👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs

[eternal zinc]

Mike, do you have screenshot about le on the steam page in Feb. 22th last year? I mean the manner like that #❔┃ask-the-community message

[placid plinth]

I don't but I bet you could find one in a screenshot from 3rd party release review videos from around then.

[timid fjord]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240222020055/https://store.steampowered.com/ here, it's from wayback machine, shows the animation and all.

[eternal zinc]

Thank you 🙏

[brisk jackal]

Is it currently only possible to see the damage information when players die in online mode and with the English language setting? Are there any ETA/plans to implement this feature in other languages?

[manic shoal]

Love what you guys are doing!! I watched a video saying there was a chance you would have ASWD ready for season 2. Any progress on the implementation??

[rich basin]

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

[valid marlin]

Lol, what video? They takin talkin nonsense, based on what's been said here

[sturdy ridge]

Not sure if its a bug or not but I slammed a peak of the mountain in the julra dungeon and didnt like the result so i left it there yesterday.

Today I go back to it , take it off and put another peak with the same exalted item i had mirrored and it gave me the same result.

Both had the same resistances slammed onto it.

How come it did that?

[pine chasm]

It's just straight rng, that will happen about 1 in 16 times so not rare

[sturdy ridge]

ahh well i got rnged hard then lmao

[frail sentinel]

✨ Crafting Luck Boost ✨ (single use, can be used for 1 (one) crafting session of 1 (one) weapon or armour/gear, results not guaranteed) - Hope it helps!

Wait! Wrong one, that's regular crafting! You need this one - ✨ Item Improvement Chance Boost ✨ (single use, can be used for 1 (one) item or weapon or armour/gear in the Forge, Temporal Sanctum or Nemesis. Results not guaranteed)

[flint bloom]

Ave has multiple scam blessings👀

[frail sentinel]

Just because you don't believe they work, doesn't mean they don't! Plenty of players have left testimonies of their power

[flint bloom]

lots of people say eterra is flat too but...

[frail sentinel]

Need to Waypoint those people to Heoborea and show them some science

[worthy stump]

If you ever suspect anything being a bug send a report with the ingame bug tool

[sturdy ridge]

👍

[worthy stump]

Can they be stacked with other blessing

[frail sentinel]

No, sorry. We like to try and keep things balanced, though you are welcome leave #1210281911872786482

[worthy stump]

You need to put that in the description of the averielle blessings to not mislead people

[frail sentinel]

Then that would belong in #tooltip-hunt

[eternal zinc]

😂 😂 😂 .

[jaunty dune]

did... did mike just say "the campaign version of majasa"?? is there another majasa i'm unaware of?

[mental flame]

Not ATM, so I guess we are getting it ^^

[flint bloom]

they have talked about a monolith majasa for a while. either a new timeline, or rotating timelines, things like that.

[mental flame]

A monolith of chaos, all maps, a random boss of all bosses, all possible modifiers, etc.

[loud basalt]

Has there been any thought/mention of possibly sharing Gold/Crafting Materials between characters in the same Season/Realm?

[somber marten]

They... already do? Assuming the characters are the same challenge as well. (Eg, no SAF)

[loud basalt]

Excuse me while I see myself out....

I forgot my 2nd cycle character was set to Solo CF.....

I blame it on Friday and my brain being fried from work D:

[topaz snow]

Something I've been curious about, what's the design/balance philosophy behind items that cast spells? (Bane of winter, celestial doom, frozen ire etc) Are the spells meant to supplement a build? Is the team okay with a proc spell being the main source of damage for a build?

[worthy stump]

im talking about your luck boosts

[placid plinth]

teasers from stream today

and the video that took the stream down

[flint bloom]

SKILL MTX HYPE

[red urchin]

I think something is weird with the youtube vod, when i click on it it brings up a 20 second black screen video

[teal trail]

Weavers will items are nice and all. But are we getting improvements to unlocking the stats on these items?
Right now, for example if i am using one of the relics every time i switch to "leveling" a new weavers will item, even if it's just switching between the same kind of relic it is very tedious because that would for example remove a skill point from all my skills and i'd have to redo the point on my 5 skills.
Also if i already have a good weavers will item, i'd have to lose all the stats from that item to equip a new one to unlock the stats.

Have the devs considered adding a different unlocking method or adding some QoL to weavers items so that it becomes less tedious?

[placid plinth]

might still be making the transition or something, might be an issue with how the stream crashed at the 110ish min mark

[crisp jungle]

If I'm unlocking a bunch of relics in a row, I simply don't spend the points it gives me. That way it can't mess up my build while I'm unlocking.

[teal trail]

Yes but if it didn't unspec a point if the max points when switching items stayed the same that'd be a lot better

Or if we had some alternative method of unlocking weavers items that wouldn't require equipping them

[placid plinth]

yes

[jaunty dune]

with the new weavers will unique from the stream, if you get chance to bleed as an affix on it and wear maehlin's hubris how does the conversion work on the proc'd skills? do they get 3x the bleed chance as ignite?

[placid plinth]

yes, the conversion from hubris is just a stat that you have. the proc gets the bleed chance (and any other stats) and triples them for the proc'd skill. The proc'd skill then also gets your other stats, like hubris' conversion, just like every other skill does, and it uses it.

[red urchin]

During the stream today I think I heard you mention that Bladedancer would be on the lower end in terms of amount of changes to the mastery. Does that mean the new Rogue skill coming in season 2 is a skill for another mastery (Marksman) or did you just not include base Rogue changes as Bladedancer changes? (obviously you might not be able to answer but i figured i would ask nonetheless)

[placid plinth]

I don't know if we've said yet, I'm sorry I can't answer but it is indeed not for Bladedancer proper.

[verbal pine]

on a scale of 1 to 10 how hard did you guys cook for season 2? edit: cause so far its looking like a 15

[pine dome]

From the teaser we have seen, I would say 11

[uncut moon]

im not familiar, what skill is that chain lightning? and thats a skill mtx? wow

[crude plover]

Lightning blast

Base mage skill, it's the one you get at level 1

Feel like whoever specced it took both forks and extra chain range which is demonic but shows it off nicely

[uncut moon]

Oh thanks.

didnt know u can spec it to that

[crude plover]

Yep

[eternal zinc]

Why lightning blast Mike showed is red?
Is it mtx?

[uncut moon]

i think it is. Looks like a Sith Lord now xD

[crude plover]

Yep they revealed skill mtx in today's stream from the looks of it

[uneven kestrel]

What was up with the lines on the corpses? Was that part of the MTX?

[placid plinth]

The base skill has a blue version of the same thing. It's part of the cosmetic change to the skill's vfx.

[eternal zinc]

Mike, do you remember the le's progress of people who you met on the game exhibition usually on where?
(I guess it's a 2019 thing?)

[dark frigate]

are we getting improvements to stash searching? like showing me in which categories/tabs i have something that matches?

[sturdy ridge]

I know I asked about Julras chaotic attacks but the reason I asked is because I want to a Maxroll Guide and they mentioned that she has no set pattern. Also she can use her spinning void ball attack as early as the fight starts. ( Is that supposed to happen where she can do that almost immediately ? )

[runic shell]

already asked, no stash improvement in april. Hopefully they will solve the most egregious problems (impossible to search "movement speed" in boots because all of them have the implicit, ignore explanations for searches)

[pine chasm]

FYI, there's a tab overview thing you can open (button in top-right area of stash window). It has its own search bar that you can use which does show which tabs have what you're looking for.

[dark frigate]

oh nice, indeed didnt know that. thanks

[placid plinth]

So it's a complex system that depends on your distance to the boss. If you were to position yourself exactly the same across 2 fights, she should behave very similarly.

[runic shell]

about nemesis seed: does corruption level influence the tier level or LP added to the legendary added to the seed?

[pine chasm]

No, nemesis upgrades are not affected by corruption, level, or rarity modifiers.

[runic shell]

thanks
well that's a good news.. good luck to me, even if probably it will brick all the item i need and add LP to item for other builds🤣

[sturdy ridge]

I tried two different distances and she still used her spinning void ball attack

[placid plinth]

Yup, each ability is ranked by priority and has a unique operating distance. So some enemies that have abilities which have variable distances can get into different patterns based on what distance you are from them at different points in time.

[serene mango]

Will skill cosmetics interact with the change of the skills elemental nature or just simply overwrite it? For example physical, fire and void warpath all look thematically different currently

[eternal zinc]

It's anniversary day for le even in US time so I wonder any rewards for this day?

[placid plinth]

Each ability can only have 1 VFX style at a time. If you have selected a cosmetic VFX for a skill, that's what it will look like. Regardless of how the skill is specialized.

[placid plinth]

Nope.

[pine chasm]

Do skill cosmetics (generally) filter down to all subskills you can spec to proc from the skill?

[olive cargo]

So that means even if lightning blast is converted to cold, it'll look like base lightning blast w/mtx? Not like the cold version but w/mtx? Because the conversions do look slightly different.

[placid plinth]

Each cosmetic effect on a skill is a complete overhaul. It doesn't matter what state the base version of the skill is at all. It looks like what the cosmetic looks like.

[placid plinth]

If it's a skill specific triggered effect, we did our best to get them.

[nocturne abyss]

Is it possible to Proc Silver Shroud whilst Mountain Endurance Buff active? (Foot of the Mountain Boots)

[placid plinth]

Yes, Silver Shroud doesn't actually give you or depend on Dodge Rating at all.

[eternal zinc]

I'm surprised they are keeping quiet even this is the first anniversary for their game

[uncut moon]

Curious, Are there plan for CoF and MG update/changes?

[flint bloom]

is EHG open to varying the base crit chance of skills? (outside of the one thats already 10%.) Like some of the proc'd skills from items and such are so hard to make work because they dont get extra base crit from trees. like is this a lever you all would/could pull if you wanted?

[cursive sparrow]

how many skill mtx we will get on season 2 launch approximately, will it be like 1 per class or 2-3 or even more per class?

[rare thicket]

If my weapon have 3 seconds cooldown to cast a spell on hit and i have 50% cooldown reduction from other items, will the spell from the weapon be casted every 1.5 sec because of the cooldown i have stacked on items?

[pine dome]

Cdr only affect skills you can equip in your skill bar

So no

[placid plinth]

Yea, it's an option. Personally I'm not a huge fan but I know others like it.

[placid plinth]

I don't actually know how many in total. I have seen several though.

[lilac vector]

dont know if this is the right place to ask but does AMD's Fluid Motion Frames work with the game?

i was using it my i seem to lose about 10 fps when its turned on, instead of gaining fps

[placid plinth]

We haven't done anything specific to make it work or not. It sounds like it's not doing great for you.

[lilac vector]

i was in ultra at 2k and seems to lose fps, tried on low quality at 2k cause i saw some vids mentioning that some things like water can make AFMF make u lose fps and same behaviour. seem to lose 10-30fps when its enabled

[lilac vector]

what about hdr? does it work or does it goes back to sdr?

[cursive sparrow]

couldnt find the answer in previous replies, is ehg planning to add simultaneous controller/mouse input to LE?

[worthy stump]

Any possibility the the cosmetic mtx could be made to work in the online offline mode since you still have to connect to the game servers to start it (not true offline) why can't the cosmetics check also be run when connecting newbie staying in the soft offline mode?

[cursive sparrow]

A technical question abt warpath. How does it suppose to work with going negative mana, currently after testing it seems to always got to -10 mana and stop after 0.3-0.5 seconds when u go below 0. Its always -10 regardless if u have 10 channeling cost 18 or 80(from warriros fury). Also funny interaction with void essence mana refund node for some reason it doesnt stop channeling when u go negative and refund mana from void well node, is this all intended?

[devout wolf]

How to retrieve equipment from Gift window. Due to complex/stupid gifting system I cannot access my 4LP armor. I tried to gift item to party member. After a while player logged off and now item is stuck in gift window and I cannot access it !!!!

[pine dome]

May I ask why you are not a fan of that ?

[steady spindle]

I mean, you gifted it, sure you can't access it anymore

[devout wolf]

for the god sake fix the f.ing game, chat is dropping all the time, or you have multiple connection to chat server and your messages echoes

[devout wolf]

I did not gifted it because golden resonance was not enough to gift 4LP armor. So It is in gift window, do I have to beg the player to party with me to take it out from that window.

I think if developers are inventing new trade/gift system they should predict all anomalies. For me it is half done system to complicated and totally stupid.

[somber marten]

It should be able to be taken out since at that point it’s still your item.

[exotic bone]

it's an oversight for sure

[eternal zinc]

#❔┃ask-the-community message
The question I want to ask ⬆️
I guess it's relevant to your area so maybe it's a good question for you, Mike.

[crude plover]

they can edit items you already have

they just usually choose not to

[pine dome]

Not entirely true, when an unique get changed, all existing uniques get changed too (like Falcon > Kestrel)
That didnt happen with LP because lp is determined when the item is roll.

[red aspen]

The game always fail to save Borderless window and keep the Fullscreen mode instead every time I log on. It happens since pre-season and I have submitted in-game bug reports but issue still remains when I log on today. Any solutions for that?

[placid plinth]

Ha! I'm literally working on that right now.

Like just started a few mins ago

[red aspen]

Oh that is wonderful!!

[placid plinth]

well maybe, I'm not sure how to fix it yet

[red aspen]

Still, for me, I'm glad to know that it is confirmed as a known issue . Good luck!

[worthy stump]

If broken = DON'T

[modest dirge]

Will you be moving the start of the league because of path of exile league start in end of march??

[placid plinth]

We do not have any plans to move the launch of Season 2.

[modest dirge]

Hmmm, strange decision 🙂

[placid plinth]

Launching a few weeks early would mean launching Season 2 without proper testing of some systems and doing little to no marketing. Delaying again would be a huge hit. This update is already too long since our last major content patch.

[modest dirge]

Also true, but you understand the situation with path of exile 2.

[nocturne abyss]

Is there a plan to make Cosmetics usable on offline mode?

[flint bloom]

Tech/security limitations from what we have been told. They want to. Just cant.

[humble axle]

Good afternoon, if/when LE ever gets a guild/clan system for players. Would having a guild bank be a possibility. Or would that be something that does not line up with LE's loot/trading concept/functionality?

[flint bloom]

its one of the reasons they dont currently have one...as it kinda bypasses the bazzaar and gifting systems. they have said before they want clans to have a meaning outside of just a guild bank, and they dont really have one outside of that the way LE is currently

[humble axle]

@flint bloom ok thank you for reply. additionally would something like an open party if in the same guild be a possibility or is that just a programming nightmare. In my mind what I'm referring to would be an option to create an open party that goes on a list in guild/clan UI that guild/clan members could just hop in and out of by just clicking it. Additionally just to note I'm not saying this as an indirect suggestion, I'm just curious if that's even a possible thing.

[flint bloom]

they've talked about open matchmaking like that before, it was supposed to come with towns iirc, but something happened to it, im not sure if its a tech thing or just a time thing or if im just imagining it.

[placid plinth]

That's the main draw for guilds/clans for us at the moment. It's something that we are interested in. It's just not quite high enough on the list yet to make it into Season 2. (and it wouldn't come with a free use shared guild stash)

[humble axle]

@placid plinth@flint bloomok thank you for the answers and clarification it is appricated.

[rancid sand]

uhh but a non free guild stash? like with resonances or sth?

[placid plinth]

We don't have any plans for it but I could see an argument for having basically a local bazaar which still required the same gold, favour and MG faction rank to interact with. Probably easier to just add a filter in the real bazaar of "guildies only" or something though.

[icy stratus]

Why does everyone want to play Marksman in Season 2? 👀

[worthy mirage]

does everyone?

[placid plinth]

The general speculation is that the unannounced new skill is going to be for Marksman.

[icy stratus]

The only people speculating are the ones involved in the game's development 🤨
More like "speculeaking" ❓

[placid plinth]

lol, good try

[eternal zinc]

My plan is trying shaman in 1.2 but EHG delayed the date to April and I'm playing this character now, so i have no idea which one I want to play

[lament tulip]

Maaan... its pointless trying to plan the perfect day, because some game is always gonna be releasing.. we gotta stop worrying what people are gonna play and just let people play! That, and it's been far too long since the last content update

[cursive sparrow]

could it be that dark quiver finally getting reworked lol, and yes im blatantly asking for leaks 🥺

[regal stratus]

following up on this as it wasn't answered. also since there's no new leaderboards, topic is very relevant.

