Last Epoch: Harbingers of Ruin Patch Notes

[cikaGE]

Thank you for your service, kind Sir!

[Makszi]

@EHG_Kain

• Their attacks now have a base damage of 2 (from 18)
• Deal 4.1% more damage
• These damage changes are intended to reduce their power in very early game, while preserving or buffing their damage in endgame and raising the relative impact of your weapon on their power.

Does this forge weapons nerf actually get outweighed at higher-levels by the 4.1% more damage? I’m struggling to see how this could be seen as a buff …

For example, for the 4.1% more damage multiplier to surpass the 18 flat damage nerf, wouldn’t you need 500 flat damage from gear/abilities on forge weapons? 500 x 1.041 = 520.5 damage … Whereas anything below 470 flat damage increase wouldn’t even break even with the 18 damage reduction versus 4.1% multiplier.

Hope I’m wrong, but 470-500 flat damage addition to forge weapons from gear/abilities seems like a LOT … Definitely not easy to get.

Forge weapons have been in a bad state already.

[Tree]

@Fortyz

@EHG_Kain

Porcine Constitution has been moved beyond the lock, taking the position Envenom was at. It now also grants 4% chance per point to gain Aspect of the Boar on melee hit.

@EHG_Kain

The second node named Boar Heart, which gave 1 strength per point and 4% chance per point to gain Aspect of the Boar on melee hit, has been removed. Envenom has been moved to its position.

these 2 changes are honestly horrible, and really confusing. Every primalist build uses these. furthermore they were not replaced in the base primalist tree or accounted for in any way. This is a huge defensive nerf to a class that already has survivability problems with attunment granting literally no survivability benefit.

I mean, this is exactly why the team moved this node, as forcing players to use 1/4 of their passive points on nothing but a defensive measure that feels mandatory to take severely constrains every single Primalist build. Druid already has a massive ton of survivability measures, and Shaman has had its passive tree reworked to provide some additional help with damage reduction as well.

We’ll see how the offensive changes turn out and whether killing enemies faster will offset the defensive changes, but it’s a band-aid that desperately needed to be taken off so that Primalist builds can become more specialized instead of the old samey distribution.

[Ericberic]

@EHG_Kain

eals 0.7% less melee damage

Eel me daddy!

[Ocot]

Love it, looks great. Can’t wait!

[Pie120]

@Tree

Druid already has a massive ton of survivability measures

Really ?

druid Tree has 1 DR measure which is impervious

beastmaster has been the DR choice (4-5 nodes) for all classes because the passives in Druid aka Werebear dont really add to survivability 105 armour LOL 150 health LOL 40% health regen dont really stand out as survivability as much as the 4-5 nodes in the beast master tree

[StaticYeti]

Exited for this new cycle!

[Pie120]

@EHG_Kain

Added a new node, Natural Fortitude, at Porcine Constitution’s previous position. It grants 1 strength per point, 2 added health regeneration per point, and 3 added health regeneration for companions per point. It has a threshold bonus which grants 2% increased health regeneration per point of strength for you and your companions.

• Added a new node, Natural Fortitude, at Porcine Constitution’s previous position. It grants 1 strength per point, 2 added health regeneration per point, and 3 added health regeneration for companions per point. It has a threshold bonus which grants 2% increased health regeneration per point of strength for you and your companions.

this replacement is basically Worthless… not sure what the Dev who thought this replacement was thinking but its basically a Gimped version of overgrowth

surely if your taking away 30% of our defencive measures you can atleast give something in the druid tree to accomidate trust me when i say this alot of Useless nodes in the druid tree that can do with a buff /change

[cannolisquid]

I really love a lot of these improvements like the blessing stash, loot filter improvements, and I’m excited to try evade and all the new content. I can’t wait to play Cycle 1.1

[rembi]

By “fixed tooltip size in several languages”… does this mean the font size was fixed,?

[Arrix]

@EHG_Kain

• Fixed a bug that caused bosses to drop too much loot.

That was a thing or is this just a sneaky joke?

Otherwise I’m really excited for some of the buffs. Loved playing my Multishot Marksman back when I started playing. Now I only need some more QoL or a rework for Dark Quiver.

Shaman looks a lot more interesting now. Looking forward to trying it out. Hopefully it is in a better spot now. Same for Forge Guard. I tried a retaliation shield throw build last season but that didn’t feel good. Now the dual shield style alone will fix that.

The changes for mage also look fun.

[Clone32]

Will players in a party all get to choose what the items are before a Nemesis encounter or will it only be the person that opened the zone?

Also, will the Nemesis encounter only drop for the zone opener or the entire group?

[Makszi]

@EHG_Kain

Players can individually interact with a Nemesis. The Nemesis remains after defeat, allowing each player to interact with it one at a time. Each player maintains their own current Nemesis Empower progression, but will still fight each Nemesis as a group.

See above

[iogann]

How does Swiftness work exactly? “Swiftness grants increased movement speed based on character level” is too ambiguous

[Uldryd]

Keep up the great work! The Chefs are cooking!

[Firhrn]

Excited for the new cycle, buuuuut 14 new weapons and not a single bow added? What the hell?

[Fortyz]

@Tree

We’ll see how the offensive changes turn out and whether killing enemies faster will offset the defensive changes, but it’s a band-aid that desperately needed to be taken off so that Primalist builds can become more specialized instead of the old samey distribution.

This is a good point. We shall see

[Lulloser]

Did you not read the Patchnotes or watch any of the Videos? No Damage Reduction anymore. Just a burst of ward that decays on its own if you dont do enough Damage or you can deplete faster with Damage.

[Makszi]

this was REMOVED.

[Demalii]

So flame rush is still bugged, and will continue to get stuck on nothing/terrain/objects/doodads/angles/incline or declines like stairs?

Also I didn’t see a fix for infinite load screen while transitioning areas. I’ll check back around 1.2 good luck EHG