❔┃ask-the-community

[left mountain]

It's a litttle unorthodox to play, but with that node and your minions causing bleeds, you get an uncapped amount of increased damage. The biggest tick-per-second I've seen on a boss mob so far is 58k.

[vague cloak]

Is it possible to play offline?

[desert tree]

It is only offline so far

[vague cloak]

No i can see people in chat. I know multiplayer isnt out yet

[balmy current]

Once you've logged in you can pull your internet cable out to be properly offline. The online aspect is only for the login & chat, everything else about the game (including the save files) is done by your pc.

[wary shadow]

Quick question about healing interactions before I spec into this:
Judgement creates consecrated ground that heals allies, Prayer gives a buff when you heal yourself or allies.
Since I'm currently playing solo and judgement only mentions allies will it proc prayer?

[candid elm]

Here's a forum post that says yes it heals you because it's a ground effect you stand in. This is from a couple years ago, though https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/judgment-allies/24380

[wary shadow]

So even though consecrated ground technically isn't healing myself, getting healed from it would still proc prayer I see, hopefully the info is still accurate since the thread is 2 years old

[formal sentinel]

Is there any critical strike oriented build ?

[brittle atlas]

basically every hit-based build

wants to scale crits

[formal sentinel]

But any one that is specifically designed around critical ?

Not as an extra

[brittle atlas]

dragonsong coc I guess?

[formal sentinel]

On English ?

I dunno the terminology

I'm from poe

[brittle atlas]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/triksters-dragonsong-coc-marksman

[formal sentinel]

[safe harness]

Is it possible to get a class specific mod onto a legendary so it can be used by a different class?

[vapid aspen]

Yes except the part where another class can use it

[silent sparrow]

blessings are changeable right?

[brittle atlas]

no, it will lock it to that class

[brittle atlas]

you can pick a new one each time you rekill the boss

[silent sparrow]

oh ok

thanks

[hot trellis]

Not sure if this is the right place, im on my first chracter made it to level 77 but im eluded by the Nib relic that i would like for shatterstrike, what farming methods do i have available for this item? It shows a monolith that you can target farm from but i have had monolith unique loot from dungeons ect... so am i able to get that elsewhere too?

[brittle atlas]

The vast majority of uniques are global drops, but each timeline can spawn echoes with the reward type "unique/set <item type>". For relics, that is The Last Ruin timeline.

So you could get Nib from any zone that is a high enough level to drop it

[hot trellis]

im doing level 80 atm, how do i know what level is high enough? cheers for the help so far too!

[brittle atlas]

The zone level just needs to be higher level than the required level to equip the item

for Nib, that's level 58

[hot trellis]

❤️ thanks so much for the info!

[grave bobcat]

Hey guys how get filter to load it wont work for me

[formal sentinel]

Guys does pets do something besides walking around you ?

[brittle atlas]

nope

purely cosmetic

[candid elm]

Set it to No Filter, press the + button, then either:
A. If you have the.xml file, push the open filters folder button and copy the .xml file into that folder.
B. If you're copying it from the clip board, push that button.

[barren minnow]

Is "The Last Laugh" something pretty much everyone has in their inventory when going for boss kills? 25% culls seem exceptionally good. 33% more effective damage for 8 inventory slots.

[polar sierra]

New to the game, wondering what the typical new character route is. I.e. rush to monos, farm till level x, get rest of passives? Is there an optimal place per leveling tier?

Oh and if you buy the game on steam, do you still get the supporter pack stuff?

[barren minnow]

Yes, I bought the game on steam and got my pet. :)

[grave bobcat]

Keep saying cannot load filter or just straight doesnt work I give up Ill live with the clutter cuz the stupid filter screen doesnt go away when I open it anyway

[candid elm]

Try going back to town or restarting the game

[ocean cliff]

Does anyone have some monster hp data? I want to calculate freeze chance

[brittle atlas]

not really, no. The fastest boss killers kill things too fast for a 25% cull to be worth the time spent to weapon swap vs those builds having access to 15% and 18% culls

maybe if you have really low dps you'd consider it?

[vapid aspen]

If you get a solid legendary last laugh its not a horrible choice

25% cull is basically 33% more damage which is nothing to sneeze at

[wide sentinel]

tbh if you feel like using gearswap cull is worth maybe its better to switch the build or upgrade damage, i dont think there is any point doing that unless you are doing super high corruption bosses or smth

[brittle atlas]

only compared to 0% cull tho right?

most builds have access to at least 15% culls tho

I'd think you'd need to be super zdps for that to be worth it

[ancient kelp]

is bleed warpath still good?

[brittle atlas]

I haven't heard much of anything about it this patch

I'd imagine it's still playable

but it was never a dps monster

[ocean cliff]

If you enjoyed bleed warpath I suggest trying ignite warpath

It's good now.

