Last Epoch News

Good day, Travelers!

Today we’re sharing a deeper look at what’s coming in Season 4, Season 5, and the Last Epoch: Orobyss expansion. Inside this update, you’ll find our revised roadmap, a new teaser, the launch date for Season 4, and the first details about its upcoming content. We’re also pulling back the curtain on some of what you can expect in Season 5 and offering an early glimpse at the journey ahead in Last Epoch: Orobyss.

We want to touch on our information release cadence and quantity for a moment. There’s a delicate balance between keeping the community informed and keeping information hidden to build hype before a big update. We recognize that we’ve missed the mark in recent posts. So we’re revealing much more than we usually would at this stage, but we still have plenty of details and exciting content to share on the lead-up to Season 4’s launch.

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Before we get into the details of Season 4, let’s take a look at the updated Season 4 & Beyond Roadmap that includes many of our current plans for Seasons 4, 5, and the Last Epoch: Orobyss expansion.



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We are thrilled to share with you that Season 4: Shattered Omens will be coming to you on March 26, 2026!
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Season 4 is aimed to be a well-rounded patch, bringing a new seasonal mechanic, itemization, improvements to existing systems, some class updates, quality-of-life improvements, new uniques, set items, and more. Let’s talk about the new seasonal mechanic, Omen Windows.




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In Season 4, Travelers will encounter tears in reality known as Omen Windows. These fractures reflect the moment the Observer fell into despair and pulled fate itself into darkness. Omen Windows appear as a new type of random encounter throughout both the campaign and the endgame.

When you discover an Omen Window and step into its area, the window shatters into a fragmented ring and draws out an Omen, an entity created from pure Void and the Observer’s madness. This begins a relentless assault of Fractured enemies emerging from the shards. Defeating enemies inside the ring expands the area and progresses the encounter.

In the first phase of the encounter, the Omen cannot be damaged or debuffed. It stays elusive while tethering to and empowering elite Fractured enemies. After enough waves are defeated, the Omen destroys any remaining enemies, absorbs their strength, and then engages the player directly.

Omen Windows scale in difficulty as you move through the campaign and continue into the Monolith with higher levels of corruption. Higher tiers reward players with increased item quantity and improved item quality upon completion.



[h3]Omen Window Rewards[/h3]

Omen Window encounters offer a trove of valuable rewards, including Runes of Corruption and Timeglass Fragments, which we will talk more about below. In addition to these, you will earn Corrupted Altars and Omen Idols, which we will reveal more details about closer to the launch of Season 4.

[h3]Corrupted Items & Rune of Corruption[/h3]

As players slay Omens, they may drop Runes of Corruption. This new rune can be used to corrupt an item, modifying it unpredictably. The resulting item may emerge vastly improved with new modifiers and effects that can only be obtained by Corruption, or the item may be downgraded or completely ruined. Will you take the risk of corrupting one of your best items?

As we get closer to Season 4’s release, we’ll explore in more detail the myriad of outcomes and power that can be gained by accepting the risk of corrupting your items.



[h3]Timeglass Fragments[/h3]

Timeglass Fragments are a new multi-use currency that can be used to trade for specific items, including Runes of Corruption and new Woven Echoes.

Additionally, Timeglass fragments may be used during endgame, where a more challenging variant of the Omen Window encounter, called a Greater Window, may appear as an Echo objective. Completing this encounter reforms the Omen Window into a Timeglass Core, which allows you to spend Timeglass Fragments to modify your Echo web and add Echo Chains.

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Echo Chains are a group of sequential Echoes that reveal all of their links as soon as they appear in the Monolith’s Echo Web. Several types of Echo Chains revolve around specific mechanics, allowing you to continue engaging with those mechanics over multiple echoes. You’ll then finish the chain with a related, more rewarding Echo, such as a Conquered Tower (The one where you fight multiple Nemeses).

