Last Epoch update for 14 June 2019

Monolith of Fate

• Progress in the Monolith is now saved when you log out or switch characters, allowing you to continue a run at a later time.
• Once you have conquered 10 timelines subsequent mod options become increasingly difficult with each timeline you conquer, causing the difficulty (and rewards) of the monolith to scale up infinitely.
• Added two new zone layouts.
• Added three new monolith modifiers.
• There is now a reset monolith button that resets your number of timelines conquered to zero.
• Increased monster density by about 10% in most zones.
• Reduced distance between packs in The Serpentine Desert.
• The crit chance mod adds 25% Critical Strike Chance to enemies (down from 30%)
• The crit chance mod now gives more increased rarity and experience than before.

Uniques

• Two new unique items have been added.

• Alchemist's Ladle

• This item is no longer dramatically more rare than other unique items.

• Chance to apply ailments increased to 15% from 5%.

• Bone Harvester

• Doubled the base health of Skeleton Harvesters.

• Skeleton Harvesters now scale with Intelligence and level.

• Added The Claw unique brass amulet as a low level version of The Fang.

• Existing The Fang amulets will change into The Claw.

• The Fang

• Now grants 60 health (up from 50).

• Now grants minions +12 melee physical damage.

• Now grants minions stun immunity.

• Changed to the Bone Amulet base type (which requires level 56).

• Prism Wraps

• Changed the leech effect from On Hit to On Crit.

• Wing Guards

• Adds 150 dodge rating (up from 120).

• Now grants 5% chance to gain Haste for 1 second on hit.

• No longer adds 40 health.

• Yrun's Wisdom

• Now grants 65 health (down from 100).[/li]

Items

• Added a new set of armor models for the Acolyte and Primalist.
• Added the Noble Sash base type (requires level 32).
• The Bronze Belt base type now requires level 44 (up from 35).
• The Ranger's Belt base type requires level 60 (up from 42).
• Reworked amulet base types
• Added 4 new amulet base types.
• Adjusted amulet level requirements (highest is now 76).
• Added new art for all amulet base types.
• Silver Amulets now grant a larger amount of Increased Critical Strike Chance.
• Brass amulets now grant more lightning protection and also grant +% base spell damage.
• Added new 2d art for some one-hand weapons.

Affixes

• The Health Regen and Elemental Protection affix is now a pure health regeneration prefix, and grants a larger amount of health regeneration.

• Increased the maximum value of the Minion Health Regen prefix to 300% (from 150%).

• Increased the Tier 4 and Tier 5 values of armour and protection suffixes.

• Dexterity shards are now more common.

• Increased Throwing Attack Damage shards are now more common.

• Both types of glancing blow shard are now rarer.

• Set affix shards are now rarer.

• Reduced the value of attribute affixes (e.g. Strength, Intelligence...)

• Max value on body armour is now 12 (from 15)

• Max value on amulets is now 10 (down from 12)

• Max value on other items is now 8 (from 10)

• Reduced the max health on the health + glancing blow prefix to 20 (from 25)

• Reduced the max value of the increased health suffix to 15% (from 18%)

• The Throwing Attack Damage and Mana Cost prefix now reduces mana cost by 3 (down from 4). Hammer Throw's cost has decreased from 4 to 3, however.

• Added some new loading screen hints for various mechanics.

Mechanics

• Adjusted minion AI so that it is better at saying close to your character.

• Unequipping The Fang or The Claw now unsummons extra wolves if you are above your maximum number of wolves without it.

• Base health regeneration per second is now 6 + (0.14 per level), up from 6 + (0.08 per level).

• Related affixes have also been buffed.

• Potions now heal for a base of 50 + (2 per level) health, up from 50 + (1 per level).

• Ward now decays at a base rate of 40% of current ward per second (from 20% per second).

• Intelligence now grants 4% ward retention per point (down from 5%).

Enemies

• Rare Highland Bear

• Avalanche

• Now deals 11% less damage.

• Now has a 19% increased delay,

• Cooldown increased from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.

Skills

• Aura of Decay

• Now has a specialization tree.

• Smite

• Now has a specialization tree.

• Bear Form

• Ravage

• Now has a minimum mana cost of 2.

• Range no longer scales with weapon range.

• The Stagger ailment that it inflicts no longer stacks.