[vapid aspen]

13% more relative to 15% cull, 20% more relative to 10% cull. And it does potentially save you investment into that cull.

[brittle atlas]

I guess? I just can't see the awkwardness of doing a mid combat swap being worth it for a lot of builds

[vapid aspen]

Oh mid combat no just if you are melee and have a lp3 last laugh its better than an exalted

[brittle atlas]

yeah, I don't think lp last laugh is bad, just the first dude was asking about keeping a random last laugh in your inventory to swap to to cull

which seems like a super niche thing to me

[vapid aspen]

Minion builds probs can use it too, swap weapon after summon

[brittle atlas]

only until ehg finally fixes snapshotting

[vapid aspen]

its ok the entire game would implode without snapshotting XD

[brittle atlas]

I really hope not

[vapid aspen]

there would be hundreds of new things to break

[brittle atlas]

snapshotting is so lame

[vapid aspen]

Idk it makes sense in some places

[brittle atlas]

minions, aod, and earthquake spec are the big abuse cases atm imo

[vapid aspen]

otherwise you are gear swapping before your meteor lands to make it do silly stuff

[brittle atlas]

I mean, there's no shot you're doing that without macros

which are hopefully against tos

[vapid aspen]

if the silly stuff is strong enough you might only need to do it once

[brittle atlas]

more importantly, I don't think snapshotting in that regard is the issue- like meteor snapshotting when it's cast is fine

it's a single use, single effect skill

the issue is things that persist

[vapid aspen]

Yeah its kinda a weird spot

But it goes both ways

[brittle atlas]

being able to get constant value out of doing a gear swap once per session shouldn't be a thing

or even worse, getting value out of skills you shouldn't even have

like AoD and Earthquake

personally, I think getting the value/stats of gear you're not wearing shouldn't be a thing period. If you swap to gear with worse minion stats, your minions should get worse.

the point is to make the opportunity cost decisions on what gear to use and what stats you need, not get the best of two sets

[vapid aspen]

My abom build uses the skeleton resummon shield to get a very high number of minions into it (like 150-400). Imagine if I could switch that shield out for some kind of massive minion attack speed source or something.

and just use it to summon

its something you gotta take on a case by case basis

[brittle atlas]

That's a situation that would need to be solved seperately

probably by way of just making abom not a walking potential abuse case for stuff like that

[vapid aspen]

Shhhhhhh

[brittle atlas]

like...making minions consumed during the summoning of abom not count as having died

[vapid aspen]

That would make me such a sad person tbh

[brittle atlas]

idk, I feel like abom is probably already too much built-in power, but there are a lot of skills like that atm

[vapid aspen]

its not like resummons are actually used anywhere else lol

[brittle atlas]

they're used for the skele sacrifice zombie setup

or useful, rather

giving you a higher rate of mana positivity on summoning skeletons

[vapid aspen]

idk abom is a lot of builtin power but if the thing dies mid boss fight you're gonna suffer

if I have to channel the skill for like 2 minutes straight just to summon the minion every few monos it kinda keeps itself in check

[brittle atlas]

idk, I feel like that entire design is just kinda bad

making a skill good because it sucks to set up/use isn't a great place to be

abom feels like it could be focused down a bit more to its core fantasy to keep the idea of assembling a super minion out of others without the need for super long channels or constant resummons

it's fine if it's still a temporary minion, but the temporary-ness of it shouldn't interrupt the flow of gameplay for a properly constructed build

if you get what I mean

[vapid aspen]

Yeah imo the core is a problem though. How do you balance it? if its meant to like eat all active minions and last 40 seconds or whatever then its totally pointless unless it is dealing more damage and has better consistency than all the things it ate combined

[brittle atlas]

It's kind of like Reaper in PoE if you're familiar

Reaper is a bit more qol friendly imo, but also not that good for other reasons

[vapid aspen]

Havent tried it but I've heard... things...

[brittle atlas]

it's a minion that eats your other minions while it's alive to buff itself

[halcyon rose]

from a design standpoint Abom needs to be very heavy front loaded with damage to make it appealing

[vapid aspen]

Yeah I mean I ran around mud flats with it, felt sick, and never tried again

[halcyon rose]

You sacrifice minions that inherently give you extended health by absorbing projectiles and blocking melee

[brittle atlas]

I think something like Reaper would work way better in LE, because LE doesn't have spectres and animate guardian to worry about

[halcyon rose]

by design abom is stripping a pseudo defensive layer out to gobble up those other pets

[vapid aspen]

Map clear with abom also holds it back. The thing takes up like 1/8th the screen and still has same range as a melee skeleton

[brittle atlas]