[cursive sparrow]

oh mike did answer just way later #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message

[primal girder]

With Skill MTX coming, are you guys interested/trying to track if that has some influence on the skills players choose to use?

[worthy stump]

Is there any reason why you didn't go with steam item inventory for the cosmetics then they would work online but you wouldn't be able to mod them in. Basically the same system several other games uses like golf it, space engineers, tf2.

[placid plinth]

Yes. Do I fully remember what it is? No.

We actually initially set it up that way but ran into a problem that was a deal breaker so we had to do it this way instead.

I think it was something to do with twitch drops or bundling or contest rewards or something like that. It was some way of giving them out that wouldn't have worked.

[devout wolf]

Why is game so laggy.

A lot of time the game don't even register key press. I'll will brake my keyboard because I have to slam the keys so many times. Usually you press a key and skill will autorepeat. Not to mention when you click storage it's like 2s delay before changing tab.

[flint bloom]

if you encounter bugs and issues, please use the in game bug reporting tool so it goes to the devs that fix said bugs. posting this in the "no support" channel, isnt helping anyone.

[devout wolf]

Ofc and when you submit the bug or issue you get a message to check on discord. Just following the messages.

[valid marlin]

You misunderstood that message. It did not say to post your bug to the channel labeled "no bugs no support"

[humble axle]

Good afternoon, i was wondering the companion ability "crow storm" for the skill "storm crows" scales off of minion related affix's on gear or character based. For example would "increased lightning damage" or "increased minion lightning damage be the choice to use for increasing "crow storm". i looked up the damage skill tags of the ability and what i found were; "Lightning", "Spell"," Area", and "Attunement" but nothing with the minion tags so i got a bit confused.

[placid plinth]

The companion ability of your Storm Crows.
Your crows call down a single massive lightning strike on the targeted area after a brief delay, hitting all enemies in the area. Deals 50% more damage per contributing crow.```
This means that the crows are the ones doing the attack so you'll want to buff your crows to make it deal more damage. That means you need minion damage.

[humble axle]

@placid plinth thank you for the explanation

[pine chasm]

One thing I've always wondered is... how does crowstorm actually get cast? Does it pick one crow arbitrarily as the caster, pick one intentionally (like say, one with the highest damage buffs), or do they somehow all get considered the caster?

[coral fog]

HI! When can we expect news on the new league? I remember that you used to start publishing information a month before the start

[crude plover]

from what they've said that's about right, they've mentioned it'll be closer to 1.0 launch than 1.1 launch and 1.0 launch pretty much had a whole month of posts beforehand. that being said it's still not a month out yet.

[coral fog]

yeah, there was a whole month when they posted every 3-4 days and it was very interesting. i hope they make some balance changes so that rogues and mage aren't meta-build

[humble axle]

Sorry for asking another question but i was curious about sub-skills in skill trees. Specifically if the sub skills damage gets increased by the relevant damage increase/more nodes within the skill tree. Kind of the same way ailments applied from skills are affected by the relevant skill nodes (if i have understood dots correctly. For example as i understand if i use the skill "hungering souls" converted to fire and apply an ignite with it. The damage increasing skill node for dot dmg "decent into madness" will increase the ignites damage (specifically in this case it would be a multiplier as it is a more dmg. For example of a skill applying a sub skill ill use the sub-skill "fissure" from "smite" skill tree applied from the skill tree node "epic center". will the fissure gain the damage mod's that increase smites damage or do the nodes need to be generic or mention the sub-skill specifically. or is it a case of only nodes that mention the sub skill specifically will increase the damage. in addition to this there is the case of on hit skills applying and what happens in this case to the applied skill. an example of this is within the skill "lightning blast" and the skill "spark charges" having a chance to apply on hit from the tree node "cloud answer". will the on hit skill gain any of "lightning blasts" damage increasing tree nodes or not. and if it can gain does it have to be general or spark charges specific wording in the node description such as "mortal capacitor", or will all damage increasing skill tree nodes apply to the spark charges. sorry for the wordy question and i apologize if it does not read well or make sense as i was unsure if i asked the correct way.

[pine dome]

Ill take the exemple of Smite and Fissure
Any generic More Dmg will apply (Sacrifice), but the More Hit Dmg wont because Fissure is a Dot
Also Attribute scaling will also apply to Fissure (4% Inc Dmg per Att)

For Spark Charges its a bit more complicated, because they are an ailment that triggers a spell
Basically for Spark Charges it needs to mention it directly

[pine chasm]

The general rule is that skills procced from skills trees inherit all stats (such as % increased damage, % more damage, etc.), except for when they don't. (Edit to add, forgot to mention certain things are not "stats" so don't get inherited. e.g., stuff conditional to enemy state, skill procs, etc.)
Often times, the skills that do not inherit will say something along the lines of "does not scale with other nodes on this skill tree". Specializable skills you proc also will not inherit anything (but are sometimes modified explicitly). Spark charges are an example of one that doesn't say that, but still is not a subskill and therefore does not inherit anything from the skill that applies it. Unfortunately, the answer sometimes is you just need to ask or test if it inherits.

[crude plover]

They inherit all stats almost all of the time except for target conditional stats, when it comes to those they never get inherited afaik. An example of this would be something like "1% increased damage per ignite on target". Stuff that's conditional but not dependant on the target can get passed down, something like that would be "1% increased damage per uncapped lightning resistance", I just made these examples to illustrate my point but hopefully they paint the picture

[placid plinth]

target conditional effects are technically special nodes and are not actually stats

player conditional effects are converted to a stat in the ability mutator which means they do get passed down with the other stats

[humble axle]

@placid plinth @pine chasm @pine dome @crude plover thank you for the info. I like making “my builds” from the ground up so even if it’s a current popular build set up I need to figure it on my own so I can understand how the build works and how I can make my build desires work. It is appreciated that questions can be asked and are replied to in a respectful and timely matter, thank you again.

[runic shell]

to the devs: have you ever considered during theory crafting to remove the LP stat from uniques and make it like a separate random drop, a crafting material that can have 4 levels?

[placid plinth]

yup. The variable rarity of LP from one unique to another makes that functionality extremely imbalanced or overly complicated. That difference in LP rarity is one of the primary purposes of the system and without it, the whole thing kinda crumbles.

[calm cargo]

does higher corruption lower the bosses cooldowns cuz Rahyeh of the black sun is spamming abilitys at 300 cor or am i just bad

[flint bloom]

No, but you prolly have a monolith mod like enrage

[calm cargo]

idk i dont see that anywhere just 280% enemy health and damage but i tell you trying to dodge meteors while the void flare thing is going on is nuts lol

[flint bloom]

You can also stun/freeze bosses out of some abilities which just makes them cast their next ability before the first finishes. But this sounds more like an enrage or frenzy mod

Check the bottom right corner for the mods

[placid plinth]

that would be my guess too

[acoustic merlin]

Are there any plans for physical merch in the near future? Would love a hoodie or coffee mug

[placid plinth]

I just sent (2 mins ago) a question about this. I'm sorry, don't have any info on an ETA but I'm pushing for it too.

[tame arch]

I have a question about Unbalanced Scale node on the Smite tree. Does it apply electrify or does it need a source of ignite converted by Order of lagon node?

[placid plinth]

Unbalanced Scale triggers Lightning Blast which does not have any base Electrify chance. You can hold [alt] in game while hovering over the node to see the ability tooltip of the triggered ability.

[calm vortex]

And it’s a bugg with the controller I can’t put a weapon in the egg

[placid plinth]

Please use the in game bug reporting tool to report bugs. We don't collect them from here and the in game tool goes directly into our bug tracking flow.

[runic shell]

i'll elaborate more my previous idea, it was too raw..
was it also considered to still use a LP crafting material drop in various levels, but during transfer also consider an inherent transfer efficiency chance % for uniques? The uniques have already this percentages to roll with each LP level.
In example players when a ultra rare LP4 material drops, they can choose to use it on a grimoire of necrotic elixirs to have a almost sure chance to transfer all 4 affixes, while even using the L4 on a red ring, they have barely the chance transfer 1 affix. They can even try a LP1 material with a low efficiency unique but with a very concrete risk of bricking the unique without even transferring anything.
it's still a roulette, but at least the player has agency to choose his best rolled unique as base and decide how to manage his very scarce stack of L3 and L4 materials

[forest oriole]

I see the patch notes in #news , but 2.7 GB for a chat bug fix 👀 . What secrets are hiding in there?

[flint bloom]

Tbh steam does weird stuff to DL size all the time with LE.

[placid plinth]

Sometimes changing one little piece of a bigger thing causes the whole bigger things to be replaced in the patch.

[placid plinth]

Yes, we considered this exact thing. This is essentially our current system with added complexity as it would prompt a reduction in base LP rate.

We have other plans to improve player agency in the legendary creation process that will be released with Season 2.

[plucky cape]

Are treasure goblins staying next season? hunting them has been my favorite

[pine dome]

Yes

[coral pecan]

When is season 2?

[crude plover]

april 2'nd

[pine dome]

#news message

[idle garden]

Will season 2 update complete the main story line?

[placid plinth]

No, we still have considerable story to tell in the campaign that we are working on.

[serene mango]

"The Weaver will only accept sacrifices of equal or higher Potential Tier to the item she will reroll" - does that mean that we wont be able to get higher lp on a rerolled unique, so its basically just stat range reroll?

[placid plinth]

It means you need a 1LP+ item to reroll a 1LP item.

[serene mango]

is 1LP then guaranteed or minium requirement to have a chance

[placid plinth]

no

You can go up or down in LP

[idle garden]

Will there be a sale on supporter pack before april 18th?

[placid plinth]

I don't know. I assume it would have been included in the announcement if it was going to.

[zinc plover]

good job on not spoiling so many things
you even kept under dark the wasd beta 🤣

[rancid sand]

heyo kinda understand if you wont answer this yet but do you have a date for when youll show the use of Set essences as the teaser in the trailer is just to much for me XD I NEED TO KNOW HOW IT WORKS :P

[placid plinth]

I've been very careful how I worded my replies to that. It is very much a beta feature.

[pearl dagger]

Of the things that are announced in the trailer, what was the thing that you came closest to accidentally spoiling? 😛

[placid plinth]

Not specifically, no sorry.

[placid plinth]

heartseeker

[zinc plover]

i'm so excited to try everything the trailer showed, good job on the cooking, look so promising

[placid plinth]

🙂

[eternal zinc]

+1!

[ruby pulsar]

I don’t understand why you would remove supporter packs.. lends itself to FOMO.. is there no chance at all that cosmetics will ever return once they’re gone?

[dark frigate]

"Reveal by attempting to equip" does that mean the uniques can have random affixes or do they transform into specifc ones?

[flint bloom]

Mike are you prepared to answer many many questions you likely cannot answer tomorrow for stream?

[icy stratus]

How many surprises are you hiding from us? Is there anything you didn't mention in the trailer?

[zinc plover]

tomorrow stream will be fun :p

[timid fjord]

Well I now know what build I'm going to go with when this launches. Mana guide amulet looks so fun.
Are you allowed to tell if it is generic drop and how high is its reroll chance? (moving while channeling focus unique)

[eternal zinc]

#❔┃ask-the-community message
Hi Mike, I want to ask more about new runes.

[sturdy ridge]

Mike , I saw a new rune in that trailer that made me so happy!

[hoary sail]

Mike, are there any updates coming to the trade UI going forward? COF seems incredibly powerful on its own now

[olive cargo]

The set item crafting, is that THE set item rework? Or part of it, and the true redesign of sets in itemization is coming later?

[hoary sail]

"The launch of Season 2 will also bring new Supporter Packs. All of our Supporter Packs, including the new Woven Series (we will have more on those in the coming weeks), Deluxe Edition, and Ultimate Editions, will be available at the launch of Season 2 via Steam and the in-game shop. However, the Eternal Supporter packs will leave the store forever on April 18th, so make sure to snag it before it’s gone!"

[brazen thunder]

Will we be able to rebind keys from WASD support?

[rare thicket]

Is the crab summon a companion and if it's not can it be made to be?

[pine dome]

No its a minion

[flint bloom]

if you want it to be companion #1210281911872786482

[fluid axle]

Why Uber Aberroth and not Uberroth?

[pine chasm]

Cosmetics from the supporter packs are not explicitly forbidden from returning. Only very few things like the Kickstarter cosmetics are guaranteed to never come back. Last we heard, the path they will take for the supporter packs is very much still open to #1210281911872786482 and #1210282176680169562 .

[ruby pulsar]

Oh neat. I’ll leave some feedback then so. Thank you

[placid plinth]

we figured that would be the nickname. It just needs to officially conform to the naming scheme

[placid plinth]

It's possible that a different crab companion could be introduced in the future but the one from the ring won't be given the companion tag.

[placid plinth]

and Disney puts old movies in the vault "forever" too

[placid plinth]

this is the set item system rework

[viscid cargo]

The entire Dev team has done such an amazing job on this game. Congrats guys

[olive cargo]

Oh so it made it in after all. Nice! 👍

[placid plinth]

yes, we are still working on more MG and CoF updates.

[mental flame]

Will CoF get a boost to Champion drops and a long overdue boost to nemesis weapons?

[placid plinth]

It is a random drop and it is moderately uncommon.

[fluid axle]

Has sentinel been buffed to the extent that it factors in losing 180% more damage from VR? I am afraid FG will still be a meme class yet again and DoT sentinel builds won't be buffed to make up for the insane 180% more multi loss

[placid plinth]

big completely unmentioned surprises, not that many left

[icy stratus]

So there are some big completely unmentioned surprises, not that many means at least 2

[red urchin]

Heartseeker looks awesome! I noticed that both clips on if in the trailer are characters using bows, but it looks like it would be a throwing skill to me. Are you allowed to say if it is a throwing or a bow skill? (I assume it might be able to change its tag via specialization but I am curious what it is baseline)

[placid plinth]

I don't know, 0 doesn't feel like it's that many either.

[icy stratus]

https://tenor.com/view/lord-of-the-rings-frodo-alright-then-keep-your-secrets-smiling-gif-26462584

[jaunty obsidian]

With the new trailer some of us had spotted that Champion affixes on items could be for skills for a class that was different than the item itself (companion or lightning blast on a rogue helmet).

Is this actually how it works or just part of a mockup?

[devout wolf]

Why some UI has mouse passthrough function. For example if I want to click on party member with right mouse click it executes the skill and show dropdown

[placid plinth]

that's a bug

[olive cargo]

Did you guys do some animation blending work for season 2, or am I seeing things?

[devout wolf]

known bug or should I report it ?

[placid plinth]

There was a ton of animation work done for Season 2. I'm not sure where specifically but probably haha.

[placid plinth]

I don't know, doesn't really matter, duplicate reports are good. If you find a bug, just report it.

[dark frigate]

if you shatter items with champion affixes, can you get them as a shard?

[placid plinth]

pretty sure no, I think it's always a sealed affix?

[placid plinth]

I think that because they are hybrid affixes most (possibly all) of the time that they can do that and still be useful.

[tidal obsidian]

woven echoes are simillar to poe 1 mapping in some way?

[serene mango]

i think with 1.1 release word was you guys are roughly looking in the area of 300 corruption for balancing stuff and endgame( correct me if im wrong) , where would you roughly place uber aberoth in that regard?

[rancid sand]

heyo just wondering the reroll unique thing does that only apply to the affixes/implicits or also LP?(also does it reroll the affix type strength to dex for example)

[placid plinth]

kinda, you can stack woven echoes because they don't have unique properties in your inventory

[placid plinth]

it's a tricky thing to quantify because characters can be better at different things. I think people will be on accounts that can farm decently above 300 before attempting uber.

[carmine smelt]

I'm scared to ask... what is Uber Aberroth?

[placid plinth]

Fear

[placid plinth]

I think we're saving details of the effect and other new end game crafting options for some upcoming content

[tidal obsidian]

this game is growing as a gold standard for arpgs and feedback adressing. congrats on the trailer

[placid plinth]

thanks 🙂

[winter holly]

Any co-hosts on the stream tomorrow? Or at least backup for Kain in chat to catch all the questions? 🙂

[placid plinth]

no but the ones in March will be a very different format

[idle portal]

Do you test both vulkan and d3d?
Could it be that the performance are worst with vulkan?

