👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs

[sturdy ridge]

Is the release date stll the same? 👀

[placid plinth]

I haven't heard so much as a whisper of wanting to move the release date.

[subtle apex]

Question for the devs about Necromancer: this was my first class and I enjoyed the progression of the mastery's passive tree. However, when I made new characters, I noticed nearly every character I tried had threshold nodes (skills that give an addition separate bonus or effect after a certain amount of points invested). Some had a few, some had a lot. But Necromancer has none at all. Why does Necromancer lack this in her passive tree?

[placid plinth]

It's a relatively new thing that we've been adding to each mastery over time. The good news here is that with Season 3 in about a month, Necromancer will be getting threshold nodes in their new passive tree.

[spring spruce]

@tall kettle

[spring spruce]

Are there any plans to add more team based dynamics, such as passives or gear that synergizes with team roles better, such as tank, dps, healer, etc? Or any way to manipulate boss aggro for the team in general

[placid plinth]

We don't build encounters with the rpg trinity in mind. We do like it if people can carve out various roles for themselves and we will continue to add options for that but we don't want them to be mandatory to complete a fight.

[spring spruce]

Ofc, but I just think that it could be great if instead of everyone doing their own thing in team boss fights there was some bonus to having role specific builds interacting with each other so that it wasn't just multiple self-sustaining dps characters. Sure those build should still be viable but I feel like manipulating aggro in the current state is way too tedious, the only thing i can consistently pull off is the abby/uber abby final phase beam manipulation and getting the fire black hole cast on me to clear puddles. Other than that team fights are basically the same as regular except of the juiced up stats and weird interactions when trying to position the environmental hazards correctly.

Might be writing a tad bit too much but i think the game could benefit from allowing more team-focused builds, similar to what paladins have and maybe giving a bit more options. TLDR Team fights should benefit from team-oriented builds rather than self-focused while leaving solo runs open to whatever they want

Edit: think i repeated myself a few times here but i slept horribly last night so please excuse it

[tall kettle]

Would be great if a melee build had a taunt lol Uber seems to pick me out in fights, always. All level 100's "hey get the ranged guy!" lmao

[solar summit]

Does overleech saves from damage larger than your eHP like it does in PoE? I mean, overleech instances in PoE may be added to damage vs health calculations for particular frame afterwards even if the result brings HP below zero (that usually leads to death from full HP) and save your life.

[spring spruce]

Fr I can be right in him and he uses that annoying dash attack right for the back line, afaik the aggro works like “whoever is closest unless the attack has a minimum range”, which the dash seems to have. The taunt or something similar could be really nice to keep him from doing that

[placid plinth]

Here is how "aggro" works in Last Epoch because it is nothing like how it works in more traditional systems like WoW. This is the same for all ai controlled actors, player minions and enemies all follow these same basic rules. This is simplified a tiny bit to make this not a novel.

Priority Ordered Ability List
Each entry has the following primary properties: Name, MinRange, MaxRange, and Cooldown.

While idle the boss goes through the ability list entries from top to bottom until it finds some ability that it can use. Once that is done, it starts at the top of the list again and looks for an ability that it can use. Repeat.

The criteria for being able to use the ability is that it must be off cooldown and have an eligible target. Given a situation where there are multiple possible targets, it will use the ability on the nearest target (edge to edge, not center to center).

If there is an ability with a MinRange higher on the list than an ability without a MinRange, it will split off from the nearby target to focus on the distant enemy. If the ranged ability leaves it still beside the original target, it will naturally switch back to it if the highest up ability on the list which is off cooldown can target that nearby enemy.

There are several sources of taunt (and more in an extended dev pipe). The effect that each of these has is that after the enemy has figured out which targets are eligible to be attacked by a given ability, while it is priority ranking them based on distance, a player (or minion) which is taunting gets a massive bonus to how "close" it is. If you are "taunting" everything around you, you look as though you are touching the enemy, even if you aren't. The amount of "taunt power" that each taunt has is the same so if 2 players are taunting at the same time, it just reverts back to actual distance.

So each time it attacks, it reconfirms its target options and selects fresh, even if it is going to attack the same target anyways.

[spring spruce]

Thats helpful to know, maybe in the future there might be an ability or a parrive/gear that stops the boss from using the attacks with min range or makes it use them less often, not entirely sure which one would fit better. I'll keep that in mind when going up in groups tho, thanks

[eternal zinc]

You want Orian's Descent because it give you more chances to find potions?
But The Scavenger give more on this affix

[placid plinth]

The build is extremely mana hungry so the belt keeps us going.

[eternal zinc]

oh you restore mana by using potions?

that's the only unique belt which I have zero of in my stash...

[eternal zinc]

115% increase chance to find potions, +1 throw fire damage per 2% increase chance to find potions.
115/2=57.5.

Question:
It count 57 or 58 in game?

[placid plinth]

57.5

and you only restore mana with potions if you have that belt on because it says that it does that

[eternal zinc]

I just know every value in le is one decimal place. Then 157% increase chance to find potions, +1 throw fire damage per 2% increase chance to find potions, I can get 78.5 throw fire damage.
Oh interesting logic. Never think I can use potion to restore mana. Emmmm... Not prefer this way though. Test action skills too much.

[placid plinth]

No, we don't round to 1 decimal. We will round displays sometimes to communicate important information more efficiently but behind the scenes we aren't throwing away preceision like that.

[eternal zinc]

*Precision (No idea what "we aren't throwing away precision like that" mean)
1, Why your build don't stack crit multiplier and dexterity at all?
2. Will flat throw damage and throwing attack speed from affixes on gloves apply on burning daggers?

[placid plinth]

In this context, precision is the number of decimal places that a number is represented in.

158.4394 is more precise than 158.4

if we rounded numbers to 1 decimal place, we would lose the precision of the additional decimal places.

1. my gear sucks
2. yes, no

[timid fjord]

How do you handle repeating numbers like .33333333~?

[placid plinth]

it goes to the max it can

[red urchin]

This probably isn't the proper place to get specifics, but I wanted to ask a few questions about the new announcement.

Is EHG being acquired by Krafton? Or is this some sort of publishing deal for Last Epoch specifically?

Does EHG retain complete creative control over the game?

Will this deal have any impact of the wonderful transparency when it comes to the development of Last Epoch (this channel, Eterra Monthly, dev streams, etc.)?

I love this game, and EHG has earned my trust 100%, but as someone who has seen many games get bought out by a big company and seen a decline in quality and player friendliness, I am very nervous about this latest announcement.

Thank you for any answers you can provide, I hope to see the game thrive and flourish from this partnership.

[red urchin]

Judd replied to these questions on reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/1m8spjh/comment/n51qsbx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[worldly grove]

question about orions descent. is this modifer: (30% to 45%) Chance to cast Smite on hit (max 6 per 10 seconds, this cooldown resets when you use a potion) - based off of you getting hit or you hitting the enemy?

[crude plover]

Hitting enemy

[worldly grove]

okay ty for clarifying. the potion reseting cooldown was confusing me on it

[eternal zinc]

1. As the announcement, EHG is belong to Krafton now, so the publisher on steam will be updated soon and many Krafton employees will join in this community to post announcements, chat with players, collect player's feedback and suggestions, etc?
2. Talk about "more opportunity and cooperation will be happened", will Krafton help EHG expand the influence in Asian countries? That's based on Korean, which mean some commons available to connect in different countries, like Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Korean and China.

I'm not sure how will this community going, but I don't want to lose that at last because of Krafton. 🙏
All the best.

[static birch]

With the recent announcement - I wonder what happens to the plan of keeping Last Epoch an always true-offline, never die game. Will EHG still be able to commit to having Last Epoch still a fully offline supporting game, in which we will have a fully operating client we will be able to essentially play forever?

[eternal zinc]

Do you mean decimal places internally will over than single, like 158.43, but for displaying important info, one decimal place in player's UI only?

[sturdy ridge]

I sure hope you heard the news about Subnautica getting royally hecked over by Krafton

[marble socket]

I wish all the best in this new phase of EHG and that Last Epoch becomes an even greater game. Good luck to you guys and congrats on the great news.

[sturdy ridge]

Just curious , will there be a dev stream today? 👀

[flint bloom]

yes

mike asked for teasers yesterday

[blissful tulip]

link?

[crude plover]

https://www.twitch.tv/lastepochgame?sr=a

Think they stream on YouTube too but I'm not sure

[pine chasm]

Yes, it goes to both simultaneously
https://www.youtube.com/@LastEpochGame/streams

[blissful tulip]

do you know the time for this? first time joining

[crude plover]

22:00 CET every Friday

[vital shard]

unique spoiler(s) please

[boreal zinc]

Congrats on the acquisition! I hope all of your equity and options pay/paid out handsomely. You guys deserve it!

[pine chasm]

Yes, most calculations are done using floating-point arithmetic and the floating-point values are converted to an integer or one- or two-decimal place value for display so that stats and tooltips are more readable.

[timber laurel]

Dear EHG TEAM
I was proud to be part of EHG and the game as a backer and supporter. Now i am not. Krafton is like most of the asian “publishers” a big pile of cancer for this industry. They are the complete opposit of the spirit and values that EHG was made of.

There are enough companies that have experience in the industry which arent like Krafton, Tencent and all those other asian companies. Hell if you had asked US the community we would have given you guidance on who to ask. So many good indy publishers out there that share YOUR passion and vision for LE and the Genre.

But yet you go to one of the darkest places possible… I honestly wish you EHG the best on this journey. As for me i will not take part in it. Krafton will not get any € or time from me.

a very disappointed and heartbroken player

[lofty walrus]

i really dont think "asian 'publishers' a big pile of cancer for this industry" was a good way to put it

it also comes off as very presumptions to claim that we would be able to provide the guidance that EHG, or any other company, needs to find the right publisher. Neither you or the rest of us have such knowledge to help with that. Hard for them to take criticism seriously when saying things like this

[timber laurel]

that is my opinion on companys like Krafton, Tencent, Nexon and all those other gacha cash grab companies that aquire companies to ruin them.

[crude plover]

Guys please take feedback to the #1210281911872786482

Don't have a back and forth about opinions in this channel.

Feedback both positive and negative is welcome. But that's not what this channel is for

[timber laurel]

If you are fine to get your personal informations handed to them so be it, i am not. If you are fine with them ruin games with cash shop stuff so be it, i am not. Its not like i am making this stuff up its literaly the history of many of their games. Self developed or aquired. Give me one example of a game from an asian company thats not a cheap cash grab / cash shop galore game. Enlighten me that i am wrong. Otherwise its still my disappointment and opinion about this "move" from EHG.

They sold out to one of the worst companies in the world while we carried this thing on your back and i have every right to be disappointed and upset about that.
@crude plover sry was sending while you posted, wasnt on purpose

[placid plinth]

Good morning everyone. Quite the news to wake up to eh? I think we can suspend the "no feedback" rule in here for the day.

I do plan to still stream today at <t:1753473600:t> (localized time stamp).

[errant isle]

Get ready for 1000 question about krafton , i got 1 😄

[floral patrol]

Hey Mike, will you be touching on today's news on stream today? If anything, for the sake of limiting the torrent of identical questions that will unavoidably be on the way

[eternal zinc]

🤔 I will say Judd test the trust of his playerbase so hard this time.

[limber plume]

My main concerns is are there any failsafes available if Krafton starts to push for p2w and aggresive montetisation?

[placid plinth]

I know that it will be top of mind for people. Judd has left a bunch of replies to questions and concerns on the original forum post. I am not really interested in spending the whole time talking about it so I might make a general comment but I'll be focusing on the questions about the game.

[eternal zinc]

Alright, so EHG's attitude is let the time to tell 🤔

[marble socket]

Dont forget our teasers. 😀

[floral patrol]

finally time for blue ring of atlaria 🙏

[eternal zinc]

I wonder why Chinese official accounts of EHG stay quiet yet 🤔

[kindred night]

hello EHG, does aRPG + Krafton = torchlight infinite?
jokes aside, TERA (mmorpg) is my favorite game ever and was bought by Krafton in 2021. the servers for the game shut down just one year later. i'm not saying that was Krafton's fault, but they did also go out of their way to shut down private servers that were put up by the community following the closure of official servers, ensuring no fan of the game would be able to enjoy it anymore. making this #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message a legit concern

[ancient yacht]

it wasn't. Bluehole (TERA devs) became Krafton (they rebranded to wash off the stink of being found guilty of stealing Lineage 3 assets from NCsoft)

[drifting panther]

Good luck Mike at the Stream today, drink lots of water and expect the same question to be asked 1,000+ times 🫡 🫡

[halcyon haven]

grats to judd and whoever else got a peice of that 95mil~, creating a close to 100mil company in 8~ years and doing it the right way is incredibly impressive and inspiring

[fiery island]

As a quality of life feature, could you change the loot filter to only show affixes that can go on that item type (if an item type is chosen) and show if the affix is a prefix or a suffix ? That would be a nice change.

[pine chasm]

Please use #1210282176680169562 (read first post for guidance), since requests in this channel get lost.
It does identify affixes that can't appear if you have an item type condition selected, btw.

[desert sleet]

Currently, if you have an item type condition in the same rule as an affix condition, the affixes will show a message in the picker if they can't roll on that item type.

Always happy to hear community suggestions for further improvements to the loot filter; I like where your head's at on this! 😄

[rich reef]

So does this mean character creation could be coming sooner?

[sturdy ridge]

DUAL WIELDING LICH! -> I am going to be asking in stream about something hehehe

[honest latch]

hello dev can i play dual weild lich without going to lich form edit: i mean is there a good build without lich form coz i hate that look

[fiery island]

aah so I am just dumb, i will post the second part in suggestions if its not already there.

[night tusk]

Does the new Legends of entwined double up if you equip 2 of them giving 2 to every set or does it not work because its the same item

[torn seal]

curious about this too

[red urchin]

It's unclear to me what exactly the Merchant Guild tokens are good for, the favor costs of buying and selling were basically a nonfactor after reaching just empowereds where you get so much favor by just playing the game

are favor costs getting increased heavily? do tokens have an additional use? is my viewpoint just skewed (it has months since I've interacted with early game MG, maybe i am misremembering)

i really appreciate the other search improvements to the bazaar though, thanks for those

[placid plinth]

Yes, you can dual wield as a Lich while not in Reaper Form.

[placid plinth]

In the same way that 2 of the same invoker ring doesn't count as 2 pieces of the invoker set, this will only count as part of each set 1 time, regardless of how many you have equipped.

The other way to word this is that each set bonus requires 1 fewer set item to achieve.

[subtle apex]

Hey I heard the news. Im very excited for the amount of cash you guys got from this, setting you guys up for personal success! However, I am quite worried that this partnership will stray from your initial vision for this game. You guys cracked the gameplay loop and have added so many awesome things that most ARPGs would never think to do. I really hope you guys are able to keep your stuff up to the standard you guys have had.

[marble socket]

Great video!!! Can't wait to play S3!!! 😍

[honest latch]

Can i transform into a dinasor

[placid plinth]

There are a few situations in which players were running into favor cost issues and being able to strategically give tokens at those times really smooths out the process.

[placid plinth]

We didn't add any new player shapeshift forms in Season 3.

[eternal zinc]

Will rift beast appear in both of campaign and endgame or campaign only?

The familiar question, how to encounter that/how to figure out how it work 🤔

[lusty fossil]

Merchant guild is going to be better next season? Or just some QoL

[placid plinth]

Mostly just QoL stuff for it coming. Few mechanical changes that will be very nice. It's plenty powerful, just a pain to use.

[placid plinth]

It will also appear in the endgame.

[subtle apex]

How confident are you that Krafton will follow your team's vision? Your team in incredibly talented, and receptive and interactive with your community, and I'd be heartbroken if thats no longer the case (for the second part you guys wont lose your talents lol)

[slate nimbus]

When we have full drop of the trailer banger on YouTube? I mean music

[errant isle]

@placid plinth Since you realising season 3 very close to poe2 don't you have some hesitations ? 🙂

[placid plinth]

"Krafton isn’t looking to change us - we went out seeking a partner and they were the most aligned in the mission and enabling us." - Judd (from a reply on the forum post)

Sorry, I'm kinda in parrot mode when it comes to non-gameplay stuff.

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure, we did ask to put the new tracks in the soundtrack.

[static birch]

Mike, I would love if you could answer this to the best of your ability - #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message

[placid plinth]

Always, our most important thing right now is to be consistent and the only way to get away from that would be a very large delay which would really not be good timing.

[long merlin]

My 2cents on the Krafton thingy....

If you integrate into another studio or start a joint venture... control is NOT lost.
Even if games or studios get bought up from Tencent it is the very same discussion everytime...

How could you, RIP, game gets asian, you lose your community, you lose control...
Not a single game i know of where Tencent is at the top got bad or the studio lost control.
One of the best examples is Warframe. The cry out with tencent was huge and still, this game was a pure example of success and sustained community project with a still passionately developed game.

Invests, manpower, help, knowledge, ressources... thats what most deals do.

This game will glow, iam pretty sure of. And i think this decision was a good and well thought one.

Sry... weren't 2 cents.... EHG, keep it up! 💪

[lusty fossil]

Im new to arpg games. Just curious what’s the difference between online mode and offline mode if you just don’t group with other people? Why do people play offline mode?

[timid fjord]

dont need internet connection

[placid plinth]

So I think actions speak louder than words on this one.

[torn seal]

Can you please release rogue team from dungeon so we can see some changes on that elemental arrow branch in marksman passives.

