream Charity for August is Paws with a Cause. All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike starts a new build for August. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development. The Stream Charity for August is Paws with a Cause. All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike starts a new build for August. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development. The Stream Charity for August is Paws with a Cause. All twitch subscriptions, bits, and donations will be going towards this charity! All past streams can be found on our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastEpochGame/videos

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike starts a new build for July. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development.

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike starts a new build for July. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development.

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike starts a new build for July. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development.

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike starts a new build for July. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development.

Hello Travelers! A while back we posted a Dev Blog post on our Beesfriends: Community Guides and Moderators program. We like being open with what were doing and different programs we operate, so were doing the same kind of thing here today for the Community Tester Program. As such, for todays Dev Blog post, were going to spend a bit of time to cover what the program is, why we have the program, what the goals of the program are, and what exactly Community Testers do. Lastly, with multiplayer coming up quickly, were also going to be expanding our roster of Community Testers, so will be going over whats involved in joining the program, and how to go about applying!

What is the Community Tester Program?

Why Community Testers?

Multiplayer Testing and Joining the CT Program

Hey Travelers! The Steam Summer Sale has just arrived and with it comes the final early access sale for Last Epoch! This will be the last time you see Last Epoch on sale for quite a while so if you havent already, now is the best time to join us. Check out the sale page on Steam here! If you havent been keeping up, we have a huge amount of new content that has been added to the world of Eterra just this year alone. A massively expanded endgame, new skills, reworked masteries, new legendary and unique Items, and a whole host of other content! With multiplayer launching later this year, you wont want to miss this sale! To see all the exciting updates, be sure to check the announcements page on our forums!

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike continues working on his Primalist, Herald of the Scurry (Squirrel Companion) build. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development.

Hello Travelers, and welcome to the June Development Update for Last Epoch! In this Development Update, were going to be uncovering some information regarding the next big update coming to Last Epoch, some updates on multiplayer progress, and as always, a bunch of teasers regarding some of the new content coming to the world of Eterra! To start things off, lets have a quick note regarding how multiplayer progress is going. Well dive into more detail here in a bit, but just a quick mention regarding how testing has been going, and what the results mean for us. Simply put - Its going amazing. We greatly appreciate everyones patience as weve been spending the time to get everything in the background into place: account services, our debugging tools, ensuring stability, and more tasks that are hard to perceive on the surface but are essential for a solid online experience. This work is paying off in the testing phase. In fact, Its been going so well, weve decided to make a minor adjustment to our schedule. We had previously implied in passing here and there that the next major update would be 0.8.6 which is what we were initially planning. Thats no longer the case. Instead, were going to take a little bit more time to reach our MVP, and make the next update 0.9.0. Thats right - Multiplayer testing has been going so well weve made the call: The next major update for Last Epoch will be Update 0.9.0, with the Multiplayer Beta!
We are calling this the beta because we will have all the existing systems and content fully playable online, but we wont be done tailoring the *entire* Last Epoch experience to be ready for our full launch. Well touch on this more in the Multiplayer section in a moment. This means a lot of really big things for Last Epoch, and is unbelievably exciting for the team here at EHG. Not only are we able to now set a delivery timeline on a core part of the experience wanted by so many community members, as well as ourselves; but by completing multiplayer into the core experience of Last Epoch, this also means well be able to complete other content more quickly, and sooner. This is due to the reduced replication required for working on two separate Single Player and Multiplayer projects. To clarify this - Last Epoch will still have an Offline Single Player mode, it just means from our perspective were no longer working on two completely different versions of the game code simultaneously. Of course, as per the last development update, multiplayer is not our only focus right now. Our next major update will still also have a significant focus on addressing our largest areas of community feedback for Last Epoch: Performance, and Combat Feel. Were going to be diving into a bit more detail regarding these two big areas of feedback here as well in this Development Update. But no time right now to mull over that big news, let's start diving into some of the details!

Multiplayer

Multiplayer at the Core of Last Epoch

The 0.9 Beta Update

Updates From Last Post

Finished or Nearly Finished Content

Online Platform and Service Improvements

Ongoing Efforts

Optimization

What's next?

