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Last Epoch’s new mage class is out now, with 1.0 release planned for DecemberHope you like skill trees

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Image credit:Eleventh Hour Games

Image credit:Eleventh Hour Games

The skill tree for the Lightning Blast spell in Last Epoch

Early access action RPGLast Epochhas just received update 0.9.2, which adds a new class of mage called the Runemaster. The Runemaster has five new spells they can use to tear through the game’s monsters, and each spell can be customised via its own skill tree.

The update, called “Runes Of Power”, also adds eight new languages, and a new type of event called Rune Prisons. Developers Eleventh Hour also announced that Last Epoch’s 1.0 release would happen in December this year.

Last Epoch - Runes of Power Patch 0.9.2 | Patch OverviewHey, it’s an explanation of Last Epoch’s update, which I badly needed.Watch on YouTube

Last Epoch - Runes of Power Patch 0.9.2 | Patch Overview

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One of the Runemasters skills is called Runic Invocation, which “generates one elemental rune each time a player casts an elemental spell (among more than 15 fire, lightning, and cold spells available in the Mage class). The order and types of runes generated determine which of 40 different spells will be unleashed upon activation.” This translates to 40 spells being castable from a single button press.

The new languages added in the update are Chinese, French, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. The Rune Prison event, however, involves freeing and fighting an imprisoned mage in order to unlock “experimental” items and buffs.

Katharine spoke to Eleventh Hour about the Runes Of Power updatelast month, and learned more about its time-travelling campaign and the inspiration they’ve taken fromChrono Trigger.