[lusty fossil]

Is this something very important to the arpg community? Because I assume most people have internet

[placid plinth]

There are very few differences, you can use skills in town in offline mode. There is a loading screen when exiting an echo and you can't use Merchant's Guild in offline mode.

[subtle apex]

COF gang wins once again

[crude plover]

Not everyone can have a low ping secure connection to servers. which makes online play laggy, you can also play offline mode while on a train or plane or something which is nice. It's just a nice thing to have. It's also for ease of mind that if (god forbid) the game servers are ever shut down, that you can still play the game

[night tusk]

Does completeted set mean you have 1 set bonus or all the set bonuses

[lusty fossil]

Was wondering why we can’t use skills in town

[torn seal]

Also i know very people with not enough free time plays with mods on offline mods. They deciede their own pace.

[slate nimbus]

I hope this new primordial exalts will be hellova hard to acquire. I want this powerlevel to be chaseable and not easly acquirable. Is it?

[crude plover]

would get very laggy if 20 people in the same town were spamming skills

[timid fjord]

🤔 wait with my questions until stream where Mike might accidentally go on tangent and reveal more than my question intended or ask now for concise answer early? the choices the choices.
Well I drop one now atleast. Can you yet share if there are other weapons besides axe that lich can dual wield and is the penalty the standard 9% inc. dmg taken?

[plucky cape]

First of all thank you so much for listening to feedback on minions specifically regarding beast master! Could you share any details as to some of these improvements might look like?

[placid plinth]

A completed set is one which you have all of the set bonuses.

[placid plinth]

I'd expect that some players might find it not too hard to start finding them. It's the highest tier of item categorization in the game.

[plucky cape]

Also,some of my friends and streamers seem a little worried about the krafton acquisition. Could you confirm that EHG stance on p2w items and free stash space will remain unchanged?

[placid plinth]

I can't go into details yet. We didn't rock the boat much on that one.

[static birch]

Im not specifically talking about cosmetics offline, and would love if you could specifically tell me if EHG could possibly have control over Last Epoch's distant future as an offline game. Thanks

[subtle apex]

Will wraithlord finally make enemies explode on death to fix that build's issue with swarms?

[eternal zinc]

#news message
It's my reason

[tulip ivy]

If there are offline cosmetics being added.. it stands to reason that offline will be supported.

[eternal zinc]

Settled in full offline 1 year+, no idea when will I play online yet. No suitable reason yet

[vital shard]

I wonder if there will be end game content or just new chapter and crafting options

[hoary frigate]

any MTX for Lich form?

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry, I don't have any more details to share just yet. Basically just that the highlighted skill icons that were shown are the primary focus of the changes.

And as for your other question, I'm going to leave things like that for the big dogs to address. Judd has put quite a few replies in on the forum announcement post. I'm not sure if it addressed this or not.

Same for yours @static birch

[placid plinth]

not yet

[placid plinth]

The Rift Beast is an end game mechanic

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry, I don't have details on potential upcoming changes like that to share just yet.

[exotic bone]

what's the characteristic of primordial uniques and exalted?

[vital shard]

not really, it is a copy of champion, unless there is mroe to it than it meets the eye in the trailer

[placid plinth]

it's still a mystery

[placid plinth]

there are a lot of hints in the trailer that are not obvious. It's not just champions.

[pulsar heath]

Do the balance changes to Beastmaster’s minions also include fixes for existing synergy issues, or are they purely stat adjustments (buffs/nerfs)?

[placid plinth]

There are mechanical changes too.

[vital shard]

stream in 1 hour?

[static birch]

Not being able to tell us if Last Epoch's future will still include fully offline support is deeply concerning. I really hope we could get some clarification about it soon. I don't expect a binary answer, since EHG might have lost the decision factor on this matter.

[crude plover]

yes

[placid plinth]

I'm just in gameplay mechanics only mode here today. I'm letting Judd handle all the questions like that. Please don't take my non-answer to mean anything at all.

[eternal zinc]

#👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message
I guess Mike will not answer these questions too because it's relevant to EHG's future and no one knows yet?

[flint bloom]

is calling this trailer unique a try-ant instead of tyrant on purpose? i want ants trying really hard

[jaunty obsidian]

With Legends Entwined can other classes use the Vilatria set bonus?

[umbral stirrup]

I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this but given all the unrest currently going on within the community maybe it would be a good idea if Judd holds a Q&A stream to tackle some of the more burning questions?

[desert sleet]

The Vilatria's staff/reforged set affix doesn't have a class restriction, only the helmet does, so I suppose so sounds fun! Excited to see what you come up with 😄

[placid plinth]

full on typo

[thorny flint]

Did Erik Desiderio create new music for 1.3? 😮

[placid plinth]

I don't know who else would have done it but I don't actually know for sure.

[meager mountain]

im sorry if this has already been answered, my question is if this season is similar to previous seasons where all content in it is available both on season and on non season realms or if this is the season where you start with exclusive content

[flint bloom]

it is going to both

[tranquil pumice]

Is the new update going to be just chapter 10 or will it be all three missing chapters?

[flint bloom]

just ch 10

[harsh minnow]

hey, is there anything you can say about a possible ps5 release? just wondering if i should hold my breath or check back way later down the line

[flint bloom]

the devs want to do consoles, but there is no eta on it

[harsh minnow]

yeah thats what i gathered on my own. wonder if the krafton acquisition could speed it up but i dont expect an answer to that

[plain vale]

With season 3 I saw that there was going to be some changes to minion builds. Does that mean snapshotting is getting changed/fixed? snapshotting has been the only turnoff for me personally to try minion builds.

[thick gust]

Question about this new ring from trailer, Legends Entwined - will "counts as a part of every equiped item set" stack if you wield 2?

[flint bloom]

the goal is to get rid of snapshotting, yes

[pine chasm]

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

[placid plinth]

none of those stats double up at all, don't plan a build around 2 of them, it will be dissapointing

[thick gust]

I didn't expect it to work, cuz that would be really busted, but thanks for confirmation

[plain vale]

Thank you

[tall kettle]

Someone asked about skills in town, on that but different is there any reason why we can't auto top up mana and life when we leave a combat area? I mean for health atm if you want to speed to next area you can just pop potions really quick because for some reason you've made those regen but not life, lol

[placid plinth]

Stream teasers from today

[placid plinth]

some builds don't want it back and detecting this is possible (only possible as of recently) but tricky. It's a good thing to put in #1210282176680169562

[bronze basin]

@placid plinth hey, Mox told me to message you. Is there a way to message u privately, its kinda sensitive information.

[placid plinth]

I sent a DM request

[red urchin]

can set affixes be crafted onto primordial exalted items?

[tall kettle]

Just saw the trailer, amazing! Thank you for more chapters. I love running the campaign fully I don't even use respec lol. Looks awsome ❤️

[storm carbon]

Are there going to be any supporter packs or twitch drops for this Season?

[wooden bridge]

No question, just saying amongst all the critiques and complaints from people foretelling the death of the game, I have the utmost faith in EHG. I can assume you guys have a deep level of passion for the game and as such didn’t make a decision like this lightly. I’m sure it was tediously discussed with multiple options thrown about, and I’m sure that you guys made the decision that you felt would best support the longevity of the game. Hoping for a fruitful partnership between you and your new parent company, so I can have Last Epoch updates forever

[split crown]

Oh so the woven contents still remain?

[flint bloom]

Woven content is core. Yes

[river ether]

I have a question regarding slamming LP. I feel like a huge power spike with uniques is gated by a singular boss. Now while that boss is fun and interesting (Sub T4), I find that I am being forced to do the 1 meta thing to choose my affixes. I also do recognise that there are ways to get random affixes on uniques but that is hit and miss (The weaver is a harsh mistress). Is there current consideration for an alternative method for this? If not, what would you like me to put in the suggestions section?

[ivory dune]

hey guys when is the season 3 media coming out on the site? i need the cool dinosaur for media reasons

[red vale]

Hey EHG, love the trailer and direction the game is headed - qq, anything brewing for easier season to legacy stash merging? For example, a button to merge items from a season stash into your legacy stash where, say, it starts with first stash tab and pulls items out 1 by 1 and tries to sort them into your legacy stash based on your tab filters? I’m a bit particular about merging all my items each season into my legacy stash so in my opinion it would be a nice QoL but I may be the minority.

[tidal obsidian]

Is season 3 introducing new woven echoes??

[eternal zinc]

OoO
Rank 3 is fantastic!

? Le will become free on steam after Krafton own EHG?

[subtle apex]

Why did Krafton buy Last Epoch for $96 million when they could have got the game for $35 on steam

[halcyon rock]

do you guys plan to add systems that are fully seperate from the monolith in the future because right now it feels like almost all of the new content is just monlith +

[vapid root]

You guys had a nice run.. RIP Last Epoch under Krafton

[main lagoon]

with wildfire embers will the repeated skill use all the tree? so if i do a healing hands divine bolt (not melee version) would it cast the initial healing hand then that can also proc divine bolts?

seperate question
the roar from the transformed beast at the end of the trailer was that the t-rex roar from the OG jurrasic park or a custom one?

[final cave]

Will the UI English localisation be updated to use the more accurate spelling? I need to "kraft on" all my uniques.

[long merlin]

Yes!
There will be changes to existing ones and new ones will be added.

There was no info on an increased weaver point cap for the tree.

My guess is no, because players should still have somewhat meaningful decisions.

[vapid root]

Pretty sure anything that was ever promised or intended can now go out the window with Krafton being big greedy daddy now...

[crude plover]

If you feel like T4 Julra is too big a challenge for the reward she gives (I personally highly disagree) you can post such in the #1210281911872786482 . When it comes to what you should suggest as an alternative; that's up to you. Maybe some kind of super rare dungeon charm that lets you skip everything including the boss (I wouldn't like this personally) would work. If you do come up with a suggestion you think is good and fair you can post it in the #1210282176680169562

[eternal zinc]

The trust of players is the biggest treasure EHG owning, it's sold now, so the only choice EHG can do is try their best to polish their game, collect value faith from players back.
If EHG cash out and leave, their legend is over too.

[long merlin]

Can we please get some further moderation?
The same permanently crying and book righting people spam this channel which not rarely make it hard to follow the real interesting discussions.

Or are time outs for this channel possible?

[river ether]

It isn't that the reward isn't worth the challenge. It absolutely is regardless of how frustrating I personally find T4 Julra, it is worth it to get that perfect Orian's eye. I am commenting about how it is the only option to get it. Keep the difficulty the same, for balance of course. There is no supreme arena way, no way in the monos. You need to fight that specific boss for that specific reward. I do appreciate the skipping of the dungeon component, I was just looking for different ways (although equally difficult way) of getting the same reward.

[eternal zinc]

wait, what "reforge class-specific idols at the woven enchanter" mean?

No limit times on reforging these idols? (0 time only in tombs, 1 times only in cemeteries)
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[fluid axle]

we've seen some primordial uniques teased... but what exactly is a primoradial unique? is it just some sort of "these specific uniques are primordial because they are" or do they come from a certain method/enemy or do they function differently than another type of unique? Something else?

[flint bloom]

that sounds extremely complex to code into but this is more of a #1210282176680169562 thing to ask for it

[flint bloom]

high likelyhood, they said the woven faction would grow with content. Mike did say on dev stream that the tree itself isnt going to grow in s3, so the only other option is some WE's. though i wouldn't expect many

[floral patrol]

idol reforge is a pretty massive one albeit not part of the tree itself

[eternal zinc]

which things EHG have done on offline costumes to keep them safe?

[vapid root]

It really isn't for a good unity developer...

[final cave]

Since y'all got some corporate overlords now, physical merch store when?

[eternal zinc]

Remember to release Artbook once merch store is live, please.

I will paint an artbook if none here.

[timid fjord]

Since Boardman's set has one piece set bonus does this make legends entwined ring always apply the 'limited to one active companion' 1 piece set bonus, even if you have no other Boardman's set items equipped?

[eternal zinc]

Can new lich do fire damage as same as warlock and necromancer?

[rich basin]

the first line of the text on the item says;
"count as part of every equipped item set"

[lofty walrus]

Are there earnable cosmetics or at least plans for them? We purchase the game to play and I can only find MTX for cosmetics. If this was f2p I would understand the need to profit from mtx like POE but that is not the case. It would be fun if there were challenges to accomplish that would reward transmog items

[leaden iron]

Don't think there are currently, but the trailer for S3 shows a portal cosmetic for monolith completion so it looks like they agree there should be some.

[cursive sparrow]

do devs think minions currently are op or underpowered without snapshotting?

[pine dome]

That specific point in the video is to show you will be able to have 2 different portal cosmetics so when you open your portal in echo you can know if you have finished the echo.
Because if you don't have a portal mtx you will see a blue portal for non completed echoes and a green one for completed echoes

You loose that difference when you have portal cosmetic

[fierce creek]

Any chance for void squirrel mtx? (like the shrine ones)

[crude plover]

Might be a bit confusing to know if your squirrels are void or normal with that but if it's something you'd like regardless please drop it in the #1210282176680169562

[tame arch]

If I use Corsair's set(which converts Glancing blow chance to block chance) along with Apostacy node Whice converts Dodge to Glancing blow) and Deflect and Weave node (which converts Block chance to Glancing blow) what do I end up with? Or my computer blows up before the calculations?

[pine chasm]

Things can only be converted once. Defensive conversions happen after all other stat calculations (opposite from offensive conversions). So, your stats will look like:
Final block chance = pre-conversion glancing blow chance
Final glancing blow chance = pre-conversion dodge chance * 2 + pre-conversion block chance
Final dodge chance = 0

[valid oyster]

Just gonna put this out there as I ain't gonna sugarcoat it (it is my opinion to have & I am quite welcome to be wrong in the long run if proven otherwise.)
I will remain optimistic for Last Epoch given how fun it is with it's core gameplay currently when one takes their time playing through.
At the same time however, I do believe Joining Krafton is an ill omen of bad things to come to EHG & It ain't a warning, it's a spoiler.

On a different note: during the process, did anyone at EHG think to reach out to Pocketpair Publishing? Given how fresh off of the iron that Publishing platform is as it was created in January of this year?

[tall kettle]

Hey can anyone give me a rough idea of how much stun avoidance you would need to be unstunable or have a high chance of avoidance? I sit there reading the tooltip for it and remain clueless, my rogue is level 100, he has 800, he has 1550HP and 1800 ward which goes up to 3000-4000 when hes firing off crits and yet I still get stunned a lot running at 1000c echoes, like A LOT haha and then I did some vault of barnacles at 300 for speed farming and I know those bros have high crit chance but their slow, lobbing fire balls donk stun'd me heaps too, its a stun fest on my rogue but rarely notice it on my VK ES with less stun avoidance, no ward and about 4300HP. Any information I could understand would be great as stun avoidance seems to be an affix no one talks about and In the past I just get told "its worthless stack life" which is hard on a rogue when stacking other stuff.

[red urchin]

I would agree with "just build more health/defense", in my experience, if you are getting stunned a lot it means you are taking too much damage. If you want to link your build in #🔪┃rogue using this tool https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/ people can give you some suggestions on how to improve your build

although at 1000 corruption depending on your setup you might be pretty close to its effective cap

[tall kettle]

Thanks I appreciate that but I can do all content I don't want defenses I just want to understand how the stun mechanic works, 20+ years in ARPGS and I just don't get it lol, is there a stun avoidance generic soft cap for it or do I just have to keep playing my warpath who's stun proof because he's spinning in a circle (makes no sense but 4k corr and 1 min uber thats fine lol)

[pine chasm]

Ah, for just the mechanic, the game guide has a page on stun (visible out of game in LE Tools https://www.lastepochtools.com/guide/section/stun).
The short version is, a hit has to deal more than 12.5% of your max health + current ward to be capable of stunning you (if you are level 100), increasing in chance the more damage it deals. Increased stun chance modifiers on enemies multiplies their effective damage dealt for stun calcs.
If you get 8750 added stun avoidance, you are functionally immune to stuns unless the enemy has extra stun chance (not sure how common that is), since they'd need to deal more than 100% of your health and ward at that point.

[tall kettle]

Ah ok so 8000+ stun avoidance, sweet cos as mentioned 3-4k ward, 1500 hp, 2 red rings, 200 stats so they work, 7% on my shattered world, 50% on glancing blow also 16% on wall of nothing armor and I still get stunned a lot per map - obvs not applicable on uber, no stuns but absolutely wild in echoes, I find primalist also really stun prone (beast master melee) but for some reason as mentioned sentinel over all waaaay fewer stuns noticed and none with warpath, really odd, like really over the top too if im being honest lol. Only one kinda rogue can make the most of near 200 silver shroud stacks, bit unfair to the rest of us poor rogues who like a more ethical style lol

[pine chasm]

That is a pretty low health + ward pool, but it's all relative to how much damage reduction you have going on.
Yeah, there are a few means for stun immunity, and warpath does give stun immunity while channeling. Health builds in general have a slightly easier time since stun chance is calculated on max health, but current ward - so if you've taken any damage to ward, you become more vulnerable to being stunned.

[tall kettle]

Im using gamblers fal so and my crit is maxed throwing fire traps so when they pop its a heap of crits all at once base is 1800 ward standing still plus very high endurance foot of the mountain adds to that + passive node of percent of life and then yeah as they pop it goes up up 1000s and 1000s, but yeah was just curious re: the number since no one really says "Yo maxed my stun avoidance boysss" hahah

[final night]

I play MG in Legacy and I have reached gold cap. Because of this, I have several items in my sold tab that I have not redeemed yet, as I only redeem them when I need the gold. My question is, when the new season starts, will those items in my sold tab remain there or will they get wiped?

