Last Epoch Season 2 (7 Changes To Keep Players Returning): Why Can It Cause A New Craze?

Whether in Diablo 4 or POE 2, the gambling element of APRG games has always been throughout. From the items dropped by monsters to the affixes of changing equipment with props, this is a kind of gambling.

There is also a more direct way to gamble in the game, and that is to find merchants to gamble. Both Last Epoch and Diablo 4 have merchants dedicated to gambling. They will not provide you with any specific goods, and every time you gamble, you may get junk items or very rare unique items.

Last Epoch Gambler

There are two types of gamblers in Last Epoch, divided into Gold Gambler and Soul Gambler according to the currency they require. They appear in different places and provide different equipment. Each gambler has his own advantage area.

Gold Gambler

The gambler most well-known to players in Last Epoch is Artem the Gambler. When players come to the first hub town, they can see him in The Council Chambers. And you can also find him in various towns afterwards.

Here are the features of Gold Gambler:

• Use Last Epoch Gold as the currency for gambling.
• Gold Gambler can be accessed throughout the game.
• It can help you in the early stages of the game.
• Offers regular items, but no sets or unique items.
• The gambler's inventory is not infinite, and you need to be refreshed with 500 gold each time to obtain additional inventory.
• This gambling method does not include any set or unique item rewards.
• It is completely based on luck, and the probability of appearing high-level items is not high.
• You can only get items up to level 40 in Gold Gambler.

Gold Gambler is a gambling location that players can access early, which is its advantage. If you are lucky enough, you can have some powerful equipment in the early stage of the game, but most of the time it will just swallow your gold and spit out garbage.

The inventory of Gold Gambler is divided into three categories: weapons, armor, and accessories, and you cannot see the affixes of each item. Only after you have got them, then you could see the level and affixes of each item.

Here are tips for using Gold Gambler:

• Items worth 500 gold or less are more likely to give you a profit.
• Use Gold Gambler to replenish items you need or are hard to find elsewhere, such as rings or amulets.
• Break unneeded items to get crafting materials, or take them to merchants for gold.
• Don’t go to Gold Gambler for gambling after level 40, and his goods have lost value to you.

Soul Gambler

Soul Gambler is not encountered until the endgame. After you defeat Fire Lich Cremorus, you can find Soul Gambler. Unlike Artem the Gambler, Soul Gambler offers you more valuable items. Not only do you have a chance to get unique items, you may even get set items.

Here are the features of Soul Gambler

• Use Soul Ember as a gambling currency.
• Located in Soulfire Bastion as part of the game’s endgame content.
• Provides a chance to get unique and set items.
• After you have emptied Soul Gambler’s inventory, you cannot refresh it automatically, and you need to refresh Soulfire Bastion.

Soulfire Bastion

Soulfire Bastion is a Fire, Necrotic-themed dungeon where players need to collect Souls. The feature of Soulfire Bastion is that it allows players to switch between two damage immunity states, and players need to carefully identify the damage type of monsters in this dungeon and fight with the boss. Finally, use the collected Soul Ember to trade with the gambler.

Soul Gambler and Soul only drop in Soulfire Bastion dungeon, which requires a Soulfire Bastion Key to enter. If you die at any time in Soulfire Bastion, you will be teleported out of the dungeon and lose all progress. However, if you have an extra Soulfire Bastion Key, you can continue trying without losing your current progress, which is equivalent to having a chance to revive on the spot. Each key in your inventory gives you one chance to revive.

Soulfire Bastion Keys can be dropped from Timeline Bosses, Arena of Champions, or any monster. Timeline Bosses are recommended here, as Arena of Champions has a low chance of dropping a Soulfire Bastion Key.

Soul Gambler’s Items

Soul Gambler has a bunch of items, and their quantity, type, and value change every time you explore Soulfire Bastion. All of his items are available once you have collected enough currency within the dungeon.

While Soul Gambler’s inventory is mostly random, the items he carries and the gambling results themselves can be modified by setting the about dungeon modifier.

There are also some unique items in Soul Gambler’s inventory that can only be got through Soul Gambler’s rewards:

• Burning Avarice - Unique Gloves
• Ashes of Orchirian - Unique Relic
• Soul Gambler’s Fallacy - Unique Amulet

The above are the two gambling methods of Last Epoch. They can provide you with temporary help when you are most scarce to upgrade your equipment. However, the weapons, armor and accessories obtained through gambling have a very low Forging Potential, so this game encourages players to make their own equipment.

