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!
Hype to look forward to
- Sentinel Rework & Heartseeker (4/8)
- Endgame, Balance and Itemization Updates (4/9)
- Quality of Life, Dungeon & Other Improvements (4/10)