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[regal ruin]

were talking abt the HP supposedly wrappign around to 65k

[oblique plank]

FOR SCIENCE

[crude plover]

That's just visual, in reality it doesn't wrap around until wayyyy higher numbers, or maybe it doesn't wrap around at all and has a limit instead

PS, I'd assume it's a float, they love their floats

[regal ruin]

lesigh

[placid plinth]

UI elements that are one ofs are usually just floats. This is something that gets transmitted over the network so it's probably something more efficient with a lower maximum value. I'll check in a bit.

[cursive sparrow]

wanted to ask about immolators belt does it cap at 40 flat damage? or 40 stacks which is 240 flat dmg?

[steady nebula]

do we get the locked masteries on the released?

[cursive sparrow]

yes

[steady nebula]

nice!

[serene mango]

just leaving this here without any further comment 😶

[strange tusk]

True that.

[placid plinth]

I'm not shy about my quality hugging skills.

[strange tusk]

Just being on the receiving end will suffice, if I understood the context correctly. 🙂

Unless your SO objects against it, that is. 😅

[placid plinth]

@regal ruin @oblique plank it is calculated as a float and then transmitted more efficiently without accuracy loss.

[strange tusk]

#👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message - Mind taking a glance if possible, please?

[placid plinth]

working my way through the list

[strange tusk]

From what I can tell, the locale is a draft at this point... Want to chime in a little bit, if it helps in any way. Helping Dammitt localize LETools, don't want to mess things up.

[placid plinth]

well, google tells me that хрономираж is chronomirage and I guess that kinda makes sense in a way but timeline is more timeline than chronomirage. I don't know how to explain that any different. Maybe alternate timeline?

Void as a damage type is somehow kinda both and neither of those things. It doesn't sound like there is a good direct translation to either of those words.

[strange tusk]

Maybe разложение hits closer to home?

[placid plinth]

for void? no. I got decomposition for that. That's not right.

"nothing" is closer

[strange tusk]

"Небытие"?

[placid plinth]

I think пустота is the closest you've suggested but it's not really right either

лишенный?

[strange tusk]

Guess a lot of brainstorming is in order...

[placid plinth]

oh, no that doesn't work when you translate it back

someone who knows both languages well would be better, I can't help

[strange tusk]

I saw Nihility translated by Hoyoverse as небытие, and in some sense it might fit, but again not really?.. Ugh.

[placid plinth]

40 stacks

thank you 😄 I'm super nervouxcited

No. And more specifically, we have plans not to add this.

[strange tusk]

As for timeline, it directly translates into временная линия, but would it sound right this way?..

[placid plinth]

well, going off what google says that it translates to timeline, yea?

[strange tusk]

Another thing: for LETools, I'm referring to "passive tree" and "skill tree" as "древо талантов" and "древо умения" respectively since it's VERY hard to keep the line's length in check when it comes to ruRU in general. AND it's very easy to confuse one with another while trying to keep these translations short enough.

Would it work?

[placid plinth]

line in the tv show Loki, how do they translate the word timeline? use that.

because they use the word timeline 20 times an episode

[cerulean nymph]

the wording makes it seem you are locking that part of code in a hidden area so a rogue dev doesnt change it

[placid plinth]

I mean, a new key could get cut one day.

talent can be used instead of passive just fine shadow

[strange tusk]

So I'm allowed to keep it then? 🙂

[steady nebula]

do we have a specific percentage on resonance drop rate?

[strange tusk]

Related to localizing: how would one describe Invocation relative to Runemaster? Like, what does the process look like exactly from the first-person view? Trying to pick the best-fitting synonym.

"Призыв" or "вызов" just doesn't cut it.

[steady nebula]

also as another follow up question to the resonance, what happens if we like... partied up to max people. will a resonance drop for random people or will it be a "any of the other people in the party" kind of resonance?

[placid plinth]

I don't know the answer to any of these translation questions for sure at all.

[cerulean nymph]

there is no official russian translation?

[placid plinth]

yes there is

[strange tusk]

Looks like it, yeah.

It feels like it's AI-assisted in some places...

[placid plinth]

it's not

[strange tusk]

No offense at all, I mean it, but as a native speaker, I do see quite a few inconsistencies.

[cerulean nymph]

spanish looks google translated so...

[strange tusk]

I'd like to lend a hand if possible.

[cerulean nymph]

and i can point to one particular translation that is very iffy mike

[strange tusk]

(much like what I'm doing for LETools right now)

[placid plinth]

We spent a lot of time working with real people to get translations done for all of them. We are aware that none of them are good enough for what people wanted and we are improving them.

[cerulean nymph]

#💬┃general message #💬┃general message

[strange tusk]

Why not take a Crate to Grim Dawn approach with community templates to work on?

We would love to chime in.

[placid plinth]

I'm trying to get an answer to you here, just a sec.

[placid plinth]

because we had to translate unreleased content and we were assured that this would result in higher quality.

[strange tusk]

🤔

[placid plinth]

I feel like we've already released a big statement about this somewhere.

[cerulean nymph]

the translation of "resistance" is inconsistent in both lines, and the translation ingame of the full sentence is the same as the translation using google translate

[placid plinth]

No. The best I can say is that if you're naturally playing together more than you are playing apart, you'll likely feel like you've got enough. If you're playing with someone specifically to get a resonance, it will feel like it's dragging quite hard.

Each resonance is linked to 1 person. Each drop is calculated independently.

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what the question is.

[steady nebula]

so if 3 of us (me and 2 friends) play together, there's a chance I'll get more resonance to friend A than to Friend B?

[placid plinth]

Yes, they are non-deterministic.

[steady nebula]

so... it's best to just play duo then. Good to know.

[placid plinth]

No. Each is independently calculated and makes no difference how many people are in the party.

[steady nebula]

oh... so there's a chance I can get resonance for each friend? That makes sense.

[placid plinth]

They could happen to drop at the same time out of sheer random luck. Getting one for one, doesn't affect the chance or timing to get one for the other. And don't forget, all the stuff that drops while you're playing together is freely giftable between the 3 of you.

[steady nebula]

since the resonance is "time-based" I thought that it only procs to 1 person. good to know it wasn't like this.

hmmm... this does make filtering a little bit more convoluted but this is still within expectations... Thanks for answering!

[placid plinth]

Yea, if you're playing with friends frequently, you'll probably want to include some key items for them in your filtering.

[abstract meteor]

I would have assumed that resonance would not be frequent enough that you'll be unfiltering blues and yellows for other classes. That one might keep resonance for exalted and unique items only? People rarely have these items filtered out.

[placid plinth]

There are definately good blue and yellow items that you should be looking for in your filters.

You'll probably be keeping resonances for the creme de la creme in most situations but if you're playing with someone, there are blue and yellow items you will probably want to gift between each other.

[south cedar]

Hybrid Health and Skill shards are worth trading sometimes as those can be really well sought after

[keen pine]

Hi, how strong would be trade guilde compare to non-trade, as a new player i wanna go for trade league but seen aloot of comments that non-trade much stronger

[placid plinth]

a bleu item with just a skill affix on it is guaranteed at least 1 shard of that affix

[serene mango]

on the matter of rare affixes/skill shards
have you considered the option that people make shards "tradable" by simply selling magic/rare items, which can be shattered by the buying party, i would assume the costs of magic items in terms of favour would probably be pretty low

[placid plinth]

Nobody in the community really has any solid idea of how powerful they will be relative to each other. There is a LOT of speculation floating around. Heck, we aren't even 100% sure which will wind up being stronger at this point. I personally do not agree with the community sentiment in this case.

[placid plinth]

yea, it's great

[abstract meteor]

Would be really nice if there was an expandable/collapsable grouping option for filters, like how health, defense, affix is, so that you can group all filters of a specific tpye together (the ones you use for your friend) and be able to turn them all on or off ine one go.

[placid plinth]

sounds like a good thing to put in #1123698164503949392 😉

[abstract meteor]

Indeed it does!

[keen pine]

Can you sell fully crafted items?

[placid plinth]

As long as it meets the requirements to sell like not being tagged and not being dropped by a CoF player.

[unkempt goblet]

somewhat dumb question when the game gets fully released , are all characters reset/ do you need start over new ?

[keen pine]

what is conditions of being tagged

[placid plinth]

when an item is sold it gets MG tagged

[placid plinth]

have you played D2 or PoE?

[unkempt goblet]

i play poe

[placid plinth]

it's that

[keen pine]

So when you buy item from MG you cant resell it?

[placid plinth]

That's correct.

[pure python]

What build are you playing at 1.0 Mike?

[tulip wyvern]

Will movement be fixed this launch?

[placid plinth]

I'll start with falconer but I'm an altaholic

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry, I don't have any information on the status of potential upcoming bug fixes. I'm also not sure what specifically you are referring to here. We are working to fix all the bugs we can find. If you would like to report a bug you have found, please use the #1123698102470189118 channel or the in game tool.

[tulip wyvern]

Here

[placid plinth]

If you would like to report a bug you have found, please use the ⁠bug-reports channel or the in game tool.

[tulip wyvern]

okay, but still get a look

should i even post this on bug-reports?

[pine shadow]

I played a couple months ago with my friend and when playing together we noticed extremely long loading times between maps (we have low ping to eachother and good connection in other games), has anything major been done to address this already or for the 1.0 update? We noticed quite allot of others reported the same thing when playing with a friend or group. We were told something about a networking update coming soon for it and was curious if it had been deployed already

[placid plinth]

So you didn't hear this from me but I know this is known so you don't have to but in the future please don't post bugs here asking if you should post them there. Just go straight there. Repeat bug reports are good because it lets us know how widespread and impactful they are.

[tulip wyvern]

sure

[placid plinth]

This is something we are working very hard to improve upon. Some advancements have been made but the underlying cause is still present. This happens because when in a party, the new scene that you are entering requires a fresh server to be spun up. The long wait is waiting for that server to get going.

[sullen tapir]

Hey Mike, great interview yesterday. One Question I had from what was said yesterday in that interview:
Will there be Cycle Exclusive Rewards with 1.0 like cosmetics, Titles etc?

[placid plinth]

I don't think anything has made it in yet. I could see us maybe trying to get some sort of ladder reward worked out before the end of the cycle but nothing is set up for that yet.

Also, hey bud 🙂

I found a place that fills that jug and the guy behind the counter was very excited to see it.

[sullen tapir]

Ok, will there be something like a Cycle Milestone/Achievment System simialr to PoE's challenges. I think these serve as a) motivation and b) good milestones for unlocking such cosmetic rewards

[placid plinth]

That style is the plan but probably won't get into rotation until 1.1 at the earliest.

[sullen tapir]

Nice! Happy to hear that. At least it will be put to use and not Dust off in your Cabinet 😄

[fossil dune]

I'd like to add on that I prefer this over ladder rewards as ladder rewards push competition and... well "competing" in ARPGs usually means pigeonholed to hard meta options and is very unfun.

To clarify I'm not opposed entirely to ladder rewards being a thing, I'd just prefer if there's some type of reward system that isn't linked strictly to effectively fighting against other players

[placid plinth]

Yea, we don't have anything locked in place yet. I'd really like to see something where you earn points towards rewards you can pick like at an arcade when I was a kid. I think one of those things could be doing well on the ladder.

[strange tusk]

Well, if they brainstormed the entire item factions thing, then something similar in regards to PvP isn't entirely out of their scope either.

[sullen tapir]

That would be even better. Having different rewards avaialble and them costing different amount of poitns that you unlock through fulfilling achievments sounds great. This way people can also onyl focus one the rewards they want and are not forced to get 10 rewards they don#t care about to then get 1 reward they want.

Please try make that reality

[sullen tapir]

Mike has a (magic) answer for every question

[placid plinth]

I'm like an

ok I'll stop

[fossil dune]

No keep going

[calm pawn]

Are you planning to fix delay when you change areas?

[pine shadow]

Alright thank you very much for the answer/explanation, hopefully its a little better now or more improvements soon. The game itself and its features look really awesome

[placid plinth]

We are working to improve transition time, UI and UX. It's not a simple switch to flick and it has been improved but it's not instant.

[keen pine]

Any chance that if MG would heavily loose to CoF you add option to resell MG taged items?

[cerulean meadow]

I (level 84 completed the campaign) hopped in my brothers game (29 middle of the campaign) to help him further the campaign, however I could not see any notification of what his current quests were and what his objectives were. Are there any plans to give some sort of quest sync so if party members are in various stages of the campaign it can let us know the quest status of the host?

[placid plinth]

Nothing is set in stone. However, this would require a pretty dramatic community response to be even remotely considered. There are many axis we would approach enticing players to play MG from before we did that.

[placid plinth]

We don't have anything like that in the works. It's a neat idea that I could see being a future target. If you'd like to see it, please post it in #1123698164503949392

[nimble tide]

@placid plinth I just want to say thank you for taking the time to answer all these questions and being such an awesome dev and taking the time out of your day to do all this. I just joined a week ago but you sir are amazing. Can’t wait to catch your next stream tomorrow

[placid plinth]

You're welcome 🙂 talking to all the passionate players is one of my favorite parts of this whole thing.

[nimble tide]

We need a statue of you in game 🤣🤣

[placid plinth]

my face is on the backpack, plenty for me

[nimble tide]

lol wait seriously

[serene mango]

havent noticed at all, what a nice easter egg

[nimble tide]

Oh that’s awesome!!!

[placid plinth]

Yea, I'm wearing a little girl's halloween bee costume. It's a screenshot from stream.

[pine chasm]

Mike is also basically the primalist

[placid plinth]

well, the old one that was replaced

[pine chasm]

It's still real to me 😅

[fluid spoke]

https://tenor.com/view/its-still-real-to-me-gif-12446406

[frail sentinel]

Just to let you know - the best way to report inconsistencies, or other translations issues you find, is through the in game bug reporter! If you want to attach screenshots, you can upload them to a hosting service like imgur and post the links in that in game bug report!

