❔┃ask-the-community

[keen viper]

And all effects from having master are that mastery only

[dense ravine]

Is there are like planner/builder ?

[sharp quartz]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/ lots of tools and planner

[dense ravine]

Tyvm

[sharp quartz]

Even more: https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/

[wheat spruce]

can vendors sell runic dagger? have seen none and i'm level 73

[minor kindle]

rune ?

[wheat spruce]

yeah sorry, the spellcaster daggers

[minor kindle]

no, are capped at level 40

and rune dagger is lv61

[keen viper]

They seem to be kinda rare, have them on filter and dont really see em

[wheat spruce]

me neither 😦

[minor kindle]

Certain classes will drop specific weapon types more rarely afaik.

[sharp quartz]

and you can get the more dagger blessing to improve dagger drops generally..... finding specific base items can sometimes be a bit of a hit and miss affair....

[tawny zodiac]

when do I get to become a necromancer?

[brittle atlas]

when you finish the quest to choose a mastery, generally around level 20-25 ish

just follow the main story quests, you can't miss it

it's required to progress

[tawny zodiac]

thanks

[dense ravine]

Kinda insane someone mentioned necro

What fo those symbols besides the skills mean?

I am on phone which is trash to look at these stuff

[brave ibex]

It's the damage types that skill can deal

[desert tree]

It's the type of dmg available

Hand physical, skull necrotic, fire fire, green drop poison

[dense ravine]

But usually you only go with one right

I dont own the game yet so idk much

I have only watch Empy’s recent endgame videos

[safe harness]

No, some skills can have multiple

[dense ravine]

Thats all i know

[vapid aspen]

Its specifically the different tags the skill can get

A skill with fire and cold symbols has some way of getting those tags in its tree.

sometimes getting a tag removes a different tag

[safe harness]

Or it could be that the skill is able to deal both damage types

[vapid aspen]

yeah

its a bit inconsistent atm, but devs said they are working on getting it a bit more consistent for next update

[dense ravine]

Correct me if im wrong but it depends on my tree right

Skills can work different ways

[vapid aspen]

Yes, sometimes items and passives also can do it

[sage dragon]

Hey yall! Coming back to epoch after 1 year break - decided to build a cold dot werebear. Would love if any1 could point me out any cool leveling guides for a werebear druid. 🙂

[vapid aspen]

for example a quiver can convert all poison and bleed on puncture to frostbite which adds the cold tag

[dense ravine]

And making it a cold dot dps?

[vapid aspen]

or a passive in void knight can convert smite to void which adds void tag and removes the fire tag

[dense ravine]

So in that case i would need items with cold dmg or do i scale bleed anyways

[vapid aspen]

yeah

[desert tree]

I think boardman 21 on yt has some nice lvlling guide

[safe harness]

https://youtu.be/0R4pdJ6OSIk

[vapid aspen]

for that quiver you would want to scale cold damage and frostbite effect, but if you had a bow with like 100% bleed chance and 100% poison chance then that would be 200% frostbite chance on puncture

[desert tree]

Or even better epoch builds

[sage dragon]

Thanks!!

Btw - if there are any cool werebear builds better than cold dot I am looking for it. I just want to play a werebear. Cold dot or anything viable. x)

[brave ibex]

EQ werebear is another option, not sure any other werebear variant comes close to EQ/cold DoT in terms of power

[sage dragon]

EQ would be earthquake?

[brave ibex]

Yep, you need Bhuldar's Wrath to do it

[tough vector]

Hey guys, I'm not sure if I'm dumb or just not reading correctly. I'm playing Harvest with Double Edged Scythe and I have Exsanguinous but I still die from bleeding

Can anyone tell me what's happening?

[balmy current]

Bug?

[balmy current]

@olive tinsel might know more since he has an unhealthy amount of experience with Harvest.

[tough vector]

😄

[midnight knot]

Harbinger of Dust from Volatile Reversal gives 10/20/30 inc. damage against an enemy. That's damage multiplier? Otherwise that's kinda weak I bet 😁 https://i.imgur.com/9ksFJtC.png

[brave ibex]

Yeah it's a multiplier

[midnight knot]

Nice ty

[brittle atlas]

it's a debuff on the enemy. It's additive with other sources of "take increased damage" on enemies

of which there are very few

so it is a separate additive multiplier

it also stacks

so uh

yeah

volatile reversal is broken af as a support skill

[midnight knot]

Ye that's actually what I expected as specific as it is lmao

thank you

[brittle atlas]

if you take both void rifts, each cast will give 60% damage, and if you take the CDR nodes you can get 2 within the debuff window

[midnight knot]

These are separate?

[brittle atlas]

so it's pretty easy to be getting more than doubled damage from just VR

[midnight knot]

jesus

ye ok VK is kinda bonkers

[brittle atlas]

yeah, the debuff stacks

[midnight knot]

aight, gonna enjoy my melee VK with a huge erasing strike quite a bit more now! It was the easiest campaign so far, it'll just be easier from now on then

[wide sentinel]

does anyone know about negative mana regen, how does it work?

cause from my experience its way more than normal regen

[cold plaza]

say what

like, why does your mana regen look better when your mana is negative?

[wide sentinel]

yes

[austere hound]

I have a question about void knight echos, on the class description it says 0.5s but on the tree nodes like echoing strikes it says 1s. is that a rounding error?

[wide sentinel]

hmm maybe im tripping and there is no bonus mana ragen when you are negative, hard to tell from testing

[cold plaza]

it's the anticipation 👀

[balmy current]

Same as normal regen unless you're using Focus with the negative mana regen node

[cursive summit]

how do i get here im losing my mind im so lost

[olive tinsel]

I am almost certain that you use Iron Mouth, that adds flat health cost to Harvest

[cursive summit]

I havent "sailed" there as the quest suggest

im in end of time hub zone....

[minor kindle]

Thetima?

[cursive summit]

where do i go from there

[tough vector]

Could be true but my death recap states that I died from bleeding

I also sometimes die after the fight, just from bleed stacks

[olive tinsel]

So what is important, that you only become bleed immune when low health, but Exsanguinous does not remove exisitng bleeding stacks

[tough vector]

Oh boy, that makes sense but makes Exsaguinous so much weaker in this combo

[olive tinsel]

Have you disabled all ways of leech and sustain for the health pool?

[tough vector]

Also feels weird honestly

So it's just the remaining ~10 bleed stacks that just nuke me

[olive tinsel]

If you use any kind of Low Health / Ward unique(there are two more other than Exsanguinous), you should use Hollow Lich passive and try to avoid ANY health on hit etc

[woven fulcrum]

||After you've killed Lagon
You have to talk to a Captain in Thetima who sets sail for Sorethka||

[tough vector]

Thanks, I'll give that a try tomorrow

[olive tinsel]

As an additional note for using these uniques: You should try to still get Maximum Health as a stat, because the ward gain is based on flat missing health, not %missing health.

So the bigger your health pool, the more ward you generate

[tough vector]

Thanks, didn't know that

[cursive summit]

thanks found it now

[vapid aspen]

In fact max hp and ward retention will make up nearly 100% of your total ward. In some setups strand of souls is actually worse than a belt with t5 hybrid health t5 inc health.

[digital parrot]

do i need cast speed for autobomber? and generally what orb nodes are a must before transitioning from warpath

[balmy current]

Cast speed will make it feel nicer

[digital parrot]

i will then get at least on one item then

[green knoll]

hi, i got a build from youtube and its a hammer throw paladin using the node to cast hammer throw for free when under 0 mana, the build always stays with 0 mana cause sigils of hope casting and massive mana costs on hammer throw.

he is using this node on smite which makes sense for me to get the global flat fire and attack speed from smite:

but then he also invests heavily into smite healing, even though smite cant heal:

am i missing something? or are those just wasted points?

theres 8 non pathing points spent into smite healing

[brave ibex]

I don't know the build, but if you're purely using Smite for teleport/attack speed, the points you put elsewhere don't really matter

[knotty tinsel]

what do I do with unique items that I won't be using, at least early on?

vendor value is decent I suppose?

[green knoll]

this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNyhNBMNOqc

[digital parrot]

i store one copy of every unique

[green knoll]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/rBrgKmop

[digital parrot]

in case i want to use them in future builds

that build preferably would have at least 2 smite idols

[green knoll]

he specifically did not put 2 points into a node that give 10% global attack speed to put them into healing, so i'm confused

[brave ibex]

What node gives global attack speed that he doesn't have?

[green knoll]

ah nvm the one he didnt put points into is flat fire

he left it at 3/5

[digital parrot]

weird build

[brave ibex]

You don't really care about anything in Smite tree except the 20% attack speed buff and teleport

[green knoll]

and in sigil tree he maxes the flat fire node

[digital parrot]

i only know the smite hammerdin that uses smite idols for extra stonks

and devotion when you can get it

[brave ibex]

It's flat melee fire, so you wouldn't benefit from it

[green knoll]

makes sense

ty

[green knoll]

also confused about volatile reversal +36% movespeed

when is that useful?

first time playing paladin and my impression is that its only good for the node that gives attack speed and the other one that makes enemies take +30% dmg

since this build makes it unable to change your hp or mana

[brave ibex]

It's nice for some extra movespeed while mapping, and also there aren't really any other nodes you'd want anyway

[green knoll]

how do you use it while mapping? i personally havent been using it at all outside mono bosses cause it warps you back

[green knoll]

does the smite idol cast cost mana?

smite cant heal if it costs mana in my case, so if its free it might heal i think

[brave ibex]

Only really when you can cast it without teleporting yourself way back, you could move those points if you don't find it useful

I like it sometimes because you can teleport out of a bad situation and have higher movespeed to reposition or whatever

[green knoll]

i see, thanks for the tips

[digital parrot]

i think so? smite's base cost, whatever it is

[knotty tinsel]

how can I click items to stash and vice versa? or is there only click and drag

[brave ibex]

I wanna say it's Shift+Right Click?

