What changed in Last Epoch in 2021

Internal functionality of the new account system is complete, public rollout pending.

Progress on a new chat system with plans for moderation and Quality of Life features.

Planning for Community Testing with emphasis on observing game health and quick problem resolution.

Final core systems to implement include Monolith and Crafting, requiring extensive debugging.

Continued progress on polishing core gameplay and player experience for multiplayer.

Initial stages of migrating character save system to a more robust service.

Successful implementation of matchmaker tested for scalability up to ~1 million concurrent users.

Mitigated a problem that prevented login for some new players on Steam.

Fixed a bug which caused minion icons to not stack.

Primal Squirrels now have a unique minion icon at the top left of the screen.

Fixed Locusts not targeting Lagon.

Updated the sound of Roar for Primal Bear companions.

Swarm Strike now has 300% added damage effectiveness but only has 2 base damage.

Increased the cast speed of manually summoning Locusts by 33%.

Chronomancer Julra now drops one of four new uniques specific to her, with each dungeon tier introducing a new unique.

Fixed a bug where dying right as you changed from one Druid form to another would break your character’s visuals.

Added several new body armour prefixes and a new adorned idol prefix for Primalist.

Fixed a bug where Fury Leap's Rise and Poisonous Thicket nodes gave less chance to summon vines than intended.

Fixed a bug which caused the monster mod restrictions to be ignored.

Added new relic and idol prefixes for Rogue.

Dive now scales with movement speed but is 5% slower by default.

Improved the performance and reduced the visual noise of Ice Bite.

Ice Bite is now visually smaller when used by Primal Squirrels to reduce visual noise.

Fixed a bug where Maul did not gain damage or critical strike multiplier bonuses from Fury Leap's tree when using Skull Crusher.

Fixed a bug which caused Upheaval's Earth Armor node to not update the character sheet.

Adjusted mixing for the main theme music.

Brutal Impact critical strike multiplier reduced from 25% to 20%.

Fixed the Crafting Guide not being updated for 0.8.4 crafting mechanics.

Savage Impact damage reduced from 12% to 8%.

Fixed a bug where the fence in the Cultist Camp could be walked through.

Fixed a bug where the doors in the Great College did not stay open.

Updated hit sounds for Reap, Harvest and Swarmblade Slash.

Panther Strike damage reduced from 10% to 6%.

Fixed a bug where Storm Crows with the Arborist node would not target Upheaval Totems or Warcry Totems.

Fixed shrines spawning out of bounds in Hidden Oasis echoes.

Fixed a bug where Chronomancer Julra's lightning orbs did not deal reduced damage to minions.

Apex Predator now gives 20% more Rampage damage and 50% increased damage while rampaging (from 15% and 45%).

Fixed a bug where Increased Physical Damage and Added Bleed chance from Spriggan Form’s Barbed Thicket node applied to you as well as your minions.

Fury Leap's added damage effectiveness increased from 200% to 250%.

Fixed a bug where respawning in the Temple of Eterra could place you in an inaccessible location.

Maul's added damage effectiveness decreased from 300% to 250%.

Fixed the sound effect for Lagon’s claw attack triggering incorrectly.

Fixed a bug where Summoned Vines with the Huntersbane node did not benefit from Rose Meadow, Stinging Bramble, or the penetration from Branch Storm.

Fixed a bug where the buffs from Druid's Tiger Spirit did not last for the full duration of Shapeshifter.

Fixed the Nimbleness node in Storm Crows incorrectly referencing armor shred in the alt tooltip.

Druid's powershifting abilities Barkskin and Infest now display the correct tooltip.

Ambush Predator hit damage against full health enemies reduced from 35% to 30%.

Fixed a bug where Werebear Form's Territorial node and Fury Leap's Crater node were multiplicative instead of additive.

Fixed a bug where Lagon could immediately use abilities at the start of his third phase.

Adjusted volume and clarity of the level up sound effect.

Rip and Tear damage reduced from 15% to 12%.

Added another fix for the sound stuttering bug often encountered when playing Upheaval.

Clarified Swarmblade's Toxic Hum node to say that the Locust Swarm deals increased damage per locust consumed while active.

Umbral Blades thrown by Shadows can now be Bladestorms.

Fixed a bug where Werebear's Swipe was attacking slower than intended. It now has 14% more attack speed to match normal Swipe.

Clarified the Burst of Agony node in Umbral Blades to state that it gains 'more explosion area per second on ground'.

Fixed a bug where you could not copy loot filters from clipboard that were made in earlier versions of the game.

Upheaval's skill tree now uses the correct icon in the center.

Fixed a bug where Summon Spriggan’s cold conversion node did not convert poison to frostbite.

Fixed a bug that caused the LE-36 error to appear.

Fixed a bug where controller mappings did not get reset properly when needed.

You can now correctly allocate points into Swarmblade's Neverending Drove node with only one point in the Toxic Hum node.

Fixed a bug that caused a LE-24 error for some new players.

Fixed Flame Gryphons being smaller than intended and flickering slightly.

Clarified Swarmblade's Viper's Call to say that it does not include the base added poison chance or increased poison duration when you take the node.

Fixed a bug where Swarmblade's Bloodlust Swarm was not correctly providing its increased damage per bleed consumed.