I don't think the defense is honestly that much of a consideration

[halcyon rose]

so if you're trading safety for strength, it should be a reasonable tradeoff

[brittle atlas]

wraiths is by far the best necro build atm and its minions don't really provide any of that defensive layer

[halcyon rose]

but you can control where they are spawned if they're stationary

[brittle atlas]

they just clear like a screen and a half radius and do giga single target

[halcyon rose]

so you can kinda wall yourself off

[brittle atlas]

eh, you don't really do that in practice

[halcyon rose]

speak for yourself >.>

[brittle atlas]

you just dump a cluster of wraiths, put a drain life on top of them, and transplant to the next screen and do it again

[vapid aspen]

I like the non combat summon style of abom though. Feels fun sitting in eot like some kind of mad scientist stitching together random crap, taking it through 3 monos, and then doing it again.

[halcyon rose]

I very much do use them as meatshields whenever I can

[vapid aspen]

like my setup is inconsistent, so it sometimes takes a few tries to get a good one. If I have a very sketchy set of mono mods I'll resummon it a few times fishing for a good one

its annoying but I find myself enjoying it

[brittle atlas]

Yeah, I'd hate that personally lol

I just wanna chain content as much as possible

[vapid aspen]

Like you get the good one, have it bonk dummy and see 8 digit numbers

[brittle atlas]

did you get the chance to mess around w/ death seal abom before that got fixed?

[vapid aspen]

no sadly

I might have had the chance but I never dug into it

what was the interaction?

[brittle atlas]

it was just a bug that let necros get death seal

so you could put dread shade, infernal shade, death seal all onto your abom

and it made it do like 10x more damage

[vapid aspen]

Lmao

[brittle atlas]

I had a basically naked character getting 960k crits

that was with 0 minion damage on gear

no death rattle, etc

[vapid aspen]

abom doesnt want any minion damage anyway

[brittle atlas]

ye, but 960k with no minion focus, basically. I'm pretty sure I put it together on my max ward goal character

[vapid aspen]

100 minions consumed is 3000% increased damage. I dont care how good your gear is you arent gonna make a significant difference on that part. Gotta focus on the other layers

[brittle atlas]

this was with the perma abom or w/e I think? the one that just eats a few skeletons? idk the tree that well

[vapid aspen]

Its ok soon we'll just be able to hire a paladin to pretend to be death seal for our aboms

[brittle atlas]

any sentinel really

[vapid aspen]

Paladin makes the least thematic sense so it is the obvious choice.

[brittle atlas]

or just get a lich itself I guess? I don't think their stuff specifies your minions, does it?

[vapid aspen]

this opens the door to the big question. Can I make an abom out of someone else's minions

[brittle atlas]

yeah, looks like it should work on other people's minions

[vapid aspen]

looks at summon sabertooth... here kitty kitty kitty

[brittle atlas]

with death sealing giving...67% more, 335% increase, 350% more, and 50% more for 4 seconds when hit w/ death wave (which maybe stacks?)

[vapid aspen]

Hopefully we can use it in town zones. Find an afk primalist with bees per second idols and leech off them for massive minion

[brittle atlas]

lol

I have to think that can't work right

cause that'd be silly

maybe if they're in your party?

but honestly maybe they just won't let you use skills in town period?

[vapid aspen]

towns without dash... pls dont scare me like this

[brittle atlas]

I feel like it could be super spammy if there's like even like 20 people in EoT spamming something

also the dummy would just be permanently dead and never useful to test anything

[vapid aspen]

perma dead because you will make it your life's mission to kill every one of them in every single instance

but without poison how will you do it?

[brittle atlas]

wraiths if that isn't nerfed enough

or judgement if that isn't fixed

or infernal shade if that isn't fixed

failing those, maybe some shadow daggers thing if that isn't nerfed

[vapid aspen]

Inb4 there is an analytics thing that just queues builds up for nerfs whenever it kills a dummy

[brittle atlas]

any time I play a build and post about it, guaranteed nerf in the next major patch tbh

flurry got to survive 2 patches somehow

[vapid aspen]

Pls dont play abomination or ll ward lich kthx

[brittle atlas]

I played LL ward lich the first time it got nerfed

[vapid aspen]

:(

[brittle atlas]

back when 17k stable in town was like weekend tournament gear levels of easy

before they nuked retention

and soul feast meant you just had like 100k all the time during arena waves

also back when drain life costs 0 mana even for the non-channeled version

take me back tbh

[vapid aspen]

Thinking about it a bit... I do wonder if retention could use a bit of a buff

[brittle atlas]

I feel like retention is honestly in a decent place now, especially with how many more sources of generation we have compared to the past

and things like shackles to scale retention to the moon

[vapid aspen]

Its weird tho. for LL retention is basically just armour

but worse

you get more ehp stacking armour or endurance threshold than you do stacking retention outside the extreme high end with 3lp exsang and last steps

maybe its more last steps and exsang needing some slight nudge than retention as a whole

anyway off to sleep for me

[acoustic thicket]

looking to buy game and need to know if i need stable internet 24/7 as i am on wifi so from time to time it drops during the drop period will i still be able to play or does it boot me from game?