• Stagger now reduces armour by 100 (up from 30).

• Stagger now increases damage taken by 10% (up from 3%).

• Swipe

• Now costs 3 mana by default (down from 5), but has a minimum mana cost of 2.

• Black Hole

• The Endless Maw node now grants 30% increased duration per point (from adding 1 second to duration per point)

• The Scattered node requires 2 points in Endless Maw (up from 1)

• Erasing Strike

• Certain Erasure now grants +25% Critical Strike Multiplier per point (down from 40%).

• Fire Shield

• Now has a 20% chance to retaliate when hit, rather than retaliating whenever you take 30 damage. The previous scaling dates back to the pre-alpha, which was much shorter.

• The retaliation spell is now referred to as Flame Bolt to help clarify that it doesn't scale with your Fireball tree.

• The node that used to reduce the retaliation threshold now adds 5% chance to retaliate when hit per point.

• Frenzy Totem

• Now grants 20% attack and cast speed by default (down from 23%)

• Buff now has 1% increased effect per point of Attunement.

• Buff no longer flickers to twice its value repeatedly in character sheet.

• Hammer Throw

• Hammer Throw now costs 3 mana (down from 4)

• Added a new node that grants a limited stacking buff that increases damage and critical strike chance.

• Added a new node that causes the stacking buff to also grant ignite chance.

• Steadfast Path grants 35% chance to deal double damage (up from 30%)

• Catapult now adds 3 to mana cost per point, instead of reducing damage by 20% per point.

• Disintegrating Aura now adds 12 to mana cost (up from 10).

• Swapped the effects of Ballista and Zealot's Conviction. Now the cost reduction node is behind +projectiles, and the double damage chance node is behind spiral.

• Zealot's Conviction now grants 13% chance to deal double damage per point and can have 5 points allocated (from 10% chance per point and a max of 3 points).

• Avatar of the Spire (hammer nova) now also adds 4 base physical damage.

• Shattering force grants 20% chance to shred armour per point (up from 15%).

• Harvest

• Removed the Slow Decay node which granted ward retention on hit.

• Added a new node that increases the ward gained by your minions.

• Ghost Conduit no longer requires points in Mirror Soul.

• Mirror Soul can now have a maximum of 1 point allocated (down from 4).

• Sacrifice

• Reduced mana cost to 25 from 30.

• Spriggan Form

• Vale Bolt

• Renamed to Vale Blast to better reflect that it is not a projectile.

• Now costs 3 mana by default (down from 5), but has a minimum mana cost of 2.

• Now deals physical damage rather than lightning.

• Summon Vines

• Now costs 12 mana (down from 18).

• Now summons 3 vines (down from 4).

• Vines' damage and health now scale with Attunement.

• Summon Skeleton

• Summoned skeleton archers deal 20% more damage.

• Summoned skeleton mages deal 30% more damage.

• Summoned skeleton warriors deal 40% more damage.

• Teleport

• Now has a base cooldown of 4 seconds (up from 3).

• Ether barrier grants 7 ward per point (down from 8).

• Out of Body now converts 3% of health to ward (down from the 4% previously shown on the tooltip and the 10% it was actually giving).

• Transplant

• Now has a base cooldown of 4 seconds (up from 3).

• Thorn Totem

• Venom Tipped Thorns now grants 20% poison chance per point and can have up to 5 points allocated (from 14.3% chance and up to 7 points).

• Lasting Affliction now grants 15% poison duration per point (down from 17%) and requires 4 points in Venom Tipped Thorns (down from 5).

Passives

• The bonuses on transformation granted by the Druid nodes Primal Shifter and Restoration now last for 10 seconds (up from 4).

• Shaman

• Added several new nodes.

• The Conflux node now has a clearer description and requires 3 points in either of the nodes that proc the lightning it improves.

• The Conflux node now increases the lightning's damage by 20% per point (up from 15%) and can have 5 points allocated (up from 1).

• Adjusted the positions and effects of many nodes.

Leech

• Overkill damage no longer counts for leech. This means you can't leech for more than the damage it took to kill an enemy.
• Sources of Damage Leeched as Health have been made approximately half as powerful as they were before.
• The Hybrid Health Leech affix grants up to 40% increased health leech (down from 50%).
• The Hybrid Health Leech affix can no longer spawn on gloves, but can now spawn on rings and relics. It can still spawn on amulets.
• The Melee Damage Leeched as Health affix is now a prefix.

