Woven Faction and Monolith Updates

Last Epoch Season 2: Tombs of the Erased brings a wealth of changes to the game. This includes the new Woven Faction and updates to the endgame Monolith of Fate system, including new unique Woven Echoes and a new Passive Tree to customize your experience. You can also now enchant your Idols and obtain new Weaver's Will items. This post kicks off the first batch of teasers in the pre-Season 2 Hype Week, leading up to Patch Notes on April 11th.

Key Takeaways

Here are our key takeaways from the announcement of the Woven Faction and Monolith of Fate updates:

• Cemeteries & Tombs of the Erased - Tombs of the Erased are new side areas that are sometimes found in Monolith Echoes. This adds some variation to the usual process of running Echoes. Cemeteries of the Erased are full Echoes that you can find on your Monolith Web. Both of these new areas are sources of Memory Amber, a currency used to interact with a new Faction called The Woven.
• Idol Enchanting - Finishing a Cemetery or Tomb of the Erased and slaying the boss at the end allows you to enchant (or re-enchant) your class-specific Idols at a nearby altar - infusing it with Weaver's Touch. Weaver's Touch adds new affixes to the item as you slay enemies with the Idol equipped, similar to Weaver's Will. The affixes you uncover are exclusive affixes that aren't usually found on those Idols. These new affixes have Tiers up to Tier 7, instead of the usual Tier 1 affixes that Idols are locked to. Tombs allow one use of the altar, Cemeteries allow two uses. This opens up many new competitive opportunities for a character's Idols, as well as additional chase items for you to hunt.
• Weaver Idols - In addition to class-specific Idols with Weaver's Touch, a new type of Idol can now drop, called Weaver Idols. These are on the non-class-specific Idol bases (Small, Minor, Stout, and Humble). These Idols can roll affixes from a new pool exclusive to these Idol types.
• The Woven Faction - This new Faction is introduced upon completing your first Cemetery of the Erased. You make progress with this Faction by spending the Memory Amber that you find within Tombs and Cemeteries. The Woven Faction allows you to spend Memory Amber to buy Woven Echoes, a new Echo type that you can manually place within your Monolith Webs. Each Rank opens up new Woven Echo options for purchase. Completing these Woven Echoes gives you passive points to place within the new Weaver Tree.
• Woven Echoes - These new Echo types can be dropped in Tombs and Cemeteries, or purchased from the Woven Faction using Memory Amber. The Echo type and objectives are unique from the usual Echo that you are accustomed to running in your Monolith Web (such as facing new bosses like Uber Aberroth). You can manually place Woven Echoes that you've acquired into your Monolith Web at an Altar of the Weaver in Cemeteries. There are 36 of these in total.
• Weaver Tree - The Weaver Tree is a Passive tree specialized for customizing your Monolith of Fate experience. The nodes on this tree offer many ways to tailor your Monolith experience to the gameplay style that you enjoy, like increased spawn rates for specific encounters, increasing the odds of specific rewards, and targeting specific items. You earn points for this by ranking up with The Woven Faction and completing Woven Echoes. This gives the player more freedom and control over how they wish to play their end-game.
• Supporter Packs and Twitch Drops - Season 2 is bringing a new batch of Supporter Packs, offering new options for customizing your characters. Twitch Drops will also be available by tuning into participating livestreams on April 17th through the 21st. These drops include Skill cosmetics, a new type of MTX for Last Epoch that changes the visual effects of specific usable Skills.

Hello and welcome Travelers to the first installment of Last Epoch Season 2 - Tombs of the Erased Hype Week! If you’re new here, Hype Week is a feature-reveal celebration and a collaboration with the various teams working on Last Epoch. It includes detailed information about the upcoming season and answers the community’s biggest questions.