Likely fixed a bug where sound could stutter a lot during combat, especially with Upheaval.

Critical Vulnerability and Blinding Poison aliments now show under enemy health bars.

Fixed a bug where Sciurine Rage could not be refreshed or triggered by other effects such as Frenzy Totem's Furious Cry.

Fixed the Druid’s Eternal Nature passive having an incorrect description.

You can now search your stash for items with Legendary Potential. For example, '2 legend' will highlight all items with exactly 2 Legendary Potential.

Clarified Spriggan Form's Ice Branch to say that the poison chance converted to frostbite includes all three Spriggan skills.

Fixed a bug where Umbral Blades's Subzero Intrusion did not convert shock chance to frostbite chance.

Fixed a bug that caused most skill-related sprites to have visual artifacts.

Fixed a bug where Swarmblade's Toxic Hum was not correctly providing its increased damage per locust consumed.

Updated the art for Glyphs to make them more visually distinct from each other.

Fixed some visual issues with Lightning Elementals.

Alt tooltips and the Game Guide now state if a unique cannot have legendary potential.

Fixed a bug where Swarmblade's Armblade Slashes were not affected by increased attack speed nodes from Serpent Strike while you had the Viper's Call node.

Fixed a bug where the cursor would appear underneath the Change Input window while using a controller.

Added subskill tooltips to many Swarmblade nodes that were missing them.

Fixed a bug where you could exceed the limit of 3 Bladestorms via blades left in the ground by shadows with Umbral Remnant.

Clarified Swarmblade's Bloodlust Swarm to say that the Locust Swarm deals increased damage and gains increased area per bleed consumed.

The Crafting button now changes color based on what action will be performed.

Fixed a bug with Vale Spirits causing extreme movement speed and other issues.

Fixed a bug where no error was shown if a character name contained a restricted word.

Fixed a bug where Maul using Upheaval could cost more rage than intended.

Fixed a bug where Exalted items had less forging potential than intended.

The door now opens if you have a waypoint in The Oracle's Refuge or are at least level 53.

Festering Cultist damage reduced by 8%.

Fixed a bug where transform-specific skills could be put on the actionbar while in human form.

+3 minimum forging potential for normal items, +2 for magic items, +2 maximum for normal items, +3 to 4 minimum for rare items based on level.

Fixed a bug where the Appearance window would not load pets correctly.

Fixed a bug where Maul's cooldown could not be reset by Fury Leap's Aspect of the Mantis with Werebear Form's Skull Crusher node.

Fixed being able to use skill tree nodes to change into transforms not unlocked.

Roots of Vithrasil will not drop due to bugs.

Fixed a bug where using Ice Thorns’ Cold Prison node with an active minion could crash the game.

Fixed a bug where Drain Life had a minimum mana cost of 1 after taking the Blood Magic node.

Fixed a bug where logging out or dying after killing a boss could prevent further game progression.

Likely fixed a rare bug causing a solid white background when loading a character.

Fixed Death's Embrace lacking its intended lore text.

Reduced the maximum forging potential cost of adding a second affix to 14 (from 15) and third or fourth affix to 18 (from 20).

Left D-Pad now triggers the dungeon ability; Right D-Pad long press toggles ground items.

Fixed armor models having stretching issues in the character select screen on some graphics settings.

Fixed a bug where Garden of Rage restored mana while in human form.

Julra's beams are destroyed or don't spawn if you kill her while they are active or spawning.

Explore the mysterious chambers of Temporal Sanctum.

Significant changes to the Druid class and introduction of a new form.

Updated character models for Mage and Acolyte classes.

Improvements made to the crafting mechanics.

Addition of new unique items to the game.

Updated design and functionality for character selection.

Various adjustments made to game balance.

Introduction of new skills for players to utilize.

A revamped visual experience for new Travelers in Eterra.

Four new enemies and a new boss in the Temporal Sanctum Dungeon.

Variety of new unique and set items introduced.

A quick, spammable Rogue skill for throwing daggers.

Revamped skills and functionalities for the Werebear form.

Introduction of the Swarmblade transformation with unique skills.

Updated 3D and 2D art for spears and staves with new affixes.

Explore Eterra’s first endgame dungeon and meet Chronomancer Julra.

Updated models and armor sets for these classes.

A powerful ground slam ability introduced to the Primalist theme.

Forge Legendary items by combining exalted and unique items with Legendary Potential.

Removal of instability and fracture chance in crafting, introducing Forging Potential.

Enhanced visuals in several Chapter 5 zones.

Addition of 10 new monolith zones and changes to Spires.

New display for crafting outcomes and Forging Potential.

Introduction of new crafting items with enhanced potential outcomes.

Complete rework and visual overhaul of the Entangling Roots skill.

Updates to abilities and visual enhancements for the Spriggan.

The dungeon boss will always drop items that can be used to create a Legendary item.

Players can access the Eternity Cache in two different eras to create Legendary items.

Low-level unique items have a higher chance of rolling high Legendary Potential compared to high-level uniques.

Once created, Legendary Items cannot be further improved or crafted upon.

Players can forge their own Legendary items by completing the first dungeon.

Unique items can now drop with a new property called Legendary Potential, ranging from 0 to 4.

