Last Epoch: Beneath Ancient Skies Patch Notes

[Julix]

nice touch on the see-through effect with the primal rift portals

[Trunks19814]

HYPE

[agr1as]

HYPE, lets go!

[Zevkk]

We all knew it was coming.

RIP Judgement Pally Uber Abberoth cheese.

Lots of good Beastmaster and Acolyte stuff in there. Sabertooth being able to trigger Upheaval sounds fun.

[Travoas]

@EHG_Kain

Regex can now be composed into search expressions like it is a macro:

• T7&/boots/ to find boots with at least 1 T7 affix.
• /relic/&/1[4-6] dexterity/&suffixes1- to find relics with T7 dexterity and at least 1 open suffix.

Thank you!!!

[EHG_Kain]

The King on the Throne the Omnisiah?

[maxpita]

Dancing Strikes at 0.1 sec cast, thanks for the URF Epoch. Please don t nerf after.

[Kulze]

@EHG_Kain

Campaign Zones and Monolith of Fate Echoes, excluding Quest Echoes and Arena Echoes, now have chance to spawn either a Mysterious Rift or a Torn Rift which players can use to fight dangerous Rift Beasts.

Campaign zones as well?

I hope only starting in Act 10. Otherwise once again… that’s bad design. Don’t shove the campaign full of crap without bringing it into a decent base state.

@EHG_Kain

Architect Liath now always drops some Cold and Lightning Resistance Shards and rare items with Resistance Implicits when you first defeat her in the campaign.

• This is to ensure that players have tools to improve their survivability against Lagon if they need them. Killing campaign Liath on repeat occasions will not result in any extra loot.

A start defintiely.
Rework of the progression towards Lagon to prepare properly for the mechanical ask from the game is necessary though.

@EHG_Kain

It now reforges the subtype of an item into another subtype with the same item type and class restrictions when adding or upgrading an affix.

That’s a good change, but given the FP limitations it’ll only have quite limited effect.

@EHG_Kain

In Temporal Sanctum, added an indicator the first time Julra uses her most powerful attack to remind the player that they can use the Temporal Shift ability.

That’s also a very good implementation. Kudos. I remember dimly that this was a problem for me the first time.

@EHG_Kain

Minions now also take 60% less damage from dangerous enemy abilities (from 50%).

That’s utterly inadequate. 90% as a start should be a given. Those abilities demolish extremely tanky characters, minions can’t sustain those. Even with 90% it’ll be a struggle at times.

@EHG_Kain

Crimson Gluttony has been reworked. It now grants 1% missing health gained as ward per point and 1% of current health drained per second per point.

Finally a decent general ward generation! Long overdue.

@EHG_Kain

Soul Barrier has moved to replace Life Barrier and reworked. When a hit taken leaves you below half health, you gain 1 ward per 1% uncapped poison resistance per point. This effect has a 6 second cooldown.

Absolutely worthless node like all the high CD situational ward generators… that’s commonly 75 ward in 6 seconds, even if we should go high and actually have 200 in 6 seconds it’s still utter garbage 200/6 = 33,3 ward/second defense? Wow… that’ll surely do a lot!..

A proper value would be ‘10’ and not ‘1’. Those types of nodes need to have a severe sudden impact to be viable in any way. Pure noob-trap or ‘everything else is even worse then that’ node to take.

@EHG_Kain

Symbol of Decay has been replaced with Impact Ward. It grants 4% less damage over time taken per point, and has a 3 point threshold bonus which grants all damage over time taken bypasses ward. Maximum of 5 points.

So basically Symbol of Decay is a method to bypass the god-awful boss-ward mechanics which are supposed to exist to not allow overly swift kills?

Is the DoT so bad that it’s feasable or are you guys just throwing the whole design reasoning for boss-ward into the trash?

One or the other… bad design. If it’s too low then instead adjustments are needed to be in line… and if it’s throwing the mechanical reasoning for boss-ward into the trash it’s as nonsensical.

@EHG_Kain

Elixir of Hunger grants +7 health (from +5) and +1 intelligence (previously +1s of Hunger duration) per point. It now has a 6 point threshold which grants “When you use a potion, kill the lowest health minion to restore health equal to 50% of its max health”.

The passive tree is not large enough to include potentially detrimental nodes like this into it.
Not a good design choice, should be a itemized thing instead on a unique.