Something like that

[knotty tinsel]

that's it thank you

seems obvious in hindsight but still getting used to shift + rcl for inventory stuff

[green knoll]

Did some testing and even though smite from the idol costs 0 mana it still cannot heal with desperate measures

so my build has 8 points i cant use into smite tree lol

if you just remove that node it works fine but you can't manually cast smite

[wintry helm]

Hello. I've been leveling an exploding skeletons build.. I made my first loot filter but I still see every item on the ground. I've uploaded it to pastebi n. Can someone please take a peak at it and tell me where I messed up ? https://pastebin.com/JWvQ4aeH

[brittle atlas]

basically just always make your bottom-most rule hide everything

you can do that by making a new rule and setting it to hide with no conditions

[wintry helm]

EVERY item?

[brittle atlas]

it will hide every item, then you add show rules on top to show what you want to see

[wintry helm]

k thank you so much. this was driving me nuts.

[brittle atlas]

filters work from top to bottom, so higher rules will take priority

so if something higher up says to show, it'll show, even if a lower rule says to hide

[wintry helm]

got it

[icy snow]

is there a fast Soulfire Bastion farm build?

[brittle atlas]

fire wraiths necro is pretty great for it

[soft orchid]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/KoP6vbzQ does anyone have any advice for this skill and passives setup

havent looked into items yet

looking to have as much coverage as possible with lightning blast while using static orb for single target

completely brand new to this game, first build im trying to make

[formal sentinel]

Guys, does everything "hits" including spells/magic ?

[brave ibex]

Don't think you'll be able to sustain mana with this setup

[soft orchid]

is that something i can fix on gear

i havent looked into gear at all for this game

[brave ibex]

You can get mana regen on gear, but probably not enough for a 6 cost Lightning Blast + 20~ cost Static Orb

[soft orchid]

how would you recommend i tweak this?

[brave ibex]

Drop the Chain Lightning node in LB, and grab Atomic Manipulation in Static Orb to start with

With that it'd be a lot more reasonable, you can also spec Flame Ward to boost your mana regen if necessary

[soft orchid]

looking to use divergence though since thats a lot of screen coverage

[brave ibex]

You can, but I'd imagine you would just need to use Focus to compensate for the increased mana costs. IMO 4/4 in Arcing Power is more than enough to make LB clear well

[soft orchid]

id have to drop arcane ascendance for focus

[brave ibex]

That's fine, it's more a question of if you can deal with Focus or not (I've always hated it, standing still to regen mana isn't something I like)

[soft orchid]

ive specced into mana surge for arcane ascendance and specced out of mark of thunder

wait are prismwraps good? i just dropped them

[dusky kite]

Anything that isn't damage over time hits

some skills just apply dot with no initial hits, say IDK maelstrom

[formal sentinel]

Semes like affixes overrides implicits

Didn't know that

Like on this case

bleed on hit overrides bleed on melee hit

[brave ibex]

It doesn't override it

[dusky kite]

It should not override anything, what was your methodology of testing that lead you to that conclusion?

[formal sentinel]

It takes the affix percentage

[dusky kite]

Ah forget it, the character sheet does not reflect any non-global stats

[brave ibex]

"chance to bleed on melee hit" just doesn't show on your character sheet

[dusky kite]

So stats that only apply for melee won't be shown

[formal sentinel]

That's confusing

[brave ibex]

It's old

You have 120% chance to bleed with a melee hit, but 63% chance with anything else

[dusky kite]

nah it's not, just use this one simple guide: 1. have a look at your character sheet and damage tooltips 2. forget that they exist

[formal sentinel]

Lol

[dusky kite]

they promised to update the damage tooltip algorithm in the next patch so that they are less wildly inaccurate

but that's gonna leave them with merely "very high" degree of inaccuracy I'd wager

[formal sentinel]

That's was my first thought but seeing the character sheet i was like "whaaat?"

Thanks for your answers

[brave ibex]

Yeah, don't take the character sheet too seriously. If you have 100% Lightning crit multi (for example), it won't show on your sheet as crit multi

[formal sentinel]

yeah ... i didn't get crit mechanic at all so i just switched to spin2win bleeding

And act like if nothing happened

[brave ibex]

😄

[formal sentinel]

[dusky kite]

the crit's easy, there is just flat crit chance, increased crit chance that multiplies your flat crit chance, and crit multi that affects the damage

[whole plover]

Is anyone aware of a duplicate stash tab bug? I have two stash tabs that are identical and click on either one takes me to the same tab. I don't know how to get rid of one of them and it's bugging my OCD xD

[brittle atlas]

rename one

known bug

[whole plover]

Even if I rename it still will link to the other.

[minor kindle]

I know minions have a wide range of attacks, but will there be a problem with soul balls pickup? I remember having to get very close to pick them up

[brittle atlas]

you have to get close, but wraiths will kill everything in a huge radius even over walls

you basically just get to walk around and pick up soul juice safely

and then it shreds the boss in a couple seconds when you get to him

if you just want to farm the boss, it can get to him and kill him in <3 minutes per run

[minor kindle]

okay... still an annoying thing

[frigid jungle]

any advices/tips for a new player that has been playing poe the last years? how im supposed to play the campaign? press w, or chill and enjoy the campagin

[marsh maple]

get phys res

thats like the biggest thing tbh

[frigid jungle]

when i can ascend to my mastery class (druid)

[marsh maple]

level 20-ish, in the campaign

gotta finish act 1

[frigid jungle]

worth to farm bosses, mini bosses or press w ?

[stone granite]

Only monoliths, there are no bosses to farm in the campaign

[frigid jungle]

._.

[minor kindle]

skip everything as you can

when campaign

[frigid jungle]

sadge

[prisma sleet]

is there a way to make multistrike a horizontal attack instead of vertical?

[minor kindle]

spear type?

[prisma sleet]

the build i'm going for will either be dual swords or a 2h sword

[arctic escarp]

can i change my class after selecting?

[minor kindle]

no

[arctic escarp]

druid it is then

druid for life

[prisma sleet]

just make a new character lol

[formal sentinel]

Any way to remove the minion spell dmg suffixe ?

[paper tapir]

Rune of removal or hit it with a Glyph of Chaos

If you wanna make sure you only re-roll the minion spell damage use a Glyph of Chaos

[formal sentinel]

It doesn't allows me to glyph it

Maybe my level it's kinda low to do that ?

[safe harness]

I'd advice waiting till you can upgrade your prefixes

[prisma sleet]

do we know if there will be a reset upon official launch?

[safe harness]

There will not be a reset, but everything you have will only be in offline mode. If you want to play online, you’ll be starting from scratch

[slim tiger]

idk how late game will be but so far leveling feels fine and loot is good

i honestly feel stupid for not getting how respeccing works in this game

even with a thorough description, I'm wondering why I lost points rather than being able to reassign them

[prisma sleet]

will we be able to access the game without internet then?

[formal sentinel]

Is there an official date ?

[prisma sleet]

nope

the next update coming is 0.9 and that's supposed to have multiplayer (i think)

[stone granite]

Requires connection for authentication

[prisma sleet]

After it goes live and we have "offline" characters?

[stone granite]

Still need to authenticate

[prisma sleet]

Then the point of calling them offline characters is what exactly? If you can't access the without authentication, the they aren't offline characters are they?

[native sail]

You only need to be online for the initial login

[dusky orbit]

Anyone have an idea as to how long is the process on refunds?

[formal sentinel]

https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/

[dusky orbit]

But if i've made the purchase on their own website?

Meh, hopefully soon so i can buy it via Steam and get playing.

[icy snow]

will there be drastic balance changes when 0.9 hits ?

[formal sentinel]

Mmm then you should ask at the #support channel 😅

[dusky orbit]

Haha yea, i've submitted a ticket, was just really hyped to play over the day but i guess it's a weekend for everyone so just have to wait and see :p

[tidal mantle]

you could take a look at the previous patches like 0.8 or 0.7 to get a feeling for the amount of changes

[sharp quartz]

THey are offline characters because they are stored locally on your machine - i.e. offline... they are not online in any way - at least in no way that EHG can control them like they would online characters stored on their own servers/cloud. Authentication has nothing to do with the saves - its to prove you have a license to the use the game, nothing more... exactly like using Photoshop CC - you need to login to Adobe to prove you have a license for the app but it all runs locally

[prisma sleet]

I just wish I didn't always have to be online to play

[sharp quartz]

Mike has hinted that they may figure out something for the authentication bit so that you dont have to login each and every time but thats unlikely to be a priority right now. In fact, he mentions this yesterday...

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

[frigid surge]

hey guys, im trying to (re)link my LE account with steam. In my LE account under "redeem in steam" it shows: "linked to 123456789123456789" but when logging into steam i still need to buy LE if i want to play. i linked the game a long time ago... is there a way to redo the linking?

[sharp quartz]

You probably need to open a support ticket for this one... https://support.lastepoch.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

only EHG staff can check your account to fix linking if its not working anymore.