[nimble tide]

I was wondering if you could still get it. Guess that answers my question lol

[static vale]

And a facetank-a-holic...

[static vale]

Out of curiosity, when are we going to have the non-in-universe consistent stuff removed from the backpack? 'Cause you guys were very insistent about not having IRL stuff as MTX (then the backpack came along)...

[placid plinth]

I think that's going to be the big glaring exception for a while.

[tribal gate]

Interesting

[indigo nacelle]

As an SSF player is there any reason to actually play online? Is there any functionality that exists online that's not available offline as SSF?

[serene mango]

leaderboards if you care about that

[indigo nacelle]

Nah, not that competitive, but if that's the only thing then offline it is. 🙂

[serene mango]

enjoy 0 ms

[cursive sparrow]

well they also said that offline mode will be treated same way as Legacy cycle, and they also said that on a new cycle legacy will miss some uniques, so its possible that offline will miss some newly added uniques on start of the cycle, but devs need to confirm that

[serene mango]

in the future* at some point*

[indigo nacelle]

Interesting... I know they were talking about bringing cycles to legacy/offline as well. Obviously it's subject to change but as far as 1.0 is concerned there should be no difference, correct?

[somber marten]

Correct.

[cursive sparrow]

ya

[pine chasm]

Adding a few minor things I didn't see mentioned, you might not care about these either, but they are big for some people. Online mode has cosmetic microtransactions and you can walk through monsters.

[upbeat ember]

Hello LE Devs!

I am a community leader for an event called BPL in the Poe community. It is a 2000 person team scavenger competition, where we break into teams of 300 to 500 and attempt to collect all of the items in the game (so to speak). I love Last Epoch (I am also a Community Tester), and would love to be able to run an event like this in Last Epoch. I would love to talk further about how this could be possible (we currently use the poe api to track scores), but the trading system seems to limit the ability for this kind of event.

Question: Is there any plan to have something like private leagues available where we could have open trade to be able to facilitate this kind of event, as the limited trade would make this very difficult. If you wish to reach out to discuss more directly, feel free to reach out. Keep up the amazing work.

-Blight

[raven crow]

shadow created by any skills can also apply shadow dagger stacks ?

[fossil dune]

Yes

They simply "repeat" one of the relevant skills (Acid Flask, Shuriken, and Umbral Blades iirc), all modifiers or effects of it included.

[raven crow]

k ty

[placid plinth]

As a general concept, we quite like the idea of eventually having private cycles one day. We haven't discussed how this could be done yet at all and I'm not sure if there is some major unknown blocker lurking in the shadows.

If the goal is simply to compile all the items together as a group, is there a reason why those items need to be on the same account? Could you look at all the accounts in question and then combine their items in a database outside of the game to track it instead? That could be almost done with a vanilla private cycle.

I'm not sure what would go into making a private cycle with free trade and I'm not sure if that's something we would be open to or not. We would have to discuss that to see if it's a design and technical possibility.

Given what I know about our upcoming plans and how difficult I suspect making private cycles would be. The wait time on something like this would probably be at the very least a year out at bare minimum if we green lit it today.

[upbeat ember]

I appreciate your quick response!!! We can absolutely track manually and this might be the only avenue. Right now we are able to automatically tack items for POE and use our own website to show the points total, which we already have difficulties maintaining during the event. I think this will be something our team will have to test out to see what's possible. Thanks so much for your hard work and can't wait for launch. Good Luck Fam

[placid plinth]

thanks 🙂
there are some API features that are still in early access that will probably get wider use that might help. We might be able to expand that in the future to smooth things out.

I'm also curious which items you think would be tracked in this "group grail quest".

[upbeat ember]

Our event uses a number of features for the competition.

1. Unique collection - basically anything that is target farmable, so in poe that's mostly boss or league(cycle) uniques. Since this is a more core aspect of LE, any unique might be possible.
2. We do delve related things, which is similar to the arena, so like which team has the highest arena rank.
3. Dailies - these are like meme challenges, so it might be like collect 500 dungeon keys, or collect 10 uniques with legendary potential and life crafted on them.
4. Personal objectives - this is like, get to 80 (for poe we also use ascension or atlas completion)
5. Bounties - this is like super challenges for our most skilled players, so equivalent would be like clear a tier 3 dungeon solo at level 30, or some such. We also manually track these through vods.

we also collect things like gems, or currency, which is less possible I think in LE, although gold could be usable, since shards arn't tradable, I imagine they arn't trackable.

We also incorporate races as well, but we manually track that already by doing vod submission.

The big issue is that we have to limit the number of people whos stashes can be tracked at once, or the pull takes forever

[placid plinth]

that makes sense.

with us, I can tell you that the crafting materials (and blessings) are in the same "stash" as all your other items.

they are really just special tabs that show in other UI

[upbeat ember]

thats super good to know

[fossil dune]

You could make people suffer so hard by making "max roll of every resistance blessing" or something

[upbeat ember]

sounds like someone wants to join the LE crew for design 😉

we will for sure do testing on a number of things during cycle 1

thanks again for answering all of the questions Mike. I cant wait to see everything yall have in store 😄

[placid plinth]

best of luck on that, I'm excited to see it

[pure python]

How does this node work behind the scenes, is it just applying a temporary buff to the minion?

[indigo nacelle]

mtx i don't really care but walking through mobs seems kinda huge

[placid plinth]

yup

[placid plinth]

Just to be clear, they are talking about how it is right now, not what 1.0 will be like.

[indigo nacelle]

Are there any major differences for 1.0 between online and offline SSF?

[placid plinth]

Other than the obvious things like chat, ladder and cosmetics, not that I can think of. Specific bugs may exist in one or the other that I'm not aware of.

gameplay design wise, nothing.

[indigo nacelle]

Thanks Mike, and everyone else who answered. 2/21 can't come soon enough 🙂

[rough nexus]

Is there some implied message about enemy hitboxes here? Will we stop shoving bosses by simply walking into them in 1.0

[placid plinth]

Patch notes day is going to be a little overwhelming.

[serene mango]

can you share the results of your server stress tests? are you happy with the outcome

[vast furnace]

Just started playing and having lots of fun. Will the 1.0 patch bring new content/gear etc other than the two new masteries? And if so when will there be patch notes!

[pine chasm]

Yeah, there's a ton of things teased so far. The item factions, corruption changes, shaman's new skill & reworked tempest strike, healing hands skill tree, a batch of new uniques (as usual), and probably some other things I forgot about. The week leading in to the update is hype week, so we'll get some more info then. Patch notes usually 0-2 days before the patch, roughly.

[vast furnace]

Damn sounds interesting, no clue what corruption is though im only lvl 14 lol

[placid plinth]

It's how the primary end game system scales difficulty for when you want to really push things.

[dry fulcrum]

Is there already any information regarding the release patch? In terms of patch/redownload/preload

Will be traveling somewhere with terrible internet on release day 😄

[placid plinth]

It's going to be available on steam for download worldwide simultaneously on Feb 21. No pre-load. I don't have an exact time but I suspect that it will be roughly similar to our previous major patches which generally happen in the mid-morning to early afternoon Central NA time.

[dry fulcrum]

Ok, will just have to pray the patch isnt to big 😄
thanks for the answer and looking forward to blasting!

[placid plinth]

Sorry, it's gonna be beefy.

True offline mode precludes us from doing pre-loads at all.

[hybrid thistle]

Are animations getting updated in 1.0? I played for about an hour and the game just felt so stiff and snappy. Also having just a run animation but the speed feels like walking just felt off as well.

[placid plinth]

We add new and update old animations every major patch and this one is no different. It's not like we are going back and redoing every single one from scratch though (that would be insane).

The walking animation doesn't change enough based on your movespeed. I think it feels better once you get more speed. We are also making changes to lighting and the player shadows which have a surprisingly large impact on the movement animations in general.

[sharp bronze]

mike how would we go about reporting bots in this server DMing people?...its those "graphic design artist" bots

[pine dome]

Go DM CMs or Kain

[sharp bronze]

i msged kain last time but figured this time around imma ask mike for sure xD

(kain never replied)

[pine dome]

Hi Mike, Quick question because I tried in game but its pretty hard to see
If I summon a minion while I have stacks of Maelstrom, does it benefit from the +Flat Necrotic Dmg ?
Or does it need to be already summoned when I cast Maelstrom to benefit from it ?

[pine dome]

Try Olam or Ave, and I am sure Kain took care of the problem

[placid plinth]

The CM's or Kain are the right call. You should also report the message to discord safety team if you have the time.

[sharp bronze]

kk just wanted to double check haha...yah i always report them on discord...the amount is getting wild

[placid plinth]

When it says "your minions get..." That buffs your existing minions.

If it said "you get +minion melee necrotic damage" then it would apply to minions you summon after getting the buff.

[placid plinth]

This is part of why I have my DMs limited. I haven't got one since I did it.

[sharp bronze]

yah i have mine limited to just mutual servers...but still get a lot...(cant limit further without possibly having issues with other servers im in haha)

[placid plinth]

I think you can set specific servers to not let non friends message.

[cursive sparrow]

i have a small question abt corruption rework, not sure if it was mentioned in the post, but will the base rarity/xp that u have from corruption scale the same way as it is now? as i understand as it is now it gives 1% per 1% of hp/damage of enemies

[sharp bronze]

aaah might look around later haha 🙂

[placid plinth]

Yes

[cursive sparrow]

yaay, good night!

[placid plinth]

Oh, sorry, I didn't read that right. Sorry, no, the bonus per corruption isn't changing.

The big change with corruption is that it's harder per point.

[river jungle]

so holding alt before would show you item roll values, now you have to hold both alt and ctrl

can you switch this back?

i found it counter intuitive that the descriptions are the default one button hold whereas i have to hold two buttons to see the roll values which is actually what im wanting to see at a frequent basis

[placid plinth]

This hasn't changed, it's always been this way. You can change a setting in your options panel which will invert the ctrl key and you can see roll ranges by just holding alt.

[river jungle]

thanks for letting me know, im having trouble finding where this invert option is... is it supposed to be under the change input keys? if so i must be blind

[placid plinth]

gameplay tab

[placid plinth]

it's called "auto-compare items"

I know that's not what I said at all but that's what it does.

[river jungle]

ah, gotcha

appreciate it

[nocturne abyss]

527 hours playing and i just know about that auto-compare features

thanks for the info

[trail sphinx]

Mike I was wondering, can we copy the character in online mode into offline mode at some point?

I mean players could cheese the respec points to try their new build but still XD

[sullen tapir]

2 years ago I made a post about Echo Web creation and that it's very unfun past a certain point, because of too many linear path and no Forking branches. (here is the post I am referring to: https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/something-fishy-is-going-on-with-the-echo-web-creation/47762?u=heavy )

With the upcoming changes to corruption and enemy modifier I am really excited to do some high endgame pushing, but this topic might ruin the fun for me.

Are there any plans to look into this?

Some of the points Mike mentioned in that post were:
When the web is particularly large it creates fewer branches.
When creating a new branch close an existing branch it’ll have fewer side branches because the more echoes there are around a specific spot, the lower the chance it has of containing an echo.
These are in place to keep the web from becoming too unwieldy. You found some unintended consequences of the system

I have to disagree that it is unnecessary to keep the echo web unwieldy. Because you will develop it over time.

[somber marten]

I recall they said no.

[trail sphinx]

oh cool, thanks tho

[placid plinth]

I remember that post well. I don't remember what happened after all too clearly. I know we had a meeting discussing it. That day wouldn't have been the day of the meeting because that was a Wednesday. I'm pretty sure that the echo generation algorithm has changed a few times since then. Not a huge shift but some values to limit those long chains of nothing in particular.

Have you tried recreating this at all in 0.9.1 or 0.9.2?

[sullen tapir]

No I haven't. Didn't played any character this intensely the last couple of patches.

I will keep an eye on it and will ask again if I have tried recreating it.

With the upcoming cycle I will most certainly push a few characters into this high of an endgame to test this.

But hearing that the algorithm changes since then gives me hope. Even if it's not perfect, as long as it's slightly better I would be pretty happy already

[placid plinth]

Yea, I'm certain we've adjusted it since then. I couldn't tell you any specific changes off the top of my head at all though.

[novel furnace]

Question regarding vendor items. Will we be able to gift them using resonance? I’m new to LE (bought in Dec) My husband and I are playing together and are level 87 now. Love that we can gift items and have had quite a few drops that are really good for each other. Now most vendor items are pretty rubbish, but I had a perfect rare shield drop in the vendor for his Paladin build and couldn’t gift it, because it wasn’t a drop 😢 So wondering if this rare occurrence happens in 1.0 that there would be a way to give it to him?

[feral surge]

Yes, resonances allow you to gift any equipment item. Basically, using a resonance on an item is as if it dropped while you were playing together.

The only thing you need to watch out for is whether the person recieving the item can actually use it (for example, it is possible to give an mg character a cof item, they just couldnt use it), but if its bought from a vendor I imagine thats not a problem

That makes me wonder though: Are items bought from vendors while in cof still untradable Mike? Or are those the exception?

I know the untradable exists because otherwise it would lead to a bad optimization pattern of playing "both sides" for cof players. But in the case of vendors, nothing is stopping you from swapping to MG before buying that perfectly rolled rare from the vendor, so it'd kind of make sense for those to not be untradable?

[nocturne abyss]

Will be the first Uber Boss are only accessible for League Character?

[frail sentinel]

You can always @ Moderators and one of us will reach out to you. This is the best way to make sure situations like this are addressed!