New Twitch Drops

First things first, we will be offering all-new Twitch drops for you to collect on all participating Last Epoch streams! We will also be running a Support-A-Creator campaign as well, which grants you an additional cosmetic. For more information, check out the Twitch drops page at https://twitch.lastepoch.com/

Cemeteries & Tombs of the Erased

In Season 2, Travelers will find new challenges in the Monolith of Fate placed by The Weaver, a Titan who seeks to create a new world free from the Void and other imperfections. In your Echoes, you will have a chance to uncover Tombs and Cemeteries of the Erased, which are new side zones filled with the Weaver’s experiments and flawed creations.

Tombs and Cemeteries are the foundation for interacting with our new endgame systems in Season 2, and they also represent our first foray into procedurally generated side zones, ensuring that each area is unique and different.

Inside these zones, you’ll find the Woven, who have captured souls for the Weaver and wrapped them in Cocoons. Breaking these Cocoons open will release the souls, which will then flee and possess nearby enemies. Possessed enemies gain new abilities, increased health, and damage - and when slain, they drop Memory Amber, a new currency used in the Weaver’s Faction. You’ll want to collect as much Memory Amber as you can throughout the zones.

After reaching the end of a Tomb and challenging one of the Goldthread Fateweavers, you will have an opportunity to enchant your idols with some of the Weaver’s power via the Woven Enchanter device and gain a duplicate of the current echo bonus reward.

While exploring the Monolith of Fate, you will also find Cemeteries of the Erased, a new Echo type that contains even greater dangers and riches. Within these Cemeteries, you will need to locate and defeat the Woven Firstborn who is guarding the Weaver’s Altar, where you may place Woven Echoes to manipulate your current timeline.

The Woven Faction

After completing your first Cemetery, you will be introduced to the face of the Woven Faction, Masque, and be given the chance to join the followers of The Weaver. You will progress through the ranks of The Woven by earning and spending Memory Amber, which is most commonly found in Tombs and Cemeteries.

With each rank, Masque will sell you new Woven Echoes, an alternate reality constructed by the Weaver that has been captured in physical form. You will be able to conquer these unique echoes after placing them in your timeline using the Altar of the Weaver. By completing Woven Echoes and progressing through the Woven ranks, you will earn points that can be spent in the Weaver Tree, allowing you to influence the Monolith of Fate.

Weaver Tree

The Weaver Tree functions similarly to a skill or passive tree but is specific to the Monolith of Fate. Further power within the Weaver Tree is gained from increasing your rank within the faction and by completing new Woven Echoes. There are a total of 50 points to be earned and allocated within the nodes of the Weaver Tree.

Some nodes increase the odds of specific rewards or echo types spawning in your Monolith. Others raise the spawn rates of encounters such as Nemeses, Exiled Mages, or Loot Lizards. Some even enable target farming by imprinting items directly onto the Weaver Tree, which then have a chance to create similar items when slaying enemies, completing echoes, or opening Caches.

Woven Echoes

Woven Echoes are fragments of Weaver’s vision of her new world and offer new and unique challenges that are not found anywhere else. Woven Echoes are new items that can drop from within Tombs and Cemeteries or be purchased from Masque at the Haven of Silk, the Woven Faction Hub, in exchange for Memory Amber. You will be able to add as many Woven Echoes as desired to your timeline via the Altar of the Weaver in Cemeteries.

There are 36 Woven Echoes, providing a variety of content including new crafting rewards, interesting encounters and mechanics, the ability to affect other echoes on your Echo Web, and new endgame bosses like the Draal Queen, a tremendous insectoid broodmother, and the Antipode Dragon, a paradox of fire and ice, who will each have new Unique items only available by defeating them. You will also find previous bosses reinvigorated with new abilities and strength, such as Uber Aberroth, a much more difficult version of Aberroth, accessed through a Woven Echo obtained from slaying Aberroth.

Idol Enchanting

As mentioned earlier, you will find an Idol Enchanting altar at the end of every Tomb and Cemetery. Tombs allow one use, Cemeteries two, and some Woven Echoes up to four uses.

Each use allows you to enchant a new class idol or re-enchant an idol and infuse it with the Weaver’s power. This process creates Heretical idols with Enchanted affixes and Weaver’s Touch.