Combat Feel

Void Penance

Voidfused Earth

Updated Equipment Models

Mage

Primalist

Torch of the Pontifex

Battlemage's Endeavour

The Last Laugh

Hakar's Phoenix

Summons

Community Events

In Closing

Hey Travelers! Today we are sharing some design thoughts surrounding the creation of our new track in The End of Time in Last Epoch. If you havent heard it yet, its beautiful - have a listen! [previewyoutube=vAftzMZUinQ;full][/previewyoutube] Singing wordless vocals throughout help create the mysterious feeling for the End of Time soundtrack. The track also contains a lot of ethereal synths and mandolins that are drenched in echo effects to help create the feeling that you are in a mysterious, faraway place that also has a feeling of hope. Halfway through the track, a version of the LE theme comes in that hints at the melody and plays around with the timing to give the track familiarity, but with an abstract approach. This is the first track in the game to utilize a generative music system that evolves over time. This system was designed by Erik Desiderio to combine different sonic elements composed ahead of time, at random. For example, in the game the music engine could play vocal part 3 over background 2 the first time you hear it, then the next time, it could play back vocal part 1 over background 3. This system allows the player to hear the track for extended periods of time without it sounding repetitive, because the system is constantly combining different elements to create a unique variation each time the player hears it. Keep your eye on our social channels throughout the week, or join us on our discord at discord.gg/lastepoch as were going to be posting our next Development Update soon. This Development Update will be including some important news, and will be available to read in just two days on Wednesday, June 22nd!

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike continues working on his Primalist, Herald of the Scurry (Squirrel Companion) build. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development.

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike continues working on his Primalist, Herald of the Scurry (Squirrel Companion) build. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development.

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike continues working on his Hail of Arrows Marksman. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development.

Hello Travelers, and once more: Welcome to the final post of the Community Designed Unique Event! Over the course of 6 weeks, we held a total of seven polls to result in a new Unique item to be immortalized within Last Epoch. This event has been a very special one. The entire unique from start to finish has been designed by the community. Throughout this event, there have been many amazing ideas brought forward by the community, and some very close races in the polls. Some of these ideas may not have won the polls, but our hearts instead, and may well live to see implementation in some other form (Long unlive zom-bees!). However the community has spoken, and the Community Designed Unique has been created! While our production team has been hard at work on multiplayer, Performance, and other top-secret changes for the next major update, our art team has been hard at work over the last couple of weeks to bring this Community Designed Unique to life for us to show off today. As an additional teaser: Since you all have decided on a new conversion for Volcanic Orb requiring new visuals, weve also taken this opportunity to bring the model and VFX for Volcanic Orb up to our current standards. These changes aim to give it a much more engaging visual design alongside many other combat and visual improvements. Were also looking at the SFX for Volcanic Orb, however, todays reveal will be covering some of the updated Visuals for Volcanic orb, the new Unique Spear, and the first reveal of the completed Unique items stats! So without further ado, allow us to introduce you all to your new unique item:

Lament of the Lost Refuge

The Wrap-up

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike continues working on his Hail of Arrows Marksman. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development.

Hello Travelers! Today is an oddly special day for Last Epoch: World Bee Day. On the 20th of December, 2017, the UN General Assembly officially declared May 20th World Bee Day in observation of the role bees play within our worlds ecosystem as a pollinator. This day of recognition aims to increase awareness of the critical part they play in everything from food production to medicine production, and to provide information to help protect these critical creatures from the decline they have been facing. While this is an important topic in general, you may feel its odd for a game company such as ourselves to be talking about and promoting it. However, those who have been with us for a while may have recognized that bees have found a special place within our hearts, game, and community. As such, today is a day of celebration.

To our Community

Bees?

Bloodkeepers Nest

Hive Mind

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike continues working on his Hail of Arrows Marksman. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development.

Hello Travelers, and welcome to the sixth Community Designed Unique event poll! To quickly recap last weeks poll, we decided on what the art would be for the Unique item. While we had three great options representing The Lost Refuge, and its cultural combination due to humanity from across Eterra taking refuge together - there was a very strong community preference. This spear has strong influences from Lagon, Rahyeh, and Heorots people, with the makeshift nature of combining powerful relics from their homelands into a necessary weapon to try to hold at bay the ceaseless void.
Now, we must finally decide what the name and flavour text will be for the item. The name helps to pull the entire item together, often embodying both the theme and effect of the item, completing everything into one whole. The flavour text often provides either background information for the item - lore, or provides a quote from someone who was particularly close to the item or directly wielded it. We got some fantastic suggestions for these two aspects. Thank you to all our community members who submitted their ideas for these options! I personally find creating names and lore far more difficult than creating unique effects. Weve reviewed the community suggestions and again picked those that were the highest voted, and our most favorite. Join us on our forums at https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/community-designed-unique-item-name-and-flavour-text/48826 and cast your vote for the Community Designed Unique's Name and Flavour Text this week! April 8th - Community Designed Unique Kick Off April 15th - Community Designed Unique: Item Type April 22nd - Community Designed Unique: Item Theme April 29th - Community Designed Unique: Unique Effect May 6th - Community Designed Unique: Item Art May 13th - Community Designed Unique: Item Name and Flavour Text May 27th - Community Designed Unique: Reveal!

Join us as for our weekly Dev stream as Game Designer Mike continues working on his Hail of Arrows Marksman. Come and ask any questions you have about Last Epoch and its development.

Welcome Travelers to our May Development Update for Last Epoch. It has been a little while since our last post, so oh boy, do we have a lot to share with you today. We are going to be sharing our progress on several big initiatives weve been working on, including multiplayer, visual and combat polish, and performance. We are also excited to announce that today marks the first day of our closed community testing for Multiplayer in Last Epoch.