[static vale]

They'll remain unredeemed.

[quaint holly]

Does the weaver content stay ? The tree, uniques and so on... ?

[trail kestrel]

#👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message yes its not a seasonal thing that gets removed
like in 1.0 (initial full release) we had the exiled mages (they are still here)
1.1 season 1 - harbingers and nemesis system
1.2 season 2 - weavers tree/faction etc
1.3 season 3 likely being the rift beasts/mechanic as seen in their trailer along primordial uniques/exalted

[quaint holly]

Dope, I did enjoy the weaver mechanics

[acoustic oyster]

on the weaver tree: does enthralling bounty work with echoing riches?

[pine dome]

You won't get double proc of imprint

[sturdy ridge]

Why can we only equip one primordial unique? This means we cant equip the set ring and a primordial

[pine dome]

Has it been said somewhere we can only have one primordial unique?

[sturdy ridge]

yes its on the site vlad 😦

[pine dome]

I guess then the explication is on the website as well

These items can have more powerful effects than other Uniques, but you may only have one of them equipped at a time.

They are more powerful so the drawback is limited to one

Since the set ring has the potential to be crazy (when sets will be better) having that + another Primordial would be too much power

[void solar]

Hmm, yeah, it didn't mention that during the trailer video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnDnhPqC0BA. But it does say that here https://lastepoch.com/beneath-ancient-skies

Wonder how that interacts with the Primordial Exalted items. 1x of each maybe? 1x total? Hmm

[timid fjord]

site also gives name that is most likely for the goat npc

[placid plinth]

And now you know why I suddenly realized mid stream why two of those rings wouldn't work together.

[rancid sand]

wait does that also apply to the exalted ones

[willow frost]

Hello, just curious, question may sound stupid but I'd love to know if the new piece of campaign is after the existing one or somewhere in between the existing parts. Thank you!

[pine dome]

Wow ! Spoiler alert ⚠️😁
I am about to watch the vod

[fossil dune]

It's chapter 10. So, after.

[willow frost]

thank you.

[pseudo sphinx]

honestly if you could use 2 of the rings together it would be really strong even right now, getting a ton of levels to all skills and solving resists is pretty huge along with a lot of builds scaling off attributes- so it's def the right decision to limit to only 1 primordial unique if these are going to have that level of power

[final night]

Do you know for certain? I realize they may have done this in the past, but Mike has stated there are changes coming to MG and I want to double check they aren't doing something like this to combat inflation or for whatever reason.

[unkempt axle]

Do you expect every build to use a primordial unique? I will give an example from another game, say in poe there are some unique jewels that are inherently stronger and you can use only one of them however many builds dont use them at all. Is it also the case here or not?

[hollow jacinth]

How does Wildfire Embers interact with stuff like Judgement's aura node? Would each wisp get its own aura? Do the wisps consume your own mana when casting spells?

[pine dome]

A few questions about Primordials Exalted if you are allowed to answer them yet

• Are we limited to one Prim Exalted?

• Do they require a sealed Affix?

• Can the primordial affix be slammed into a legendary?

[quaint spindle]

They won't go anywhere 🙂

[nimble hemlock]

Will we get better hit feedback after the acquisition by Krafton?

[flint bloom]

If you think hit feedback is lacking, the best place for this feedback is in #1210281911872786482 so the devs actually log your feedback

[regal stratus]

Are there any new leaderboards for S3?

[void solar]

There were new leaderboards for Season 1 and 2, so it's highly likely there will also be new leaderboards for Season 3.

[regal stratus]

new leaderboards as in not the levelling and arena leaderboards

[void solar]

There hasn't been any different leaderboards announced. There's a #1210282176680169562 where you can post into one of the existing categories with your idea.

[fluid axle]

Are there plans to buff champions affixes, or even to add more? I was very impressed with the champion system, and they are enemies that are fun to fight, but the unique reward for killing them feels lackluster, and a lot of people I chatted to feel the same

[eternal zinc]

I want to know how will this community going, do you have any ideas?

[eternal zinc]

Why EHG not encourage players to min-max the game?

I wonder what EHG wish players to play alt characters because multiple builds available on the same mastery to try error and trial.

[crude plover]

They don't discourage it either. The only real way to encourage min-maxing is by making content that's only doable with a min-maxed build (like Uber aberroth) as well as the infinite scaling corruption system.

But the fact of the matter is (at least last time I remember them giving an indication) that less than 10% (could be higher now but I doubt it's higher than 20%) of people even make it to empowered. So 300 corruption is actually pretty deep content for the playerbase at large.

[eternal zinc]

hah????????????????? POG.

It even less than 50%... Then I think the campaign have lots of potential. (Ok I dislike the campaign too, to be honest)

[crude plover]

Tbf we don't have the actual data I'm just going off of old statements. It's possible it's closer to 50% now but I'd be pretty shocked tbh since nothing much has changed when it comes to early progression

[eternal zinc]

Oh I should switch to the positive side.

I will say Judd test who're his companions/partners so hard this time.

[runic shell]

i wonder if the new addition of campaign will also entail some retcon/redo some parts of the initial chapters

[valid oyster]

I am gonna have a very good time with that new ring indeed.😈

I also noticed the "tyrants skull" name may have been spelt incorrectly.

[pine dome]

Indeed

[dense patio]

Can I check does it mean every character can only have one primoridal unique equip at a time?

[eternal zinc]

Which way available for daily greeting with new CM without bothering?

[pine dome]

Yes

[mellow python]

Hi, with new season will area of decay will be ok tier in endgame ? and reworked so if poison damage increase its not also affect us so we don't have to get insane regen to sustain this skill while warrior have a area that deal insane damage with insane regen...

[crude plover]

You'll most likely have to wait for it to either be teased or the patch notes for an answer to this question. Since if they answered questions like that here people would ask about every possible change lul

[mellow python]

Yeah ^^ im just hoping this skill will be ok to play visual of a skill for me is 90% if i will like this skill

[random burrow]

Will season3 finally have steam achievements?

[crude plover]

We don't know (you won't get information on something unannounced here).

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

[rancid sand]

i wouldnt bet on it as it wasnt on the trailer or on the website

[dapper wind]

i doubt achievements are a high priority on their to-do-list ^^

[random burrow]

It's been 17 months...

[dapper wind]

we still have not a full char sheet on "all" stats, i think thats more important for example, sooo...

[verbal pine]

Im curious since primoridal uniques are special in its own way have you guys had other ideas for uniques and set items having "item types"? Like could you guys see primordial sets being a thing or have its own interesting item type

[placid plinth]

I guess it's possible. They are kinda opposites though so I'm not sure how that would work.

[pine dome]

Hi Mike
A few questions about Primordials Exalted if you are allowed to answer them yet

Are we limited to one Prim Exalted?

Do they require a sealed Affix?

Can the primordial affix be slammed into a legendary?

[placid plinth]

All great questions, I don't think any of that has been shared yet so I'm not going to go any deeper on it just yet.

[flint bloom]

Mike is there any confirmation on podcasts happening or a schedule for them for s3?

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure what the plan is there. I haven't been asked to do any yet. (doesn't mean there won't be any)

[marble socket]

https://x.com/LastEpoch/status/1940485208152694799?t=goJuI5G1SQK4qAIDcvkUcQ&s=19

Can you guys share with us if this item is also a primordial unique?

[placid plinth]

It's not actually finished yet. It might be.

[unreal ginkgo]

ive seen video that ppl using zoomout fov mod etc, is that legal?

[placid plinth]

The use of mods in online play violates the TOS and is not approved at all.

[unreal ginkgo]

*removed link, edited for security purposes

some vid shows even some online party play etc, mod DL link is in the description and there are even some paid access like autopot, auto pickup, 1button switchgear for snapshotting, maphack w rarespawn etc, hopefully you might wanna take a look and bring those modder down.

at the end of vid there are even showcase of certain mod capability such as quick auction AH etc, defo online

[placid plinth]

That's for looking out, if you could report things like this privately, that would be much appreciated.

We have a reporting option on our ticket system here: https://support.lastepoch.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=4416937240347

Could you remove the link from that post please.

ty

[eternal zinc]

Mike, How many rates of players have been reach 300c+?
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[buoyant bone]

For unique items that have their own skills/minions, would mtx for them ever be added for them?

Like for example Mr T. rex from the newly teased unique gets an mtx or the the orbs from Ucenui’s sphere

[woven basalt]

When is expected to have more information of S3?
I believe that in S2, there was a moment that we got new info every day. Is this also expected for S3, if yes, when?

[pine dome]

Yes and something like 2 weeks before the patch will be Hype week

And patch note drop at the end of Hype Week

[marble socket]

If you meant what I think you meant. It will be freaking awesome! 😀

[steady panther]

Is MG market gold cap still gonna be 1.5bil new season? Id hope to see sum new currency or smth😄 Problem is noone wanna sell their valuable items that are worth more then 1.5bil :/

[crude plover]

The problem isn't so much the cap as it is the inflation. If the inflation doesn't get fixed items will just sell for more and more absurd prices as time goes on. 1.5 bil is honestly already a pretty nasty amount for items to get to. If inflation gets fixed nothing will sell for that much

(And if the inflation is due to dupes, hacks or exploits then the cap doesn't matter, it could be 50 quintillion and people would still buy and sell for cap)

[hard perch]

but the problem of inflation is dupes

[midnight iris]

So right now there are 9 chapters and you can get all the questing passives (15) / idols (8 or whatever) by chapter 7 I think. As more chapters are released, will these passive points be spread out more so that you need to get to, say, chapter 9 to complete? Will the number of quest passives grow?

[exotic thicket]

why was ehg sold to a bunch of degenerates known for ruining games? i thought this was supposed to be a passion project, i don't see how it's justified it got sold to a company that's known for enshitification and destroying games with p2w

[crude plover]

While you're welcome to criticize and give negative feedback please adhere to the #rules and stay respectful.

[safe robin]

sorry if this is the wrong place or a super common question... with the way taking a hit is calculated, if i've got 30% glancing and 70% dodge, would all the hits I take be glancing? or is it a 70% change to dodge, then a 30% for it to be a glancing?

[crude plover]

They happen one at a time separately

So 70% dodge, if it goes through you then have a 30% chance of making it glancing

[safe robin]

alrighty, thanks

[mortal forum]

Mike, regarding Shatter Totem subskill from Upheaval: do all the bonuses that can affect totems from Fury Leap / Upheaval itself / Maul etc. apply BEFORE the totem shatters? Or do these bonuses just go to waste?

[placid plinth]

The Upheaval ability object is creating the totem shatter ability so the totem stats shouldn't really affect the damage I don't think.

[mortal forum]

By stats I mean, for example, a single Maul can apply:

1. Its own %inc damage to minions
2. An Entangling Root with its spell damage to minions
3. Fury Leap's global damage
4. Upheaval's damage bonus to totems it hits

Would ALL of these apply to the totems BEFORE they Shatter?

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure, however what I'm saying is that I don't think any of those matter as the minion's stats might not be used for anything in the damage calculation.

[mortal forum]

Interesting.. as per LETools it has a base physical spell damage of 60. Do you mean to say that YOUR spell damage would apply to that instead of the totem's?

[pine chasm]

Yes, shatter totem is a subskill of upheaval, so it uses whatever stats upheaval has, which come from its caster (either you or the upheaval totem if you converted it to a totem).
60 damage is the standard base damage for spells with 300% damage effectiveness, so it's not out of line with player skills.

[maiden brook]

Is swipe having no area scaling with weapon reach something you guys are potentially looking to change or is that going to be a set part of the skill?

[eternal zinc]

Mike, How many rates of players have been reach 300c+?
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[placid plinth]

I don't know. We would probably have to set up a special check to find out.

[placid plinth]

I'm really surprised by that. It might just not change much. If it actually doesn't at all, it's very likely that there is some issue with the bi-directional swipe back and forth causing it to not scale size.

[maiden brook]

It doesn't, it's not a bug, it's a stated part of the skill, says so on the tooltip

Edit: it does scale with AoE modifiers, just not weapon range

[placid plinth]

ok, then it's very likely that there is some issue with the bi-directional swipe back and forth causing it to not scale size.

[red urchin]

Was hoping for an answer to this question (if you are able to)

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry, I don't have any additional information available on top of what has already been shared on upcoming Season 3 content.

[lofty walrus]

I was curious about the dev philosophy behind Uniques. Now I’m just returning since EA so I could be behind but are uniques only meant to be stat sticks? Are there any plans to evolve them into build defining gear pieces? Diablo would be a good comparison

[valid oyster]

I could just imagine how the use of the primordial legends entwined ring is going to play out with shattered lance set & the 2h event horizon maul with the dilation stacks.

[pine dome]

Both types exists in the game already
If you look at Stygian Coal or Herald of the Scurry or more recently Mana Guide. They are builds defining items.
Not a dev but I am pretty they want to keep making both types. That way you don't have to wait for a Uniques for your builds to be able to play the build you want

[rare thicket]

Hi everyone! There is a chance that LE will come out for ps5?

[pine dome]

Tldr : details are still to be finalised but they are actively looking at coming to other platforms

[cursive sparrow]

Will we see nerfs in s3 to minions, not sure if devs aware but most of current minion builds are uber viable and on budget without snapshot, with snapshot there are even more op. And judging from new unique we will see even more power creep despite snapshot removal

for the context the only minion specializable skills without snapshot that havent killed uber on semi-budget are golem, skele warriors and scorp companion, raptor killed but on higher budget

[rare thicket]

Thanks! I hope that can happen soon! (Ps or Mac)

[pine dome]

@eager widget Please be nice . You can disagree but respectfully

[flint bloom]

cleaning up the conversation so overnight questions dont get burried. please use the appropriate places for #1210281911872786482 and conversations

[lofty walrus]

Yeah I think Stygian coal is a good example after googling it. There must not be many unique s like that because I just haven’t found many at all. Set items are another good topic but I think I read they plan to work on that

[limber plume]

Do we know how many new beast bosses are we getting? Also, I assume they will have boss specific item drops also (primordial uniques)?

[pine dome]

Not yet

[timid fjord]

This might chance with season 3 but I'm actually interested in the reason why Acolyte has two skills that scale with dexterity, harvest/reap and two other skills which have dex as optional in chaos bolt proc harvest and profane veil ward per dex on dodge, but the class has no access to dexterity in their passive tree or class specific gear.
What was the reason for making these choices?

[pine chasm]

fwiw, all classes have dex scaling skills and can naturally roll dex on all their gear

[placid plinth]

The short version is that each class has secondary attributes and each of those abilities also scales with a primary attribute for the class as well. I'm also pretty sure it's a little more available. This is also part of the reason for adding the attribute changer.

[placid plinth]

All of these details are still not available yet.

[placid plinth]

As always, I don't have any information available on potential upcoming balance changes.

[subtle apex]

Hey EHG, in your personal opinion, who is the weakest mastery/class? Weakest doesnt nessacerily mean power, but can mean depth and variance as well. For me, I personally think that Shaman is the weakest skill-wise. He really needs some cool stuff like Beastmaster and Druid have!

[eternal zinc]

what cool stuff beastmaster and Druid have but Shaman don't?

Shaman is the only mastery I enjoy in all masteries of primalist on the opposite

[final cave]

Integrity

[placid plinth]

Synergy

(I'm not sure what that was really, if you have a full on question, I can answer it.)

[placid plinth]

I think we're prioritizing Necro/Lich this season because we feel that it's probably in the most need of attention. Neither are really hitting their core design goals super well.

I think it's a really good sign that this isn't a super easy question because there are things to enjoy about each one.

Shaman is probably pretty high on the list. I think I'd put Bladedancer up there too.

(oh look, it's almost a list of the classes who are missing skills still)

😄

[tall kettle]

Morning guys - just a question around how resonance works. I was wondering should it be dropping at the same time for each person in the party? Does the one who does the majority of the killing generally get more drops of resonance? Is it actually based on the shared XP or is it the amount of monsters killed? (not sure you'll share that one lol)

[placid plinth]

Progress is simultaneously and equally granted to all nearby party members. Drops are not reliable and you are not expected to have them drop simultaneously. (By reliable I mean that they have a chance based element for when to drop)

[tall kettle]

Ah ok I thought it might be down to who kills the most, I was running with my friend last 2 days on 2 diff chars and his EU server so I had 300 ping and literally struggle to get kills in on echos because his warpath actually does the entire screen and he's insanely geared so I just hold his hand and skip along, during that time I picked up 11 golden resonance, he's picked up 17 golden and 3 obsidian which is strange, we were tinkering with echos and different techniques but nothing seemed to work. I know you mentioned to me obsidian probably isnt dropping how its supposed to at the moment but thought based on his kills vs mine this might be a trigger.

[final cave]

Yo Mike. Any chance for some more nuance on my original question now that we have Season 3 announcement? 🙂

With an increasing number of uniques, Rune of Ascendance, unique/set mono nodes, CoF prophecies and Weaver Tree 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? 🙂

[regal stratus]

in the recent dev stream teaser "You can reforge class-specific idols at the Woven Enchanter", is that an existing mechanic from S2 or a new thing?

[kindred night]

hey Mike, probably been asked before, but the trailer specifically says that lich & necromancer are getting reworked, leaving out warlock. (of course those will still reflect on warlock but) is the spec getting less love than the other two and why?

