“The Eleventh Hour Game” officially announced the relevant details Last Epoch is about to launch Season 4, which will be released on March 26, 2026. Additionally, it provides a detailed roadmap for Season 5 and the next major expansion pack, The Last Age: Orobyss. The first update to be released is called Shattered Omens, which will introduce new seasonal mechanics, career reworks, item changes, and improved endings.

In this guide, we’ll break down everything there is to know about The Last Age Season 4: Shattered Omens.

Last Epoch Season 4 Release Details

Launch date: March 26, 2026

Seasonal mechanics: Broken Omen

The release date for Season 4 was confirmed alongside details of Season 5 and the Orobyss free expansion pack. Season 4 will be free to all existing players.

Seasonal Mechanism: Window of Omens

Omen Windows are a seasonal mechanic in Last Epoch Season 4 (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)Omen Windows are a seasonal mechanic in Last Epoch Season 4 (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)
Omen Windows are a seasonal mechanic in Last Epoch Season 4 (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)

The core mechanic of Season 4 is Omen Windows, a new type of random encounter that can appear in Last Epoch’s campaign and endgame. Window of Omen is a crack in reality, associated with the despair of the observer. Entering the Omen window will enclose you in a circular arena and summon a void-based entity called the Omen.

The encounter is divided into three stages: First, the Omen is invulnerable and enhanced with elite broken enemies. To increase the encounter area, you must kill enemies within the ring. Once you’ve killed a decent number of enemies, the Omen will absorb any remaining enemies before you can attack it directly.

As the player progresses into the campaign, the corruption of the Stone of Destiny increases, and so does the Window of Omen difficulty level.

Window of Omens Reward

The new Window of Omens system introduces a variety of new reward systems. The details are as follows:

1) Rune of Corruption

Runes of Corruption are a key item in Season 4, bringing unpredictable changes to your gear (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)Runes of Corruption are a key item in Season 4, bringing unpredictable changes to your gear (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)
Runes of Corruption are a key item in Season 4, bringing unpredictable changes to your gear (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)

Omens can drop corruption runes in the previous era. These are a new crafting material that corrupts your gear, giving them massive, unpredictable buffs that either improve the gear or destroy it. Corruption runs often grant unique modifiers that can only be obtained through them, making them a high-risk, high-reward mechanic.

2) Hourglass fragments

These are new currencies from the previous era that can be used to purchase Runes of Corruption and new Braided Echoes. Temporal Glass Shards can also be used in the endgame to access a powerful variation of the Omen Window, called the “Great Omen Window”. Completing a larger Window of Omens can improve the Window of Omens into a Timing Glass Core. This can be used to modify your Echo Web directly.

Improved endgame and echo chains

Adding Echo Chains to Stones of Destiny reduces downtime between runs (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)Adding Echo Chains to Stones of Destiny reduces downtime between runs (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)
Adding Echo Chains to Stones of Destiny reduces downtime between runs (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)

Final Age Season 4 adds the Echo Chain to the Stone of Destiny. This is specifically designed to reduce downtime and improve mapping processes. An echo chain is a set of linked echoes that appear in the overall timeline network.

This mechanism allows players to jump directly between Echoes without returning to the Monolith hub, reducing downtime between runs. These echo chains focus primarily on similar mechanics and end with a high-reward echo, similar to Tower of Conquest.

Players can also use the “Great Omen Window” encounter to add new knitting tree nodes or echo chain frequencies on the network.

Thief Class Update: New Skills

The thief class received two new skills in Last Age Season 4.

1) Shadow Tear

Shadow Rend is a delayed damage skill that enhances the rogue's other shadow-based skills (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)Shadow Rend is a delayed damage skill that enhances the rogue's other shadow-based skills (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)
Shadow Rend is a delayed damage skill that enhances the rogue’s other shadow-based skills (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)

Shadow Tear is a new Rogue ability that can be used with bows and melee weapons. This is a high-cost, high-impact skill that is tied to the Shadow Toolkit of the Rogue class in Last Age.