[sharp bronze]

kk 😛

[somber marten]

What uber boss?

[sullen tapir]

I doubt it, Mike hinted at the first pinnicale bosses coming soon in one of the next major patches.

But cycle and legacy being differentiated sounded like a more long term thing a few cycles down the road.

[sullen tapir]

EHG has plans for pinnacle boss content. Didn't make it for 1.0 but will soon come after that ( so I guess 1.1 or 1.2 maybe)

[somber marten]

Oh I know that, I’m just making sure they arent dropping at 1.0 when it wasent said so

[nocturne abyss]

i see, ty for the information

[abstract meteor]

Context: A number of features/skills seem highly disconnected from each other. Or better to say inconsistent. Channelled skills typically don't benefit from Speed, unless it's warpath. Melee skills in Sentinel routinely trigger spells (warpath + smite, warpath + abyssal echo, Erasing strike + void beam), but there's little to no support for a build that uses melee and spell damage together, resulting in the appearance of options, but the execution of them results in a non-viable build.

Question: Will we see with 1.0 a more consistent quality and execution of skill trees and passives across all the classes, like we have on Runemaster, it being the newest of the masteries, or will it take a while more before these types of "traps" are culled? Or are you okay with there being these kinds of skill nodes that maybe are not considered optimal/viable/meta but do provide fun/unique/interesting interactions even if they are not going to be used by players trying to push higher difficulty content?

Additional Question: are there skills that you know the community have misunderstood or overlooked because they at first appear to be non-viable and are just waiting for someone to figure it out?

[steady nebula]

will there be "League Resets" in the future of this game?

[candid cosmos]

yes

[pine chasm]

The first "league" (aka Cycle) starts at 1.0. All current characters and items will be "standard" (aka Legacy) and you'll have the option to create either Legacy or Cycle characters.

[steady nebula]

understood, thanks for the answer

[steady nebula]

to follow up on this... will I have to buy the stashes again?

[feral surge]

Yes, if you want to play in the cycle you will have to.

[steady nebula]

for items that means everything including crafting shards/glyphs/runes right?

[feral surge]

Yes. Nothing carries over except your cosmetics from microtransactions. It's like your very first epoch character.

[steady nebula]

okay, last question, do we have any idea how long a cycle lasts?

[flint bloom]

nothing has been said conrete, outside of similar to other arpg's. so likely 3-4 months

[tropic prairie]

So the characters we're playing now are Standard, and if you want to start somewhere where everyone re-starts and it's Lv. 1 at the very beginning we have to choose cycle right?

[flint bloom]

yes

[tropic prairie]

Got it, ty, interesting.

[feral surge]

Correct. Unlike PoE, for now, the cycle won't have exclusive content, but that may or may not change in the future.

[steady nebula]

understood, thanks!

[tropic prairie]

Interesting, this is the 1st time I might consider playing a League/Cycle, in PoE in all the years I've played I was a Standard boi because I like progressing my characters to the absolute limit and I'm not a fun of re-starting and losing all progress.
But idk, I'm getting the itch to play a League for the 1st time with Last Epoch XD

[calm pawn]

Will there be reset before launch?

[feral surge]

No resets. You only need to start over if you want to play in the cycle.

[calm pawn]

but 1.0 will be new cycle or no?

[feral surge]

Yes, the first cycle will come with 1.0. Your current characters are all legacy (standard), and you can continue to play those, or you can make a new character in the cycle.

[candid cosmos]

1.0 is the first cycle

[feral surge]

At the end of the cycle, cycle characters move to legacy.

[calm pawn]

Okey, thank you 🙂

[sharp gate]

Is there any plans to make acid Flask into a more viable build path? Had a huge letdown once I realized that it didn't scale that well and wasn't 100% reliable to build around

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry I don't have any information on the status of potential upcoming balance changes.

On an totally unrelated note, 1.0 will bring the Falconer, a new mastery class to the rogue.

[serene mango]

are the new classes selectable on characters created before the 1.0 patch? if i wanted to prepare 2 chars for warlock/falconer beforehand

[crude plover]

Doubt it since we can't preload the patch

[serene mango]

nah i mean if i played the base classes up to that point -> patch -> select warlock -> go on

purely technical question

[flint bloom]

no, cuz you cant select warlock at all. tho i suppose if you played up to the mastery selection and wanted to play on legacy, you could "skip" ch 1

[crude plover]

Ah yes that works

[mild oyster]

it worked last time

w/ runemaster

[crude plover]

You can level characters up to the mastery choice and then wait for patch

(or keep leveling them without picking a mastery in monos if you have Twink gear)

[serene mango]

might be a fun challenge actually, base class run

[placid plinth]

yes, you can level an acolyte to 100 without selecting a mastery and then on patch day immediately have a level 100 warlock.

[frail sentinel]

Mike - If I have an item with 3 suffixes without sealing because an prefix was changed to a suffix in a patch - would this item cause issues if I wanted to sell it on the Bazaar?

(Some 'legacy' items have weird suffix/prefix layouts now)

[placid plinth]

No but it won't be eligible to be sold at the bazaar.

[sharp gate]

Can you craft an item before selling it on the bazaar?

[placid plinth]

Yes

[candid cosmos]

will the cosmetics in the deluxe/ultimate editions become available for individual purchase at 1.0

(with the exception of the one labeled as pre order exclusive of course)

[placid plinth]

I think they should be individually purchasable also.

[candid cosmos]

thanks

[feral surge]

Are items bought from vendors while in cof still untradable Mike? Or are those the exception?

I know the untradable exists because otherwise it would lead to a bad optimization pattern of playing "both sides" for cof players. But in the case of vendors, nothing is stopping you from swapping to MG before buying that perfectly rolled rare from the vendor, so it'd kind of make sense for those to not be untradable?

[cerulean nymph]

Perfectly rolled rare?

[candid cosmos]

tbh vendor items are worthless so it doesn't matter

[south cedar]

Will we be seeing more Weaver's Will items on 1.0?

[placid plinth]

Every item you acquire as a CoF player is not eligible to be traded using MG at all.

[placid plinth]

yes.

[south cedar]

Sick! Very excited

[hoary frigate]

any updates on fixing blurry text in some UI windows (like the Crafting inventory with shards list)? Also in the Russian chat the font is ugly and edgy. Could you please fix that before 1.0?

my eyes hurt to look at this messy font rly

[pine chasm]

Yes #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message

[placid plinth]

We have updates for fonts coming in 1.0.

Other than fixing major critical game breaking bugs, the next patch will be 1.0

[hoary frigate]

can I ask a question if there will be new Weaver's uniques in 1.0. I liked them very much

[placid plinth]

look up ever so slightly

[hoary frigate]

😃 👍

waiting for your stream today Mike. Hoping for a piece of a small reveal (hmm)

[hot lynx]

Xbox?

[placid plinth]

Xbox is not available right now. 1.0 will not add any new platforms. It is possible that we might expand into xbox post launch. We haven't started development on any other platforms yet.

[hot lynx]

Ok cool. Thank you

[ashen ingot]

I want to start working on some tools for Last Epoch. Charcter builder, theory crafting, etc. Does EHG offer an API to get data, or do you guys have a developer resource pack or something to that extent?

[placid plinth]

We are still developing our API. There is a preview version in use by a couple people right now but it's not quite publicly rolled out yet.

It also is fairly limited and probably won't have 90% of the data you're hoping for.

[torpid cloud]

Are the new skins Armor visible when you use druid transformation ? Or they will be a feature option ?

[placid plinth]

currently this is the only one

[shell wraith]

am confused here how do we upgrade from here ?

[flint bloom]

clearly the links didnt work. can just go to the steam store page and scroll down. the bottom two options are the upgrades

[hexed glacier]

Only "ultimate" edition upgrade I've ever bought for a game.. well deserved though. Not even a second thought 🍻

[shell wraith]

found it thanks

[placid plinth]

Yea, it's on steam

[shell wraith]

it was lower sorry

[flint bloom]

yeah its a bit weird how steam shows it. the contents are listed above the packs, instead of below

[rugged dust]

Hey guys!
If I will purchase the game and buy some cosmetics for it then will the before mentioned cosmetics will be shown in my shared Steam account (via Family Sharing Steam feature I meant)? Sorry for my lame English but hopefully you understood what I meant.

[tough owl]

Why preorder cosmetics made in such specific style?
Why not something general or game lore related?

[shell wraith]

i looked at it and i would like to ask do you need to buy the upgrades for the music or can i buy it separeted

[meager basin]

Already made a report in-game but calling it out here so it's seen quickly given the recent post - the new cosmetics with the game editions are not all functioning properly. Portals are invisible, armor has no image in the selector, and not all of it even shows when equipped.

[pine chasm]

Only the "golden guppy" is really released. The bug is that any of those other ones show at all, the rest are 1.0 things.

[hexed glacier]

They're not going to release until full release. Just placeholders

Check in game store for description

[placid plinth]

I'm not actually sure if the family sharing system works properly with Last Epoch at all. The game ties your steam account to a single specific last epoch account.

[meager basin]

Got it. Makes sense.

[placid plinth]

It's unfortunate that it's even populating them that much really.

[astral timber]

Hello will there be way to get some epoch points via gameplay? I know that you can buy them with real money, just curious if there will be different way to get some without spending 🤔

[torn seal]

any plans to release LE on Epic launcher ?

[static vale]

The CGI video would have looked better with the Mike-alist roaring. Just saying.

[placid plinth]

Not currently.

[torn seal]

Thank you!

[placid plinth]

We don't have any ways in the game at the moment. It is possible that we might add some in the future for various things. Maybe completing some race or challenge mode. Could be something like a ladder rank reward or even just a twitch drop possibly. We haven't decided any details on the matter, I'm just giving examples of the sort of things I could see us considering for something like that.

[hoary frigate]

have the visuals of characters (classes) been updated in 1.0 or it is only CGI video rendering? I mean Primalist for example looking much better to my eye

[astral timber]

Oh i see, thanks

[south cedar]

That's his Mike-ness coming out probably

[prime bridge]

Not a question, but props to the new stuff haven't played in ages. New starter area and things look so much more polished.

[placid plinth]

All the gameplay footage in the trailer is captured from real gameplay. I bet it was captured on a pretty bonkers powerful system so it can have the settings cranked to the max.

Several of the character models were touched up.

[rugged dust]

Ohh…I see. It totally makes sense. I understood. Thank you Mike!

[hoary frigate]

and not a single glimpse of Falconer in video..sadge

[placid plinth]

nor warlock

[teal plover]

Hey, are the current supporter packs exclusive/limited? Or will they show up in the store again?

[placid plinth]

They are going to be going away and they may or may not come back. We aren't saying that they are exclusive, never to return, or anything like that but I also can't guarantee that they will return either. We don't want to leave them up because it sets a precedent that people will expect all packs to stay up and we will very quickly get to a point where we have dozens of packs cluttering up the store.

We will continue to add more packs and it is possible that we might resurect old packs. Kinda like Disney sending a film "into the vault" if you're old enough to remember that.

So technically not exclusive but they might not show up in the store again either. Sorry I know this isn't really much help.

(some do say exclusive but they say that right on them)

[somber marten]

Are you aware this exists?
https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/

[astral timber]

So time limited content is a thing that is planned from start? Even thought in this case its just cosmetics, ppl who go into game after some years wont be able to get some things bcs they are late?

[static vale]

That is usually how "time limited" works.

[placid plinth]

Yes, there are already packs that have gone away and won't come back. Our Kickstarter and alpha packs (from several years ago) are gone for good.
(the quality of the new ones are significantly better though)

[hoary frigate]

Lol just found out I already spent 1043h on an early access game 😄 LE of course. Never happened to me before

[quiet moat]

Good info, thanks!

1. There are some current packs that say exclusive on them? Maybe I'm not seeing those in the store?

2. Will you preview the new supporter packs before you discontinue the old ones?

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure, more just covering myself in case I'm wrong

[hoary frigate]

i just don't understand will I be able to upgrade to Delux version (22$ in my country) after 21st Feb?

[fossil dune]

Kain answered yes in #💬┃general

[candid cosmos]

the guppy pet thing is exclusive to people who buy prior to 1.0 but apparently the base game gets you that too

[quaint spindle]

correct

[astral timber]

Well true i think i should have first rank of rewards from buying game in EA year ago, i just really dont like time limited content as it makes ppl act under the pressure, for alfa/kickstarter/EA it is kinda ok to be time limited as those ppl help found game, but its a bit sad for full released game :/ (i know that lot of ppl disagree with me and also statistics of money made on time limited content vs not limited one, so i got why it is still a thing in game industry, just sad :/ )

[teal plover]

No problem at all, I totally get it that you don't want to promise exclusivity just incase it might make it's return. Thanks for the answer!

[placid plinth]

this post is probably better info #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message

[cursive tapir]

will the extreme network utilization just be an early access thing or is this normal

[exotic gazelle]

Improving network performance has been, and continues to be our top priority. As Mike mentioned earlier "Reduced Transition Load Times by 0.3 seconds" doesn't exactly make for a flashy line to promote, but we've been constantly making improvements to it, and will continue to do so.

[river kettle]

any cool benefits i can expect for playing the game since 2020? 😄

[hexed glacier]

yeah, a full release, two new guilds, better optimization, more content, etc.

[exotic gazelle]

You should have access to your Traveler's Backpack cosmetic for owning Last Epoch prior to patch 0.9, and will receive the Golden Guppy pet for owning Last Epoch prior to the release of 1.0

[river kettle]

that's cool, cant wait for release since ive been hyping my friends about the game

[cursive tapir]

other question, why do my data connection switch ervery time i enter a new area to a other server location?

