Last Epoch Season 2 Update Brings Massive Changes

Summary

Last Epoch‘s Season 2 update introduces the Woven Faction, with new procedurally generated Tombs of the Erased and Cemeteries.
Endgame Itemization and Crafting are enhanced, enabling players to enchant Idols, Reforge Set Items, and reroll Legendary Potential.
The Weaver Tree offers new agency to players in the Endgame, allowing customization of Monolith of Fate rewards and encounters.

Eleventh Hour Games has unveiled the details for the patch notes of Last Epoch’s Season 2 update, marking the largest change the game has ever undergone. This substantial Last Epoch update introduces fresh content and makes considerable adjustments to almost every facet of gameplay.

2024 saw the launch of “Last Epoch”, which quickly garnered favor among ARPG enthusiasts, carving out a robust position within the expanding genre roster. In the time since its debut, “Last Epoch” has continued to evolve, focusing on gameplay adjustments, bug corrections, skill harmonization, and enhancing the campaign’s sheen with additional refinements. This year, chatter about Season 2 kicked off when developers subtly hinted at new elements, sparking excitement among players as they eagerly anticipate the next chapter.

The detailed changes for season 2 of Last Epoch, dubbed “Tombs of the Erased”, have been released in preparation for its launch on April 17, 2025. This update introduces a host of new features to the game. Players of Last Epoch can now align with the Woven Faction, a group loyal to the Weaver, a colossal Titan figure. The influence of the Woven extends across the Monolith of Fate and its Timelines, creating fresh challenges and opportunities to enhance power. This season’s update includes Tombs of the Erased that appear in Echoes, as well as Cemeteries of the Erased with new objectives and bosses to conquer. Successfully completing these zones grants Memory Amber, a novel currency used to establish a reputation with the Woven and purchase Woven Echoes.

In the update for Season 2 of Last Epoch, there are significant modifications to Endgame Itemization and Crafting. Players now have the ability to imbue Idols with potent Enchanted Affixes using the Woven Enchanter, and can transform Set items into Reforged Set Items by dismantling them into Set Shards. The Legendary Potential has a reroll option utilizing the Transmuting Gem, and new crafting instruments such as the Rune of Havoc and Rune of Weaving provide additional creative opportunities. These adjustments facilitate greater customization and bolster endgame content, while also granting players more control over the Monolith of Fate, allowing them to fine-tune rewards and encounters within the endgame configuration through the Weaver Tree.

Furthermore, Season 2 introduces Champions – a fresh breed of formidable, rare opponents that are larger, more difficult, and boast unique skills. A total of 20 Champion enemies can be encountered, each carrying three random modifiers, one of which grants an additional skill. These adversaries may appear in the Campaign, Dungeons, or the Monolith, starting from level 6 zones. This update also includes numerous adjustments and bug fixes, demonstrating the developers’ dedication to continually improving the gaming experience within Last Epoch.

Last Epoch: Tombs of the Erased Patch Notes

New Features

The Woven

In the gaming world of Season 2, I’ve got an exciting opportunity coming my way – joining The Woven, a devoted faction to the mighty Titan known as The Weaver. This Titan is on a relentless quest to weave a flawless new reality. Her reach extends across the Monolith of Fate and its intricate Timelines, bringing fresh challenges and potential power boosts.

Tombs & Cemeteries of the Erased

Tombs of the Erased

Monolith of Fate Echoes have a chance to spawn a Tomb of the Erased, new procedurally generated side zones filled with new Woven enemies, new rewards, and their own unique boss.
- Developer Note: This is our first deployment of our brand new procedural content generation system. We’re excited about this development milestone, as procedural generation will enable us to produce more varied content more quickly for future updates. We’ll continue expanding on this technology over time.
Tombs can spawn in any Echo except for Quest Echoes and Arena Echoes.
When a Tomb has spawned in an Echo, you will see Silken Cocoons placed throughout the zone.
- These cocoons are the captured souls for the Weaver, and when broken, the souls will 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 Woven Faction.
- Silken Cocoons also have a chance to release a new rare enemy, similar to the Chosen Erased, which starts with a possessed mod as if it had been possessed by a Soul of the Erased. This new enemy, called the Incubated Silk, will drop loot equivalent to the loot that would have dropped from a possessed enemy.
- Silken Cocoons can also be found in Tombs and Cemeteries.
At the end of a Tomb is one of the Goldthread Fateweavers bosses. After defeating the Fateweaver, you will advance to the end and find a chest containing a duplicate of the current Echo bonus reward.
At the end of both Tombs and Cemeteries, you will also find the Woven Enchanter device, which can be used to enchant your class-specific Idols. This will be explained further below.