You could probably play with the standalone version (without steam) in the meanwhile tho...

[dusky kite]

as the other comment already says the big difference is c h 3 a t protection which they can't enforce when the character file is stored on your hdd

[frigid surge]

@sharp quartz thank you, will do

[vapid aspen]

Its also just that there are some very strange legacy items rn

that only exist because of how the save format works

and their server save formats likely arent just raw text documents

for a lot of reasons

it may not even be possible to represent many of the absurd legacy stuff people have rn in the server save system

[polar falcon]

Can someone explain how this Volatile Zombie build works since it's not using the skill on any slot ?
Is it Dreaded Shade killing your other minions + Volatile Zombie passive : Awakening presence which causes them to spawn?

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/KBgRanxQ

[cinder fossil]

eventually there will be a completely offline mode

the game is actually offline right now, just the chat and login screen require a connection

[stone granite]

Being online to play shouldn't be a problem, why would it?

[balmy current]

Why would they need to be anything more than this given that's what the current save format is?

[balmy current]

Some people don't have a good internet connect, the last place I went on holiday was a good example of this (a peak download speed of 1 meg which was flaky at best & it crapped out for the second week).

[dark herald]

hello i downloaded this game yesterday and i drop a lot of these shards and scrolls but i dont know where to store them other than stash

[sharp quartz]

Look for the button "Transfer Crafting Items"

In the inventory window

[dark herald]

omg

thanks

[vapid aspen]

efficiency? it's one thing to have one machine parsing/writing one text file at a time, but each physical server is going to be handling much more than a single save file at a time. I would be pretty shocked if they didn't (or aren't planning to) make changes to the format to make things speedier.

[hollow socket]

Could you link the source for that? I've never seen this be stated about launch.

[balmy current]

It's in the FAQ

[sharp quartz]

Been confirmed many times by the devs... You will keep all offline saves as they are now and can continue to play them as you wish... Online (playing on your own or with multiplayer) will require you to start again from new and your saves will be on EHG servers in the cloud.

[balmy current]

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/official-last-epoch-multiplayer-faq/42036

#15

[hollow socket]

That explains everything!

To give context, the reply @safe harness gave was about the official launch, which means 1.0.

But I think he just confused it with MP launch then.

[balmy current]

No, that's correct for 0.9 & 1.0

[hollow socket]

Just to get this right: So all your progress from 0.9 to 1.0 will be discarded into an offline character at 1.0 as well?

[balmy current]

Not quite, the 0.9 MP characters will be pushed to a "standard" league so they can't interact with the 1.0 "launch" league.

[hollow socket]

Ah, so everyone who played before launch will still be able to play together, right?

[balmy current]

Yes

[spare fossil]

Where can you send request to CT of Multiplayer?

[cinder fossil]

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/community-tester-program/49111/8

bottom of that post

[quasi hatch]

Skeletal Mages -> Underlings node - sacrifices your skeletons which triggers the Zombie awakening presence node. You're actively casting summon skeletons constantly

[polar falcon]

Thanks, didnt notice that one

[grizzled grove]

Hey, is it better to try to play the game blindly or shouldi follow like a build guide to get the full experience?

[brittle atlas]

You can definitely make it pretty far playing blind, and the it's pretty easy to respec if you need to later on

So I'd say it's more preference than anything else, if you enjoy going in blind and seeing what you can do, you should have no issues doing that and figuring it out along the way

There's also an in-game guide you can pull up with G

that has a ton of info about various mechanics and whatnot

[cinder fossil]

if youre familiar with ARPGs at all you dont need any guides

[prisma sleet]

lets see... no internet... due to a new move or an internet crash... maybe an internet blackout in the area for a bit... dunno... maybe playing on the road on a laptop or steam deck as well?

max level is 40 yes?

[wheat spruce]

u just need 2 seconds of connection for authentication, then u can play offline

[terse roost]

100

[prisma sleet]

ah

[warm dust]

I was looking through some slightly older builds, and they mentioned using vines while in swarmblade form (from creeping underbrush). It didn't seem to work for me, was that changed?

[brave ibex]

What do you mean it doesn't work?

[grizzled grove]

only arpg im familiar is poe

[cinder fossil]

yeah you'll be fine then

[warm dust]

It doesn't look like I'm spawning any vines

[brave ibex]

How else are you getting your vines? That node will only resummon if your existing ones die

[warm dust]

ohhh I see. I'd misread it completely, thought it was letting me summon vines on enemy deaths. Guess that's much worse then

[iron gulch]

so if you don't do solo runs does that mean your characters share your shard stash, or do i have to deposit and them withdraw them one-by-one

[brittle atlas]

regular characters share the crafting storage and stash

[sonic kraken]

My man why you tormented yourself by stashing all your shards

[sonic kraken]

Yes forge materials and stash tabs are shared between all your non-SSF characters

Also gold is shared too

[prisma sleet]

what's the max skill level currently

[sonic kraken]

20 without gear

With gear I think 24

But to get 24 you'd need a tier 7 (aka rarest possible) exalted +skill level

[prisma sleet]

naturally

[brittle atlas]

you can get over 24

[sharp quartz]

There are some way around this limit... eg. if you dual wield Aurelis with 2 x +2 Smite and then get +Smite on a relic you could potentially get +8

[brittle atlas]

just depends on the skill and what +level bonuses it can get

stuff like swarmblade form can get to like

32

volatile zombies is 29 iirc

[sonic kraken]

Yeah some skills can get over 24 but 24 is what I remember off the top of my head as the "universal" rule

[brittle atlas]

I mean, there's no rule or cap or anything, it's purely about what affixes exist that can impact the skill

[grizzled grove]

also how do i unlock masteries?

[brittle atlas]

I think every skill currently can get at least 26 if you use all of the available +levels for it

[grizzled grove]

like since im playing primalist, how do i get druid?

[brittle atlas]

masteries are unlocked via the main story

just keep following it

you can't miss the unlock

[sonic kraken]

You unlock masteries when you get to end of time which is around level 25-ish

[grizzled grove]

also is there a way to check my skills dps?

[cinder fossil]

either by hovering over the skill or attacking the target dummy in the end of time

[sharp quartz]

Target Dummy is the best way to currently check "real" dps... the tooltip dps can be way out in certain situations...

[sonic kraken]

Tooltip dps is "usually" correct but yeah target dummy is the best way if you want to be 100% sure

[grizzled grove]

how do i find tooltip dps?

i tried hover overing the skills but i dont see dps

wait nvm just that some skills doesnt show

like the primal wolf

[sharp quartz]

Careful with this assumption... if ailments or situational damage are involved the tooltip DPS is sometimes WAY out of whack... The devs have confirmed this many times and have a new system in the works to help fix the issue...

[sonic kraken]

Yeah I know that sometimes certain things (like shock) get overvalued but it's a good way to get a general idea

[sonic kraken]

Yep some skills don't have a tooltip dps because summoning a wolf itself doesn't deal any damage for example

Basically anything that doesn't deal damage directly won't have a tooltip dps

[grizzled grove]

also does it matter if my damage is split between like elemental damage and physical, etc

[sonic kraken]

You can also check your dps on LE planner

[grizzled grove]

especially earlier on

[sonic kraken]

That depends on what build you're going for. But in case of primalist he has skills mainly related to physical damage

There's some elemental skills too but they're not as common

[grizzled grove]

i see

im just playing it blindly so im not really following a build atm

[sonic kraken]

Take a look on your passive tree and you should get a general idea of what you'll want

[grizzled grove]

passive tree as in the skills or the basic class/masteries?

[sonic kraken]

The "class" tree. (The one that you bring with "P")

Though you can also look at the skills if you want to. It could help too

[grizzled grove]

P is set to my portal to town for some reason

[sonic kraken]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Then look at the setting and see what key do you have bound for passives

[brittle atlas]

early on, not really. As you get later into the game, various things will generally benefit more from being a single damage type

due to things like resistance shredding

[hollow socket]

And due to scaling with the same affixes, passives and specs.

It's much easier to find a decent item when you can utilize e.g. fire/elemental/spell affixes for your build, as opposed to e.g. only elemental if you combine a fire spell and mana strike.

[sonic garden]

Is there a limit to the amount of Armor Shred stacks on an enemy? Can Enemy armor go into the negatives?

[brittle atlas]

no, yes

enemies generally have 0 base armor

so if you're shredding armor you're always pushing them negative

[sonic garden]

I see, thank you!

[sonic kraken]

The limit is how fast you can attack

[balmy current]

And their duration with an honourable mention for armour shred effectiveness.

[iron gulch]

is there a cap for firebrand stacks?

[warm yew]

4 at base, up to 9 with nodes on the tree.

[iron gulch]

oh okay, another question. How do you guys sustain a max melee attack speed firebrand with pyre? I doubt 20 mp/sec is enough for it

[sonic kraken]

Does "less damage taken from x element" apply before or after resists?

[brittle atlas]

The order doesn’t matter

Less means it’s a multiplicative modifier

[minor kindle]

What happens if consider the affix % cold damage taken as physical 🤔

[brittle atlas]

I’m not sure off the top of my head if damage taken conversions use pre-conversion modifiers. I know damage done conversions don’t.

[safe harness]

I thought there was a unique that did this

[main dagger]

anyone know if you can use the character files from the Steam install and "migrate" them over to a location that the Standalone client can use them?

[brittle atlas]

They should be in the same location either way?