Last Epoch Season 2 has been an enormous success, and it’s a wise decision to avoid the release of POE 2 Dawn of the Hunt, but it’s also because of its own excellent quality. Last Epoch is simpler than POE 2, but more complex than Diablo 4, and this balance has allowed it to accumulate a group of loyal fans.

Last Epoch Season 2 has made a big change to the endgame, adding new factions, which also added new runes to the game, and players need to understand their uses to avoid wasting runes.

What Are Runes?

Runes are an important part of crafting items in Last Epoch. They can reduce or add affixes to items, or even completely transform one item into another.

Different Runes have different effects, but if you’ve played Path of Exile, you’ll find that Runes and POE 2 currency have very similar effects.

How To Get Runes?

Runes are consumables like Last Epoch Gold, and once you use them, they disappear. Runes will drop in various situations, but the drop rate is very low. You can try to farm runes in the following ways.

• Bosses
• Chests/Caches
• Elites
• Champions
• Loot Lizards
• Nemeses

In addition to the above methods, you can also encounter runes in some shops, such as Rune of Shattering. Rune of Shattering is one of the necessary props for dismantling items, and it is also very precious. You have to prepare hundreds of thousands of gold in advance to exchange it with merchants.

Basically, every shop owner has Rune of Shattering. If you have enough gold, you can look for a few more shops. However, it takes time to replenish Rune of Shattering, so you should not look for a merchant repeatedly.

In addition, you can also join Circle of Fortune faction and complete tasks to get runes, or use Monolith of Fates system to increase the drop rate of runes.

Last Epoch Runes

1. Rune Of Shattering

• Random Drop: Common
• Requires Level: 1

Give a random number of Affix Fragments based on the item’s properties and destroy the item. This rune can recycle item affixes. Rune of Shattering has no Forging Potential requirement.

2. Rune Of Removal

• Random Drop - Common
• Requires Level: 15

Remove a random affix from an item and you gain an equal number of Affix Fragments.

3. Rune Of Refinement

• Random Drop - Common
• Requires Level: 10

Reroll all affixes on your items, and note that the range of affixes is determined by the item’s level.

4. Rune Of Discovery

• Random Drop - Extremely rare
• Requires Level: 15

Adds a random first-level affix to all empty affix slots and increases the chance of extracting a rare affix. Using Rune of Discovery does not consume Forging Potential, but is used on items without Forging Potential.

5. Rune Of Shaping

• Random Drop - Very rare
• Requires Level: 55

Reroll the implicit affixes for this item.

6. Rune Of Ascendance

• Random Drop - Extremely rare
• Requires Level: 10

Transform an item into a unique or set item of the same type. This rune cannot transform an item into a unique or set item, such as one that is only dropped by a boss. Somewhat similar to Orb of Chance in POE 2.

7. Rune Of Creation

• Random Drop - Extremely rare
• Requires Level: 50

Make another copy of an item, with Forging Potential of both the original and the copy reset to zero and cannot be modified further.

8. Rune Of Havoc

• Requires Level: 90
• Random Drop - Extremely rare

Rescales the level of unsealed affixes on Exalted items that have at least four affixes, and this does not increase or decrease the level of the affix.

9. Rune Of Redemption

• Random Drop - Common
• Requires Level: 10

Changes an Exalted affix on an item to a random affix. Rune of Redemption does not affect the level of the affix.

10. Rune Of Research

• Get Exiled Mages at
• Requires Level: 30

Seal an Experimental Affix on an item, and the original slot will be vacant so you can add new affixes, but the sealed affix cannot be modified further. When Experimental Affix is sealed, there is a chance to get a Glyph of Insight.

11. Rune Of Weaving

• Requires Level: 1

Use the remaining Weaver’s Will or Weaver’s Touch on the item to upgrade the item’s affixes.

How To Use Last Epoch Runes?

You can place Runes in the auxiliary item slot of the crafting panel to use them. You can’t use runes on items as you please. First, Last Epoch Runes have requirements for items, and they can’t be used on items that don’t meet the conditions.

The equipment itself comes with 18~55 Forging Potential. Every time you modify it, it will consume Forging Potential. Once the Forging Potential of an item reaches zero, it can no longer be forged by any other item.