To create a Legendary Item, players need a Unique Item with Legendary Potential and an Exalted item with 4 unsealed affixes.

Fixed skinning issues that caused incorrect proportions in the Sentinel model.

Updated character models for Acolyte and Mage with improved visual quality while retaining main features.

Two new Armor sets for Sentinel are planned for the next patch.

The party system has been migrated to a new account system and is currently in testing.

Significant gameplay changes are being made to enhance the multiplayer experience.

Development of a new chat system using a third-party provider to improve scalability and moderation.

Transition to a new platform for game server allocation and matchmaking to improve performance.

Migration to an industry-standard account system is in progress to enhance online integrity.

Plans to merge single player and multiplayer development processes for better resource allocation.

Modifications to deployment scripts and tools are ongoing to ensure quick patch deployment.

Enhancements to the login system are being made to ensure it can handle high player volumes.

The friends system has been migrated and is in testing.

The character saving service is being migrated to a more robust platform to handle larger player influx.

The Eternal Legends Update will be released on December 10th.

Introduction of new unique items to assist players during leveling and end-game builds.

The skill features a 3-step combo where players throw 2 blades, then 4 more, and finally recall all blades, hitting enemies along the way.

Recalled blades now target enemies around instead of returning directly to the player.

Demonstration of explosive blades utilizing cold conversion in gameplay.

Showcasing the Cacophony of Steel skill with poison conversion mechanics.

Introducing a new 3-step combo throwing skill for the Rogue that allows players to throw and recall blades.

Specialization trees offer nodes that support various playstyles, including poison and cold conversion.

Removes all remaining Forging Potential from an item and duplicates it.

The crafting system has been reworked to reduce frustration and increase variety, introducing Forging Potential.

The Glyph of Cleansing is removed to encourage crafting on high Forging Potential items.

A new rune that costs no Forging Potential and adds random T1 affixes to empty affix slots.

Craftable items will now have Forging Potential, which dictates how many times they can be crafted without failure.

A new display shows the outcome of crafts, including stats gained and Forging Potential lost.

Rare items will now start with more Forging Potential than magic items, changing crafting dynamics.

Four new Glyphs are introduced, including the Glyph of Chaos which rerolls affixes when upgraded.

The Rune of Shaping will no longer favor moderate rolls, increasing its potential for powerful items.

Transforms an item into a random unique or set of the same type.

The Eternal Legends Update introduces a rework of Staves, featuring new 2D and 3D art and a variety of powerful implicit affixes.

All crafts will now succeed until the Forging Potential runs out, removing the chance of item fracture.

Ice Thorns skill will be removed, making way for Upheaval as a core addition to the Primalist.

Introducing Upheaval, a powerful, semi-spammable ground slam ability for the Primalist.

Added screen shake and a new slam visual effect for the Upheaval skill.

Upheaval will feature a specialization tree with various powerful nodes for different builds.

Introduced a design tool that drops visual decals to create a trail effect for Upheaval.

A new skill tree for Swarmblade with nodes supporting different playstyles and rage generation.

Introduction of four distinct skills for the Swarmblade form: Armblade Slash, Dive, Summon Hive, and Swarm Strike.

New nodes in skill trees allow direct transformation between Druid forms without reverting to human form.

A new transformation for the Druid Mastery that allows players to become a deadly flying bug with unique abilities.

Replacing Mana with a new resource called Rage for Druid transformations, supporting various playstyles.

The Spriggan skill tree has been redesigned to allow for new builds and strategic skill choices.

Root Wall is replaced by Thorn Shield, providing a protective barrier and damage reflection.

Healing Totem and Summon Vines receive visual updates and new options in the skill tree.

Druid transforms will now use a new resource called Rage instead of mana.

Complete redesign of the Druid's Spriggan form, focusing on nature magic and environmental control.

Updated visuals for the Spriggan form, including a new model with hardened bark and natural growth.

Vale Blast is replaced with Spirit Thorns, enhancing single and multi-target damage with a nature theme.

Introduced a new transformation animation and the ability Thorn Shield during transformation.

The visual effects for Entangling Roots have been redesigned to focus on individual enemies, reducing visual noise and improving fidelity.

The persistent visual effect on the ground has been removed to reduce visual clutter and improve performance.

The Entangling Roots skill has been elevated to the Mastery-locked section of the Druid's passive tree, enhancing its power, visuals, and impact.

The skill now immobilizes enemies upon initial impact instead of slowing them, preventing pile-up effects.

The skill specialization tree for Entangling Roots has been completely overhauled, offering a variety of options for different Druid playstyles.

Maul replaces Ravage, offering a distinct heavy melee attack with a larger area of effect and more damage.

Rampage replaces the old charge skill, providing a thematic movement option that damages enemies along the way.

The Werebear model has been redesigned with new textures and materials to enhance its presence as a brawler.

The Werebear skill-tree has been redesigned to allow for more diverse and deeper gameplay options while transformed.

The Werebear form will feature a mix of new and returning skills, all revamped with new VFX, sounds, and altered functionality.

The old Werebear Roar has been replaced with Warcry, allowing for better thematic integration and skill unlocks.

Druid transformations will now use a new resource called Rage instead of mana, allowing for more dynamic gameplay.

