What changed in Last Epoch in 2019

The death screen now shows the type of damage that dealt the killing blow.

Added a new node that adds a guaranteed stun and a cooldown, and another that increases stun duration and cooldown duration.

Each Sigil grants 4 fire damage (down from 5) and 25% increased health regen (up from 20%).

Mana cost reduced to 55 (from 70).

Fixed item tooltips getting stuck open and displaying incorrect colors.

Improved the performance of Avalanche’s visuals.

Fixed bugs related to the buff display and effects of Sigils of Hope.

Fixed a chest being difficult to open in Maj’elka.

Added damage effectiveness increased to 200% (from 170%).

Cyclone now prevents Maelstrom from freezing enemies, but grants 5% increased global physical damage per stack of Maelstrom.

Added damage effectiveness increased to 250% (from 200%).

Added a new node that increases bleed effectiveness, Forged by Fire can have 4 points allocated (up from 3), and Mass Production now adds a 5% chance to summon weapons.

Fixed Flame Ward not granting 30% less damage taken as stated on the tooltip.

Characters with Forge Strike specialized will receive a free respec for its tree.

Fixed being unable to use Shield Rush if you changed your weapon.

Fixed the sound for dropping items also playing when items are picked up.

Optimized the visuals for Abyssal Echoes, Bone Slam (Bone Golem), Blood Splatter, Detonate Corpse, and Glacier.

Reduced the damage of Flame Paladins, Ice Weavers Osprix Vanguards, and Rime Giants.

Fixed Runes and Glyphs besides Rune of Removal and Glyph of Stability not appearing in the Crafting Items tab. The items themselves were not deleted, so you will have the correct amount of each type after updating to this patch.

You can now swap out modifier and support items by right clicking, even if an item is already in the crafting window.

Fixed Runes being deleted if they are in the crafting panel and then replaced by a Shard.

Fixed the Mirage Staff base type not fitting in the hands of the player correctly.

Fixed being unable to view comparison info and other data for items on the ground using modifier keys (alt and ctrl).

Fixed a bug where Frozen Ire did not remove its per level bonus when unequipped.

Fixed being able to drag items while holding right click.

Added more failsafes for item loading and saving.

Fixed Heoborea failing to load if you had loaded multiple characters in a single game session.

You can now right click on the modifier or support item slot to empty it.

Fixed some drop rates for Uniques being incorrect.

Instability is no longer shown on the tooltips of items that can’t have instability.

Fixed a non-functional type of Rune dropping.

Fixed exiting to character select and then loading another character causing various odd behaviors.

Fixed an error with loading certain types of shards which prevented some characters from being loaded.

Improved targeting on slopes for Ice Thorns.

Earthquake now unlocks at Shaman level 10 (down from 15).

Fixed an oversight where Increased Elemental Damage could not roll on staves.

Fixed a bug where an item's fractured status was not being saved correctly.

Fixed ground affects unintentionally appearing on the Primal Sabertooth.

Fixed Wandering Spirits’ Spectral Putrescence node not adding the poison tag to the skill.

Fixed a click sound being played multiple times when loading a character.

Damage that brings you out of Reaper Form now bleeds through to your regular health.

Increased the gold value of staves and catalysts.

Fixed Flame Ward’s Selfless Sorcery node mentioning another node by the wrong name.

Fixed a bug where shards would rarely fail to drop.

The Decree of Flame node can now have a maximum of 3 points allocated (down from 5). Characters with more than 3 points will have extra points respecced for free.

Fixed Earthquake having a minion tag in its tooltip.

Updated the appearance of bees summoned by the Keeper’s Gloves.

Purchase unidentified items from the Gambler NPC using gold.

Increased damage by 60% and reduced mana cost to 40.

Resolved bugs where item tooltips would get stuck.

Grants Ward and reduces damage taken while retaliating with flames.

Travel back to the Divine Era and witness a conflict between gods.

Shifted power from defensive stats to damage.

Includes sounds for various abilities.

A melee attack that hits all enemies around you and sends tremors to nearby enemies.

Improves item storage and resolves long-standing bugs.

Increased base damage by 18% and freeze rate by 30%.

Heat Wave ignite chance increased to 20% per point.

Reduced power and adjusted skill connections.

Includes improved lighting and terrain.