Each link in the chain provides a quick portal to the next Echo, removing the need to return to the Monolith panel between runs, keeping you in the flow. If you want to engage with Echo Chains more frequently, there is also a new Weaver Tree node that increases the spawn rate of these chains or you can add them to your web via the Greater Window encounters mentioned above.

As Season 4 approaches, we’ll go in to more details about the specific types of chains you’ll encounter.



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We are excited to keep adding and expanding to masteries on the road to Last Epoch: Orobyss, and with Season 4, we will be adding two new skills for the Rogue.

[h2]Shadow Rend[/h2]

Shadow Rend is a new Rogue ability that can be used with either melee weapons or a bow. It serves as a high-impact, high-cost option that ties directly into the Rogue’s broader Shadow toolkit. Activating Shadow Rend triggers a swift initial strike and leaves behind a Shadow that unleashes a far stronger delayed attack. That Shadow then persists, allowing other Shadow-interacting skills to make use of it.

This will, of course, include a highly customizable skill tree for Shadow Rend, and we’ll provide more details closer to the launch of Season 4. Examples of the ability in action can be seen below:

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[h2]Bladestorm[/h2]

Bladestorm is a new standalone skill inspired by a fan-favorite node from the Umbral Blades tree. It hurls a spinning blade to a target location, tearing through anything caught in its path. Because players consistently asked for this skill augment to be expanded, we’ve built it out into its own full skill, complete with a dedicated skill tree offering a wide range of new customization options. Umbral Blades will be receiving new options as well since Bladestorm’s functionality is being moved from its tree.

If you enjoy watching a relentless spinning blade hunt down enemies on your behalf, this one will hit the mark.

Here’s a preview of Bladestorm with the Shuriken Storm node, which allows your Shuriken skill to be triggered while Bladestorm is active:



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[h2]Spellblade Updates[/h2]

Many of the Spellblade updates coming in Season 4 are aimed at improving the effectiveness of triggered spells. An example of how we’re going to accomplish this is by changing Spellblade’s previous Mastery benefit from “Mana spent on melee attacks is converted to ward" to “30% of added melee damage on weapons is also gained as added spell damage”.

We’re also adding additional defensive options throughout the passive tree, including additional armor, dodge, and ward generation options. There are also new sources of mana recovery, such as Blade Conduit or the reworked Flame Drinker (which has taken the effects of Volka’s Razor).

See some node changes below:



While improving Spellblade skill trees, we’ve also added additional spell triggers in several places, such as Flame Reave triggering Fireball and Lightning Blast, and Shatter Strike triggering Glacier.





We’ll share more changes to Spellblade in upcoming posts, including improvements and ways to gain Fire Aura!



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One of our ongoing goals is to make combat feel more visceral and responsive. You’ve likely seen this evolve across recent updates through improvements to animations, sound, and visual effects. In Season 4, we’re pushing that further with a significant enhancement: enemies now visually react to your hits through new additive animations explicitly crafted for each enemy type. This update has been applied across the entire game.

The change may seem subtle at first, but it meaningfully improves the impact and clarity of combat, making every strike feel more connected. You can see it in action in the video below:



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As part of our ongoing animation improvements across the game, the Primalist is receiving a full set of new animations in Season 4. Several of the original Early Access animations have been rebuilt or reimagined to make combat feel more impactful and movement feel noticeably smoother.



The Rogue is also receiving a series of targeted animation updates in Season 4, focusing on the areas that make the biggest impact, such as throwing animations, new idle states, run cycles, and evade motions.

We’re committed to elevating animations across the entire game ahead of Last Epoch: Orobyss, so you can expect updates for the remaining classes in future releases as well.

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[h2]Loot Filter Updates[/h2]

Loot filters are gaining new functionality as we continue refining how you track down the items you care about. You’ll now be able to filter by Forging Potential, Legendary Potential, Weaver’s Will, and Weaver’s Touch, along with newly added additional drop-sound options. Your existing filters will still work, and these new options can be added to them at any time. More updates to the loot filter will be shared as we get closer to the patch release.