[exotic gazelle]

At a technical level, yes, you do change server when you transition, however this isn't something you should typically see, only in game log files. These servers should also be at the same physical location. You should be staying in the same region unless something is happening with your ISP routing which is causing you to at times appear closer to one server location than another as the game does work to detect the closest servers to you. You can set a specific region in the Social Screen.

[serene mango]

will the contents of the game version upgrades stay the same "forever"

[exotic gazelle]

I cannot promise "forever" as that's a very long time. However the contents will be staying after 1.0 - the only thing going away is the Golden Guppy.

[cursive tapir]

only log files? the task manager do the same thing. region yes, i play on eu west and it makes a differenc if my play data goes to the netherlands or polen or ukraine. what irritates me is that i play from germany and the main german server cluster frankfurt i hadnt saw

[serene mango]

yea forever is a stretch, was just wondering if thats smth that would cycle like supporter packs or if it's a more permanent offer

[exotic gazelle]

That sounds like ISP routing - we don't have servers in all those locations. There's one location for our EU West servers as far as I'm aware.

[lone hornet]

Do cosmetic pets serve a purpose other than just follow you around?

[pine chasm]

No (well, also they cute)

[serene mango]

no, every purchase outside of the base game is purely cosmetic

[floral flame]

are there any shortcuts when using a controller? like equip or do you have to drag and drop ?

[keen roost]

any chance we get the ronin set mtx separately from the deluxe/ultimate packs on 1.0 release or it will be an exclusive to those 2 packages?

[exotic gazelle]

Currently it's exclusive to the Editions

[novel furnace]

Any chance on an answer on my question?

[exotic gazelle]

Yes, a Golden Resonance would allow you to gift that item.

[exotic gazelle]

I believe if you're navigating the inventory with the D-Pad, X while highlighting an item equips it

[dark rover]

Quick question, and suddenly got worried, I played a couple of days ago, worked fine, now wanting to start the game and play a bit more, it said "You need steam now" (I already migrated logn time ago), and mindlesly re-migrated (friday-evening, sorry).... but that was only 10 mins ago... I will wait a bit to see if everything comes back up again, or did I miss a post?
(PS: Always starting it up through steam library anyway)

[exotic gazelle]

It may produce that error if it was unable to connect to the authentication servers. Make sure you've downloaded today's patch and try restarting the client.

[fossil dune]

This is usually just a hiccup with authentication servers. Restart the game and Steam

[dark rover]

Ah i will restart steam, the only thing I didn't do yet, thx! And i did get the update of today.

[floral flame]

damn, using dpad is really hard for me. can you navigate the ui with the left analog?

[exotic gazelle]

I believe that would depend on your binding interface, I've never tried it myself.

[hexed glacier]

you can do it with the right one i believe

then click with the A button or whatever

[dark rover]

Didn't do the trick, I will wait a 10-20 minutes!

This is the current build & update btw

(which is 30 min ago)

[floral flame]

yeah, its just very difficult to use both analogs for me but maybe they will add the option later

[dark rover]

It is ok now! Could login again, so had nothing to worry!

[rugged dust]

Will faction points and achievements be tied to our Last Epoch account? If they will be tied then will you allow us to reset them totally to start from the very scratch?

[exotic gazelle]

They are tied to your Stash. So Hardcore Cycle will be separate progression from Hardcore Legacy, and Hardcore Cycle will be separate from Standard Cycle. Cycles allow for progression resets.

[rough nexus]

Just for clarity, in 1.0 the char options for SSF and SAF are changing slightly right? They currently both share stash exclusively within each other, but not across both.

[weary cipher]

Is there going to be any class/balance changes for 1.0 for the existing class/specs?

[serene mango]

yes

[weary cipher]

is there a list of that anywhere yet?

[crude plover]

nope

we'll get patch notes a day or two before 1.0

[weary cipher]

ahh okay cool ty

[pine chasm]

Yeah. The options are Solo Account Found (SAF) and Solo Character Found (SCF). SAF chars all share a stash, while SCF chars each have their own stash and can't share at all.
Currently: SAF is an option in online and the default in offline. SCF is only an option in offline.
At 1.0 you'll be able to make SCF characters in online, too.

[quiet moat]

Looking forward to showing some love by grabbing the Ultimate Edition and a Supporter Pack!

Do you know if you will preview the new supporter packs that will drop with the 1.0 launch before you discontinue the currently available supporter packs? Thanks!

[exotic gazelle]

When you view the contents of the editions there should be a preview video for each item in Steam. There is not separate supporter packs from the Editions with 1.0.

[clever trout]

Yo, not sure where the best place to ask this is. For people who got the supporter packages way back when, Ardent Archon for example, where can we see what benefits that includes now? Also, how does that map to the Deluxe and Ultimate upgrades?

[exotic gazelle]

Unrelated, you still get the exclusive benefits offered from the supporter pack you may have purchased. If you owned Last Epoch prior to 0.9 you'll have received a Traveler's Backpack cosmetic, and if you own Last Epoch before 1.0 you'll receive the Golden Guppy cosmetic - both regardless of what support packs you have / have not purchased.

[quiet moat]

I do see the specific content previews of what each contains in the store - I just meant would you showcase any upcoming supporter packs before they hit the store and before they replace existing ones? i.e. "Next week our 0.9 supporter packs will be replaced by these new ones coming with 1.0 [preview]."

I thought I saw a post from Mike that the current 4 would be going away with the 1.0 launch and 4 new ones would become available. I may be mistaken though? It sounds like the current 4 will remain into 1.0's launch alongside the base/deluxe/ultimate editions from you answer, correct?

[exotic gazelle]

I'm double checking on this in case there was a misunderstanding sorry. not ignoring you

[quiet moat]

no worries, thank you!

[pearl rose]

i seen there is a pre-order exclusive pet now, but i own the game already for a very long time so am i getting this pet or do i have to pre-upgrade or something?

[exotic gazelle]

Everyone who owns Last Epoch before 1.0 will receive the Golden Guppy!

[pearl rose]

nice ty 🙂

will there be any changes on stash tabs? will we still get them with gold?

[exotic gazelle]

Yes, stash tabs will still be purchased with in-game gold, no changes there. We will not sell power or convenience (such as stash functionality) as MTX.

[pearl rose]

thats great

[knotty beacon]

is probably a no but there is a way i can upgrade the version i have with discount to get the cosmetic?? sorry if is dumb question

[split iris]

hey Developers! i understand that correctly = all cosmetics inside Pre-order packs will not be available for purchase after 1.0 release date, that makes them even more valuable and time limited?

[pearl rose]

i am no dev but even i can answer that :D. pre-order this term say everything, so after 1.0 pre-order is gone and so all pre-order packs also because there is no pre-order anymore. but do cosmetics have a value? idk you have to ask yourself for that 😉

[exotic gazelle]

There is currently not an option to upgrade from Deluxe to Ultimate edition. If you own the base game, there is an option to just purchase either the Deluxe or Ultimate upgrade below the full box versions.

[exotic gazelle]

Deluxe and Ultimate editions will continue to be available after 1.0. The only thing going away is the Golden Guppy.

[cerulean nymph]

not the guppy 😔

[split iris]

I want to gift Ultimate Edition to a friend in Steam, but he will return from his trip only after 1.0 release so he can claim this steam gift also after that date
in this case he will receive Guppy?

[exotic gazelle]

I'm not sure unfortunately, I believe they would need to at least redeem it before the 21st for it to register on their Steam Account and add the Golden Guppy item.

[short lodge]

it probably has been answered already in the past but i couldn't find via search. Are you gonna add steam achievements with the release of the game?

[knotty beacon]

i just watch the upgrade version im so blind im so sorry

[exotic gazelle]

Not with 1.0, but it's something we're certainly interested in

[olive cargo]

I just wanna know, red sith lightning for mages when? 😏

[tidal zephyr]

I know this has been asked before, but I bought the game yesterday (2 copies for me and my friend) and we've been really enjoying everything EXCEPT the long loading when transitioning zones / teleporting to various points. The game is great, keep up the good work but I really expect that to be fixed in 1.0 as the hype is real for this game. ❤️

[icy basalt]

if I own the game already, why do I have to pay again the full price of the ultimate edition pre-order? Why would it not just subtract the price from the pack? :/

[serene mango]

there is an upgrade option when you scroll down

check the steam shop again

[south cedar]

You can do the upgrade option

[icy basalt]

oh my god lol

i'm blind, thank yo guys lol

[pure crest]

i think the devs have seen ALOT of new arpgs are adding WASD option, do last epoch will try to add that to the future?

[placid plinth]

We don't have any WASD plans at the moment. It won't be available at 1.0. Having said that, you're right in that it is a hot topic right now so, it's a conversation we are going to internally open up again once we are comfortably through the 1.0 gauntlet.

[kindred matrix]

IMO, when this comes up, sometimes people are asking about different things. It's probably helpful to both players and devs if we're always clear what we're getting at. Functionally different WASD movement meaning like strafe + backwards walking - or WASD as an alternate accessibility option meaning just 8 directions worth of what controller joystick can do right now.

They're entirely different realms, but I've seen enough of people ripping each other apart over this without establishing/realizing they're talking about two different features. 😅 But, obviously, I fully understand Mike's response that regardless, even the simpler one can't be on the table for 1.0 so soon.

[sly summit]

Hi, couple things I'm wondering about for release, not sure if this info is out there anywhere - When the game releases on 21st February, will the first season (or cycle) go live with the launch or is it planned for a later date? Also, what are the details on leaderboards, what will the leaderboards be for specifically when it comes to different avenues of content, and will you be able to apply filters such as to Hardcore-only, a specific class, etc?

[crude plover]

• Cycle starts 21'st

• Leaderboards will remain arena only for the first cycle iirq

• You can already filter by all those things.

[fluid axle]

sorry if it was already asked; if we buy the deluxe upgrades, do we get the content now, or on 1.0?

[frosty lagoon]

1.0 says on the store page

[fluid gorge]

The Ultimate and Deluxe edition items are different from the ones we got/are getting if we bought the game a long time ago, right?

[nimble tide]

Only thing you get is the golden guppy right now

[heavy quest]

not an ask, just wanted to say trailer was a banger, great job folks

[jagged zenith]

Any idea if Controller support will get more love? Last time I tried using it I feel it missed the mark personally.

[pearl jacinth]

is it Last Epoch - Ultimate UPGRADE or ultimate edition will still available after feb 21? i might buy it later if i like the game

[somber marten]

They’re updating controller support for 1.0, but no details yet

[jagged zenith]

Love that for me

[meager portal]

all we know is that devs will be updating controller support in 1.0, whether they'll fix all the numerous controller bugs...no one know. my only hope is that they'll make movement skills have a free target option like grim dawn, and make the minion skills like dread shade and rip blood actually target and work on minions

[nocturne abyss]

Does the Supporter Packs like Eternal Templar etc will be unpurchasable on launch?

[nimble tide]

Supporter packs will be going away at some point and no guarantee that they will return

[nocturne abyss]

i see ty for the info

[trail sphinx]

any plan to make the back attachment in Eternal Templar like, not that stiffing? XD
I attached it on my void knight and it's like I'm wearing a kite in my back

[placid plinth]

Not specifically, if you have #1123698164503949392 or #1123697853882187847 that you'd like us to consider, please use those channels.

[placid plinth]

Yes, the only thing that's going away on Feb 21 from those packs is the Golden Guppy.

[placid plinth]

Yes, they are just new cosmetics packs.

[trail sphinx]

I have watched some of your interview/listen to your stream, pardon me if you already answer this question but

Do you have any plan to make us able to 'juicing' the monolith? make it more hard, high risk but high return by let us some kind of choosing on what's gonna happen in that echo.

[placid plinth]

Before I go in too far (just mean so I don't over explain this), have you had a chance to play the monolith much yet?

Basically, that's kinda what the monolith just is. You're constantly increasing the risk to get better rewards. We are increasing both the risk and reward rate of corruption for launch.

I can explain how the monolith works if you need.

[trail sphinx]

I just beat eye of storm so it's pretty early but I know that you get increase corruption later on to make it harder,

I know I shouldn't refer to other game much, in ah ||poe||, you have items that can make that map more harder but more rewarding in player's way, some want currency? use this items so most of the drop will be currency and if I'm not mistaken you can put in 4 items to juice your mapping experience up, something like that.

not that current echo is not good or anything, I love it but I jjust wondering since you know,
I feel a lot similar experience from this

[placid plinth]

Nice, yea, corruption in 1.0 will scale difficulty faster and increase the rate that it scales difficulty faster too. It will also start to lightly influence your chance of getting LP on unique items that drop. It also allows the bosses to drop better boss specific drops. It also gives you more blessings to pick from each boss kill. Empowered is a big jump up in difficulty and that gives you significantly stronger blessings and more of all that above. You can then pump up the difficulty and reward by going out to the outside edge of the echo web.

If you're interested in some wacky big lootsplosions, check out the lightless arbor dungeon. Oh and don't forget to bring a lot of gold.

PoE isn't a bad word around here at all. We talk about it frequently. Lots of us play PoE too. I actually got to meet a few of them at Gamescomm in August and it was so crazy cool.

As far as a more literal version of PoE juicing, we don't have any specific plans right now. It's a style of mechanic that I think would eventually go quite well in a cycle.

[trail sphinx]

didn't expect full long answer lol, appreciate it sir.
Nice, so there's a lot content that waiting for me. I'm pretty pump for this.

Oh ok, I just don't wanna sound rude by bringing other games here, nice to know that I can mention it freely.

Anyway, love the game sir. NGL, I play this game because LE get mention a lot in both poe (lmao) and content creators but I starting to like this game when I reach the monolith. If somehow you can push the monolith or those endgame content out to the world, I think a lot of ppl will interest in LE. Thank you Mike!

