Last Epoch: Beneath Ancient Skies Patch Notes

Item, Affix, & Enemy Balance

Affixes

  • The Endurance while Channelling Warpath Affix now grants 33% to 36% Endurance at Tier 6 and 37% to 40% at Tier 7 (from a fixed 30% in both cases).
  • Added a new prefix for daggers, one handed axes, and two handed axes, which grants additional melee and necrotic spell damage.
  • Added a new Level of Flay prefix for body armor, which grants additional skill levels to Flay and increased area for area skills.
  • The “of Bulwark” Sentinel idol affix grants +176-380 block effectiveness on adorned idols (from 176-475), +124-268 block effectiveness on large idols (from 124-335), and +185-400 block effectiveness on huge idols (from 185-500).
  • The Dreaded, Widow’s, Fanged, Biting, Scorching, Illuminating, and Fateweaver’s Weaver idol affixes grant 1-2% penetration (from 1-3%) on 1x1 idols, and 3-4% penetration (from 4-6%) on 2x1 or 1x2 idols.
  • The Preserving Weaver idol affix grants 5-7% ward retention (from 6-9%) and 5-8 ward per second (from 7-10).
  • The “of Respite” Weaver idol affix grants +14-18 health (from 15-20) and +1-2 health regen (from 1-3).
  • The Restful Weaver idol affix grants +14-18 health (from 15-20) and 5-8% increased health regeneration (from 13-15%).
  • The Serene Weaver idol affix grants +14-18 health (from 15-20) and 5-10% increased healing effectiveness (from 18-25%).
  • The “of Repose” Weaver idol affix grants +14-18 health (from 15-20) and +5-8 mana (from 7-10).
  • The “of the Loom” Weaver idol affix grants 12-16 ward per second (from 15-20) and 8-14% ward retention (from 8-16%).
  • The Swaddling Weaver idol affix grants 4-5 vitality (unchanged) and 2-4 health regen (from 3-5).
  • The Spined idol affix grants 8-20% chance on hit to summon a Thorn Totem, up to 3 times per 5 seconds (from 4-10%, no limit).
  • The Resounding idol affix grants 10-28% chance for an Avalanche Boulder to drop at a nearby enemy on melee attack, up to 3 times per second (from 5-14%, no limit).
  • The Reverberating idol affix grants 8-22% chance for an Avalanche Boulder to drop at a nearby enemy on spell cast, up to 3 times per second (from 4-11%, no limit).

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Enemy Balance Changes

  • Normalized how enemy damage is scaled with level for enemies that scale to level (e.g. enemies in the monolith, and enemies in random encounters such as Exiled Mages). This should result in a more consistent ratio of damage between different enemies regardless of level. And should fix some cases where enemies deal excessive damage at one level but are balanced at others.
  • Aberroth’s Frailty now also grants 50% reduced healing effectiveness per stack.

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Unique & Set Items

New Unique Items

  • We’re releasing a total of 30 new Uniques for Season 3, including:
    • 5 Standard Uniques
    • 25 Primordial Uniques