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[h2]Uniques, New Set Items, Balance and Skill Changes[/h2]

Season 4 will, of course, include new unique items, many tied to the new content and mechanics. For example, some uniques will come pre-corrupted or support our upcoming Rogue changes. There will also be plenty of balance updates, skill changes, and other quality of life improvements.

Here’s a sneak peek at one of the new unique items coming in Season 4, Rahyeh’s Embrace:



Season 4 is shaping up very well. We’re very excited to share even more as we get closer to launch on March 26th!

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Season 5 is still a ways out, but we’d like to provide a high-level overview of what the teams are working on. More information will be available as we get closer to its release.

• New Seasonal Mechanic: Rage of Morditas
  Freed from his icy prison, the demi-god Morditas rises to feed on violence, growing stronger with every drop of blood you spill until your inevitable confrontation.
• New Endgame Boss - Morditas
  Morditas’ power grows as you continue to participate in the Rage of Morditas seasonal Mechanic.
• Major Item Faction Improvements
  We’re improving the player experience with Item Factions, including quality of life upgrades and reworks. For example, how the player interacts with prophecies.
• New Paladin Skill: Radiant Lance
  We’re expanding the Paladin’s skill set with Radiant Lance. This new skill will imbue the player’s shield with light from above and project forward in a focused beam.
• Prioritized existing content updates and improvements are included in all patches.
  
• New items, balance changes, etc.
  

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As we push forward with the content for Seasons 4 and 5, we’re also deep in development on our first full expansion, Last Epoch: Orobyss, and preparing the game for PlayStation 5 release. While it’s too early to share everything, here is an overview of what we’re planning to include for free for all players who own Last Epoch:

• Two New Chapters to expand the ongoing story of Last Epoch, including the conclusion of the Orobyss saga.
  
• New Endgame and Pinnacle Bosses: Orobyss, Uber Orobyss, and more
  
• Major Skill System Expansion: Skill Sigils
  • Developer Note: This system has expanded significantly from the early roadmap version that originally targeted a seasonal release. We decided to invest more resources into the system because of what we feel it will bring to the game. We have already spent more than a year in development, and work on Sigils will continue right up to the expansion’s content lock.
• Monolith: Corruption Tiers
  
• Monolith: Etched Timestones
  
• Major UI and Gamepad Improvements
  
• Performance and Optimization
  • Developer Note: The extensive optimization work required to bring Last Epoch to PlayStation 5 will also deliver performance improvements for PC players.
• Combat Feel and Visual Improvements
  
• Combat Audio Overhaul
  
• Additional Unique and Set items, new enemies, Woven Echoes, quality of life improvements, balance changes, and more
  

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We’re excited to bring this content to you and will be sharing more details as we get closer to each release. Your feedback plays a meaningful role in shaping what comes next for Last Epoch, and we’re actively monitoring social channels, in-game reports, and community discussions. We appreciate your passion and ongoing support. As always, we’ll see you in Eterra.

- Eleventh Hour Games

The sun is soon to set on another year, and the night grows ever longer. As we light the fires to guide us through the end of the year, our sense of community and camaraderie is renewed; rediscovered. Another month has passed, another day has ended, but time moves on. Let’s take a look at what we have to share in this month’s edition of Eterra Monthly!



Recent discussions have sparked concerns about us moving towards AI-First. We want to be clear: Eleventh Hour Games is committed to people-first development. We’re continuing to invest in talented developers across multiple disciplines because our studio’s strength has always come from passionate, creative individuals. If you’re excited about game development and believe your skills could help shape the future of Last Epoch, we encourage you to apply. EHG was built by dedicated gamers, and we’re committed to ensuring that human passion and craftsmanship remain at the core of creating the greatest ARPG.