[placid plinth]

thanks 🙂 and yea, we do like the conversations that involve other games to still be related in context to Last Epoch for the most part so like if people were in general discussing poe builds or something, we might ask them to move to #📚┃off-topic or something.

[trail sphinx]

lol discussing poe builds here is wild, gotcha mike

[void heron]

Hello. A couple of questions:

1. Are Epoch points only obtainable via real money? I just realized that I got 350 of them. I assume it's because I bought the game before it got released. Perhaps you have plans to offer some in-game achievements and such to obtain these points?

2. Speaking of achievements, will cycles have cycle achievements, and can we expect some rewards for completing various tiers of these achievements? Cosmetics are what other games in the genre offer.

3. And on the cosmetic side of things—are pets in the game strictly for cosmetic purposes, or do/will they offer more, i.e., collecting gold?

P.S. Keep up the good work, guys. I am loving absolutely everything that I've seen leading up to the launch of the game

Oh, and are there any plans for future expansions that would introduce more story and new classes to the game?

[placid plinth]

1. So far the only way to get Epoch Points is via real money. We do like the idea of having some select ways to earn Epoch Points in the future if we can make that work nicely. It could be as you say some sort of in-game achievement or maybe for placing on the ladder or something.

2. We don't have an achievements system yet. We will add be adding one down the line. I don't know what the rewards will be.

3. Pets serve absolutely no functional purpose at all. They can't pick up gold or anything else at all.

4. We do plan to add more story chapters to the campaign. This won't be through expansions but rather just through our normal cyclical major patch releases. New classes are planned for the significant future. Expect to see us expanding end game content before adding more classes.

[kindred sleet]

Just a question about deluxe and ultimate edition.

Are they going to be in steam all the time or you are going to remove them eventually?

[split iris]

Hey Developers! why in my country Standard more expensive than Deluxe?

[placid plinth]

They aren't going away at 1.0. The only part of them that is going away at 1.0 is the golden guppy. But that's for all of the versions. I think they are planned to be a longer term thing and might get updated at some point.

[placid plinth]

I have no idea but that doesn't look right at all. It's almost like the standard edition isn't following the same localization pricing rules. If you could open a support ticket with your country we can probably figure out what's going on.

[kindred sleet]

I upgraded to deluxe edition, is it normal for the upgrade to stay purchasable in game and on steam afterwards ? Didnt get the 50 points from the pack or anything.

After some relogs, says that I own the edition in-game.

[placid plinth]

The points and the guppy pet should show up almost right away. Reboot everything, check steam says you own it, check your purchase method to see if you got charged, check again in game after the full system reboot.

If it's still not there but it shows as purchased, please contact support through the contact form on our support site.

!support

[fiery lily]

Let's work together to get it sorted! We've support articles and a contact form here: https://support.lastepoch.com/.

[placid plinth]

If it doesn't show as purchased in steam and you weren't charged, it sounds like it just never went through.

[supple adder]

That trailer looks amazing! Is lighting being improved in 1.0?

[placid plinth]

Yea, the gameplay footage in the trailer shows some of it off.

[supple adder]

Awesome, definitely noticeable in a few shots

[unkempt goblet]

when an new cycle start do the amount off stash tabs you got reset to basic or do you have the same amount unlocked trough other playtroughs ?

[wraith violet]

given those prices its like no brainer to get ultimate

[somber marten]

Reset

[shy lion]

I am writing as a beta tester of The Last Epoch, and I wanted to express my gratitude for the opportunity to be part of the testing phase. The experience has been truly enjoyable, and I've witnessed the hard work and dedication your team has put into crafting an exceptional game.

As a suggestion, I wanted to propose the idea of recognizing and rewarding beta testers in a special way upon the game's official release. Considering the invaluable feedback and support provided by beta testers, it would be fantastic to incorporate a special pet or feature exclusive to those who actively participated in the beta testing phase. If at all possible. Just idea. If to much let me apologize ahead of time. Thank you again for the time and effort in development.

[cerulean nymph]

Have you heard of the golden guppy

[wraith violet]

they're giving out the golden guppy. And if you had been around prior to 0.9 you also had the travellers backpack.

[dapper wind]

after 21.02. can we still upgrade the editions with all the goodys that are atm seen in the package? or is that an offer only until 21.02.?

[fossil dune]

You can, just the golden guppy will be leaving after that date

[dapper wind]

i have already standard edtion so that wouldnt matter but ty good to know i dont need to think fast if i want to upgrade :D

[ember plank]

Will there be character customization in the big update?

[fossil dune]

No

[somber marten]

No, it's in the works, but not anytime soon as they don't have the dev time for it

[ember plank]

Okay

[burnt slate]

Would be lovely to be able to change text size of items dropping

[fossil dune]

Pssst, drop that in #1123697853882187847 or #1123698164503949392

[burnt slate]

oh sorry!

[fossil dune]

You can be cheeky and phrase it as a question though

[burnt slate]

aye true lol

i wrote in suggestions ty mate

[fossil dune]

Np

[tropic anchor]

The cosmetics, pets and portals you get for Upgrading, are these limited edition, or will they reappear at a later date down the line?

[jagged swallow]

Will there be a server in europe any time soon?

[serene mango]

there are already servers in eu

[jagged swallow]

I just bought the game and it wants me to choose a region and eu is not an option

Am I missing something?

Oh nvm

I’m just dumb

[pine dome]

No support no bug

If you want to leave a bug report #1123698102470189118

[undone axle]

oh my bad

[slender kraken]

Any word on how the Tier 1 and Tier 2 portraits are coming a long for Kickstarter supporters?

Also the Halos from years ago?

The reason I am asking is we already see what Twitch Drops are for after launch and the Kickstarter items seem to be on the back burner, The Kickstarter peeps are what made this game possible.

Unless you already announced what they look like and I am uninformed. Which is super possible.

[summer thorn]

a quick question for the devs

if theres already a profanity filter option in game

why cant we type "shit" or "fuck", the message doesn't get posted at all

[crude plover]

?

do you have the profanity filter on?

[summer thorn]

forreal?

i have it off

like the message itself would not get posted

havent played it in 3 weeks, unless if there was a hotfix or patch or something of the sorts

[crude plover]

sometimes their chat filter is a bit weird i've heard, idk

[south cedar]

Will we see any boss DR changes on 1.0?

[summer thorn]

ok so its not intended, might be something on my end

[crude plover]

I asked about it on yesterdays stream and i think he said it's not ready for 1.0

[summer thorn]

DR as in damage reduction?

@crude plover ty

[south cedar]

Dope

[scenic frost]

Is the regional pricing for the upgrades gonna be fixed?
Right now in Chile (CLP) it's more expensive to upgrade to Ultimate than buy the Ultimate edition

[pine chasm]

The Deluxe and Ultimate Editions will remain after 1.0. Only the golden guppy pre-order bonus is going away (you don't need an upgraded edition for that, just the base game).

[slender kraken]

Are you sure? They are pre order packs, that means pre order doesnt it?

Typically a pre order is limited time.

[fossil dune]

We are sure, Mike and Kain and Steve have said so

[slender kraken]

Lame, Super lame.

Theres no fomo

thats whats lame

[fossil dune]

You're arguing... For FOMO?

[slender kraken]

Those preorder packs will be available forever

Yes

[fossil dune]

Opinion disregarded.

[slender kraken]

Theres literally going to be nothing to ever distinguish early players in this game.

[cerulean nymph]

oh no 😔

[fossil dune]

There is. The guppy for one. The backpack for another. The Juvenile Skullen. All of the other beta and alpha supporter packs from before 0.9 that aren't aren't coming back. All of the Kickstarter stuff.

These are all things that are confirmed to not be coming back

[slender kraken]

Yea the saving grace may be the Tier 1 and Tier 2 Portraits but we know more about Post launch stuff then we know about Kickstsarter stuff.

I dont think there is anything wrong with trying to justify my kickststarter purchase that I made years ago with something cool and exclusive. Especially considering how few people actually bought into the kickstarter.

i think its less than 5k people

less than 3k people!

People that have been backing the game for that long should have some of the coolest looking items in my opinion but now you can get them for 15 bucks, I understand they have gotten better at textures now, but still doesnt seem right

[pine chasm]

Yep, so your kickstarter stuff is all exclusive and will never be available again. No need to worry there. The editions are not pre-order packs.

[candid cosmos]

the justification for your kickstarter purchase is that last epoch exists and is fun

like that's the purpose of crowdfunding

something cool that wouldn't have been made otherwise gets made

congrats you succeeded

[slender kraken]

Yea but do you at all see my concern? The kickstarter items arent even implemented yet but they have post launch items for twitch users planned and announced.

[south cedar]

No one cares if you have an exclusive lmfao

[candid cosmos]

i understand what you're saying

but to be blunt

i don't care even a little

[south cedar]

This won't give you a likeable personality

[slender kraken]

Do you think someone named Bullish.algo gives a crap what people think?

[frozen ermine]

Being an early supporter doesn't make you better than us

Not everyone discover a game early

[south cedar]

Yes. You said you care about FOMO

[slender kraken]

Thats the thing, people that did should be rewarded.

[wraith violet]

Guys. This is #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs not #💬┃general. Let him ask his question to the devs. There is no need to argue with him here.

[candid cosmos]

the entire reason you care about having the coolest cosmetic to show off is because you give a crap what other people think

[slender kraken]

No i give a crap that I paid 75 dollars 6 years ago now people are getting better looking items for 30 bucks

I wont be using any of my kickstarter pets because the preorder pack ones look better.

Its all im saying

[frozen ermine]

You are lame

[slender kraken]

I have a valid point, it is somewhat lame, but if people that bought in kickstarter actually think about it, I am right.

[somber marten]

And?

[south cedar]

Poor Jerle, lol. Take this debate to general guys

[kind nexus]

You guys know this is ask the devs right? I'm all for stupid petty drama but

[slender kraken]

Just redressing my grievances.

Is all

[slender kraken]

Its petty to buy something 6 years ago and not have it fully released in game but items that were created last year are already implemented and better looking? Its like they forgot their kickstarter items are not in game yet.

[kind nexus]

#👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message

[regal ruin]

What are the dev's favorite cheeses?

[placid plinth]

We have not forgotten the rest of the Kickstarter rewards. We are very much appreciative of all the support that people have given us at various points throughout our pre-release.

As an early backer, you'll have plenty of exclusive rewards to be able to prove you were first.

[slender kraken]

When?

[placid plinth]

There is a local goat cheese farm that has these soft cheeses with garlic or basil in the package that I have no idea what they are called but they are great on some crackers.

[placid plinth]

In 32 days.

[slender kraken]

Thanks for the time frame

That's all I wanted

Any sneak peeks of what the portraits look like?

[placid plinth]

No.

[slender kraken]

Lol

Thought I would try

[regal ruin]

ooo that sounds delicious

[south cedar]

That does sound baller

[kind nexus]

Have you ever tried something similar to this? So amazingly good https://meredithdairy.com/our-products/marinated-cheese/

[cerulean nymph]

pings

[placid plinth]

I'm not actually supposed to eat cheese so I haven't tried many. I just answered with my wife's favorite.

[kind nexus]

mike i cant remember if i asked this, does flammable toxins apply to ignites from burning daggers within cinder strike? I know subskills without trees inherit a lot from their originating tree but this one specifically says "for cinder strike"

[tropic anchor]

thanks goodness

i love the time themed armor set and the fox pet but thats all i want out of the pack, dont have a need for tree portals or ancient samurai cothes

[placid plinth]

I'd like to double check to be sure. That style of conversation should generally be possible to inherit but the wording makes be feel like it won't.

[kind nexus]

exact same thought i had

i appreciate the double check

[placid plinth]

You can probably check with the daggers node pretty easily at the test dummies. I'm not going to be at my computer until this evening probably.

[kind nexus]

yeah i will respec into a good test bed for it

thanks

[slender kraken]

So if the Pre Order Packs are going to be available forever does that mean that every single pack that releases in the future will also be available forever?

if so then why arent the beta packs still available considering its still beta?

Just respectful questions, that I am curious about. Not trying to stir people up again.

[drowsy spear]

Are there any plans to add a global dash like po2 or d4? I feel like controller play ATM lags behind keyboard and mouse without it.

[flint bloom]

#👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message

[static vale]

They aren't going to be available forever.

[slender kraken]

I was told they are. Maybe they were wrong.

[fossil dune]

#👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message

[static vale]

True, but forever is a very long time.

[slender kraken]

I meant for the life of the game

10 years

[static vale]

Especially when they've removed all the other packs

[static vale]

Also, hopefully, a very long time.

I didn't assume you meant till the stars grew cold & died.

[pine chasm]

They might get updated eventually. Doesn't seem like it's planned at this point. #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message

[static burrow]

Hello devs, new player very much enjoying your game - 20 hours or so so far. As of yet only a couple minor annoyances so thats amazing really so great job. First one is that it seems very easy to accidentally enter the next zone or go back into the one I just came from which can be pretty annoying, hitbox just seems very large and not obvious enough where it ends. No question there just thought I'd mention it.

My second annoyance does beg a question: Why don't shards just go directly into my forge? Seems very tedious to keep having to click the transfer crafting items button when I cant find any other thing I would be doing with them. I even looked around online and see its a big confusion for new people trying to craft not knowing they even needed to do it. I can shrug off a lot of annoyances(played Starfield for 2k+ hours if that says anything) - but tedious for the sake of tedious is definitely a peeve of mine.

So thats my question, is there a good reason that crafting shards don't just go into my forge on their own?

[fossil dune]

Hold on I have a Mike screenshot for this

[static burrow]

ok so it sounds like something that will likely be changed then 😄

[nocturne abyss]

Does Julra's Stardial Triple Stats also affect the traversal skill itself on cast?
e.g: Lunge with +10 STR Julra Ring

[placid plinth]

No, the skill is already created by the time the stats double.