New skills introduced for each Mastery Class, including Summon Wraith for Necromancer and Meteor for Sorcerer.

Significant changes made to the layout of Chapter 2 in the campaign.

Potions now heal significantly more based on character level, enhancing healing effectiveness.

Fixed a bug where Summon Sabertooth had incorrect base health.

New design for node tooltips to improve clarity and information presentation.

New Time Rift zones added, allowing players to experience different eras while remaining in the same location.

Players now select their Mastery Class after completing a quest at the End of Time, granting exclusive skills and passives.

Holy Aura now grants increased damage and elemental protection, with adjustments to its mechanics.

Increased freeze rate multipliers for various skills, enhancing their effectiveness.

Introduced new unique items including Boneclamor Barbute and Undisputed.

Two unique items are being added: one helm and one one-handed axe.

Preparing to update the game engine, which will require significant QA time but will bring improvements.

Tooltips have been redesigned, with gradual updates to specialisation tree and passive tooltips planned.

Introduction of new enemies including various dinosaurs, dragons, and unique plant enemies.

A bug affecting Vertical Sync is acknowledged and will be corrected in a future update.

Implementation of Minion Stances is postponed to a later patch due to QA time constraints.

New skills include Static for Spellblade, Disintegrate for Sorcerer, Maelstrom for Primalist, and Summon Raptor for Beastmaster.

Potions are being buffed and their affixes are being reworked.

Rewriting item storage code to add search bars to stash tabs and resolve item-related bugs.

Mastery classes are now chosen during a quest at the End of Time, granting exclusive skills and passive bonuses.

Shader improvements lead to a 5-10 FPS increase; backend graphics pipeline rewritten for better framerates.

Root nodes for skills now use the same tooltip as the skill itself by default.

Fixed issue where taking both Binary Star and Stability nodes caused the skill to stop working.

Resolved issue where poisons applied to the player were not converted to armour shred.

Rarity of Increased Cold and Increased Lightning Damage affixes adjusted to align with Increased Fire Damage affixes.

Fixed issue where it increased Fire Arrow's cooldown by 4 seconds per point instead of 1.

Arrows are now created at the bow rather than at the centre of the Archer.

Arrows are created significantly earlier in the fire animation to look more natural.

Resolved issue where it was only affecting Skeleton Rogues.

Ward retention is now consistently worded as +% ward retention.

Added an explanation popup for whenever a passive node is not allowed to be respeced.

Base cooldown of fire arrow changed to 6 seconds.

Resolved issue where players could respec passive nodes incorrectly.

Resolved issues where ward retention was incorrectly increasing added ward retention.

Fixed version number on the login screen to match the in-game version number.

Changed to grant haste for 1 second per 20 mana gained, up to 10 seconds, with only 1 point allocatable.

Fixed issue where it also poisoned the player.

Fixed a bug where the node had no effect.

Enemies or minions with no targets could select an ability on cooldown, causing movement issues.

Multiple new nodes added and existing nodes adjusted for better synergy.

Increased Zerrick’s health by 20% in Titan’s Canyon.

Strength now increases all Forge Strike damage, Attunement now increases damage similarly to Strength.

Fixed navigation issues in The Immortal Summit and Upper District.

Elemental, Poison and Necrotic Protection suffixes are now more common.

Stats from body armour, helmet, gloves, and boots now apply to Manifest Armour.

All types of Bone Golem now have 60% more melee damage, but 36% less melee attack speed.

Icons no longer show the seconds remaining as a number in the center.

Rare Fallen Osprix now deal 13% less damage with their fire aura.

Fixed several bugs related to minion abilities and their interactions.

Winter's Boon and Obliteration thresholds adjusted, and players receive a free respec.

Vale Spirits now deal physical damage instead of lightning damage and have adjusted damage scaling.

Warpath’s mana drain per second is now on its main tooltip, with initial mana cost changes.

Added new unique body armour Valeroot and unique 1h axe Tempest Maw.

Cooldown reduced to 16 seconds (from 20 seconds). Damage increased by 17%.

Increased damage of the orb itself by 50% and explosion damage by 67%.

Added a social panel for messaging, friend requests, and blocking users.

Numerous adjustments to passive skills across various classes, including new nodes and removals.

Reworked the system for passive respecs, allowing more flexibility in respecing passive points.