Our CEO and Game Director, Judd Cobler, also shared some exciting news for players who purchased Last Epoch. The upcoming Orobyss expansion will be FREE to all owners of the base game. In addition to the free expansion, players on both platforms will be presented with a brand new DLC class that can be optionally purchased. This class is NOT required in order to enjoy the Orobyss expansion. While the details of this class are under lock and key for the time being, we have revealed that this will be the first of what is being called “Paradox Classes.” One question we’ve seen quite a bit is why the class is paid, not the expansion, when doing so is a “common and accepted” model.

We needed to adjust our monetisation model, as cosmetic sales alone were not enough to fund development costs. We've been strongly against paid expansions because of how they split the player base; so by making the class paid, the monetisation remains optional, and the player base can stay as one.

A road map has also been provided in addition to all of the above. We encourage you all to take a look and see with your own eyes, here.



The Dev stream was light on teasers. Turns out a little tar and cloth can work wonders to plug a leak. All the same, it didn’t stop this ghostly visage from finding its way to Mike’s stream.





As the world turns and the north grows cold and dark, we travel back in time to a place of bitter wind, blood, and savagery. There is strength in numbers to be sure, but every pack needs a leader. The Triple Team Beastmaster is all of that and more!

This month’s Build Spotlight goes to the Triple Team Beastmaster by Lelith.

The most important item to begin this build with is the Tyrant’s Skull. We’ve been seeing this relic a lot this season, and for good reason. Lelith uses Last Bear’s Lament, and Last Bear's Fury, both reforged, to round out Heath, Endurance, and Damage output. Mantle of the Pale Ox for body armor, and Cleaver Solution and Naal’s Tooth for weapons, pretty much complete this behemoth of a fighter.

You’ll want Swipe, Fury Leap, and Frenzy totems for yourself, but other than that, let your ferocious and sometimes furry friends handle the rest.

Read the full build guide for all the juicy details, then go terrorise the wild unknown of the Monolith of Fate.



As the end of the year rests right around the corner, families and friends will gather. This month, we’d like to offer you all something warm and comforting to gather around.

Wick stumbled his way through a portal and into Eterra again. It took a while to get back, but when he did, he had quite the story to tell.

“I found myself far in the north. Not quite to Heoborea proper, but close enough to smell the cook fires another day’s walk away. As it grew darker, I found a lone campfire, tended by a figure in black. He gave me a place to sit and a warm drink that felt like home. He never gave his name, but when I asked where he’d learned to make a cider like this, all filled with sweet and spice, he said,

‘One of the oldest traditions in the dark months is to sit around the fire with friends, tell your story, and enjoy a steaming mug of Wassail. Oh, how I miss those days when things were simpler, the world was quieter, and friends were easier to find.’

He didn’t sound sad, just distant, as if his memories had carried him somewhere far away. I knew what was coming. The terror from the eastern mountains and the armies at his command. But for now, I enjoyed a piece of fire, and something to remind me of my own friends.”


Notes:

- The type of apple and orange doesn’t matter. They are more of a preference. However, if you have some wassail left over, store it in the refrigerator with the spices and fruit inside. The fruit will continue to soften and make a wonderful, intensely spiced snack, good for up to 1 week.
- Save yourself some time! Mulling spices are not often kept year-round, but most grocery stores will sell them around the holidays. Store-bought spices are welcome in this recipe as they also often cater to the palate of locals in the area.


Thank you all for joining us for another month in Eterra. As you know, the studio will be closing for the holidays. That means the Eterra monthly will return in January as the staff enjoys time off for the holiday. From our studio to all of you, we hope you have a wonderful rest of the year. We will have lots more to cover soon, and we are excited to have you all along for the ride.

This has been Eterra Monthly, a report on the happenings and changes in the world of Last Epoch. We hope you have enjoyed this month’s report and will see you all again soon.

Since it was bought by Krafton in July, players have been looking at Last Epoch developer Eleventh Hour Games with a worried expression. Will the formerly independent studio pivot to AI, or be gutted like Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds was?..
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