This patch consists mostly of buffs for a few underused uniques, set items, and skills. However a major reason for it is fixing the Ashes of Mortality + Humming Bee combination that resulted in movement speed and defense far beyond that which other builds could achieve. This occurred on account of us critically underestimating the amount of ward that could be generated by Ashes of Mortality. This was in part due to the ailment stack limit in the UI hiding the actual stacks of ailments that enemies often had applied. That limit will not be removed in this hotfix, but has been removed internally and that change will be included in our next major patch.

Meanwhile, we are greatly reducing the amount of ward generated by Ashes of Mortality based on the stacks of ignite and damned on the target. To compensate, we are increasing the power it gains from ignite and damned stacks on you, and increasing the amount of increased damage it grants.

Humming Bee is also being reworked. Movement speed scaling off of ward is a legacy effect implemented long before we knew how much ward builds would frequently accumulate, and in its current state it greatly exacerbates ward related imbalances. With the changes in this hotfix it will no longer give crazy amounts of movement speed when you have a ton of ward. However, it will give more increased damage than before if you're using an elemental melee attack, and its new movement speed bonuses will be more relevant when found early on in the game, as they're less dependent on generating very large amounts of ward.

One of the benefits of the overpowered state of Ashes of Mortality was that it enabled ignite builds that had been underpowered for quite some time. We are slightly buffing the damage of ignite to attempt to keep those builds above water despite the nerf to the unique.

Due to some changes in our deployment infrastructure, this patch has a larger download size than usual. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

• Ashes of Mortality 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 (from a 13% chance to gain 6-13 ward per Ignite and Damned on you or the target).
  
• Ashes of Mortality grants 30% to 76% increased fire and necrotic damage (from 30% to 52%).
  
• The Confluence of Fate now grants 13 to 18 Fire, Necrotic, and Void Spell Damage (from 5 to 13) and is now an Oracle Amulet (from Silver Amulet).
  
• Humming Bee grants 1% Chance per 20 Ward to gain Haste for 2 seconds when you use a Melee Attack (from 1% increased movement speed per 250 ward).
  
• Humming Bee grants your Elemental Melee Attacks 1% Increased damage per 200 ward (from giving 1% increased elemental damage per 250 ward).
  
• Humming Bee now also grants 3% to 7% increased movement speed.
  
• Zeurial's Hunt grants 12 to 32 bow lightning damage and throwing lightning damage (from 12 to 22).
  
• Zeurial's Hunt's conditional effects grants 42% to 62% Lightning Penetration (from 42% to 52%).
  
• Fixed a bug where Zeurial's Hunt's effect could be procced by non-lightning attacks.

• Zerrick's Set's old 3 item bonus is now its 2 item bonus (its previous 2 item bonus was 54% Increased Chance To Find Potions). Its 3 Item bonus is now 72% Increased Chance to Find Potions and 18% less poison and necrotic damage taken.
  
• Zerrick's Greed now grants 130 to 390 dodge rating (from 120 to 240).
  
• Zerrick's Guile now grants 125 to 375 dodge rating (from 100 to 200).
  
• Zerrick's Ambition now grants 23% to 35% increased leech rate (from 20% to 30%).

• Halvar's 2 item bonus is +25 Spell Cold Damage (from +15).
  
• Halvar's 3 item bonus now also grants +2 to Avalanche in addition to its existing bonus.

• Isadora's Revenge grants 40 to 82 health (from 40 with no range).
  
• Isadora's Gravechill grants 48 to 80 health (from 36 to 60).
  
• Isadora's 3 Set Bonus now also grants 30% Increased Damned Effect in addition to its existing bonus.

• Pebbles' Collar grants 24% to 42% increased minion damage (from 24% with no range).
  
• Pebbles' Collar grants 24% to 42% Cold Resistance (from 24% with no range).
  
• Pebbles' Bitemarked Sash grants 24% to 42% increased minion damage (from 24% with no range).
  
• Pebbles' Bitemarked Sash grants 24% to 42% Fire Resistance (from 24% with no range).
  
• Pebbles' Femur grants 24% to 42% Lightning Resistance (from 24% with no range).
  
• Pebbles' 3 set bonus now grants +42 fire, cold, or lightning damage (from 24).