[crude plover]

The other two masteries are completely missing what are called "threshold passives". Which are the passives where after you spend x amount of points in it you get a static bonus that doesn't scale with points. This is because they're simply way older than warlock and hence need a "rework". The warlock tree is still modern and shiny for the most part.

[placid plinth]

It's a new thing

[placid plinth]

I can't say I remember what I said last time but I don't see why it would change really. We've got some really strong tools to influence the items you want. The more items we release, the less impact each of the new items has in this issue. I think if anything this helps to slightly temper power creep that naturally happens. I really don't think it's going to have a huge impact though.

[rough loom]

How happy is the team with how powerful sentinel was in 1.2?

[placid plinth]

It would have been nice to be able to do some mid season rebalancing but I'm glad that people were able to find builds they enjoyed.

[final cave]

Thank you

[lofty walrus]

Mike quick tell me which class is gonna be busted next season

[placid plinth]

probably a Magumalcolnal

[lofty walrus]

i appreciate the info i look forward to building a Magumalcolnal

[placid plinth]

(just for the record, it is a bit from each base class's name)

[mental flume]

Hey devs, loving Last Epoch and the direction it’s headed, but I wanted to highlight some frustrating issues with endgame Monolith of Fate progression in group play:

1. Echo Start Interrupts Party Screens
   When the party leader starts an echo, it yanks all party members out of whatever UI they’re using (vendor, inventory, crafting, etc). A short countdown or ready check would be much smoother.

2. Quest Echo Credit Isn't Shared
   After earning stability to unlock a quest echo, only the host gets credit. Even if the party completes the quest together, everyone else has to host and repeat it solo to progress their own timeline.

3. Boss Echo Progression Is Solo Only
   Boss kills only count for the host—even though everyone spends stability to enter. This means players must refarm stability just to do the boss again on their own.

4. Corruption Gains Are Host-Only
   When pushing corruption, only the party leader gets the increase—even though the whole group helped earn it. This discourages co-op progression at higher levels.

In Short: Group play is fun, but currently feels punishing. Shared quest/boss credit and corruption gains would make co-op much more rewarding.

📝 Full forum post with more detail:
https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/frustrations-with-group-play-experience-in-monolith-progression/78525?u=llcrypticll

[fluid axle]

I think it'll be the Sormarbladruhamnecpalfog

[placid plinth]

Thanks for your feedback, could you move this to #1210281911872786482 so it gets compiled and reviewed.

[mental flume]

Done, thanks for the reply 🙂

[eternal zinc]

hhhhhhhh IS IT?

I just find mage 🤔

🤣 😏 Looking forward to see a magumacolnal implement in game

🤭 I'll call the new character "maguenticolist" though, with this logic

(It's the funniest joke made by Mike, I admit)

[rough loom]

How far off the mark was it off target goal?

[steady panther]

Does that mean ya can reroll idol affix ranges?👀

[lofty walrus]

I was thinking about where this game could go in the future and was wondering if the team has considered any interest in dipping into other "genres" due to the time traveling/alternate timelines in the game. For example, allowing us to travel to a "Future Era" which would allow sci fi elements and maybe even a tech-based class or maybe even an EXTREMELY older era that could introduce ancient lovecraftian elements? or is the team only interested in high fantasy. I was just curious since I think the nature of the game opens a lot of doors

[buoyant bone]

With a new chapter coming out for the campaign, does this mean the +1 all for finishing it will be moved to the end of the new chapter? Or will it stay at the current end

[placid plinth]

We are adjusting the quest rewards and campaign to monolith transition process. I don't have any details available to share yet on what that is going to look like.

[buoyant bone]

Understandable, thanks Mike!

[placid plinth]

We aren't too keen on bringing far future stuff to LE in general. I'm not sure that's really a different genre though. But yea, we've considered it a ton.

[placid plinth]

It means you can reroll something about idols. I'm sorry, I don't have all the details available to reveal just yet. We will go into details on all of the changes to the faction rewards.

[placid plinth]

I don't know really. I have said the same thing about each season and I will say it again next season. I just want to do a mid season balance pass. Which I know is a very unpopular idea and we have no plans to do so.

[crude plover]

I'd like that tbh. But yeah people playing nerfed builds would hate that lol

[lofty walrus]

yeah wasnt sure what else to call it but sci fi elements would definitely add a different feel. Lovecraftian though...now that would make a cool acolyte subclass wink wink

[placid plinth]

Magumalcolnal
Mage
Rogue
Primalist
Acolyte
Sentinal

[placid plinth]

and I think I'm just completely desensitized to that after playing WoW for so many years when they would make frequent balance changes.

[crude plover]

Yeah I mean I only play one build, when you guys buff it and nerf it doesn't really matter I'm still playing it unless it becomes literally unplayable which I doubt will happen, so I'm safe :P

[buoyant bone]

I think a mid season balance patch would be good, but like if you need to heavily nerf a build I guess aim for a power shift rather than a power removal so it feels less cooked?

also since you said wow... whats your favorite class + skill (and why is it big number chaos bolt lock)

[placid plinth]

I can't find it now but I've still got a picture of my warlock around here somewhere. My main was always a warlock from day 1. Mostly played demo but filled the roll that my guild needed so I played all 3 as needed. Chaos Bolt was always my favorite but we needed the crit bonus from demo for our 5 mages. My "claim to fame" in wow is getting the Tribute to Insanity server first Trail of the Grand Crusade on Heroic with 0 wipes on a "full" server.

oh the video of that is probably still on youtube

[buoyant bone]

[placid plinth]

Me playing wow, very off topic - ||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oZAj8fUgqg||

looks like my timeline is slightly off and we hadn't switched to that many mages yet

[leaden iron]

Unfortunately they did a community vote for the mid season balance thing and it got downvoted. I don't agree either, and I'm not sure a poll like that really reflects the playerbase as a whole, but it's decided for better or worse.

[buoyant bone]

Yea

[crude plover]

Yoooo fellow warlock. Demonology is my preferred

[placid plinth]

also, to be clear, the poll was a way to guage the community's feelings to be used in our internal debate, not a guarantee of outcome.

[buoyant bone]

Would another poll on the topic be a possibility?

[placid plinth]

yes, however just to be super clear, even if it was 100% in either direction, it wouldn't guarantee that outcome.

[foggy hull]

Did the WoW influence creep into any Acolyte skills then? This is crazy btw I was known for being a hardcore Chaos Bolt enjoyer during my raid times lmao

[placid plinth]

I think it's really hard not to have past games influence what games you make. Not that that would be a bad thing really. I can't tell you how really but I expect it did.

[foggy hull]

That’s fair

[eternal zinc]

#💬┃general message
I want to ask which different between them, base on Mike's experience

[void solar]

@leaden iron @buoyant bone This was back with the 1.0 release. The initial stance was no mid cycle (now called season instead of cycle) changes for overperforming bugs, unless they caused server issues. https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/mid-cycle-build-balance-survey/67482

Previously, our decision on the topic of Mid-Cycle balance has been to avoid adjustments to skills and items that are overperforming but are not bugs and to avoid fixing bugs that result in those skills becoming significantly weaker. The exceptions here are bugs that cause server stability issues.

you can see the poll results here https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/mid-cycle-balance-survey-recap/68542 and the stance changes were that they would fix overperforming bugs

We will release fixes mid-cycle for bugs which result in an item, skill, or build highly overperforming.

[timid fjord]

I would have loved to see the poll after season where they did do mid season balance patch as I think lot of ppl have the image in their heads that all such patches would end gutting the builds instead of bringing them to the same line with other non-overperforming top builds.

[buoyant bone]

Yea I was there for that

[old wadi]

good old Wotlk times. You must've felt like a god with that achievement and title 👏

[placid plinth]

lol yup, just hung out on the steps in dalaran for hours

[limber plume]

Regarding Beastmaster and new TRYants Skull - will there be an update maybe/possibly/there is a chance to have aspects affect minions also, not only companions?
I feel like having a new minion thematically tied to Beastmaster not be affected by signature effect of the mastery bit weird

[old wadi]

I wasn't much of a raider but I've got my hands on a time-lost proto-drake so I had a similar experience 🙂
Too bad that feeling got lost after they merged servers. But Wotlk was peak!

[sturdy ridge]

Will there be COF qol additions in S3?

[sturdy ridge]

Any update of any podcasts for S3? 👀

[royal dew]

Yes, team podcast for S3 please

[placid plinth]

What part of the item would you like to see affect minions that doesn't currently? (I can't see any)

[placid plinth]

Nothing major comes to mind but I haven't been super involved with that lately so something could be there that I don't know about yet. Will probably have to wait for patch notes.

[pine chasm]

The aspect buffs apply to companions (or at least, most can), but not your other minions

[placid plinth]

no word yet

ohhhhhh I understand, I thought they were asking for part of the item to apply to minions and not just companions

I don't see a way to make that happen. We can't make the Tyrannosaur into a companion without breaking a bunch of companion rules and I don't think we can make the aspects affect minions without breaking a ton of other builds. Having an individual exception is a recipe for confusion and I'm not even sure how that would work.

[eternal zinc]

Funny thing:
My first reaction is what chaos bolt is (I remind of that now)

Well I suppose chthonic fissure let me remember warlock deeply. It's a successful brand.

[verbal pine]

Any chance with seasons being on a 4 to 5 month schedule will there be a roadmap in some way? Like maybe just cryptic artwork or something of the like.

[runic shell]

i wonder.... will there be also some updates on dungeons or they will stay unchanged this patch?

[limber plume]

Tnx for the answer. My logic was since Beastmaster only has companions, and can get minions only with items - since there are only few items that grant minions (afaik) I do not see it breaking any builds, quite opposite, minions from items would be more usable on Beastmaster

[placid plinth]

Companions have a few requirements to be companions, the biggest thing here is that they require an ability slot on your bar.

[placid plinth]

some minor stuff but not much really

[placid plinth]

Given some recent new resources, we are adjusting some plans to take advantage of that. I'm not sure when the next roadmap will be out.

[flint bloom]

so roadmaps will exist in the future, you say. i like it.

[placid plinth]

as far as I know yes. I really like having those to show general direction

[limber plume]

Due to increased resources, is there a thing that you guys wanted to do but were unable and now you can? Eg. engine upgrade, or something big like that

[pine dome]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/414298693257265155/1399679536903356437/Screenshot_20250725-124635.png?ex=688c83a6&is=688b3226&hm=9287bd32443e0c2360cd877876873510d229a2d21433bb7af23a64243d3a36b1&

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/414295382625878037/1398255004875489400/Screenshot_20250725-124552.png?ex=688c9af3&is=688b4973&hm=69021545031e1365e098dfd967ea236a153ee2680ea03892d75eca447baeddbc&

Looks like going to console and fixing Mike's old spaghetti code 😏

[placid plinth]

hey! how dare y....oh wait, no, that's fair

[opaque falcon]

Internal "battles" are always fun to watch! Hope you guys are having a great friday! Keep up being awesome, and i hope the game progresses as you guys want to! 😄

[placid plinth]

scared me so much. Thought I had lost a day for a sec. I guess it's probably firday somewhere though

[opaque falcon]

Oh, yeah its thursday.... Well as you said ig its friday somewhere. Don't mind me i just live in the future 😂

[runic shell]

stop he's going to get too crispy

[modest pollen]

Will the Tryant's Skull be non class-specific, as it was shown in the Season 3 Teaser Trailer, or can it suddenly be revealed with more details during hype-week - like i.e. having a Primalist-class restriction?

[strong sentinel]

Good day; Will season three introduce a way to level up without playing through the campaign? After playing in early release, S1 and S2 i have completed that content too many times to want to do it again.

[rare thicket]

Don’t give me hope😂😂😂

[eternal zinc]

No, it's Friday now. I'm live in the future as you said.

[desert sleet]

Any unreleased content is subject to change, but if we teased an image of it, then I think that points to a higher level of confidence that what we showed is how it will release. I would be surprised if it suddenly got a class restriction.

[modest pollen]

Awesome, thanks 🙏

[eternal zinc]

How to ask Foton "When krafton staff come here and get their exclusive roles"?

[opaque falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-the-future-shane-luis-rerez-the-future-is-here-future-ready-gif-24216886

[crude plover]

They prob won't. Not all ehg staff is in this server either

[placid plinth]

The campaign remains the only designed way to level up a fresh character. You can skip major chunks of it using Dungeons or get a rush to skip it if you want. We are working on a slightly hybridized approach for the extended campaign sections as we release new chapters. This won't appear until Season 4 though.

[tall kettle]

I started in 1.1 and saw someone on forums mention eventually the game will be 12 chapters? Is this true cos I flipping love levelling through the campaign and don't even re-spec chars even if I can and have the gear. I'd definitely not be mad if it ended up 15+ and people who want to hit echoes can spin off at an earlier phase and campaign masochists like me can keep twiddling away lol

[marble socket]

Hi guys! Is it possible to search for specific T6 or T7 affixes with the new stash search commands? For example, searching for items with T7 dexterity.

[flint bloom]

the goal is 12 chapters yes. we are still chasing apophis, need to deal with the immortal emperor, and confront orobyss, at the very least. though ch10 took a bit to get out for a variety of reasons.

[royal dew]

We love you guys, thanks for all you do and slaving away so I can get off work and induce floods of dopamine and de-stress from the realities of life

[tall kettle]

Thanks - I should probably put my headphones on and listen / read the story sometime too, lol

[simple canyon]

Actually this reminds, I had a question with regards to the story. What influenced the choices to start with cinematic cutscenes , then change to in-game ones? And are there any plans to remake them one way or another?

[desert sleet]

It's not currently possible to specify which specific affix is at a particular tier with stash search macros.

If there's specific search scenarios you're finding aren't able to be handled by search expressions, let us know in #1210282176680169562 or #1210281911872786482 so your feedback gets tracked. Player feedback on stash searching has been instrumental in helping guide our improvements to stash macros and I'm certainly keen to hear more so we can keep improving it further!

[flint bloom]

the best you can do right now is this, and just search for the range. its not the best but it can kinda work

[pine chasm]

Also gotta deal with Rahyeh (sidenote, our confrontation with Orobyss is after chapter 12)

[flint bloom]

true, forgot about rahyeh.

[final cave]

In which chapter do the Groles rise up against their masters and ascend to their true positions as the Royal Uber Grole Dynasty?

[pine chasm]

Allegedly, it ||happens in all of them at the same time once Gregory takes the epoch||

[timid fjord]

one april fool they will visually replace one of the bosses with gregory 🙏

[barren light]

So uh. I just want a quick answer I don't know if this is the point of this channel but. I lost my "Fingers of the Phantom Mire" upon character swap and it just vanished. I personally ensured that it was in the bank before swapping. When I did swap, it wasn't in the bank. Plus nothing directs me to item loss and this wasn't the first time as previous items I don't care about disappear, but this is just my first complaint as one of my plans got ruined.

[flint bloom]

there really isnt any way to retreive lost items unfortunantly.

[barren light]

Well that's just sad then. I rarely get the pieces I want and the one time I do, it disappears.... Can't even report for lost items especially as a steam game is crazy. Ah well. I guess I have to find my level 61 a new piece of gear. Somehow. (just realizing I lost 20% movement speed) CHECK GENERAL

[crude plover]

Do the two characters share stash? Have you double checked on the character that you removed it from that it's not there? That sounds extremely unusual but yeah if it's really gone there no way to get it back sadly

[eternal zinc]

🙃 it's disappointing.

[clear wraith]

hi, this is not game related question, but Last Epoch Voice Rooms used to create each voice channel for people creating the rooms, now it only assigns people under the Creator Channel, why did this change?

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure at all. I actually just tried to make one and it wouldn't let me either so something weird is going on.

[clear wraith]

Will you fix it?

[crude plover]

I've notified the right people regarding it 👍

[kindred night]

hey Mike, quick question about the corner minimap: what is the reason why LE (and other games: poe, diablo, hellclock just came out, but pretty much every game in existence really) doesn't let you zoom out further with the corner minimap? and more specifically, why can't you zoom out nearly as far as overlay map. is this something you've tested and found it had issues or just didn't look nearly as good? and why not give the player the option anyway?

[lime goblet]

Hello,
I have heard from multiple sources that the "blade paladin" node in the vengeance skill can be converted to fire penetration with ignite with fire resist. In the game there is no mention of this, I have tested and it does not work. Is this intended? Would it be possible to make the descriptions more explicit?

[tawdry atlas]

Is there any plans for dealing with the gold cap? Without a way to sell more desireable items for higher they just become unavailable on the market. I'd rather spend my time grinding out more gold than refreshing the market waiting for an item to appear

[torn seal]

Is Mike streaming today?

[placid plinth]

yup

[placid plinth]

Yes, however increasing the gold cap would not deal with it. It's like a highway, if you add 3 lanes to a congested highway, those new lanes will be clogged just the same. Need to fix the root of the problem. Items leave the economy WAY faster than gold and the more people use the bazaar, the faster the collective group can farm gold.

[placid plinth]

Well, it kinda works. You're right that you've found a bug which I've just fixed for Season 3. Right now on live, when vengeance is converted to fire, that node mistakenly changes to Time Rot fire penetration per overcapped fire res. (which effectively does nothing because time rot doesn't do fire damage)

It is supposed to give Bleed more over phys res, ignite per over fire res and time rot per over void res depending on which element conversion.

[placid plinth]

We do have zoom levels for that corner mini-map. When the canvas is so much smaller, we decided that the max zoom out was the point where it starts to fall apart.

[lime goblet]

thank you for your answer! are you considering updating the description to be more intuitive?

