Last Epoch: The Imperial Uprising Event Patch Notes

[AndrewTilley]

It was noted in the original event announcement that it likely wouldn’t include balance changes.

@EHG_Steve

Also, as this is not the start of a new Patch Cycle but a refresh and reset of the economy of 1.1, with a bit of spice added, we are not planning to include any balance changes.

Also, EHG_Justin provided details about why they didn’t include balance changes in this update within a Reddit post:

Sept. 4, 2024
EHG_Justin: We were interested in potentially doing balance changes with this cycle event, but only if we could fit some good buffs into it, since we had some nerfs we wanted to do as well. Unfortunately, the buffs we’re currently working on are a large set of interconnected changes - changing a lot of skill and passive trees across Sentinel to account for the Volatile Reversal rework - so they couldn’t be made ready in time for this event. We didn’t want to release nerfs without any new buffs to give something new to play, so we decided to go with no balance changes.

Someone else in this thread suggested buffing a bunch of weaker uniques as quick changes, and I like that idea. It’s a bit late for us to do that for this cycle event, but we’ll keep it in mind if this situation comes up in the future. I love buffing uniques because there are always uniques that deserve it, and it’s cool to see the new builds that pop up afterwards.
Source: LE Reddit Link

Judd Cobler, EHG CEO and LE Game Director, also included this within another Reddit post wanting balance changes in this update:

Sept. 4, 2024
Judd Cobler: We’re still discussing it a touch but we’re in the middle of some much larger balance changes for 1.2 that have knock on effects so we risk putting out things that will be perceived incorrectly.

Just know that we’re monitoring all the balance conversations that you all are bringing up and taking it into account with upcoming changes. Some will just take a bit longer to do correctly, but they are in progress.

1.2 is going to be significant, haha. Even by EHG standards.
Source: LE Reddit Link