[nocturne abyss]

ty for the cofirmation

[hoary maple]

Quick question, does bonus stability in the echo affect the reward chest at the end of the echo? Nvm the reward chest is affected by enemies slain, so not technically.

[placid plinth]

That's right, they are linked. That stability bar is a good indicator of how much the chest will be affected too.

[teal plover]

Hey Judd, I was wondering if you are nervous when you're getting interviewed? I'd also imagine that there is a huge difference between interviews that are IRL and remote (like with discord).

[sly summit]

One concern I have with the trading system is this: Is it possible to trade in any way without the market? If so I feel this could lead to things like forums or discords for trading without the need for spending favour

[fossil dune]

Not without spending favor. Player to player incurs the exact same costs. And while some people made the argument "what if you just take somebody along to farm resonance to bypass that" well... that's layers of RNG and time, that isn't gonna be efficient in any manner.

[tawny mason]

Has there been any announcement on equivalency of the new Steam packages for old Kickstarter supporters?

[wraith violet]

Just curious. What new steam packages are you referring to and what do they have to do with kickstarter?

Btw. You didn’t grab your discord role? 😄

[forest birch]

hey was thinking on gettin some of supporter packs n would like to know if they'll be useable in offline in the future because the tabs there just cant use it

[bronze sorrel]

probably not in the near future, and people will end up modding it all in anyways since its not server authoritative

[tawny mason]

Deluxe and Ultimate editions? I didn’t know I could get a discord thing lol

[wraith violet]

If you're referring to the cosmetics, they wont be usable.

[wraith violet]

Yea you can. There's a teal coloured role for Oracle kickstarter supporters. I think you can check in with the community managers if they are available.

anyway, I dont think the deluxe and ultimate editions have anything to do with kickstarter? So not quite sure what equivalency you're talking about.

[tawny mason]

I was just curious if things had changed so much they might just give the rewards from one of those editions in place of Kickstarter stuff

[vast furnace]

Is there a plan to add both rings to the comparison ui when looking at an unequipped ring?

Also will there be some sort of dps tracker that lets us see how much dmg each of our abilities and status effects like bleed are doing?

[crude plover]

Yes, afaik it won't be in for 1.0 though

[crude plover]

No, the devs have mentioned multiple times that they don't want accurate DPS meters. Best you can do is hit the dummies by the arena and look at the damage numbers.

[chilly gust]

I'm not sure if this question is appropriate or has been asked already, but are services such as boss help going to be maintained by eleventh hour games or will it be maintained under the community?

[broken moon]

hey guys, I'm having issues trying to get to oracle's abode, been like this for the past 20mins, tryed leaving party, logging out, closing and oppening the game, verifying game files, nothing seemed to work

[chilly gust]

I'm no expert, but this seems more like a bug report than something to ask the devs about.

[broken moon]

posted it there, ty

[steady charm]

i am sure its been asked but is there any more core classes coming to the game in the future?

[pine chasm]

Very distant future. It has been said it's likely we'll get new masteries before new base classes.

[fleet timber]

Hello! I just want to ask about the pre-order. Does the skins in the Ultimate Upgrade can use in all class? Thank you!

[pine dome]

Yes

[fleet timber]

okay thank you 🫡

[agile swift]

Try it now. Got fixed

[nova locust]

Hey the servers down?

[placid plinth]

We don't have a specific plan for providing advice for gameplay like the old Nintendo help lines or anything. If someone comes here asking for help on something we do our best to help quickly. However, I think you'll find the community will jump at the opportunity to help people improve their builds and get past it.

There will always be help at Hogwarts Eterra for those who ask for it.

[placid plinth]

Not that I know of but if we get a flood of messages in a few seconds, probably just happened.

I think we're good 😄

[light holly]

Its down for me

[placid plinth]

Uh oh

[light holly]

I made a new character, and cannot log in. But the charater I was just playing before I can log in on

[placid plinth]

Ok, that doesn't sound like the servers are down then.

[nova locust]

I was playing on an existing character and wouldnt let me continue

[placid plinth]

I'm typing out a message for someone who can check on it properly.

[silver aspen]

i could only log into a new char i just created.

[quaint spindle]

We're investigating server issues now 🙂

[nimble tide]

https://tenor.com/view/you-kick-ass-beavis-beavis-and-butt-head-you're-so-cool-you're-awesome-gif-4092949834803400579 @quaint spindle

[teal void]

I made an account just to check here, just bought it, played 30 minutes earlier and now can't get in, glad you guys are taking a look

[quaint spindle]

@teal void should be good now 🙂

its in the process of healing up

[teal void]

aw yiss thanks guys

[placid plinth]

Just a little speed bump

@silver aspen @light holly @nova locust looks like things are coming back now.

[silver aspen]

@placid plinthThanks a lot, working now as usual.

[light holly]

Awesome thanks

[chilly gust]

Not sure if we can ping, but maybe I worded my question badly. Really need to learn to do that better. I don't mean help for tactics, community would definitely be helpful there. I mean for actual carries and services provided by players.

[nova locust]

Thank you

[placid plinth]

We have a "don't ping the staff" policy so I appreciate the non-ping 🙂

We don't plan to have any carry services for players no. I bet you could find someone from the community who was willing to give you a hand in game though. Even just posting in general chat in game really.

[chilly gust]

Ok, thanks.that is what I thought I remembered. Yup, people are usually pretty friendly here

[rigid mauve]

Can someone confirm if there is a way to adjust sound effects for different types of loot drops? I’m usually quickly teleporting and using the glacier skill on my sorc and usually mobs are killed behind me out of view so I need to backtrack a bit to see what dropped.

[somber marten]

There is not

[final widget]

• Will you ever add mini dungeons/basements/caves like D4 and Wolcen has?

[somber marten]

There's at least 2 that hide 3-4 chests.

[thorn mesa]

Dear developers, in v1.0 will the game be able to remember and not plunge into the "fog of war" zones that we have already explored?

[final widget]

Yeah I've found them. But I mean like something that shows up on the map as a point of interest where you can find unique stuff/mechanics.

[cerulean nymph]

Like the dungeons?

I guess you mean smaller

Seems like the perfect thing for more temporal rifts (wait this is dev chat)

[craggy kiln]

I know that's quite an extreme scenario but in an event that EHG goes bankrupt/authentication servers explode/world ends/whatever other disaster that's out of EHG's control happens will the game still be playable in offline mode?

[rugged dust]

Guys! Should I have an account to play in offline mode?

[somber marten]

Yes.

[rugged dust]

I meant Last Epoch account. But what is the point? If a person is just playing offline.

[somber marten]

You don't even need one to play online

[rugged dust]

Ohh…So I can play without account both online and offline. Right?

[somber marten]

You just need a steam account with a copy of the game.

[rugged dust]

That’s great!
I wonder how family sharing feature is going to work if several persons are playing the same game on exactly the same PC (not simultaneously of course).

[somber marten]

It's probably tied to the original account and thus, won't work.

[steady nebula]

out of the box question... will there be controller support?

[somber marten]

There already is, tho there's some issues, which they plan to fix at 1.0

[steady nebula]

oh cool!

I'm gonna try this out

[bright vine]

Has there ever been a discussion for a movement speed potion or run toggle? Could make races more interesting and skillful.

[placid plinth]

No, that hasn't been fixed yet.

[placid plinth]

Once 1.0 comes out, yes.

[placid plinth]

Yes you do. It makes one automatically.

[placid plinth]

When you boot the game for the first time, you automatically make a LE account. I think that the family streaming will try and fail because our server will go, "that steam account already is linked to a different Epoch account".
I don't know though.

[placid plinth]

You can get an affix on your boots or belt (can't remember which) that makes your health potions give haste.

[fossil dune]

I believe that's belt. Boot is haste on traversal I think

[placid plinth]

That sounds right

[final widget]

Will current offline characters also be "legacy"?

[serene mango]

offline will be treated as legacy category, yes

[brittle estuary]

Not so much as ask dev, but more of a beg. PLEASEEEEE dont underestimate how successful this game will be. Literally the only thing that can ruin the launch (as the game is amazing as millions of people are about to see) is a terrible server state at launch. And it still happens so often with hugely popular launches even though everyone can see how successful a game release will be.

[thorn mesa]

Ty for reply. Probably if it's not fixed by release, it's low priority or won't be fixed at all... Am I just playing this game wrong if it bothers me so much?

Because I get a headache every time after teleporting, the whole map is unexplored again... and I'm trying to figure out which side of this location I haven't explored yet 🤯

[fossil dune]

Well... a little. You're not really expected to teleport in and out of campaign areas much.

[somber marten]

Yeah you're almost never meant to interrupt a map.

[rough nexus]

If your teleporting in/out of zones, you're probably looting too much rubbish. Use a filter/leave crap on the floor. Its not worth selling items to vendors.

[quaint spindle]

I can promise you we're not under-estimating anything - and will be all hands on deck and do our absolute best 🙂

[dusk anchor]

When fighting bosses, I'm able to push them all around the arena...is that intentional?

[flint bloom]

no. but its apparently a really hard bug to fix cuz it keeps coming back

[rain isle]

Mike stated this will be fixed in 1.0.

[dusk anchor]

Right on. Another question - Shurikens -> Blade Shield seems excessively great at generating bleed/poison stacks with the pierce perk. Is that intentional, or is something screwy with an interaction? Loving it, just don't wanna solidify a build around it if it's unintentional/likely to get patched

[somber marten]

It's been like this for a good while.

[candid cosmos]

tbh that’s not even the primary reason people use blade shield

oh this is the dev channel whoops

[static vale]

It's not, the shurikens can only each target once to avoid Blade Shield being far & away the best way to stack DoTs. This is also one of the reasons why the shurikens with Blade Shield don't stack.

But if you're in a pack of mobs, yeah, you'll apply a lot of stacks of DoTs.

[rocky panther]

question Im noticing with Mutilate on Rogue Puncture i only ever have 1 stack of bleed on every hit. I should be applying at minimum 3 a hit. Mutilate seems to be broken ? I looked a search and found this report from October but no response

yeah i took the point out and im stacking 10+ like instantly lol

i will make another bug report

[hardy pewter]

Will regional prices get a fix? Straight up buying deluxe/ultimate and buying base game then upgrading to deluxe/ultimate not adding up to same price in some (alot of?) countries.

[serene mango]

they are aware of this issue

[waxen fox]

Is it intended or a bug that the affix " Increased area for area skills" on gloves is not working on the area skills that manifest armor uses?
(Mainly forgebreath)

[flint bloom]

rule of thumb is if you think its a bug, report it. even if its not, can help them see things that need better clarity

[waxen fox]

yeah made a report just incase

[celest apex]

hey everyone! I'm new to LE discord but not to the game itself, I've played LE for 400hrs on Steam over the past 2 years 🙂 As we get closer to 1.0 release I wanted to ask devs if steam achievements are planned?

[placid plinth]

Yes but they won't arrive with 1.0.

[celest apex]

Thank you! 🙂

[lofty umbra]

Because this game is buy to play with a cash shop, can you at least promise us that there will A. Good looking items in the base game, and you will not just reserve the coolest looking items to the shop?

[placid plinth]

We work really hard to make sure that all the visuals, mtx or not is up to the same quality standard. We are adding more non-mtx visuals to the game constantly. The visuals from found items are generally less over the top and flashy. I think that there are tons of really cool looking items in the base game already. It's hard to rank all of them in coolness objectively but the MTX cosmetics generally have a slightly higher flashy factor. Like there is no cape slot in game. You can get capes from the mtx shop or just watching some twitch streams. I don't really know how else to put it. We will continue to add both mtx and non-mtx visuals to the game. My personal favorite visuals are all still non-mtx.

[wooden bridge]

I think maybe a better way to put that question is, did you ever come to a yes or no stance on adding Unique 3D models to armor in the game? I remember a while ago I believe it was said you were unsure if it was something that was going to be done.

[lofty umbra]

The fact you are treating them as equal in terms of quality standard, and you are adding more non-mtx items into the game, is music to my ears. Thank you

[somber marten]

They already did to some of them I think, just no dev time for all of them yet

[wooden bridge]

But obviously like you said, as with the weapons, it wouldn't be all at once if it was implmented at all

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure what the order of them is. I know we are still doing the weapons first as they have a way better bang to buck ratio on how much they impact the cool factor to how long they take to make. There are some helmets that are done and in the game already too. I don't want to give an expectation of timeline that the people who are actually doing it might not be able to keep to because I just don't know how long it takes them. I think unique helmets will probably start to come before the body armors do. We want to have all the unique gear 3D art being a 1:1 with the 2D art. So far we've put a bigger priority on just adding more mechanically unique gear to advance the gameplay. That's given us some kinda negative progress on this effort because we can slap a few lines of text down so much easier than the modelers and texture artists can make gear.

[wooden bridge]

Hey, as long as it’s it’s happening, it doesn’t matter when, I’m just glad to see it materialize. And your right having more uniques is better than Modeled uniques. I can’t express my excitement enough for February 21st, I am glad to see this passion project you guys have been dedicating these years to come to fruition, and we finally get to see what 1.0 looks like! Will forever be a huge supporter of whatever you guys do.

[placid plinth]

1 month eh? I think that this is either going to be the fastest or slowest month ever for me.

[graceful copper]

will there be more classes on launch?

[prime pelican]

EHG, are you planning on adding(thinking about adding) transmogs in LE?

[pine chasm]

Yes. Warlock and Falconer are part of the release.

[wooden bridge]

The last two subclasses are getting added

[pine chasm]

Seems like a yes. Most recent answer on it: #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message

[placid plinth]

Yea, that was specifically in response to a D3 style transmog system.

