Updated Mechanics

• It will be possible to empower all Timelines.
  
• Empowering a Timeline now has additional effects;
  
  • Enemies have 50% more health and damage (multiplicative with other modifiers)
    
  • 50% increased item rarity
    
  • 50% increased experience gained
    

New Content

• New bosses waiting for you in our latest Quest Echoes
  
• New Blessings
  
  • Notably, there are now Blessings available for new weapon types
    
  • New Unique items
    
  • 3 new boss music tracks
    

Polishing the Monolith

• We're introducing 9 new zone layouts for increased level design variety.
  
• Many zones available through the Monolith Fate have had visual improvements.
  
• We're updating the level of the existing Timelines to accommodate the new ones.
  

Summary

Highlights

Endgame

• We're bringing fresh content to the Monolith of Fate!
  
• This patch also includes 5 new Arena maps!
  

User Interface

• This patch includes Tooltip DPS, a Phase 4 item from our Early Access Forecast.
  
  • We're also redesigning our skill tooltips, as shown in the thread linked to above.
    
  
  
• Your characters now wear their equipped gear on the character selection screen.
  

Items

• We are introducing powerful new skill level-raising affixes.
  
• We are working on significant changes to defences.
  
• We have reworked how affixes are distributed between prefixes and suffixes and which items they roll on.
  
• This update introduces new, class-specific Relics.
  
• Sceptres now have new 2d art, new 3d art, and new implicit properties.
  
• Shields now have new 2d art, new 3d art, and new implicit properties.
  
• We've updated all unique items implemented before Patch 0.7.7 (March 2020).
  

Skills

• A new Spellblade skill, Surge, is being added.
  
• A new Beastmaster skill, Warcry, is being added.
  
• The Mage skill Fire Shield is being removed.
  
• The Beastmaster skill Flanking Strike is being removed.
  
• We have revisited every skill in the game to better standardize our specialization trees.
  
  • Older skills should now be appreciably more viable in challenging content.
    
  
  

Animations

• All animations used by non-transformed Primalists have been replaced or improved.
  
  • We plan to improve Werebear Form and Spriggan Form animations in future.
    
    • We are also exploring model improvements for these skills.
      

Level Design

• We've performed a pass on many zones to improve their appearance. These updates were concentrated on Chapter 5 and Chapter 3, but we've touched up other zones as well.
  
  • We haven't specifically posted about these, but you might have found a teaser.
    
  
  

Optimization

• Significantly optimized visual effects that appear around the character during skill usage.
  
  • While these are not the most significant contributors to poor performance, this is the first update to include work from a long-term project of ours to dramatically improve combat performance in Last Epoch. We will be gradually rolling out this optimization work to additional areas of the game across future updates.
    
  
  
• Optimized the performance of outlines applied to enemies and allies on mouse-over.
  
  • They should also now look better.
    
  
  

Looking at a New Skill, Surge, Coming in Patch 0.8.1

Surge

Nodes on Surge’s Specialization Tree

We're Updating the Character Selection Screen in Patch 0.8.1!

Another Phase 4 Item Approaches: Tooltip DPS!

New Year, New Patch, New Mods!

Skills

Dancing Strikes

• Graceful Arena grants 25% increased damage (from 10% more damage).
  
• Rhythm grants 10% increased damage (from 5% more damage).
  
• Resolute Technique grants 15% increased damage (from 10% more damage).
  
• Windmill Ballet now grants 30% Shuriken Chance (from 25%).

Detonating Arrow

• Fixed a bug where Suckerpunch Arrow node did not provide any area increase.
  
• Fixed a bug where Weak Spot gave increased crit multi rather than added crit multi.
  
• Weak Spot grants 6% added crit multi (from 10% stated).
  
• Gift of the Ice grants 80% freeze rate multi (from 60%).

Puncture

• While using a Bow, Puncture now deals 5% less damage for each enemy it pierces (up to 20% less damage). The first enemy hit still takes full damage, and this effect is multiplicative with skill tree nodes which impact hit damage.

Shadow Daggers

• Increased base damage and added damage effectiveness by 20%.
  
• Now gains 4% increased damage per point of Dexterity.
  
• Added throwing and melee tags to the skill.

Shift

• Jagged Arrows grants 10% crit multi (from 15%).
  
• Velocity grants 25% increased damage (from 10% more damage).
  
• Head Trauma grants 15% increased damage (from 8% more damage).
  
• Braskula's Hesitation grants 50% increased damage (from 15% more damage).
  
• Fixed a bug where Sleight of Hand could remove the damage bonus from Shurikens’ Keen Throw node for all Chakrams thrown by the player.

Shurikens

• Fixed a bug where Keen Throw gave much more damage than intended to Chakrams.

Synchronized Strike

• Fixed a bug where Dark Allies could allow you to have more Shadows than intended.

Thorn Totem

• The Memories of Eterra node now only restores mana if the totem was summoned directly (i.e. not via effects such as Chance to Summon a Thorn Totem on Hit).

Items

• Fixed a bug where certain types of normal enemies would not drop items in level 1 to 49 areas. This had no effect on level 50+ areas, magic enemies, rare enemies, breakables, or chests.
  
• Reduced the number of items dropped by 6 outlier rare enemies that dropped far more items than intended:
  
  • Ice Goliaths
    
  • Marsh Beetle Queens
    
  • Umbral Pursuers
    
  • Void Horrors
    
  • Meruna Ogres
    
  • Siege Golems
  
  
• Increased the number of items dropped by Infernal Husks and Osprix Vanguards.
  
• Daggers can no longer have Increased Void Damage and roll Added Melee Void Damage much more rarely.
  
• Less Damage Taken from Critical Strikes can no longer roll on bows.

User Interface

• The quest tracker on the right side of the screen now only shows 6 quests at a time to avoid text overlapping issues. There is a note stating to open the quest journal (J) to view other quests.
  
• The current Chapter is now shown when the Menu is open (Esc).

Sound

• Added new sounds for receiving, progressing and completing quests.
  
• Added a new sound for levelling up.
  
• Added a new sound for Shield Throw.
  
• Reduced the volume of arrow hit sounds that occur close to the player.

Visuals

• Updated the visuals for Healing Hands.
  
• Added a destruction animation to a type of barrel that didn’t have one.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where characters who had reached the “Enter the Sanctum Bastille” objective of the Ruined Temple quest before Beta 0.8 was released were unable to enter the Sanctum Bastille in Beta 0.8.
  
• Fixed an additional issue causing bosses to sometimes spawn out of bounds in the Volcanic City Monolith of Fate layout.
  
• Fixed causes of player movement input lag in situations with lots of minions and/or enemies.
  
• Fixed the new Gladiator’s Oath unique not dropping as intended.
  
• Fixed Mourningfrost not granting added cold damage to throwing or bow attacks.
  
• Fixed multiple animations for the Primalist being bugged while wielding a staff.
  
• Fixed an Osprix Lightmage in Liath’s Tower aggroing on the player immediately rather than waiting for the player to approach.
  
• Fixed a bug where Blessing comparison tooltips could become stuck on the screen in some situations.
  
• Fixed an incorrect range on the Increased Damage While Wielding a Bow affix (was 31-25% at T2, is now 31-35%).
  
• Fixed or improved the consistency of the names of several affixes.