UI

• The fog of war on minimaps will no longer reset when your character leaves a zone.

• Fog of war will not be saved inside the Monolith of Fate. This is primarily due to the fact that the Monolith of Fate will use procedural generation in future.

• The locations of permanent minions are now shown on the minimap.

• Unique items and set items now have icons on the minimap.

• Replaced the item tooltip UI with a new design. This design shows an item's 2d art, clearly displays the hotkeys, and allows you to see the tier & range of affixes on the item.

• Items you pick up are now highlighted until moused-over.

• Several miscellaneous improvements to the chat window.

• Time travel transitions now fade to loading screens instead of just staying on black.

Visuals

• Updated vertical lightning effects for Storm Totem, Fury Leap and some other skills.
• Updated Lightning Blast's effect.
• Updated Rive's effect.
• Updated Warpath's effect.

New Sounds

• Ephemeral Stance
• Erasing Strike
• Fireball
• Glacier
• Hammer Throw
• Juggernaut Stance
• Lightning Blast
• Lunge
• Manifest Weapon
• Shield Rush
• Snap Freeze
• Teleport
• Vengeance
• Warpath

Zones

• Adjusted the layout of the Shattered Valley and Welryn Outskirts.
• Added a new sidequest to the Ruins of Welryn.
• Added a training dummy to the End of Time.

Performance

• Adjusted shadows, reflections and other graphical effects to improve performance while maintaining a quality standard.
• Improved the performance of Poison and Ignite.
• Improved the performance of effects that repeatedly apply in an area, such as Frenzy Totem.
• Various miscellaneous improvements to calculations and reduced memory allocation.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the resolution being incorrect at character select screen & when the client starts.
• Fixed a bug where Blood Tethers from Oculorum Mortis enemies would persist after they were supposed to end.
• Fixed Chimaera's Essence Unique Amulet not dropping.
• Fixed the Glancing Blow Chance and Health affix shard not dropping.
• Added world map labels to zones that were missing them.
• Fixed some item level requirements being lower than intended.
• Fixed waypoint visuals applying to the Mage's new armour.
• Fixed a bug where Ragnar was showing up in Gladiator's Rest.
• Fixed the Sane Cultist not giving you a quest if you talked to them a second time, rather than accepting the first time.
• Fixed a bug where taking any node that changed Black Hole's cooldown would approximately halve the cooldown.
• Fixed Elemental Nova's Ascended Current granting half the increased shock effect it should.
• Fixed the Spellblade's Mind Flame scaling off of Attunement rather than Intelligence.
• Fixed the Beastmaster's Caustic Poisons granting added poison damage instead of increased.
• Fixed some enemy and environment effects spamming log files.
• Fixed a bug where you were immune during Reap's movement
• Fixed a bug where the Wraith Feast node on the Harvest Tree wasn't working.
• Fixed a bug where Storm Totem was not gaining stats from Attunement and levels.
• Fixed a bug where in the Rip Blood tree the Marrow Drinker node overrode Arcane Fortress node.
• Fixed many debuffs not affecting enemies correctly.
• Fixed Avalanche having a one time cost instead of a channeled cost.
• Fixed a bug where you could take a node that required 25 points without mastering in Shaman
• Fixed a few later Shaman nodes requiring an incorrect number of mastery points.
• Fixed the Forge Guard's Lethal Strikes node giving 10% increased Critical Strike Multiplier instead of +10% Critical Strike Multiplier.
• Fixed a bug where Rainbow Edge was giving 20% shock, ignite, and chill chance instead of 25%.
• Fixed a bug where an armour affix or elemental affix could occasionally not change value when upgraded from Tier 3 to Tier 4.
• Fixed the "increased armour and protections" stat not being reflected in the character sheet correctly.
• Fixed on-hit flash effects persisting in some cases.
• Fixed a bug where Teleport's Stable Bubble was giving 4% increased ward retention, rather than 10% ward retention
• Fixed a bug where leaving a zone while hovering over an enemy could cause the enemy's information to get stuck on the main enemy health bar.
• Fixed a bug where leech was not being randomised along with hit damage.
• Fixed a bug where Stagger visuals persisted after it wore off.