What changed in Last Epoch in 2022

Players can now gift items that drop while adventuring together in the same zone.

Players can right-click a friend's portrait to gift items, which opens a gifting window to select items.

Plans for an economy-based trading system (Bazaar) have been cancelled to maintain item drop excitement.

New mechanics for dungeons in multiplayer, including a ready-check system for starting boss encounters.

New reward options for party members completing echoes in multiplayer, enhancing the reward experience.

Improvements to Monolith navigation for multiplayer, allowing all party members to access unlocked Monoliths.

An Open Beta weekend from February 23rd to 26th, 2023, allowing all Steam users to participate.

Visual updates for enemies including the Temple Guardian and the Idol (Giant Worm Boss).

A Closed Invitational Beta Weekend will be held from January 27th to 29th, 2023.

VFX updates for skills like Swipe, Shield Rush, Rive, Harvest, and Reaper Form.

A new Trade system will allow items to change hands within your party in Beta Patch 0.9.0.

The highly anticipated Multiplayer release is locked in for March 9th, 2023.

Updates to many existing skills, including VFX, SFX, and balancing changes for Beta Patch 0.9.0.

A Multiplayer Beta Week event from February 2nd to 12th, 2023, inviting 10,000 players.

The Community Testers can now play the multiplayer build at any time as it goes online 24/7.

All totems have received visual and sound effect reworks for distinct identities.

Enhancements to connection flow, error messaging, and scene transitions for a smoother multiplayer experience.

Fireball and Wandering Spirits have received visual and sound effect updates.

Melee, bow, and throwing attacks will now provide 'Melee Damage' instead of 'Melee Physical Damage' to enhance build diversity.

Migration from the previous backend platform for account services is complete, allowing for improved multiplayer functionality.

Changes to ailment stats for clarity and balance, including adjustments to resistance shredding ailments and their stack limits.

Identified and working on factors causing performance drops during combat.

New unique item designed by the community, releasing in 0.9.

Improvements to player cards, minion cards, and player in menu UI.

The next major update will be 0.9.0, featuring the Multiplayer Beta with existing systems and content playable online.

Improvements in chat service migration and reduced crashes/disconnects.

New appearance for Voidfused Earth enemies.

New models for the Mage and Primalist armor sets.

All levels have been reviewed and optimized, resulting in a performance increase across the board.

Introduction of a new enemy, the Void Penance, with new death animation techniques.

First track to utilize a generative music system that evolves over time, allowing for unique variations in playback.

Introduction of a new track featuring wordless vocals, ethereal synths, and mandolins, designed to evoke a mysterious atmosphere.

Updated 3D models and VFX for the Volcanic Orb skill, including new conversions.

Plans to monitor the power of the Lament of the Lost Refuge to ensure it remains relevant and balanced.

Introduction of a new unique item designed by the community, featuring versatile power and unique effects.

A new Unique Rogue helm that enhances throwing skills and poison damage, allowing for a focus on minions or bees as support.

A new Unique Primalist relic that buffs bees as a primary source of damage alongside Spriggan Form abilities.

Improving on-hit and on-death effects to enhance combat feedback.

An overhaul to Catalysts and introduction of the Arena of Champions.

The Lightless Arbor and The Soulfire Bastion dungeons added with unique gameplay and reward mechanics.

The first day of closed community testing for Multiplayer in Last Epoch.

Achieved zero or extremely few crashes in servers.

Designed a multiplayer experience around the Monolith with considerations for party functionality and rewards.

Developing tools to measure game performance and identify bottlenecks.

Re-engineered game loading to support additive loading for a seamless experience.

Adding more variations for death animations and ragdolls for better enemy reactions.

Migrated backend system to improve control and capacity for telemetry and statistics.

Vote on three art design options for the new unique item based on the Lost Refuge theme.

Volcanic Orb is converted to Void damage with new effects including movement speed and mana regen bonuses.

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.

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.

The ward gain effect 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 has a 1 second cooldown.

Enemies that lose aggro can go slightly further from their original position before losing aggro.

Monolith Echoes now always contain at least one enemy type that has medium to large packs, reducing potential for low enemy density echoes.

The Lost Refuge has been selected as the theme for the new unique item based on community voting.

Community members can submit and vote on unique effects for the new item.

Isadora's Revenge grants 40 to 82 health (up from 40 with no range).

Grants 1% Chance per 20 Ward to gain Haste for 2 seconds when you use a Melee Attack (changed from increased movement speed per 250 ward).

Now grants 3% to 7% increased movement speed.

Now grants 20 health gained on stun (up from 15).