New spear weapons including Sun Spear, Trident, Ice Spear, Coiled Bident, Dragonslayer Glavie, and Deicide Lance will be available in patch 0.8.4.

Blunt weapons are now referred to as Maces to reduce ambiguity and enhance clarity in item categorization.

Polearms are being renamed to Spears to provide a more compelling and fantasy-oriented naming convention.

Replacement of the old starter armor set with two new detailed armor sets for the Sentinel, incorporating various materials.

Introduction of an upgraded Sentinel model to enhance visual fidelity and support future facial animations.

Patch 0.8.4 will bring our first dungeon into the game, utilizing map layout randomization and offering different gameplay compared to Monolith maps.

Improvements to Druid mastery including new forms, visuals, skill trees, mechanics, and keybinding for abilities.

Complete visual overhaul of character creation and selection screens for better representation.

Major changes to crafting to maintain determinism while reducing frustrating randomization effects.

A major feature of 0.8.4, enhancing itemization with exciting item drops.

Exploring updates to hit sounds and visual effects to enhance combat impact.

Updates to character models, visual effects, and enemy designs to meet modern standards.

Introduced a majority rule voting system for continuing Arena runs after every 5 waves.

Identified potential scalability issues with backend services and plan to make improvements.

Identified necessary refactoring for gamepad code to enhance multiplayer support.

Implemented a system to actively monitor and maintain performance data for game servers.

Preparing to add multiplayer to the Community Tester Program with a focus on scaling.

Converted the Idol System to be 100% server authoritative, with ongoing work to fix unique Idol affixes.

Consecrated Ground now deals 66% more damage and scales with increases to spell damage.

Judgement now uses Erasing Strike animation and has a 20% reduced delay until another ability can be used.

Lone Watcher node on Dread Shade tree now grants 100% increased duration (up from 50%).

Fixed visuals for Tail Swipe, Flame Reave, and Voidfused Armoury being invisible.

Path of Judgement grants +1 adaptive spell damage per 5% increased healing effectiveness; Holy Trail deals 25% more damage.

Fixed a bug where using Ice Barrage with certain nodes would degrade performance until moving to a new zone.

Added options to hide chat messages containing characters from other languages/scripts.

Spell damage scaling for Javelin's Holy Trail now stacks additively with healing effectiveness scaling.

Now grants +5% crit chance and +100% ignite chance per point; applies to the next melee or throwing attack.

Path of Heavens grants +8 adaptive spell damage; Winds of Justice grants 25% Smite chance per point.

Fixed the Lich’s Harvested Legions passive not working.

Wandering Spirits now reveals 4 spirits immediately on cast and deals 29% more damage.

Dark Shackles node in Drain Life tree now adds 60 mana cost (down from 65).

Fixed many player and enemy abilities having missing sound effects.

Fixed a bug where Consecrated Ground visuals disappeared prematurely and did not scale with increased area.

Fixed a visual bug where Flame Reave would appear underground when cast via Surge.

Fixed a bug where login credentials were not remembered properly for the standalone version of the game.

Added falling sand and incense burner ambient sounds to the Temple of Majasa.

Fixed the 'ward granted when casting flame ward' idol affix having an incorrect range of values. It now has a range of 28 to 64.

Fixed a bug with Scales of Eterra where non-spell abilities could trigger Infusions.

Fixed a bug where leaving The Dry River after triggering the Scarab Broodkeeper encounter could prevent the Missing Merchant quest from advancing.

Frost Nova (Ice Barrage proc) now has a freeze rate of 40 (up from 30), and this is now shown on its alt tooltip.

Fixed a bug where the buff icon for Teleport’s Time Dilation did not last for the correct duration.

Fixed Forge Strike’s Shrapnel node saying it reduces the duration of Forged Weapons by 60%, when it actually reduces it by 75%.

Added new hit sounds for Javelin and Void Cleave.

Fixed a bug where Majasa could be one-shot in a brief window before Phase 2 starts.

Increased the duration Rebuke needs to be channeled before it activates to 0.2 seconds. This is a temporary change to avoid very buggy behavior.

Fixed the charged version of Detonating Arrow playing sounds at incorrect times.

Fixed a bug where converting Warpath to Fire or Void did not properly trigger element specific effects.

The sub-ability of Forge Strike that makes Forged Weapons is now called 'Summon Forged Weapon' (from 'Summon Weapon').

Fixed a bug where Shadows created by Lethal Mirage’s Gloom and Doom node did not attack.

Fixed a bug where certain zones (such as Thetima) appeared totally black when using SMAA.

Increased the volume of Saazhar in Soreth’ka.

Fixed a bug where the 'The Scalebane' quest could not be turned in to Zerrick until the 'Arjani, The Ruby Commander' quest had been completed.

Fixed the world map stating incorrect levels for the Stolen Lance and Black Sun timelines.

Fixed a bug which allowed the latter parts of combo abilities to be used repeatedly in some situations.

Tundra Nova (Frozen Ire proc) now has a freeze rate of 80 (up from 0), and this is shown on its alt tooltip.

Fixed a bug where controller keybind changes could be forgotten in some cases.

Fixed the tooltip for Forge Strike listing incorrect minion scaling for Forged Weapons.

The tooltip for items in the Gambler’s shop now state that they cannot be a unique or set item.