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure which ones get tested and it is possible.

[serene mango]

do skill mtx apply to off-classes? i just had that thought, when you grab a maelstrom shrine for example on a non druid class, can you make maelstrom mtx apply to that? or just your own active skills

[idle portal]

A user seems to say that using vulkan gives worse performance than using d3d emulated on top of opengl/vulkan?
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6642#issuecomment-1633402533

[rancid sand]

heyo are tombs random cause cemetries seem to be sth you select as an echo also if it is random can there be a tomb in a cemetrie XD

[placid plinth]

looks like they still had the same issues in the end

[placid plinth]

deep dive on that coming

[placid plinth]

yes

[rancid sand]

what happens if you convert more than a 100% of an ailment chance to sth else does it give more as well?

[placid plinth]

Kinda second guessing myself here but I think no value over 100%

[rancid sand]

huhe with champions aperently yes XD

[dark frigate]

i'd assume the champion affixes still only increase your base chance by that amount

[somber marten]

If converts are consistent, then anything over 100% does nothing

[placid plinth]

yea, the affix says 100% converted, not +100% converted and it doesn't go above 100%.

if you have 576% chance for an ailment and that is converted to another then you have +576% of the new ailment chance

[rancid sand]

ergh cant post the screenshot but it says 117% of bleed converted to ignite (around 1:28)

[placid plinth]

I just checked the code right now and it's capped at 100%, that must have been captured pre-fixing a bug.

yea, I'm paused at 1:28 right now lol

[verbal pine]

So the set items changes made it in this patch or still needs further tuning

[placid plinth]

nothing is set in stone but this is the set item system rework that we've been talking about.

"The way that set items fit into your build crafting process" was the main line I tried to use wherever I could

[pine dome]

How big the bug fix section of the patch note will be ?

[placid plinth]

big enough that almost everyone making a video about it will skip the vast majority of it because it's just too long to read it all out in one take

[pine dome]

Champion affixes seems to be sealed only, am I right ?

[eternal zinc]

Mike teased me successfully

[placid plinth]

I think so yes

[olive cargo]

I didn't catch it in the trailer, but do champion affixes have tiers?

[verbal pine]

Typically when does lastepochtools update with the season so i can call out that day and do some real work

[pine dome]

That would be a question for Dammit, since the website is not made by EHG

[crude plover]

It's usually when the patch comes out, sometimes maybe a day before

[mental flame]

But would also require early access and permission to release it

[pine dome]

For the Cocooned Uniques, do we actually equip them to reveal their affixes ? Or will we just right click to reveal the affixes ?

[quaint spindle]

you do not

it just uses the same bind to reveal

[pine dome]

It could see the cast where you have a +skill, that would have been really annoying

[rancid sand]

D: that could be annyoing with reskilling after reequiping old gear

[quaint spindle]

ya 100% - it doesnt actually equip the item

it just uses the same bind to reveal

[jaunty dune]

has the number of new uniques coming in season 2 been announced?

[placid plinth]

no but a very significant portion of them are shown in the trailer

[icy stratus]

Cocooned uniques? 👀

[mental flame]

Does uber Aberroth have unique loot, or is it just a challange?

[winter holly]

Is there anything that can be shared on if improvements are coming for the logic that the game uses when unequipping an item with +skills on it and where it removes points from the tree?

[placid plinth]

I don't know, I'll try and find out and if we can share

[icy stratus]

Is Cocooned uniques basically Weaver items stewing in your inventory without the need to have them equiped?

[placid plinth]

We do not have any planned changes to the skill point auto-removal method. I will also advocate pretty firmly for it to remain the way it is. If you'd like to make a suggestion to change it, please use #1210282176680169562

[quaint spindle]

no

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure what I can say, it has some juicy loot.

[mental flame]

The tease!

[placid plinth]

I know, I'm just the worst

[dark frigate]

cosmetics from uber variant? 👀

[lament tulip]

Hey Mike, What is the scope of the difficulty changes to Normal Abby, easier, or harder?

[placid plinth]

Easier in the sense that it's more clear what is happening.

[mental flame]

Are the weapon champion affixes locked to a specific weapon type? The trailer makes it look that way.

[jaunty dune]

is uber aberroth mechanically different or more damage more health? (or both?)

[full lantern]

New campaign chapter or not yet?

[flint bloom]

doesnt seem like it, no

[devout wolf]

Is there a command to unblock player ?

[pine dome]

/unlbock {account name}
I believe

[red urchin]

i think my question may have gotten missed

[devout wolf]

Thank you it worked. Not sure how I blocked myself, that's why I didn't sow my own messages.

[pine dome]

Not the first person I see today with that bug

[placid plinth]

It is a Bow skill.

[placid plinth]

they do have restrictions, the trailer doesn't tell the whole story

[winged pebble]

Will the recurve chance on heartseeker function the same as ailment % chance as in over 100% means one recurve, 200% means 2 recurve or will it be a % chance every time it recurves to do it again? As in if you have 50% there is a 25% chance that it will recurve twice?

[placid plinth]

We will be going into a deep dive on how that all works later. The way it works you could theoretically get many many more than 1 from 100%.

[winged pebble]

Thanks!

[amber hill]

There's a unique helmet in the trailer that makes it into a throwing skill btw

[placid plinth]

wasn't sure if that was shown yet or not haha

[pure python]

Cinematic in the new trailer looked amazing, how are those made? Is it an external studio?

[amber hill]

Hope so the trailer had a Rogue helmet with Lightning blast chain chance modifier. Maybe that was a mistake?

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure if that's a mistake or not but it does have for the rogue a almost completely useless but still technically usable hybrid stat of increased spell damage that goes with it.

[placid plinth]

We did partner with another studio to make the cinematics. I think it was the right call because they clearly knocked it out of the park.

[pure python]

Yeah it looks phenomenal, they killed it!

[fluid axle]

With skill mtx coming, is bee form swarmblade being considered?

[jaunty dune]

it's for the spark charge rogue enjoyers

[wooden bridge]

Super stoked for the new season, lots of new stuff coming, cant wait to dig into it. Much love to the EHG team, always rooting for you guys ❤️

[flint bloom]

Mike can you spill da beans on this one?

[serene mango]

do ability proc chances above 100% behave the same as dots

[frank smelt]

Way back there was talk from multiple developers about shifting power from passives on to items, did this happen already and I missed it? is it upcoming? or scraped?

[pine chasm]

No, generally max is 100%

[placid plinth]

not yet

[placid plinth]

It's been happening and is ongoing.

[jaunty dune]

are there significant changes coming to existing set items/bonuses along with the new crafting system?

[placid plinth]

we did a minor pass on them too

[plain spindle]

Mike in the trailer i can see a quiver on the back of the rogue during Heartseeker showcase. Is this going to be a mtx or will quivers finally receive their models?

[placid plinth]

I'm not entirely sure what that is. I just went into game and I don't have a quiver visible.

[cursive sparrow]

Will we see Mikes attempt at normal or uber abby in the upcoming year?

[placid plinth]

I have the problem of always trying to do a new character and I only play it on stream. I can try and do a more meta build to get higher with if people want.

[cursive sparrow]

or invite some other ehg memeber to showcase the fight some weeks into the season(sorry for #suggestion) would be cool since you guys did co-op streams with other members

[regal stratus]

is the purpose of woven offerings to unbrick your bricked slams? LP of legendary can go up or down, but also gets rerolled so inherited properties also get rerolled?

[regal stratus]

with the set items feature thing being an in-echo interaction, where you pull up your stash and chuck the items in. 1) can we shift click items in now (with nemesis, you had to drag it, like elon musk dragging his items around) 2) has anything been done so you don't get attacked by some mob offscreen while you're interacting with the mechanic?

[cursive sparrow]

Will there be some mechanic/boss that gates the mastery respect. Like maybe you can change mastery only after empowered lagon kill etc? Or its available right away as u meet the npc

[bold shale]

I mean normally you just clear a large area around the mechanic before you interact with it. Unless you're very confident in your fast menuing lol

[placid plinth]

Where it happens should be very safe.

[ruby rose]

Hey Mike, for the set shards, is it an affix off of the set item or an affix that allows the item the shard is applied to count as part of the set?

[placid plinth]

Deep dive to come.

[paper folio]

Is season 2 going to see any significant performance improvements? It's probably been asked a million times already but the little micro stutters are annoying 😂

[placid plinth]

Performance improvements are always something we are working hard on. Every major patch comes with performance improvements. It just isn't really a splashy thing to put in an overview trailer.

[fluid axle]

Can you please leak the entire text for the FG 2 hander node 👀

[paper folio]

That's understandable it's just hard to know what you guys are aware of such as dodging into enemies when trying to dodge away, or stuttering when pulling up the overlay map or stuttering when a lot of enemies die or spawn on the screen - these don't appear in known bugs but are common at least for me, but then I see a lot of people saying the game runs buttery smooth for them 😂so even when using a pretty good rig there's probably minor differences in hardware between players that might have a big impact

[jaunty dune]

You've mentioned having "big plans" for the Friday streams leading up to release, do those start tomorrow? 👀

[placid plinth]

No but I just found out that I get to announce those plans tomorrow.

[steady spindle]

Will we also be able to buy the skill mtx that are handed out as twitch drops?
I usually like to boycot that "pretend-to-watch-a-stream" to grab something ingame.

[eternal zinc]

Can current ww items join in new ww systems to bonus, to craft or something else?

[valid marlin]

Has EHG ever released data on how many players play on the legacy/season servers? Like what type of split it is?

[placid plinth]

As far as I know, they will be like the previous ones, no way to buy them

[placid plinth]

Nope

[placid plinth]

Yes

[ebon rose]

The trailer confused me a little, in that it seems like the weaver is an antagonist or at best a neutral faction whose goals dont align with the travellers, yet we join them? Is this a doryani defeat mean temporary alliance situation, or a synthesis league allies until the inevitable betrayal situation? Or something else entirely?

[placid plinth]

The Weaver and The Woven aren't the same thing.

( I don't want to give too much away just yet)

[valid marlin]

I have to assume it's more legacy than PoE, since we get content in both servers. Chris Wilson said ~10-15% play legacy over there. Is there any particular aversion you all have from communicating that info? I wouldn't expect you to know it off-hand, of course

[eternal zinc]

Will our passive tree of current mastery be reset (but that 20 or 21 points keep in here) after we switched mastery?

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure why we would or wouldn't show it really. I feel like at best it's mildly interesting to some people and at worst can kill the enjoyment for others. Not sure the risk is worth the reward.

[placid plinth]

I think it refunds everything.

[fluid axle]

spider boss?

[stone jewel]

When do certain sites that offer a planner for LE get access to the new stuff you're going to add in an upcoming patch? Are you in contact with them or do they just get the patchnotes at the same time as everyone?

[exotic bone]

question about Shield Throw's ricochet. If there are 2 monsters and my shield throw can ricochet 5 times, does it mean that each target will get hit 3 times total - providing that they can survive all the hits?

[rancid sand]

heyo just asking when (in regards to which hour/ rough time) the launch will be as i kinda need to know for planning vacation days XD

[rancid sand]

nice an hour earlyer then i thought need to do homeoffice that day XD

[fluid axle]

1.0 and 1.1 both launched at noon EST, that's your best guess

[torn seal]

Any improvements on obsidian resonance drops?

[azure socket]

After making the huge updates that you guys are for cycle 2, do you guys think you'll be able to release future cycles every 3 months?

[tawdry pilot]

And that’s big question

[ebon rose]

I like the sound of this. Looking forward to when you or ehg can give more away

[uncut moon]

so will Mike still do his weekly friday stream?

Since trailer is out and TEASE so many new items and previously tease stuff. I know some guy in reddit already COMPILE every shown item in the trailer lmao

[flint bloom]

Yes

[carmine oasis]

Will we be able to move keys from stash into storage all at once or will we have to click each key one-by-one? 🤔 Because thats quite a lot of keys

[uncut moon]

Might be automatically be transfered, i guess

[flint bloom]

Go look at the january #eterra-monthly

[carmine oasis]

you mean the storage option "automatically transfer stackable items to storage when looted." ?

[flint bloom]

Ya. No need to click. It just goes there

[crude plover]

Think they mean the keys they already have in stash in legacy

they'd need to move them into inventory and then transfer

[barren cedar]

Sorry if this has been answered, but will set items be reworked, or it's just that new set crafting system that's being added ? People have been asking for better set items since forever and there was no mention about any changes in the trailer.

[crude plover]

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

minor pass

[carmine oasis]

Yea, exactly... I got 1 full tab for Arbor, Bastion, 2 full tabs for Sanctum, full tab for arenas, two full for memory arena, Aberroth eyes are starting to go up aswell... and still 1month until 1.2, so that'll be even more keys

[flint bloom]

Ah, maybe. Or just drop on ground and vaccuum.

[uncut moon]

well we can shatter those set items now for "essence" what those essence will do. We have no info yet.

[barren cedar]

Shattering is one thing, items themselves being useful for anything except leveling (in rare cases) is another which is something that's way more important for me

[olive cargo]

Will the key changes be retroactive, such that old keys we have in legacy will be moved there without needing player input?

[cursive basin]

so if you have a phantom grip ring, and the blood roost gloves, does the 'Physical Penetration with Bleed inflicted by Minions' apply to your forged weapons, or only to your forged weapons' minions? aka it won't work because forged weapons don't have their own minions?

[crude plover]

The affix itself will work because they are your minions. But the stat they got from the ring would apply to their minions and as you said they have none so the affix they'd get from the ring would be useless.

Tldr: no double dipping

[reef sable]

I'm just speculating but my guess is that after shattering set items we will get shards that allow us to turn other items into set items or to add affixes from that set to other items.

[cursive basin]

ok what if you had 2 phantom grip rings, and each one gives 100% effect of stats from gloves. would 20% attack speed on gloves turn to 40% attack speed for the forged weapons?

[crude plover]

Pretty sure yes

I'll see if I can check

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

[valid marlin]

Lol. Dude, stop picking them up

[carmine smelt]

So one thing I noticed in the trailer was that WASD and mastery respecs are both being added. While I'm indifferent to WASD, I appreciate being able to swap masteries... but curiously, both of these features were explicitly said to not be added! I remember one dev (you?) saying "We don't want to say never because things change", but this nonetheless comes as a surprise.

What led to these decisions being made? Was it simple demand since both were often requested? Was a way to do them without compromising the game's vision discovered? Did someone new gain decision making powers and push for them?

[uncut moon]

I wanna shake hand of the guy that gave the idea and go signal for Rune of Redemption & Rune of Havoc. Thank you.

[carmine oasis]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-no-nonono-noooo-cat-no-gif-16356106285349646826

[devout wolf]

what kind of RNG system this game have ?

[uncut moon]

Now Olvrin can brag his 999 stack keys per dungeon haha

[carmine oasis]

Im sure some people have more of them around, idk... but for sure I dont have to worry about not having keys 😄

[placid plinth]

They will be useful...

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry but could you give some options as to what you mean? What are the options of kinds of RNG systems that we have to pick from?

The answer that came to mind initially was "the random kind" but that feels like it's not what you meant.

[placid plinth]

The process to get features like these in is a long and winding road. The short version is that we didn't ever plan to have WASD but the demand for it caused us to take another look at it. We decided that we wanted it but didn't think that we could get it feeling good enough in time so "the line" became "maybe". As you can see, it's listed as beta. The fact that we are releasing it as such is indicative of the impact the feedback has had.

Essentially, without the intensity of the feedback, I expect that it would have shown up eventually but it was expedited.

As for mastery respec, that was a very different process. Player feedback actually had almost nothing to do with that decision as it was essentially split on which one the community at large seemed to prefer. That was decided more because of how the game and content available had evolved recently. We figured that it was time to pull the trigger on it. I personally didn't expect it until 4th masteries arrived but I'm quite pleased that we did it now instead. I think it was actually decided while I was in vacation and I was very pleased when I got back as I actually had a plan to pitch it hard for next patch after Season 2.

And yes, that's the short version.

[placid plinth]

No, keep picking them up, they will be very useful.