Cemeteries of the Erased

You will also find Cemeteries of the Erased, a new Echo type, in your Echo Web. The objective of a Cemetery Echo is to slay the Woven Firstborn boss.
When you start a Cemetery Echo, you will find the entrance to the underground Cemetery somewhere in the area. Descend into the Cemetery and defeat the boss to complete the Echo.
Completing a Cemetery provides you access to the Altar of the Weaver, where you can place your Woven Echoes.
Woven Echoes are a new, itemized, type of Echo that bring unique challenges and rewards. More information on Woven Echoes below
After completing your first Cemetery, you will be taken to the Haven of Silk, the hub for the Woven Faction.

The Woven Faction

When you are first brought to the Haven of Silk, you will be introduced to Masque, who will invite you to join the Woven, a faction made up of worshipers of the Weaver.
You will gain reputation points with The Woven by earning and spending Memory Amber, a new currency mostly found in Tombs and Cemeteries, and by slaying Woven enemies.
With each Rank, Masque will sell you new Woven Echoes. You can purchase these Woven Echoes with Memory Amber.
By completing Woven Echoes and advancing your ranks with the Woven, you will gain points for the Weaver Tree, which allows you to influence the Monolith of Fate.

The Weaver Tree

Note for Developers: A key aim for Season 2 was to give players greater control over their Endgame adventure. The Weaver Tree empowers players to shape the rewards and interactions within the Monolith of Fate, while also offering a long-term tool for influencing seasonal dynamics in future updates.

The Weaver Tree functions similarly to passive and skill trees but instead modifies your Monolith of Fate.
Travelers will be able to gain a maximum of 50 Weaver Tree points, and as mentioned above, you will gain points by increasing your rank with the Woven and completing Woven Echoes for the first time.
There are roughly 70 nodes in the Weaver Tree, which offer different ways to adjust your Monolith of Fate. Some examples:
- Place an item to imprint it in a slot to have a chance for similar items to be granted as an extra reward when completing Echoes.
- Gain a chance for Beacons to be replaced by more difficult Super Beacons that reveal more Echoes on completion.
- Gain a chance for Zerrick to join you in your Echoes with a big boost to gold drops.
- Convert Arena Echoes to Super Arena Echoes.
- Remove Arena Echoes from spawning.
- When Weaver’s Will items drop, they roll their Weaver’s Will value twice and keep the higher amount.
- Increase the amount of Memory Amber drops.
- Gain a chance for your Tombs and Cemeteries to have a Possessed Nemesis in them.
- Nemeses always drop their specific weapon item sub-types when they escape after empowering them.
- Shade of Orobyss may ambush you in your Echoes.
- Remove Corruption gain when slaying the Shade of Orobyss.
- Replace common Echo rewards such as Glyphs, Runes, and Gold with a different random reward.
- Add new Echo reward types, such as Memory Amber, Woven Echoes, and Dungeon Keys and Charms.

Woven Echoes

In simpler terms, Woven Echoes are a fresh type of Echo that offers a peek into the new realm created by the Weaver. They bring a host of thrilling content and rewards to Last Epoch’s final stages. You can integrate these Woven Echoes into a Timeline’s Echo Web using the Altar of the Weaver, which is located at the end of a Cemetery of the Erased side zone, and they function similarly to other Echoes.