Grants 12 to 32 bow lightning damage and throwing lightning damage (up from 12 to 22).

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.

Halvar's 2 item bonus is +25 Spell Cold Damage (up from +15).

Now grants 13 to 18 Fire, Necrotic, and Void Spell Damage (up from 5 to 13) and is now an Oracle Amulet.

Old 3 item bonus is now its 2 item bonus; new 3 item bonus is 72% Increased Chance to Find Potions and 18% less poison and necrotic damage taken.

Now grants 130 to 390 dodge rating (up from 120 to 240).

Has 22% more base damage and added throwing damage applies to it at 110% effectiveness (up from 100%).

Grants 1% Increased damage per 200 ward (changed from 1% increased elemental damage per 250 ward).

Deals 5% more damage.

Deals 20% more damage.

Has 50% more base damage and added spell damage applies to it at 100% effectiveness per second (up from 40%).

Due to changes in deployment infrastructure, this patch has a larger download size than usual.

Fixed a bug where Zeurial's Hunt's effect could be procced by non-lightning attacks.

Grants 30% to 76% increased fire and necrotic damage (up from 30% to 52%).

Deals 25% more damage and costs 17 mana (up from 20).

2 item bonus now also grants 35% less necrotic damage taken on block.

Pebbles' Collar grants 24% to 42% increased minion damage and Cold Resistance (up from 24%).

Deals 12.5% more damage and costs 56 mana (down from 60).

First of its kind item in Last Epoch, allowing for new gameplay possibilities.

Poll to determine the art style, naming, flavor text, and unique effect of the Two-Handed Mage Spear.

Clarified tooltip for 'chance to receive a glancing blow when hit' property.

Fixed a bug where Avalanche was receiving incorrect damage scaling.

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

3 new uniques can now be dropped by the Arena Champions.

Various adjustments made to stability scaling and bonus stability in Monolith of Fate.

Fixed visual bugs with Unseeing and similar enemy types.

Improved buffering for abilities when rapidly clicking and holding movement keys.

Fixed shock ailment tooltip to correctly state it reduces lightning resistance.

Fixed a bug where Shatterquake node did not apply benefits to Aftershocks.

3 new uniques exclusive to the Soul Gambler have been added.

Fixed a bug causing 2H Axes to drop from Rare Maces Monolith rewards.

Fixed a bug where Shadow Daggers and other abilities failed to deal damage under certain conditions.

3 new uniques and a set item can now be dropped by Cremorus, Immolator of Souls.

A new set item can now be dropped by Formosus.

Tier 1 modifiers now grant less increased damage and health but grant rare items instead of exalted items.

Modifiers in Tier 1 and Tier 2 Soulfire Bastion adjusted for increased damage and health.

Fixed a bug where Aura of Decay's VFX was not affected by increased area.

Fixed a bug where Fury Leap's Regain Stamina could only trigger in Werebear Form.

Fixed a bug where Blaze Shade node damage increase did not affect Ailments.

Clarified tooltip for Devouring Orb's Hollow Orb node.

Fixed a bug where area increase from Blaze Shades did not affect their visuals.

Most enemies now de-aggro if they go too far from their original position unless they are close to their target or using an ability.

Right clicking dungeon keys now has improved functionality for moving keys and opening maps.

Bonus stability is now displayed on the stability bar when selecting an echo that grants bonus stability.

4 new uniques can now be dropped by The Mountain Beneath.

2 new uniques can now randomly drop.

Fire Lich Scythe base type attack rate changed to 0.92 from 1 and range changed to 2.6m from 1.9m.

Drop rate of individual dungeon keys before level 55 increased by 75%, scaling to no difference at level 55 or higher.

A new community event where players can vote on the design of a Unique item to be introduced in Last Epoch.

Announcement of an upcoming event that the community has been looking forward to.

Teaser for new unique items including item card examples and art for upcoming items.

Stability requirements for the 3rd quest echo increased to 300 in non-empowered and 800 in empowered.

Fixed a bug where Vaion the Arsenal's Smelter's Wrath ability would still trigger if killed while charging.

Hives now summon locusts 122% more frequently and have a faster cast speed.

Echoes now grant bonus stability based on the number of enemies killed, up to double the normal amount.

Fixed a visual bug where Shield Rush's Echoes of the Charge followed the player.

All Druids with Swarmblade specialization will receive a free respec for its tree.

Fixed a bug where it was possible to still deal critical strikes with Singularity equipped.

All regular monolith echoes now have multiple player spawn locations.

Reworking the summoning aspects of Swarmblade Form to limit Locusts and increase their effectiveness.