Development Focus

Development Cadence

Multiplayer Development Update

A Letter From Stanzwar

Updates from our last post

Remaining Content

• Shrines
• UI notifications such as Level Ups
• Disconnect Logic
• Online portal behaviors
• Minion functionality (they transition across zones online now!)
• Monolith (nearing completion)
• Channeled abilities (nearing completion)
• and a lot more!

Diagnostics / Fixing Multiplayer Bugs Fast

• Were down to zero or extremely few crashes in our servers
• Our system that allocates you a server is up to 100% reliability
• When you have an issue like a crash or poor performance, we can see:
  • Your player names and accounts
  • The time of the problem
  • The precise server it occurred on
  • The logs for the issue
  • An alert is immediately sent to our development team
• We have a lot of data about:
  • Number of total crashes
  • Active players and party information
  • Reliability
  • Performance (is some crazy build making servers work overtime?)

Multiplayer Monolith

• When you enter the Monolith hub, the reward zone will also be loaded
• Neither of these will unload
• When you enter a new echo, it loads it
• When you finish an Echo and enter the hub or reward zone, it unloads
• You can seamlessly travel between your Echo, the Monolith hub, and the reward zone
• All of this is now on a single server for a full group

CT Test Update and Recruitment news

• Have fun!
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Going Online

Goal for May

Current Development

Performance Optimization

Improvements to Combat Feel

On-Hit Effects

On-death Effects

Death Animations

Ailments

Skill VFX & SFX

Continued Visual and UI Updates

UI Updates

Visual Updates

Primal Sabretooth, Primal Bear, and Golem

Monster Models

Armor Models

3D Models for Uniques

And much more

Looking Forward

Hello Travelers, and welcome to the fifth week of the Community Designed Unique event! Last week we posted the poll for what the items Unique Effect would be. For this poll, the community came up with some really exciting ideas. I saw a lot of people talking about theorycrafting and different potential routes each of the unique effects could take really showing just how great these unique effects were. As the poll came to a close, it was decided that the unique effect will be: [quote] Volcanic Orb is converted to Void damage +Directly Casting Volcanic Orb grants a stack of Corrupted Heraldry +Chance to gain a stack of Corrupted Heraldry when hit by Volcanic Orb Shrapnel +Gain X% movement speed, X% increased mana regen, and +X spell void damage per stack of Corrupted Heraldry +All stacks of Corrupted Heraldry are lost upon using a movement skill [/quote] This unique effect has some very interesting prospects a number of community members have already been discussing. It really takes the application of a spear in a very interesting direction, where its acting almost as a flagbearers spear over a traditional spear. The buff from shrapnel hits encourages keeping the player in close combat to continue getting more stacks as Volcanic Orb shreds down enemies, leading the charge. This allows Volcanic Orb to either be used for its direct effect, or be specialized to be a buff generator for other skills changing how the skill can be used in combat. For todays poll, weve had our art design team come up with three options for what the item will look like. Being based around the Lost Refuge, these designs incorporate the makeshift direction of weapons given the final stand environment, as well as the incorporation of several Eterran cultures as everyone took refuge here, and finally the corruption of the void creeping into the weapon. However theres three amazing options here for what this item could look like - and its up to you to decide. Join us on our official forums at https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/community-designed-unique-item-art/48761 and cast your vote for what your community designed unique art should be!

Hello Travelers, Every Friday at 3:00pm CDT we host a dev stream with Mike, one of our game designers, as an opportunity to catch up with our community, help answer questions, and just be part of the community ourselves. Each month, we pick a new charity for the weekly dev streams. All income from Subscriptions, Donations, and Bits are donated to the charity. Back in March we started raising funds for UNICEFs Ukraine children relief fund. Alongside setting this charity for the stream, we also set forth a promise to match the communities donations. When April rolled around, and we hadnt met our goal, we decided to extend this fundraiser through April, as well as continuing the match promise. With this fundraiser through both March and April the community raised a total of $1,525.42 through the stream in subscriptions, bits, and donations. With other direct contributions, as well as our promise to match these donations (and a bit of rounding up), Eleventh Hour Games with the contributions of our amazing community is donating a total of $3,500 from this fundraiser for the UNICEF Ukraine Childrens relief fund! We would like to give a huge thanks to all of our community members, both those who contributed, and those who showed up to provide support. Were happy to contribute what we can to these causes, and happy to have a community that supports in doing so. Of course, were not done. As mentioned, every month we pick a charity for which all stream contributions go to. For the month of May, we will be contributing the stream proceeds to the St.Jude Childrens Research Hospital. St.Jude Childrens Research Hospital focuses on pediatric treatment and research concerning catastrophic diseases in children, primarily leukemia and other cancers. This organization also has one of the best charity scores for accountability and transparency out there. So whether youre interested in contributing to this charity, asking questions about Last Epoch, or just hanging out with some devs live, make sure to catch our dev stream each Friday, including today at 3:00 PM CDT!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug which resulted in your character being locked to an idle pose when trying to both move and use an ability that was on cooldown close to the end of an ability animation.