[placid plinth]

probably not for S3 as we just passed string lock for translations. I can sneak in little 1 line code changes (literally just changed TimeRot -> Ignite) but I can't do text changes at the moment.

[kindred night]

sorry in advance i'm going to debate on this a little bit longer, but why not let the player decide where it starts to fall apart for them? what's the downside in giving the player an option to zoom further out, i mean if it starts falling apart for them they can just stop zooming, right?
i just genuinely don't understand what are the actual drawbacks (from the dev pov), unless you're completely sure that it looks so awful 99+% of players wouldn't want to use it anyway, but i did just go into the game using a mod to unlock the zoom and it looks perfectly fine to me

[royal dew]

Do you guys feel any nerves or pressure as launch date comes sooner? I can only imagine this being an intense time for you all

[sturdy ridge]

Any teasers for today? 👀

[desert sleet]

but ofc! there will be ||a teaser|| and perhaps also ||another teaser|| ||but you'll have to wait for the stream to find out ;)||

[desert sleet]

It's always a swirl of emotions leading up to a release. It's kinda scary but mostly exciting to finally show the world what you've been spending so much time building. As with past seasons, we've put a lot of effort into addressing many of the most frequent community requests, which gives me confidence players will like what season 3 will have to offer. I'm really excited to play season 3 alongside everyone else!

[desert sleet]

The minimap just has far less space to fit info than the map overlap, which is why a map overlay is a staple feature of ARPGs and allows you to see more of the map at once. When you want to see more of the map, you can open the map overlay with a single keypress to see that. Some players even prefer to play with the map overlay open all the time.

As for why there's a zoom limit at all, we design and test our UI assets to be legible at a variety of sizes and we want to be sure that at all supported sizes, they remain legible so they can serve their primary purpose of conveying useful gameplay information to the player. Having defined limits makes this into a more tangible goal, because it gives our artists and testers clear breakpoints that the assets should remain readable at. If there was no zoom limit, then every asset would fail to remain legible at some point.

Of course, that zoom limit is somewhat aesthetic/subjective and (checks commit history) was set back in 2023. Since the zoom limit was set, we've added completely new map types in the form of procedurally generated Tombs/Cemeteries as well as more random encounter types that add icons to the map so those might be good reasons to reassess the limit. If increasing the map zoom limit is something you'd like to see, let us know in #1210282176680169562 or #1210281911872786482 so your feedback doesn't get lost in here! (we don't track feedback from this channel, we just answer questions)

[eternal zinc]

I hope Mike's marksman will level up to lv 98 after the stream is ended

[kindred night]

thank you for the detailed answer.

Some players even prefer to play with the map overlay open all the time.
see the only thing when people say this is that i question whether people prefer to play with the overlay because they like the overlay, or because they feel forced to use it since it's superior (due to the corner minimap not showing as much)
i use the overlay all the time for that reason even though i don't like it, it's a suggestion i've already put in the forums in 1.0 and i put it up again, but for some reason it seems to me every arpg out there seems to want to force their players to use overlay so it kind of feels to me like it's a hill that developers in general (i don't mean you guys in particular) will die on for some reason.
sorry for the long rant lol i kind of understand the technical reasons for it still doesn't really make sense to me why it's not given as an option to unlock that limit (for example, put it in the options and give the player a warning: "this setting might make things look weird/buggy". that way the player has the option to do what they want, without constraining the devs to ensure the game looks perfect past that limit)
especially in a game that the players aren't "allowed" to mod

[woven basalt]

How does the new trex primordial interacts with wraith lord?

[spiral isle]

is there a place we can get physical apparel? Like T-Shirts or Hoodies, mousepads and what not?

[crude plover]

Sadly no. A merch store is something we (the community) have wanted for a long time. But outside of merch they gave out during events there's no way to get physical goods currently

Hopefully soon!

[desert sleet]

It's not a wraith and it's a minion, so I assume the wraithlord would eat it. The wraithlord has quite an appetite!

the Wraithlord [...] regularly consumes your non-wraith minions to empower itself
https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAwNgLAzBCsQ

[woven basalt]

I know that, the question was like when is the trex resummoned after being consummed

[final cave]

Krafton to the rescue?

[desert sleet]

I'm not sure. The unique just says "Summons a Tyrannosaur minion" so idk how it would handle that minion dying since it doesn't specify a timer or proc or resummon rules.

[placid plinth]

Test it with the relic that summons a crossbow merc.

[woven basalt]

Good idea

[crude plover]

Warms my heart to know that somebody remembers the crossbow Merc exists because I sure didn't when trying to think of another item that inherently summons a minion

Item does say they'll just come back "after a while" so I guess they'd just keep getting chomped on repeat

[placid plinth]

yea, I'm pretty sure it's just an endless supply of food

[tall kettle]

I know not bug room but hope you're aware of the massive chat issue affecting everyone intermittently where party chat wont show people but you can msg them and see in global, then others in global people were testing and couldnt see others and global chat as a result is literally dead and has been for hours, lol. ANyways yeah yeah "read rule 10" "read title" ive reported it several times in several days shrug ok zips lips, byeee 🙂

[pine chasm]

If your bear uses earthquake, can it proc the avalanche boulders from snowcrash (EQ node)? If so, do they use the bear's stats and do they use your avalanche skill tree?

[eternal zinc]

Hi, which games (game types) will you play when you're off work except loot-based ARPG, Mike? I want many game names.

[subtle apex]

Can we expect to see more weapons and items from Draelyn (the One armed smith from the Phantom Grip description)?

[olive parrot]

Hi, dear developers, can't find info I patch notes, will there be difficulty levels or just increasing difficulty for campaign is season 3?
Thanks!

[plucky kiln]

What is max Block Chance and max Block damage reduction? does Block all damage like aoe/magic or just Mele?

[fleet galleon]

Ofc you can't find info in patch notes, they aren't out yet.
They're not going to put in difficulty levels like normal nightmare hell or whatever. maybe eventually, I'd guess no
We don't know about increasing the difficulty of the campaign either
and since these haven't been announced they're not going to talk about it either

[crude plover]

You can get 100% block chance and up to (but not including) 85% damage reduction on block. The damage reduction is decided by your block effectiveness stat and asymptotes to 85% similar to dodge. Here's the formula

"a" being area level and "x" your block effectiveness

Block only works on hits and not on damage over time.

[pine dome]

That includes Melee Hits, Spells Hits, Throwing Hits and Bow Hits (every kind of hits)

[plucky kiln]

Okay, thanks for info

[verbal pine]

i asked a question on stream if we can get mage harbinger. how i should've phrased it was expanding the harbinger faction would be cool down the line having more bosses/uber bosses like aberoth and new harbingers to FIGHT such as a mage, bow or minion class since we have hammer/ax and spear. ill drop it in suggestions just saying my bad for the weird mage harbinger ask.

[dawn rune]

Mike: Question from stream yesterday, I think maybe I missed the answer or something. The three new eggs that was a leak from a previous live stream. Did those make it into S3? I noticed they where not in the latest video. ty as always.

[steady panther]

Do ya plan to fix bazaar pricing text? When update some time ago was suppousted to make text look better it ruined it and it looks much worse😄 Now its little letters with lil numbers :d 1920x1080 Ui Standard / I made bug forum post some time ago.

[fleet galleon]

Please check the rules
#rules 10

[dawn rune]

my bad

[placid plinth]

You can see what the bazaar text looks like in the most recent trailer. I'm not sure what the bug you're talking about it but that's what it will look like in season 3.

[placid plinth]

The eggs are still in season 3.

[dawn rune]

Ty mike, sorry for the ping

[steady panther]

Hmm its pricing text when ya put in item what ya wanna sell n write your price that text got ruined by update n its small for 1-2months but mayb next season its fixed.🦇

[red urchin]

Are you able to say if the Careful Assault node in Shadow Cascade will be affected by the snapshotting changes? Currently it only updates when you manually use cascade, and indirect uses ignore the current number of shadows (which greatly benefits the build)

I am assuming no, because it isn't a gear snapshot, which seems to be the main focus for minions, but wanted to ask

[crude plover]

That just sounds like a bug. The node should check even with indirect casts from the way it's worded. Direct and indirect casts are generally treated the same unless specified.

[red urchin]

i mean, it "snapshots" the damage bonus granted from direct use at the proper amount of shadows, but ya probably closer to a bug. It's been in the game for longer than I've been playing however, so if it is fixed I would think there would be reciprocal balance changes to go with it, similar to the minion snapshots

I'm just curious if it is getting caught in the other snapshot fixes or not

[fringe granite]

anyone know about this le 94 bug when im trying to invite my friend to play with me but its not letting me and hes like forever offline but hes currently playing the game? im confused

[stark summit]

in the new league are the woven imprint system staying?

[pine dome]

Yes

[stark summit]

awesome thank you.

[kindred night]

hey EHG, quick question about WASD: obviously it was in beta in 1.2, are more improvements coming in 1.3 and if so, of what kind?
in particular I'd like to know if adding more keybind options is something you guys are considering when it comes to WASD, since while it might seem a bit unrelated, having the option to bind things like shift+mouse1 directly improves the WASD experience

[pulsar heath]

I really liked this season’s trailer. There were a lot of hints, and many teasers from previous streams didn’t appear in the trailer, which made viewers curious and gave the sense that there were still many mysteries left to uncover. Looking back at the season 2 trailer, it was quite long and revealed almost everything, and the interviews with the streamers also showcased nearly all the features. Honestly, doing it that way took away some of the excitement and fun. I was really hyped for season 2, but after watching the main trailer and the interviews, I felt like I already knew everything, so when I played, there wasn’t really anything that surprised me anymore.

[placid plinth]

I don't think we have any modifier key options coming to keybinds. Most of the improvements to WASD coming are based around feedback for individual skill issues. Specific targeting issues for node combinations and just general improvements.

[timid fjord]

Do you remember how you decided to pick madd hatter nickname? And how long you've had it?

[tall kettle]

One of the mods the other day said "platemail" on manifest armor used "all stats" including slammed ones, my current armor has t7 34% and base 26% on it, platemail adds 160% but in my stats its saying my minion only has 26% increased health - is that just stats not showing or is the node not working? If I import my build it says 32% not 26

[crude plover]

What do you mean by "in my stats"? Are you referring to the character sheet? If so that won't reflect anything on your skill trees

[tall kettle]

Sorry yeah if i hit minion tab its showing 26% increased which assume is from mantle of the pale ox base, i have 34% slammed onto that too and then platemail at 4/4 which is 160% increase of stats on chest, i know some stats dont show but my lil lad dies quite easily so just concerned for his safety

[crude plover]

Yes the character sheet will only show the stat "increased minion health" that's on your character. What you would want for the plate mail node would be normal "increased health" . Since if you give your manifest armour "increased minion health" you'd be giving your manifest armours minions (it has none) increased health through the plate mail node. Hopefully that makes sense.

The character sheet will also never take into account stats on skill trees. Since just because for one skill tree's node says for example "increased damage is 200% effective on this skill" doesn't mean that stat would be 200% effective for your other skills. Hence the sheet just shows the base value from your gear and passives before any skill trees

[tall kettle]

Ah ok so the "increased health" 34% slam is for me but not my child Timmy, got it so he's getting 160% of 26 which is why on my export it's probably 32% (not doing maths its too early) makes sense, I didnt even click on that slammed affix, thanks! Do you know if they are going to ever put numbers on health bars of any of the minions? And thanks! 🙂

[crude plover]

Make sure to check that your exported planner is set to "actual" in the rolls ;p

Option should be available when you import your character. Since otherwise the math isn't mathing haha.

But yes I think you get the gist of it. "Increased health" will apply at 1.6x but "increased minion health" will only apply at 1x. So you actually don't want minion stats on your chest piece for manifest armour. Since getting normal stats benefits both you and your manifest armour (at an increased rate!)

[placid plinth]

Highschool garage band

[tall kettle]

@crude plover lol I clicked actual, never noticed that tab before, lmao thanks again

[eternal zinc]

You're not alone. I ignored that 1 year...

(By the way I discovered most of lv 100 builds here is planned only)

[subtle kindle]

Will mtx be full sets this time around? or support older sets?
One of the biggest issues with mtx is that nothing really matches.

[eternal zinc]

#❔┃ask-the-community message
Mike, do you know the story behind?

[dawn rune]

now thats a music video I wanna see 🙂

[drowsy spear]

Hey Mike I was wondering if temp pets like druids locus are going to share in the the pet love in .3? Also was wondering if we can expect more talents that bridge that scaling gap between pet power and player power. I really like how you have treated scaling with falconer and would love to see more of that for Beastmaster.

[placid plinth]

not really, he's just big enough to sit there I guess?

[placid plinth]

We will continue to release a mix of individual pieces and full sets as we go forward.

[eternal zinc]

Sad, I really want to know why his throne looks like a toilet

[placid plinth]

Just in general, when we release a major patch, the answer to 'will archetype x get any love at all?' is almost always yes. Sometimes it's just new items that can shake things up, sometimes it's deeper passive and skill tree adjustments.

Class identity is one of our major design pillars so we are always looking for ways to keep classes distinct and uniquely interesting. Pulling mechanics from one to use on another isn't something we generally like to do very much.

Also, here is a little clip of the loot filter SFX preview. This isn't all of the sounds, just a little taste. They are the same ones I played on stream.

[subtle kindle]

Ig, do you think its possible for mtx to be more coherent kn the future?

Itd be awesome to see things that fit with older mtx. Or even finished sets of existing.

Like the void knight supporter pack getting weapon mtx that are found on its capes.

[placid plinth]

Maybe, if you'd like to see it, drop it in #1210282176680169562

[pine chasm]

Bumping this question now that the weekend is over

[slow knot]

will we be able to add custom/our own sfx to loot filter at some point in the future??

[median kestrel]

Hello Devs,

Weird tangent, but I was wondering if you'd be interested in helping out a struggling PhD Student with his research. I'm looking into how game developers find and use resources such as art assets, code snippets, creative inspirations, and design frameworks.

The survey is open-ended, takes about 10–15 minutes, and welcomes participants of all experience levels in game development. If you have a moment, I’d greatly appreciate you taking part in the survey: https://neu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_acafWGDyAqywyto

Thank you for your time and consideration.

[eternal zinc]

To be honest, if they're free at doing this type of stuff... Meet the team should be updated.

[flint bloom]

Likely a little busy making season 3. It will be ready when its ready

[plucky kiln]

damage to ward uses armor/resistances/block? Dose resistance reduce damage to ward when im hit?

[fossil dune]

The only thing that doesn't apply to ward is endurance

[plucky kiln]

Thanks!

[grim geyser]

with the loot filter sounds, will we be able to add our own custom sounds?

[dark frigate]

it will be a fixed list https://youtu.be/ny-1PouXF6Q?t=1295

[marble socket]

It would be cool if EHG created Sound Packs MTXs. So everyone would get the default one for free, but there would be a new way to support the game by purchasing other packs with different sounds.

[placid plinth]

No, this would fall under the pay for convenience category that we are not interested in exploring.

[marble socket]

Let's say all packs have 12 sounds, both the free pack and those available for purchase, and the player can only use one pack at a time. This way, a player who purchases a whistle-themed pack, for example, would still have only 12 sounds available for use in the loot filter, the same number available to the player who opted to use the free pack.

Would this still qualify as "paying for convenience"?

[placid plinth]

Yes

convenience might be the wrong term but I can't think of a better one right now, either way, it's not the sort of thing we are interested in charging for.

[somber trench]

Hey Mike, what do grole’s taste like?

[final cave]

Dignity

[olive cargo]

Quick question seeing as I just listened to the loot filter sfx: Is that the kind of sound mixing we might see coming to skill sfx in the future? Becuase if so, I think that will definitely help a LOT when it comes to giving skills that impact and weight some of them really need.

[grim geyser]

is there any chance we'll get to add our own custom sounds in the future? Some of my favorite memories in other ARPGs are of picking out truly horrendous sound effects to make the perfect loot filter.

[pine chasm]

There's a chance if you post in #1210282176680169562; for S3 it will just be picking from a pre-determined list, but more people that suggest something, the more weight it holds

[dense patio]

is this week the hype week for s3?

[nocturne bridge]

is there any build that focus on the basic attack? i think it would be a cool concept, and always intresting to have the option

[pine dome]

Should start on the 11th

[eternal zinc]

Not sure I understand that... What the difference between players who just get free pack and be paid?

[dense patio]

can the primorial exalted affix be used for legendary items?

[placid plinth]

All of the sound mixing for the game has been overhauled for Season 3.

[placid plinth]

No, we considered it but have so far passed on that option. It's always there for us but each class already has a skill which is essentially just basic attack but better.

[placid plinth]

We haven't disclosed the details of the system yet. We will be doing a deeper dive into the details as we get closer to the patch.

If you'd like to try and figure it out, you can try examining the tooltips as we often use positioning to communicate things. Like how the prefixes are always above the suffixes.

[valid oyster]

Like swipe for primalists as an example.

[subtle kindle]

will we ever be able to fight you in game mike?

[placid plinth]

https://tenor.com/view/taunting-taunt-come-at-me-come-at-me-bro-bring-it-gif-11413271

[solid torrent]

Idk if anyone asked this yet but: Will we be able to personalize sounds for the loot filter?