Fixed a bug where you could exceed the summon limit for a minion type with a single ability cast.

Fixed a bug where the quest list would appear empty at first when loading an existing character.

The first two quest echoes of each timeline are now optional in empowered timelines.

Most regular monolith echoes have a wider variety of objective spawn locations.

Fixed a bug where Warpath's Apocalypse Whirl gave incorrect Time Rot chance.

Completing the third quest echo in an empowered timeline now grants 1 Gaze of Orobyss.

Locusts now last 12 seconds, deal 50% more damage, and are limited to 12 active locusts.

Arena Echoes are now 10% less common for most timelines, and 28% less common for Ending the Storm.

Locust Swarm now deals 25% more damage and gains additional benefits per locust consumed.

Fixed a bug where Void Rifts were creating duplicate visual objects, affecting performance.

Defeating a Shade of Orobyss that increases corruption consumes all Gaze of Orobyss to grant bonus corruption.

Now states that it has 60% added damage effectiveness.

Now grants +5% to 15% chance to receive a critical strike.

Added new buff visuals and sounds.

Grants 10% - 15% of physical damage taken as void (from 60% to 75% in 0.8.5).

Grants 10% - 15% less void damage taken (from 0% in 0.8.5).

Fixed Cremorus’ necrotic orbiting ability having an incorrect name.

Grants 5% - 10% increased health (from 12% - 20% in 0.8.5).

Normal maximum Void Barrier stacks is now 3 (from 6 in 0.8.5).

Grants 25% to 35% chance to cast Fire Trail when you are crit (from 40% to 50%).

Added a new node that gives Acid Flask additional poison penetration based on your uncapped poison resistance.

Fixed a bug where mastery restricted abilities could be unlocked and specialized.

Consuming a stack of Viscera now grants 5% bleed chance and 1% increased bleed effectiveness per 5% uncapped physical resistance.

Fixed a bug where the wrong Monolith timeline was shown when interacting with the system while using a controller.

Fixed a bug where the Viscera buff from Torkrefin's Hunger was consumed by indirect ability uses.

Fixed a typo in the description for Soulfire Shield.

Void Barriers again grant 5% less damage taken (from 6% less void damage taken in 0.8.5).

Your Void Barriers and Maximum Void Barriers are now doubled for 3 seconds when you drop below your Endurance Threshold.

Fixed the bar along the bottom of base class passives not filling in properly above 20 points.

Fixed the one-way Soulfire Bastion exit in Kolheim Pass having a transition icon.

Now states that it has 50% added damage effectiveness.

Fixed a bug where the wrong side of The Mountain Beneath would light on fire sometimes.

Fixed a bug where custom names for minions and some enemies did not work.

The icons for Dungeons and the Arena on the world map now have tooltips.

Increased base damage by 25%; its base damage now aligns with its added damage effectiveness of 50%.

Fixed Scalebane Rogues having incorrect ragdoll physics.

Reduced the size of its VFX to match its damaging area.

Now also grants 100% - 150% melee bleed chance to compensate.

Greatly improved the performance and improved the appearance of Bleed’s visual effect.

Fixed the “increased bleed effect” from its non-Viscera mod being multiplicative with other sources of increased bleed effect.

Now grants 75% to 85% less bonus damage taken from critical strikes.

Fixed a bug where Static's damage did not benefit from its charges.

Fixed Yrun using some incorrect sounds.

Fixed a bug where crafting on a duplicated item from the Vault of Uncertain Fate affected the other copies.

Now has lore text.

Fixed an oversight where Monolith Timeline Bosses could not drop Lightless Arbor or Soulfire Bastion keys.

Now grants a Void Barrier every 5 seconds (from every 3).

Fusillade now adds 12 to channel cost (from 15).

Fixed Cremorus not having cloth physics.

Void Barrier conversion now always procs when you drop below your endurance threshold.

Ignite inflicted by Fire Trail no longer has 20% reduced effect and 60% reduced duration.

Fixed Bone Curse’s Signet of Agony node not working.

No longer grants 50% to 75% fire resistance.

Adjusted the hitbox for Smelter's Wrath used by Vaion, The Arsenal to more closely match its indicator and vfx.

Fixed a bug where its damaging area would sometimes occur in incorrect locations.

Fixed a bug where the indicator visual effect for the falling Titanspawn in the Mountain Beneath fight was below the ground.

No longer gives armor shred, which was not listed in its description.

Fixed a bug where increases to Warpath's area did not affect its visuals.

Grants 5 - 10 Vitality (from 8 - 10).