Like the currency in Path of Exile, Last Epoch Runes have random effects on items. They may not necessarily improve your items, but may also destroy them. Therefore, you must be mentally prepared before using runes.

Last Epoch Runes are an important part of crafting items, but because their effects are random and very precious, it is recommended that you use them together with Glyphs to maximize their effectiveness.

Last Epoch season 2 improves and enhances the endgame content, giving players more ways to get items. Monoliths of Fate is the endgame system of Last Epoch, and Monolith Blessing is one mechanism from Monoliths of Fate, which can increase the drop rate of equipment or gold, and can also improve one of your attributes.

Here are the effects of each Monolith Blessings:

Fall Of The Outcasts Blessings

• Pride of the Rebellion: Increases Grand Idol drop rate
• Sight of the Outcasts: Increases Large Idol drop rate
• Curse of Flesh: Increases Huge Idol drop rate
• Favor of Souls: Increases Ornate Idol drop rate
• Mark of Agony: Increases Adorned Idol drop rate
• Memory of the Living: Increased Glyph drop rate
• Sign of Torment: Increased Rune drop rate
• Winds of Fortune: Increased Unique item drop rate
• Strength of Mind: Increased XP gain
• Scales of Greed: Increased Last Epoch Gold drop rate

The Stolen Lance Blessings

• Arrogance of Argentus: Increases helmet drop rate
• Embrace of Ice: Increased Body Armor drop rate
• Grip of the Lance: Increased Gloves drop rate
• Right of the Conquest: Increased Boots drop rate
• Reach of Flame: Increased Off-Hand Catalyst drop rate
• Binds of Sanctuary: Increased Shield drop rate
• Slumber of Morditas: Increased Relic drop rate
• Talong of Grandeur: Increased Ring drop rate
• Vision of the Aurora: Increased Amulet drop rate
• Might of the Siege: Increased Belt drop rate
• Apex of Fortune: Increased Quiver drop rate

The Black Sun Blessings

• Memory of Light: Increased Health
• Echo of Solarum: Increased Void Resistance
• Shadow of the Eclipse: Increased Dodge Rating
• Wrath of Rahyeh: Increased Throwing Damage leeched as Health
• Whisper of Orobyss: Increased Void Damage
• Flames of the Black Sun: Increased Chance to Ignite on Hit
• Hunger of the Void: Increased Spell Damage leeched as Health
• Strength of the Mountain: Increased Health gained on Block
• Winds of Oblivion: Increased Critical Strike Chance
• Depths of Infinity: Increased Chance to Shred Void Resistance on Hit
• Greed of Darkness: Increased Ward Gain on Kill and Increased Ward Decay Threshold
• Emptiness of Ash: Increased Critical Strike Multiplier
• Thirst of the Sun: Increased leech rate

Blood, Frost, And Death Blessings

• Cruelty of Formosus: Increased Wand drop rate
• Savior of the North: Increased Scepter drop rate
• Chill of Death: Increased 2H Staff drop rate
• Enmity of the Clans: Increased 1H Sword drop rate
• Ambition of the Empire: Increased 2H Sword drop rate
• Scars of Blood: Increased One-handed Axe drop rate
• Favor of the Wengari: Increased Two-handed Axe drop rate
• Resolve of Frost: Increased 1H Mace drop rate
• Shards of Unity: Increased 2H Mace drop rate
• Remorse of Heorot: Increased 2H Spear drop rate
• Vigilance of the Damned: Increased Bow drop rate
• Subtlety of Slaughter: Increased Dagger drop rate

Ending The Storm Blessings

• Bastion of Divinity: Increased Lightning Resistance
• Light of the Moon: Increased Mana
• Rhythm of the Tide: Increased health regeneration
• Chaos of Lagon: Increased Lightning damage
• Might of the Sea Titan: Increased Cold damage
• Resonance of the Sea: Increased Ward per Second
• Mysteries of the Deep: Increased Chance to Shred Lightning Resistance on Hit
• Cruelty of the Meruna: Increased Chance to Shock on Hit
• Weight of the Abyss: Increased Freeze Rate Multiplier
• Crash of the Waves: Increased Stun Chance
• Trance of The Sirens: Increased Shock Duration
• Intellect of Liath: Increased Chance to Gain Ward on Hit
• Grace of Water: Gain Ward on Potion Use and Increased Ward Decay Threshold