• Corsair's Set's 2 item bonus now also grants 35% less necrotic damage taken on block in addition to its existing bonus.
  
• Changed Corsair's Blood Cowl's base type to Umbral Visage from Exile Hat.
  
• Corsair's Blood Cowl no longer grants 17% to 35% less necrotic damage taken on block.
  
• Corsair's Blood Cowl now grants 35% to 85% increased chance to find potions (from 35% to 72%).
  
• Corsair's Blood Cowl now grants 35% to 85% increased mirage attack area for Lethal Mirage (from 35% to 72%).
  
• Corsair's Boarding Shield requires level 35 (from level 51).

• Last Bear's Set's 2 item bonus now grants 20 health gained on stun (from 15).
  
• The Last Bear's Scorn grants 20% to 30% Endurance (from 10% to 15%).
  
• The Last Bear's Fury grants 30% to 75% increased melee physical damage (from 20% to 50%).
  
• Changed The Last Bear's Fury base type to Engraved Gauntlets from Noble Gloves.
  
• The Last Bear's Lament requires level 20 (from level 28).
  
• The Last Bear's Lament grants 25% to 45% void resistance (from 15% to 50%).
  
• The Last Bear's Lament grants 45 to 105 Endurance Threshold (from 50 to 100).

• Soul Feast deals 25% more damage and costs 17 mana (from 20)
  
• Blood Tether (from the Soul Feast and Reaper Form trees) has 50% more base damage and added spell damage applies to it at 100% effectiveness per second (from 40%)
  
• Hammer Throw has 22% more base damage and added throwing damage applies to it at 110% effectiveness (from 100%)
  
• Shield Throw deals 20% more damage
  
• Meteor deals 12.5% more damage and costs 56 mana (from 60).

• Ignite deals 5% more damage.

Things have certainly gotten interesting since the latest poll. From last week’s poll, we’ll be creating a Two-Handed Mage Spear! This will be the first of its kind in Last Epoch, so has quite the opportunity to really create something new and distinct. I’m personally very excited to see how this item continues to evolve from this point.

For today’s poll, we’ll be collecting your votes for the item’s theme. This theme will help direct the art style of the item, naming, flavor text, and even the unique effect. We’ve collected suggestions from the forums, and picked out options that the community has been highly receptive to. This is a very important, almost historical poll, as it’s the first poll where all of the options are not based on core game mechanics. Instead they are completely based on community suggestions that will be directly implemented into Last Epoch.

Come join us on our Official Forums and cast your vote for the Item Theme for the Community Designed Unique, and don't forget to start submitting your ideas for the Unique effect!

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/community-designed-unique-item-theme/48654


April 8th - Community Designed Unique Kick Off
April 15th - Community Designed Unique: Item Type
April 22nd - Community Designed Unique: Item Theme
April 29th - Community Designed Unique: Unique Effect
May 6th - Community Designed Unique: Item Art
May 13th - Community Designed Unique: Item Name and Flavour Text
May 27th - Community Designed Unique: Reveal!

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Welcome Travelers to the second poll of the Community Designed Unique Event!

We hope you’re enjoying some of the new Uniques introduced in 0.8.5d (I know I have a few… ‘off meta’ ideas for myself). Last week’s poll had some amazing interaction and we’re very excited that so many members from the community are so interested in this event. Thank you all for being such a great community to be a part of.

From last week’s poll, it looks like Mage is going to be the target class for the new unique, very exciting! And we are shocked, simply shocked that a Two-Handed weapon was selected. We had no way to foresee this outcome. Ok, maybe we’re not that shocked. So keeping in mind that we’re looking at a Mage as the focus for a two handed weapon, join us on our forums and cast your vote for what the weapon type should be. Mages are capable of wielding all but bows, so what will it be: A Spellblade Spear? A Sorcerer Axe? You decide!

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/community-designed-unique-item-type/48587

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Edit: We’ve deployed a quick fix for 0.8.5d to prevent Fire Lich Scythe base type dropping as a normal item, change its attack rate to 0.92 (from 1) and change its range to 2.6m (from 1.9).

• Added 3 new uniques that are exclusive to the Soul Gambler.
  
• Added 3 new uniques and a set item that can be dropped by Cremorus, Immolator of Souls.
  
• Added 4 new uniques that can be dropped by The Mountain Beneath.
  
