Greetings, Travelers, and welcome to day one of Hype Week for Season 4: Shattered Omens!
Over the next week, we are excited to go over the new Season 4 content, including Omen Windows, two new Rogue skills, the Rune of Corruption, Idol Altars, Quality of Life improvements, new Unique and Set Items, and more. At the conclusion of Hype Week, we will drop the full patch notes and the patch overview trailer presented by Judd on Friday, March 20! With that out of the way, let’s explore the new seasonal mechanic, Omen Windows.
Omen Windows
An Omen Window is a new random encounter that will unleash a horde of enemies with the ultimate goal of defeating the Omen behind it all.
Omen Windows appear throughout the Campaign and Monolith of Fate. Upon entering the circle, the Omen Window shatters, spawning an all-new enemy: the Omen.
During the first phase, the Omen is invulnerable to all damage. Fractured enemies emerge from the shattered glass and join the battle. The Omen tethers itself to certain enemies, granting them buffs, and calls upon one of the four eras for aid to summon additional enemies from that era to the battlefield.
As you defeat Fractured enemies during this phase, a progress bar fills, and the encounter ring expands. If you leave the ring for more than 10 seconds, the Omen escapes, and the encounter ends. When playing in a party, only one player needs to remain within the ring to avoid the countdown.
Once the progress bar is full, the Omen absorbs all remaining Fractured enemies, empowering itself and initiating the second phase. When this happens, the Omen becomes vulnerable to damage and begins using new attacks. Upon defeating the Omen, you will receive rewards, including corrupted items, the new Rune of Corruption and Timeglass Fragments. At times, you may also encounter stronger Omen Windows that are more challenging and offer greater rewards.
Each Omen Window has a difficulty tier that indicates the risk and reward of the encounter. The higher the tier, the more Fractured enemies you’ll face, the tougher they will be, and the more loot you’ll obtain upon conquering the Omen.
Additionally, there are four variants of Omens you may encounter, so be prepared for different attacks, patterns, appearances, and even voice lines!
Greater Omen Windows
At the end of an Omen Window Echo Chain (We will share more about Echo Chains below), you will find a Greater Omen Window which is the final Echo objective. These are more challenging encounters that operate slightly differently from a standard one. The Greater Omen Window encounters don’t end in failure if you leave the ring; the entire Echo is your stadium for this showdown. Additionally, you will take on two Omens that buff enemies in this version.
After conquering the Greater Omen Window, in addition to the normal loot that drops from defeating an Omen, you have the opportunity to increase the tier of the Omen Window in new Echo Chains, select other Echo Chains to spawn, or earn more Timeglass Fragments by interacting with the Timeglass Core. This provides you with ways to spawn specific Echo Chains or grant Timeglass Fragments.
Vision of the Observer
For those who crave a challenge, you can purchase an Omen Veil’s Woven Echo from Apophis with Timeglass Fragments. This Echo includes three Omen Windows in close proximity to each other. If at some point, you have all three windows active at the same time and manage to defeat them all, you will be rewarded with a Fractured Prison Woven Echo (and loot from each Omen). The Fractured Prison can be placed in your web after you’ve reached 400 corruption.
Once you enter the Fractured Prison it unleashes the Vision of the Observer, a new pinnacle encounter. What rewards will you earn by defeating him?
Timeglass Fragments
When you complete an Omen Window it will reward you with Timeglass Fragments. These fragments can only be obtained by defeating an Omen Window.
They can be exchanged in the Monolith of Fate with Apophis the Oracle for Runes of Corruption, Crates of Corrupted Items, Bags of Temporal Keystones, Bags of Ancient Bones, and more. You can also exchange them to generate specific types of Echo Chains when interacting with the Timeglass Core after defeating a Greater Omen Window.
Echo Chains
Echo Chains are a series of Echoes that share a consistent enemy or encounter type. You can identify the type of chain by the small icon displayed above each Echo. All Echoes within an Echo Chain are visible in the Monolith Web and highlighted with a glowing effect.
Types of Echo Chains
Season 4 will launch with five Echo Chains that spawn naturally in the Monolith of Fate:
Nemesis Chains
High Stability Chains
Rift Beast Chains
Omen Window Chains
Pinnacle of Chaos Chains, which includes a Greater Omen Window filled with Champions.
The Omen Window Echo Chain guarantees an Omen Window in each Echo, leading up to a guaranteed Greater Omen Window encounter in the final Echo. The final Echo will also contain a Roaming Omen for each previous Echo in the chain that was completed on the first attempt.
A Nemesis Chain ensures that defeating a Nemesis is the objective in each Echo, culminating in a Conquered Tower in the final Echo.
High Stability Chains reward more bonus stability than standard Echoes.
Rift Beast Chains guarantees that each Echo’s objective will be to slay a Rift Beast, leading up to a new Woven Echo featuring multiple Rift Beasts that will try to ambush you.
The Pinnacle of Chaos Chains are like the Omen Window Chains, but each Echo contains a roaming Omen and they end in a Greater Omen Window filled with Champions instead of regular enemies.
There is also a new weaver tree node, Memories of the Observer, that causes most of the regular Echoes you uncover to be arranged in Echo Chains. This does not affect the spawn rate of the Echo chains that already spawn naturally. It does provide the convenience of Echo Chains, such as the continuation portal and reward distribution. Echoes at the end of a chain have more powerful gear based Echo rewards, while mid chain Echoes have vacuumable rewards that you don't have to spend time evaluating.
Twitch Drops and Supporter Packs
Before we wrap up the first day of Hype Week, we’d be remiss if we didn’t reveal Supporter Packs and Twitch Drops! The Twitch Drops for Season 4’s launch will include some fun cosmetics. If you have not seen the announcement, be sure to check it out. Along with another Support-A-Creator cosmetic, you can start earning these Twitch drops starting March 26th 00:00 UTC.
The Season 4 Fractured Supporter packs are now live. These will feature Wraithblade Death armor along with a paw-erful but small minion, Champ and more. With fresh packs arriving, the Woven Supporter packs will be leaving the store on April 13th, so be sure to pick them up while you still can.
Pre-Order Notice: The cosmetic items in this supporter pack will unlock and become available in-game on March 26th with the launch of Season 4 - Shattered Omens. Purchases made during the pre-order period (March 16th through March 26th @ 11am) will only see the Forum Titles and EP added to their account until the launch of Shattered Omens.
Fractured Traveler
Fractured Templar
Fractured Vanquisher
Fractured Legend
We look forward to sharing more content and features coming in Season 4 over the next few days. For now, that’s going to wrap up today’s post, but be sure to return tomorrow as we take a deeper look into the Rune of Corruption and what it may offer your builds. Remember, Travelers: you have been seen, and the Omen awaits!