The visuals for Fire Aura now fade out smoothly when its duration expires.

Added new general hit sounds for bladed and blunt weapons.

Fixed a bug where the 'Endurance while channeling Warpath' affix was a suffix instead of a prefix.

Fixed a bug where Puncture with Penumbral Ambush would trigger the mana consumption of Rogue's Coated Blades passive multiple times.

Drain Life deals 20% more damage.

Spirit Plague deals 11% more damage.

Fixed a bug where the tooltip DPS on Static Orb and Javelin did not account for damage conversion.

Sanguine Reaper now grants Reap 18% increased area per point.

Fixed inaccessible enemies in the Temple Rooftops.

Fixed Chinese punctuation marks not displaying in chat.

Wandering Spirits deals 40% more damage and gains 4% increased damage per intelligence.

Infernal Shade deals 33% more damage and costs 18 mana (from 21).

Adjusted various skills for Acolyte Damage over Time to improve balance.

Unholy Dominion no longer increases Reap Area and changes cooldown mechanics.

Fixed Anomaly saying it scales with Vitality, when only the Time Wave sub-ability scales with Vitality.

Fixed the outside radius of the Scalebane Swarmkeeper’s AoE attack being larger than its visual effect.

Fixed a bug which prevented some players from being able to load new or existing characters.

Added new 2D art for the Devotion and Eye of Orexia uniques.

Javelin now scales with melee damage on your polearm rather than from all sources while you have a polearm equipped.

Added shared cooldown between Reap and Transplant, adjusting mobility options.

Swift Harbinger now grants Reap 30% increased cooldown recovery speed.

Balance pass to spires and new echo reward types.

Significant updates to all necromancer skills for better gameplay.

Major improvements to enhance controller gameplay experience.

Sentinel receives significant skill updates and 3 new skills.

Primalist character receives a new model and armor set.

Introduction of new weapon models across various groups.

Continuation of the story with new locations and challenging enemies.

Introducing Javelin, a throwing attack with a fast piercing projectile for the Sentinel class.

The Javelin skill features a specialization tree with unique nodes that significantly change its functionality.

1-handed Maces and Wands receive a complete rework including new 3D models, 2D art, and powerful implicit affixes.

Players can now use waypoints to travel across eras, enhancing asynchronous play.

Reduced server memory overhead by approximately 30%, allowing for more efficient hosting.

Potions are now fully implemented and server authoritative.

Doubled the number of bare metal servers to handle potential spikes in concurrent players.

Idol unlock slots need syncing to the client; QA pass and multiplayer playtesting ongoing.

Significant simplification and optimization of the party system code, ensuring full functionality.

The Arena system has been successfully implemented for multiplayer testing, including a new voting system.

New one-handed axes with improved 2D and 3D art and powerful implicit affixes.

New two-handed axes featuring enhanced visuals and implicit affixes to support diverse builds.

More weapon groups are being reworked for the Sands of Majasa Update.

Fixed a bug where Sigils of Hope could in rare cases cause negative stats and a black circle around your character.

Fixed a bug where attempting to channel a skill while already channeling another skill would cause the player to get stuck in a channeling animation.

Fixed Shield Throw having the tooltip for Shield Rush in the passives window.

Fixed Drain Life and Maelstrom’s tooltip DPS being increased by generic ailment chance stats.

Fixed a bug where Show + Emphasize loot filter rules would not emphasize items on the first attempt.

Fixed a bug where non-stationary Assembled Abominations that could use Soul Reave would attempt to use basic attack while out of range after they used Soul Reave.

Fixed the chat window failing to scroll automatically in some situations.

You can now search for attribute tags in the main skills window.

Fixed searching for Minion or Totem not working in the main skills window.

Chat messages can now be 280 characters long, increased from 220.

The maximum stability benefit from corruption has been increased by around 7%, allowing echoes at the start of a 350+ corruption web to give exactly 50 stability.

Chat has been re-enabled with improved spam prevention, with more improvements planned.

The icon for left click now updates if you configured left click to use a skill.

Improved the performance of the chat window to mitigate game freezing when receiving a large amount of chat messages.

Empowered timeline 3rd quest echo stability requirements now range from 750 to 900, up from all being 750.

3rd quest echo stability requirements for non-empowered timelines from Ending the Storm and onwards have been reduced by 50.

Fixed a bug where using skills with a controller could freeze/crash the game in certain situations.

The state of a quest echo is now reset each time you enter it, fixing various problems with objective indicators.

Grand Blessings now replace standard blessings in the 'Discovered Blessings' section of the blessings tab when discovered.

The search box when you first open the skills panel now works with most skill tags.

2nd quest echo stability requirements have been increased slightly for some empowered timelines.

The functionality you choose for left click is now saved between game sessions.

Fixed “reduced corruption” rewards using the same icon as “added corruption” rewards.

Fixed the names of spire abilities shown on the death screen.

Clarified that Flight of the First’s Ancient Flight can’t be triggered by movement skills.

Fixed a bug where Entangling Roots’ nodes for buffing minions were not buffing minions.

Fixed a bug where the timeline stability bar could be incorrectly filled when moving to a new timeline.

Fixed an incorrect scaling description for Harvest’s Elements of Death node.