[prime pelican]

Ah, ok I was curious

Just some weapons look better than others, i.e. Cresent moon scepter

[paper quartz]

Was there going to be a cycle on release or just the base game with the first cycle starting somewhere after launch?

[wooden bridge]

IIRC it was going to be month long cycles, more than likely starting sometime after launch

[placid plinth]

Feb 21, cycle 1 starts.

[wooden bridge]

Cycle 1 as in like a new "season like" mechanic? Or something else entirely.

[placid plinth]

As in, a big patch and a ladder reset.

[wooden bridge]

Fair play

[eternal lagoon]

It will somehow be both, and I'll be right there with you 😄

[flint bloom]

Are the class reveals going to be videos of play? Paper builds? A showing of the skill/passive trees? Do you have any idea on what the third party sites are doing or is it totally up to them? Is it all coming at once or is it pieced together over the whole week?

[placid plinth]

They have just about everything to share. I'm not sure the specifics of the agreement between us but I know they have a ton planned. Here is aaron's video explaining what's coming for Warlock. I expect Maxroll will have a similar amount of stuff to share on the Falconer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrJg_Ff6LTc

[wild lake]

I was wondering how the factions will work in offline characters, because we can’t trade obviously, or will this be just for online characters?

[placid plinth]

You can do CoF

[wild lake]

I see. That's amazing. Great

Thank you

[teal plover]

Hey there, how long will items in the "All cosmetic store" be available to purchase and will they be gone forever once removed? I'm specifically talking about the "Woodland Cloak".

[placid plinth]

Any of them could potentially be removed for one reason or another so I don't want to say they will be there forever. We don't have plans to remove them. The woodland cloak doesn't have any plans to be removed.

[placid plinth]

After 1.0 drops.

You can get a resonance with friend by playing with them.

[rain isle]

It seems to be that you accumulate a percentage of a resonance for each moment you play with a friend. After some period of time, you get to 100% of a resonance and it drops.

[placid plinth]

Each one is a single use item that drops specifically for that one person. That item can't be traded or transferred in any way.

It's possible that people can attempt to RMT by partying to get one. It's going to be very inefficient and painfully obvious.

[opaque falcon]

PLEASE FIX "UNITY CRASH" PROBLEM DEVS

[placid plinth]

Please report any bugs you are experiencing using the in game tool, bug reports forum or #1123698102470189118 here on discord.

[trail stag]

love the game! playing from south africa so I play offline because we have no servers. I would really like to support the game by buying mtx, but I understand mtx will not be usable in offline mode. I'm sure there is a reason for this, but I hope it's not forever 😦 are there plans to have mtx useable in offline mode at a later date? even if it's pseudo-offline where the game can do a quick check for validity at some point?

I wanna look fabulous

[placid plinth]

This is something that we are getting a fairly significant amount of requests for but I can't commit to that at the moment. I'm sorry.

[trail stag]

😦 okay, I'm sure you guys are trying to make the best decision. love your game and best of luck for launch!

[placid plinth]

thanks

[hoary frigate]

if I play with my friend and we still have 0 resonance items. Then I drop a great helmet for his build and want to gift it to my friend can I wait for a resonance item drop to be able to gift? In other words 'item drop' first then 'resonance' is possible?

[placid plinth]

yes

[crude plover]

Hi Mike, very important question , what DPI do you have your mouse set to?

[placid plinth]

a leisurely 1800

[crude plover]

Pog that's exactly half of mine

I grew up with very little desk space :p

[placid plinth]

I've got 174mm of space and I can easily get across all 3 screens

[hoary frigate]

we have 2 types of Resonance items 1) for legendaries / exalted 2) for the rest. What if we have a really bad luck streak and drop only type 2 while I want to gift a good exalted belt? Like I could have 10 of type 2 and 0 of type 1. Is that possible? If yes could you implement a way to exchange one type for another in like 1 : 5 ratio?

[placid plinth]

It is random and there is no pity or conversion system. If we hear feedback from our players (after they have played with it) that it's needed then we will consider it.

[hoary frigate]

If I got it correctly to gift an item to my friend it is me who needs to have a resonance item not him?

[placid plinth]

yes, think of it like the resonance adds that person to the list of people that were there when the item dropped.

(not literally how it works but you can think of it that way)

[hoary frigate]

and they are auto picked from crafting hidden stash or what?

[crude plover]

That checks out, I can get across my three monitors in about 90mm

[pine dome]

Are resonances account wide?

[hoary frigate]

oh it says ' Upon picking up a Resonance, it is placed in your inventory, and will be stored into your Gifting Inventory when you Store Crafting Materials. ' so it will be items in my stash like keys and I have to manually search the resonance to be put that has the correct player's name ?

[placid plinth]

they are items that drop just like normal

[placid plinth]

you will have many more keys

[placid plinth]

"stash locked" so if you find one on a SC cycle character, you'll use it for cycle SC items.

resonances are there to fill in the gaps for those few really special items that you find for your friends who you play frequently with

most of the items you'll want to gift will just be giftable because you're playing together most of the time

[hoary frigate]

to make it more clear does this box shows only resonances with relevant player's name or all of them (that I could possible have for different friends of mine)?

[placid plinth]

I'm not actually sure, I think it shows the people who you are currently in a party with

[crude plover]

If someone does something extremely fishy with resonances or P2P trade, but there's no actual evidence of RMT, do you guys already have a procedure of how it will be handled? I know you might not be the best person to ask but I'm very curious

[placid plinth]

I don't know. I think it will depend on several factors and we probably don't have a hard and fast rule set out. Abuse of the systems can result in action being taken.

[worn coral]

Will my current character be reset after launch?

[placid plinth]

no

[final cave]

Fishingy mini-game confirmed?!

[placid plinth]

https://discord.com/channels/368953963267096586/1187326924754788362

[worn coral]

정식출시 후 시즌재로 운영 되나요??

[crude plover]

That makes sense, was just wondering about weird cases like people selling all their items for extremely cheap on the Bazaar once they're done with the cycle that might raise some red flags even though there's no actual ill intent / shady activity going on.

[placid plinth]

Yes, we call them cycles and will be similar to Path of Exile.

[placid plinth]

I wouldn't consider that abuse of the system. Don't forget each listing costs favour.

[worn coral]

Thank you

[crude plover]

Last question, how's the cough?

[placid plinth]

...lingering

[crude plover]

That sucks, get well soon! Honey in warm milk usually helps soothe it for me.

[placid plinth]

thanks

[haughty shale]

Hello mike ! how are you approaching the marathon of this last month before the launch? Are you stressed? nervous ? Exited?

[hoary frigate]

will there be any skill balance changes in 1.0? Like Aura of Decay (Lich) is not in a good shape atm. You can't build around it deals very low damage.

[placid plinth]

well, I'm in the home stretch for my own primary workload of actual coding a bug fixing. (trying to make multiple curses look good above a target's head at the same time right now). It's going to be a big relief to hear the term "hard locked" and then just get to testing for a while.

[placid plinth]

Just by the very nature of adding a new mastery class, that creates a ton of new skill balance changes right? All the new uniques and not to mention the item factions. All of this just naturally shakes up the balance quite a bit. We are also doing our usual balance changes that have been in every major patch release.

[crude plover]

Can't wait for the uniques, that's the most exciting part for me personally, I feel like your guys unique designs have only been getting better with time.

[placid plinth]

thanks 🙂 getting better for sure

more options of things we can do every patch

[hoary frigate]

yes but imo LE needs more 'graal items' like HH or Mageblood belt in PoE. That is very hard to get but almost all players want. SOme kind of a carrot for every build

[placid plinth]

That's always a tricky one. Whenever add one, we get so much overwhelming feedback that they are too rare and too strong.

[haughty shale]

I imagine this temporary curse above your head with a timer approaching zero as the days go by.
Bug or not during release, the work done will have been enormous and I hope you will be rewarded with much greater visibility

[crude plover]

I feel like the uniques of each build but with higher LP is kinda that but not packed into one item that works for everyone

[hoary frigate]

Bastion was good one but nerfed too much sad 😦

[placid plinth]

the people spoke loud and clear on that one (not saying it was the wrong thing to do)

[hoary frigate]

an item that would give more QoL than pure defence / offence could be a good solution. Like a belt giving you possibility to auto cast health potions on a percent of life missing would be great with Grimoire of Necrotic Elixirs.

so not a mandatory item for high corruption still great for QoL.

[crude plover]

#1123698164503949392 :p

[placid plinth]

I don't know if you can call an item that changes game mechanics a QoL item.

[hoary frigate]

https://discord.com/channels/368953963267096586/1198905971334971462 what you think about it?

[placid plinth]

I think it's been suggested time and time again and we are going to stick by our standard response.

No.

sorry bud

[trail sphinx]

Hey mike, I'm wondering about the item Paranoia which right now, has a bug on 'Lunge doesn't need target', will it be fix before launch date? it looks extremely fun to play with tbh

[placid plinth]

I don't have any information on the status of potential upcoming bug fixes. We aim to fix all reported bugs.

[trail sphinx]

another question sir,
what's your opinion on sentinel right now? especially the build that rely on melee range like Rive.

From my experience so far, this build need to go in melee range and have to standstill while using Rive and 2h weapons. After watching some of mage gameplay and builds, they have almost same amount of hp and resistance while mage also have highly amount of ward.

[placid plinth]

I really enjoy it. I'm playing a shield throw manifest armor build right now that's not particularly strong but having a ton of fun with it. I haven't playing a rive build recently but generally you'll want to have something that hits a little harder to deal more damage unless you've cranked rive up with the mana cost nodes. I personally prefer to keep it as a generator though.

[trail sphinx]

hmm I see,
I might try change a lil bit here and there tonight based from what I asked community all this morning.
I know that in my case, it could have been a skill issues involved XD

[placid plinth]

lots of options to explore

[pearl rose]

will finally wand and catalyst echo rewards get separated in 1.0?

[placid plinth]

I haven't heard about that.

[pearl rose]

thats sad 😦 makes wand and catalyst farming very annoying

[trail stag]

https://youtu.be/O-MINbl2bW0?si=yMPpMAF499CT2rdY

I've played this build and it was very good

Rive main skill

[pine dome]

Careful not to spam here, this is #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs

[trail sphinx]

As I thought, it’s my skill issues 😔

oh it's crit build

[nocturne abyss]

Is Alpine Halls map bugged?
whenever i use Flame Rush on the hallway, it wont let me channel the skill and ended up prematurely.

[nocturne abyss]

oh ty for the direction

[kindred sleet]

Might be asked a thousand times, but did the team thought about something like rare, rare, rune of elevation, let's call it, that elevates affix to t6/t7 ? Can be used once on item ?

[regal ruin]

T6->T7 would be interesting, but T6 is the barrier by item drops

[somber marten]

But the purpose of T6 and T7 is that they are drop only

[smoky niche]

Hi guys, I don't know if this has been answered before, will pets be able to collect gold in the future? It would be a huge QoL feature.

[cerulean nymph]

No

[fossil dune]

It has been answered many times, the answer is still no

[smoky niche]

oh, ok, thanks guys.

[cerulean nymph]

is the point where we can start going to monos going to change in 1.0?

[placid plinth]

no

[abstract meteor]

When crafting Legendary items, is it completely random what affix is transferred or is there any weighting towards the T6/7 Affix?

[placid plinth]

Full random, no weighting, no pity

[crude plover]

Hi Mike, I was wondering how come you guys don't have entropy systems when it comes to things like Dodge and other combat mechanics?

I'm guessing it's because you guys want consistent and none-consistent mechanics but it does also de-value things like Dodge as a defensive mechanic, since you can still get hit 5 times in a row even with 80% Dodge and die very quickly if you get unlucky, but obviously it's something you can take into consideration when balancing how easy it is to get the stat.

What's the philosophy you guys have around it?

[placid plinth]

I'm like 99% sure that we used to have this but I just had someone gut check me and they had no idea what I was talking about. We do have items that do this so it's more of an opt in system.

[worthy mirage]

Mike, do you mind expanding on your earlier comment where you said that "item factions might shake up the [skill] balance quite a bit"? Do you or EHG in general believe that balancing builds by the economic cost or rarity of their build-enabling items is a viable approach? This reads a lot like how Richard Garfield instead of addressing the fact that Ancestral Recall was exceptionally overpowered just slapped a higher rarity on it.

[south cedar]

I'm wondering about that too! I like the analogy of Magic's balancing method of price barrier/item rarity

[candid cosmos]

tbf magic no longer uses that as a method of balancing cards outside of draft

i do think there’s a key difference between magic and an arpg which is that i buy magic cards with a resource that’s completely unrelated to the game of magic (usd) but i buy arpg equipment with a resource that is acquired by playing the game and which has no value outside of the game (gold)

[pearl crest]

Any plans on allowing non-gender specific characters?

[placid plinth]

While we don't plan to look at price on the bazaar to balance numbers, we do look at rarity even now. But probably not how you are expecting. We more look to make sure that build enabling uniques aren't too extremely rare that you can't get a build going without it and are forced to do a transition build. That can still be optimal in some cases but we don't want it to be the norm.

I do however think that the bazaar might have a direct impact on builds and the relative balance by making specific niche items way easier to get and experiement with. I suspect that this could lead to new builds being discovered. This could mean new playstyles that are very close to being good but just not quite and if they are fun, we might buff things or make a new unique or something to help enable the playstyle. If it's less positive for the game, it could result in some nerfs or just being left alone if it's not format warping.

Lastly, the item factions are also bringing new item base types with new implicits which will directly add new options to the item pool. These I think are the most likely place to have a direct impact on balancing of skills.