[brittle atlas]

You only need to be online for the initial login atm

[acoustic thicket]

thanks

[cinder fossil]

there will also be a fully offline version eventually

[acoustic thicket]

is there like a paragon system in place? infinite lvls?

[sharp quartz]

Nope… just infinitely scaling corruption I.e map difficulty

[outer stream]

I have dropped an item on the ground, and it is not shown, even when I hold X

what do I do? I see the item physically on the ground

[sharp quartz]

Z or alt Z

[vague cloak]

Does anyone know the name of that software where you get a bigger and other color mouse cursor in the game

i've seen some streamers use it

nvm found it

[sharp quartz]

Yolomouse

[vague cloak]

yeah and i used it back when i played before but i reinstalled windows and its gone and had a paid version and the website doesnt have a login function afaik

[spring knoll]

how do I "Discover remaining branches of the timeline" in a monolith do i need to complete every single echo in a monolith?

[buoyant sinew]

no, you just need to redo the quest echoes and make the other choice to the one you made before when you're given a choice of what to do

[spring knoll]

ah i see thank you

[paper heron]

hey yall kinda newbie here, im trying to farm a flayer’s pride from the first time line

[crude ridge]

How do I get a specific boss in the t4 arena?

[paper heron]

the item is level 65 does the area level need to be 65 for it to drop

[crude ridge]

Or is it decided randomly?

[fickle prawn]

Is Primalist Serpent Strike really that op? Just want to try something OP that will def get nerfed next patch 😄

[sharp quartz]

unless I am mistaken, Flayers drops from empowered Abominations, normal Abomination is only level 58.... it may drop if you increase corruption to 50 but thats not a good strategy for normal monoliths - its better to push to empowered levels...

[sharp quartz]

Anything Poison then... its going to get a nerf - specifically the poison shredding - in 0.9

[fickle prawn]

Do we know when can we more or less expect 0.9? As 1.0 is MP, righty?

[sharp quartz]

0.9 is MP

and no we dont know... estimated this year.. hoping Oct/Nov but who knows..

[fickle prawn]

So regarding poison, wd u say primalist or a rogue? What can be better?

[desert tree]

Umbral blade poison seems to be crack crazy broken

[sonic kraken]

What's currently the fastest, not necessarily the best build in the game?

[lament bison]

Hi. Are they considering implementing a leveling skip after the first completed main story?

[sonic kraken]

You can already skip certain parts of campaign with dungeons

And it doesn't have to be a 2nd playthrough either

[lament bison]

Oh, cool. Ty for the info

[next roost]

what are some really OP builds currently that will likely get nerfed next patch? just got 100 lvl on my bowmage, want to try something else.

[sharp quartz]

The only one for sure to get nerfed are the poison based ones.. like Rogue Umbral Blades Poison DoT...

[sonic kraken]

Basically anything that has something to do with poison

[sharp quartz]

Some of the other op builds may get a tweak or two, but nothing that I would class as a nerf based on what devs have said... e.g. they like VK Dorb builds so its unlikely to get nerfed even tho is OP generally.. but then again, it doesnt do silly damage like the Poison builds

[sonic kraken]

The devs seem to be ok with most stuff that you'd consider "OP" to be honest

[sharp quartz]

Yeah... i thinks its the ones that go WAY out there that they are more worried about... the ones that acutally break things...

[next roost]

hmm, how can i gauge power of a build? im pretty comfortably running 190 corruption echoes, but start to get low on dmg.

i want something to be able to push further

[sharp quartz]

T4 Julra dungeon and 300 corruption are good targets to aim for

imho

most builds should be able to get to 150-200 corruption with varying levels of success

[next roost]

i guess ill skip poison, as i dont want to go rogue again.