[main dagger]

hrm. The standalone client isn't showing any saved characters for me. I was launching it through Steam before.

I think I have my answer. It's more of an issue with my Windows setup than anything.

[wintry helm]

is there away to compare an item to two equipped items at once, like rings, or dual wielding weapons?

[sonic kraken]

Not really but the comparing always prioritizes the leftmost slot so you can swap your ring/offhand to the left/main slot and compare that way

[wintry helm]

ya thats what ive been doing. thought maybe they added a way to do both.

[chilly panther]

Hey all is the the proper channel for a game mechanics question?

[sonic kraken]

Sure

[chilly panther]

So is the Warpath skill node Cyclone of War "Fire penetration while using a Sceptre" global or just for the skill? I notice my damage from Judgement Consecrated Ground does not increase on the training damage when I use warpath after using judgement.

[sonic kraken]

Well it specifies "while spinning" so i'd say it's safe to assume it's specific to warpath

[minor kindle]

It is indeed global.

the reason it not working for CG is when you use judgement it will snapshot your character status

so whatever other bonuses you gain after that will not affect it

[sonic kraken]

Does corruption influence the "quality" of bonus reward nodes in echoes?

[soft orchid]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/volVm7nQ

given my lightning blast/static orb another once over with mana cost in mind

anyone have any comments that can help me round out this setup?

i intend on utilising twisted heart relic for ward

i specced a bit harder into mana on my passives

was considering the ball lightning route for static orb but i think id rather it stay as a shotgunning projectile

would rather not spec into antomic manipulation since i want to continuously spam static orbs rather than rotate static orb and lightning blast for single target damage

[minor kindle]

Use LB as the single target skill and SO as the map clearing skill?

[soft orchid]

LB as clear and SO as single target

[minor kindle]

If you still insist on using SO as a single target skill, you can consider Foot of the Mountain to solve the mana cost problem

Tho I still feel bad?

[vagrant wren]

First time playing, long time POE player is there a list of the best starting builds atm?

[outer pagoda]

Heyo, this is all you want from the acts right?
As in I can stop doing the story as soon as i have them and go straight to monoliths or am i missing some other important reward as well

[dry narwhal]

you can get +1 all attributes from finishing chapter 9, but that can easily done when you are much stronger

[outer pagoda]

oh is that so, thanks for the info! i think there should be some kind of indicator hinting towards one more reward under the passivepoints and idol lines

because i wouldve never finished act9 if it wasnt for you

[dry narwhal]

yeah, a lot of people don't know about it

[outer pagoda]

+1 all isnt that insane but still worth grabbin later on

[dry narwhal]

but in another sense, it's not the "end" of the campaign. It is currently but like 3 more chapters planned.

[outer pagoda]

ohhhhhhhhhhh

thats cool

[dry narwhal]

yeah for sure

[outer pagoda]

that reminds me, lets say your build is stacking a single stat, what numbers can i expect to reach with very good gear?

[dry narwhal]

i've seen 90s

[outer pagoda]

cuz now that im thinkin about it, +1 all isnt actually that bad when i look at my stats

aight

[dry narwhal]

not in every stat at once

[outer pagoda]

yeah

[dry narwhal]

80 seems reasonable

[outer pagoda]

just felt weird seeing stuff like +6 attu t4 etc

[dry narwhal]

i haven't gone for an attribute stacker besides vitality on void knight

[outer pagoda]

still new to the game

yea i was thinkin of stacking STR atm on my build

idk

probably dont have room for that tbh

[dry narwhal]

well if you look your skills get 4% damage per an attribute usually

[outer pagoda]

yeah thats crazy

[dry narwhal]

so it's a damage scaler

[outer pagoda]

its just me being new to the game & being used to other games attribute modifiers on items

[dry narwhal]

oh for sure

[outer pagoda]

thats one thing i like so far

feels like theres not insane amount of powercreep (?)

atleast early on

[dry narwhal]

i just always recommend monos before chapter 9

[outer pagoda]

the items look reasonable

[dry narwhal]

cause its actually a big jump

[outer pagoda]

ye i went straight to monos when i saw i had all rewards

[dry narwhal]

in enemy difficulty

[outer pagoda]

i remember dying to chapter 9 boss and almost rippin to the normal mobs in the first area there

[dry narwhal]

yeah items aren't super insane until later on with certain dungeons and some rng

[outer pagoda]

and by super insane u mean exalted pieces?

or are there some other stuff

[dry narwhal]

legendaries

[outer pagoda]

oh right

[dry narwhal]

uniques combined with exalteds

[outer pagoda]

ya

[dry narwhal]

but also exalteds if well rolled are crazy enough

[outer pagoda]

do i need a certain rune for it or how does it work?

[dry narwhal]

for leges?

[outer pagoda]

ye

or is it some chase item drop from a dungeon etc

[dry narwhal]

you need a unique with legendary power (LP) on it

[outer pagoda]

ya

[dry narwhal]

and an exalted item

you combine them in the one dungeon that i actually can not remember the name of

[outer pagoda]

ohh

right, cool

btw, when can i safely try the dungeons

[dry narwhal]

the lp determines how many modifiers it takesfrom the exalted item

[outer pagoda]

got like 4x soulfire bastion keys

but idk if i wanna go rip my char in there yet

im 68

[dry narwhal]

are you playing hc?

[outer pagoda]

ye

[dry narwhal]

ah

yeah no idea

[outer pagoda]

well, on softcore?

when would u go

[dry narwhal]

i haven't actually been doing dungeons

i just know the rewards lol

the first couple of levels are probably really easy

[outer pagoda]

oh right

whats the area level?

[dry narwhal]

temporal sanctum, thats it

[outer pagoda]

or does it scale

[dry narwhal]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/dungeons

[outer pagoda]

oh man i forgot about that tool

thanks!

[dry narwhal]

keep it around

npnp

[outer pagoda]

ye it looks so useful

[dry narwhal]

really is

[outer pagoda]

hmmm maybe ill lvl a bit more til i go try them

i feel relatively tanky but i dont know my limits yet

havent tried facetanking any mechanics from any boss

[keen viper]

Just warning against Arbor boss

It one hit ko my 3k life VK at 65 lvl

[outer pagoda]

ye i ripped to the fire lich on tier2 cuz i ran out of pots and couldnt regen in time

died at the same time B)

now lookin for a new build

[sonic kraken]

Sounds like you didn't build any additional defenses like armor/endurance

Or maybe you had problems with resists

[keen viper]

Capped res and ~3k armor

I was doing empowered monos in HC with this char

So it wasn't some squishy crap

[dense ravine]

should i do all quests?

[dire mist]

just enough to get all of the passive points and idol slots

you can see how many you have and what each quest reward is on the map when you press m

[dense ravine]

oh ok ty

[unborn cipher]

So I'm newish to the game and was browsing around for build idea. The bowmage looks really cool and I understand that the bow should be target farmable but I lack context for how hard it is to get where you could get the bow. It seems like it's a level 90 endgame thingy? Is that something I could reach "early" after hitting endgame or would my character also need to be around 90 to get there?

[vapid aspen]

In poe terms its like white-yellow maps

[wise palm]

Are there any good freeze builds?

Another question to go along with this, can you freeze endgame bosses?

[minor kindle]

yep, you can

[spare fossil]

Hey guys. How do you avoid oneshots from 150+ corruption echoes? All my resistances are capped, 1875 hp and monsters still hit very very hard.
1056 armour

[minor kindle]

what class?

[spare fossil]

Void Knight 89 level

[minor kindle]

You can share the character's build planner here for better advice

[spare fossil]

@minor kindle how can I do it? I make one manually from my character or I can import my char automatically?

[minor kindle]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/

[spare fossil]

@minor kindle https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/VBM6WJ4o

[minor kindle]

Do not play much VK, so only give some basic advice

1. get 100% critical avoid chance
2. 1800hp is too low, should find as many health suffixes as possible in all equipment suffixes
3. get 60% endurance
4. can temporarily give up the poison resistance completely
5. consider unique armor Titan Heart, Wings of Argentus
6. consider switching to 1H weapons+ shield when clearing the map

[spare fossil]

@minor kindle 2. whats the avg hp to be sustainable on 150+ corruption? and higher?
3. how? 😄
5. still farming Wings of Argentus, completed 100+ echoes

[sharp quartz]

hp - aim for 2500 - its generally easy to get this or more on a sentinel class build because you can juggle resistances/defensive layers generally easier

endurance - affixes and passives and even in some sentinel skills there is endurance on nodes

[minor kindle]

(and blessing

[spare fossil]

I was following this build
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/KBakLR7A
from McFluffin
https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/the-blender-2-0

I dont want to lose much damage to be able to survive. Is it bad or its must have?

[sharp quartz]

Damage is not usually the problem in LE...

[marsh maple]

acid flask joins the chat

[minor kindle]

yep...... i think ignite AF also does not have a damage problem now since I learned some tricks about it, tho it is really not high enough 👀

dps on the dummy is about 1~2 million

[native sail]

But I don't want fire flask I want acid flask :(

[ionic oxide]

your skin will feel like it's on fire when in contact with acid, so close enough :^)

[native sail]

Y'know.... I can't actually argue that

[pliant wasp]

Hellow, I have a few oddly specific questions about plague ailment

What scales its damage? Generic damage most likely. Poison damage (I'm a bit confused if inc poison damage counts for damage type or for the ailment)? Damage over time?
How plague effect scaling works? Does it only affect the damage? Is it additive or multiplicative to previously mentioned increases?
Is there any way to scale its duration?