So all this together is why I worded it like that, "might shake up the balance". I'm not really sure how big of an impact any of these things will have but together them might be significant.

[placid plinth]

Sometime in the future, we would like to add character customization to the character creation process. We don't know when that will be other than not at 1.0. While I don't have any specifics of what that will look like, I know we have discussed using less rigid definitions of gender in a system like that and would probably look more to terms like "body shape" than gender for the larger changes.

Currently the characters which we have available are specific characters. It's The Primalist, not A Primalist. I think the biggest way we could improve that feeling right now would be to give them specific names. We think that naming your character is a pretty key piece of an ARPG though so we are sticking with how it is for now.

[wide prairie]

hello,this might be answered before but i am new here, are we going to get something similar like poe supporter packs after the release? Cosmetics for each season etc

[placid plinth]

Yes, we already have them available.

[pearl crest]

Greatly appreciate the insight! And excited to see the flexibility implemented eventually. About to hit 100hrs in the game today and loving it. Keep up the great work.

[untold nacelle]

how close will the offline and online versions of the game be in 1.0? It feels like there have been major and minor differences between the two versions over the course of 0.9 (stuff like extra monolith loading screens in offline, temporal sacntum breaking for a month, warp tunnel animations still showing up when you time travel in the story)

[placid plinth]

Not a ton has changed there. Hopefully obviously the bugs are being worked on. Online does behave more like offline with regards to enemy phasing now though.

[harsh gate]

I'm kind of new here, so apologies if these questions have been asked before.

1. What's the philosophy behind shards taking up inventory space when picked up? There's a dedicated button for sending them into the Forge, but no way (that I've seen) to extract them.
2. Are you expecting shards to be traded?
3. If so, then why are shards from shattered items automatically sent to the Forge?
4. Why does the Forge have a dedicated interactable in town, if it's a menu immediately available via the F key?

Sorry, it was supposed to just be one question, but it all kinda snowballed into what you see. Hope it's not too much 😅

[placid plinth]

We were attempting to have crafting materials act as items first. This was largely unpopular. Shards are strictly prohibited from being traded (same with all other crafting materials). It's in town for tutorialization purposes. Even with the quest telling you about it, loading screen tips, the game guide and menu options, people still missed it. It also helps the town feel more like a town. It is unnecessary for seasoned players though.

[harsh gate]

Thanks for the quick response! I'm enamored with the current crafting system, and looking forward to seeing the new factions when 1.0 drops

[pure python]

Can triggered abilities be echoed? e.g. Smite triggered from Multistrike

[placid plinth]

No

[worthy stump]

there should really be a disclaimer telling you that the cosmetics dosnt work on offline character because ima be honnest i feel kinda scammed i spent 30£ and not gona be able to use it without having to replay atleast 15 hours.

[cursive sparrow]

How will stashes migrate to legacy after the end of the cycle?

[static burrow]

Is there some kind of weighting where the game prefers to drop good loot for alt characters and not the one I'm playing? I ask because I just finished the campaign as a Sorc Mage, in early hours I dropped 1 wand that was good for me. Ever since then almost every good unique and literally every single set item that dropped for me has been for minions. A few spriggan uniques but actually 0 things I can use on my mage since that first wand. I've been working my way through the monoliths now and experiencing the same thing. Minion minion minion, its honestly getting a bit frustrating at this point - is this a possible bug?

[cursive sparrow]

there is no weighting or pity systems, only smart loot that prioritzes your class bases and u get less bases for other classes

[pine chasm]

No. Uniques and sets are not weighted based on your class at all. Most other item types are weighted to drop for your current class.

[static burrow]

I'm not playing minion necro and its like 75% of my loot, must be a bug?

i have a page and a half of minion uniques and set items, and im wearing nothing but rares on mage :P)

[pine chasm]

If you feel like it's a bug, report it. I think there may just be a lot of low level minion uniques.

[static burrow]

will do

[plush lion]

this is just how rng works, tho its also why alting feels so good in this game.

[static burrow]

it feels like more then rng .. ive been playing mmos rpgs since the 90's.. i know rng like a best friend.. but this feels off

[cursive sparrow]

also you shouldnt focus on uniques at all in this game, some are good but 70%-80% of your items will be exalteds, unless you play specific builds, what you are experiencing is just a lot of trash minion low lvl uniques dropping because they are common

[somber marten]

Uniques and set items are pure RNG.

No weighting system

(Also yeah there's more minion uniques than non-minion uniques)

[static burrow]

Well jeeze maybe there should just be more mage "trash" uniques because it honestly feels pretty dumb to keep seeing all this minion crap

and im not trying to focus on uniques but its like spamming me with minion stuff and it just got to feel weird.

[somber marten]

Maybe be at a better higher level-
(you won't use many uniques in a loadout anyway, you'll die very quickly)

[static burrow]

youre missing the point, but thanks for the tips.

[somber marten]

Just remember that even mage equipment can get minion affixes, even tho mages do not have any minions-

[static burrow]

im getting way more minion rares then anythign i can use on mage too but its easier to notice that ive gotten 0 mage uniques or set stuff and all minion so i mentioned that.

[somber marten]

[static burrow]

im not trying to use all uniques or anything like that

[cursive sparrow]

i never even had that issue cause i have loot fliter, i get some minion items here and there but they are realy rare

[static burrow]

maybe the issue like you said is there is just too many more minion things in the game then mage things.. which i understand the game is early development for the most part and i can understand that

[somber marten]

(Also there's only like what, 3 mage-locked uniques? 90% of LE uniques aren't class locked)

[static burrow]

makes sense im sure there will be more in the future

[somber marten]

It's more of "Uniques that are even clearly made for a class' skill isn't locked to that class for the purpose of shinanigans"

[static burrow]

definitely no complaints when things like that arent class locked build diversity is always something i appreciate

[placid plinth]

I think that it is possible that there might be some confirmation bias leaking into the data you're considering after the fact. Minion items stand out as very clearly "not for me" when you're not playing a minion build and that can make them feel like they are a waste and stick out as really bad. Now, given that we don't have smart loot for uniques, it is entirely possible that you're just getting that unlucky dice roll and are seeing a significantly disproportionate amount of minion gear. We do work to provide ways for you to influence your loot that you receive as you get deeper into the end game so you can more consistently find relevant gear upgrades.

I've seen this feedback a few times and most of the time when we record the data, it paints an easier to digest picture. When you get an item that maybe has 3 moderately useful stats on it but 1 that just doesn't really fit at all (but doesn't say minion), it's easy to look at that item and go "well it's almost for me" and not feel too bad about it. Then when that same item has minion stats on it, the feeling can shift to "what a useless drop, it's so frustrating to always get this minion gear". They feel very different, when in reality they are both equally as useless for you. Then at the same time, those minion pieces might have direct casting stats on them that make them also useless to minion players. So suddenly those "minion items" are now just bad items for everyone. It's really quite had to separate out these feelings. I think that if you were to take the time to map out all the drops on both a caster and a minion character, you'd find that you were getting very similar amounts of useful gear upgrades over time.

We are really big fans of the "oh cool, I can use that if I start a _____" effect that fully random uniques have. Also, with the introduction of the bazaar, if we had too smart loot, if certain smart class items became the clearly most profitable items, it would warp the meta because people would start playing that class just to get those items more often. So it's very unlikely that we will do away with it all together.

Also just sample size, if you're pre-empowered, the sample size is still pretty small.

[fossil dune]

Mike do me a favor and buff Acid Flask to unreasonable levels but tell no one that way I can buy AF gear for pennies

[static burrow]

Thanks mike, makes sense. I do want to say im not nearly as frustrated as I probably sounded. But I appreciate all the responses. Loving the game!

[placid plinth]

🙂

[placid plinth]

a finger on the monkey's paw curls acid flask now needs a crossbow equipped to use

[cerulean nymph]

But only the fire crit part, dont buff poison for deias

[fossil dune]

I guess I'm getting into modding then

As in creation

[cerulean nymph]

crossbows confirmed 🤔

[placid plinth]

the item IDs for crossbows were datamined a while back. Nothing has that ID so none exist.

it was a cruel joke

[feral surge]

Yeah, because for now we're actually only getting hand crossbows, which are different

[final cave]

Can't believe we're getting sentient weapons. Can we get happy bows too?

[untold forge]

Double shields coming soon???

[placid plinth]

not in 1.0

[untold forge]

I was hoping for a witty response…

[placid plinth]

sorry, this is one of 4 conversations I'm having right now

[untold forge]

That works. 🫡

[cursive sparrow]

im curious are devs planning to do something about spears and add more ingame support to those type of weapons? i dont think anyone uses them now. Maybe next new class is spear based?

[placid plinth]

I'm literally trying to fix a spear node right now

[fresh rivet]

Hello there! Will the base game of Last Epoch be more expensive when it will be released with the 1.0 version?

[placid plinth]

no

[fresh rivet]

Coolio, thank you for the swift response. Appreciated!

[cursive tapir]

will we get a dps meter?

[cursive sparrow]

iirc no, they dont want to have a dummy that shows dynamic dps, but they working on improving dps tooltips

[worthy stump]

Will a disclaimer be added on the store page that the cosmetics dont work on offline characters?

[placid plinth]

I don't know, I can pass it along as a suggestion. The standard use case previously has been from in game directly and the shop doesn't show up in offline mode so it hasn't been a big problem until these new packs I think.

I've told the people who can do it.

[worthy stump]

Feel like itd be good info to have on the store page because tbh feel kinda scammed when i buy something and cant use it without replaying over 15 hours on my character

[river jungle]

are there any intentions to toggle off right-click to equip?

having the click to equip and sell on the same button is extremely annoying

i know im not the only one who accidentally equipped a random white item and sold an amazing item only to find out three monoliths later after my item has cycled off the vendor

[placid plinth]

#1123698164503949392 #1123697853882187847 please
sorry, right in the middle of some important stuff at the moment

[static burrow]

yeah ive already ended up wearing junk without realizing how it got equipped a few times now

[worthy stump]

Will it be fixed that you use abilities while interacting with menues

Or rather idk if its a bug or intended

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry, I don't have any information on the status of potential upcoming bug fixes. If you would like to report a bug, please use our in game reporting tool, bug reports forum or #1123698102470189118 here on discord. Even if something turns out to not be a bug, it's useful to report it as such.

[stark mesa]

Hey, everyone!
I make Lore Videos and I was wondering if there is an official "Lore compendium" of Last Epoch that I could read.
I only found this: https://lastepoch.com/world-story but there aren't too many details. :/

Thanks!

[trail sphinx]

Hi mike, I have some questions about cosmetic in offline mode,
I understand that cosmetics can't be used in offline mode so here my questions

1. Can the cosmetic in ultimate edition use in offline mode? it has the data in steam store after all.
2. What if you have to connect to server to wear the cosmetic first, then when you go full offline, you can just keep using it but if you unequip and want to equip again, you have to connect to server. How that sound?

i'm apologize in advance if you have already answered this kind of question.

[placid plinth]

There is not something that you're looking for all in one place. I do the Friday dev streams and one in November (I think, maybe October) I had the lore master (Kyle) on and he answered a bunch of lore questions. I'm planning on doing another one with him relatively soon.

[placid plinth]

You can't access the cosmetics system at all from offline mode. This is how 1.0 will launch and there is no room for changing this right now. In order to change this for 1.0 the decision would have needed to be made a month ago at the very least.

We are still open to feedback on the system and will consider that feedback for the future.

[carmine pivot]

This question may come off a certain way (if so, I apologize cuz yall are awesome and I love the game) but are there plans to diversify the mob make-ups? Particularly in arenas, it's odd seeing 5-8 of the same mob animating nearly identical to one another as they charge at you. It's exacerbated when you see 4 packs of 5-8 identical monster packs, charging in from 4 different directions.

[trail sphinx]

I see, thanks for clarifying

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure but that sounds like a good #1123698164503949392 to leave.

[carmine pivot]

Will do

[rocky panther]

Damn y'all really made the best arpg on the market, very nice

Have thousands of hours in Diablos and PoE - the game feels really unique, easy to pickup, lotsa depth, can custom no guides easily and get very far, etc etc etc

👍

[placid plinth]

thanks 🙂

[proud garnet]

Hey Dear Devs 😄

My question would be that, how does a person become a content creator, youtuber or streamer in your system? Is there a different type of like group of creators like a more closer circle to you guys? Like getting the role for it etc. and if there is any kind of "benefit" that it comes with. Do i need this role to be shoutouted?

Thanks for your answer in advance ❤️

[placid plinth]

EHG_Foton runs our creator partner program. To get the role you basically just ask for it and show that you do create content at least a bit. We do also have another creator discord that you can optionally get involved with which I don't really do much in myself so I'm not sure all the details.

The shoutout system here is automatic and all you need to do is initially go life with Last Epoch as the game. It doesn't detect switches. No role required.

[proud garnet]

Thank you for the condensed answer 😄 Will elaborate this more if i have agendas for streaming and such! GJ with the game ❤️

[lone ice]

How would someone go about getting in contact with foton for this?

[subtle cape]

Will there be more Communication Channels ingame ? like German 1, 2, 3, and so on ? because currently it's sometimes quite flodded in the global ingame channels and with official release and the hype behind the game, it could get really messy

[late birch]

Hey, I'm working on a Last Epoch video and wondering if I could get an up to date version of the soundtrack? The one that was given to me ages ago is now incomplete and was wondering if I could get a refresh

[frail sentinel]

Playlist for the Official Soundtrack on youtube! Found a Full OST + Tracklist for you - if these don't fit your needs I can ask the team or Mike will know!

[late birch]

I would like the original .mp3 files in full quality if possible! If you'd like me to speak with Mike directly I can do that

@frail sentinel oops I forgot to hit reply