Fewer spires spawn on average in a spire echo.

Updated 2d art for all Shade of Orobyss uniques.

Bone spires deal 34% less damage.

The ladder now shows the Softcore tab by default.

Earthquake’s Storm Rift now adds 50 lightning damage to the initial hit (from 30).

The amount of Timeline Stability granted by rewards at 350 corruption and above is 12.5% lower.

Increased the value of the increased mana regen affix for tiers 1 to 4.

Added sub-ability tooltips for Kineticism.

Fixed various visual bugs related to fading between different tabs in the world map.

If you die in an echo and then complete it later, destroying a Vessel of Memory will now restore the echo's guaranteed reward.

Fixed a bug where completing a quest echo would grant stability equal to the previous non-quest echo you ran.

Fixed a bug where the ward bar above the health globe would only fill to 73% capacity.

Fixed a bug where resummoning a Bone Golem with the Marrow Eater node active could break various other minion-centric effects.

Updated animations for Zombie enemies.

Fixed a bug where logging out or going to a different zone before unlocking empowered timelines would prevent you from unlocking them for that character.

Wengari Spires deal 30% less damage.

If you have a stat granting you '% of missing health gained as ward per second', levelling up no longer heals you to full.

Stability requirements for the 2nd and 3rd quest echoes have been reduced for higher level non-empowered timelines.

Completing the 3rd quest echo of a timeline now reduces stability by the 3rd quest echo's requirement.

Increased melee damage and increased physical damage spawn more rarely on shields.

Beacon echoes can no longer spawn adjacent to each other.

Earthquake’s Cataclysm now converts all base and added damage to fire.

Fixed a bug where alt text for various stat lines on uniques did not display.

Holding ctrl + alt while hovering over a Blessing now shows its potential range of values.

The fill on the floating ward bar above the player character's head now works the same way as the fill on the ward bar above the health globe.

Polished scrolling behavior in the world map while the quest list is open.

Removed “Monolith of Fate” labels from waypoints in the End of Time map tab.

All spires have a 20% longer delay between attacks.

The maximum number of spires in a single echo has been reduced to 4.

Fixed icons for Marksman skills in the passive panel not changing color when unlocked.

Fixed the Enra’s Technique node for Hammer Throw granting too much crit when Hammer Vortex was also taken.

Fixed a bug where Flurry’s Shockwave could not trigger Kineticism on kill.

Fixed a bug where attempting to channel a skill while already channeling another skill would cause the player to get stuck in a channeling animation.

The 3rd quest echo in empowered timelines now requires 750 stability (from 1000).

Fixed a bug where Thorn Totem’s Rotten Core node did not apply to Healing Totems with the Spiked Totem node.

Empowered timelines now all have a maximum stability of 1500.

Reaper Form’s alt tooltip now describes that excess damage taken in Reaper Form is dealt to your human form health.

Fixed a bug where opening the Crafting Materials window would permanently affect performance for the rest of the gameplay session, reducing fps by 20-30.

Added additional details to the outskirts of the world map.

Fixed some outdated information in the Game Guide and loading screen tips.

Stability requirements for the 3rd quest echo reduced for all timelines except the first.

Dreamthorn’s 3D art has been corrected.

Players have reported that validating game files can help with performance or stability issues.

Position of the monolith reward object in Echo of a World has been adjusted.

Fixed a bug that caused leaderboard entries to be removed.

The threshold for showing delayed monolith objective pulses varies based on zone, with adjustments made for backtracking.

Fixed Voidwing Nests not having an outline on hover.

The spin attack used by Desecrated Flesh now correctly cancels when the enemy is killed or stunned.

The 'total affix tiers of' loot filter condition now looks at selected affixes instead of all affixes on the item.

Fixed a bug where the world map for End of Time could get stuck, preventing panning.

Time Gates now also feature delayed objective pulses similar to Bosses.

A bug that allowed players to gain infinite amounts of gold has been fixed.

A bug where Puncture’s Mutilate node did not restore health has been fixed.

The 3rd quest echo now requires 1000 stability for all empowered timelines (previously 1000 to 1350 depending on timeline).

Fixed an issue where players could click through the character stats window in certain areas.

Detonate Corpse has been removed from the list of skills when creating a new Lich character.

Fixed the 'clear search' button for loot filters not working.

Enemy healthbars now disappear more quickly when they die.

Icons for unavailable echoes are now darker and less saturated for clarity.

Fixed an issue where players could click through skill unlock notifications in the passives window.

Greatly improved performance of hideable objects, likely reducing stutters or fps drops.

Identified a performance issue caused by the UI updates in 0.8.2, fix to be released soon.

The Claw and The Fang now summon all wolves at once as intended.

Sounds for the monolith reward object in Echo of a World have been updated.

Fixed a bug where the Shade of Orobyss could not use cold abilities on melee targets.

Yulia's Husk deals 500% more damage with Ice Mortar and 40% less damage with Ice Vortex.

Damage of Ice Whirlwinds used by Wengari Spires reduced by 37.5%.

The Possess ailment now deals 33% increased damage.

The search bar for the Game Guide now includes a cancel button.

Reef Time Gates now spawn more Stranded Sailors.

The notice for viewing additional quests now shows the map keybind instead of the old quest journal keybind.