[carmine smelt]

It may mean things like how it's determined which items drop. Grim Dawn has a super interesting way of doing things where it will reroll any unique item that drops if you already saw it that play session, up to a maximum of ten rerolls if it keeps rolling duplicates over and over. I do not know of any such system in Last Epoch, though.

[placid plinth]

We will be going into a deep dive on the system in March but this change will have people hunting for specific set items well into late game.

[serene mango]

considering this, were there any additional options for lootfilters added to target specific uniques/set items (also being able to filter out x unique with y lp)

[placid plinth]

Well, the studio is based 1 hour earlier than that, so Eleventh Hour Games is releasing a game at 11:00 local time...

[placid plinth]

There is no RNG smoothing or RNG memory.

[placid plinth]

Yes. Do I remember which specifically? No.

[carmine smelt]

One more question: I saw that various new bosses are being added - hooray! One of them is Uber Aberroth, also known as Pain according to my question yesterday (considering Aberroth was already considered an uber, how many attempts it took me to beat regular Aberroth, I'm a bit frightened of the implications, lol). Are any other uber bosses planned for this patch, or is Aberroth still the big kahuna?

[kind cairn]

Will minion be buffed? they were previously weak

[crude plover]

minions in general are not weak, are you refering to a specific build or skill maybe?

[pine dome]

Fun thing to say in a world where we have Falconer and Wraithlord

[carmine smelt]

Fourth masteries? Interesting! Is the plan to keep the same number of classes but add more masteries to them, rather than add additional classes wholesale? I suppose it would be easier to add more masteries since you wouldn't need new voice work, nor as many new animations.

[kind cairn]

last time i played the OP minion build was the big reaper but the rest was weak. Im talking about zoomancer build with aliments like poison ignite

[placid plinth]

Current Aberroth is not what I would call an Uber boss. I tend to use D2 example on what that is. (Check the arreat summit site for what I think is the first use of the term.) The other new fixed difficulty bosses are meant to be challenging steps in your character's journey. They will be asperational goals for many players who maybe thought Aberroth was too asperational.

[crude plover]

to me the base version of a boss can never be uber since uber (to me) is a stronger version of a boss

[placid plinth]

The floor is getting raised but blanket buff? No, if we are talking current maximum potential of minions then they are currently OMG WTF Mega OP.

[exotic bone]

Regarding mid-season discovered build-breaking bugs(both positively and negatively). Like in 1.0 your initial stance was insta fixing(vs infinite smoke bomb shadows, and 40% warlock ward), but then you stopped fixing all the bugs that got surfaced later(mainly talking about all the bugged damage interaction of Detonating Arrow). What's EHG's stance of this problem with the upcoming season?

[placid plinth]

New masteries are certainly less difficult to make. We have plans for both at some point.

[placid plinth]

Each situation is unique and will be addressed individually.

[carmine smelt]

I agree that overall Aberroth wasn't that hard in the grand scheme of things, once I learned how he works. Nevertheless, I do recall that he was being billed as "Last Epoch's first Uber". I think there may be some disagreement among EHG on what an uber boss is based on your response, though it's ultimately just semantics. If an Uber is merely a stronger version of a boss that existed already, though, then I suppose Lagonn would win that one. I actually really liked his current balance, where he was a tough challenge that demanded decent gear but was ultimately doable without having to break yourself. I'll give his Uber variant a shot, to be sure, but I dunno if I'll actually beat him (especially since I'm planning a melee build next league, which will put me at a bit of a disadvantge).

[crude plover]

he's last epochs first pinnacle boss

[pine dome]

I do recall that he was being billed as "Last Epoch's first Uber"

Pinnacle not Uber

[placid plinth]

Yea

Some community members used the term Uber but I think it would be very difficult to find anyone from EHG using that term. (We had a big meeting about it a while back)

[crude plover]

in a way the empowered timeline bosses could be considered uber 😛

[carmine smelt]

I stand corrected.

[carmine oasis]

"will"... did Mike just call my keys useless? 😦

[flint bloom]

dont...

[crude plover]

https://tenor.com/view/why-are-you-booing-me-im-right-gif-10368876

[valid marlin]

Your second page, maybe

[runic shell]

I recently discovered the glyph of insight and how to use it for crafting. Was making the results depend on forging potential and affix tier a bit too esoteric/easter egg for its usefulness?do you plan in the future to streamline it a bit or are you happy with it?

[timid fjord]

is switching masteries limited in anyway, specific item/gold cost?
since respeccing is currently done with gold, although the amount is negligible

[barren cedar]

And that is something i wanted to hear regarding set items, the "minor changes" didn't sound convincing as we all know how useless set items are currently in endgame. That's great news, can't wait 🙂

[placid plinth]

"minor changes" was in response to a question about changes to individual set items. They don't need much in the way of buffs to become useful after the systemic changes.

[placid plinth]

Gold

[placid plinth]

Experimental crafting is changing....details to follow.

[meager mountain]

how far distance is the "Nearby" in "Ursine Strength" Beastmaster passive exactly? ive tried googling but could not find it in any resource available to me and it did not show in the ingame help guide either, would be helpful to get a visual representation of how far it is

[pine dome]

Nearby refers to 6 meters
If you go to the Arena, and check the ground rings around the solo dummies, that 6 meters

[meager mountain]

6 meters from one end of the rings to the other? or from the middle of the ring to the edge?
and also, this info would probably be useful to have in the ingame help guide under "Nearby" so if i search in the helpguide for "nearby" it would show up and give me this info

[crude plover]

isn't it 4 meters?

[pine dome]

6 meters is from the center to the edge of the circle (dont know the name in english, half the diameter) > Radius !!

[pine dome]

Thats the new range on Bastion

[crude plover]

ah

[pine dome]

It used to be 6 meters > Nearby

[buoyant bone]

Will forged weapons and animated armor be able to inherit the new champion affixes? (I remember someone saying that they can’t inherit “complicated affixes”)

[craggy kiln]

What made EHG change their mind about mastery respecing?

[jaunty dune]

mike answered earlier today #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message

[uncut moon]

"didn't expect it until 4th masteries arrived" damn, first time reading about 4th masteries.

[placid plinth]

to be clear, no work at all has been done on new masteries and they are not on any internal roadmaps at all

[primal girder]

Think Beastmaster will be able to wield a bow before we get any 4th masteries? (#TeamBowBeastmaster)

[placid plinth]

I would love to. No idea if it will happen.

[worthy stump]

what date was it the twitchdrops would begin

[flint bloom]

april 2

and it runs thru like, the 7th? and you just need 6 hours total

[marble socket]

@placid plinth
Mike, if you don't reveal the Sets updates today, we won't be friends anymore. 😂

[placid plinth]

I will value the memory of our friendship always

[marble socket]

😢

[verbal pine]

speaking of masteries were or are there plans to do something with the passives to make them more dynamic and interesting?

[placid plinth]

Yes, as we go through and update masteries, they get modernized. Sentinel passives are getting a bunch of updates in Season 2.

[verbal pine]

dang it i wasnt clear so lets say there are items that change the masteries passive. ex: void knight master passive echos and grants void damage for stuff and an item changes that to void spells leaving "space pools like aberroth" that deals dot or something. but i figure then the passive tree would need more stuff or something

[final cave]

Are we getting more Bee uniques this season?

[humble axle]

Good afternoon, i had a question about electrify and its scaling tags. Currently in game i cant find a way for the UI to show the electrify skill UI with the damaging scaling tags. Therefore i am left to use the 3rd party site letools to get that answer. From letools currently electrify only has the damage scaling tags of "damage over time" that's it. Typically for skills like this what have elemental type damage i have found the scaling tag of the matching element (in this case lightning) but it is not there currently. my intention after i finish my ignite warlock is to make a javelin electrify paladin with the "tu'rani's bident". is the only way to scale up the mentioned dot with just dot dmg affix's or relevant damage mods/passives. Or is this just potentially a UI/3rd party error and it actually scales with more then what is shown.

[flint bloom]

Electrify will scale with dot%, ele dot%, ele%, generic dmg%, lightning%. It doesnt have the lightning tag cuz its in the dmg it does

Also things like res shred, lightning pen will also help

[deft raven]

Can we please get some merch like tshirts, figures etc… smth we can have at home and by that also support you?

[cursive sparrow]

In new post it was highlighted that warriors fury on warpath will be heavily nerfed. Was it overperforming with echoes? Or the numbers on the node will be buffed to compensate for dps loss. And is warslahs(giant splitter) working for echoes a bug too?

Rip nvm saw that its noted as a bug

[pine dome]

Hey Mike, could post the teasers here again like last week?

[devout wolf]

Can you have 1 character in MG and 1 character in CoF ?

[flint bloom]

yes

[devout wolf]

First I played as MG got to lvl 6 did not spend a singel favor. Switched to CoF now i have 0 Favor in MG. How did I loose all my fovor ??

[flint bloom]

when you switch on the same toon, you lose all the favor. but you can have two seperate toons in each without issue

[devout wolf]

Why have some items marked as Cannot be Traded. And they are not marked as CoF ?

Why reinventing the wheel. Listen to me: I never had trouble trading/gifting items in any game but this. It is the worst experience ever !!! Playing the games for 30 years and it's mind blowing how stupid this system is. Why not just remove MG/COF and gifting/trading would be much simpler.

[flint bloom]

if you have feedback, please put it in #1210281911872786482

[placid plinth]

Here is a detailed explanation of the our motivations for the system.
https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/trade-item-factions/61722

[devout wolf]

HAHA is this a joke ? You don't even have a support for this game. Waiting for my 4LP armor lost in gifting window for a quite some time now. Not a single word about it. Did wrote a ticket, some1 here sad he did send to supporting system. Yea silence is the best defense you got.

[placid plinth]

there are no old unanswered support tickets. If you have not received any message at all in response to a support ticket opened here: https://support.lastepoch.com/hc/en-us/requests/new please open a new one. You should receive confirmation of submission automatically and a real person follow up shortly after. Usual tips apply like checking junk mail etc.

[devout wolf]

Hello Traveler,
Your request (55326) has been received and is being reviewed by our support staff. Please allow 2-3 Business days for a reply as our support team works on your ticket. Have not received a single email about it.

not sure if this is the right request, since i reported a lot of bugs/support

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry, I don't have any information on the status of support tickets. If it's been more than 3 business days then you can open a new ticket if you want. I suspect that something went wrong in the reply. I asked at the top and they said that every ticket has been replied to. I'm not sure why you haven't received it.

[devout wolf]

Averielle — 24. 02. 2025 14:33 was taking about my problem here then i was send to channel ask-the-community .. where i posted the screenshot and everything they asked for.

[placid plinth]

I know this is deeply unsatisfying. This is very explicitly not what this channel is for. I have no access to the support ticket system at all myself. I can't help you.

If you want help from someone who can help. You can contact them through the support site: https://support.lastepoch.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

You can try @ModMail too but that is just a skin on the support ticket email above.

I'm really concerned that you're wasting a lot of time typing out something that I'm just gonna have to apologise for and not be able to help with.

[devout wolf]

Sorry to be rude and disrespectful and angry ... I reported here, I did report in game thru support system. Never got the item never got a response. You know how I feel like a small fish in a ocean full of sharks. NO I will not resend/repost. If you ignored me once you will ignored me again. Waist of my time. GN.

[placid plinth]

I know you don't believe me and I don't know how to convince you but you were not ignored. The ticket was responded to if it was submitted through the support ticket system on our website which it looks like it was. I don't know why you didn't receive it.

Just to be clear, the in game bug reporting tool does not prompt a reply from support.

[low isle]

Will there be cursor size setting in the new season?

[deft raven]

Any merch is planned? T-shirts and such?

[potent swift]

In the hype-page for Tombs of the Erased, regarding Sentinel wielding 2H + Shield, does that mean any two-handed (Staves, for example) or will it be explicit to more archetypical weapons for the class, such as Swords, Axes, Spears, Maces.

The reason I'm asking is, unabashedly, theorycrafting. But also because dual-weilding is notably explicit in what you can wield off-handedly and I was wondering if the same applies here

[acoustic merlin]

when are we getting the option to romance the immortal emperor?

[flint bloom]

Make said no staves.

[potent swift]

https://tenor.com/view/my-disappointment-is-immeasurable-and-gif-20080022

[true sigil]

Hey guys, I wanted to ask if it will be possible to move while casting attacking with the introduction of wsad? Or if this is something you are considering for the future, no idea how hard it would be to introduce this.

[placid plinth]

You can only cast instant cast abilities while moving. You can test right now by putting the ability in question on right click and holding left and right click at the same time to see what happens.

[dawn hull]

Hi mike, will you stream the beta wasd support some time (or maybe showcase it in another teaser or something)?

[placid plinth]

All of the Friday dev streams in March will be podcasts with various content creators like Ziz, Raxx, Tri, Ghazzy, Frosty and Aaron so I won't be streaming gameply pre-patch. I think we can wrangle something up for a devlog or something. It will just look like controller gameplay though.

[fluid axle]

are hard/uber versions of mono bosses ever coming? like now we get uber aberroth, will we see uber heorot, or uber lagon?

[eternal zinc]

Oh...So all streams in March are specially because all of them are podcasts? It mean Mike have tons of interviews need to do lol

I'm curious about how Mike talking for hours but his throat still working well... I'm a listener more than speaker always so I suppose Mike done good job on streams and previous podcasts.

[crude plover]

He drinks a lot of tea as mentioned on stream a few times as well as in this message

"I found myself drinking as much herbal tea with honey as I could get my hands on just to keep my voice semi-functional." :

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

[eternal zinc]

😂 holy god... Herbal tea?!?!?!... It's the traditional drink in Guangzhou at least... well then I guess Mike will want to learn more if he come here...

(with honey... hhhhhhhh very realistic)

[exotic bone]

Is Minion Snapshotting intentional or no? rn you can snapshot a full set of minion gear for abomination then swap into a completely different gear set

[crude plover]

It's not but it's technically not a bug either. It's something they're slowly working on. An example is the falcon from falconer not really being snapshot-able (it sneakily gets resummoned fairly often)

[exotic bone]

so some summons got special treatment?

[crude plover]

I think it's more a consequence of being newer vs older. Hopefully they'll eventually do a pass on older summons to remedy snapshotting for them as well

[placid plinth]

The Falcon is a very special case. It does a lot of things to make it function that are very sneaky. If it is ever performing an attack (other than basic melee), the actual actor model is disabled and what you are seeing is a skill VFX along the same lines as a fireball that just happens to look exactly the same as the falcon. One key thing about all of these abilities is that it goes off screen. This means that it has distinct times when we turn it on/off. This means that we have very good timing windows where we can resummon it without the player knowing. Other minions are always on screen so we can't pull this same trick. Not to mention that because the falcon is completely invulnerable, it doesn't matter if its health gets restored back to full because it's always at full.

If we had a magic wand that could remove snapshotting from all minions, we would use it. They just don't afford us the same opportunities for seamless resummoning that the falcon's unique interactions does.

[exotic bone]

Yeah i can imagine the technical difficulties trying to fix that 🤷🏽‍♂️. Wanted to ask so i can have a correct approach to summons in general
Hopefully the fix will come soon

[rancid sand]

wait thats more then 4 ehh sometimes there will be a larger round of people?

[crude plover]

ziz and raxx were gonna do theirs together iirc

and prob some others are gonna do theirs together too like frosty and aaron

[placid plinth]

3/7 Maxroll (Raxx/Ziz)
3/14 Ghazzy/Frosty
3/21 Talkative Tri
3/28 Aaron

Who from EHG that will be at each of these is still undecided but it will include a mix of familiar and new (to you) faces.

[eternal zinc]

Hope you prepare enough herbal tea to stay hydrated

[rancid sand]

tea is the best :D

[lament tulip]

Mike burning the midnight oil what a 🐐

[placid plinth]

(string)Lock is tuesday and I'm a sucker for a last second feature.

[eternal zinc]

I guess you want to say Thursday?

[placid plinth]

no, tuesday

[eternal zinc]

then I don't know what this meme mean

[uncut moon]

since last podcast would be with Aaron on 3/28

I assume that Patch note would be available after that last podcast

Please release it a few days before April 2nd season 2 launch*

[lament tulip]

Im assuming what Mike means by "lock" is feature locking, no new added stuff

[rancid sand]

maybe with it and they go over it together?