Changes

• The ward gain effect for Ashes of Mortality can now have a 13%-19% chance to proc (from a static roll of 6%), grants 2 ward per ignite or damned stack on the target (from 2 to 3), and now also has a 1 second cooldown.
• If you have two Ashes of Mortality equipped the proc chances for the ward gain effect are added together, but the amount of ward gained is not (this was previously the other way around).
• Monolith Echoes now always contain at least one enemy type that has medium to large packs. This should reduce the potential to have echoes with particularly low enemy density.
• Enemies that lose aggro can go slightly further from their original position before losing aggro.

Hello Travelers, and welcome to the fourth round of voting for the Community Designed Unique event! Last Week we polled for the Community's decision regarding the item theme. It turned out to be an extremely close race. While they were all great thematic options for the Unique item, two options were constantly fighting for the top spot, often tied, other times one would pull ahead by a single percentage, then the places would reverse. Eventually, in the final hours, one choice emerged the victor. In one corner was the theme of "Tri-Elemental". Sporting one of the core themes of the Mage class itself, Tri-Elemental would focus around, this particular class theme as the item theme. There were a lot of great ideas for what kind of unique effects we might see out of a tri-elemental weapon: True displays of why the Elders of the College are so revered for their mastery of this art. In the other corner, was The Lost Refuge (also known as Rat City). The Lost Refuge represents one of the final bastions of humanity against the ever-encroaching Void before the final End of Time. The valiancy, bravery, and dire straights of this area emboldened many community members with strong unique effect ideas to try to stem the tide of the void. However, there could only be one top pick for the poll, and that winner was: The Lost Refuge! Even in a poll, the last remnants of humanity would not give up the fight to emerge victorious. Sadly, The Lost Refuge in Eterra was not as successful, though with the Community Designed Unique, we will be immortalizing their efforts within Last Epoch! Over the last several weeks, we've had you all submitting your ideas for unique effects, and adding likes to those unique effects so we can compile a list to be voted on. We've reviewed this list, and have picked out the ones to which the community provided the greatest response, as well as ones we enjoyed the most. Join us on our official forums at https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/community-designed-unique-unique-effect/48723/ to see what unique options are up for grabs, and cast your vote on what this item's effect should be! April 8th - Community Designed Unique Kick Off April 15th - Community Designed Unique: Item Type April 22nd - Community Designed Unique: Item Theme April 29th - Community Designed Unique: Unique Effect May 6th - Community Designed Unique: Item Art May 13th - Community Designed Unique: Item Name and Flavour Text May 27th - Community Designed Unique: Reveal!

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This patch consists mostly of buffs for a few underused uniques, set items, and skills. However a major reason for it is fixing the Ashes of Mortality + Humming Bee combination that resulted in movement speed and defense far beyond that which other builds could achieve. This occurred on account of us critically underestimating the amount of ward that could be generated by Ashes of Mortality. This was in part due to the ailment stack limit in the UI hiding the actual stacks of ailments that enemies often had applied. That limit will not be removed in this hotfix, but has been removed internally and that change will be included in our next major patch. Meanwhile, we are greatly reducing the amount of ward generated by Ashes of Mortality based on the stacks of ignite and damned on the target. To compensate, we are increasing the power it gains from ignite and damned stacks on you, and increasing the amount of increased damage it grants. Humming Bee is also being reworked. Movement speed scaling off of ward is a legacy effect implemented long before we knew how much ward builds would frequently accumulate, and in its current state it greatly exacerbates ward related imbalances. With the changes in this hotfix it will no longer give crazy amounts of movement speed when you have a ton of ward. However, it will give more increased damage than before if you're using an elemental melee attack, and its new movement speed bonuses will be more relevant when found early on in the game, as they're less dependent on generating very large amounts of ward. One of the benefits of the overpowered state of Ashes of Mortality was that it enabled ignite builds that had been underpowered for quite some time. We are slightly buffing the damage of ignite to attempt to keep those builds above water despite the nerf to the unique. Due to some changes in our deployment infrastructure, this patch has a larger download size than usual. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

Uniques

• Ashes of Mortality now grants a 6% chance to gain 2-3 Ward per Ignite and Damned on the target and 13 to 29 ward per Ignite and Damned on You (from a 13% chance to gain 6-13 ward per Ignite and Damned on you or the target).
• Ashes of Mortality grants 30% to 76% increased fire and necrotic damage (from 30% to 52%).
• The Confluence of Fate now grants 13 to 18 Fire, Necrotic, and Void Spell Damage (from 5 to 13) and is now an Oracle Amulet (from Silver Amulet).
• Humming Bee grants 1% Chance per 20 Ward to gain Haste for 2 seconds when you use a Melee Attack (from 1% increased movement speed per 250 ward).
• Humming Bee grants your Elemental Melee Attacks 1% Increased damage per 200 ward (from giving 1% increased elemental damage per 250 ward).
• Humming Bee now also grants 3% to 7% increased movement speed.
• Zeurial's Hunt grants 12 to 32 bow lightning damage and throwing lightning damage (from 12 to 22).
• Zeurial's Hunt's conditional effects grants 42% to 62% Lightning Penetration (from 42% to 52%).
• Fixed a bug where Zeurial's Hunt's effect could be procced by non-lightning attacks.