[fossil dune]

Has been asked, it's a no (if smth you'd like to see eventually make it heard via forums here or on site)

[edgy shell]

Next season it also looks like it will be possible to get 100% damage reduced on block with like 89.8% block chance, which is not nearly as useful (since then it's basically pseudo-dodge), but hey 😅

[fossil dune]

Block DR is hard capped to 85% (didn't realize you meant Slab)

[edgy shell]

yes, but The Slab is 100%

[modest pollen]

In the dev stream with Mike 10 days ago, he got a question at 31:40 "Will there be a Skeleton unique similar to the T-Rex one"?

He answered: "We try to keep things as distinct as possible between the classes, so if we make something for Beastmaster, we're gonna try to avoid the same sort of thing a Necromancer".

Does this mean it might actually be class-restriction on Tryant's Skull? I asked if it would be class-agnostic earlier, and got a reply from EHG that if it was teased as a free-for-all item, then it was highly probably that this would be the case.

I'm so confused 😅

[crude plover]

An item can be targeted towards a specific mastery/class without being locked to that class.

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

[modest pollen]

Yeah, but the answer could just as well mean there'll be a class-restriction on it. But I hope he meant it's simply targeting the Beastmaster profile, without restrictions.

[placid plinth]

I just checked the silver release candidate and it is not class restricted.

[modest pollen]

Thank you so much, this is great news 🙏

[eternal zinc]

~~65 results about t-rex in this server.

My question: What t-rex mean?~~

Figured it out

[faint terrace]

will everyone have access to the upcoming season at the same time? or is there a preview version for content creator's who are already playing?

[crude plover]

There is a CT (community test) but content creators are specifically prohibited from participating

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/changes-to-the-community-tester-program/78345

[slate nimbus]

Is Celestial Doom unique will ever be buffed? Cool concept but lacks numbers or cooldown is too high

[placid plinth]

It's possible, I don't have any details on potential upcoming balance changes. If you'd like to see it, drop it in #1210282176680169562 for consideration.

[vocal vine]

Does failing to kill Uber Aberroth, but then killing him in the same echo, effect his loot? When I mouse over an echo I failed him on, it says less drops will happen. But it still feels like the same amount of the "good stuff" (vise, sw, harby stuff).

[gilded ginkgo]

Why does smite get increased damage from elemental damage over time? The tool tip updates damage when I equip just that affix. This is without the fissure node specialized

[placid plinth]

The boss drops are not affected. We expect people to take a few attempts and getting reduced drops if you're struggling with it is not awesome.

[vocal vine]

That is RAD, thanks very much!! 😄

[placid plinth]

Does it apply ignite?

[gilded ginkgo]

Electrify, I guess it's including that damage?

[placid plinth]

Yup

[gilded ginkgo]

Got it, makes sense. Couldn't figure it out, thanks for the help!

[nocturne bridge]

Is there any shortcut to go to the arena? I often forget where it is and have to search manually through the eras.

Edit: I found out that, with zoom out on the map it's easier to find, the icon appears in the region, but still, could have a shortcut/search. The dungeons have it by clicking on the keys.

[pine dome]

If you right click on the key it should take the map to there

[valid marlin]

Interested in picking your brain, Mike. Having a conversation about auto-pickup of shards, and talking to someone who feels like there's no good reason to enable this as a toggle - like, give players the option to choose whether these are auto pickup or not. Reasons you might not do this:

1. Just cost/impact. If this were something you wanted to implement, would it be worth prioritizing
2. That EHG thinks picking up this loot is a better game overall, and if you give players the option of a more efficient choice (auto pickup being more efficient) they will opt-in even if it's a worse experience overall.

Do you agree with these? Do you think they're significant in this case? Are there other reasons you think are more important than these two?

[kindred night]

related to ^previous question, will we ever see shards/gold on the loot filter? not having auto-pickup is one thing, but on the other hand in terms of screen clutter, lizard shrines feel like being bombarded with pennies

[steep crystal]

If there was ever a new class, would it be DLC-only or would you guys just release it for free?

[tawny maple]

Probably free, i dont think there will be any content dlcs in the game, also they added one skill for marksman in S2 and a rework for sentinel, and will do some reworks on lich/necro + new skill for lich

[pine dome]

So far the philosophy is
No pay for power, no pay for convenience, no pay for extra content.
You bought the game and will have access to everything.
Only thing you can pay extra for is cosmetics

[verbal pine]

Any chance the loot filter sound effects can be applied to runes like rune of havoc and glyphs? Which would they would also be loot filterable?

[strange tusk]

Does the team have the stats about which skills/nodes/passives/thresholds are underrepresented/underperforming? If so, what are their plans regarding them?

[placid plinth]

Popularity is a piece of the puzzle but doesn't tell the whole story. If an outlet was significant enough, the solution would be to be customized to that one. We don't really do it that way though.

[placid plinth]

Currently the same items are filterable. Sorry.

[placid plinth]

Maybe, not in season 2. #1210282176680169562 if you want us to consider it.

[strange tusk]

If the data shows that certain passives are either taken far less often than the rest or not taken at all, are those cases prioritized for adjustment/rework/overhaul?

[placid plinth]

Well, the arena keys do that too.

[kindred night]

it's been there, i was just curious if there was a veto on it like auto-pickup, ty! 🙂

[edgy shell]

is hype week next week?

[placid plinth]

Basically sums it up. I do personally agree with those as reasons but I don't personally think they are good enough reasons. I could very well be wrong though and you can't put that toothpaste back in the tube.

[placid plinth]

As I said, we don't really do it that way. I suspect that there is a lot of overlap but I've never used that data to make a decision like that.

[placid plinth]

Nothing is set in stone, currently they are in a pretty similar state though

[placid plinth]

It might not start on a Monday and might not be exactly a week long but I think so.

[valid marlin]

How much do you think this affects your design philosophy and that of EHG overall? How many more things would you be willing to try if it were possible to undo decisions like this? Obviously a pretty strange hypothetical

[kindred night]

as in, not favorable towards the idea of filtering shards or am i misinterpreting that? if so, i know that during a livestream you said you liked the idea of filtering gold (based on stack size), what's different about shards?

[strange tusk]

Urging the team to consider taking that approach. Letting underperforming stuff to rot for too long holds affected classes/masteries down and limits build variability.
Just my own insignificant opinion.

[placid plinth]

Decisions like this get challenged internally at design meetings very frequently. Especially things that are contentious in the community.

[placid plinth]

Oh I love the idea of filterable gold and shards. They are once again in this odd limbo of both being and not being an item. I think the more generally preferred solution is to concentrate them more.

[placid plinth]

Sometimes a node is just waiting for the right environment to shine too.

[strange tusk]

Definitely not something like Arrow Storm, Rain of Arrows, or any charge-up skill mod. Those simply do not fit into high-corruption target-rich environments, imo; besides, they have no proper support within their relative masteries like I mentioned a couple of times. That's just a couple of examples.

Speaking of shards, btw... I recall there was a conversation about creating a system of sorts which would allow the player to exchange excess/less-desirable shards for more desirable ones? Or am I misremembering it?

[kindred night]

ah ok, gotcha 👍 that'd also be a good idea, the main thing is that they contribute to so much screen clutter right now i'd rather not see them. "concentrating them" as you say would be the best of both worlds.

(somewhat) related to your conversation with ShadowDweller, i had another question the other week that was skipped over but was quite interesting to me, if you don't mind: #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message

[placid plinth]

Oh lol, I just saw Reddit and understand what is happening.

A super popular build is probably a little more likely to be intentionally preserved as at least good as it appears as something people enjoy. We try not to kill builds in general but a sleeper might be a little more acceptable to catch a stray if we were fixing another issue.

[kindred night]

i wasn't expecting that answer but it does make a lot of sense. so releasing the secret tech to the public might be a smarter move than trying to hide it? 🤔 😂
also: what's up on reddit?

[tiny river]

idk if its been brought up or a reason why... any specific reason when revisiting a town the map overlay resets to undiscovered

[crude plover]

Tldr is technical limitation. They could probably make them not reset but it's not worth the effort since returning to a campaign area more than once is kinda rare and they try their best to make it so people don't try to pick every piece of loot up to sell to vendors by having everything sell for like 3 gold. Returning to town mid area and then going back isn't really the intended flow of the campaign.

[placid plinth]

I just put a feature for review which will make town zone maps always visible. (well, not JUST, it was Monday)

[crude plover]

Btw how is the minimap generated? Id assume using the navmesh or something similar but is it saved for static maps or does it get generated every time?

[placid plinth]

Just a popular thread is active at the moment on these topics.

[placid plinth]

It gets baked as a static map for static zones. It gets generated on the fly for procedurally generated zones (PCG zones). It does use the nav mesh and is then run through some processes.

[kindred night]

makes sense!
i went to check when you mentioned it and saw this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/1mikecl/warpath_void_knight_uber_abberoth_428s_fight/
essentially he's weapon swapping to world splitter before every void well proc to get more mana out of it. which leads me to this question: what is your opinion on gear swapping mid fight, is it something you'd like to remove similarly to snapshotting? (i think this redditor's tech is very smart and cool, but i also know that it must be a pain to execute considering there's a small stutter whenever you open your inventory, especially when you've been logged for a long time)

[crude plover]

Manual weapon swap? Is this Mike's alt?

[placid plinth]

If this were to become an expected play pattern, I suspect very much that it would be removed. This is what I would call a case of the burden of optimal play causing issues.

[timid fjord]

is there any requirement for filter rule being able to use loot sound or can I blow my eardrums out by setting show all + one of the filter sounds?

[placid plinth]

I'm not 100% on how it works but there are per-sound and per-channel maximums for volume and play frequency. If you do that, I hope that it would hit a failsafe and only play a certain number of times or possibly queue up.

[timid fjord]

my ears will be safe from stacking up too many prophecies on same drop condition 🙏

[eternal zinc]

Any EHG members are caster fans? Except Judd.

[verbal pine]

Any idea what the next class is that will be receiving a glow up?

[flint bloom]

technically lich, necro, and bm since s3 hasnt started yet 😛

but any class that is still missing a skill is gonna be high on that list for attention...shaman, bladedancer, paladin. the first two have some other glaring holes in their trees and builds.

[dawn rune]

Has it been confirmed that you can wear more then one Primordial Unique and only one will work or the game will only let you wear one?

[pine dome]

Primordial Unique is limited to one

[limpid pelican]

are exclusive mono rewards more likely to appear in nemesis, like reign of dragons nemesis getting more daggers?

[crude plover]

No

[desert sleet]

Timeline-specific exclusive echo rewards just add those reward types to the pool of rewards that echo islands can spawn with (the icon on the island of what you get from the reward crystal from completing it). They don't influence any random drops or RNG encounters.

[dawn rune]

ty

[warm juniper]

Is using Lossless Scaling (frame gen application) with Last Epoch permitted or will that trigger an anti-cheat / ban?

[eternal zinc]

what your favourite skill in le?

[tall kettle]

Hi team when using acid flasks "knowledge of immunity" with the poison penetration per 5% over capped I dont seem to see it reflecting any change in the dps of the skill on my hot bar or the poison damage in my char screen. I know that specific skills quite often dont reflect change in the char screen but I thought maybe it still would in the dps bar? Can someone yay or nay me on this? Thanks 🙂

[pine dome]

Easy test.
Go try on the dummy in the arena

[tall kettle]

yeah did lol

just hard to tell, there now i guess its looking better with my bleeding heart with 82 poison res vs 37 throwing, dots more consistantly higher, that'll do i guess haha

[flint bloom]

well the 37 throwing has nothing to do with poison. poison is dot only so any flat throwing doesnt actually help out the poison part.

but at 82 res you are only getting like 1% pen so no its not going to be noticable at all

[tall kettle]

oh my posion resist is already close to 400 so 80 is a bit more than 1%

[flint bloom]

ah, you had said 82 poison res so i thought that was your total. all g

[tall kettle]

I am confused about dot/posion dmg though, so i have my daggers both slammed 7/7 crit multi and DoT - would i be better off with one of those T7 poison dmg, would that amplify the poison damage or am I complicating things?

[flint bloom]

the crit multi does nothing for dot damage. unless it is converted with something like salt the wound. so yeah poison damage would be a better choice for damage in that scenario.

if you got some other questions, lets take this out of ask the devs since its kinda turning into a conversation. you can jump to #❔┃ask-the-community instead

[tall kettle]

Ok , yeah have the gloves - sorry just curious about an interaction with damage types. Cheers, have a fantastic evening.

[flint bloom]

no need to be sorry, questions are fine. i just dont want to keep clogging this channel

[verbal pine]

Teasers for tomorrow or a special guest before hype week?

[hoary frigate]

what options does a player currently have to improve the chances of boss specific drop? For example, Stonecarved relic from Lagon mono boss? Do blessings affect it? or Prophecies?

[fossil dune]

No and no. Corruption/item rarity increases the drop rates up to a maximum (the max is a item by item basis) and CoF has basically extra rolls per kill at a certain rank. That's it really.

[placid plinth]

I don't know, haven't planned that far ahead yet.

[hoary frigate]

I have a question about Runemaster. What was the reason behind the decision to allow channeling skills to get runes only once per second effectively removing them as a rune-generating option? For example, I d like to use Desintegrate but can't because it is too slow for runes

[placid plinth]

Not going to be channeling it for very long at all and kinda removing the playstyle of using that ability if they charge runes much faster than that.

[hoary frigate]

not much faster but at least '0.5 sec' sounds reasonable. Now with non-channeling skills it is like ~4-5 times faster and more convenient

[wooden wind]

When are we gonna see them eggs, Mike? I’ve been dying to know since like…three weeks after S2 launch or something when you spoiled them

[foggy turret]

If i use vengeance with flaming sword and blade paladin nodes, and healing hand automatically casted by vengeance with cleric's hammer and seraph blade nodes, does the fire penetration with ignite given by blade paladin node apply to ignite applied by healing hand ?

[placid plinth]

I'll put you out of your misery a bit, they aren't an item to be picked up.

[crude plover]

No.

Procced skills (referring to the skills you can put on your bar) do not inherit anything from the skill that procced them unless specified. Only sub-skills inherit stats. So healing hands doesn't inherit anything from vengeance

[vital shard]

patch notes

[flint bloom]

Its hard to answer questions here that are not questions. Are you trying to ask when patch notes are? There is no date yet

[vital shard]

so GIFs are not working,
it is a pretty demand

[mossy adder]

what kind of metrics do you guys have visibility into regarding trends and usage and such? or, asked another way: what kind of metrics are you guys looking at?

do you have the granular insight to see something like "oh, this specific passive has 80% usage for all bladedancers level 80+" or "0.5% of all players that have specialized sync strike take the 'retreat into shadow' node"?

I mean ofc the data is there, but it being visible and searchable is another story

[placid plinth]

We don't really approach balancing from this angle. We sometimes will query specific things but it's usually pretty big picture stuff, more which mastery than which nodes. I find data often leaves out the why for things like this. The most miserable build to play could be the most popular if it's the most powerful.

[mossy adder]

I definitely agree that data leaves out the "why", but I do think it's a great place for finding "why" questions that you may not have thought or known to ask. imo a tool in the toolbox (and potentially an expensive tool depending on how & where the data is stored), but not the only one, as with anything. Thanks for the insight

[marble socket]

Can you guys use vector graphics to create UI panels with Unity 6, or it only accepts bitmap?

[crude plover]

Unity does support vector graphics (specifically SVG)

[marble socket]

Nice! Thank you, Cyborg.

[ivory dragon]

Have you considered adding any risk/reward mechanics? For example, it could be fun to be able to have a Nemesis like system that has a greater chance of adding multiple LP, or different rare stats, with the risk of destroying the item. Or something like a corruption / vaal orb mechanic in PoE terms.

[placid plinth]

every day

fun fact, the original crafting system always had a chance to completely brick an item and the most powerful the item got, the greater the chance of bricking it with every craft. And I mean bricked bricked. It had the chance to strip it all the way back to a white item

[ivory dragon]

well please keep considering it lol. love some gambling mechanics in my arpg's ❤️ ty for answer

[placid plinth]

If you would like to suggest a feature to be added, please put it in #1210282176680169562 as we don't pull stuff from here.

[kindred night]

hey Mike, is rerolling (at the gauntlet of strife) CoF items with MG fodder (and vice versa) going away in 1.3 (or later), or does the team think it's an ok mechanic to have?
no personal opinion here just wondering, since it's also inconsistent with the temporal sanctum which makes it look unintended

[placid plinth]

I'm not actually sure. I really hope it goes away as it incentivizes split factions.

[valid oyster]

So, practically akin to the Egg of the Forgotten almost. (I could be wrong.)

[solar summit]

Gold is also shared between factions while you're not doing anything with it. You are almost forced to play MG with one char in order to buy tabs, because a fringe of playerbase may afford to farm gold for 200 tabs only using CoF means spending a tremendous amount of time. Better to fix this imparity than take away a single convenient way to roll rare but unpopular items trying to put hipster build together. It's an awful feeling to fish some rare unique with reroll chance 50%+, getting it with a low roll and being not able to play this build for some another undefined time because you have to drop another one instead of just buying it and finally playing that esoteric build "blasting" 200c on its last leg while you could facetank uberroth with judgment paladin using items picked from the ground last hour.

[tawdry pilot]

More teasers when?

[fleet galleon]

Most likely during the friday dev stream
if not then, then during hype week that starts on monday

[pulsar heath]

This time with the Beastmaster minion rebalancing, please also fix the remaining skill synergy bugs.
For example, the Maim node in Frenzy Totem is supposed to double the Flurry Swipes, but this simply does not work. Twin Fangs (from the Swipe tree) is supposed to double crit multi while dual-wielding, but it’s not working either.
These bugs have existed for a long time, and many people have reported them, but they still haven’t been fixed.