“Slay enemies to locate __” is now listed as a separate objective in the quest tracker for echoes with delayed objective pulses.

Introduction of new boss encounters that provide additional challenges.

The user interface has been completely overhauled.

Significant changes made to end-game content and the Monolith of Fate.

Two new skills introduced in the patch.

Introducing new zones including Abandoned Arena, Abyssal Arena, Ancient Arena, and Sanctuary Arena.

Removed problematic zones and updated Woodland and Tundra Arenas to reduce height variation.

New splash art featuring the Lich’s Reaper Form transform ability set in a graveyard.

The specialization tree offers various options to improve the effectiveness of the crows and change their battlefield roles.

A minion-summoning skill that enhances the Primalist's ranged options by summoning multiple crows that cast lightning damage spells.

Two new enemies, the Soul Warden and Soul Carrier, are being designed for a future content patch.

Spires receive a complete overhaul with new visual assets and unique attacks.

All new art assets have been added to enhance the appearance of Spires.

Spires will feature their own unique attacks, providing varied challenges for players.

The Shade of Orobyss has 30 unique abilities that will be used in combat, ensuring varied encounters.

The Shade of Orobyss will be joining the Monolith of Fate in May with Patch 0.8.2.

Implemented a workaround for Steam users who had difficulty registering Last Epoch accounts in-game.

Added a prompt for affected users to create a new account linked to their Steam account.

Users can register an account on the website and log into the game using those credentials if issues persist.

Improved the font for certain characters in chat.

Fixed a bug where on kill effects would proc if the player brought themselves below 0 health.

A Last Epoch account is now required to play the game and will be necessary for multiplayer in Patch 0.9.

Chat messages are sometimes displayed twice; believed to be resolvable without another game update.

Greatly optimized chat performance with ongoing monitoring.

Social Features including account linking, chat, cosmetic pets, and the ladder are now re-enabled.

Fixed a bug causing a 'Your account is in use on another device' notification to be displayed at incorrect times.

Gaspar’s Insight had two Void Resistance affixes instead of one Void Resistance and one Cold Resistance affix.

The Last Bear's Fury grants 3% increased health regen per point of strength (from 2%).

Removed some false positives from the chat filter.

Fixed a bug which could prevent the Empowered versions of each timeline from being unlocked. This fix applies to both new and old characters.

The water orbs from Ucenui's Sphere deal 50% more damage.

Herkir's Vessel grants 60% to 100% increased fire damage (from 30% to 60%).

Frozen Eyes of Formosus grant 80% to 140% increased minion cold damage (from 70% to 120%).

Dreamthorn grants 35 melee void damage (from 25) and 35% void penetration (from 25%).

Fixed a bug where the Forge button in the crafting window would become unusable in some situations.

Gaspar's Insight now also grants 35% to 45% cold resistance.

Coral Aegis grants 30% to 43% lightning resistance (from 25% to 41%) and 300% to 430% chance to shock attackers (from 250% to 410%).

Added lore text for the following uniques: Bhuldar's Wrath, Call of the Tundra, Faith of the Frozen, Gaspar's Will, Gaspar's Acuity, Gaspar's Insight, Herkir's Vessel, Horns of Uhkeiros, Logi's Hunger, Reign of Winter.

Fixed a bug where the chat window would not show new messages in some situations.

Fixed a bug where clicking Cancel while creating a new character with Hardcore enabled would cause the Hardcore tickbox to become inverted.

Transient Rest grants 35% physical, poison, and necrotic resistance (from 25%).

Mortality's Grasp now grants 73 to 113 health (from 50 to 60).

Avarice now also grants 13% elemental resistance and no longer prevents health regen.

Gaspar's Acuity now also grants 35% to 45% lightning resistance.

Murama's Hilt grants 85% to 130% increased curse damage (from 80% to 95%).

Updating visual effects for skills to include lighting that reflects on nearby surfaces.

A complex new boss that appears in various forms with differing abilities.

New meta progression features added to the Monolith of Fate.

Introduction of new objectives and bosses within the Monolith of Fate.

Revamped Monolith of Fate with additional types of Echo and new rewards.

A new summoning spell for the Acolyte class that will be available in Patch 0.8.2.

Werebear Form redesigned to appear larger, sturdier, and more realistic with higher quality details.

Spriggan Form updated to have a more human-like face and greenery resembling hair and beard.

New models, animations, and visual effects for Druid's Werebear and Spriggan forms.

Hostile spriggans receive a new model distinct from the one used by Primalists.

Implemented the Assemble Abomination skill, allowing powerful Necromancers to create a large monstrosity from minions.

Working on new boss fights to enhance endgame content and improve boss encounters.

Fixed a bug causing damage numbers, particularly for critical hits, to look different than in previous patches.

Fixed a bug where Death Seal's wave upon release was not affected by the skill's base damage increase.

Renamed the Gladiator (block) node in the Sentinel tree to Protector.

+X Other Shards notifications now appear last in the list of shard notifications.

Root Shields now grant 45 to 70 endurance threshold, down from 70 to 100.

Fixed a bug where the Mage would hold Staves incorrectly in some situations.

Frigid Hinterland now also appears in the Blood, Frost and Death timeline.