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure what the exact patch notes date is but it will be before April 2nd

(and April 1st is just cruel)

[uncut moon]

So around March 29,30,31... I can live with that. Since need to plan beforehand before actual launch.

Another one, since its a big patch. I assume whole day of April 1st is a maintenance? so we can't play at that time

[reef sable]

at 0:30 in the trailer, in the top right: Is that a staff slotted into the weaver tree? 👀

[placid plinth]

just because I'm a pedantic jerk, no

assuming you're talking about this

[crude plover]

looks like world splitter (2h axe)

[uncut moon]

I looks more like the World Splitter to me

[lament tulip]

Paradolia strikes again! ( sorta )

[reef sable]

yes that's what I'm talking about. If the no is pedantic, then my guess is that it is an item but not a staff - maybe a key? 😄

[uncut moon]

well Mike might not be able to answer you on that. all assumption for now. Since in the middle part of the skill tree you can see a woven echo being slotted too.

Might be a way for target farming specific gear /item you want? all assumption for now

[reef sable]

yeah it really looks like the world splitter 😄 This adds up with Mike saying in the stream that the tech for that would also be useful to build a unique stash thingy 😄

[placid plinth]

Yea, I'm not gonna get more specific but feel free to speculate. We'll reveal more details on the march podcasts

[eternal zinc]

I don't know why it's cruel to launch 1.2 on that day

[crude plover]

He meant the patch notes not the patch

giving notes 1 day before the patch is "cruel" because people would need to read through them and plan their build within a day

[lament tulip]

(also april fools day)

[eternal zinc]

Yeah before a week is the best

[stuck spruce]

Although someone may have already asked on yesterday's Q&A live stream, I haven't had time to watch it yet. So, Rune of Havoc. I heard that it will have a rarity somewhere between Rune of Ascendance and Rune of Creation. I think this is fine in itself.
MY QUESTION would be if this rune also gets a CoF prophecy. Because if so, its rarity doesn't really matter, because for example, since CoF exists, I can collect 20 Rune of Creation with prophecies in half an hour.
And if that's the case with Rune of Havoc too, then this can cause incredible power creep, or at least dangerously simplify item acquisition. Just an example: I want a Relic, Helm or Chest with T7 Level to a skill. It's been a very valuable, rare item until now, and now i can take an item with a random exalted on it, put a T1 skill prefix on it, and gamble a few times with a couple of Runes of Havoc to get the T7+ skill. I'm not saying it's a bad rune, it's amazing, because it's been a real pain in the ass to get these +skill items so far (especially with CoF), but it's important that it shouldn't be easily obtainable with prophecies either. Currently, the Rune of Creation prophecies are also quite op imo.

[crude plover]

what's the question? if there'll be a prophecy for it or not?

[placid plinth]

I can't find one in the list. I'm not 100% sure on if one will exist or not on patch day but I can't find one right now.

[uncut moon]

Well that might help the target farming people are complaning about in CoF. Since SURE you can get tons of Exalted drop but getting the specific affix you want will still take tons of time in current patch.

@crude plover from what i am understanding Vezidoroga is saying having Rune of Havoc and Rune of Redemption is big buff for CoF

[placid plinth]

They are a significant new source of gear for everyone for sure.

[eternal zinc]

It's simple to solve then... Just let it unavailable by prophecies. Only available by drops.

20 rune of creation in half an hour is too much? Emmmm but rune of ascendence under the same case too...

[stuck spruce]

As I said, it fills a gap and is amazing. BUT if you get a prophecy for it, like the rune of Creation, I wouldn't farm anything else but the Rune of Havoc and a few items to shatter them for skill shards.

[crude plover]

this would be better in the #1210281911872786482 at this point

[uncut moon]

well with some prophecy having various rune 20x reward. One of those are bound to be rare runes like Creation or the new runes redemption and havoc

[crude plover]

speculating on the strength or usefullness of something in this channel doesn't do anything since messages here aren't logged

[placid plinth]

I did forget about the assorted runes prophecy. Although I doubt that's the source of big creation drops.

[little raptor]

i mean its pretty easy to get skill shards as is, that's hardly a concern imo

[stuck spruce]

Yes, thats exactly why its a concern. I put tier 1 skill with a skill shard (what is easly to get) then shuffle the skill tiers.

[little raptor]

sorry, I think I misunderstood your previous message then

[placid plinth]

They are also interacting via a shared resource per item in Forging Potential. If you have to use these new runes to get an item to a "starting point" then you'll have less FP for sealing and tier upgrading. They are for sure quite strong but do have some natural balancing too.

and I'm sure we will need to make some tweeks to rates on different crafting elements.

[eternal zinc]

Not sure what Mike is discussing but I agree with Vezi's concern.

[sturdy gale]

Abo unique when? 😉

[crude plover]

Abo? if you mean abberoth uniques then there's already null portent, nihilis and seed ekkidrasil

or did you mean abomination

[sturdy gale]

abomination, Mike mentioned iy in his stream yesaterday

[mental flame]

Mike said on stream yesterday that if 1.2 does not have an Abomination unique, he would start working on one.

[timid fjord]

Was something like killing all minions whenever gear is swapped ever on the table? It would prevent using one set to summon and then switching to second more defensive set. No idea if that is anymore feasible than snapshot updates or if it would come across as too heavy handed

[flint bloom]

I was wondering if you had any info to satisfy my curiosity (and ik you might not/or just arent allowed to say) but why is the maxroll one on 3/7 with not the maxroll LE people (Lizard, Bina, Mcfluffin, etc)?

Also Perry and Dr3ad have a podcast that is much more LE focused, were they not asked or did they decline, or something else?

[uncut moon]

I was hoping The Curse and FrozenSentinel to be part of the podcast imo. Since they are basically Sorcerer Guru

[olive cargo]

Raxx is interim ceo of maxroll, isn't he?

[eternal zinc]

#❔┃ask-the-community message
Mike, what this nickname mean?

[crude plover]

if you mean fella that just means friend

[eternal zinc]

I guess I need to do something on my nickname to get this emote nickname, I don't know what's it...

[crude plover]

that emote is the "default" name, it's just a bug

there's also the moxjet character you can get if the client fails to fetch your character

it doesn't mean anything

[eternal zinc]

Moxjet character?

[crude plover]

default player character

it's a primalist named moxjet

[thick nacelle]

hi Mike, i was wondering if you guys ever conider to make runes,shards and glyfs also tradable with other players on the market? it would be verry cool to be able to buy and sell those from the Bazaar, kind of like in POE you can trade all currency's?

[crude plover]

they have considered it and decided not to. If it's something you'd like to see in the game please post in the #1210282176680169562 or #1210281911872786482

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

[thick nacelle]

okay thank you!

[icy stratus]

Can someone explain why we're the "last traveller" but there's tons of travellers everywhere I look (in city hubs etc.)

[crude plover]

time travel shenanigans

[eternal zinc]

Mike, can I ask the order of all characters on when are they born? Primalist is #1, then is?

[icy stratus]

Kinda makes sense I guess, at least it allows EHG to make the steampunk (or maybe frostpunk, that could work too) era without breaking the game lore

[crude plover]

Mike has since said they don't have any plans for guns but never say never 😛

[icy stratus]

Mike also said yesterday that time travelling = of course future era, but sci-fi would clash and be a huge mess so I'm thinking more steam/frostpunk setting with some basic firearms (Torchlight-tuah-esque), oh kinda like Arcanum

[true sigil]

Okay I guess I have not played a skill with instant cast yet, or at least not as main skills so I did not notice. Personally would still like to be able to move while casting with all skills (at reduced speed). But ofc I understand if this is not what you guys want and le is still number 1, hyped for cycle 2!

[placid plinth]

The problem with questions like this is we've tested a LOT of options. Yes, we even have this functionality buried in the code still.

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure but we probably approached Maxroll as a whole and it was their decision. We probably haven't been on raxx's radar for a while now and I think he's top dog over there right now.

I think perry and dread also paused their podcast for a while and just started it back up yesterday.

[timid fjord]

😅 now I'll be waiting for the eventual bug where equipping some specific item causes all minions to die because the code accidentally rose from grave

[placid plinth]

You're asking the wrong person lol. I know the Mage is older than the Acolyte because he was her mentor.

[icy stratus]

I bought the game because of how much Raxx liked it, I'm pretty sure he's keeping tabs despite the content draught

[crude plover]

Think they might've meant when they were added into the game but unsure

[placid plinth]

That's an extremely large game wide sweeping change that would throw shockwaves through every ability and enemy encounter. A paradigm shift of that magnitude is possible but to fit in at the last second with a beta implementation is not every close to being able to be considered.

[eternal zinc]

I‘m asking the wrong person?

[placid plinth]

Sorry, it's an idiom, a colloquial metaphor. It just means that I don't know much about that topic.

Idioms don't translate well.

[placid plinth]

Ohhhh, in the order they were added to the game, I think that it's knight (forgotten), BM/sorc, necro, VK, rogue

[placid plinth]

Oh, yea but I don't think he has done any content for LE in a while.

[icy stratus]

Yea, understandable, I really like LE, but there was not much to come back to after Imperial Juicing (you should do more of these)

[eternal zinc]

can I ask which job acolyte was doing before she came to Eterra?

[pine dome]

She was the Mage student

But got banned because she went to try the dark magic

[placid plinth]

She was born on Eterra, so I guess nothing?

[crude plover]

Lol

[placid plinth]

Yea, wasn't a jab at Raxx, just probably a good opportunity to get the info in front of his audience who might not be as up to date.

[eternal zinc]

holy her life is what I want :(

[icy stratus]

Someone asked you yesterday, what would say to convince someone to come back to LE... You should've said "Watch the Season 2 trailer." 💨 🎤

[placid plinth]

Yup, that's much better

[icy stratus]

I was watching on YouTube 20 minutes behind cause I got to the stream late, I didn't want to be delayed chatter spamming "WATCH THE TRAILER!" out of nowhere

[marble socket]

🐈 🎒

[flint bloom]

Fair enough. I assume LE hasn't been on a lot of peoples radar since the reset of 1.1 and such. Only a few people like dr3ad and aaron been making consistent content in between. But ik a lot of those you are dev talking to have bigger broader audiences. Thanks for the response

[eternal zinc]

Mike, who 's the people figure out the genius idea that use as the default character name when the server is fail to fetch them and how they figured out that idea?

[mystic walrus]

will 1.2 feature buffs to underpowered/underperforming uniques? im all for the concept of some items being more powerful than others, but some look like they're a really cool concept but fall short of being "good enough"

[humble axle]

Good evening, I was wondering if having enemies that are hostile to you show on the overlay map as a red dot or having a loot filter option to have items show up on the map overlay. Just asking before I type up a request in the suggestion part of the discord for something that’s unreasonable or unrealistic.

[shadow swift]

does the MG bazaar get an uptick in traffic for the eternal realm and the beginning of events and seasons?

Hyped for s2 but will be continuing on my eternal toons this time around vs seasonal

[pine chasm]

It definitely will, people who play Legacy also like to play new content when it releases
(How much of an uptick though, idk)

[acoustic merlin]

has build variety been improved for other classes besides sentinel in season 2? (mainly just curious if other classes have had their skill trees reworked or tweaked aswell)

[burnt cypress]

Hey mike, did i hear correctly that WASD allows you move while doing instant abilities !? - this would make melee feel so nice

[cursive sparrow]

there are no instant melee abilities besides vc with unique scepter, so wasd will not have any effect there, its more of a preference choice

[crude plover]

You can already do this with point and click

Like for example if you click somewhere and press flame ward while your character is walking it'll get used without stopping your character

[burnt cypress]

Ah okay cool, makes sense. Thanks!

[jaunty dune]

will the topics for the upcoming dev interviews be announced in advance?

[ebon rose]

Will ehg release the trailer soundtrack someday?

[tawdry pilot]

Some campaign rework or update in works?

[rancid sand]

heyo will there be more news/articles then "just" the friday podcast things also will they be more spread out during the weeks or more focused on a specific days?

[flint bloom]

we were supposed to get ch10 in 1.2...but that got pushed back. this update is all about endgame, so i wouldnt expect sweeping changes to the campaign, outside of like loot/mob changes/balances that come with cycle patches.

[flint bloom]

yeah, they normally do a hype week the week leading up to it...but this is a much bigger patch, so, maybe it'll be a bit longer than normal. i'd expect a good chunk of stuff on the interviews to be posted and talked about publicly pretty fast afterwards

[tawdry pilot]

More acts is last thing I need in story 🤣

[rancid sand]

Uhh also wondering if you have considered backporting the Weaver Tree Idea to other Factions as it could possibly be quite interesting for the Forgotten Knight Faction

[devout wolf]

Why is Glyph of envy restoring stability to wrong timeline. I want echo to restore stability to lvl 90 timeline not lvl 100/corruption 100. And I did complete multiple echoes from lvl 90 timeline and Glyph of envy keep restoring lvl 100.

[somber marten]

#❔┃ask-the-community message

[split ravine]

will any cosmetic that isnt part of a supporter pack get removed from the store?

[spare dragon]

I see a pinned post about yolomouse for the cursor customization. Its not an option under linux with wayland. Is the in game cursor customization such a big problem? Just curious... if its a technical challenge, or resouce - lack of time, priorities.

[crude plover]

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

[spare dragon]

Thank you. I missed that somehow.

[crude plover]

Mike did confirm a couple weeks ago during one of his streams that we're getting UI scaling so that might be a sign of progress towards cursor scaling/customization

But that wasn't commented on so maybe not, just speculation from me ^^

[spare dragon]

that sounds great

[primal girder]

Hey Mike, is there a rationale for why Runemaster runes gained from a dual/tri-spec'd Ele Nova just rotate through the element order instead of gaining the rune of corresponding nova element actually cast? e.g. I have Fire and Cold novas spec'd, and runes gained are always F/C/F/C/etc. even if novas cast was actually C/C/C/F
The 3 invocations that correspond with the rune order gained for tri-ele are all area/nova-esque, so feels like it could be intentional?

Also interesting observation, if I cast Runebolt that has both Arcane Overcharge and one of the fire conversion nodes (Blazing Flare or Searing Dart), tri-spec'd Ele Nova reverses the order of runes gained from F/L/C to C/L/F, maybe bug?

[bold shale]

are there any plans for adding a time limit for items listed in the bazaar, after which they'll be unlisted, or destroyed? I just noticed I have some items in the bazaar that were listed almost a year ago. This doesn't really impact the user experience or anything, I'm just curious.

[static vale]

Miiiiiike, https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/launch-trailer-tombs-of-the-erased/74844/145 do affixes/idols/etc that give +X damage to specific skills (eg, Curse skills in the linked thread) ignore/bypass the skill's added damage effectiveness? Or are they treated like any other +flat damage & get hit by the added damage effectiveness? I know that the skill nodes in Warpath that give % ailment chance have a hidden buff that increases the chance to apply such that the actual chance you get after Warpath's reduced ailment chance is the figure listed on the skill node.

[patent orbit]

Hi Guys i know this isnt for bugs issues but was just wondering if servers are down > ? been trying to log in for over a hour now and just jumps straight to 2 or 4 in que and never changes . i left it for a hour no change 😦 but i didnt have any access to put it on the bugs issues forum

[placid plinth]

Not that I'm aware of. It would probably be posted in #news

You should be able to post in the bug forum, if you check out the stickied top post, it should explain how.

[placid plinth]

They should behave the same as wearing a piece of gear that has those stats generically.

[placid plinth]

Not that I'm aware of. I have a vague memory of us deciding not to do that at some point.

[placid plinth]

Probably a side effect of the possible orders that can cast changing at some point with the rune detection method not.

It's a bug

[placid plinth]

It's possible that we might at some point in the future. It's likely that would only be due to it being very old and of lower quality and in the event that the store had become huge and sufficient to search through.

The only pieces that are scheduled to be removed at all are the old supporter packs we just announced.

[placid plinth]

Yup, we consider a lot of things though. The Weaver tree is probably a bit bigger and more involved than you're expecting. The tree doesn't fit in the normal still tree window and requires panning to view all of it.

