Hey, Travelers!

We're super excited to be sharing our latest Developer Blog with you!

Principal Designer Trasochi is spilling the beans on Patch 0.8.2's extensive changes to the Monolith of Fate. This is one of our largest Developer Blogs of all time. As with all of our Developer Blogs, this post is exclusively available on Last Epoch's official forum. We look forward to seeing you there!

Here's a link: Monolith Overhaul!

As we've previously shared, Patch 0.8.2 focuses heavily on the Monolith of Fate. We're actively working on an associated Developer Blog that we're super excited to share with you soon. In the meantime, we're happy to be announcing a number of updates coming to the Arena!

One of our goals when working on Arena was to address zones with significant differences in height potentially hiding dangerous Area of Effect abilities used by certain enemies. We've removed a few zones from rotation, and also updated a number of others which could be problematic in this regard. For example, Woodland Arena will now be significantly flatter, and the Tundra Arena (now called Tower Arena) will also have less varied elevation.

To maintain the current level of variety, we're also adding some of our best-looking zones ever to the Arena in Patch 0.8.2. We've prepared a number of screenshots of these below.

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Our Art Team have been working on new splash art!

This image features the Lich’s signature Reaper Form transform ability! Set in a murky graveyard which has not seen the living for many years, a Lich skulks towards her prey.



Like the image as much as we do? We’ve prepared copies of it at several resolutions for those interested in a new desktop wallpaper! If the download window doesn’t open automatically, right-click on the image and choose Save image as... or your browser’s equivalent option.

Our next update, Patch 0.8.2, includes a new skill for Primalists!

A minion-summoning skill which adds to the Primalist’s ranged options, Summon Storm Crow increases the variety of available Companions. The default behaviour of this skill is to summon multiple crows, each of which cast lightning damage-dealing spells from a distance.

The specialisation tree for Summon Storm Crow has a wide variety of options for improving the effectiveness of your crows and also allows you to change their role on the battlefield.




The full tooltip.


The activatable ability for these new Companions.

When we brought Last Epoch to Kickstarter back in 2018, the Soul Cage was one perhaps the single most well-received creature we showed off. Its concept art, found almost half way down our campaign page, was frequently the subject of conversations. This skeletal brute carrying a soul-filled prison has remained one of the most iconic enemies in the entire game, and we are excited to now be designing two related creatures to include in a future content patch.



The two-legged Soul Warden takes the 'Soul Cage' design language in a new direction; a smaller, upright creature bearing its own cage, this agent of the Immortal Empire has its path illuminated by faint lights. They are often encountered in the presence of Soul Carriers.

The Soul Carrier - referred to as a 'Soul Cage' on the above Design Sheet - serve a similar purpose to Soul Cages for the Immortal Empire, and will be the rarer of the two enemies.

Got any ideas for new enemies in the 'soul cage' family? We'd love to hear 'em!

Patch 0.8.2 focuses on endgame content. In addition to introducing new challenges & rewards for players to experience, it also brings many improvements to existing content.

Spires are among the oldest content in the Monolith and our next content patch completely overhauls them. Spires not only see a visual update thanks to all new art assets but will also have their own unique attacks, giving Travelers more distinct and varied challenges.

We'll have more news to share regarding this update shortly! In the meantime, we hope you'll consider checking out some examples of new Spires we've included in our post on the game's official forum!


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We've previously introduced you to the Shade of Orobyss, who will be joining the denizens of the Monolith of Fate in May with the release of Patch 0.8.2. In that post we had revealed there are multiple varities of the Shade of Orobyss - however this mystery goes ever deeper.

This new boss has thirty - yes, 30 - abilities! Each time it descends upon you in the Monolith, it selects a number of its skills to unleash upon you. The number of skills - and therefore visual effects, and telegraphs - being capped ensures combat remains readable. Of course, the vast pool of abilities at the Shade's disposal also means no one fight will be quite like any other...

Today we're excited to reveal some of the destructive power this creatures has at its fingertips!

• Introduced a number of new chat-focused error messages.
  
• Improved existing error messages used by our chat system.

We're working on a substantial number of improvements targeting our in-game chat system, the experience of reporting chat messages, and the customer service experience. We have not yet determined whether some of these can be implemented prior to Patch 0.8.2.

• Implemented a workaround for Steam users who had recently purchased Last Epoch and have subsequently had difficulty registering Last Epoch accounts in-game.
  
  • If you were affected by this, please use the ‘create an account ᐅ’ prompt beneath the log in fields to register a new account which will be linked to your Steam account.
    
    • If you continue to be affected, please try registering an account on our website, and then logging into the game using the account credentials for that account.

• Fixed a bug where on kill effects would proc if the player brought themselves below 0 health.
  
• Improved the font for certain characters in chat.

• Chat messages sometimes appear twice. This is a server-side issue and we plan to deploy a fix very soon.