Increased the health of the Pyromancer miniboss in Ash Covered Maj'Elka.

Fixed a bug where buffs granted by Rebuke did not persist after channeling.

Fixed a bug where Detonating Arrow's Arcing Blast node could trigger even if damage was converted.

Added new 2D art for Valdyr’s Chalice and Raindance.

Increased Physical Damage can now also roll on belts.

Revised the visuals for Holy Aura.

Fixed a bug where Eterra's Blessing triggered by Healing Pulse did not scale with player's healing effectiveness.

Fixed a bug where the '+x Levels to Sacrifice' Affix granted more levels than intended.

Fixed the model for Dreamthorn being positioned incorrectly.

Fixed a bug where Smite's damage was not increased by the Wrathful Large Rahyeh Idol.

Doomcall now grants 10% more damage per stack of Damned, does not scale with points allocated.

Fixed a bug where Arena layouts were not properly selected at random, causing Desert Arena and Solarum Arena to be more common.

Adjusted the description for Endurance and highlight colors in the health globe tooltip.

Fixed a bug where the Bladedancer’s Cloak of Shadows node did not grant Dexterity.

The Druid’s Hideskin node now grants 15 health and 1% of maximum health gained as endurance threshold.

Fixed a bug where Galvanize did not convert ignite chance to shock chance on Firebrand’s tree.

Fixed a bug where Spiked Plates and Rygar's Fury did not grant their damage bonus.

Reduced the value of endurance threshold affixes by up to 30% at higher tiers.

Fixed a wall blocking the camera in Sealed Archive.

Fixed a bug where an erroneous '+0 Other Shards' notification would appear in some situations.

All characters now have endurance threshold equal to 20% of their maximum health, reduced from 40 + 2 per character level.

Fixed multiple bugs affecting tooltip DPS calculations and display.

Fixed a bug which caused several nodes for Lethal Mirage to not work.

Fixed some rocks falling upwards in the Council Chambers.

Fixed some targeting issues near the waypoint in the Immortal Summit.

Overhauled all visuals for Swipe, including base visual effect and 2D icon.

Fixed multiple bugs related to Infernal Shade and Blaze Shade interactions.

Fixed a bug where Storm Battery granted a stack of Dormant Energy without hitting an enemy.

Skill tree nodes now have square borders; Key Nodes remain hexagonal.

Fixed Alric’s voice acting in The Immortal Citadel cutting off other voice acting.

Fixed a visual issue for Primalists wielding two-handed swords on the character select screen.

Fixed a bug where the Paladin’s Shield Wall node granted maximum health instead of health on block.

Fixed a bug where the Critical Success bonus for crafts would not be saved in some situations.

Fixed a bug where minion names granted by nodes or random chance did not work.

Reduced the value of endurance threshold on blessings by around 33%.

Fixed a bug where Increased Size effects did not apply to minions.

Fixed a bug where the Void Knight's Null Velocity passive could trigger from an ability use that leaves you above 0 mana.

Five new Arena maps are being introduced in Patch 0.8.1.

Beastmasters gain access to the new skill Warcry in Patch 0.8.1.

A new boss track will be added to the game in Patch 0.8.1.

Empowering a Timeline now has additional effects: Enemies have 50% more health and damage, 50% increased item rarity, and 50% increased experience gained.

Three new Timelines added to the Monolith of Fate, featuring new bosses, Blessings for new weapon types, and Unique items.

Nine new zone layouts have been introduced for increased level design variety.

Three new boss music tracks have been added.

Many zones in the Monolith of Fate have received visual improvements.

The levels of existing Timelines have been updated to accommodate the new ones.

Introduced 5 new Arena maps.

Significant changes to defences.

Sceptres now have new 2D art, new 3D art, and new implicit properties.

Redesigned skill tooltips.

Replaced or improved all animations used by non-transformed Primalists.

Introduced powerful new skill level-raising affixes.

Performed a pass on many zones to improve their appearance, focusing on Chapter 5 and Chapter 3.

Updated all unique items implemented before Patch 0.7.7.

Introduced new, class-specific Relics.

Reworked how affixes are distributed between prefixes and suffixes.

Added a new Spellblade skill called Surge.

Removed Mage skill Fire Shield and Beastmaster skill Flanking Strike.

Added a new Beastmaster skill called Warcry.

Optimized performance of outlines applied to enemies and allies on mouse-over.

Introduced Tooltip DPS as a Phase 4 item from Early Access Forecast.

Shields now have new 2D art, new 3D art, and new implicit properties.

Revisited every skill to better standardize specialization trees and improve viability.

Significantly optimized visual effects during skill usage.

Characters now wear their equipped gear on the character selection screen.

A new skill called Surge will be added to the Spellblade's arsenal in Patch 0.8.1.

The Mage skill Fire Shield will be removed in Patch 0.8.1.

Characters will show their currently equipped gear when clicked on in the character selection screen.

Holding down the Alt key will reveal additional details in tooltips, enhancing visibility of damage attributes.

New tooltip layout allows for quicker scanning of specific details with information organized into separate sections.

Updated tooltips for Warpath to include more information and improved design for better clarity.

New modifiers will raise the maximum level of skills and will be available on a range of item rarities.

Previews of a unique item and a class-specific piece of rare gear have been shared.