Last Epoch update for 8 May 2019

Arena

• Dying in the Arena now ends a Hardcore character and removes the Deathless tag, as it does on the outside.

• The start next wave panel now has an option for leaving the arena and claiming rewards.

• Selecting this option takes you to a small zone containing a reward chest and a portal back to The End of Time.

• If you die in the Arena instead of choosing to exit then you cannot claim these rewards.

• Made Arena Key drops more consistent

  • Can no longer drop from the arena chest with less than 5 timelines conquered
  • Guaranteed drop when timelines conquered is a multiple of 5
  • 5% drop chance when timelines conquered is greater than 5, but not a multiple of 5

Monolith

• Increased the density of enemies in the monolith (by around 15%, varying from zone to zone)

Performance

• Fixed an issue with the outline system (glowing effect around enemies and allies) that caused the effect to be reapplied every frame

• This system was quite old and was interacting incorrectly now that the engine has changed

  • In my testing, framerate in campaign levels improved by about 5 fps in combat (High preset, 1080p, RX 480 8GB, Ryzen 5 1600)

Skills

• Rebuke

  • Cooldown changed to 5 seconds (up from 4)
  • You can no longer be stunned while channelling Rebuke
  • The increased maximum duration node now grants a 12% increase per point (down from 15%) and can have up to 2 points allocated (down from 3)
  • The increased health regen while channelling node now grants 25% per point (up from 20%)
  • Ailment Chance nodes grant 8% chance per point (up from 5%)
  • Increased ailment duration node grants 8% increased duration per point (up from 5%)
  • The armour and elemental protection nodes now apply while channelling and have higher values
  • Removed the node that granted stun avoidance while channelling
  • Removed the node that granted ward retention while channelling
  • Added 6 new nodes
  • Adjusted a few connections
  • Fixed a bug where taking a node that increased the cooldown recovery speed would almost half the cooldown
  • Fixed a bug where a node was giving 2000% increased armour per point instead of 20%

• Vengeance

  • Added three new nodes centred around reduced armour and fire protection on hit.
  • Renamed Dark Blade to Iron Blade to better reflect its damage type.

Items

• Glyph of Stability now causes a craft to add 5% to 45% less instability (used to be 80% less to 40% more)

Quests

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

UI

• Increased the opacity of NPC dialogue to improve visibility.
• Chat now scrolls properly along with new chat messages.

Visuals

• Updated Erasing Strike and Void Rifts
• Updated Lightning Blast
• Improved lighting detail in all desert levels. This will make this patch larger to download on some platforms.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed being unable to view skill trees in the skills panel before you unlocked them by levelling up (you were able to in the past).
• Fixed a bug where teleporting out the starting area in a monolith zone with a spire objective would result in the spires failing to spawn.
• Fixed a bug where certain nodes could cause hovering over a skill icon to add an instance of attribute scaling to it each frame, causing severe fps drops or crashes. This is what led to the Primalist’s skill panel freeze issue.
• Potentially fixed issues with starting the game via Steam on Mac and Linux.