Set Items

Zerrick's Set

• Zerrick's Set's old 3 item bonus is now its 2 item bonus (its previous 2 item bonus was 54% Increased Chance To Find Potions). Its 3 Item bonus is now 72% Increased Chance to Find Potions and 18% less poison and necrotic damage taken.
• Zerrick's Greed now grants 130 to 390 dodge rating (from 120 to 240).
• Zerrick's Guile now grants 125 to 375 dodge rating (from 100 to 200).
• Zerrick's Ambition now grants 23% to 35% increased leech rate (from 20% to 30%).

Halvar's Set

• Halvar's 2 item bonus is +25 Spell Cold Damage (from +15).
• Halvar's 3 item bonus now also grants +2 to Avalanche in addition to its existing bonus.

Isadora's Set

• Isadora's Revenge grants 40 to 82 health (from 40 with no range).
• Isadora's Gravechill grants 48 to 80 health (from 36 to 60).
• Isadora's 3 Set Bonus now also grants 30% Increased Damned Effect in addition to its existing bonus.

Pebbles' Set

• Pebbles' Collar grants 24% to 42% increased minion damage (from 24% with no range).
• Pebbles' Collar grants 24% to 42% Cold Resistance (from 24% with no range).
• Pebbles' Bitemarked Sash grants 24% to 42% increased minion damage (from 24% with no range).
• Pebbles' Bitemarked Sash grants 24% to 42% Fire Resistance (from 24% with no range).
• Pebbles' Femur grants 24% to 42% Lightning Resistance (from 24% with no range).
• Pebbles' 3 set bonus now grants +42 fire, cold, or lightning damage (from 24).

Corsair's Set

• Corsair's Set's 2 item bonus now also grants 35% less necrotic damage taken on block in addition to its existing bonus.
• Changed Corsair's Blood Cowl's base type to Umbral Visage from Exile Hat.
• Corsair's Blood Cowl no longer grants 17% to 35% less necrotic damage taken on block.
• Corsair's Blood Cowl now grants 35% to 85% increased chance to find potions (from 35% to 72%).
• Corsair's Blood Cowl now grants 35% to 85% increased mirage attack area for Lethal Mirage (from 35% to 72%).
• Corsair's Boarding Shield requires level 35 (from level 51).

Last Bear's Set

• Last Bear's Set's 2 item bonus now grants 20 health gained on stun (from 15).
• The Last Bear's Scorn grants 20% to 30% Endurance (from 10% to 15%).
• The Last Bear's Fury grants 30% to 75% increased melee physical damage (from 20% to 50%).
• Changed The Last Bear's Fury base type to Engraved Gauntlets from Noble Gloves.
• The Last Bear's Lament requires level 20 (from level 28).
• The Last Bear's Lament grants 25% to 45% void resistance (from 15% to 50%).
• The Last Bear's Lament grants 45 to 105 Endurance Threshold (from 50 to 100).

Skills

• Soul Feast deals 25% more damage and costs 17 mana (from 20)
• Blood Tether (from the Soul Feast and Reaper Form trees) has 50% more base damage and added spell damage applies to it at 100% effectiveness per second (from 40%)
• Hammer Throw has 22% more base damage and added throwing damage applies to it at 110% effectiveness (from 100%)
• Shield Throw deals 20% more damage
• Meteor deals 12.5% more damage and costs 56 mana (from 60).

Ailments

• Ignite deals 5% more damage.

Things have certainly gotten interesting since the latest poll. From last weeks poll, well be creating a Two-Handed Mage Spear! This will be the first of its kind in Last Epoch, so has quite the opportunity to really create something new and distinct. Im personally very excited to see how this item continues to evolve from this point. For todays poll, well be collecting your votes for the items theme. This theme will help direct the art style of the item, naming, flavor text, and even the unique effect. Weve collected suggestions from the forums, and picked out options that the community has been highly receptive to. This is a very important, almost historical poll, as its the first poll where all of the options are not based on core game mechanics. Instead they are completely based on community suggestions that will be directly implemented into Last Epoch. Come join us on our Official Forums and cast your vote for the Item Theme for the Community Designed Unique, and don't forget to start submitting your ideas for the Unique effect! https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/community-designed-unique-item-theme/48654 April 8th - Community Designed Unique Kick Off April 15th - Community Designed Unique: Item Type April 22nd - Community Designed Unique: Item Theme April 29th - Community Designed Unique: Unique Effect May 6th - Community Designed Unique: Item Art May 13th - Community Designed Unique: Item Name and Flavour Text May 27th - Community Designed Unique: Reveal!