Fall Of The Empire Blessings

• Hope of the Beginning: Increased Prefix Shard drop rate
• Safety of the Labyrinth: Increased Amulet Shard drop rate
• Remnants of the Living: Increased Ring Shard drop rate
• Visions of Death: Increased 2H Spear Shard drop rate
• Inevitability of the Void: Increased 2H Staff Shard drop rate
• Rot of the World: Increased Wand Shard drop rate
• Boon of the Scarab: Increased Bow Shard drop rate
• Shadows of Infinity: Increased Relic Shard drop rate
• Despair of the Empire: Increased Ailment Shard drop rate

Reign Of Dragons Blessings

• Resolve of Humanity: Increased All Resistances:
• Survival of Might: Increased Critical Strike Avoidance
• Dream of Eterra: Increased Necrotic Resistance
• Binds of Nature: Increased Poison Damage
• Despair of Flesh: Increased Necrotic Damage
• Cruelty of Strength: Increased Physical Damage
• Hemmorage of Marrow: Increased probability to Bleed on Hit
• Taste of Venom: Increased probability to Poison on Hit
• Hunger of Dragons: Increased Melee damage leeched as Health
• Virtue of Command: Increased All Resistances for minions
• Persistence of Will: Increased Poison Resistance
• Guile of Wyverns: Increased probability of Shred Poison Resistance on Hit
• Allure of Apathy: Increased probability of Slow on Hit

The Age Of Winter Blessings

• Resolve of Grael: Increased Physical Resistance
• Protection of Heorot: Increased Cold Resistance
• Vigor of Jormun: Increased Endurance Threshold
• Maw of Artor: Increased probability to Apply Frostbite on Hit
• Winds of Frost: Increased Freeze rate per stack of Chill
• Rage of Winter: Increased probability to Shred Cold Resistance on Hit
• Fury of the North: Increased probability to Shred Physical Resistance on Hit
• Heart of Ice: Increased Chance to Chill on Hit
• Bones of Eternity: Increased Block probability and Block Effectiveness
• Bulwark of the Tundra: Increased Armor
• Defiance of Yulia: Increased Spell Cold Damage while Channeling

Spirits Of Fire Blessings

• Heart of the Caldera: Increased Fire Resistance
• Body of Obsidian: Increased Armor
• Curse of Sulphur: Increased probability of Apply Frailty on Hit
• Embers of Immortality: Increased Endurance
• Swiftness of Logi: Increased Dodge Rating
• Breath of Cinders: Increased probability to Shred Fire Resist on Hit
• Promise of Death: Increased probability to Shred Necrotic Resist on Hit
• Spirit of Command: Increased minion damage
• Might of Bhuldar: Increased stun duration
• Flames of Calamity: Increased Fire damage
• Patience of Herkir: Increased Armor while channeling

The Last Ruin Blessings

• Temple of the Mind: Increased Helmet Shard drop rate
• Bastion of the Heart: Increased Body Shard drop rate
• Binding of Ruin: Increased Belt Shard drop rate
• Refuge of Despair: Increased Shield Shard drop rate
• Comfort of the End: Increased Suffix Shard drop rate
• Memory of Masters: Increased Class Specific Shard drop rate
• Grasp of Hope: Increased Gloves Shard drop rate
• Remnants of the Elders: Increased Off-Hand Catalyst Shard drop rate
• Knowledge of Skill: Increased Skill Shard drop rate

You can treat these blessings as a passive, and you can use gold to reset the blessing, but you can only choose the blessings you have obtained, and you cannot choose the blessings you have not yet obtained.

Last Epoch Season 2 update was a tremendous success. After the official launch of patch 1.2, the game has been flooded with players, and the number of online players even exceeded that of Path of Exile 2. This is inseparable from the excellent quality of this update.

Last Epoch Season 2 adds many new features, brings new challenges to players, and brings players an experience that is almost a new game. Let’s take a look at what features are added in Season 2.

Cemeteries & Tombs Of The Erased

The biggest change in Last Epoch Season 2 is the endgame. Monolith of Fate, as the endgame system of Last Epoch, adds two new areas, Tombs of the Erased and Cemeteries of the Erased.