[sonic kraken]

Also if you want more damage generally the most efficient way to scale damage is to add some flat damage affixes

[sharp quartz]

If you want to push further then try the VK Dorb builds, Sentinel MA builds (there are variations)...Pally Smite builds... (ignoring rogue as requested)... The Druid builds are also strong... I am not a fan of the Necro/lich builds but they can also push farther than 190 corruption.... generally lots of possibilities really... all depends on you

[next roost]

i've been running with the same gear for the past 10ish lvls. and not finding much upgrades. dont know if lootfilter is wrong or something else.

will look into VK dorb then 🙂

[sharp quartz]

Gear starts to get harder to find in later levels if you only rely on drops - thats where crafting takes over.... and yes, lootfilters can be dangerous and hide things that are actually good so be careful making them too complicated

[next roost]

i used lootfilter that was in the build guide

[sonic kraken]

Don't neglect the power of crafting. Sometimes a very good rare is better than a mediocre exalt/unique

[sharp quartz]

Careful with those - they can be a little strict - especially for crafting

[sonic kraken]

What I tend to do is try to find something with 1-2 good high tier affixes as a base to start with and try to upgrade/chaos anything bad

Chaos glyphs have a surprisingly high chance of rolling rare affixes so they're actually pretty good to try and "fix" an item

[next roost]

thats my gear atm

[sonic kraken]

Well one of the most obvious things would be to upgrade your uniques with LP to legendaries

You also seem to focus on dex a little bit too much

[next roost]

thats what scales dmg

because of boots

[sonic kraken]

Still if you'd get a bit of increased cold / flat cold you'd probably end up with much better dps. The conversion is 1 to 1 so extra 8 flat cold for example won't do much compared to 100% increased cold

[vapid aspen]

Although iirc the icicle also gets 4% increased per dex

getting some inc cold is good to go alongside the dex but the ratio you want is pretty complicated

[sonic kraken]

It's still probably less than if you'd get a high tier cold damage affix

[sharp quartz]

This one is most definitely better on Dex...

[vapid aspen]

obvious answer is both

[sharp quartz]

because of all the scaling in various places

[sonic kraken]

Of course dex is what you'll mainly want but leaning too much into dex means you don't have anything else to scale the damage

[sonic kraken]

So you end up with very high flat damage with no multipliers to go with it

[vapid aspen]

But dex is a multiplier as well as flat

[sharp quartz]

Yip.. and you have spare prefix slots so increased damage is there too..

[vapid aspen]

I'd rather get crit than inc damage on those slots

[sonic kraken]

I guess you'd need to calculate if it's better to have flat damage and the small % bonus from dex rather than just straight up cold %

[vapid aspen]

the main thing for scaling damage is balancing your investment between flat, increased, pen, crit chance, crit multi, and attack speed.

[sonic kraken]

I don't see any crit affixes on their gear so I'm assuming they don't scale crits

[vapid aspen]

If they have crit vuln then they probs are critting a lot

[sharp quartz]

I think the calcs have been done in the #🔪┃rogue section and on the forum/build guides... I have played this a few times and dex is, imho, the way to go... and thats not even considering the defensive scaling it brings...

[next roost]

basically all hits are crits because of crit vuln

crit multi i have is 255%

[vapid aspen]

I'd focus on upgrades for rings, gloves, and belt

[sharp quartz]

The best passive node in Rogue

[vapid aspen]

belt without double inc health is spooky

that would be my first priority

[fickle prawn]

Do you got a guide on Umbral Blades Poison Dot? Found this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6g-MyW4ClE but he seems to be struggling a little @ low corruption boss lol

[sonic kraken]

Yeah that belt feels like a placeholder

No useful affixes besides inc cold

Well and resists

[marsh maple]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/poison-umbral-blades-bladedancer this is probably what your looking for

[sharp quartz]

YEah... thats the mechanic thats gonna get nerfed... Its likely still going to be strong because they are only taking away part of the poison issue.... The other build for LE_Builds is more specific to the Umbral Blades version but similar in end goal... i.e. poison baby...

[fickle prawn]

Uhhmm ok, Im kind of confused as the said guide tells that its rather 200~ corruption build. Are there any that can push 300+ easily?

I am currently at 250 as VK DE w/o anti-crit blessing and the unique shield - I jsut got burned out trying to target farm the shield and want to check on sth else in the meantime

[sharp quartz]

Push 300 easily? FG MA build, VK Devouring Orb ... they can both do it VERY easily - i have done this myself... pretty sure that the Rogue builds can to, but because of their defence it probably requires more active gameplay when you get to the higher levels...

[minor kindle]

300 corruption base enemy damage bonus is 150% more, equivalent to 200 corruption + 25% enemy damage inc. You can tell by looking at the echo mods values and how much damage the character take in those build videos.

[wide sentinel]

Why do you need crit avoidance blessing on vk?

[fickle prawn]

Dunno, ppl say its essential after 300+ corruption but I may also have asked wrong ppl 😄

[wide sentinel]

You have sentinel crit avoidance base armor

U do that and 1 affix on gear

And yes you need to cap it for high corruption

[fickle prawn]

Yeah thats another route, then I can take block effectiveness with the unique shield that blocks all nearby atks

Block effectiveness blessing*

[marsh maple]

I would say critical strike avoidance is great, because there are a lot of monoliths that have insane amounts of crit, and it essentially make those free monolith nodes. You can get a load of Crit avoidance gear like Misha is saying, but it depends on what items you end up using.