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Welcome Travelers to the second poll of the Community Designed Unique Event! We hope youre enjoying some of the new Uniques introduced in 0.8.5d (I know I have a few off meta ideas for myself). Last weeks poll had some amazing interaction and were very excited that so many members from the community are so interested in this event. Thank you all for being such a great community to be a part of. From last weeks poll, it looks like Mage is going to be the target class for the new unique, very exciting! And we are shocked, simply shocked that a Two-Handed weapon was selected. We had no way to foresee this outcome. Ok, maybe were not that shocked. So keeping in mind that were looking at a Mage as the focus for a two handed weapon, join us on our forums and cast your vote for what the weapon type should be. Mages are capable of wielding all but bows, so what will it be: A Spellblade Spear? A Sorcerer Axe? You decide! https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/community-designed-unique-item-type/48587

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Edit: Weve deployed a quick fix for 0.8.5d to prevent Fire Lich Scythe base type dropping as a normal item, change its attack rate to 0.92 (from 1) and change its range to 2.6m (from 1.9).

Uniques

• Added 3 new uniques that are exclusive to the Soul Gambler.
• Added 3 new uniques and a set item that can be dropped by Cremorus, Immolator of Souls.
• Added 4 new uniques that can be dropped by The Mountain Beneath.
• Added 3 new uniques that can be dropped by the Arena Champions.
• Added a new set item that can be dropped by Formosus.
• Added 2 new uniques that can randomly drop.

Enemy Aggro

• In campaign, dungeons, and the monolith, most enemies now de-aggro if they go too far from their original position unless they are particularly close to their target or currently using an ability.
• Bosses, minibosses, rare enemies, and enemies with high base health are excluded.
• This has no effect in the arena or in arena echoes.

Monolith of Fate

Stability changes

• Reduced base stability scaling from distance from origin - now gains an average of 1.25 stability per tier (from 1.5).
• Reduced base stability scaling from corruption below 50 - now gains 1 stability per 8 corruption up to a total of 6 (from 1 stability per 5 corruption up to a total of 10).
• Increased stability scaling from corruption above 100 - now gains 0.3333% increased stability per corruption up to 100% at corruption 400 (from 0.32% increased stability per corruption up to 80% at corruption 350).
• Increased bonus stability from regular echoes from around 106% of base stability to around 204% of base stability.
• Increased bonus stability from arena echoes from around 60% of base stability to around 114% of base stability.
• Maximum bonus stability from regular echoes now requires around 5% more kills to attain unless the echo is particularly small.
• Shade Echoes now grant around 320% of a regular echo's base stability (from 250%).
• Bonus stability from arena echoes now starts when wave 2 spawns (from wave 1) and the maximum amount is reached once all waves are defeated (from when the last wave spawns).

Implications of Stability changes

• Regular echoes at a moderate distance from the center of the echo web grant around 25% less base stability at 0 corruption, 29% less at 100 corruption, and 21% less at 400 corruption.
• Regular echoes at a moderate distance from the center of the echo web grant around 11% more total stability at 0 corruption, 5% more at 100 corruption, and 16% more at 400 corruption.
• On average, if you now kill enough enemies to have obtained around 60% of the maximum bonus stability according to 0.8.5c numbers, you will gain more total stability than in 0.8.5c.
• This threshold is higher around 100 corruption, lower around 400, higher when far from the centre of the echo web, and lower when close to it.

UI Changes

• Bonus stability is now displayed on the stability bar at the top of the panel when you select an echo that grants bonus stability.

Randomization

• Improved the spawn locations in Solarum Ascent.

Keys

• Right clicking a dungeon key while the appropriate slot is open now always moves the key to the slot (this was already implemented for arena keys).
• Right clicking a dungeon key while the appropriate slot is not open now opens the map at the location of the dungeon.
• Right clicking an arena key while the appropriate slot is not open now opens the map at the location of Champion's Gate.
• This same functionality can be achieved on a controller by pressing Y while using D-PAD selection.
• The drop rate of individual dungeon keys before level 55 is now equal to their drop rate at level 55.
• Keys can still not drop before their minimum drop level (25, 47, and 54).
• The effect of this is a 75% increase in key drop rate at level 25, linearly scaling to no difference at level 55 or higher.
• Very slightly increased how many dungeon keys drop outside of dungeons (this is multiplicative with the change above).

Dungeons

Lightless Arbor

• Tier 1 modifiers now grant much less increased damage and health, but grant rare items instead of exalted items.
• The number of bonus rare items from these mods is higher than the number of bonus exalted items from the previous mods.

