Hello Travelers, and welcome to the first day of the Pre-Patch Hype week for Patch 0.9.1: Rising Flames!

Over the next week and leading up to the May 25th Rising Flames patch, we will be revealing and talking about most of the major features coming in patch 0.9.1. For today’s post, we’re going to be covering Ladders!

Ladders

Ladders help provide a sense of progression and accomplishment. Whether it’s competing with other players or just setting benchmarks for yourself, ladders offer the opportunity to create a tangible mark within Eterra.

With the launch of patch 0.9, and the addition of multiplayer, we needed to change how ladders worked as the data they were working with had changed quite a bit, and we also wanted to support new and better features with our ladder system. In patch 0.9.1 we will be introducing the first version of the revised ladder system. In Rising Flames, you will be able to track and share your progress through the arena, marking your highest arena wave achieved either solo or as a group. One of the biggest things we wanted our new ladders to support was improved integrity. As such, Ladders will only be available for online play.

Features

The new ladder will feature several categories for being able to track your progress against other players, and groups. While participating in the Endless Arena, each time you successfully complete a wave, your record will be entered into the ladder. The ladder is split between Softcore, Hardcore, Account Found, and Group Size. This means when comparing your progress against other players, you will always be looking at equal footing. You can also filter the ladders by Class to see how you stack up and see what skills others are running. Though to keep competition alive, full builds are not currently revealed through the ladder, so things like passive trees, skill trees, and exact gear setup can be kept as competitive secrets by participating players. With all these new ladders available, we’ve also redesigned the Ladder UI to help make it easier to navigate.

The full list of ladders that will be available with the launch of Beta Patch 0.9.1 is as follows:

• Softcore
  • Solo (Account Found)
  • 1 Player
  • 2 Players
  • 3 Players
  • 4 Players
• Hardcore
  • Solo (Account Found)
  • 1 Player
  • 2 Players
  • 3 Players
  • 4 Players

The Future of Ladders

We previously mentioned one of our goals for the new ladder system was to expand its abilities. While in 0.9.1, the ladder will only track Arena Wave progress, we will continue to develop this in the future. The new ladder system will allow us to grow to monolith progression, experience tracking, corruption tracking, events, and potentially much more. We’re very excited to be bringing ladders back to Last Epoch in 0.9.1 Rising Flames on May 25th and the future opportunities Ladders will provide.

Make sure to check back in tomorrow on our socials for our next Pre-patch Hype Week post, where we’ll be covering Towns in 0.9.1!