The Shadow Tear skill can be used with both melee and ranged weapons (Image from Eleventh Hour Games)The Shadow Tear skill can be used with both melee and ranged weapons (Image from Eleventh Hour Games)
The Shadow Tear skill can be used with both melee and ranged weapons (Image from Eleventh Hour Games)

Shadow Tear is a delayed attack; once used, the initial attack leaves a shadow, unleashing a devastating attack for a delayed period of time. This shadow persists and interacts with other shadow-based attacks.

2) Bladestorm

Bladestorm gets its own skill tree in Last Epoch Season 4 (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)Bladestorm gets its own skill tree in Last Epoch Season 4 (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)
Bladestorm gets its own skill tree in Last Epoch Season 4 (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)

Bladestorm expanded from the popular Shadow Blade tree in Season 4 and became its own standalone skill. Bladestorm fires spinning blades at a specific target, shattering anything in its path, granting the ability to control mobs. Blade Storm combined with Shuriken Storm can deal massive amounts of sustained damage over a larger area.

The Bladestorm skill node offers a wide range of customizable options, and Umbral Blade will receive new changes following the removal of Bladestorm.

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Changes to Spellblade Mastery

Spellblade Mastery will receive a major rework to improve mixed play styles for melee spellcasters.

  • “Mana used for melee attacks will be converted into wards” changed to “30% of the additional melee damage on the weapon is also gained as additional spell damage.”. This completely changes the benefits gained from mastering the Spellblade in the previous era.
Spellblade Mastery will receive increased mana regeneration in Season 4 (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)Spellblade Mastery will receive increased mana regeneration in Season 4 (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)
Spellblade Mastery will receive increased mana regeneration in Season 4 (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)
  • Improved mana regeneration and sources added to the mana tree. This includes blade catheter (Casting a spell can stack up to 5 layers of Blade Conduit, and each layer will increase mana recovery) and Fire Drinker (Casting mana-consuming melee abilities now consumes all stacks of Fire Aura and restores mana per stack).
Trigger effects have also been significantly improved, making casting smoother (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)Trigger effects have also been significantly improved, making casting smoother (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)
Trigger effects have also been significantly improved, making casting smoother (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)
  • New and improved spell trigger effects have been added to the Spellblade skill tree. These include thermopile (Killing an enemy directly with Fire Plunder will automatically cast Lightning Blast), ruthless winter (Hitting an enemy with Ice Spike has a 20% chance to cast Glacier), and scorched earth (Killing an enemy directly with Fire Plunder will cast a fireball to a random enemy within six meters).

In addition to this, Eleventh Hour Games will also release more details on how players can generate the game fire halo and changes made to the system.

Combat changes and animation improvements for Season 4

Last Epoch Season 4 promises improved enemy hit reaction animations. This means enemies will now visually react to each hit with additional animations. These include unique animations for each specific enemy type.

By adding more subtle animations to each enemy, combat is smoother and more visually responsive. this primitivist Receiving the full set of animations, followed by thief Also receives a full set of animations, including movement, idle and weapon throwing animations.

The animation update will be released before the release of the major Last Epoch expansion pack.

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Quality of Life Update

Season 4 also brings some key quality of life updates. These include:

  • Loot Filter – The loot filter will receive improved functionality in Season 4, with the ability to filter items by Forged Potential, Legendary Potential, Weaver’s Will, and Weaver’s Touch, as well as any previous filters. New drop sound options have also been added to the game.

New/unique items

Rahyeh's Embrace is a breastplate designed to improve the Primalist's minion skills (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)Rahyeh's Embrace is a breastplate designed to improve the Primalist's minion skills (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)
Rahyeh’s Embrace is a breastplate designed to improve the Primalist’s minion skills (Image via Eleventh Hour Games)

Season 4 will also introduce a variety of new unique items in every category of Last Epoch. So far, the developers at Eleventh Hour Games have only revealed one unique item called Rahyeh’s Embrace. It is a unique body armor for the original class.

In addition to this, Season 4 will also introduce more balance updates, skill changes, and quality of life updates, which will be revealed by the developers closer to the launch of Season 4.

Read the full announcement Final Era official website.

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