Last Epoch Patch 1.2.4 Notes

Last Epoch Patch 1.2.4 is here, with details provided in a post from Eleventh Hour Games. It brings visual and audio improvements, quality-of-life updates, and key bug fixes, including Weaver Tree Imprint improvements. Overall, this Patch hits many points of player feedback, and is a nice addition to Season 2. Check out our Key Takeaways below for a list of highlights you can expect to find within this Patch.

Key Takeaways

• Visual and Audio Adjustments - Patch 1.2.4 heavily focuses on visual and audio improvements. Several environments now have improved visuals. Some visual updates fix display bugs, like Shield Rush making the player's shield model float to the side. Some updates improve clarity, like new VFX for Caches that make them easier to see, and the Winged Fire enemy now appears less dark when encountered.
• Quality of Life Improvements - The game now removes negative ailments like Ignite, Slow, and Marked for Death when you return to Echo of a World or the Monolith of Fate. Tomb and Cemetery entrance indicators now use a different icon than Echo objectives, making it easier to tell them apart.
• Bug Fixes - The patch fixes several bugs related to UI, animations, and abilities. Runemaster's Trinity of Elements now correctly fires three separate beams instead of stacking them. The update also fixes a major bug that reset Forgotten Knight faction progress for additional Hardcore characters reaching Empowered Monoliths. Fire Lizards' Fire Ground DoT now only applies Ignite instead of shredding Fire Resistance. Penance now only triggers on the affected target once every 0.35 seconds, fixing an infinite damage loop that was causing server issues.
• Weaver Tree Imprint Fixes - The update fixes many major bugs related to Imprints. It fixes a bug that made Imprint item nodes drop items less often. Another resolved bug caused loot to show as Normal items instead of their actual rarities. Patch 1.2.4 lowers the chance that imprint nodes drop Magic items instead of Rare or Exalted items. It also reduces how often imprinted Uniques roll a different Unique item of the same base. Overall, players can expect Imprints to work much closer to how they did at the Season 2 launch, with improvements for imprinted non-Uniques like Exalted items.

Last Epoch Patch 1.2.4 Notes

Visual Improvements

• Improved environment visuals in the Desert Canyons.
• Improved environment visuals in the Great College.
• Improved environment visuals in the Storm Swept Isles.
• Updated the VFX for Dragonfire from the Dragonsong unique bow.
• Added VFX for Caches so they are easier to notice.
• Removed the extra spacing that appeared after the Memory Amber cost in the Weaver Tree respec modal.
• Improved the visuals of the Winged Fire enemy, which was previously too dark.
• Added VFX for the Downfall of the Righteous unique item to indicate the range at which enemies are inflicted with Witchfire.
• Fixed a visual issue where Annointed’s Consecrated Aura from Judgment was visible from underneath bridges.
• Fixed flickering effect in the Time Slow aura from the Time shrine.
• The Void Amalgamation and Infernal Husk have new foley, vocalizations, and skill sound effects.
• Fixed an animation issue with Sentinel’s Shield Rush where the shield would float to the side.
• Rotated the Blade Of The Forgotten Knight’s inventory icon to match orientation of other swords’ icons in game.
• Updated the Mage’s casting animation when channelling to a more dynamic version.
• Loomwalker’s Silk Slam animation now better matches where the attack deals damage.

Quality of Life Updates

• Negative ailments such as ignite, slow, marked for death, etc are now cleansed when returning to the Echo of a World or the Monolith of Fate.
• Instances of “chance to bleed” descriptions have been updated to “chance to inflict bleed” for clarity and better readability.
• The player can now use the report bug panel while opening the recolor option list in the loot filter, allowing screenshots of that panel to be captured in in-game bug reports.
• Tomb and Cemetery entrance indicators now have a different icon than the echo objectives for improved navigability.
• The Void Mines fired by Void Prophets and by Maul Heart the Pale Enforcer will now dissipate when the enemy that fired them died.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the Ice Barrage attack of Ice Elementals and similar enemies would fire icicles that looked misaligned.
• Fixed an issue where Runemaster’s Trinity of Elements invocation was spawning the three elemental beams on top of each other, rather than offset around the player.
• Fixed edge cases with movement abilities which could cause bosses such as Rahyeh the Black Sun to disappear from the arena.
• Fixed a case where Forgotten Knight faction progress could reset when playing multiple HC characters.
• Fixed the visuals for the chains breaking after interacting with the lance in the Tomb of Morditas.
• Fixed invalid loot filter files causing UI issues when they are loaded.
• Fixed a bug where, after allocating Doctrine of the Anvil, repeatedly using Multistrike while standing still would sometimes result in Multistrike failing to start.
• Fixed an issue where a replaced Evade (such as Terrify) was counted as short-ranged for the purposes of the WASD “Short ranged follows movement” movement setting.
• Fixed an issue where the Woven Echo reward panel quick move actions were not showing or working properly.
• Fix issue with Primalist’s Spriggan Form not triggering its stun animation correctly.
• Fixed a issue where champions’ energy VFX would not get deactivated on death.
• Fixed a bug where the VFX for Armor Shred lingered for a few seconds after the Armor Shred effect ended.
• The Fire Ground DoT fields spit up by Fire Lizards should now only ignite, and no longer shreds fire resistance.
• Penance can now only trigger on the affected target once every 0.35s. We don’t want to remove the capability for Acolytes to hurt themselves to trigger other effects, but we need to prevent infinite damage loops that were hurting the servers even more than the Acolytes.
• Fixed a bug where reducing Smite’s mana cost below 0 while Desperate Measures was allocated could significantly raise Smite’s mana cost while at negative mana
• Fixed a bug where Judgement’s Righteous Decree node could cast Smite while Smite has a non-zero mana cost and you are at negative mana

Weaver Tree Imprint Node Changes

• Fixed a bug that caused imprint item nodes to drop items less frequently than intended.
• Imprint items more consistently drop items similar to them (they retain the chance to drop other uniques of the same item type, but this chance is much lower than in 1.2.3).
• Fixed a bug that could cause rare and exalted items dropped by imprint item nodes to display as normal items instead of their actual rarity.
• Reduced the chance of imprint nodes dropping magic items instead of rare or exalted ones.

Developer note: The updates to imprinted item nodes released in patch 1.2.3 unintentionally caused items to appear both less frequently and with less similarity than intended. Additionally, when an imprint did generate rare and exalted items, they were occasionally incorrectly shown as a different rarity, causing them to be hidden by many players’ loot filters. After these fixes the amount, rate, and similarity of generated items from imprinted nodes is closer to what they were before.

We’re continuing to listen to feedback on the system and are already working on requested improvements - including a way to indicate when an item has dropped as a result of an imprint.

Echo Objective Changes

• Changed unstable rifts spawns from 2 - 3 to always 2
• Increased the loot for clearing unstable rifts when running the echo for the first time
• Increased stability reward from 2 x base stability to 2.6 for 1 rift and 3.2 for 2 rifts

Exiled mages echo

• Reduced Exiled mages spawn from 2 - 3 to always 2

Weaving Our Season 2 Updates

That concludes our overview of the Patch 1.2.4 Notes. With Season 2 well underway, our team at Maxroll continues to refine, update, and expand our guides based on community feedback and new discoveries. Be sure to check back regularly for the latest Last Epoch news and updated guides as we continue exploring Tombs of the Erased.

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Written by: VisionGL