I'm talking about this plague, for clarification - https://www.lastepochtools.com/ailments/plague

[vapid aspen]

Hey acid flask is gonna be great with poison changes. I'm not coping

[balmy current]

There's no way to increase an ailment's base damage, you can only use % increased modifiers. % poison damage & % DoT damage will scale Plague. All% increased modifiers are additive with each other. Plague is an ailment that's capped to 1 stack

% poison effect & duration should affect it as well

[vapid aspen]

I'm not sure on that last one

since plague effect alsp exists

[balmy current]

If % poison damage affect plague then % poison effect kinda has to.

[vapid aspen]

it will benefit from the innate shred on poison though if you have stacks of poison on the enemy

[balmy current]

since it is a poison, it's just an ailment that's limited to 1 stack

[vapid aspen]

does ignite effect work on spreading flames then?

[balmy current]

I'd assume so, but haven't tested it

And cough I'm not exactly in the position to either. 😉

[vapid aspen]

my understanding is that they are totally different ailments

that happen to deal same damage type

[balmy current]

You could try it with Salt the Wound (which I don't have) as that converts Crit multi to poison effectiveness, probably on an Acolyte with Spirit Plague.

It should also function similarly to Rive's Lacerate (a phys DoT but not a bleed) from the third hit & the Pally's Bleed effectiveness passive Redemption.

[vapid aspen]

computer is many far away (at least 10 meters) and I'm pretty sick atm so uh

[pliant wasp]

This sounds counter-intuitive to me

[balmy current]

That's why it needs testing, I mean, Plauge does poison (the damage type) though it's not Poison (the ailment).

[vapid aspen]

tbh this maybe is a thing that could be changed

rename the ailment to toxin or something

[pliant wasp]

Also plague effect seems to be a different beast to me due to the wording in Serpent Strike passive named Hive, which specifies <plague is more effective ... deal more damage (multiplicative with other modifiers)>

[balmy current]

Poison?

[balmy current]

Yeah, that's how "XXXX Effectiveness" modifiers work.

[pliant wasp]

Well, time for some testing then. I may have stumble upon something pretty fun

[vapid aspen]

Hm... so hold up... If melee damage becomes adaptive doesnt that mean serpent strike will deal some poison hit damage?

[balmy current]

Probably not since the phys tag would relate to the hit & the poison tag to the DoT it inflicts.

Just like the melee hit from Tempest Strike doesn't do fire/cold/lightning damage.

[vapid aspen]

Poison drain life does change adaptive spell damage to poison though right?

Its just a dot by default

[balmy current]

Yes

[vapid aspen]

ah ok it makes sense now. Adaptive stuff goes on the base damage and is unrelated to tags

so unless something can get base poison damage it will not deal hit poison damage

[fringe birch]

yeah poison ailment rename would be nice, having poison both as ailment and damage type can be very confusing.
increased duration/effect are always for ailment, not for damage type afaik.

[haughty jasper]

What determines an ailments base damage anyways

[balmy current]

All ailments have a fixed base damage

https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/ailments

[haughty jasper]

Huh
I always just assumed that that would mean hit damage would outscale it
Because it can scale both flat and %increased

But i guess ailments are fine bc they can scale %chance?

[balmy current]

Yup, that & attack speed

and relevant % modifiers (like % DoT, % fire for ignites, etc)

[acoustic thicket]

hmm... does autobomber voidknight still work?

[warm yew]

Aye

[acoustic thicket]

Does anyone know what the highest T5 dex roll is?

For a helmet

I tried to google search for it and couldn't find anything.

[urban horizon]

range is 7-8

[acoustic thicket]

Thank you

[balmy current]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/

[arctic escarp]

hi, anyone got glimpse or know how it gonna work if it comes to trade?

[balmy current]

Nope, nobody knows how trade is going to work.

[frigid jungle]

there is a path of building program or something similar_

?

[cinder fossil]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/

[prisma sleet]

when should i start monoliths

[brittle atlas]

as soon as you feel comfortable doing so

people rushing through on new characters often start around 25-26 ish

if you want to be safer you can wait until 40-ish when you have all idols/passives done

[next roost]

is it intended to have only corruption decrease echoes and none of corruption increase echoes? do i have to reset it with decrease to get ones that increase it again?

[balmy current]

No, you need to push further out to find a Shade that will increase corruption

The higher your corruption, the further from the centre you'll need to do shades to continue to increase corruption

[winged vigil]

Hey guys thinking of getting the game huge fan of Diablo and POE I assume it's very worth it?

[shy magnet]

I have 4k hours in Poe and billions in both d3 and d2 and yeah I'd say it for sure is worth it. Though no MP but then you'll just be ahead of the curve when MP actually release 🙂

I just started playing a week ago

[winged vigil]

Ah ok so Sp been around for a while but Mp is comming out soon that's why Zizaran was showcasing it with the devs

Sweeet

[iron gulch]

does recasting shatterstrike with whiteout mean you attack twice like an echo effect, or does it only refresh the recast attempt?

[brittle atlas]

you will attack twice per use

[wary shadow]

I see that the paladin gets increased lightning damage, is it possible to make a viable lightning warpath build with some conversion or unique item? or due to the skill tree only fire/bleed are the two choices (Just bought the game and had a look at builds already but couldn't find one o7)

[native lichen]

guys i`m looking for some help. the empowered monoliths are a bit hard for me. but i did clear the 90 level zone monoliths. My minions started to die more often, the same is going for me. I have max to all resists and about 1.4HP with 150 ward(if the ward helps).

How much HP would you need to feel comfortable in empowered monoliths? Or how to implement other defensive mechanics. Anything will be helpful

[brittle atlas]

I'd want to work towards at least 2k hp

what class are you?

[native lichen]

necro

fire necro

[brittle atlas]

Necro works really well with Vessel of Strife

if you work towards farming that and some hp regen gear

and looking for int on most of your gear too

since int will scale your minion damage, life, and your ward retention for Vessel of Strife

[native lichen]

i have 87 int at the moment

i dont know if thats a lot or not

[brittle atlas]

it's a decent amount

[native lichen]

i have 1200% minion fire dmg as well

just i need more defences

[brittle atlas]

yeah, mostly looking to push that life a bit higher and set up vessel of strife probably

maybe try to fit in a Bastion of Honor

[fickle prawn]

Bastion of Honour is the 100% close fight block chance, eh?

[brittle atlas]

yeah

[native lichen]

vessel of strife is a relic, right?

[brittle atlas]

100% chance to block nearby enemies

yeah, Vessel of Strife is a unique relic from Julra in temporal sanctum

[fickle prawn]

I think I will loose my sanity trying to drop it lol. Need it for my VK DO run

[brittle atlas]

it's honestly not that bad to get, one of the rarer items in the game, but still in the realm of "relatively easy to obtain"

[fickle prawn]

Got already unique % shield droprate. Lessings

[brittle atlas]

compared to stuff like Orian's Eye or Ravenous Void

[fickle prawn]

Well, I started 2 days ago 😄

Just bought the game

Lvl 83 or so 😄

[brittle atlas]

then yeah, you'll definitely get a few in time

[fickle prawn]

Ive read i shall targetfarm it in the Black Sun area, right?

[brittle atlas]

Yep

empowered black sun

[fickle prawn]

Does filling the bar during echoes(?) run help with the droprate or sth? Or that just adds the progress and thats it?

Will have it corrupted tomorrow for the first time 😄

[brittle atlas]

builds towards bonus stability, increases the loot in the chest at the end, but not the echo specific reward crystal thingy

[fickle prawn]

Ahh so the chest to the right but not the one in the centre, right?

[brittle atlas]

yep

[fickle prawn]

Awesome, thanks.

[brittle atlas]

I'd generally try to just rush the objective and take whatever bonus stability you can get relatively passively on your way there

devouring orb is pretty good for that

[fickle prawn]

How do you find dungeons? Do u like this content? I got some keys and dunno whether worth it - def some other content would help to stay sane lol

Yeah, thats what I do atm. Just wanted to ensure twice I am doing it correctly, thank you

[brittle atlas]

You get keys from random drops and almost always from monolith timeline bosses. The dungeons are zones marked on the map with like a red shape of sorts?

on the world map, that is

[fickle prawn]

Yeah. Arena and stuff

[brittle atlas]

T4 dungeons are pretty rewarding

Temporal Sanctum drops a ton of exalted items and lets you forge legendaries

Soulfire Bastion has the soul gambler which is good for targeting certain exalts

Twilight Arbor is the main gold sink in the game at the moment, letting you dump your gold into more rewards

[fickle prawn]

Oh so SB can also roll exalts? Nice. Didnt have that much luck then

[brittle atlas]

yep

can roll exalts and uniques

can even roll items with T5 sealed affixes that you can't get elsewhere

[fickle prawn]

Thats my first time playing an aRPG solo and I love this pace of, no FOMO and stuff. Compared to other games with trade leagues, so far the game seems to be cool

Lmao, didnt know that. Hope to get lil bit lucky tomorrow grindi g the shield and then we will see 😄

I am curious what kind of a trade system they will implement. They said its gonna be pretty unique

I have conquered a timeline once. Got blessing A. If I repeat and then take blessing B, would I be able to always chose from A and B (and any future discovered blessings for this timeline), or the only moment to chose is the dialoguebox after conquering the timeline?