Tombs Of The Erased

When you enter the tombs, you will find that the area is filled with cocoons made of silk threads. When you break these cocoons, the souls trapped by Weaver will possess the surrounding monsters and spawn Woven enemies.

Woven enemies will have their health and mana increased, and they will also gain new skills. After killing them, you can get a new currency called “Memory Amber”. This currency is different from Last Epoch Gold. It can only be used in The Woven Faction.

Deepest in the tombs are Goldthread Fateweavers. After killing them, you can open the treasure chest deep inside to get the dungeon rewards. You can also find a Woven Enchanter device here, which can inject new power into your idol supervisor.

Cemeteries Of The Erased

Cemeteries of the Erased are similar to Tombs of the Erased, but more dangerous. The final boss here is Woven Firstborn guarding Weaver’s Altar.

After you defeat the final boss here, you can place and use Woven Echoes on Weaver’s Altar.

The Woven Faction

After you beat the first Tomb, you will be taken to Haven of Silk by an NPC. You can join The Woven Faction here. You can increase your reputation with Woven by killing Woven enemies and using Memory Amber.

As your reputation level increases, NPCs in Woven will unlock new Woven Echoes. You need to exchange Memory Amber for Woven Echoes, not gold.

The Weaver Tree

As you increase your Woven ranks, you will also gain points for unlocking Weaver Trees.

The Weaver Tree affects Monolith of Fate, and each node has a different purpose. Some allow you to encounter different enemies, some greatly increase the drop of Last Epoch Gold, etc. The Weaver Tree has about 70 nodes, and you can get up to 50 Weaver points.

Woven Echoes

There are currently 36 Woven Echoes, and they have a wide range of functions. They can affect Tombs to generate new rewards, generate interesting encounters, or bring new mechanics. They affect other Woven Echoes and even generate new final bosses. Completing Woven Echoes can bring different Weaver Points.

Here are the thirty-six types of Woven Echoes:

• False Temple: 1 Weaver Point
• Unclaimed Trove: 1 Weaver Point
• Conquered Tower: 1 Weaver Point
• Tomb of Vessels: 2 Weaver Points
• Gauntlet of Strife: 1 Weaver Point
• Champions’ Colosseum: 1 Weaver Point
• Pillar of Skulls: 1 Weaver Point
• The Seeker’s Summit: 1 Weaver Point
• Soul Foundry: 1 Weaver Point
• Antipode Rift: 1 Weaver Point
• Heart of the Hive: 1 Weaver Point
• Lostwood Folly: 1 Weaver Point
• The Great Bridge: 1 Weaver Point
• Overgrown Graveyard: 1 Weaver Point
• Confluence of Oblivion: 1 Weaver Point
• Threshold of Eternity: 0 Weaver Point
• The Forgotten Keep: 1 Weaver Point
• The Grand Brewery: 1 Weaver Point
• Farsight Turtle: 1 Weaver Point
• Woven Vessel of Chaos: 1 Weaver Point
• Woven Vessel of Memory: 1 Weaver Point
• Rune Prison Complex: 1 Weaver Point
• Oerden’s Watch: 1 Weaver Point
• Cemetery of Reweaving: 1 Weaver Point
• Sepulchre of the Lost: 1 Weaver Point
• Cenotaph of Worlds: 1 Weaver Point
• Collapsing Horizon: 1 Weaver Point
• The Fading Brink: 2 Weaver Point
• Woven Beacon: 1 Weaver Point
• Vault of the Barnacle King: 1 Weaver Point
• Defiled Fortress: 1 Weaver Point
• Bountiful Wilds: 1 Weaver Point
• Frostfire Caverns: 1 Weaver Point
• Besieged Gardens: 1 Weaver Point
• Dead Forest: 1 Weaver Point
• Cave of Shadows: 1 Weaver Point
• Endgame Itemization And Crafting

Idol Enchanting

You can use the Enchanted Idol at the altars at the end of Tombs to create idols with Enchanted affixes and Weaver’s Touch.

Altars in Tombs can enchant once, altars in Cemeteries can enchant twice, and some Woven Echoes can enchant 4 times!

You can re-enchant your idols at any altar by consuming Memory Amber.