Soulfire Bastion

• Modifiers offered at the exit of the first zone in Tier 1 and Tier 2 Soulfire Bastion give 10% increased damage and health (from 30%).
• Modifiers offered at the start of Tier 2 Soulfire Bastion give 50% increased damage and health (from 30%).
• Compared to 0.8.5c, Tier 1 Soulfire Bastion is slightly easier after the first zone, and Tier 2 Soulfire Bastion is slightly harder in the first zone.

Temporal Sanctum

• Tier 1 Julra deals 7% less damage and has 5% less health.

Ability Buffering

• Improved buffering when rapidly clicking to attack. If you rapidly press ability A while using ability A, and also press ability B at least once, ability B will be buffered instead of ability A, regardless of which ability's press was latest.
• Improved buffering when holding down the move key. Holding down the movement key no longer prevents buffered abilities that cannot interrupt low priority settle from going off. They now go off when the ability would have ended had it not been interrupted by movement.
• For example, if you are holding down the movement key while using Lightning Blast and then press the Static Orb key, the Static Orb key press would have previously been ignored as you'd start moving before being able to cast another ability. Now it'll go off at that point when you can cast another ability even if you've already started moving.
• Fixed cases of reactive skills that were not able to interrupt the portion of an ability that could be interrupted by movement. This affected Werebear Roar and all form changing skills, and they should now feel more responsive to use.

Other Changes

• Dragon Fire from Dragon Song now has its visuals pooled, improving performance.
• Immortal Eyes now have "Immune to Stun and Freeze" in their description. This is only a display change.
• Updated the attribute scaling displayed on Northern Winds, Lightning Bolt, and Earth Spikes to accurately reflect the scaling they use (Tempest Strike's 4% increased damage per point of Strength and Attunement). This is only a display change.
• Area modifiers for Dread and Infernal Shade now visually scale just the ring's radius, not the height of the ring or the size of the shade.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Avalanche was receiving 4% increased damage per point of Intelligence instead of its intended 4% increased damage and 4% freeze rate multiplier per point of Attunement.
• Fixed a bug where Earthquake's Shatterquake node did not apply its benefits to Earthquake's Aftershocks.
• Fixed a bug where Fury Leap's Regain Stamina could only trigger while in Werebear Form.
• Fixed a bug where the damage increase from the Blaze Shade node on the Infernal Shade tree did not affect Ailments applied by Blaze Shade.
• Fixed Shadow Daggers and other abilities procced by ailments failing to deal damage when procced in certain circumstances (e.g. from a distance with bow puncture).
• Fixed a bug that caused 2H Axes to drop from the Rare Maces Monolith rewards.
• Fixed a bug where Aura of Decay's VFX was not affected by increased area. This was only a visual bug.
• Fixed a bug where the area increase from Blaze Shades did not affect their visuals.
• Fixed visual bugs with Unseeing and similar enemy types.
• Clarified that Devouring Orb's Hollow Orb node causes Devouring Orb's Void Rifts to no longer increase in size or damage for each successive Void Rift.
• Clarified the alt tooltip of the "chance to receive a glancing blow when hit" property to state that glancing blows deal 35% less damage (previously said half damage).
• Fixed the shock ailment tooltip saying that it reduces elemental resistance instead of lightning resistance.

Hello Travelers, There have been requests, there have been rumblings, and there have been bees. Today, the much anticipated Community Designed Unique Event begins! Starting today, every week we will be posting a new community poll. Each poll will help further refine a design for a Unique item to be immortalized in Last Epoch. The polls will be opened on Friday evenings two hours before the start of the Dev Stream at 1:00PM CDT, and be closed on the following Friday morning. That means you will have seven days to cast your vote to shape a new item to be introduced to the world of Eterra. At each step along the way, you can also suggest in comments different aspects of the item, such as name, effect, theme, or even flavor text. Those that get the most likes and still fit within the world of Eterra will be included in the voting options. With this, we will try to include options for ideas that both we and the community enjoy the most: however do be aware, if an idea strays too far from the game, we may have to decline it as an option (sorry, even with a community designed unique, there wont be any nyan cats in Last Epoch). So to kick everything off, this week wed like to get your opinions on the first shaping of the item. Head over to our forums on https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/community-designed-unique-event/48454 and cast your votes in the included Polls to see this item start to take form!

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Wed like to start this post with a thank you to everyone in our amazing community and all of the great feedback concerning the changes and new content in 0.8.5. Its with this great feedback weve been able to continue making Last Epoch as great as it is. In the very near future we will be releasing the remaining Uniques for The Mountain Beneath, as well as Cremorus and a few more adjustments and fixes. However, before these Uniques are available in game, we wanted to provide a bit of a teaser. In the post below, youll see item card examples for two of the new items coming, as well as art for other items coming for the 0.8.5d hotfix. Let us know in the comments below what sort of effects you think the remaining Uniques might have! In addition to speculation, we have some speculation for you - Keep an eye on our socials tomorrow as were going to be starting a very exciting event we know a lot of people have been looking forward to (not multiplayer), and were excited to see you all there!

