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Summary

Highlights

Endgame

• We're bringing fresh content to the Monolith of Fate, and we'll post about this soon!
• This patch also includes 5 new Arena maps!

User Interface

• This patch includes Tooltip DPS, a Phase 4 item from our Early Access Forecast.
  • We're also redesigning our skill tooltips, as shown in the thread linked to above.
• Your characters now wear their equipped gear on the character selection screen.

Items

• We are introducing powerful new skill level-raising affixes.
• We are working on significant changes to defences.
• We have reworked how affixes are distributed between prefixes and suffixes and which items they roll on.
• This update introduces new, class-specific Relics.
• Sceptres now have new 2d art, new 3d art, and new implicit properties.
• Shields now have new 2d art, new 3d art, and new implicit properties.
• We've updated all unique items implemented before Patch 0.7.7 (March 2020).

Skills

• A new Spellblade skill, Surge, is being added.
• A new Beastmaster skill, Warcry, is being added.
• The Mage skill Fire Shield is being removed.
• The Beastmaster skill Flanking Strike is being removed.
• We have revisited every skill in the game to better standardize our specialization trees.
  • Older skills should now be appreciably more viable in challenging content.

Animations

• All animations used by non-transformed Primalists have been replaced or improved.
  • We plan to improve Werebear Form and Spriggan Form animations in future.
    • We are also exploring model improvements for these skills.

Level Design

• We've performed a pass on many zones to improve their appearance. These updates were concentrated on Chapter 5 and Chapter 3, but we've touched up other zones as well.
• We haven't specifically posted about these, but you might have found a teaser.

Optimization

• Significantly optimized visual effects that appear around the character during skill usage.
  • While these are not the most significant contributors to poor performance, this is the first update to include work from a long-term project of ours to dramatically improve combat performance in Last Epoch. We will be gradually rolling out this optimization work to additional areas of the game across future updates.
• Optimized the performance of outlines applied to enemies and allies on mouse-over.
  • They should also now look better.