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Unique Item Changes

  • Clotho’s Needle grants +3-10 strength and dexterity (from 4-11), +15%-22% melee critical strike multiplier per meter from the target up to 5 meters (from 15-25%), and +60-80 melee damage (from 90). The Giant Rapier subtype used exclusively by Clotho’s Needle has +80 melee damage (from 90).
  • Confluence of Fate grants 3-9% increased fire damage taken on hit, increased necrotic damage taken on hit, and increased void damage taken on hit (from 5-13%).
  • Wrongwarp grants 2% increased spell damage per 1% increased movement speed (from 3% per 1%). It now has an effective level for legendary potential of 70 (from 48).
  • Vipertail grants 50-80% chance to poison on hit (from 50-70%) and 10-30% chance to slow on hit (from 50-70%).
  • Ucenui’s Sphere grants 20% increased cold and lightning damage for each Water Orb you have cast in the past 12 seconds (from 30%). It now has an effective level for legendary potential of 30 (from 20). The Water Orbs now have 80 base damage and 400% effectiveness of added damage (from 60 and 300%).
  • Talons of Valor now has an effective level for legendary potential of 50 (from 30).
  • Blood of the Exile grants +5-8 strength, dexterity, and intelligence (from 8-12).
  • Flames of Midnight grants +7-11% fire, necrotic, and void penetration (from 11-17%).
  • Ambitions of an Erased Acolyte now has a maximum of 3,000 ward granted by its effect when a nearby enemy or ally dies.
  • Countenance of Majasa grants 25-30% of block effectiveness applies to damage over time as if it had been blocked (from 30-35%), and +150-300 block effectiveness (from 300-600). It now has an effective level for legendary potential of 50 (from 40).
  • Pearls of the Swine grants +5-9 vitality (from 7-13), +7-11% all resistances (from 7-13%), and 113-166 ward per second for each curse affecting you (from 113-133).
  • Brewmaster’s Buckle grants +6-10 vitality (from 8-14).
  • Orian’s Descent grants +4-20 intelligence (from 4-25). It now has an effective level for legendary potential of 65 (from 40).
  • Scissor of Atropos grants +46 melee damage (from 50), 12-16% increased attack speed (from 14-22%), and Kismet stacks are now only consumed when you directly use a throwing attack (from also applying to indirect uses).
  • Transcriber’s Graver grants 12-20% elemental penetration (from 16-24%), 80-120% chance to cast Fire Aura each second while standing on your Glyph of Dominion (from 40-80%), and +6-10 spell damage with Flame Rush per stack of Fire Aura (from 4-8).
  • Vessel of Strife grants 20-30% of health regen also applies to ward (from 20-40%).
  • The Black Blade of Chaos grants 6-60% chance to inflict time rot on hit (from 12-120%).
  • World Splitter grants +0.2-0.3% critical strike chance for melee attacks per 1 mana cost (from 0.3-0.5% per 1).
  • The Slab now limits block chance to a maximum of 75%.
  • Ashes of Mortality’s chance on hit to gain ward per ignite and damned on you and the target is now limited to up to 2,000 ward (from no limit).
  • Bloodkeeper’s Nest grants bees +12-16 health per attunement (from 7-12) and +6-8% physical penetration with bleed per strength (from 4-6%).

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Set Item Changes

  • Renamed Lightning Infusion (from Boardman’s Plank) to Storm Infusion.

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Item Faction Updates

Circle of Fortune

  • Increased the amount of Favor you gain for joining the Circle of Fortune Faction to 500, it should now be enough to immediately buy your first Prophecy!

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Merchants Guild

  • Black Market Tokens and Merchant Tokens have been added as droppable items.
    • Merchant Tokens can be used to remove Favor cost from an item that you are purchasing from the Bazaar.
    • Black Market Tokens can be used to buy items that require a higher Reputation Rank than you have and reduce their rank requirement to 1.
    • Only one Token can be used per purchase.
    • They can be dropped only if the player is currently a member of the Merchant’s Guild Faction. They are a fairly rare drop.
    • 1 Merchant Token will drop for each new Reputation rank. 1 Black Market Token for reaching Reputation rank 6.
    • Your current stock of these Tokens can be seen in either the Merchant’s Guild Faction or Bazaar UI’s.
  • The Bazaar UI has been overhauled in order to make filtering and finding the items you are looking for more efficient.
  • Bazaar search filters can now be set by attempting to quick move (shift+right click) an item in your inventory while the Bazaar listing UI is open. This will set the minimum values for relevant stats on the item automatically for easier price checking.
  • Added the ability to filter modifier ranges for Uniques in the Bazaar when buying items.

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Endgame Faction Updates

The Woven

  • Adjusted chances for Weaver’s Touch when enchanting idols.
  • Adjusted chance for Weaver idols to have 2 Weaver affixes.
  • Added new rank bonuses and idol crafting:
    • Rank 3: You can reforge class-specific idols at the Woven Enchanter.
      • Reforging a class-specific idol will remove any Weaver’s Touch and enchanted affixes, then reroll the standard affixes as if it had dropped anew.
    • Rank 4: Enchanting class-specific idols is more likely to result in higher Weaver’s Touch.
    • Rank 5: You can reforge Weaver idols at the Woven Enchanter.
      • Reforging a Weaver idol will reroll it’s affixes. At least 1 affix will always be a Weaver affix.
    • Rank 7: Reforging Weaver idols is 10% more likely to result in 2 Weaver affixes.
    • Rank 9: 10% more Memory Amber drops in your echoes.
  • Added four new nodes to the Weaver Tree:
    • Age of Beasts: Increased Rift Beast spawn rate.
    • Riven Gateway: Rift Beasts from Rifts are accompanied by other Ancient Era enemies.
    • Crystal Growth: Increased chance for Rift Beasts to have Crystallized Hearts.
    • Primordial Ambush: Adds a chance to be ambushed by randomly Evolved Rift Beasts.

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