Introduced 4 new unique items including Cinder Song and Hollow Finger.

Introduced multiple new skills and skill trees including Summon Skeleton and Forge Strike.

Base mana reduced at level 1, but characters gain mana per level.

Changes made to Companion Activatable Abilities including damage and cooldown adjustments.

Players can now remove individual points from a skill’s specialization tree.

Buffs and debuffs now appear as icons above the action bar with duration indicators.

Boss fights with Admiral Harton and Spymaster Zerrick have new models, animations, skills, sounds, and voice acting.

Implemented the sixth chapter of story content with new zones, monsters, and quests.

Resolved multiple bugs that made Smite overpowered.

Dialogue windows now close automatically when moving away from NPCs.

New Primalist skill that triggers lightning bolts, northern winds, and earth spikes.

New augment trees added for Avalanche, Rive, Reaper Form, Shatter Strike, Shield Throw, Transplant, and Werebear Form.

Multiple tooltip bugs fixed for skills like Aura of Decay and Smite.

Significant visual improvements and updates to Chapter 1 environments.

Cooldown increased to 20 seconds, reduced pull radius and strength.

Reworked shadows system to use fewer resources.

Minions have half health but take half damage; specific health adjustments for various minion types.

Now ricochets between enemies, increased damage and reduced mana cost.

Replaced 3D models for all weapons.

New nodes added for channeling and mana drain adjustments.

Six new music tracks added to the start of the game.

Thorn Burst now deals cold damage and fires fewer projectiles that seek enemies.

Each base class now has unique voice lines for various in-game events.

Further adjustments made to the item tooltip interface.

Corrected the Poison Barrage node affecting cooldown incorrectly.

Resolved issues with Acolyte's longer idle animation not being interruptible.

Enhanced performance for screen space reflections.

Adjusted Acolyte’s posture for more natural animations.

Corrected flickering issue with Stormbreaker’s alternate tooltip.

Resolved issue with time travel effects consuming resources unnecessarily.

Resolved issue allowing crafting of items above character's equip level.

Ice Golems now use a variant of Avalanche ability.

Optimized the performance of grass shadows.

Resolved issue with Stormbreaker’s model floating above player's hands.

Updated the visual design of Turquoise rings.

Corrected a visual issue related to Dreamthorn.

Corrected display issue with Primalist's wolf head helmet during animations.

Resolved issue with the Paladin's Divine Bolt ability.

Introduced a small wave fight encounter.

Corrected a typo in the tooltip for Summon Bear.

Ulatri Scavengers now grant Haste to allies instead of using an avalanche variant.

Enhanced blending between attack animations for the Sentinel.

Highland Bears now grant Frenzy to allies instead of using an avalanche variant.

Damage of the Possess ailment increased by 14%.

Resolved health regen issue with the Respite node on Aura of Decay.

Debris: max points changed from 5 to 4, value per point increased from 17% to 22%.

Fixed Warpath’s Enduring Deflection granting block armour instead of block protection.

Fixed multiple Beastmaster passives mistakenly counting minions as companions.

Fixed a bug where basic stats from the augment trees of Bear, Thorn Totem and Storm Totem were not being applied correctly.

Lasting Storm: max points changed from 5 to 4, value per point increased from 20% to 25%.

Fixed a bug where Tornado’s Lasting Storm was actually giving 70% per point.

Inferno: max points changed from 8 to 4, value per point increased from 25% to 50%.

Overcast Skies: max points changed from 5 to 4, value per point increased from 30% to 35%.

Hurricane: max points changed from 5 to 4, value per point increased from 20% to 25%.

Frequent Lightning: max points changed from 5 to 4, value per point increased from 30% to 35%.

Strength of Air: max points changed from 5 to 4, value per point increased from 20% to 25%.

Fixed a bug introduced in 0.7.0g that caused most monolith rewards to fail to spawn and issues with dropping items from inventory.

Tweaked several Tornado nodes to make it a bit more powerful at low investment.

Likely fixed a bug where the Mage would gain a pale white overlay over its model.

Fixed a bug where using the short item names option would display the internal name of an item rather than the display name.

Fixed the Spellblade’s Arcane Warden not working.

Fixed the Lich’s Ageless Ascetic not leeching life.

Fixed some visual issues of the chat window UI.

Fixed the Druid’s Return to Dust node not working.