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EDIT: These patch notes were mistakenly not published on Steam when this update when live on Tuesday. Sorry about that!

Monolith of Fate

Bonus stability

• Echoes now grant bonus stability based on the number of enemies you kill, up to around double the normal amount of stability.
• The maximum bonus stability for an echo is listed in the rewards section of its tooltip.
• Fall of the Outcasts' 3rd quest echo now has slightly higher stability requirements. It requires 300 in non-empowered and 800 in empowered (from 250 in non-empowered and 750 in empowered).

Gaze of Orobyss

• The first two quest echoes of each timeline are now optional in empowered timelines.
• Completing the third quest echo in an empowered timeline now grants 1 Gaze of Orobyss.
• Defeating a Shade of Orobyss that increases corruption consumes all Gaze of Orobyss to grant bonus corruption. However, if you die while fighting such a Shade, you will lose all Gaze of Orobyss.

Randomization

• All regular monolith echoes now have multiple player spawn locations rather than a single fixed player spawn.
• Most regular monolith echoes have a wider variety of objective spawn locations.
• We have a system in place to prevent objectives from being placed too close to the player spawn location regardless of the randomization.

Arena Echoes

• Now 10% less common for most timelines, and 28% less common for Ending the Storm, where they were previously 25% more common than usual.

Swarmblade Form

Locusts

• Last 12 seconds by default (from 9).
• You are now limited to 12 active locusts.
• Locusts deal 50% more damage.
• Hives summon locusts 122% more frequently.
• The summon hive skill has 35% more cast speed.
• The summon hive skill has a 5 second cooldown (from 8) and can hold 3 charges (from 2).
• You are limited to 3 active hives (from 2).

Locust Swarm and Swarm Strike

• You are now limited to a single active Locust Swarm.
• Fixed a bug where the added melee poison damage for Locust Swarm was actually applied as added melee physical damage.
• Locust Swarm deals 25% more damage.
• Locust Swarm gains 15 melee physical damage, 15 melee poison damage, 15% increased duration, and 15% increased area per locust consumes (from 12, 12, 12%, and 12% respectively).
• Added melee damage is now applied at 350% effectiveness to Swarm Strike (from 300%).

Skill Tree

• All Druids with Swarmblade specialized will receive a free respec for its tree.
• Replaced Toxic Hum (20% increased swarm damage per locust, grants 2% poison chance per locust while swarm active) with Plague of Locusts (2% more swarm damage per locust, grants 4% poison chance per locust while swarm active).
• Grand Colony now also grants +1 maximum locust, but no longer increases the summoning speed of hives, and can have 3 points allocated (from 4).
• Hive Mind no longer increases the maximum number of hives or grants additional hive charges, but instead increases hive summoning speed and causes Locust Swarm to release locusts over time (a swarm does not lose damage as it releases locusts, but cannot release more locusts than were initially gathered to create it). It can have 3 points allocated (from 2).
• Bountiful Hibernacula no longer increases cooldown recovery speed for Summon Hive, but now grants 10 health and 1 rage whenever a hive releases a locust.
• Earth Stinger grants 3 melee physical damage to you and locusts, and 3 melee physical damage for Locust Swarm per Locust consumed (from 2, and 2 respectively).
• Hornet Nest now halves the maximum number of Locusts rather than the maximum summoned by a Hive.
• Army of the Tempest can have 2 points allocated (from 3), but now also grants procced tornadoes 40% more damage per point.

Other Changes

• Using a skill that requires an accessible target location, such as a movement skill, while targeting an inaccessible location now casts the skill at an accessible location near the target. Previously the skill would fail entirely.
• This should prevent movement skills from failing in Titans Rest, for example.
• Soulfire Shield no longer scales with cast speed, but is 80% faster to cast. This improves how smooth it is to use, and makes it consistent across classes.
• Scales of Eterra
• Grants 8-20% increased Cast Speed (from 5-16%).
• Infusion grants 10% more damage of that element per stack (from 8%).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Vaion the Arsenal's Smelter's Wrath ability would still trigger if you killed him while it was charging up.
• Fixed a bug where the quest list on the right side of the screen would appear empty at first when loading an existing character.
• Fixed a bug where you could exceed the summon limit for a minion type if you summoned multiple minions with a single ability cast.
• Fixed a bug where Void Rifts were creating duplicate visual objects, affecting performance.
• Fixed a bug where Warpath's Apocalypse Whirl gave 10% Time Rot chance instead of the listed 30%.
• Fixed a bug where it was possible in some cases to still deal critical strikes with Singularity equipped.
• Fixed a visual bug where Shield Rush's Echoes of the Charge followed the player.