There are 36 different Woven Echoes coming with the release of Season 2.
Woven Echoes are items that can be found in Tombs and Cemeteries, can be purchased from the NPC Masque, or generated in the Echo Web through certain nodes on the Weaver’s Tree.
You will unlock new Woven Echoes that you can purchase from Masque as you advance in the Ranks in the Woven, however not all Woven Echoes are purchasable.
Woven Echoes items specify their type on their tooltip as a Crafting Woven Echo, Boss Woven Echo, or Woven Echo. Woven Echoes containing Endgame bosses and Crafting rewards are signified with icons inside the Woven Echoes tab.
Woven Echoes with a plus icon in the Woven Echo tab indicate that completing that Woven Echo will grant you a Weaver Tree point.
Woven Echoes can be added to your Echo Web via the Altar of the Weaver after you kill a Cemetery boss. Once they are added, you can play them like you would a normal Echo.
- In a party, players may each add Woven Echoes into their own individual Timelines.
Woven Echo drops are signified by a teal-on-gold item label and are shown on the minimap.
Some Woven Echoes feature completely new Endgame bosses, such as the Draal Queen or Ignixiros the Antipode Dragon. Others feature Endgame-enhanced versions of existing mini-boss and boss encounters, such as Haruspex Orian, Majasa, and an Uber version of Aberroth.
Other Woven Echoes provide unique challenges and rewards not found in normal Echoes. Some rewards even affect other nearby unconquered Echoes.
Example rewards found in Woven Echoes:
- New Endgame Crafting options:
  - Set Item Crafting: Shatter Set Items into Set Shards and apply them like normal affixes to make an item count towards that Set bonus.
    - There is a new specific Affix Shard for every Set item.
  - Reroll Legendary Potential: Rerolls the Legendary Potential of Uniques that have at least one Legendary Potential.
  - Attribute Swap: Swap an item’s attribute (Strength, Intelligence, Attunement, Dexterity) for another selected attribute.
  - Reroll Unique or Set item mod values: Reroll mod and implicit values of Unique and Set items by sacrificing another of the same type with at least equal power level.
  - Experimental Item Crafting: Replace a prefix mod with an Experimental prefix (more on this below).
- Woven Echo exchange: sacrifice 3 Woven Echoes to gain a random one
- Corruption catchup for alt characters.
- Adding a new enemy to your possible Nemesis encounters (Void Nemesis).
- Guaranteed Unique drops.
- Class-specific gear.
Conquering a Woven Echo for the first time usually grants at least 1 Weaver Tree point. The points are shared with all characters sharing the same stash. 13 Points can be earned from Weaver Faction ranks and the remaining 37 points from conquering Woven Echoes.
- Threshold of Eternity (Uber Aberroth) is an exception and grants no Weaver Tree points.
Woven Echos auto-store to their new Inventory tab upon pickup. This can be toggled off from the game settings.

Endgame Itemization and CraftingIdol Enchanting

At the end of Tombs and Cemeteries will be a Woven Enchanter device, which can be used to enchant your class-specific Idols (Adorned, Grand, Huge, Large, Ornate).
Enchanting an Idol will grant one Enchanted Affix and turn the Idol into a Heretical Idol of the same subtype of that Idol type.
Enchanting an Idol adds an Enchanted Affix up to tier 4 and some amount of Weaver’s Touch, where the combined amount of tiers on the Enchanted Affix and Weaver’s Touch is between 5 and 14. For example, it could add a tier 1 Enchanted Affix and 4 Weaver’s Touch, or up to tier 4 Enchanted Affix and 10 Weaver’s Touch.
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 and expend Weaver’s Touch.
Enchanted Idols can have up to 2 Enchanted Affixes in addition to the 2 standard affixes they normally have.
Idols can be Re-enchanted for a Memory Amber cost, which removes any existing Enchanted Affixes or Weaver’s Touch before enchanting it again, adding an Enchanted Affix and Weaver’s Touch.
The new Rune of Weaving, added this patch, can be used to consume Weaver’s Touch like it can for Weaver’s Will.
The Woven Enchanter has a limited number of uses based on its location.
- One use in a Tomb of the Erased.
- Two uses in Cemeteries of the Erased and the Cemetery of Reweaving Woven Echo.
- Three uses in the Sepulcher of the Lost Woven Echo.
- Four uses in the Cenotaph of Worlds Woven Echo.
If you are in a party, each player can use the Woven Enchanter device independently.