Unlike other affixes you can find on idols, these new affixes have tiers that can reach up to tier 7. Similar to Weaver’s Will items, when you have a Heretical Idol equipped and slay an enemy, you will have a chance to either increase the tier of an Enchanted Affix or add a new one. Heretical idols can have up to 4 affixes - 2 normal affixes with no tiers and 2 enchanted affixes up to tier 7 each when fully converted from Weaver’s Touch.

If you’re not happy with the affixes granted by enchanting your idol, you can reroll it at the end of any Tombs or Cemeteries by spending Memory Amber. This will first remove any Enchanted affixes or Weaver’s Touch that the Heretical idol had and then enchant it again just like the first time, granting the idol an enchanted affix and some Weaver’s Touch.

Weaver Idols

You may also find new Weaver idols of Small, Minor (previously known as Small Lagonian), Stout, and Humble idols that can roll affixes from a new pool exclusive to these sub-types. Weaver idols always have at least one of these more powerful affixes, with a chance to have another, but most often, the second affix is from the standard idol affix pool.

New Weaver’s Will items

Season 2 brings with it a nest of new Unique Items that will possess Weaver’s Will. Just as it is up to the Traveler to find The Woven, we will leave finding these items up to you but offer you a glimpse of a few of them.

Orb Weaver’s Fang, a two-handed Sword that will boost melee damage, Critical Strike Chance, and Dodge Rating, then it will double its own stats after striking a Boss or Rare enemy that is at low health!

Nest of Nightmares, a one-handed Mace that increases the chance of enemies being crit by inflicting Spiders on them, boosts your and your minions’ Melee Critical Strike Multiplier, and provides you and your minions with some Leech too.

Inheritance of the Erased, an Amulet that grants Frenzy and 200% of its own stats to a random minion every 10 seconds.

New Supporter Packs

Just like the launch of Last Epoch 1.0, we have a list of all new supporter packs just for you! New for Season 2, each of the Woven Series supporter packs will contain all of the cosmetic content from the Tiers below the one you choose, with the Woven Legend pack containing all of the cosmetics from the other three packs as well. No more having to feel like you’ve missed out! The Woven Series supporter packs will go live on launch day and are available via Steam and in-game via the shop.

Woven Traveler

Whether you’re delving into forgotten tombs or charting your path through time, equip yourself with these unique cosmetics that embody mystery and adventure.

Woven Templar

The Woven Templar supporter pack not only grants access to all the unique cosmetics from the Woven Traveler tier but also introduces an array of fiery new visuals to set you apart in your adventures through Eterra.

Woven Vanquisher

This pack includes all cosmetic items from the Woven Traveler and Woven Templar supporter packs but does not carry over the Epoch Points from the Woven Templar pack.

Woven Legend

This pack includes all cosmetic items from the Woven Traveler, Woven Templar, and Woven Vanquisher packs but does not carry over Epoch Points from the Woven Templar or Woven Vanquisher packs.

The Weaver brings a lot to the table this season, so collect your own Supporter Pack and flaunt it in Eterra. Also, this season will be your last chance to snag the Eternal Series supporter packs before they leave the shop on May 2nd.

Closing

That’s all for today, but it’s not all there will be. Come back tomorrow for the next installment of the Pre-Patch Hype Week, where we will cover the New Heartseeker skill and the Sentinel Class Rework! Need more content to fill the time? Join us for two very special podcast streams on Twitch on April 8th and 11th - the streams will feature Judd, Ross, Mike, and Karv and give a deeper look at Season 2!

Until next time, thank you for your support, and we will see you in Eterra!

Weaving our Season 2 Updates

That's it for this introduction to the Woven Faction, Woven Echoes, Idol Enchanting, and Monolith of Fate updates coming in 1.2 Tombs of the Erased. Last Epoch Season 2 has a lot to discover, and our Team and Maxroll are already hard at work. Be sure to check back for updates as we break down new information released leading up to Patch Day.

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Written by: VisionGL