[jagged cedar]

quests in LE are confused...

[outer stream]

Can I find Apathy's Maw in normal timelines?

[balmy current]

Yes but you'll need to get them up to 50 corruption.

[outer stream]

Thank you

[fallow obsidian]

Hello, I got interested in Last Epoch and I have questions.
Is this game based on seasons/ladders?
And will other languages (Polish) be introduced?

[sharp quartz]

Yes it will have “cycles” (name causing some discussion right now) like seasons

Other languages, yes but most likely after launch 1.0 when the content of the game is finalized ( more info on faq I the forum)

[grave bobcat]

How do I tell if something is a set item

[sharp quartz]

It’s green

And says set at the top iirc

And it obviously has the set bonuses at the Bottom

[fallow obsidian]

When the Cycle starts better to do a new character anyway?

[vapid aspen]

game will have a "standard league"

cycles will be fresh starts

[sharp quartz]

No idea exactly as the devs haven’t said how it’s gonna work beyond old chars from cycles moving to standard

[vapid aspen]

and then migrate to "standard league"

offline stays offline forever

[fallow obsidian]

Thank you, Is there anything for PvP here? Arenas etc

[sharp quartz]

Mike mentioned they are toying with a single version idea where the standard will get the updated content like the cycle but will not have cycle things like cycle ladders for those that want to start new chars each cycle…. Totally unconfirmed and just the mushing of Mighty Mike at this point

No pvp. Arena yes

[fallow obsidian]

Okay thank you very much

[vapid aspen]

Just to clarify, arena exists but it's not pvp related. It's endless waves of enemies with ramping difficulty

[fallow obsidian]

This is my favorite content in games but I don't like the seasons system and probably nobody is playing on "standard"

[native sail]

There is no standard nor seasons right now so....

The game is offline atm and the beta for multiplayer which starts next patch is unlikely to be related to seasons

[fallow obsidian]

ohh i see, thank you

[manic harbor]

I just started the game and decided to roll a hardcore character for the fun of it, died somewhere during the campaign and figured I'd be better off playing SC. But now I have a bunch of crafting materials on hardcore that I'd like to have, is there a way to move those to sc? I'm aware I could make a new HC character and rip it but cant figure out how to take them out of crafting inventory

[balmy current]

Nope, transferring them via killing off your characters is the only way to do it.

https://tenor.com/view/monster-gingerbread-man-you-are-a-monster-broken-leg-shrek-gif-5498298

[manic harbor]

alright, how do I get the crafting stuff back into an inventory

[cinder fossil]

did you transfer it to the crafting inventory?

[manic harbor]

i did yes

[cinder fossil]

you dont need to take shards/runes/glyphs back out

in fact i dont even think you can use them unless theyre in that inventory

[manic harbor]

I'm trying to get them from hardcore to softcore, so I need them out of the inventory to rip them on a character

[cinder fossil]

cant take them out as far as im aware

[manic harbor]

stuck on HC then? unfortunate

[woven fulcrum]

well, everyone's going to have a fresh start anyway once multiplayer drops
Your current characters will be offline only. still playable but no mp with them.

[raw coyote]

where does the VK ability for summoning echos exist? i want to read more about how it works

[brittle atlas]

It’s the mastery passive

Also some passive nodes in its tree

They have conflicting tooltips between the two, not sure off the top of my head which is the correct one

[raw coyote]

so, the echos only ever repeat the attack that created them

so while i'm warpathing, the echoes it creates won't use voidcleve, etc

[brittle atlas]

yep

[raw coyote]

so what are some of the skill synergies I can use with a KV Warpath build?

[outer stream]

I need some help with survivability. Running VK Warpath. I have 1.6k health, 1.3k armour, and all resists capped other than poison. I die all the time though, at 62 timeline rn. Cannot kill Shade either. Any ideas? Should I just roll health on my non-unique gear?

[brittle atlas]

upload your dude to LE tools and share the planner

my guess is that you may have over prioritized resist if you've got everything capped at that point

but could be something else

[manic harbor]

can status chance go over 100%?

[brittle atlas]

yes

ailment chance over 100% lets you apply multiple stacks at a time

[halcyon skiff]

Can anyone tell me how the following interaction is coded? Shadow Daggers says "damage always critical strikes" and in lastepochtools it has 100% crit rate. Now if I use the Singularity Idol it says "cannot deal critical strikes" and cites a 100% less crit rate. What is the order of operation? Does Shadow Daggers crit with it or not?

[manic harbor]

alright cheers great

[brittle atlas]

I'd assume it won't, but I can test it real quick

[halcyon skiff]

That would be really great, I'm missing the Idol to test it

[brittle atlas]

it does not crit

[halcyon skiff]

Thanks for testing, that's what I feared would happen

[balmy current]

Yeah, the "always crits" adds 100% flat crit chance to Shadow Daggers, the Singularity idol then multiplies that by 0.