Item Crafting

Set Reforging

Set items can now be broken, creating shards unique to that set item. These shards can be crafted onto other items, making them Reforged Set Items. All set affixes are named after the set item they are in, and end with the word “reforged”. And when you break a set item, each item will drop 1-4 shards. These shards can only be obtained by breaking set items, and will not drop during normal gameplay.

Experimental Item Crafting

You can now only use Thaumaturgy Device to complete Experimental Item Crafting. It allows you to replace the prefix on boots, gloves or belts with experimental affixes. The premise is that the item must have 2 prefixes and cannot have experimental affixes.

The above is a partial introduction to the new features of Last Epoch Season 2. There are many changes in Season 2, and you need to experience them yourself to know which changes are really useful.

Last Epoch Season 2 was released on April 17th. This update is the largest update to the game so far, so you can imagine how much new content is included.

The biggest change is new Woven Faction. A Cemetery of the Erased found by players in Echo Web will be the beginning of this new experience. After defeating the final Mini-Boss, players will step into Silken Harbor to talk to Maskweaver and start a new faction growth system. By completing Woven Echoes, players can use points to increase Weaver Tree to create a personalized endgame experience.

In addition, while exploring Echo Web, players may also find Champions lurking nearby, which emit scarlet light and are much stronger than ordinary rares. It is not easy to defeat them, so I recommend players to team up to challenge these moving treasures.

In Tombs of the Erased, crafting has also become more important. Players can now freely match set bonuses on your items by disassembling set items to obtain Crafting Shards.

More importantly, the ultimate boss has also become more powerful, so players need to create a stronger build to cope with the difficulty increase brought by this update.

Leveling Builds

The following are the best leveling builds to improve the strength of the five classes for your reference:

1. Primalist

The best build for Primalist is to use Druid, with its amazing survivability in Wearbear form, you can achieve both offense and defense. Just keep high rage and you can stay alive. It is also due to its excellent survival and healing that this build is also called one of the strongest tanks in the game by players.

2. Mage

Mage’s Spellblade mastery requires mastering the switching rhythm of Shattering Strike and Mana Strike to deal excellent damage. You can also use the large amount of Ward obtained from passive bonuses to achieve a special mechanism of attack instead of defense. With dual-wielding swords, you will be shocked by the strength of Mage.

3. Sentinel

Sentinel after rework is even more powerful. The best way to upgrade it is to play Paladin. Through Resistances and Holy Aura, you can get double bonuses to attack and defense. It is the most stable choice in the current version.

4. Acolyte

As an Acolyte, become a Warlock and release a lot of Chaos Bolts, and then cooperate with Chthonic Fissure, which can provide strong sustained damage, to achieve a clear field. At the same time, you can also summon Infernal Shade to cause fatal damage to the boss.

5. Rogue

The damage that Rogue can cause is well known, but this high-attack class will inevitably face low health. However, as long as you are willing to use Last Epoch Gold to prepare some defensive gear and good Daggers for her, creating a Falconer build that is easy to scale with great sustain will never let you down.

Endgame Builds

When you finish the campaign, you will enter Last Epoch’s endgame, which also requires you to have strong enough builds to deal with it. The following are for reference:

1. Heartseeker Marksman

Heartseeker Marksman now has a new skill that allows players to track enemy targets and launch spectacular and large-scale Fire and Cold Projectiles. The core of this build is to use Heartseeker to cause a lot of damage, and then use Dragonsong to trigger a lot of Dragonfire, bringing amazing DPS. Allow players to cause damage while moving and clear quickly.

2. Judgement Paladin

Judgement Paladins Consecrated Ground can cause continuous Fire Spell Damage. In addition, multiple stacked Consecrated Ground can also bring a lot of healing to players. Choose a Healing Hands, which not only provides you with Ward and Healing but also becomes your Movement Skill. The advantage of this build is obvious, that is, its super sustain, which is very suitable for serving as the main tank in the team.

3. Warpath Void Knight

Warpath Void Knight can use Warpath to wipe out all enemies on the field in a very short time. Its shocking AoE and clear speed can make you fall in love with this style of play in a very short time. But this build is relatively gear-dependent, and it may be able to exert its greatest strength when paired with Devouring Orb, Anomaly, Symbols of Hope, and Abyssal Echoes.

In short, Last Epoch Tombs of the Erased is changing its endgame experience. For Last Epoch players, now is the best time to step into Eterra continent. Are you ready for this new challenge?