[native sail]

You can only choose a blessing after clearing the timeline

[fickle prawn]

Dang. Okiedokie, thx

[shy magnet]

can someone recommend me a decent umbral blades guide? doesn't have to be a video, a planner should be fine... I got a lot uniques in my stash from previous chars so I'm not totally new

I just don't know what would be considered good

[snow spruce]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/filter/skill=umbral_blades&class=rogue Arborus's guide is the first one here

[shy magnet]

thanks

[acoustic thicket]

So I got this cool unique that mentions a Vengeance skill and I can not seem to find the vengeance skill on any of the characters. Did they remove the skill?

[stone granite]

Sometimes uniques have their own unique abilities, sometimes it is a class skill. Pretty sure that is a sentinel attack.

[turbid oriole]

is there anyway to fix the vsync in the game? when I go to settings, VSync just has a drop down menu that says "option A, Option B, Option C"

[minor kindle]

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/video-options-option-a-b-c/18714

[turbid oriole]

thank you!

[vast zealot]

Where can I find more info about the game? I try the fandom wiki but it seem to be outdated

[wise palm]

What are the best performing minion builds atm?

[sonic kraken]

There's an in-game guide if you press "G". If it's something very specific that isn't explained in the guide you can always ask here

[vast zealot]

I kind of want to look up the list of unique/set equipments, the in-game guide definitely don't have that and the fandom wiki have no bows so Idk how out dated it even is.

[wise palm]

How can I farm a Dragon Heart relic base?

[cinder fossil]

lastepochtools.com has an item database if you're interested in that.

[vast zealot]

Thank you

[cinder fossil]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/ specifically

[wispy wind]

Question: is there a particular exalted body armor base required to work with Woven Flesh at the eternity cache?

[sonic kraken]

No, only explicit affixes matter when creating a legendary item. The base is irrelevant

[wispy wind]

Ty

[sonic kraken]

Are there any notable uniques for a physical rive / forge strike build?

[sharp quartz]

dont think so... but you may find something that could be interesting indirectly depending on how you setup Rive - e.g. attack speed sword/gloves, or bleeds with axes.... the sunforged set has something for Strike but its not spectacular...

[iron gulch]

does flame reave from surge consume firebrand stacks if i have the node up?

[sharp quartz]

What node specifically? If you mean Incineration from Firebrand, then ANY melee attack after using firebrand consumes all firebrand stacks...

[iron gulch]

from surge and the flame reave node one sec

[prisma sleet]

sceptres are one handed right?

[iron gulch]

Exothermic from firebrand + Pyroclasm on surge: Surge casts flame reave from pyroclasm , does that cast proc firebrand consume for ignite for exotermic on fireband?

[prisma sleet]

can i dual wield scepters and can i dual wield unique/set septers with the same name

[minor kindle]

Surge is also a melee skill, so theoretically it also consumes FB imo

[iron gulch]

I'm specifically talking about exothermic, not incineration but I already checked. It does

[wise palm]

Has anyone got a good herald of the scurry build I could follow or look at?

[dry narwhal]

dual wield is locked to specific weapon types, and i'm pretty sure no class has dual wield sceptres

i could be wrong, been awhile since i last looked

[prisma sleet]

oh sentinel says sword in off hand i see

looking at creating a descimate build for my void knight

[dry narwhal]

but you can use the same set item twice although it won't count twice

for the set bonus

People using 2 shards of the shattered lance is/was popular this patch

[prisma sleet]

oh no wasn't thinking of it for a bonus

just in general

[reef valley]

If I have fire spell and added lightning damage to spell from item

Would my spell deal lightning damage?

[minor kindle]

Yep

[reef valley]

Thank yoi

[stoic steeple]

will we be getting any more melee stuff anytime soon? :/

there is a serious lack of melee that feels melee/physical

im talking more about the barb type of skills you commonly see

more "earthquake" type of builds

[stone granite]

But there is an earthquake type of build

Every class has melee builds

[sharp quartz]

If combat feel is something you are interested then https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/june-development-update-the-road-to-0-9-0/49030 contains a lot that you might like to know about in terms of how the next version is addressing this....

[wicked kelp]

yo guys im trying to start new class have been playing devouring orb
i want to play druid with fast clear which one's do ya'll recommend

[soft orchid]

keyword there was "more" builds of that type

not that those dont exist

[ocean marsh]

noob question here, if i get this blessing, does it only increase the chance of random bow drops, or could it increase the chance of boss bow drops like reign of winter after killing heorot

[balmy current]

I believe the only thing that affects the boss drops is corruption.

[ocean marsh]

alright ty

[minor kindle]

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

oh, I used to think it would affect..

[austere hound]

So I have a question about werebear maelstrom, the warcry has 50% reduced cooldown, so 5s and the maelstroms have 9.8s duration, so only from warcry (or roar) I can never get 12 stacks right? I would need like some cooldown anywhere to fix that but the guides I've seen doesn't mention anything about cooldown investment

[warm yew]

You'll also get some from swipe/maul in that same build.

[austere hound]

Yes I get that but with only 1% additional cooldown reduction I would get another 4 stacks or do I miss something?

[balmy current]

CDR doesn't work like that, it's new cooldown = base cooldown / (1 + sum of CDR%)

So 50% CDR -> 10 / 1.5 = 6.7s

To get it to below 5s you'd need over 100% CDR

[warm yew]

And maul can give a lot of stacks by itself - since it rolls that 34% chance for each enemy hit.

[sonic kraken]

What is the best way to farm exp right now?

[sharp quartz]

XP echo nodes in the monoliths... the reward scales with your level...

[sonic kraken]

So far
Exp echoes were pretty disappointing for me and I do them when I can

[sharp quartz]

Well... according to https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/bestiary sorted by XP, the next best thing is to kill Monolith Bosses - specifically the Emperor of corpses... 😉

I love the XP echo nodes because when you get closer to lvl 100, they scale into the millions of XP, making respec'ing skills almost instant...

[austere hound]

Shallow breath gives -50% cooldown, there is nothing mentioned of cooldown recovery speed on that passive

[austere hound]

It doesn't sound like it would be per enemy hit, just a chance when you hit at least one enemy. With per enemy hit it would be totally OP

[warm yew]

I think you're right - I'm using Swipe and Berserker, so I hit like 8 times per second on bosses - ending up at 17+ stacks of Maelstrom without watching more than once.

So I wasn't really tracking how many I'd get while clearing, as long as I kept it >6

[austere hound]

but anyways so getting 1 cdr roll on helmet is not worth it to get 4 additional stacks because ursine storm gives so many more you say?

[warm yew]

Aye.

[austere hound]

allright thx, I've seen 2 variations from epoch builds, one going into attack speed but he updated it according to someone else which scaled no attack speed at all. I'm wondering whats mathematically the most efficient way

@warm yew are you going attack speed?

well 8 aps sounds like it lol

[warm yew]

I like RageBear - it's a fun way to play, and pretty brainless - not going to claim it's more efficient than anything except random chaos, but it's fun...

Though to be fair, I'm getting almost all my attack speed from Berserker and Aspect of the Panther - not from gear.

[austere hound]

what weapon are you using? or can I get a build planner of your build?

[warm yew]

I posted a link to it a couple days ago - and the Shattered Lance set.

[austere hound]

scaling melee cold damage and using maelstrom to deal dmg aswell or is the maelstrom for something else?

oh btw how long does a maelstrom last? description of the skill says 7s and description of the buff says 8s lol

[warm yew]

Good question - I'm using it for Frenzy and Haste with 6+ stacks, so just keep it up at that threshold and am pleasantly surprised when it does damage.

[wary shadow]

Quick Q, building warpath but I want it to be pure phys bleed;
How do I scale it effectively like void/fire? Its probably intentional but I wish bleed was affected by crit, at first glance at least it looks harder to do a 2h sword phys bleed but will try anyway

Any advice appreciated since am pretty new to this o7

[ionic oxide]

sentinel has a lot of bleed chance/bleed effectiveness through passives and prefixes which are what you really want. other than that there are many uniques that increased bleed damage

you scale bleed with bleed chance, bleed effectiveness, atk speed, phys damage, damage over time

[wary shadow]

Ah I see I'll check out the uniques that work for bleed, thanks for the quick help o/

[ionic oxide]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0CZaS-FyBg
check out this video for like the passives/gearing, there may be a better setup for this patch but you can take this as a reference still

[marsh maple]

Idk if there is a better setup, at least in terms of bleed. If you wanted better I'd suggest ignite warpath or something else probably

[ionic oxide]

better setup might honestly just be use other skill for bleed lol, but that defeats the purpose here

[marsh maple]

I mean bleed warpath is one of the indirectly nerfed builds in the game so its just on its last legs

[wild vigil]

how come most people take the ranger belt instead of the bronze belt? what are 5 pots compared too 4 pots and a decent chunk or flat armor?

[minor kindle]

bleed javelin or shield rush

[balmy current]

Ah, that one might be a reduction to the cooldown then, rather than the far more common CDR.

[marsh maple]

Shield rush 100%

[balmy current]

How was it nerfed? The incoming changes to phys shred?

[marsh maple]

No when they removed manifest strike and when they removed all the global more damage inside warpath. It's great for ignite now though

I'm talking like the really old versions

[balmy current]

Yeah, I had to google what manifest strike was. 🙂

There are still some global damage modifiers in Warpath. Just not many.