Fixed the Void Knight’s Heavy Endurance node not working.

Fixed input being blocked by the chat window when it is closed.

Replaced the 'Press enter to open...' text with a small chat button.

Fixed a small memory leak that occurred when equipping an item.

Added a node to the wandering spirits tree that causes wandering spirits to be revealed around the target location rather than around you.

The era is now shown on loading screens beneath the zone name.

Fixed Storm Totem’s Shield Totem node not working.

The Increased Freeze Chance alt tooltip no longer incorrectly specifies 'spells'.

Void mauls and The Effigy of Oblivion no longer spawn in the arena as some of their skill effects would clip with the ground and become difficult to see.

Fixed the Druid’s Natural Duality and Strengthened Bond nodes counting your number of minions, rather than companions.

Fixed Glacier's Cold Snap and Greater Explosion nodes not increasing damage.

Fixed Focus’ Energy Battery, Energy Infusion and Mind’s Shield scaling off of max mana rather than mana gained while channeling focus.

Fixed the Paladin’s Flash of Brilliance granting increased blind chance instead of added.

Fixed Lunge always costing 1 mana instead of scaling with distance.

The chat window now fades away when you click outside of it.

Fixed the Paladin’s Light of Rahyeh not increasing Fire Damage.

Fixed the tooltips for several Mana Strike nodes not scaling when you put in more points.

Fixed a minor performance issue with automatic scrolling.

Improved fading behavior for individual messages and when the chat loses focus.

Skills are now removed from your action bar if you refund passive points such that you no longer have access to a skill.

Reduced the added armour implicit of Fur Boots to 20 (from 25).

"Glancing Blow and Armour" can no longer spawn on amulets or relics. Maximum glancing blow chance at T5 reduced from 17% to 15%. Added a "Glancing Blow and Health" prefix.

Fixed being able to drag specialization slots.

Fixed the Sorcerer’s Lightning Rider stacking if respec’d and taken again.

Fixed the Paladin’s Redemption not requiring points in Penance.

Capped the max respec cost per point at 5000 gold temporarily to prevent impossible respec situations.

Fixed Volatile Reversal’s end rift spawning at the start location instead.

Reduced the maximum value of the Increased Movement Speed affix from 35% to 25%.

Fixed the Sorcerer’s Dragon Mage passive scaling incorrectly.

The event information panel is now hidden properly when there is no upcoming event.

Flat ward node grants 8 ward per point (down from 10). Intelligence scaling ward node requires 4 points in the flat ward node (up from 3). Health to ward node now converts 4% of current health per point (down from 10%).

Fixed a bug where Rip Blood’s Arcane Absorption could trigger off of any hit, not just ones from Rip Blood.

Fixed the tooltip for Summon Wolf’s Fight and Feed not updating.

Increased base player movement speed by 5%. This change is multiplicative with sources of Increased Movement Speed.

You no longer have to attack the door in the Welryn College.

Fixed the Paladin’s Rahyeh’s Strength stacking if respec’d and taken again.

Rahyeh's Light will no longer refresh fire shield if it's not on your action bar.

Reduced the maximum value of implicit Increased Movement Speed on boots from 20% to 15% and adjusted values on earlier base types.

Fixed a bug where stun immunity would prevent you from being frozen by Snap Freeze's self freeze node.

Reverted an optimization change that unintentionally led to texture quality being greatly reduced at high settings.

When you are stunned, you now become immune to stuns for 1 second after the stun ends.

Fixed the Sorcerer’s Mirror Breath adding a new effect rather than replacing the existing one.

Helps players understand nodes behind them.

Updated framework to resolve compatibility issues.

Made it less overzealous.

Max value of tier 5 remains unchanged.

Instability added is no longer always rounded up.

Based on chat window state.

Accounts for chat window.

Enemy movements should be less erratic.

Less buggy at lower framerates.

Renamed from 'Knight Shield' to 'Renegade Shield'.

New formula emphasizes highest affix tier more significantly.

Potentially fixed issues with starting the game via Steam on Mac and Linux.

Fixed a bug causing severe fps drops or crashes related to skill icon attribute scaling.

Increased the density of enemies in the monolith by around 15%.

Increased the opacity of NPC dialogue to improve visibility.

Improved lighting detail in all desert levels.