[olive cargo]

You guys went full Path of Exile with that weaver tree, didn't you? Cmon no need to be shy you rascals! 😏

[brisk jackal]

1. Should the effects of COF faction ranks influence the reward drops from prophecies? For example, the double LP chance at rank 8. Or should all prophecy reward items drop as they normally would from mobs/chests?
2. Does the 'Chance to Receive a Critical Strike' from Fiery Dragon Shoes stack additively with the player's critical avoidance? For instance, with a 15% chance to receive a critical strike and 100% critical avoidance, would you still have an 85% chance of being critically hit?

[foggy zephyr]

Hey Mike, I was wondering how the team feels about the balance of the dungeon/arena modifiers (the +HP/+DMG for monsters when you enter a new floor, start a new major arena wave)? They seem a bit lopsided and the curve is much steeper than even something like the Empowered Timelines. Can we expect to see any changes to them in S2? I tend to avoid the higher tiers because of how fast things can scale. Sorry for the long-winded question.

[paper palm]

Does the increased mana cost from pious offering node of judgement count towards crushing blows node in the forge guard tree?

Wondering as pious offering says consumes mana, and not mana cost

[teal trail]

does 1.2 have fishing?

[pine chasm]

No, crushing blows specifically looks at the skill's mana cost (i.e., the number on its tooltip).

[eternal zinc]

😅 No offense, just curious about why are they love to add "senior" in front of a job title.

They can mean any game companies. I don't believe no one isn't senior for their ability on their jobs if they can join in a game company.

[sand merlin]

What is the exact time for S2?

[red urchin]

there is a countdown on the website https://lastepoch.com/

[river root]

Hey devs, while Tombs of the Erased incoming, do you fix all dupes, which were previously used and killed the economy?

[tawdry pilot]

Here we go again

[rancid sand]

im pretty sure in the last devstream mike talked about dupes and so on and he seemed quite confident that they will squash possible dupes quite quickly(all the old ones dont work anymore as well as the way people could manipulate LP crafting(that i know of))

[final cave]

With an increasing number of uniques, Rune of Ascendance, unique/set mono nodes and CoF prophecies have a larger and growing drop pool and thus a decreasing chance to drop the "stuff I want". What strategies does the team plan to employ to sustain the uniquely feel-good targetable nature of Last Epoch's crafting? 🙂

(I really want my pearls of the swine mike :D)

[misty quartz]

What would the possibility of adding full minion movement on controller with the right stick as a separate bind for the people who want it?

[placid plinth]

Controller keybinds are already pretty crowded.
:magic8ballsays:
Outlook not so good.

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry, I can't really answer that without leaking stuff before I'm supposed to.

[placid plinth]

Just to confirm what was already said, yes, all the duper methods that have been found have been fixed (a long time ago). We have also put in place new methods for detection, prevention and correction. We have also put in a method to weed out false positive reports from the community.

[final cave]

Nice to hear that there is notionally a plan. Haven't played consistently since 1.0 and I'm excited for Season 2 nonetheless 🙂

[placid plinth]

Having "Senior" on your job title can mean different things at different companies. Most of the time it means that this is someone you can probably go to for help if you are stuck and get some useful advice.

[placid plinth]

no fishing. And while I always maxed out my fishing skill in WoW on every character, I'd probably bee advocating for a different style of side mechanic like that.

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure off the top of my head what (if any) changes to this have happened. I will say that if I were left to my own devices about it, I would probably make all the difficulty progression curves be steeper. When competing on the arena leaderboard is as much a test of endurance as it is skill, it takes something away from it I think.

[placid plinth]

I can look these up during the week if you remind me, sorry.

[amber hill]

Will the stun/freeze bug be getting fixed in 1.2 (when a boss gets stunned during a big attack animation and then the attack continues but the boss is free to do other attacks)

[crude plover]

I'm almost certain the CoF lp rank works on prophecies

[worthy mirage]

so you are saying that it's most comparable to a.. mono web?

[maiden brook]

Hi mike, is it true to say that beastmaster was designed around specialising in a single companion skill, in contrast to necro who was designed around uaing multiple minion skills at once?

[rancid sand]

does the shuffling of rune of havoc have a system to prevent the the item not changing ( aka bad luck protection( kinda mean sth like for example the affix tier cant land on the slot it originated from)

[rancid sand]

ups already forgot that was there XD

[crude plover]

#1210282176680169562

nothing in this channel gets logged

[true sigil]

nevermind dc search just seems to be not working correcly^^

[crude plover]

Thoughts regarding existing things are most likely best posted in the #1210281911872786482 tbh. Yours would fit under the "Gear, Items, Crafting" post.

[olive cargo]

Is there any chance the old character intros could return someday? I forget why you took them out, and I liked those.

[eternal zinc]

#💬┃general message
Hi Mike, can you explain the reason?

[steady spindle]

Like what Ave already did?

[pine chasm]

To not release on 1 April? #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message
(If you're unfamiliar with it, 1 April is April Fools Day, where you play pranks on people. In the past, EHG has put out some fake news releases on April Fools as well, like many devs do.)

[eternal zinc]

😅 👌 ...... Cruel...

Alright I suppose it's more cruel that we must wait one more day 🤷‍♀️

[placid plinth]

It's unlikely as they caused problems with the story changes that were made. I think it would be pretty cool if they were to return as like an alternate timeline event quest or something weird like that because I really liked them too.

[placid plinth]

I think it was designed with the intent that you want to keep your companions alive whereas the Necromancer minions are expendable. This distinction naturally lends itself to having more minions in general if they are expendable. For Primalist, we intentionally design single companion, few companion and many companion build opportunities and let the player decide which they want to use.

[tawdry pilot]

Any changes to number of npcs in bazaar?

[eternal zinc]

https://youtu.be/8R7pEFEH_UA?si=P_IuPcKM-MbYlCQ5&t=1978
Mike, How are you get the hot sauce and how that hot sauce going later?

[placid plinth]

They were homemade by another person on the team and they sent them to me.

[placid plinth]

I don't think so

[crude plover]

Damn watching that YouTube vod puts it into perspective how much work you've put into your weight loss journey, had only compared like a few months or so before. Amazing job!

[placid plinth]

Yea, it was actually kinda tough to watch.

but thanks 🙂

[pine chasm]

The mad dedication 😁

[icy stratus]

No DLSS before Season 2 launch?
https://i.imgflip.com/64sz4u.png

[placid plinth]

no way

[icy stratus]

I thought it was supposed to come before Season 2 for testing Did it not work out in the end since it's not mentioned in the trailer either?

[placid plinth]

We updated the game engine which was a necessary step before we could start working on it.

[amber hill]

I thought Lich upgrades were coming in 1.2 but didn't see anything in trailer is it still there or not?

[placid plinth]

Everyclass gets stuff. The new Lich ability was planned was delayed.

[amber hill]

Oh ok so not coming in 1.2 or was just not ready for the trailer?

[placid plinth]

The only new skill in Season 2 is Heartseeker. No new Lich skill in Season 2. (and kinda Volatile Reversal because it has new base functionality and visuals and a completely remade skill tree from scratch...but it has the same name.)

[fluid axle]

Are any other sentinel skills getting more or less remade? or is it just balancing existing stuff

[dusk basin]

It’s been a while, but IIRC the Necromancer passive bonus grants an extra skellie and skellie mage. That’s nice, but it also means if you don’t use those skills you’re missing out. Any chance on a rethink of the passive which doesn’t leave out other skills?

[placid plinth]

We are currently still very happy with that passive. Those skills and other necro skills are balanced such that you aren't missing out. I suspect that you're feedback is probably that you don't like not taking full advantage of the bonuses your character has.

Drop it in #1210282176680169562 if you'd like.

[placid plinth]

No. Several have new age reworked key nodes along other balancing.

[dusk basin]

Fair point, you are probably right that I don’t like taking full advantage. It feels like weighing up maximising the passive vs trying new builds without skellies which feels suboptimal. Good insight Mike! Thank you

[potent swift]

Will we be able to use set shards to make Legendary set items?

[inner reef]

[resolved] any tips if i cant get the merge to work? nothing seems to happen. Ive tried a few different characters. Currently i cant play mt characters because of rep requirments missing.

edit: for context, i could never get the 1.0 merge to work so i have 1.1 and 1.0 now that both wont merge.
edit 2: after finding a legacy character of mine, it worked. this is resolved.

[placid plinth]

Details on how the set system will work going forward is still to be revealed.

[cursive sparrow]

will we see improvements on the feel of hitting enemies in s2(sound effects/maybe mini knockback animations etc) so itll feel more responsive?

[placid plinth]

We are continuing to add to the quality of the moment to moment combat through those types of things. It's an ongoing effort that has been part of the last several major updates.

[mystic walrus]

will there be buffs to underpowered uniques?

[placid plinth]

Some uniques will have changes and some won't. Sometimes an item can get incidentally buffed or nerfed based on changes that happen elsewhere too. Maybe there is an item that gives a TON of some stat like fire res shred chance and a new node gets added to a skill tree that scales off of your uncapped fire res shred chance. Suddenly that unique got buffed without actually having any changes happen to it.

This is a hypothetical example, we don't have this exact example happening exactly like this.

Many uniques did get direct balance changes too.

[crude plover]

A node scaling with fire res shred chance would be insane lmao

Most niche scaling ever

[placid plinth]

that's exactly why I used that example. I sat back for a sec and said "what's the most niche scaling possible?"

[jaunty dune]

almost exactly this happened with the introduction of net, rainbow edge is suddenly a bis weapon because you can scale shock chance and it's the only unique one-handed melee weapon in the game with shock chance on it. suddenly the unique is buffed without a single direct change

[placid plinth]

Nice, I'll remember that for next time so I can use a real example. Thanks

[cursive sparrow]

Will we see similar overhaul to death seal/lich as for Volatile reversal in the future, or its not really fair to compare the issues they have to VR?

[placid plinth]

It's similar but I'm not sure if it's really quite the same comparison because death seal only affects lich whereas VR is available to all. Also Death Seal's primary effect is damage at a cost where VR has a completely different main effect.

[safe robin]

This doesn't really matter, I just wanna say that my favorite build is a beastless beastmaster that plays like a chainsaw, and there's no real solid uniques that feel good to use for it...best weapon i've been able to make work is Merophage and i'm kinda meh on it...

[deft raven]

When are we going to get more in game titles to claim as well as achievements? Oh and avatar boarders, these things are already setup in game but empty 🙂

[eternal zinc]

We all know be successful on indie games have lots of blocks must cross.
So here's my question:

Have EHG think what will they do to keep the team running if the first game they made don't do any significant achievements and money they earned isn't enough for future development? What do they think about the risks in game development?

[crude plover]

#1210281911872786482

[crude plover]

Well they ran a kick-starter to begin with and then launched into early access while being a very small studio. Which is a lot safer than privately funding the entire thing and hoping it sells

[hollow agate]

@potent swift

https://youtu.be/qkdkYB26POk?feature=shared&start=638

Here you have the most important infos about set system.

[devout wolf]

On March 1st, 2025, at approximately 1:15 AM, we discussed my issue regarding the loss of the 4LP armor, and I was assured that I should have received a response. Let me inform you that I did receive a response 10 minutes later. However, I must say that the issue is still not resolved, and I am disappointed with your support as well as with all the malicious users on this Discord.

What hurts the most is being subjected to defamation by users due to your false claims that the entire situation is my fault, that I have been unresponsive, and that you have everything properly handled.

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough with my initial reply. I didn't mean to imply that it was your fault that it was not received. I think the most likely reason is that the ticketing software had an issue. This is why I suggested opening a new ticket so that we could try to help you with it.

Edit: because I don't want to re-ping and Averielle already said it too but I do specifically mean opening a new support ticket on the support site (the link I previously sent). The bug reports do not prompt a response, they are just for you to communicate to us, not 2-way. Modmail is the support site ticketing system with a discord wrapper on it.

[devout wolf]

I have done that as well, but there has been no response. As you can see, I don’t expect an answer within the same minute—I wait a few days before reopening the discussion. So far, I have submitted a report on Discord, a support ticket (in-game), and a bug report (in-game).

[rugged totem]

is shaman getting buffed in the next season

[frail sentinel]

Hi there, if you can reach out to me via @jaunty pier I can look into your Ticket for you 😊

[uncut moon]

we don't have patch note yet. so we don't know yet.

We just know that Sentinel is getting rework and Rogue-Marksman getting a new skill

But I suspect there will be balance changes for season 2

[icy stratus]

Since the Arena boosting skill (the one shown last Friday stream) has 3x 34% increase, does that translate to 100% chance to juice Arena + 2% chance to gigajuice? Or is it just 100% juiced with 34% just being rounding?

[placid plinth]

Every class is getting many buffs and nerfs so it depends on what type of Shaman you're playing.

[placid plinth]

whenever you see a 3 point node that is 34%, it caps at 100%

[icy stratus]

Wouldn't it be cool though to have 1 in 50 critical hit roll on giga juiced arena (like the crafting crit rolls, that's pure genius feature)

[placid plinth]

yea

[jaunty dune]

does the halvar's set consume mana when it procs an avalanche on crit?

[verbal pine]

New pinnacle boss yet to be revealed in season 2?

[cursive sparrow]

how do limited ailmets work. For example if enemy has 4 stacks of doom that were applied with skill that gives 400% more dmg to doom, but 2 of those stacks are half expired and you use a skill with 100% more dmg to doom to apply a new stack, will it be applied over half expired stack(even tho total dps will be lower) or be ignored

[pine dome]

99%sure it overwrite the oldest stacks

[crude plover]

some of them will overwrite oldest stack some of them will overwrite if the new stack that's trying to get applied will do more total damage than the remaining damage of the existing stack

i can't remember which ailment does which

[pine chasm]

No

[pine chasm]

Only thing where new stacks don't just always override the oldest ones that I can think of is that one Falconer buff from consuming marks. I could be off though, hard to search on mobile for some reason.

[cursive sparrow]

A question regarding hotfixes that were announced. Warpath's warrior fury applies only to direct cast, does it mean that itll still affect echoes? and the bugfix was meant for shrines bricking your build?

[final cave]

I know we aren't getting fishing.

However, since we are getting a world wide weavers web in Season 2, are we at least getting rad surfboards?

I want to be part of that Eterran Beach culture.

[winged pebble]

Are there plans moving forward to attempt getting into a good enough spot in terms of internal testing so that CT might not be needed? Although I understand the sentiment and its current necessity it still leaves a bad taste knowing that a lot of the new skills/masteries/classes will be very much figured out before most ppl can even log in for the first time for a new season and build guides will already have been released.

[ember topaz]

they 100% do

[placid plinth]

There are very different things you get from feedback from people who have different levels of integration with the development team. It's a wide spectrum from the person who put the thing in the game to someone who has never played any video game before. All of those perspectives are very valuable for different things.

When you have a testing team that is used to seeing certain quirks or has access to certain advanced tools or has seen the elements go through the design and development process, you get very different feedback than when you put the (mostly) finished product in front of an experienced player. Having that player reception and feedback is very important to upping the quality of the game that gets released to the public. I'm not sure there is a really good way to replicate it without a program like the CTs.

If it makes you feel any better, there is 1 big thing left that the CTs still haven't even heard whispers of yet. Should be just finished up today actually.

[placid plinth]

very nice
I don't think anything like that is planned for Season 2

[placid plinth]

echoes are generally not considered direct cast

[winged pebble]

Oh, I am not losing sleep over it. Just personally I think it would be more exciting knowing everyone is going in blind without 50 build guides being released within 2 sec of season start. Thanks for quick answer!

[placid plinth]

There are some new bosses that we've teased but not fully revealed but I wouldn't call them pinnacle bosses. They are fixed difficulty bosses and are solid achievements.

[ember topaz]

Hello!

We recently saw a teaser of a Weaver tree node which states:
"Rare enemies in your Tombs and Cemeteries of the Erased have a small chance to drop that timeline's boss specific rewards. Timeline boss reward drop chance: +0.1% per point"

My question is does Circle of Fortune interact with these new faction nodes? eg. Does that "0.1% per point" essentially become a higher number due to CoF rank bonus?

My concern is that the loot bonus benefit of CoF to compensate for no market might end up becoming diluted by new systems if they don't interact

[placid plinth]

Yea, it's something we grappled with a lot. I think the better game overall is worth the day 1 guides.

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure, I'll see if I can tell easily.