• Added 3 new uniques that can be dropped by the Arena Champions.
  
• Added a new set item that can be dropped by Formosus.
  
• Added 2 new uniques that can randomly drop.

• In campaign, dungeons, and the monolith, most enemies now de-aggro if they go too far from their original position unless they are particularly close to their target or currently using an ability.
  
• Bosses, minibosses, rare enemies, and enemies with high base health are excluded.
  
• This has no effect in the arena or in arena echoes.

Aims: Further incentivize killing enemies in echoes rather than ignoring them on the way to the objective, but avoid making it optimal to bring a large ball of enemies to the objective and kill all of them at the same time.

(reduced base stability and increased bonus stability)

• Reduced base stability scaling from distance from origin - now gains an average of 1.25 stability per tier (from 1.5).
  
• Reduced base stability scaling from corruption below 50 - now gains 1 stability per 8 corruption up to a total of 6 (from 1 stability per 5 corruption up to a total of 10).
  
• Increased stability scaling from corruption above 100 - now gains 0.3333% increased stability per corruption up to 100% at corruption 400 (from 0.32% increased stability per corruption up to 80% at corruption 350).
  
• Increased bonus stability from regular echoes from around 106% of base stability to around 204% of base stability.
  
• Increased bonus stability from arena echoes from around 60% of base stability to around 114% of base stability.
  
• Maximum bonus stability from regular echoes now requires around 5% more kills to attain unless the echo is particularly small.
  
• Shade Echoes now grant around 320% of a regular echo's base stability (from 250%).
  
• Bonus stability from arena echoes now starts when wave 2 spawns (from wave 1) and the maximum amount is reached once all waves are defeated (from when the last wave spawns).

• Regular echoes at a moderate distance from the center of the echo web grant around 25% less base stability at 0 corruption, 29% less at 100 corruption, and 21% less at 400 corruption.
  
• Regular echoes at a moderate distance from the center of the echo web grant around 11% more total stability at 0 corruption, 5% more at 100 corruption, and 16% more at 400 corruption.
  
• On average, if you now kill enough enemies to have obtained around 60% of the maximum bonus stability according to 0.8.5c numbers, you will gain more total stability than in 0.8.5c.
  
• This threshold is higher around 100 corruption, lower around 400, higher when far from the centre of the echo web, and lower when close to it.

• Bonus stability is now displayed on the stability bar at the top of the panel when you select an echo that grants bonus stability.

• Improved the spawn locations in Solarum Ascent.

• Right clicking a dungeon key while the appropriate slot is open now always moves the key to the slot (this was already implemented for arena keys).
  
• Right clicking a dungeon key while the appropriate slot is not open now opens the map at the location of the dungeon.
  
• Right clicking an arena key while the appropriate slot is not open now opens the map at the location of Champion's Gate.
  
• This same functionality can be achieved on a controller by pressing Y while using D-PAD selection.
  
• The drop rate of individual dungeon keys before level 55 is now equal to their drop rate at level 55.
  
• Keys can still not drop before their minimum drop level (25, 47, and 54).
  
• The effect of this is a 75% increase in key drop rate at level 25, linearly scaling to no difference at level 55 or higher.
  
• Very slightly increased how many dungeon keys drop outside of dungeons (this is multiplicative with the change above).

• Tier 1 modifiers now grant much less increased damage and health, but grant rare items instead of exalted items.
  
• The number of bonus rare items from these mods is higher than the number of bonus exalted items from the previous mods.

• Modifiers offered at the exit of the first zone in Tier 1 and Tier 2 Soulfire Bastion give 10% increased damage and health (from 30%).
  
• Modifiers offered at the start of Tier 2 Soulfire Bastion give 50% increased damage and health (from 30%).
  
• Compared to 0.8.5c, Tier 1 Soulfire Bastion is slightly easier after the first zone, and Tier 2 Soulfire Bastion is slightly harder in the first zone.

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

• Improved buffering when rapidly clicking to attack. If you rapidly press ability A while using ability A, and also press ability B at least once, ability B will be buffered instead of ability A, regardless of which ability's press was latest.
  
• Improved buffering when holding down the move key. Holding down the movement key no longer prevents buffered abilities that cannot interrupt low priority settle from going off. They now go off when the ability would have ended had it not been interrupted by movement.
  