Set Reforging

Now, you can break down set pieces at the Forge of Breaking in the Great Bridge Woven Echo. This process produces Shards unique to the broken set piece, which can then be attached to other items, transforming them into “Re-forged Set Items”. These items will now contribute towards the bonus of that specific Set.

Set Shards and Shattering
- There are Set Shards and new affixes for every Set item that has been added (1 per Set item).
- All set affixes are named for their set item and end with the word “reforged”.
- Shattering set items drops 1-4 matching shards per item shattered.
- Set Shards cannot drop naturally; they can only be created by shattering matching Set items.
- Each use of the Forge of Shattering will shatter all items placed inside and expend one use.
- If you are in a party, each player can use the Forge of Shattering independently.
Reforged Set Items
- Crafting a Set affix onto an item “reforges” it and turns it into a Reforged Set item, but it can still be crafted.
- Reforged Set items will be considered a matching item for the corresponding Set and count toward the Set bonus.
- Reforged Set items will be named after their Set item with “Reforged” appended to it. E.g., “Zerrick’s Ambition Reforged.”
- Because Reforged Set items are considered Set Items, they will follow the same Loot Filter and Tab Priority rules as Set Items.
Crafting
- Reforged Set Shards can be used to craft items in the Forge.
- Reforged Set Shards can only be crafted on the same item type as their Set item but can use any base of that type.
  - For example, Invoker’s Static Touch Reforged can only be crafted on rings, but it could be crafted on an Opal ring or a Sapphire ring.
- An item can only have 1 type of Set affix at a time.
- Each Set affix provides 2 stats based on the original Set item.
- Set items still cannot be shattered by the Rune of Shattering or removed with the Rune of Removal to gain shards. Only by the new Forge of Shattering in the Great Bridge Woven Echo. However, Reforged Set Items can be Shattered.
- Set affixes can be sealed with the Glyph of Despair.
- Set affixes cannot be granted through the use of Glyph of Chaos, Glyph of Envy, Rune of Redemption, Rune of Discovery, or Weaver Tree Imprinting.
- Set affixes can be crafted normally up to T5, as usual. Using the new Rune of Havoc, which shuffles all affix tiers within an item (except sealed affixes), you can potentially get T6 and T7 as well.

Legendary Potential Rerolling

You can use the Transmuting Gem in the Farsight Turtle Woven Echo to reroll the Legendary Potential of all items placed into it.
Rerolled items will either improve or lose their existing Legendary Potential.
If you use the Transmuting Gem and Legendary Potential is lost, you will receive a number of random rare affix shards equal to the Legendary Potential lost.
Only Legendary Potential is rerolled, not implicits or Unique modifiers.
If you are in a party, each player can use the Transmuting Gem independently.
Note: If you lose all Legendary Potential on the item, it can then be used to replace the Egg of the Forgotten in a Nemesis encounter, giving you another chance to give a Unique item high Legendary Potential or turn it into a useful Legendary item.

Unique, Legendary, and Set Affix Rerolling

In the Gauntlet of Strife Woven Echo you’ll be challenged by a sequence of boss encounters and by completing it, you’ll be rewarded with access to the Sacrificial Altar which can be used to sacrifice a Unique, Legendary, Weaver’s Will, or Set item to reroll the all affix values of a matching item.
The item being sacrificed needs to have equal or greater Potential Tier.
- Potential Tier is equivalent to:
  - Weaver’s Will Item: Weaver’s Will + the sum of Legendary affix tiers.
  - Other Legendary Item: Number of Legendary affixes.
  - Unique Item: Legendary Potential.
  - Set Item: 0.
If you are in a party, each player can use the Sacrificial Altar independently.

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