[visual apex]

If I were to guess, I'd bet they interact kind of like you expect. Like... COF gives you a higher chance to drop with higher LP and for sets to drop together, and weaver chance gets a chance to drop boss rewards. So if it makes you drop a boss unique then that drop would have a higher chance to have LP, or if it makes a boss drop a set piece, it'll make the whole set drop, etc.

[crude plover]

That's not what the question was really about. There's a CoF rank that gives you a higher chance to drop boss specific loot. They were wondering if that applied to the tree node

[valid marlin]

Also, this isn't #❔┃ask-the-community

[mental flame]

Considering the nemesis weapon situation, I do hope this gets addressed acros the board for each individual loot source

[placid plinth]

Well, I'm looking and it's not jumping out at me. I asked someone and they basically said that it should and linked a different quote from you to say why it should. Which I do agree with. The person who implemented it is in the weeds right now and I don't want to ping them today about it. I'll get it nailed down pre-patch though and if it's not, I'll try and make it.

[valid marlin]

This is generally true of all flat loot sources, right? Everything that boosts tradeable loot should be multiplied by CoF. Otherwise, MG gets a huge additional advantage

[crude plover]

Only if it'd be affected by one of the CoF bonuses which not much is outside of boss loot quantity wise

There's no global more loot modifier for CoF

[mental flame]

This is why the experimental boost exists for mages, and why it should exist for nemesis weapons. And with the upcomming champion affixes.

[ember topaz]

Thanks Mike, you da best

[placid plinth]

Ideally, yes.

[pine chasm]

Rank 1 is a 35% global drop boost and the ranks that improve all items that drop (exalt stuff, double LP chance) kinda are that

[cursive sparrow]

why does warpath not generate stacks of eye of reen, even if i dont channel it but spam click(so it doesnt generate those even on 1st hit)

[placid plinth]

Even a brief can channeling is still channeling. The ability doesn't have a non channeling mode.

[jaunty dune]

do you know when it was changed to work this way? it didn't always... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpIxvQY8Cbg

edit - not sure why url is so crangled fixed url so it doesn't look hella sus - it's an old dr3ad build guide and you can see reen's ire stacke up as he uses warpath

[wooden bridge]

Mike, how impactful is it to you that you and you're team are able to sit down and think of something cool you'd want in the game, or see an idea from the community you think would be a good idea, and then you actually are able to make that idea come to life and physically have it in the game.

[inner quest]

That weird URL just seems to be a custom CDN somebody setup to have better youtube embeds in discord (I checked because it looked suspicious), see: https://github.com/ray-1337/youtube-discord-embed

[lucid scroll]

hey, i have found a bug and submitted a report for it. is anyone else running into an issue allocating the wisdom passive for the sorcerer mastery. i cant allocate it at all

[pine chasm]

This was changed in 1.1

Chance to gain a stack of Reen’s Ire for 5 seconds when you crit with a direct melee attack (from not requiring a direct use)

[jaunty dune]

is channeling a skill not considered directly using it? there was an upcoming bug fix listed in the last eterra monthly for warpath that said "Warrior's Fury now only applies to direct uses of Warpath" which implies that it's possible to directly use warpath, unless that bug fix really just means "warriors fury can no longer be used"?

[pine chasm]

It's one direct use - but because of the way warpath is coded, none of its hits are direct melee attacks. Reen is kinda weird. Most similar effects say something more along the lines of "when you directly use a melee attack that hits" and I think those proc once per channel of warpath.

[inner quest]

TBH I would just report that as a bug, either Eye of Reen should be granting stacks with Warpath or the description should be updated to explicitly state that it doesn't work with channeled skills. In my mind "not a direct melee attack" means you're doing something like casting Smite and triggering melee Healing Hands. Warpath might be considered an indirect melee attack behind the scenes, but it doesn't make sense from a player perspective. Edit: Cleric's Hammer on Healing Hands has the same problem IIRC.

[placid plinth]

Nope

It's not a functionality bug and I agree that the wording is ambiguous.

[jaunty dune]

so the current functionality is intended? it's not 1 stack per cast like other similarly worded effects (such as the healing hands node mentioned above)

[placid plinth]

Intended might be a step too far. Given the limitations and interactions of the systems, it is expected.

[jaunty dune]

might not be worth going into if it's way too technical but... why does warpath count as a direct melee attack for the healing hands node 'Cleric's Hammer' but not for eye of reen? In both instances the player is directly using a melee attack and it sounds like both effects are working as expected

[inner quest]

Cleric's Hammer: "use a melee attack" -- "works" with Warpath in the sense that it triggers.. exactly once per channel 🤣
Eye of Reen: "crit with a direct melee attack" -- doesn't work with Warpath, presumably intentional but confusing at best (previously: "on melee crit" -- which did work with Warpath)

[jaunty dune]

will we be able to equip skill mtx from other classes? (for example, could a sentinel put on one of the lightning bolt mtx and see it when they find the right shrine)

[placid plinth]

yes

[worthy stump]

All channeling skills are only considered to be used once when you press the button as long as your channeling it is just 1 single use

[rancid sand]

Mike did the last feature you wanted to squeze in the release get in and if yes would you be able to share what it was/is?

[nocturne abyss]

Can Offline Character access Tomb of Erased content just as Legacy/Season Character?

[crude plover]

yes

[spiral bramble]

Hi, EHG! My question would be whether loot lizards are staying in the game? Since they got added in a mid-season update it is a bit unclear to me, if they are meant to be a permanent feature?

[crude plover]

they're staying

[verbal pine]

Plans on a bestiary?

[rich basin]

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

[verbal pine]

Thanks mate ill start searching for my questions

[frail sentinel]

Discord can be finicky for searching via the search bar as it will assume you want to search the WHOLE server 🥲 but a quick tip - if you use CTRL+F in a channel it limits to just searching that channel! Very useful in this channel in particular 😊

[valid marlin]

In: #channel-name also works, and it auto completes. I've searched in: #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs from:EHGMike lots of times. With auto complete to help out

[jaunty dune]

The question isn't about why we only get 1 proc from healing hands, that i completely understand. The question is why warpath can't generate any stacks of reen's ire (it doesn't do 1 stack per channel, it doesn't ever generate any stacks) but sounds like the answer is "we need to rewrite that tooltip", which is fine

[lament tulip]

TIL

[crude plover]

You can actually do a ton with the search on discord, you can even search when something was sent, as in before a day&time, during a day&time or after a day&time as well as if it had any type of link, image, video and so on.

But yeah as a basline for searching on this channel I'd always put in:#👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs from: the_madd_hatter (Mike) and then any key words that you can imagine being in the answer.

However that won't always give you a result since a lot of questions have quite simple answers like yes or no or whatever so it can be good to remove the from mike rule and only look at messages other people have sent to see if someone else asked the same qusetion that you have.

[humble axle]

Good morning, I'm curious if there anything that was shown in the recent trailer release that "shocked expectation" from a dev's point of view. Particularly in a negative stance, now this is not to say it was a bad take or received negatively. More as LE members really expected this portion of the video to get more people talking or excited. Maybe there was something overlooked or overshadowed that its "shocking" the community missed it. I'm not asking or trying to pry out new information just solely focused on what was shown in the video.

[drowsy spear]

Are there any plans for new supporter packs for season 2? I want to support your all's hard work.

[signal void]

Will we get a spider boss in the new season?

[crude plover]

You won't get an answer for something like that here

[placid plinth]

I think this screenshot isn't being dissected much which is surprising. It's tough to really read into it so I get it. I'm really excited to talk more about it.

[placid plinth]

Yes, details on the last eterra monthly post I think

[rancid sand]

i would like to ask more but the only questions i got in regards to it are some you probably wouldnt answer D;

[bold shale]

i mean now that its being brought up i am wondering what those large square nodes are
one of them looks like it has a wand in it or something

[placid plinth]

Yea, you're probably right on that. I think I should be able to talk about it soon.

[placid plinth]

this did come up briefly on trailer day and I think they came up with a different theory on what it was.

[crude plover]

why'd you get rid of the passive grid system with its "polygon shapes" that gave access to nodes?

those polygon shapes did nothing wrong

[shrewd igloo]

When will yall be looking for a communication person ?

[crude plover]

They already have Foton

unless you meant something else

[rancid sand]

@bold shale its worldsplitter; also a question you might be able to answer Mike how many nodes are there on the Tree (roughly) and how many points in total do we have my current guess in regards to points is somewhere between 15ish from faction and up to 40 maybe more from woven echoes

[shrewd igloo]

I don't know who Foton is, I just seen Mike answering every question lol.

[crude plover]

Don't think someone hired solely for communication would be as knowledgeable about the game as a long time developer like Mike would be

Feel like you'd end up with a lot of "I'm not sure, let me check/ask"

and then they'd end up asking someone like Mike anyway

[shrewd igloo]

Probably true unless that person played as well, but yeah good point.

[placid plinth]

omg I haven't seen that in a while. @hearty swallow is actually the person who first pitched that idea to me. It was just a little too complicated to work in the game at the time. I actually think it would fit quite well now. I fully intend to functionally bring it back in some way. Like a supplementary tree or a seasonal mechanic.

[placid plinth]

I think that's going to be a major topic of one of the Friday Podcasts in March.

[crude plover]

Mike they're doing a stream without you in the discord, isn't this blasphemy?

[placid plinth]

It's brilliance

[rancid sand]

nothing more D; no small teaser? any rough answer maybe like am i totally wrong about points or so?

[placid plinth]

I'm being watched quite closely about it right now. It's a good size.

[timid fjord]

Will the tour streams be added to last epoch youtube or will they only be on the respective channels?

[placid plinth]

I think just on the respective channels

[tawdry pilot]

I really hope its 10% of the tree, and not half of it 😄 Maybe you showed it for too short for people to notice, i watch few big arpg streamers and they missed it too.

[glacial yoke]

Since EHG doesn't respond to the official forums and are only active on Reddit/Discord, can we get a dev response to the concerns about Mastery Respec raised in this official forum thread?

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/yay-finally-mastery-respec-you-brought-me-back/74862/75

[placid plinth]

I feel like I reply on the forums a bit. I've also already replied to this topic on another thread on the forums.

I'm a little confused though about the request here. I think you might have linked me to the wrong individual message maybe? Are you Darthelmet?

[ember topaz]

I'm not a "big arpg streamer" but I did talk about it in my trailer review, honestly the whole faction as a skill tree is awesome. It introduces agency into your bonuses. If anything I would love to see similar for existing factions

[placid plinth]

I did appreciate that 🙂

[tawdry pilot]

I am curious how it is going to work, my idea is it's to enchance monolith experience but I see item put in slot? Upper right corner

[glacial yoke]

No, I'm Scipo0419 on the forums. I think the link sent you to a specific comment rather than the thread header. I'm less asking for a response to a specific comment and more a general response to the concerns raised in the thread.

Namely: there seems to be no cost or limit to Mastery Respecs which many fear will lead into meta builds for leveling, then swapping to the meta farming build and then swapping to the meta bossing build since there's no penalty/limit.
The fact that EHG had the stance of "Mastery = Class" this entire time and now it's suddenly changeable? Is allowing us to change from Sentinel to Rogue next?

[crude plover]

For context this is the clip from the trailer

[serene mango]

Y re Special, hidden message appreciated ❤️

[glacial yoke]

I feel like I reply on the forums a bit. I've also already replied to this topic on another thread on the forums.

I'd also like to point out that your last reply was 4d ago, before that was 6d ago, and before that was 10d ago. EHG_Kain's last post was 6d ago, 16d before that. The other EHG members don't have any recent responses. I can go to Reddit and see multiple dev responses just from the last 24 hours, and obviously you're here active on Discord. Which, personally, I find to be a problem given that the forums are "official" but dead to dev responses while reddit is third party and discord is more of a chat room than an actual forum.

Not trying to tell you how to run a business, but I do want to express how odd it is that your "official" forums receive less attention than the alternatives.

[crude plover]

To be fair the entire studio/game came from a reddit post

so it makes sense that they'd still have a presence there

[glacial yoke]

Of course. Not suggesting they abandon reddit. Just that they pay some more attention to their official forums. Crate has official forums and still manage to respond on Reddit and Steam Forums, but their main focus is their official forums (as an example)

[bold shale]

i mean the quality of a 'tree pathing' game system isn't measured in the number of nodes it has, but in the impact those nodes have on gameplay. and from the teasers we've seen I'm sure it'll be good in that department.

[placid plinth]

I think that if we aren't willing to change systems in the game because that's what we thought was best before, we will not thrive. And if this does cause problems, we won't be afraid to change again. You're right though, having meta builds for different stages of a character's progression was one of the primary reasons that we didn't allow mastery swapping in the first place.

I think what is actually going to happen though is that people who are trying to push through the campaign as fast as possible don't really spend a very high percentage of that character's time in the campaign and will probably just do what the character is planned to be right from the start. It's not like Warlock gets through the campaign twice as fast as a Necro. And even if it did, we're still not talking about much time for someone who is min/maxing that experience.

I think that not having mastery respec available can cause situations that just take the wind out of a player's sails. I don't think that having mastery respec in the game will cause the same level of frustration. I think the problem case that we should be on the lookout for and could potentially correct for, is switching builds frequently once you're already at end game. The new level of variety of activities that will be available means that frequent switching for activity type could become a very inefficient method. And maybe I'm out of touch but I don't see this happening very much with players currently having the ability to do this within their respective classes.

I think that some people might also be forgetting that skills still need to be leveled.

I think this also will open up the conversation in the community a bit more about mid season balance changes. I want to do more of them to keep the game fresh and interesting. I'm not sure that this will have any effect on it but I hope it does.

As for class switching, that's an easy one to draw the line at. Having a marksman switch to a bladedancer can be viewed as the person getting a new job. Having a Rogue switch into a Primalist is a whole lot of surgery.

As for the forums v everywhere else comparison. I think the amount I respond here kinda skews the comparison a lot. This platform is just so much better for quick replies in a single place that I can leave open all day long. The forums take WAY more time to find appropriate places to reply in. I often feel like a thread executioner on the forums because a good discussion will be happening and I show up and suddenly the topic just crumbles. I realized this a couple years ago and I probably subconsciously slowed down my replies. I do read a lot of posts on the forums but want to keep the discussions flowing. I think that overall we are exceptionally communicative as a studio. Replying to this channel and on reddit (my two personally most active platforms) is what I do in my personal time. Most of my replies on both platforms are while I'm sitting on the couch or waiting in line for something.

also I'm not sure who on the team is brave enough to go to the steam forums but I don't even read those any more for any game.

[glacial yoke]

Thanks for the detailed reply. I concur on Steam Forums lol.

I'm not a game dev, just an avid gamer, but I truly feel the best middle ground behind your previous design philosophy and preventing players from finding out they hate their Mastery and don't want to start over is the D2 Route. Give us three quests throughout the campaign that give a Respec token that allow us to Respec the Mastery. That way you can start with Bladedancer, use one token for Marksman, one token for Falconer and have the third to go back to Bladedancer or Marksman if you dislike Falconer. This gives players a chance to experience the other masteries if they dislike the one they chose while also preventing endgame meta swapping.

[placid plinth]

If the main reason is to prevent endgame meta swapping, I think we would need to see that emerge as a real problem before it was addressed. It's already possible to do it to some degree and I almost never see people handing out advice to do frequent respecs at endgame. I see people suggesting advancement benchmark respecs but I don't think that is problematic.

I don't dislike the idea of doing the D2 approach or some other limiter and it is still on the table.

[glacial yoke]

Ultimately the decision has already been made, so I'll stop taking up your time. Thanks again for the responses and taking the time to hear out some of the concerns being expressed

[placid plinth]

To be clear, this isn't set in stone forever and can still be changed, even after the patch goes live.

[verbal pine]

Have a question regarding factions and how it seems so far when a new faction is added endgame gets more depth and complexity (which I'm all for). Is this the current vision for the studio and somehow incorporate seasonal mechanics when that gets going? Or at some point factions would roll out like a season unless stated it will be core?

[placid plinth]

Seasonal factions are possible in the future. Especially if we get to the point of having several. There is a point where we will have too many if we just keep adding one every season. Factions are a good framework for adding new mechanics because we can use a shared language to describe it and interact with.