@EHG_Kain

The Preserving Weaver idol affix grants 5-7% ward retention (from 6-9%) and 5-8 ward per second (from 7-10).

Yeah, because clearly ward per second is in such a OP state, right?

@EHG_Kain

The “of Respite” Weaver idol affix grants +14-18 health (from 15-20) and +1-2 health regen (from 1-3).

Same with the health regen, that ‘1’ will definitely do a lot

@EHG_Kain

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.

Hopefully! That was one major issue with progression smoothness.

If that’s handled it’s a massive plus for the game. How exactly it turns out will have to be seen though outside of theory.

@EHG_Kain

Black Market Tokens and Merchant Tokens have been added as droppable items

Most dog-shit tier design since ages. Big failure from your side EHG sadly.

Should’ve used the time to fix the issue with the Gold Limit instead or to handle access restrictions properly.

@EHG_Kain

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.

Hopefully by opening a menu to allow immediate adjustment and not enforcing all the ones on the item completely without choice!
That’s the difference between ‘it’s a good implementation’ and ‘it’s utterly useless’ after all.

@EHG_Kain

Added new rank bonuses and idol crafting:

Idol crafting is a big change, very interesting to see.
Isn’t it a bit OP though given how prevalent those drops are?
Makes the normal ones even less worthwhile, they were useless anyway already.

@EHG_Kain

Custom Loot Filter Beams and Map Icons:

Nice, good inclusion.

@EHG_Kain

There are now options to select different sounds for loot drops in the Loot Filter menu.

ALso nice, very good inclusion.

@EHG_Kain

The Forge UI has been adjusted to make crafting costs and results more clear.

Also a good UI change.
Now the adjustment for the costs need to follow up.

@EHG_Kain

Added a damage indicator to the edge of the screen when taking damage with a UI open (i.e. when interacting with Nemesis).

How about instead pausing the instance? Would be more reasonable.

@EHG_Kain

Increased the character limit in the stash search box and the vertical stash search box from 30 to 255

Finally actual Regex usage possible! The 30 was relatively useless. Kudos there.

All in all seems like a ‘mediocre’ overall result. Some really good things, some potential wins and potential misses and also awful misses in it.
Hope in the future it goes more towards ‘really good things’ in total.

[Kingcholera]

Cooking

[DiceDragon]

@Kulze

o basically Symbol of Decay is a method to bypass the god-awful boss-ward mechanics which are supposed to exist to not allow overly swift kills?

Is the DoT so bad that it’s feasable or are you guys just throwing the whole design reasoning for boss-ward into the trash?

its for the player, it means if you have say vessel of strife, DoT will go to your hp bar, and not your ward, and will be stopped by your health regen.

its a way to enable hybrid styles similar to PoE builds where they take the keystone that causes half damage to ignore ES. it makes it so healing is more effective vs certain damage types.

it does not interact with enemy ward lol

[Arausio]

Le Toucan

10/10 PoE Reference.

[KC_Snowfyst]

Hyped, when can we see the news items?

[Kulze]

Fair… if the game wouldn’t have DoT as the most deadly mechanic in it.
Direct hits are commonly less deadly then DoTs in LE, which means bypassing the ward is a death-sentence unless high DR + high values are possible.

It’s enabling something while coming with extreme downsides not making it viable for higher-end progression sadly.

[Antmann]

I’m really hoping that having the wengari guy accompanying my characters in the side area will be optional. I’m a solo player, and I don’t want help.

[Dubh]

“Carry on!” :))))

[Burb]

Let’s GOOOO! I am PUMPED!

[Survivor]

@EHG_Kain

Javelin

• Battle Standard grants 300% more hit damage (from 300% more damage).

What does this mean for Javeling void knight? its dead skill now (and build) or does nothing serious to build?

[shutterspecter]

With each update, you guys are really making the game more and more awesome. So far LE has one of the best summoning type classes I have ever played and I am really glad Season 3 is the minion’s season !!!

One more week, can’t wait !!! Servers take my energy * holding arms up like for the Spirit Bomb iykyk*

[Demonparty]

Somehow, you guys up the bar each and every patch. I genuinely am so excited for the future of LE. Keep on cookin

[gIZOF]

Very mid patch, apart from new mechanics and new builds we will play same way as in 1.2. Hoped for more changes with endgame, how you progress in early etc.