• For example, if you are holding down the movement key while using Lightning Blast and then press the Static Orb key, the Static Orb key press would have previously been ignored as you'd start moving before being able to cast another ability. Now it'll go off at that point when you can cast another ability even if you've already started moving.
  
• Fixed cases of reactive skills that were not able to interrupt the portion of an ability that could be interrupted by movement. This affected Werebear Roar and all form changing skills, and they should now feel more responsive to use.

• Dragon Fire from Dragon Song now has its visuals pooled, improving performance.
  
• Immortal Eyes now have "Immune to Stun and Freeze" in their description. This is only a display change.
  
• Updated the attribute scaling displayed on Northern Winds, Lightning Bolt, and Earth Spikes to accurately reflect the scaling they use (Tempest Strike's 4% increased damage per point of Strength and Attunement). This is only a display change.
  
• Area modifiers for Dread and Infernal Shade now visually scale just the ring's radius, not the height of the ring or the size of the shade.

• Fixed a bug where Avalanche was receiving 4% increased damage per point of Intelligence instead of its intended 4% increased damage and 4% freeze rate multiplier per point of Attunement.
  
• Fixed a bug where Earthquake's Shatterquake node did not apply its benefits to Earthquake's Aftershocks.
  
• Fixed a bug where Fury Leap's Regain Stamina could only trigger while in Werebear Form.
  
• Fixed a bug where the damage increase from the Blaze Shade node on the Infernal Shade tree did not affect Ailments applied by Blaze Shade.
  
• Fixed Shadow Daggers and other abilities procced by ailments failing to deal damage when procced in certain circumstances (e.g. from a distance with bow puncture).
  
• Fixed a bug that caused 2H Axes to drop from the Rare Maces Monolith rewards.
  
• Fixed a bug where Aura of Decay's VFX was not affected by increased area. This was only a visual bug.
  
• Fixed a bug where the area increase from Blaze Shades did not affect their visuals.
  
• Fixed visual bugs with Unseeing and similar enemy types.
  
• Clarified that Devouring Orb's Hollow Orb node causes Devouring Orb's Void Rifts to no longer increase in size or damage for each successive Void Rift.
  
• Clarified the alt tooltip of the "chance to receive a glancing blow when hit" property to state that glancing blows deal 35% less damage (previously said half damage).
  
• Fixed the shock ailment tooltip saying that it reduces elemental resistance instead of lightning resistance.

Hello Travelers,

There have been requests, there have been rumblings, and there have been bees. Today, the much anticipated Community Designed Unique Event begins! Starting today, every week we will be posting a new community poll. Each poll will help further refine a design for a Unique item to be immortalized in Last Epoch. The polls will be opened on Friday evenings two hours before the start of the Dev Stream at 1:00PM CDT, and be closed on the following Friday morning. That means you will have seven days to cast your vote to shape a new item to be introduced to the world of Eterra.

At each step along the way, you can also suggest in comments different aspects of the item, such as name, effect, theme, or even flavor text. Those that get the most likes and still fit within the world of Eterra will be included in the voting options. With this, we will try to include options for ideas that both we and the community enjoy the most: however do be aware, if an idea strays too far from the game, we may have to decline it as an option (sorry, even with a community designed unique, there won’t be any nyan cats in Last Epoch).

So to kick everything off, this week we’d like to get your opinions on the first shaping of the item.

Head over to our forums on https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/community-designed-unique-event/48454 and cast your votes in the included Polls to see this item start to take form!

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We’d like to start this post with a thank you to everyone in our amazing community and all of the great feedback concerning the changes and new content in 0.8.5. It’s with this great feedback we’ve been able to continue making Last Epoch as great as it is.

In the very near future we will be releasing the remaining Uniques for The Mountain Beneath, as well as Cremorus and a few more adjustments and fixes. However, before these Uniques are available in game, we wanted to provide a bit of a teaser. In the post below, you’ll see item card examples for two of the new items coming, as well as art for other items coming for the 0.8.5d hotfix. Let us know in the comments below what sort of effects you think the remaining Uniques might have!

In addition to speculation, we have some speculation for you - Keep an eye on our socials tomorrow as we’re going to be starting a very exciting event we know a lot of people have been looking forward to (not multiplayer), and we’re excited to see you all there!

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