Official launch of patch 0.8.5 - Depths of Eterra.

Includes both Necromancer's summoned Wraiths and enemy Wraiths

Detailed patch notes and video overview to be released.

Introducing the second dungeon, The Lightless Arbor, featuring unique mechanics and lore.

A massive Titan made of plant and stone threatens the Last Refuge, introducing a new boss encounter.

Players will use the Pyre Amber to illuminate areas in the dungeon, affecting enemy strength and player strategy.

A new structure that transforms gold coins into rewards, with strategic decision-making involved.

New dungeon featuring a massive construct and hidden treasures.

New training grounds with specialized setups and training dummies for testing abilities.

A new location featuring a portal to the Arena of Champions and training grounds.

Higher tiers in the Arena of Champions provide increased rewards for players.

Three new champions introduced: Vaion the Arsenal, The Crimson Blade, and Alfrig Wolfmaw.

Introduction of new Arena Champions and combat challenges.

A new arena mode offering four tiers of difficulty with escalating challenges and rewards.

New lightweight gothic-themed armor set for the Acolyte class.

New high-tier armor set for the Sentinel class combining plate and fur.

Introduction of new distinct armor designs.

New low-tier armor set for the Primalist class with a wilderness theme.

New mid-tier armor set for the Rogue class designed for mobility and protection.

Updated Wraiths added to enhance gameplay and aesthetics in the Depths of Eterra update.

Introduced new 3D models for 25 existing Unique items, enhancing their visual appeal.

Updated 3D models for 25 existing unique items.

Visual update for all Wraiths in the game.

Visual and mechanical rework of Catalysts for improved versatility.

Introduction of new and improved catalysts with new art, animations, and powerful implicit affixes.

Trade Soul Embers with the Soul Gambler for powerful items in the dungeon.

New dungeon featuring Fire Lich Cremorus and elemental fire resources.

Face Fire Lich Cremorus, a new enemy in the Soulfire Bastion dungeon.

New ability granted in Soulfire Bastion to deflect elemental damage using Soul Embers.

Explore the Soulfire Bastion, a new dungeon featuring unique mechanics and lore.

New unique items such as Chronicles Of The Damned, Hearthenon’s Vow, Singularity, Renegade’s Will, and Shadow String added.

Introduction of new unique items in patch 0.8.5.

Announcement of the upcoming patch 0.8.5 - Depths of Eterra releasing on March 18th.

A new chat service is nearly complete and will be integrated into the game post-0.8.5 release.

Crafting has been integrated into the multiplayer experience, enhancing gameplay.

Development of the multiplayer version of the Monolith of Fate is underway.

Plans to optimize game loading and overall performance as part of multiplayer development.

Enhancements to logging and tools for quicker diagnosis of multiplayer issues.

Plans to add remaining game content, including updates to channeled and shapeshifting abilities.

Players will be able to link items in chat, allowing others to view item tooltips.

A full revamp of the chat system is underway, including new moderation tools and a third-party chat provider for better scalability.

Plans to add a ping display within the Action Bar HUD to inform players of their connection status.

When partied up, players will see a card displaying their friends' class, frame, level, and a portal button.

The Friends tab will include features like status listing, friend requests, blocked player management, and custom status messages.

The Party Tab will show an overview of party members' statuses and allow the Party Leader to manage invites.

The Social Panel is being redesigned for better usability and gamepad support, replacing the placeholder UI.

The updated chat UI will allow players to create and customize chat tabs for specific channels.

Various smaller changes will enhance the game experience, including new enemies and improved animations.

The Bazaar system has been removed, and player trading will be implemented differently.

A new arena mode will be introduced where players face waves of enemies and new Arena Champions.

The patch will introduce new 3D models for dozens of unique and set-based weapons and shields.

The Gates of Memoriam and Epoch's Call systems have been removed from development due to misalignment with game vision.

Several new armor sets will be added along with a complete overhaul of Catalysts, including new implicit affixes and animations.

Patch 0.8.5 will bring two new dungeons: Vaults of Uncertain Fate and Soul Gambler, each with unique themes and mechanics.

Development efforts are being directed towards improving performance issues and server load.

The patch will include visual improvements such as new 3D models, weapons, and combat VFX.

Fixed a bug where new players who logged in to an account they made via our website with an incorrect password would get an LE-24 error until they restarted the game.

Likely fixed a bug which would cause the LE-26 error to appear for new players.

Updated some error messages.

Fixed a bug where new players that bought the game on Steam but registered their account via our website would encounter an LE-24 error when first starting the game.

Fixed the Crafting Guide in the crafting window being outdated.