[minor kindle]

There is a bug that has been fixed, its ailment chance penalty does not take effect, at that time once every 5 seconds AE can easily pop out more than 10 million damage

[shy magnet]

how rare is salt the wound unique? will I find it in reasonable time if I do lvl 100 corruption glove echoes?

[minor kindle]

https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/uniquesim

[shy magnet]

that's useful af, thanks a lot

[acoustic thicket]

How long do mods stay on the monolith?

I made a mistake and gave the enemy's crit avoidance. It's not like I am a crit build or anything...

[desert tree]

It should be written next to it

[acoustic thicket]

I may have misunderstood a recent conversation. I thought that the mods stay on the monolith for a limited amount of time before the are replaced by other mods.

[candid elm]

Look in the lower left of the monolith map. You can see how many rounds are left on a mod.

[desert tree]

When u pick an echo, the mod have a duration and they stack

Early in the timeline I think they last 2 3 echos, and the further away from the center the longer they last

If I recall correctly (havent been playing in a while now)

[candid elm]

Yeah, it lists on each mod the number of rounds - it's on the mod icon. If there's not a number, then it's just that one echo.

[desert tree]

U can use one of the quest to use a round on the mods u are trying to get rid off

[austere hound]

@warm yewI didn't thought about that the duration of the additional 4 stacks with cooldown investement would be tiny. Just tested it and with 7% cdr I have only 0.5s uptime of the additional stacks lol

[paper elm]

Hey, does this mean I get base crit equal to 10% of my mana? So if I have 78 mana I get 7.5?

[desert tree]

Of your current mana, yes.
So If you spend some you will have less crit

[marsh maple]

Yeppers sir

[paper elm]

That seems very good considering I just started the game and it's already more than 5%

[paper elm]

hey, long time no see :D

[desert tree]

Does that extra crit work on mana arc?

@marsh maple

[vital merlin]

hey guys im learning how to make my own loot filters and was wondering why these items are showing on the floor?

[soft prairie]

You have a line at the top to show all items

Remove it

The upper most line should be Show all Exalted Set and Unique

[vital merlin]

omg i dont know how I didnt see that

thank you :')

[balmy current]

Each mod (except the Corruption modifier) has it's own duration (like stacks of ailments have their own duration) & fall off when that duration (number of monos) runs out

[devout junco]

Corollary to @soft prairie 's point, you should probably never have a line that shows all items anywhere in a filter. If you do need one, there's probably something real weird happening in your filter.

[crisp scaffold]

is this bug? when i equip ring, critical change won't increse on my stat

[azure lion]

how does it look when you unequip them both?

[balmy current]

Or even one of them....

[crisp scaffold]

same

it doesn't increse on my stat

[minor kindle]

unequip them and take a screenshot 👀

[azure lion]

yeah went into the game to test it, it does change the tooltip

[crisp scaffold]

so why the stat crit change is not about 80+%?

[azure lion]

it went from 5% to 9%, that's a 81% increase

there are two stats, one gives a base crit chance, the other has "increased" keyword on it

first one comes in small numbers, like +5%, +7%, it adds that amount to your crit chance

second one comes in higher numbers like 40% and 110%, it multiplies it

[wild vigil]

typical add or increase

[crisp scaffold]

so if i can add prefix, is become increse biger stat?

@azure lion

[wild vigil]

watch some youtube

[azure lion]

added looks like this

increased looks like this

so you have a base 5% crit chance without items
equipping the top one alone would make it 9%
equipping the bottom one alone would make it 7%
equipping both would make it 12.6%

so they're both useful

[desert tree]

The whole point of the section is to ask and get help from people

[wild vigil]

i just thought he was clueless and youtube would help him much more

[desert tree]

Sorry then, maybe consider adding some form to not sound so harsh

[wild vigil]

couldnt be bothered but you're right

[desert tree]

You can find a lot of info on the game guide (by default G on your keyboard) it's worth reading, pretty up to date and very comprehensive

[supple spade]

Does minion melee damage affect damage scorpion would do with poison ?

[desert tree]

Unless it has a melee poison attack I guess no

From what I can read on last epoch tools no

[balmy current]

No

ailments (minion or otherwise) are not melee

[fickle prawn]

Hey, stupido question, I conquered a lvl 100 timeline. I've killed Oroborys~ or w/e, and also did increasing corruption thingy on a map (fighting the random skill boss) and now I can see in the left corner that it shows as 0 Oroborys~ kills, why? Is this method the quickest one to grind corruption?

[woven fulcrum]

Question for the Gurus:
If I start on my first echo in a monolith and have A and B mobs
Than for the sake of the question, lets say, I've done like 60 echoes in that monolith
so I'm deep into the 'web' as it where
but all my modifiers have been cleared out
echo 61 I have A and B mobs again
would I expect them to have the same relative health/dmg as that first echo
Or do they get unlisted increases depending on how deep you go in the monolith run
(separate from chosen modifiers of a particular echo I mean)

[keen viper]

Pretty sure number of echoes doesn't impact health of mobs

Corruption and modifiers do

[balmy current]

Correct, only corruption & modifiers.

Though being deeper in the web will give stronger modifiers

[desert tree]

Will character level not impact monster lvl and then their health?

[balmy current]

No, that's all based on area level & any corruption/modifiers on the mono

Character level has nothing to do with it

[desert tree]

OK tx

[supple spade]

Thanks 👍
What about regular minion damage % inc ? Or is the only way to scale poison with what is on the tree of the skill itself ?

[balmy current]

If it's generic % minion damage, yes if it were % minion melee/spell damage, no, since ailments aren't melee/spell.

[desert tree]

Is there %poison minions?

[balmy current]

There's % minion DoT, yes

[desert tree]

Tx

[fringe sail]

What does the highlighted part refer to? Been at 13/20 for days.

[keen viper]

That you have finished 13/20

Empowered monoliths counts separately from normal

So you need to kill boss in all normal and empowered

[fringe sail]

Guess it's bugged then because I cleared all 10 normal, and currently I have 8 grand blessings equipped. Oh well, OK.

[keen viper]

Welp. Maybe I'm wrong then and there is different completion requirement

[fringe sail]

I figured it's what you described, but then when it didn't update I wanted to come ask. Maybe someone knows.

[warm yew]

The Gaze of Orobyss isn't a counter for Orobyss kills - it's a counter for the regular boss kills, and resets when you kill Orobyss to give you extra corruption (or resets if you die fighting the shade)

[warm yew]

It tracks the quest completions from monolith to monolith - if you've unlocked all the walking paths between them, you need to repeat the quests in Empowered to unlock all of them - but not something I'd worry about.

[fringe sail]

Ooooh, dude, that's such a good call. I haven't done the quest 1 & 2 echoes of empowereds since back when I realized they were skippable. That must be it. I'll prob knock em out just to make the numbers look nice =)

[balmy current]

Yeah, it's never worked right.

[iron gulch]

ignite has no stack cap right

[brittle atlas]

Correct

[woven fulcrum]

keep this in mind for the near future though: https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/september-2022-development-update/49746#ailment-changes-9

[brittle atlas]

None of those changes imply anything about stack caps?

[iron gulch]

yeah only thing i see about DoT is poison and that's for res shredding

[woven fulcrum]

"To alleviate both concerns, for damaging ailments we are replacing stats like “10% increased Ignite Effect” with "+10% Fire Penetration with Ignite”. With this, not all changes are 1:1, many values have been re-balanced to accommodate for this change. Most non damaging ailments, such as armor shred, will retain their increased effect stats."

Not sure how this will affect it.

"re-balance' isn't defined so it could mean a number of things.

[pure ridge]

How important are defensive layers in general in last epoch? Do high end builds just try to glass canon and avoid aoe attacks or domost builds try to be at least a bit tanky?
If some tankiness is the way to go, I'm assuming it's res cap first, then try to get some armor/health afterward?

[wise palm]

Does Abom or Squirrels get more single target dps?

[urban horizon]

With good gear squirrels have higher dps

[subtle patio]

Are there limits to how multiple Spriggans stack together? Specifically, summoning one manually and getting another from Friend of the Forest in Spriggan Form.
ie if they have Summon Vine, is the limit shared between the two Spriggans, or does each have their own limit? Does the healing aura stack?

[wise palm]

What version of scurry do you think will be best?

[formal sentinel]

Guys is there any "walking simulator" laying around ? i come from PoE and i liked playing righteous fire :c anything similar ?

[marsh maple]

Judgment, Swarm Strike, Devouring Orb

[formal sentinel]

Taking note, thanks 😄

[subtle patio]

closest analog is probably Aura of Decay but it's way harder to sustain than RF was

[formal sentinel]

Why is that ?

[minor kindle]

It will poison yourself

[formal sentinel]

Can't you just build poison resist ?

Wait, can you get natural hp regen/s ?

[round vapor]

have a stupid question does the gear that i wear effect what random gear drops i get / how does the random world gear system work

[sonic kraken]

Besides the special echoes like lanterns and quests there's no way to wear down the active modifiers right?

[sonic kraken]

No the stuff you drop is random and the only thing that affect it is increased rarity from various modifiers/corruption

[subtle patio]

Yes, you can, but unlike RF the self-damage scales with your damage stats.
It's possible to balance out the degen (I've done it) but it's very hard.