[raw coyote]

there's no way to get mana on hit, correct?

[halcyon skiff]

I thought it might as well be hard-coded to be 100% unmodifiably

[balmy current]

There are many ways to get mana on hit but they're class-specific.

[balmy current]

Nope

[raw coyote]

sorry for VK

[balmy current]

Time & Faith passive then use one of the mentioned skills. Though that's mana on use, you don't need to actually hit anything

[balmy current]

They've mentioned before that they have no "always crit" toggle that they can just turn on.

[raw coyote]

oh yeah, not using those skills

[balmy current]

Then no (but still yes).

[raw coyote]

Divine bolt is not a skill correct?

[balmy current]

Correct

[raw coyote]

it's just a passive ability

[balmy current]

It doesn't go on the skill bar

[raw coyote]

so no way to scale it

[grave bobcat]

Is there a site like craft of exile for this game

[raw coyote]

why would you need it?

[balmy current]

It's a spell, so you can scale it like any other spell, flat spell damage, % spell damage, etc, just not cast speed (though you kinda can with melee attack speed)

[grave bobcat]

To learn because Im traumatized from poe

[balmy current]

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

[balmy current]

Crafting's way easier, don't worry about it

[manic harbor]

does manifest armor copy unique stats? or only ''regular'' mods

[balmy current]

Some, yes.

[grave bobcat]

So you can just slap on whatever is compatible in the forge jesus this is so relaxing

[candid elm]

Looks like Attunement as well https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/divine_bolt. Also has Fire tag, so also probably Fire damage

[raw coyote]

yeah

i'm playing a void phys warpath build

and just seeing what synergy is out there

[balmy current]

Not really with Divine Bolt

[candid elm]

Yeah, it's nice. There's still some randomness with the forge potential, but it's not nearly as bad as PoE.

[raw coyote]

is there any point to get the paladin ignite stuff if i don't have the warpath convert to Rot yet?

i guess burning dmg is still extra dmg

[candid elm]

Some things are kind of similar. Like a Rune of Ascendancy is like a PoE Ancient Orb. Rune of Removal is like Orb of Annulment.

[manic harbor]

does damage over time scale with any stat?

[outer stream]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/ZA83yaVo

[sonic kraken]

Is there a hotkey to bring up the echo web?

[balmy current]

Nope

[balmy current]

Lots, depends on the DoT

[warm yew]

You might try Void Cleave (specifically the nodes benefitting from Warpath)

[brittle atlas]

yeah, you're definitely quite a bit overcapped on a lot of resists, most by more than a full suffix slot's worth of value. Especially considering you have no blessings yet?

I'd probably look to upgrade relic to argent crest and then work on getting hybrid health on belt and gloves

and a better gloves base

like engraved gauntlets

60% endurance would help a lot too

[outer stream]

I am very early into timeline progression. Also, please consider that I lose 30% ele res to reckless spin from warpath

[brittle atlas]

your passives seem a bit messy as well

[outer stream]

Yeah, I was toying around a little, trying to find out if it was worth getting the 15 points in paladin for sigils already

[brittle atlas]

possibly, but I'd definitely not take the ignite nodes to get there

I'd want the hp and/or endurance % nodes

Defiance is fine, but imo Valor and Blinding Light are both super strong

[outer stream]

Am following this guide btw: https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/the-blender-2-0#gearing

[outer stream]

Guide went that way to get Time Rot chance I believe, maybe I should get more tankiness here instead

Damage is okay-ish for now imo

[brittle atlas]

I'd probably make a few changes in prioritization

[outer stream]

So, upgrade belt, relic and gloves, and fix the passives on the skilltree to get more tankiness

[brittle atlas]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/mQkYm16o

something like that for passives for the moment

getting 60% endurance and swapping over to some hp nodes should be big

like almost doubling your ehp big

[outer stream]

I will use this as a starting point

Thank you!

[brittle atlas]

A big thing to keep in mind is that it's perfectly ok to be undercapped on resists

resists are significantly less important compared to some other games in the genre

[outer stream]

I see

I was dying a lot and saw the damage types and thought the solution is capping resists

[brittle atlas]

being at 0% resist means you take 75% increased damage in LE

whereas in something like PoE being at 0% means you're taking 400% increased damage

(compared to being at 75% resist)

[manic harbor]

mb, i meant str/int/dex etc

[brittle atlas]

It scales with the attribute scaling of the skill that applied it

For example, Vengeance gains 4% increased damage per point of Strength. DoTs applied by Vengeance inherit that.

[raw coyote]

what is this and why can't I pick it up?