I think major content releases going forward can include 0, 1 or more new factions and those could be core or seasonal. (which I know is just saying that anything is possible, sorry)

[verbal pine]

All good just wondering where the vision for endgame is heading from ya'lls perspective. Like where you say "yea, endgame is solid now." Prob a ways a way but I believe we'll get there. Go EHG!

[rough nexus]

I really like the idea of eventually getting to a place where you have like 3-5 "optional" factions (aside from MG/CoF) and you choose a faction that comes with an associated passive tree like weaver. So you "specialise" into a type of content based on your faction choice. With the option to pivot and change if you want to mix up your strategy.(like changing mg/cof but not as difficult)
This broadens the depth of the endgame offerings without creating the poe1 bloat of every map has 8 mechanics on it.

[static vale]

So, to clarify, any +flat curse damage will be affected by the curse's added damage effectiveness as it would be for any other skill.

[static vale]

And also to be fair, the amount of EHG posts on their forum has decreased significantly over the past few years. It's rare to see a post from someone from EHG now on the forums, but some years ago there was a healthy dialogue (on the forums, as well as here).

[desert sleet]

Namely: there seems to be no cost or limit to Mastery Respecs

FWIW there is a cost; it just wasn't shown in the trailer. I assume the confirmation modal which shows the cost was cut from the video for brevity.

[bold shale]

im sure there's a cost
it can't be cheaper than respeccing points in the tree, considering you'd have to reallocate those points anyway to the new mastery

[glacial yoke]

Sorry I should have clarified that there doesn't seem to be a significant cost. Most players will be rolling in Gold so a Gold cost doesn't amount to much of a penalty. Basically, with the current system you can remove the choice of a Mastery entirely and just charge us the cost of respeccing the passives and penalty for skills. There's no significant difference between the upcoming system and a No Mastery system imo

Edit: in fact, a No Mastery System gives more build variety because you won't be locked by the "half of a passive tree" system and your only limit is the number of passive points.

[tawdry pilot]

Mike you rascal, you didnt spilled the beans that are is second picture from woven tree aviable!

[fluid axle]

Will CoF be getting a rank bonus to boost Champion Affix droprates?

[wooden bridge]

Mike, how impactful is it to you that you and you're team are able to sit down and think of something cool you'd want in the game, or see an idea from the community you think would be a good idea, and then you actually are able to make that idea come to life and physically have it in the game.

[marble socket]

Will Rune of Havoc be able to hit t6/t7 on experimental affixes?

[desert sleet]

All non-sealed affixes are fair game I'm very excited for Havoc crafting

[mental flame]

Set affixes included?

[placid plinth]

Gotta save some details for the March Friday Podcasts.

[jaunty dune]

hey mike, if you personally could choose the order for topics to be discussed over the next few weeks what order would you choose?

[placid plinth]

I would start with things that are required to contextualize the later topics

[jaunty dune]

great way to simultaneously give an answer my obvious bait question without falling for the bait. well done sir (almost like you've got a lot of practice)

[tender osprey]

Have you guys considered some method of switching resistance around on gear that doesn't involve forging potential? It's rough to find an awesome upgrade but you can't equip it without changing 4 other pieces of gear because it would brick your resistances. PoE for example has the harvest bench as a relatively cheap and easy way to switch resistance around without needing to regear half your character to ensure you're still capped

[fluid axle]

Will we actually encounter the weaver npc?

[ember topaz]

idols work pretty well for this, that said, being "capped" isn't that important in LE due to how the resistance math works

[desert sleet]

That's basically how all things in LE come about! Someone internally has a cool idea or sees a cool idea suggested by the community and pitches it and then if approved we make it! There's a lot of openness to new ideas and agency to influence the direction of the things you work on at EHG, which I really appreciate. Being able to see something through from idea to implementation to release is a great feeling 😄

[fluid axle]

with void squirrels in the game as a shrine buff, will we ever see void squirrels as a primalist minion?

[eager hinge]

Does the new Essence Weaver spear require a new target for each of the 9 spell casts or can it hit the same target 9 times?

[placid plinth]

yes (well the guy that you see in the trailer as the faction is being introduced, yes)

[placid plinth]

fully random, doesn't care about repeat casting

[placid plinth]

maybe, not in Season 2

[placid plinth]

yes, we have considered that. And to add to what Frozen said, blessings can also help with this, especially now that you can change them for gold in town.

[olive cargo]

Can I ask what inspirations did you guys draw on for the monolith update? Was it mostly other arpgs, or more of a mix from other genres and games, like roguelikes/roguelites, crpgs, etc? Any specific examples of feelings you were trying to replicate from games you played a long time ago?

[placid plinth]

PoE 1/2 are a pretty big inspiration for this update. Not necessarily the specifics but the general player agency in a growing activity space for end game content. There aren't a ton of other examples that I'm aware of which really go this far. (I'm sure they exist though)

[fluid axle]

Will the weaver tree feature any sort of modular bonus? Like how POE passive tree has gem slots, and gems are a randomized/modular item which differs for each player - or is the tree static and every player has the same one

[placid plinth]

Technically yes but that's going to be misleading. Details soon.

[jaunty dune]

on one of the dev streams recently you mentioned that some of the upcoming crafting changes would change the way that people build their loot filters. I definitely see what you mean with the new runes that we have seen. Question is, will the loot filter also be getting upgraded with this update to have more options?

[final cave]

Hey Mike.

• Are the weaver tree links static or are they dynamic?
• Do multi-point nodes include barrier values (>3/5 -> additional effect) like on newer character passive?
• Any slottable nodes just waiting for a dropped item/crafting mat? answered for Apples already

[bleak forge]

Heyo! I asked something similar in the past, and I think the answer can be more assertive now, so I'll ask again more directly 😆:
Will we have wings back attachment MTX in the near future? (Yes, I'm craving wings lol)

[cursive sparrow]

we already have them, have u checked supporter packs? 😅

[bleak forge]

uuuuh no, we have only one iirc. The one in Eternal Legend supporter pack and its not exactly wings e.e

[marble socket]

Monddoc, vc vai começar a season 2 com o quê? Eu vou de marksman!

[placid plinth]

not much if anything for Season 2

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry but I'm not going to answer any more details on the weaver tree until after the deep dive on it. soon.

I removed the ™️

[placid plinth]

yes

[bleak forge]

yayyy great news XD
Any for season 2? 👀

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry, I don't have any specifics I can share on the upcoming cosmetics for Season 2.

[mental spire]

Sorry if this has been asked already but will we see more character customisation? ie genders and ages, or just character skins?

[final cave]

This is an outrage.
(Hope my question helped to assure you some folks are thinking about what the possibilities are 😉 looking forward to sOoN

[placid plinth]

We are still interested in bringing character customization to LE. It will not be available in Season 2 and I have no idea when it might arrive.

[jaunty dune]

i've been wildly speculating in other discords today just to get the conversation going after mike commented that there was less than he expected

[placid plinth]

What's the prevailing theory? I'm not going to confirm or deny it but I'm interested to know what people think. I saw someone get the set items perfect months ago and was very impressed.

[jaunty dune]

the prevaling theory so far is "how are we supposed to speculate on what these nodes do we have zero information"

I don't think I've seen any consistent idea emerge that people seem to agree on other than a rough guess at how many nodes and points we'll earn (somewhere around 200 nodes and 60-80 points total is my current guess)

[rancid sand]

Well we do have a bit of info but overall yeah i agree its too little to really start speculating

Aside from point count as we did see hoe much the faction roughly gives and that a t3 echo gives 2 which gives made me think that the t2s might give 1 and the t3s might give 3/4 so the total would be in the 60+ region but that does seem like a lot so.... Who knows

[rancid sand]

If i Inderstand you correctly yes the portal charm can be used together with a key to port to the boss from the dungeon entrance (theres also a second charm that does sth else as well)

[placid plinth]

I guess we've been a little too cryptic. Some of the terminology is very similar and can be confusing without a clear explanation. I'm sitting here with perfect information about the system so it's hard to consider properly. I just jump to the right answer. We have shown a few of the node tooltips on dev streams.

[jaunty dune]

oh... yeah I kinda assumed that was a given as well. I think people generally get the idea of the system, it's a skill tree we get points in by doing [stuff] to progress the faction and also [other activities including completing (some? all?) woven echoes and maybe some other activities]. Then just estimating numbers based on how much of the tree we think we've seen from the little bit we've seen

but if you're asking what people think those nodes will actually do I haven't seen much consensus arise outside of what has been explicitly shown and the concept that we are controlling what activities we are farming. Some nodes look like nodes from skill trees so even though the icons are familiar they don't really have a meaning in the context of this new tree we're seeing.

[ember topaz]

We have seen the arena node, probably a safe guess that the others have similar themes. Maybe you can change or boost echo reward types? Maybe you can make echos more challenging and rewarding? Modify monster density / monster types? Maybe change the ratio of received gold / xp / items from running echos?

Maybe you can increase the occurrence and/or magnitude of existing systems? (eg. Exiled Mages, Shrines, Nemesis)

Maybe force maps to just have a bunch of strong rare enemies?

Super excited to see, speculating is fun isn't it

[rancid sand]

Dont forget lizzards

[mental flame]

I think we can also say a bit more about the square boxes. I think Mike worked on them and some of the things said on stream tie into it. Like Mikes epiphany on how to do unique collection tab without taking the item. They are likely a way for us to target farm. Could be tied to specific events as well.

[placid plinth]

I can say that I had nothing to do with them at all

other than cheering from the sidelines

[tawdry pilot]

Maybe I can remove them👌

[nocturne abyss]

Is the Tomb of the Erased update will also come with balance on skills?
Cuase I fell other Primalist Melee Skills is quite lackluster compared to Earthquake, it gonna be nice if they got buff

[placid plinth]

Yes, every major patch comes with many balance changes.

[rancid sand]

Anyway will we get any blog posts before release aside from the big patch notes one?

Also mike does the bleed speed up stat of the unique axe transfer to forged weapons/armour or ist one of the stats that dont work on minions?(Also if no does it work in S2?)

[ember topaz]

Frost Claw buffs confirmed, thanks

[tawdry pilot]

What will we be able to buy with amber memory? You are not helping xD guys

[rancid sand]

Im decently sure it said in the trailer we can buy the echoes with it... But who knows maybe we can buy more than that

[tawdry pilot]

That’s my question! Worded it poorly

[placid plinth]

no and still no

[placid plinth]

Yes, also the Friday devstreams in March are replaced with the podcast tour that will have very good info

[placid plinth]

soon

[eternal zinc]

sorry we're talking about different topics

[rancid sand]

Does the salt the wounds bleed/poison affix work on the previously mentioned minions?

[placid plinth]

No, if you're asking, the answer is probably no. If it looks like something that could appear on a blue item then probably yes.

It's very strict.

[eternal zinc]

Can we unlock the waypoint of dungeons and unlock all tiers of them directly when we play alt classes in 1.2?

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure I understand the question. Season 2 isn't changing how dungeons are unlocked. (we aren't using 1.2 terminology any more)

[eternal zinc]

sorry I don't understand why EHG change the terminology

[pine dome]

💓💓💓Cycle 1.2 forever in our heart 💞💞💞

[crude plover]

People were getting a little confused before

Since cycle 1 was 1.0, cycle 2 was 1.1, and cycle 3 was going to be 1.2

They then changes over to saying that 1.1 was cycle 1

But people are really used to saying season

So they changed to saying that 1.1 was season 1 and 1.2 will be season 2

[somber marten]

Will uber abberoth be locked to online cycle only until a confirmed kill just like 1.1?

[eternal zinc]

... hah wait 1.0 isn't the first cycle? I don't think it's wrong... why we're in cycle 2 still?

[placid plinth]

no

[placid plinth]

All that matters is that on April 2nd, Season 2 starts.

[olive cargo]

Is there concern at all about how much more difficult it can be to scale defenses alongside offense if you're not able to scale ward? Consider endurance and how much investment it needs to be good enough, and how much easier it is to invest in ward, which is also stronger. Are there any ideas on how to elegantly address that disparity?

[frail sentinel]

Averielle will remember you said this

[jaunty dune]

Btw the home page of your website still says cycles instead of seasons

[frail sentinel]

We have some updates coming 🙂

[rancid sand]

today? lol,.... pls I NEED TO KNOW (like Weaver Faction tree)

[crude plover]

Mike should be able to start sharing details and stuff during tommorows stream and the coming podcasts

[pine chasm]

Updates to the Media section maybe?

[frail sentinel]

I meant updates to the website page to stuff like what you pointed out 😅 sorry my dude, you'll have to wait a little longer for Season 2 details

[rancid sand]

Uhh is tomorrows talk going to be a more general one or is it focused on a specific topic?

[timid fjord]

👆 and if you can answer, what about the topics for the rest of the tour too?

[placid plinth]

I don't think I can share

[humble axle]

Good afternoon, i was wondering if one day it would be possible to see a Multiplayer and a Single player faction come out together. If i remember correctly from previous dev statements its important to keep the balance between the two being even so one playstyle doesn't become the must do or your missing out. I understand this could go a million different ways, but maybe something as simple as single player faction could give the player passive buffs to offensive stats while multiplayer could just simple give buffs that just applies to allies and ally minions. Or maybe a new passive skill tree that one part is solo play buffs and one part is multiplayer buffs and you just respec as your play experience changes. Additionally, just to add-on to this idea this could be a precursour to guild faction/passive tree/buff. I made sure to post this in suggestions first before asking the dev's opinion on the idea. i posted here in ask dev's as well as suggestions as in the threads for suggestions i haven't noticed feedback (of which i get there's a lot of players and only so much time/resource's in a day) and i was just curious what was the opinion of is this even a possibility,

[somber marten]

Considering multiplayer technically already has the advantage of having multiple loot pools to share from.... (Party members can pass drops freely between each other.)

[ember topaz]

iirc devs have said in the past that it is intended for a group of players with optimized synergistic builds to perform a bit better than solo, but if you just group up with no coordination or synergy it shouldn't be better

That might be outdated though, been a while.

[jaunty dune]

how is attack speed calculated if you are dual wielding weapons with different base attack speed? does it choose the faster one? the average of both? do they both calculate separately? main hand?

[mild rivet]

average

[lime path]

iirc for the flat attack speed it's average but then attack speed increase from both is applied to that speed, not to the weapon it's on before averaging

[wooden lynx]

hello, will Multishot receive some damage buffs and much needed love in general with the start of the next season? Drelkors Compass by the way has basically double the effective LP level AND required to equip level compared to the valor unique bow with the falconer + level skills, that falconer bow not only has half effective LP chance compared to drelkors AND gives you way more damage and utility than drelkors by far.

[icy stratus]

Re: the "34%" Weaver skill tree node rolling 102% and having 2% chance to roll even better version.
You ever thought of having "double dungeon" type of encounter? Reach end of dungeon (or map or upcoming cemetery) but there's a random chance it will continue into more difficult encounter (through a portal?), no necessarily something more difficult that instantly gibs you (people already push higher difficulty than they should), maybe more difficult in other ways like x5 scaled HP, longer encounter, boss rush type (maybe new champions being dropped in one after another)

[placid plinth]

weapon base speeds are averaged and used the exact same as a more/less affix would

[placid plinth]

yes

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry, I don't have specific details available for upcoming balance changes. Dont forget about heartseeker, it's quite good.

[placid plinth]

I think that this is pretty unlikely but it's not impossible.

[humble axle]

I'm curious if i figured out how the cocooned unis's work it was mentioned previously (i believe last Fridays dev stream) that once the uni drops its already decided what it was (if i heard correctly). i noticed in the trailer that there is the uni neck "pearls of the swine" with a min of three versions shown. each version is the same with the exception of the uni mod that affects the skill being different for each pearl. So what I'm assuming is all the cannoned items are basically the same except the unique skill mode varies depending on the variant that rolls. Now this falls into the asking for spoilers department soIm fine with cant say answer. I just wanted to say if that is how it works i think that is a sweet new twist to unique's.

[icy stratus]

[wooden lynx]

is heartseeker able to have more than 1 projectile or is 1 projectile the maximum?

[rocky solstice]

Hey devs, been loving the game and everything so far over the years, I’ve recently started playing via controller and it’s really nice, but I use a ps4 controller, is they a way to get ps4 controller key mapping ?

[crude plover]

you can do this via steam i'm pretty sure