[jagged cedar]

why i have gloves with vitality but i cant add for the new gloves the vitality? o.o

[sharp quartz]

They are probably legacy items from a previous patch... vitality on gloves was changed in one of the previous patches

[jagged cedar]

ah okay thanks xD

[sharp quartz]

You can see it here https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/prefixes/AKwBmQ - scroll down and it shows viality was removed from gloves, relics rings in 0.8.1

yip... map persistance is a known issue... the devs have apparently fixed the issues as part of the MP system (couldnt have maps resetting in MP) so I expect this problem to go away / less of an issue when 0.9 drops.

[fickle prawn]

Badge of Honour - what corruption more or less can I start hoping to loot one? 😄

[balmy current]

Bastion of Honour? It can drop from any lvl 50+ zone, so it can drop in the campaign, it's just very rare.

[soft orchid]

which is better for single target flurry or puncture

trying to do a bows marksman

focussing on multishot for clear and either puncture/flurry for single target dps

[fickle prawn]

Isnt that wrong? Website says its Black Sun Ecoes-restricted

[balmy current]

No, that's just the monolith that has unique/set shields as a specific reward node. Any non-boss/quest drop item can drop from any zone with an area level above the item's level.

[fickle prawn]

😮

Thx

[austere hound]

For a cold dot druid, why go for cdr on maul? Was confused at first that not every maul triggers entangling roots but it makes sense as it gets 4s cooldown and maul has also 4s cooldown by default. Idk why I would need 20% cdr from fury of the maul

[minor kindle]

iirc root has no cooldown

[austere hound]

It gets 4s cooldown with overgrown garden

[minor kindle]

Then I don't know... how about no overgrown garden? That way Maul can have a shorter cooldown to trigger more Roots 🫠

[warm yew]

Multishot is in a weird place - DA is significantly better for AoE clear, because it naturally hits all enemies near where you aimed. That being said, Flurry is the best single-target zero-mana DPS skill Rogue has.

Personally, I give up some of that damage for Puncture, because I like the skill better.

[warm yew]

Because Maul is also how you're stacking Maelstrom - you'll need to time your roots CD in your head while you adjust, but for single-target you need as much CDR for maul as possible.

[austere hound]

So entangling roots don't stack I guess? Just need to keep it up and more maul is just more maelstrom procs?

[minor kindle]

Oh, you reminded me, yep, root is not stackable. Theoretically the immobilized from root can only last up to 2.4 seconds iirc

but I am curious, Maul is not the same as Swipe each "use and hit" has 32% chance of triggering Maelstrom?

🤔

[wary shadow]

Can armour go below 0?
If say I put 5 stacks on an enemy and they have 400 armour, will they have -100 taking increased phys damage?

it doesn't say any limitations in the explanation

so wondering

[warm yew]

Each use has that chance, yes. But without a tree in Swipe, it's basically just there to fill time while Maul cools down.

[warm yew]

Yes - most enemies default to 0 armor

[wary shadow]

oh so it can go below 0 ty ty

[austere hound]

Why is maul better than swipe in that scenario?

[wild vigil]

why do most build on lastepoch take the 5 potion belt over the 4 pots + flat armor belt? am i missing something or what

[warm yew]

Because Swipe isn't a specialized skill - it's effectively a Basic Attack that has limited range and better AoE

[austere hound]

Isn't maul the same? Every on Hut bonus is for maul and swipe, difference is that maul triggers entangling roots in that build

[marsh maple]

I think they mean Warcry

more warcries = more maelstroms

same with swipe

[austere hound]

My question was about cooldown for maul and if its even worth that its then not in line anymore with entangling roots

[marsh maple]

Well Maul should be overriding the cooldown on Entangling Roots

[austere hound]

Still not convinced that the 20% cdr are worth the hassle that I sometimes use maul without proccing entangling roots

[marsh maple]

if your not casting it on every maul its because its currently bugged, because it costs double rage cost currently

so if you don't have rage sustain it will bork some casts

[austere hound]

Ah gotcha

Thx a bunch

[formal sentinel]

I've seen a video on yt seems kinda hard to balance

[visual oracle]

Is there a way to read the storyline of a quest ? I have few quest but i can't remember the details/goal. I don't see an history of the questes

[soft monolith]

Hi ! I have an amulet with t6 void damage and fractured t4 void pen with an open prefix, should I craft spell crit chance or spell damage ? (for a vk autobomber) 🙂

[lavish turtle]

Hey! Is anyone bored enough that they could show me the ropes of the game? just wanted to discuss some of the mechanics with someone who has more experience so I can understand them better 🙂

[ruby cairn]

Is it normal for the game to slow down to like 2 fps in some fights? Specifically when it's important to dodge stuff

[stone granite]

That depends entirely on your PC

[visual oracle]

game has little lags on i5 7600k / 1070 gtx, but not important

fine for me

[candid elm]

What was your question? Feel free and ask

[lavish turtle]

I just started playing and wanted to get on disc with someone who's knowledgeable cause it would make it easier instead of making a big list here

[candid elm]

I'm at work and can't voice chat, but happy to message here or I guess DM if you don't want to chat here

[lavish turtle]

Sure, I'll PM you

[austere hound]

Is the base speed of 1.467 casts per second on maelstrom only for casting it or does it deal its dmg in that interval too? Tooltip suggests it's dmg scales with cast speed

[minor kindle]

cast

[balmy current]

That's just the base cast speed, the damage is done many times a second & then packaged into discrete packets that are displayed less frequently to reduce the amount of clutter on the screen.

[sharp quartz]

No, its not normal, but as others have said its related to your hardware BUT also the settings you are trying to use on that hardware.... If you are trying to play on Ultra quality at 4k on an old gpu then 2fps is probably expected...🤪

[formal sentinel]

Tbh i don't even think you need details, quest are go from A to B and hunt things on the way

If you want lore, try to look at youtube/game wiki

[balmy current]

Never the wiki.....

[balmy current]

https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/quests

Also, the Map has a list of the quests & what stage you're at

[ruby cairn]

It's a pretty old GPU GTX 770 🤢 but running on minimum specs (even resolutions where you cannot read the text anymore) and it still goes down to like 0FPS for big boss attacks. It's fine otherwise.

[formal sentinel]

Even with a 3060 i loss fps when spinning through mobs then they are all over the screen

[ruby cairn]

It's funny cuz large numbers of monsters don't trigger the slowdown. It's the AoE warnings on the ground.

[sharp quartz]

Your GPU is only about 30% faster than the minimum needed for LE so its obviously gonna struggle and there is nothing much you will be able to do about that really - very low settings and lowered resolution are about all you have to work with... Also if your CPU is roughly from the same era then you may also be having CPU related issues - big boss fights that do screenwide AoE or multiple skill procs can cause severe FPS dips too - all because of the calcs involved - its less about the number of monsters on the screen, and more about how many skills , effects, ailments, Aoes etc are being proc'd... The main issue for you is that your baseline performance is probably pretty low so the same dips that happen to most of us are catastrophic for you...

[ruby cairn]

For example the biggest lag spike so far was caused by the fire dragon boss super early in the storyline that beams the ground into a whirlwind of fire (that serves as a warning to the coming explosion) the game then just kinda freezes until it explodes.

It's 1 AoE 🤣

[sharp quartz]

but screenwide and if I recall all the effects going on in the map too... Honestly, older hardware is gonna struggle BUT, the devs have promised performance updates in 0.9 (the coming patch) so we may all be lucky and the fps spike amplitutes may be less and that should help everyone irrespective of hardware...

[ruby cairn]

That would be nice. I assumed it would get a bit better before full launch. Was just curious if others had experienced similar. I'm aware my hardware is old, but it did surprise me that it couldn't handle some of the Last Epoch stuff, when it can handle 99% of Path of Exile's screen cluttering nonsense.

[azure lion]

they address the dragon boss specifically in the latest dev update

[ruby cairn]

Haha nice

[azure lion]

I have a gtx 760 running minimum settings and resolution so I'm crossing my fingers too 😄

[left mountain]

Does anyone know if locust swarm scales off damage over time modifiers? It's not listed in the tooltip, but it seems like it should

[sharp quartz]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/locust_swarm

[dense ravine]

at what lvl do we usually end the chapters?

[buoyant sinew]

~55 if you do everything

[iron gulch]

if you buy gamble items is there a chance to get a unique with the same base?

like beekeeper gloves on a leather glove gamba

also does it restock on it's own or do you have to pay to refresh inventory

[sharp quartz]

No unqiues from the town gambler... that was removed

Restock, I think you have to Leave game - same as restocking the normal Shop....

Note that the in-town gambler also only has a lvel 40 item cap.

[vague cloak]

I have recently returned to this game and back then i didnt even play that much so i would like a recommendation on what class i should pick. I play alot of Grim dawn and im a huge fan of dropping something on the ground and it just kills while i can run around instead of stationary playstyle. I mean like totems or something whirling around or just something like that

[sharp quartz]

try a primalist build then for totems... ... Or you could try sentinel warpath for the whirling around...

[vague cloak]

ill try the primalist i can see it does something like what i want. I just hope its a good class 😛

[sharp quartz]

Nothing wrong with primalist... especially the summoning builds

[buoyant sinew]

I believe spriggan thorn totem druid is quite a good build if you're specifically looking for a totem primalist? not sure how beginner-friendly it is though, don't have any experience with it

[left mountain]

swarmblade also has a very "cast once, then run around" playstyle. it also needs zero damage on gear, since it gets several thousand % increased on top of 1350 base damage just from the tree. also beeeg aoe

[vague cloak]

thats the primalist right?

[left mountain]

yeah