[eternal zinc]

🤔 Krafton don't require EHG to edit their steam page and add the company name to publisher slot?

[crude plover]

They're not the publisher though

The game was published by ehg so far

I guess they could become their publisher for future content but there's no indication of that so far. So it might change but it doesn't necessarily have to afaik

[viral palm]

so are we getting this awesome game on consoles soon ?

[flint bloom]

the devs want to put this on consoles, but there is no ETA on it currently

[marble socket]

Devstream confirmed today?

[placid plinth]

yes

[placid plinth]

I would like to challenge the idea that 200 stash tabs is necessary or even useful. I would also suggest that having so many tabs might actually slow you down to some degree. While I do agree that there are some benefits for splitting gold into MG gold and CoF gold, I haven't heard a really good argument for it that would make the dev time worth while to spend on that.

[eternal zinc]

you never know what Mike have posted is what the hell until they release the whole version. I have been confused by a stick in a odd shape and a thorny egg for a long time

EHG like playing puzzles which maybe they haven't exact answers

Mike, who's Grant?

[placid plinth]

He's a Technical Designer who works a lot with me on the skills team.

[eternal zinc]

What the skill team work on?

[placid plinth]

I don't know how to answer this without sounding like a jerk but I'll try.

Skills.

Like in game abilities.

Things that your character can do

[eternal zinc]

Like...Design which skills can do which damage type, design how much value should this node give, design how these nodes connects, design which skills a mastey suppose to have, design the order of these skills on their passive trees, design how these passive trees work on different builds?

Oh yes, Do skill team design passive trees?

[placid plinth]

yes, and implementation (that's the technical part)

[eternal zinc]

Oh. Another programmer, understand

[timid fjord]

the bit about glacier last stream was really interesting, like a stealth plane dropping bombs. I'd be interested to hear more about the unexpected ways you implement some of the skills. Could make for fun little podcast

[placid plinth]

All the wild work arounds that we've had to do along the lines of the infamous trolley hat wearing dude who carries you through the opening of Half Life.

[eternal zinc]

Mike, isn't Kyle is current narrative and story lead?
#📚┃off-topic message

[vital shard]

Do you have the patch notes written?

[placid plinth]

yup (he's not leaving the company)

[placid plinth]

There is a very rough version that is very far from complete which has been started.

[vital shard]

okay, I will ask again monday

[eternal zinc]

😂 (Mike guess what am I want to ask accurately) Well, that's odd.
...2 narrative and story leaders means 0 leaders here 👀

[placid plinth]

lol patch notes are worked on right up until moments before they go live

(they won't be remotely close to done on monday)

[timid fjord]

how much for live viewing access to the document ? (this is a joke)

[eternal zinc]

hah... I forget a question.

Grant is a fan of melee or caster or minions or throwing or bow or transform?

[placid plinth]

We don't charge for CT access.

[placid plinth]

I'm not sure what his favorites are.

[eternal zinc]

Can you help me to ask him this question please?

[placid plinth]

Not today, it's our busiest time right now. Last day for major changes to the release build.

[eternal zinc]

All the best on completing all work before the deadline!

[limber plume]

Mike, any chance you leave Tyrant's Skull as Tryant's Skull? for memes

[sturdy ridge]

Will there be fun teasers today 👀 ?

[placid plinth]

No, it's been fixed.

[limber plume]

You are tearing me apart, Mike!
https://tenor.com/view/the-room-tommy-wiseau-youre-gif-10860014

[final cave]

Any chance of getting a Tryants Boots in Season 4?

[timid fjord]

Gratz on the kill Mike!!

[crude plover]

How much are you gonna practice on ubby for next week? (gz on the kill ^^)

[lament tulip]

About that...

[placid plinth]

thanks guys 😄 I'm not sure I'm going to try ubby next week, we'll see. I feel like I need some significant upgrades and I could have taken more time to slam better stuff today to set up better for that. That chest might roll something amazing nemesis.

[candid adder]

So when are yall going to expand to console ?

[final cave]

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

[harsh crescent]

Curious if lurkit creator program is still a thing. Apped a few months ago, I did a discord search here to see any chatter about it but only saw older posts related to it being on pause until 1.0 launch back in feb 2024. Thanks 🫡

[crude plover]

Should be able to just join both lurkit and nexus through the links in this forum post afaik:
https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/introducing-the-last-epoch-content-creator-program/61964

[eternal zinc]

They're all teasers this week?

[pine chasm]

Yes, those were from today's dev stream

[eternal zinc]

Cool. One is easy to read and the other one is as confusing as usual

[harsh crescent]

Thanks! Yeah, I apped through lurkit, but it's been pending for months. So just curious as i saw intitial chatter here about it being on hold. Trying to get in and try to game before this next season starts 😅

[eternal zinc]

what have he killed?

[timid fjord]

🤔 have all the previous teaser pictures had that twitch icon on the bottom corner or does that mean this will be twitch drop or something like it?
or was it just some twitch overlay thing from stream that happened to be caught on the picture?
-# wait did I forget to toggle off the mentions, im so sorry if I did

[placid plinth]

well someone is paying closer attention than I am

I'm not really sure if I'm supposed to say or not but it's in the image that marketing gave me, that will be a twitch drop for season 3.

[timid fjord]

for once we can say it wasn't you leaking it if it happens to be leak 😅 - yeah you are correct, its often just played up for laughs.

[placid plinth]

I don't often really leak anything. I think I've had like 2 slips.

[eternal zinc]

Can I add you on Linkedin?

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry, I don't accept connection requests from people I don't know and I haven't used linked in for more than 2 mins in the last 2 years.

[eternal zinc]

How to become people who Mike know? 🤔

[eternal zinc]

Oh I see. Everyone whose here never will become people Mike know because Mike need to treat everyone equally as a EHG member.
So he can't answer that

[solar summit]

I always forget that you have to explicitly mark smth like sarcasm or hyperbole online. Sorry, I had to do this.

My point there is not about 200 tabs, it is deliberate exaggeration. Even 80 tabs are barely manageable by cost for average player without MG. My point there about priorities. From my perspective, as someone who do architecture design, being obliged to have characters in both factions for fast progression (for average post-story player, not for FS-like people) in order to have access both to tabs and Arbor (forgot to mention it btw) with crafting materials (esp. havoc runes) is problem MUCH MUCH more serious than ability to roll CoF uniques with MG fodder and vice versa which is rather a bondage for off-meta builds than an imbalance to be patched immediately. So if you haven't found gold split between faction as a problem yet, why you'd ever consider removing faction-agnostic reroll?

[final cave]

Trade-offs. Which are the ones you remember the most?

[woven pawn]

uhhhh <@&1161418687471956101> i dont thinks that allowed

[valid oyster]

<@&1161418687471956101> get it out of here!

[dark frigate]

<@&1161418687471956101>

[valid oyster]

<@&1161418687471956101> kill it.

[sudden summit]

Does Summon Wraith’s Stygian River node ( Cooldown Recovery Speed: +7% per point
Summon Wraith has a shorter cooldown ) only reduces the cd of the summoning itself or the wraith abilities/spells cd ?

[crude plover]

Summoning itself only

[eternal zinc]

Just to confirm, EHG never say when will they release patch note of 1.3, right?

[pine chasm]

Right, if I had to guess though it'll be on <t:1755273600:f>

[placid plinth]

That would be pretty far ahead of the curve I think.

[ivory dragon]

Thats the same curve as 1.2 patch notes. Released on April 11th with launch on the 17th

[eternal zinc]

Hah?......... I'm worried about can the release of 1.3 go well now

[thin ruin]

when do we get the patchnotes for next season ? i dont remember its 1 days before or week before ?

[placid plinth]

Yup, I had the patch date wrong in my head.

[placid plinth]

We don't have a fixed date. It's usually less than a week.

[frank panther]

did arenas get buffed?

[flint bloom]

if you are asking about s3 balance changes, you are going to have to wait until blog posts or patch notes

the weaver tree did wonders for them last season tho. depending on when you played last

[frank panther]

would you rather be a spectator or a gladiator? (for season 3)

[plush gazelle]

Are we getting a Dev stream to show off the lich / necro / beastmaster changes like we did for the last batch of class changes? And if so is that gonna be around the same time as patch notes?

[subtle kindle]

With the changes to minion snapshotting will weapons like orb weaver's fang work properly now?
E.g. minion buff stat on the item, and the stats on the item being doubled for x seconds.

[placid plinth]

Sorry, either I'm not understanding what you mean or we've never done that (edit: forgot about the karv stream). We have a bunch of devlog posts coming next week which will dive into the details of Season 3.

[placid plinth]

Good question, I haven't tested that one myself but I don't see why not.

[crude plover]

Think they're referring to the podcast streams where karv showed off new stuff like heartseeker and some mechanics. (Like idol enchanting and some of the crafting woven echoes)

[placid plinth]

Oh my god, you're right. I totally forgot about that. We have done that. Very much out of the usual. We don't have anything planned like that for this season.

[plucky kiln]

Mike how will this be addressed for Solo players : Farm gold for 40-80+ hours, use single lightless arbor to spend.?

[slate spire]

any plans on teasing the new cosmetic packs for s3 or perhaps even a battlepass filled with cosmetics? I'm still eager to support the game as long as the original ideology stays in place

[flint bloom]

They normally have some MTX info in one of thr blog posts in hype week, which is next week. So keep an eye out in #news for the posts

[slate spire]

going to buy the pack as always. I hope you guys never remove the regional pricing. It shows me that the team respects the economy state of other countries.

Thanks for the info

[placid plinth]

I don't have any details on potential upcoming changes to the vaults. I would be pretty surprised if there was any though.

If you'd like us to consider making a change to it, you can post in #1210282176680169562

[umbral bear]

With devs listening and interacting with the community + unique ideas for arpgs + most balanced arpg on the market + most build rich arpg on the market + respect thirdworld country economy. THAT'S WHY I LOVE LE! I really hope that the acquisition do not change any of that.

[woven pawn]

it will more likely than not change all of that

[eternal zinc]

If you want to talk about this game, #📚┃off-topic is the place.

...Alright, this user isn't here

[verbal pine]

hey mike i know on past steam you said you guys were unsure about how to do the unique creator submission from players how about this: have say 25 uniques you guys have spots for. people sign up and then you guys do a lottery thats puts people from first to last. first 25 get the opportunity to submit their idea. if they dont respond or do whatever is needed then you simply just go to the next person on the list until its done!

also whats the most exciting thing you are looking forward to next sesasom? (ie unique, new system etc.) also congrats on abberoth kill

[maiden kettle]

ello, do you folks know if the nodes Spiked plates, Rygar's fury, Sharpened rim (this one was answered as maybe yes?) and Avenger's wrath on the shield throw skill also affect Lava burst? I briefly searched this discord and reddit and forums and couldn't find a definitive answer. (I understand that unless specified on the triggered skill itself, usually everything in the tree affects the triggered skills, just not sure in this case where it states "shield throw does xxx")

[crude plover]

If you'd like the unique suggestion to be considered please post it in the #1210282176680169562 . Also it would be more like 1 or 2 out of 25 that are made by the community. Community uniques take a lot more time to make than in-house ones. Since they need a back and forth between community member and ehg.

[crude plover]

Doesn't matter that it says "shield throw", all nodes on all skills usually name the parent skill.

The rule basically is as long as the node is just providing normal stats, like increased damage, more damage, leech, penetration and so on. Without being conditional on the target's state (example would be "1% more damage per ignite") or specifies something like directly casting the parent skill, it will apply to all sub-skills all the way down the chain.

So even if a sub-skill triggers another sub-skill if the first subskill inherits something from the parent skill, so will its sub-skills.

Spiked plates, rygar's fury, sharpened rim and avenger's wrath should all apply to any subskills of shield throw, including lava burst.

[maiden kettle]

Thank you, that's what I thought. I just wasn't sure if it really does, as sometimes there are unmentioned exceptions and/or bugs (as per some forum answers)

[crude plover]

Yep, but honestly they're few and far in between. Usually it's just miss understandings stemming from weird wording more than anything.

[eternal zinc]

The le themed computer case which Mike have seen today is the thing which match with the need of Judd "something floating" the most I suppose. (That's familiar and I have checked again, yes EHG have promoted that on May. 2nd)

The text: The team over at Crimson Market just completed this beast of a Last Epoch themed custom PC.

[muted hollow]

Feedback, not a question:
I'm not sure if its still relevant but I remember there being talks about finishing/redoing the campaign

I suggest you try Titan quest 2 first if you plan on doing that

That game really captures the difference between exploring while leveling (TQ2) and always rushing 'forward' because there is only one way to go (LE).

Dont get me wrong, LE has a lot of stuff TQ2 doesnt have and LE is better game for sure but the campaign is really boring - theres no reason to stop and explore, just go to next checkpoint.

[pine dome]

Then it belongs to #1210281911872786482

[eternal zinc]

yes they're hring someone who can help on improving campaign now

[muted hollow]

I dont have permission, post it if u want - its not my campaign 😄

[fleet galleon]

Read the top post in there.
That explains how you can post in the feedback forums.

[placid plinth]

I'm a systems guy so hunting that beasty is going to be my jam. Thanks on the Abby kill. 😁 Honestly it was just the relief of not choking again.

That's a good way to do the supporter uniques but it would probably be more like, 3 slots.

[placid plinth]

Wrong thing

[placid plinth]

We received some suggestions to redo the campaign but it was never something we were planning.

[eternal zinc]

?

I know that's not what Judd mean on "floating" but it's another type of "floating epoch"

[raven crow]

@placid plinth hi, any chance of fixing aftershock + upheaval for next patch? https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/chance-to-create-an-after-shock-under-nearby-enemy-on-melee-attack-it-dosnt-work-prorperly/76957

[red urchin]

I'm curious if there any updates to that cutscene (the one where Rahyeh blasts Heorot) coming with season 3. A few months ago Judd gave a "soon - hopefully" on reddit

it obviously doesn't really fit in the game anymore, but its a big meme with the friends I play with haha

[pine dome]

1. #rules

2. The channel called "not support no bugs" is not the place where you will have any info on bugs

[worthy iris]

Hey just wondering if "Thorny Stalks" node on Summon Spriggan adds its number to Damage Reflected to Attackers and then is buffed by Thornshell or if it is its own source of flat reflect that is not affected, tyty

[pine chasm]

It currently works as intended. When you use upheaval, you get a chance to create an aftershock under an enemy that is near you. It does not matter what enemy you hit with the attack, if any, you just need to directly use a melee attack.

[pine chasm]

Yes, it is scaled by thornshell; you should be able to see the reflect from thorny stalks show up on your character sheet when you summon your spriggan.

[raven crow]

yes, the "near" line is what dosnt work properly should be near the upheaveal attack instead of where my character is

[crude plover]

Nothing would indicate that for me. To me it reads as a nearby enemy to your character not the attack (all similarly worded effects are based on your characters location). I'm decently confident this isn't a bug.

But that doesn't mean it wouldn't be better if it acted in a different manner. If you'd like them to change it please post it in the #1210282176680169562

[raven crow]

i dont have permissions to post there,i have to do something first?

[crude plover]

#1210288551313281044 message

[placid plinth]

I don't think it made it into Season 3. I haven't actually played through that part of the campaign recently. Been focusing on the new chapter when I test stuff. It is quite high on the todo list though.

[placid plinth]

"Chance To Create An Aftershock Under A Nearby Enemy On Melee Attack"

The "long" version of this would read:

Whenever you use a melee attack, you have a chance to create an aftershock under a nearby enemy.

The version that you're probably expecting is:

Whenever you hit an enemy with a melee attack, you have a chance to create an aftershock under that enemy.

The big difference here is that you don't actually have to hit the enemy with the melee attack and the "nearby" range is calculated from the player.

From those videos, it appears to be functioning as expected and described.

[raven crow]

The version that you're probably expecting is:

"Whenever you hit an enemy with a melee attack, you have a chance to create an aftershock under that enemy" can this happen 🙏

[placid plinth]

no

like, it is technically possible to do but we aren't changing it to be that way in season 3.

[crude plover]

Here's the fight if you're interested, think I timestamped the link but otherwise it's at 04:40

https://youtube.com/watch?v=l9oix3mb_Lo&t=280s

It's honestly iconic to me, always makes me chuckle lol

[raven crow]

pleaase? in one of the videos about new season, showed bear using earthquake . is the best moment to do it . later on you are going to probably forget about changing the skill and will be the same for a few years

[placid plinth]

oh I know it well, it was sweet when we made it but it has not aged well at all

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry but no. It's not even a discussion at this point. We are past gold lock already. It's not changing. Critical bugs only at this point. This isn't even a bug. You can put it in #1210282176680169562 in hopes for season 4 if you want.

[raven crow]

sad,

[raven crow]

why hope tho, cannot be to a guaranteed change😅 ?

[placid plinth]

Because we don't guarantee any player suggested changes until it's done. It would have to go through the same design process as anything else. I can't greenlight ideas on my own. I also don't even see it there so it's got a 0% chance right now. We don't take ideas from this channel and I'm sorry but I won't personally champion it because I don't agree with it.

We get a lot of player submitted ideas. TONS of fantastic ideas don't get made because we just don't have the time to do them all.

[raven crow]

is not about that, is about clunky interactions. i was playing upheveal with werebear , but it was easier to record the videos while being on humanoid

and since werebear is not a popular class that interaction is going to always be under the radar for a while (or even forever).

