Eleventh Hour Games is heeding its pledges to release Last Epoch’s update today, and we have compiled all adjustments that players should expect. This update will not solve any existing game issues but instead, it will introduce a Trade Development Update with Item Gifting plans. And now, here is the complete patch notes for Last Epoch February 21, 2023 update.
Last Epoch February 21, 2023 Update Patch Notes: Trade Development Update
Item Factions
Here’s an early peek at the feature design of our new Item Factions System in Last Epoch.
- Inside, you will find two powerful factions – ready to accept and reward your allegiance in Eterra.
- The Merchant’s Guild
- and the Circle of Fortune.
- Along your travels in Last Epoch, you will encounter factions of Eterra’s denizens and may choose to align yourself with them.
- Aligning with a Faction will allow you to gain both Reputation to improve your rank within that faction, and Favor to spend on that faction’s services and rewards.
- Climbing ranks within a faction will unlock their unique perks, services, and rewards.
- Your choice of allegiance will determine the way your character obtains and exchanges items in the endgame.
- Each character can only represent and gain reputation with one of these factions at a time, enabling their exclusive benefits.
- Characters may swap between factions at any time.
- Equipping items found while in the Circle of Fortune will require ranks in that faction and equipping items purchased through trade while in the Merchant’s Guild will require ranks in that faction.
- So, switching between them is more akin to respeccing your character rather than something you’ll want to do routinely.
Details
- You can have different characters in the same Cycle in different factions
- Faction reputation is shared account-wide
- Faction reputation resets each Cycle
- When a Cycle ends and characters are transferred to the permanent non-Cycle environment, their Faction progress will be carried over
The Factions
Circle of Fortune Rewards
Below are a few reward examples you can expect when aligned with the Circle of Fortune:
- Circle of Fortune is a mystical Faction that had banded together to seek fortune through arcane research and astrology.
- Aligning with the Circle of Fortune will grant you powerful benefits towards finding more and better items.
- You will also have the ability to purchase Prophecies with Favor which will bend fate to your advantage and help you find the specific items that you’re looking for.
Merchants’ Guild Rewards
Below are a few reward examples you can expect when aligned with the Merchants’ Guild:
- The Merchants Guild is a prosperous organization that believes in prosperity through commerce.
- Aligning with the Merchants Guild will allow you to trade increasingly powerful items as you gain reputation. It will also give you access to the Bazaar where you can browse and search for items that other players have listed and list items on the Bazaar yourself.
- All types of equipment, such as idols, uniques, and even legendary items can be traded with other players if you have a high enough rank, but crafting materials cannot.
The Bazaar Revisions
- The Bazaar will be a new trade-focused zone for players aligned with the Merchants’ Guild in Last Epoch.
- Here you can gather, socialize, barter, and trade your wares throughout the market.
- Players will search through a variety of stalls for player-listed items, which you can buy and sell for gold with advanced searching functionality, no purchase delay, and no tax on the gold cost of the item.
- Item Gifting between friends and party play regardless of faction choice will be on.
Ongoing Developments
- Item Gifting as experienced in the multiplayer tests and in 0.9 will remain. If you are with a player fighting enemies and an item drops you’ll be able to freely give your teammates that item if you wish.
- We’ll be introducing a new item type called Resonances that drop when you’ve played alongside a player for a very extended period of time. Using a resonance on an item will enable it to be gifted to that player even if they were not present when the item dropped.
Last Epoch patch notes for today’s update are available on the game’s Steam page. Players can download and enjoy the game on