• Social Features (including account linking, chat, cosmetic pets and the ladder) are now re-enabled.
  
• Greatly optimized chat performance. We will continue to monitor this.
  
• Fixed a bug causing a “Your account is in use on another device” notification to be displayed at incorrect times.

Now that social features are once again available, a Last Epoch account is required to play the game, just as it had been prior to the release of Patch 0.8.1e on Saturday. This account will also be necessary for multiplayer when Patch 0.9 has been released.

Please see this support article for more information.

• Chat messages are sometimes displayed twice. We believe this can be resolved without another game update.

• Temporarily disabled social features.
  
• Fixed Gaspar’s Insight having two Void Resistance affixes instead of one Void Resistance and one Cold Resistance affix.
  
• Fixed a minor graphical issue in Risen Lake.

• Avarice now also grants 13% elemental resistance and no longer prevents health regen.
  
• Coral Aegis grants 30% to 43% lightning resistance (from 25% to 41%) and 300% to 430% chance to shock attackers (from 250% to 410%).
  
• Dreamthorn grants 35 melee void damage (from 25) and 35% void penetration (from 25%).
  
• Frozen Eyes of Formosus grant 80% to 140% increased minion cold damage (from 70% to 120%).
  
• Gaspar's Acuity now also grants 35% to 45% lightning resistance.
  
• Gaspar's Insight now also grants 35% to 45% cold resistance.
  
• Herkir's Vessel grants 60% to 100% increased fire damage (from 30% to 60%).
  
• The Last Bear's Fury grants 3% increased health regen per point of strength (from 2%).
  
• Mortality's Grasp now grants 73 to 113 health (from 50 to 60).
  
• Murama's Hilt grants 85% to 130% increased curse damage (from 80% to 95%).
  
• Transient Rest grants 35% physical, poison, and necrotic resistance (from 25%).
  
• The water orbs from Ucenui's Sphere deal 50% more damage.
  
• Added lore text for the following uniques that were added in 0.8.1:
  
  • 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 which could prevent the Empowered versions of each timeline from being unlocked. This fix applies to both new and old characters.
  
  • Return to the Empowerment Altar in the middle of the 3 level 90 timelines and click on it to unlock the Empowered Timelines.

• Fixed a bug where the chat window would not show new messages in some situations.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Forge button in the crafting window would become unusable 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 (i.e. a checkmark means it is disabled).
  
• Removed some false positives from the chat filter.

Tomorrow a few of our devs will be joining Zizaran to design a unique item!

Unique Item Design Collaborations are available in our Ardent Creator supporter pack. They entail someone deciding details such as the theme of an item, what the item does, and its name & flavor text. Members of our team will work with you to get your item ready for inclusion in a future update.

Our support team often answers questions about design collaborations, so tomorrow a few of us will be joining Zizaran on Twitch so that anyone curious can learn more about the process. Designing unique items is always a lot of fun, so we're really looking forward to it and we hope to see you there!

Catch us at noon CT / 5 PM GMT!

We're working on making skills in Last Epoch look better!

There are many aspects to making skills look impactful, exciting, and "real". One of these is the use of lighting to cause skills to be reflected on nearby surfaces. This is something that we have historically shied away from, primarily due to performance concerns.

Our ongoing optimization work now allows us to begin the process of updating the visual effects used by our skills to contain a number of lights. Both skills available to players and skills used by enemies will be updated in this way where it makes sense for them to use lighting.

Steam won't allow us to embed the videos, but we've prepared a few examples on our official forum.

Want to get more involved in the Last Epoch community? Join us on the official forum!




As we've previously hinted, Patch 0.8.2 will focus heavily on endgame content. Today we're excited to unveil our most complex boss to-date! The Shade of Orobyss is a particularly unpredictable nemesis that appears in a number of distinct forms with differing abilities.

The revamped and expanded Monolith of Fate contains many additional types of Echo, with new rewards awaiting those brave enough to venture inside them. New objectives, new bosses, new types of content, and new meta progression are all coming in this massive update.

In a future post we will detail the changes coming to the Monolith. At its heart is the mysterious Shade of Orobyss, a mysterious entity whose appearance heralds the destruction of an entire Timeline. We'll warn you of some of its most potent abilities ahead of time - but be warned, for one cannot rid the Monolith of the Shade any more than they can stop the sun from rising.

As you journey through the updated Monolith of Fate, the Shade of Orobyss will be drawn ever closer to you. Eventually, either you will find the Shade... or it shall find you.

Want to get more involved in the Last Epoch community? Join us on the official forum!



We’ve been working on an explosive addition to the Acolyte’s toolkit! We’re super excited to be showing you Volatile Zombie, a new summoning spell she will acquire in Patch 0.8.2. Below you can find the tooltip, skill art, and a selection of some of the nodes on its specialization tree.

NOTE: This skill is still in development, so we’ve omitted most numbers from the below tooltips.




The tooltip for Summon Volatile Zombie, Alt text included.



The skill art for Summon Volatile Zombie.

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We're working on the Druid class! While much of this work is being done by our development team, the artists are pitching in with all-new models being created for both Werebear Form and Spriggan Form. These will be accompanied by new animations and visual effects, bringing these up to more modern standards such as those enjoyed by the Rogue class.





A Model Sheet for Werebear Form, featuring material references.


Werebear Form is being made to look like a larger, sturdier, and more realistic shapeshifted form (to the extent that shapeshifting can be made to look "realistic"). It will also be a significantly more detailed, higher quality model. Spriggan Form is being made to still look like a spriggan, but one that is being approximated by the spell cast by a human - it has a more human-looking face, and greenery resembling hair and a beard. Hostile spriggans are also getting visually updated, and their new model will look notably different from the one being used by Primalists.





A Model Sheet for Spriggan Form, featuring material references.



Acolyte fans... you haven't been forgotten. ːsteamhappyː

3dTotal recently interviewed Alexandr from our Art Team to discuss his progression as an artist! They discussed the start of his career, some prior experience in the industry, and touched on his recent work for Eleventh Hour Games such as designing the bows used by our new Rogue class. Check out the interview here, and I'm sure he'd love to hear your feedback!

Hey, Travelers!

We've been working on overhauling the user interface in Last Epoch, and today we're pleased to begin telling you it! The post we've prepared for today is larger than most and contains a number of images, which had led to us struggling to format it effectively here on Steam. You can find the post - including a table of contents with links to each section - on our official forum, here.

We look forward to seeing you there!