Glyph of Stability now causes a craft to add 5% to 45% less instability.

Fixed a bug where teleporting out of the starting area in a monolith zone would cause spires to fail to spawn.

Updated visuals for Erasing Strike, Void Rifts, and Lightning Blast.

Chat now scrolls properly along with new chat messages.

Cooldown increased to 5 seconds; various node adjustments made.

Fixed being unable to view skill trees in the skills panel before unlocking them.

Made Arena Key drops more consistent; now requires at least 5 timelines conquered to drop.

Dying in the Arena now ends a Hardcore character and removes the Deathless tag.

Added an option to leave the arena and claim rewards, leading to a small zone with a reward chest.

Added three new nodes for Vengeance, renamed Dark Blade to Iron Blade.

Most objectives now explicitly state which zone you need to go to.

Fixed an issue with the outline system that caused the effect to be reapplied every frame, improving framerate.

Improved animation timings of several enemies to better align with damage occurrences.

Reduced chance to cast fireball on hit from 15% to 10% and maximum points from 7 to 4.

Reduced Hammer Throw's aura default damage per second from 30 to 20.

Adjusted the visual indicator to match the area of effect.

The Waystation Complex has been made a side zone while issues are investigated.

Fixed a bug where the monolith chest would reappear incorrectly.

Reduced the area of effect of each snowball by 29%.

Fixed the stash in the Council Chambers being difficult to click on.

Increased arena difficulty scaling speed by about 50%.

Various adjustments to Teleport skill nodes, including reduced ward grants and maximum allocations.

Improved the appearance and behavior of the chat UI.

Increased cooldowns from 4 seconds to 6 seconds and abilities cast 2.5 times as fast.

Reduced duration by 10%, outer pull radius by 20%, and increased cooldown to 10 seconds.

Fixed a bug where dying with an ailment would result in it becoming permanent.

Fixed an issue with the mini-map system causing long load times.

You can no longer re-enter the arena via a town portal.

Reworked and optimized the loading process to decrease load times.

Added a new node that casts Elemental Nova halfway between teleport locations.

Increased Storm Totem’s damage by 40%.

Fixed multiple bugs related to skills and their interactions.

Improved visuals for various skills and enemy abilities.

Fixed multiple Storm Totem nodes not working.

Fixed the game attempting to login via Steam from the Standalone client if the steam client was open in the background.

Added failsafes to the Admiral Harton encounter to prevent the questline from stopping.

Certain enemy types can no longer spawn with the 'Summoning' monster mod.

The flat crit node now grants +3% per point (down from 8%).

Fixed the world map opening to the wrong tab in End of Time and Echo of a World.

Now grants melee attack speed and movement speed per point, but only 7% of each (from 8% melee attack speed) and has a max of 5 points (up from 4).

Likely fixed a bug where the character model could go invisible after transforming back to human form.

Bone Growth now grants +7 health per point (up from 5) and requires 3 points in Amalgam of Mages (up from 2).

Likely fixed a bug with the Sane Cultist.

Fixed a bug with the Wolf Howl visual effects.

Approximately doubled arena scaling to increase difficulty.

Improved visuals for Meteor, Lightning Blast, Glacier, Flame Remnants, Frost Wyrms, and Headless Acolytes.

Fixed incorrect login errors being shown.

Fixed item tooltips continuing past the edge of the screen.

Added mipmaps to newer enemies to potentially fix crashing issues when loading zones.

Now has 50% added damage effectiveness (down from 100%).

The flat damage node now grants +4 damage per point.

Twinned Golems’ health modifier is now 35% less (from 45% less) and requires 4 points in Amalgam of Rogues.

Now grants 4% increased movement speed per point (from 10%) and has a max of 4 points (down from 5).

Soul Spear now deals 17% less damage and the AI now uses it at ranges of 4 to 9 metres.

Added a casting effect for enemies using Soul Spear for better anticipation.

Fixed the trails behind Void enemies occasionally having a very large performance impact.

Fixed some zone transitions automatically being used when you were close enough.

Fixed 'A Study in Time' being impossible to complete.

Fixed many effects with the 'Elemental' tag not working.

Servers are experiencing very high load, affecting login functionality.

Players can now buy and play Last Epoch through Steam.

The launch of Last Epoch has been rescheduled due to unforeseen technical problems.