The ideas that others players are bringing for X mechanic are 5 time bigger than the one that im asking for . like you said it could be "under the enemie" from "around the player" or when you hit"

Just sucks to be a player that is playing with a non popular class and then wait for another maybe 4 months or even more for have that change

[crude plover]

Even if it was an objectively good suggestion and easy to put in (I don't think it's objectively good). Mike already mentioned they're past gold lock, it's simply too late to introduce more changes for season 3. So even if it was the best suggestion ever it would most likely have to wait until season 4.

And also as mentioned nothing in this channel gets logged for consideration. If you want your suggestion to be considered please post it to the #1210282176680169562 . They get compiled and reviewed regularly as I understand it.

And trust me I know what it feels like to wait for changes on an unpopular mastery, cries in spellblade :P

[placid plinth]

We're being pretty strict on the lock gates lately and it's been really great for the overall patch quality and staff stress levels.

I still don't see it in #1210282176680169562. It's a very low effort thing to increase the probability by ♾️ %

[crude plover]

If Mike was the judge jury and executioner of suggestions I'm sure we'd have weapon swap already

[raven crow]

ye, im sorry my english is not 100% so idk how to phrase it properly

[crude plover]

I think you phrased it well. It's just simply too late for it to happen in season 3. The best you can do is post basically what you said here alongside the forum link with the videos in the #1210282176680169562 and then hope they agree with you and implement it in a future season ^^

[placid plinth]

Please change the affix: "Chance To Create An Aftershock Under A Nearby Enemy On Melee Attack" to be "Whenever you hit an enemy with a melee attack, you have a chance to create an aftershock under that enemy."

^copy paste that into the suggestions channel

[timid fjord]

btw for the suggestion forums do you take multiple posts about single feature and someone reacting 👍 etc. on a suggestion count same for "more than one person want this"?

[raven crow]

posted! im so mad that i didnt post it a few weeks early fuk!

[placid plinth]

Volume of requests doesn't actually matter that much. Seeing that a suggestions has some sort of support is a plus but it still gets evaluated all the same. It might move up the line if we see a really really large volume.

[raven crow]

mike make it happen, no one plays physical werebear let me have fun!!

[timid fjord]

this is little spammy for the channel, but I did take phys werebear to 300 corruption just this season 👍 worked nicely, lower dmg in exchange for being pretty much immortal

[rare thicket]

Anyone can help me? I want try to run LE with Mac

[placid plinth]

We don't have a native Mac client any more. I'm sorry but I'm not familiar with the process at all but from what I understand, there should probably be 2 options. Either load up Windows on the machine and play it that way or there is probably some special way to run windows only software inside of MacOS.

[fervent bough]

does anyone know if a ricochet off yourself is considered being hit for the armor when hit Forge Guard stat?

[placid plinth]

It does not

[hexed cypress]

Did you guys adjust ward dependencies to read off the displayed value and not the overflowed true value? I like it

Also, will stretching my res help fireball pathfinding with me actually rendering the monsters or does it do it the same off screen

[vale vigil]

Are you guys going on podcasts like season 2 with streamers or not. We only 10 days away from season 3 i need some high lol

[trail kestrel]

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

[vale vigil]

Thats sad

[eternal zinc]

New question base on that.

Why?

[hoary frigate]

imo kinda inconsistent that Harbinger Eye can be stored on the Key tab of the inventory but Harbinger's needle can't...

[fleet galleon]

The harbinger's needle is an idol

[kindred night]

not trying to sound entitled because i know it's a very standard thing in the industry but if everything is ready two weeks before the patch already, what do you do instead of releasing it? tons of bug testing and actually finding a lot of these critical bugs? working on 1.4? or just taking some well deserved rest?

i know you can't just randomly release the patch earlier since a date was already communicated to players a while ago, I'm just wondering the reason behind the weeks long delay between your "gold lock" and the release: just a safety net in case you have to cram, or is there more to it?

[placid plinth]

There are still quite a few bugs that will be caught and fixed. Since any change has the potential to add more bugs that could be worse, we rank the changes by severity and risk. If the severity outranks the risk and it tests well, it gets added to the launch version. If not, it gets pushed to the first hotfix and is tested more. This is why that first hotfix often comes pretty quick and often had a lot of stuff in it.

Given the quality of the build right now, a smooth launch is more important than fixing a couple more little minor issues and way more important than making a little design change like this one. Especially one which is debatable if it would even be a good thing or not.

[placid plinth]

It's kinda risky to do that and avoid spoiling something we didn't intend to yet. Last time it went really well and I hope we do it again. We just are restricting the "on air" appearances this patch to the usual dev streams only.

I do expect it to go back to normal next session.

[eternal zinc]

sorry, what "on air" here means?

[fleet galleon]

Streamed live

[eternal zinc]

oh, to avoid overlapped teasers and something EHG isn't intend to show

[marble socket]

1 hour and 10 minutes for hype post! 🤩

[eternal zinc]

1 hour and 1 minutes for hype post!

[flint bloom]

We are.not having a countdown here

[eternal zinc]

How will Judd join in hype week?

well it's more fun without exact countdown I think

[placid plinth]

I'm pretty sure he's got his usual preview video coming...at the usual time with patch notes.

[eternal zinc]

Great because this video have less sense if it's out after patch note

[eternal zinc]

Oh.
:(

Mysteries of EHG +1

[plush gazelle]

one primordial item equipped at a time does that mean i cant use the +1 set unique ring and trex relic together? (nvm saw it at the very bottom) and that ruins my build idea 🙁

[placid plinth]

Yes.

I know everyone doesn't look at all the sources so I'm sorry if that wasn't clear enough. I tried to make it well known and have said that on our website, on discord, on reddit and on dev streams before.

[plush gazelle]

nah just wasnt finished reading on the forum and so i asked before i finished the section

[mortal forum]

is there additional "uber" content being added to the game, given the extreme powercreep from the teased features?

[flat rain]

a random question appear, if u play multiplayer will u need to fight the new beasts 3 times if u are 3 players, like when u have to kill nemesis 3 times ?

[torn void]

I didn't see it in the post, but will reforged set items be able to also become primordial exhaulted items?

[pine dome]

We saw in the trailer Champion Affixes going to T8

So its safe to assume yes

[fallen shoal]

Did you guys notice the twitch drops image says "Primal Rouge Portrait" D:

[astral reef]

Yes its reported

[eternal zinc]

what's wrong?

ohhhh typo, ok

[ivory dragon]

rouge =/= rogue

[dawn rune]

was about to report this

[marble socket]

EHG Team, congratulations on the amazing ideas (again)!!!
That's why we love this game.

👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

[shadow swift]

T8 affixes question... so since the Rune of Evolution randomly upgrades a T7 affix on an item to T8.... can i then use a Rune of Havoc to move the T8 to another affix?

[pine dome]

Its sealed

[flat rain]

t8 affix will be sealed 😄, could u answer my previous question vlad ? 😄

[pine dome]

After the upgrade

So no

[raw tulip]

So , how much power do you Devs think will be in a single Extra Affix ? lets say T8 % damage on a Weapon .

[void solar]

Going from T7 to T8 will greatly increase the potency of the Affix, often granting 50% to 100% additional effect over existing T7 affixes.

From the Rune of Evolution section of the news post https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/primal-hunt-coming-to-last-epoch-august-21st/78569

[raw tulip]

I read through that , and if my math isnt totally wrong a T8 Affix for % damage on a Two handed weapon is 385% - 477%

50-100% more would mean it starts at 576% and ends on 768% , but the affix table is still a table with mnor maths behing it.

[void solar]

And it Seals the T8, so you'd have an extra slot to craft something onto. 6 affixes on one item is going to take a lot of crafting attempts

[whole siren]

Can reforged set items be made into primordial exalted items with the set affix bumping up to a possible tier 8?
Assuming you managed to use a rune to switch your affixes around and managed to get lucky enough for the set affix to hit tier 7

[timid fjord]

~~ since the rune specifies exalted item I would assume no as reforged items are different rarity. But this is just a guess ~~
~~ but you would be able to craft set affix into the item after using the rune to make it into primordial exalted ~~
nvm I take it back since havoc also specifies exalted item but is able to be used on reforged items.

[whole siren]

This was my thinking, and while some set shard bonuses are only okay (and it would mean giving up the primordial unique ring) some other set shard bonuses are very strong

[eternal zinc]

I copyed that as a comment in their reddit post, let's see who will faster, Mike here or another EHG members on reddit

[desert sleet]

Yes, the crafting process you described should work.

[whole siren]

hotdiggitydamn
There are several set shard bonuses where that could be massive

[eternal zinc]

wait... set affixes have tiers ranking too?

[split sail]

Hi, on the official forum, it is said "He always carries all items that he can sell.", does it mean that on the image there are 22 primordial uniques and that's the number we will have for this iteration, or is there more ?

[timid fjord]

it mentions later in the post that he doesn't sell all possible primordial uniques

[void solar]

Yes, Reforged Set affixes have tiers. You can craft them up to T5 and use Havoc to swap to T7. List here https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/set-affixes

[split sail]

ha, yes you're right, thanks ! so probably a few more then

[verbal pine]

Will rift beast scale with area level? I saw 0/6 so im assuming thats the amount of times you can evovle

[eternal zinc]

You and Mike is answered that at the same time

[placid plinth]

twas the intentional joke

[placid plinth]

yea, they scale

[meager ibex]

Is the next update FINISHING the story? Or just continuing it?

[placid plinth]

continueing it. There is still more to come

[whole siren]

I have been very keen on set items and the set reforging system
Did you add any new sets in this season for those who lack some options (like a set with a bow?)

[vestal tundra]

Rune of Evolution - trying to understand it correctly. I can only have 1 Primordial Item equipped at a time, so I can only have 1 item that has T8-affixes?

[crude plover]

Correct

[timid fjord]

Since ancient bones replace gold in rifts, are they affected by any gold drop bonuses like blessing scales of greed?

[whole siren]

As someone who prefers to play with perma minions rather than temporary ones, one of the biggest drawbacks to summon abomination was that it forced you to hard cap at 5 summon skeletons and/or mages and locked you out of the more interesting addons like the zombie vomit and the tail slam.

I saw that summon abomination was one of the icons for minion skills to be reworked, has there been steps taken to make the abomination more compelling and interesting as a permanent minion?

[crude plover]

This is something you'll have to wait and see for. Either in a hype week post or the patch notes

[placid plinth]

no

[placid plinth]

There are some changes to abom that will be shown.

[eternal zinc]

Details of all primordial unique items are confirmed or EHG still discussing a few of them?

[placid plinth]

They had to go off for localization a while ago so the only thing that can change on them right now is very minor numerical adjustments.

[eternal zinc]

Oh yes I forget the localization part compeletly...Thanks

[tawdry pilot]

How many different evolutions there is? I wonder how much combinations we can get ; D

[hoary frigate]

if we can hunt new content in compaign then at least some of the new primal uniques must be of low lvl requirement? are they?

[placid plinth]

I don't know off the top of my head but it's enough that I can't keep them all straight.

[placid plinth]

I wouldn't say low but low enough that it makes sense that it exists in the campaign.

well, a couple are low

[tawdry pilot]

I hope you have great memory so it means there is a lot of them, thanks for answer ; D

[hoary frigate]

which Act do we meet Skarven Bloodhorn and start the hunting?

[pine egret]

the T-Rex relic was level 36 I think

[hoary frigate]

seriously?? omg. Just imagine getting one and letting the t-rex stomp compaign for you while u sitting back enjoying your cup of cofffee 😄

[rotund pike]

Will the new season be similar to the previous ones where everything is available on the permanent realm? Or you have to play on the seasonal realm?

[flint bloom]

there is no content difference this season

[pine egret]

https://i.imgur.com/d8ONhqv.png

[fluid axle]

Regrading primordial exalted items... how are stat weights treated? Is a T8 Increased Health% affix on a body armor slot going to be worth more hitpoints than on a belt slot? Or since you are limited to 1 affix on your entire build will the stats be the same just for that t8 affix?

[next depot]

i hope there will be a way to temporary disable primordial affix on items, so it would be less annoying to switch items around.

[placid plinth]

Each item slot has an affix weighting that applies to all affixes at the same rate.

[placid plinth]

There is not and I'm not sure how that would help. It would be the same as taking the item off.

[night tusk]

Will the the attack speed on weapons be on the lower end as attack speed is normally a hard stat to get at 100% more then t7 your adding 96% attacks speed to the game

[fluid axle]

doesn't that just mean 2h weapon + body armor slot are the only viable slots to slam your t8 then? otherwise you're just having stat waste and loss of power potential

[placid plinth]

I'm sorry, I don't really understand the question.

[placid plinth]

I don't agree with that. (sorry, never know how to answer negative questions properly).
Those slots might be needed to have specific uniques in them for your build. And you might need specific things that only appear on other slots to be the T8.

[hoary frigate]

can we just find a primordial exalted dropping from a monster or the only way to get t8 is crafting with the new rune?

[night tusk]

Are all t8's going to be double the strength of t7 or is something like attack speed going to be lower like 70% stronger to make sure that we don't to much of 1 stat because right now its hard to get over 200% increased attacks speed on full builds but now i can get it from 1 item

[placid plinth]

craft it

[placid plinth]

I think the post said 50-100% stronger

[sturdy ridge]

will you be revealing the rest of the primordial uniques on stream?

[placid plinth]

no

[fluid axle]

It's fine to disagree you're good 😂 . In my eyes the 1 primordial item is already the limitation and you already need to have that item compete with other items - those requirements and build design restrictions don't appear because of item weight. The item weight just means in the event you're able to choose between a body armor, a ring, and an amulet (say if those are your "free" slots), you pick body armor every single time because it just offers more stats. This isn't me saying this design is "wrong" ... but I do see this further restricting a system that already has some major restrictions built into it. I just wonder if keeping the weight attached to the tier 8 specifically is best

[hoary frigate]

can we sell primordial exalted / uniques items via bazaar or they are account bound?

[night tusk]

ohh i though that was the role range ty

[pine egret]

some will want the +6 to a skill, so no it wont only be 2h weapon and body armor

[fluid axle]

that's the only exception, yes. body or weapon slots, unless you need the relic and helmet prefix

[placid plinth]

I think there are more exceptions than that but yes if all stats were equal and you were trying to just get as many stat points as possible, yea, you'd put the T8 on 2H weapon or body armor

[night tusk]

or if your a stat stacker like shield bash with 3000 block effect t8 i do think some slots will go un used buts thats fine nothing 5-6 slots is plenty of veratiy

[wooden linden]

The other exceptions will be builds that are locked on having unique weapons/body armours. The T8 is sealed so you would need to gain the T8 elsewhere as it can't be applied to uniques.

[placid plinth]

he already mentioned that

[pine egret]

I think someone said you could T8 set affixes too? so those would also be exceptions

[placid plinth]

yes, you can get T8 set affixes, it's a bit of a round about process but it is possible

[night tusk]

there is a set affix for 50% less void damage on block thats one the 50% stronger end right not the 100%

[placid plinth]

yes

[hoary frigate]

once you get a t8 affix by using the new rune you can't change that t8 affix at all? no rune no glyph can't change it , right?

[void solar]

Yes, it's a second Sealed affix

[placid plinth]

well, I guess you could argue that technically the rune of shattering could "change" it but yea, sealed is sealed.

[void solar]

You definitely can get shards from Sealed affixes : )

[pine egret]

T8 Block could be pretty nutty

[placid plinth]

another of the "on the 50% end of things" affix

still crazy powerful at a perfect T8 roll.

[hoary frigate]

looking forward to lots of 'bricking' otherwise great exalteds... 😄 like having '+6 to summon skeleton mages' when I'm building a poison lich...

[placid plinth]

when you're doing a single T7 item it's guaranteed but then when you get high enough where you're rolling Dual T7 affixes, it gets a little nutty.

[ivory dragon]

Will the Torn Rift system be available during campaign (pre chapter 10) or is it strictly a post campaign system?

[void solar]

The news post indicated in the section labeled Primal Hunt

You will be able to encounter the Primal Hunt during normal gameplay in both Campaign and in the Monolith of Fate.
https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/primal-hunt-coming-to-last-epoch-august-21st/78569

[ivory dragon]

Right but im wondering if its only available once we hit chapter 10, or if it will be available early like Nemesis and Champions

[void solar]

Hmm it didn't say. It does mention that the NPC is available in every rift

Skarven can be found at the start of each Mysterious Rift, as well as The Garden in Chapter 10
Would be nice if it was like Nemesis and we get introduced to it earlier

[viscid mirage]

stupid question but how are the ancient bones going to be collected? Inventory item that stacks or showing up as another currency next to gold in the inventory?? Excited for the season!!

[dawn rune]

btw lvl1 ring that removes all level requirements for items. 😄

[eternal zinc]

?

[dawn rune]

just joking

[fluid axle]

Has veteran's boots been considered to use up your primordial slot? 😂

[eternal zinc]

Don't know what veteran's boots is before your joke is posted 🤔

[placid plinth]

yes (to be clear, it doesn't though)

[potent oyster]

Is it possible to get +8 on a T8 skill affix or would it only increase the hybrid + damage modifier?

For example are we getting +8 void cleave or just improvements to the +%void damage?

[night tusk]

I think they have been shown with +6 no idea about +8

[placid plinth]

T8 is always +6 and the other half of the affix has a range just like T1-7

[fluid axle]

Last question sorry lol, does rune of evo cost FP?

[subtle kindle]

is there no way to report players tossing slurs in chat and what not.