[white pollen]

it's a bug, you have to close and reopen the game I think, then you can pick it up

[brittle atlas]

press Z or X

one of those should be bound to toggle filter and item labels

it's possible you toggled them off accidentally or your filter is otherwise hiding the item

[white pollen]

sometimes it's just completely unable to be picked up, even with no loot filter

had it happen to me in like chapter 3

[knotty hull]

i believe the blender guide 2.0

has way more time rot chance than it actually needs

im playing ths build and invested points on another nodes and i can still cap time rot easily

[raw coyote]

who do most of the VK warpath guides I see not take Gladiator?

oh that just lets you use 2x 1hnd nvm I thought it was dual 2hnd

[stiff folio]

does getting +1 level of skill scale the damage or just give you an extra point to spend

?

[brittle atlas]

just an extra point

[stiff folio]

cool cheers

[raw coyote]

there any generic mana on kill effects

like leggos

[warm yew]

most affix sources of +x levels of Skill also have a hybrid mod to increase damage of that type of skill, for example + levels of Multistrike comes with % Increased Melee Damage

[brittle atlas]

the only remotely close thing on items is 2 rage gained on kill while in werebear form.

All other sources of mana on kill would be in skill specialization trees or passive trees, though there are very few

[static glacier]

does the "always" of shadow daggers crit overwrite crit avoid mono modifiers?

[brittle atlas]

I don't think so

Shadow Daggers just have 100% crit chance

not a boolean always crit modifier.

same way crit avoid can overwrite the auto crit from firebrand buffed flame reaves

[wary shadow]

Does the chest after each monolith get better if I don't open it for a few maps? (Stacks, higher % for better loot etc) and is there anything I can do to increase the rewards from this?

[warm yew]

That chest is controlled by killing more monsters - and no, it resets each time you enter an Echo, so don't try to "stack it up"

The more monsters you kill in that echo, the better the rewards will be from the chest - note, though, that the Echo Specific rewards aren't scaled by enemies defeated (the Glowing orb to the left)

[wary shadow]

ah alright thought I could stack it to get better and better rewards, ty for clearing it up : D

[warm yew]

I thought that, too, my first time through - and had a particularly well-cleared Echo when I finally claimed the chest, so the feeling was there - but got corrected by the community. Just passing it forward.

[knotty hull]

the further away from the center, the more drop rate the orobyss has?

[hot trellis]

So i have completed the monoliths all once, do i need to be level 10 before i can do the scaling to 100 stuff?

[desert tree]

?? Level 10 of what? Scaling to 100 what?

If you have done all the timelines once you should be able to do empowered version yes

[hot trellis]

yeah how do i do the empowered versions, there was no subquest or anything to let me know ican doit

[knotty hull]

you go to the middle island, click the thing in there

then go to whatever monolith and select ''level 100 empowered''

[hot trellis]

the middle island

erm

[knotty hull]

this island

[hot trellis]

oh ok i see

sweet, ill go try that

eyy huge, ty! now to see if i can even do the level 100 stuff lol. Got a feeling it may be too much for my build

[knotty hull]

the further away from the center, the more drop rate the orobyss has?
or am i mad

[acoustic thicket]

Hey, there is this one skill that the ranger has that throw's what looks like 2 disks around the character. Does anyone know what that skill is?

[brittle atlas]

chakram spec'd shurikens maybe?

[raw coyote]

how do you get more glyphs of hope?

and more gold?

i'm lvl 51

[knotty hull]

can do monoliths

[knotty hull]

they reward you with gold and glyphs

[warm yew]

In general, by playing more of the game - specifically, the Monolith of Fate has Echoes with specific rewards, including Gold, Glyphs, and Runes.

[raw coyote]

can i do those while still in the campaign?

[knotty hull]

probably

press M go to End of Time

[warm yew]

Aye - if you've made it to The End of Time section, you have access to the Monolith.

[raw coyote]

any way to increase your chance for Void Echos?

[knotty hull]

yes

these last 3 nodes

increase a lot

[raw coyote]

oh yeah i just missed the node misspelled echo

do i need the points in Abyssal endurance much before the end of the campaign?

oh nvm i need at least 4 there anyways

oh no wait no i don't

[knotty hull]

i honestly dont invest points in abyssal endurance

this one is awesome

[raw coyote]

i ahve that

[knotty hull]

this is awesome too, Eternal Form

[grave bobcat]

How long does it take to speed run to end game

[grave bobcat]

Is that Michael Jackson

[knotty hull]

no

[woven fulcrum]

🌓🚶‍♂️

[raw coyote]

is there any other passive synergy with skills for Warpath VK other than Sigil of hope?

[knotty hull]

let me see

[raw coyote]

passive*

[knotty hull]

anomaly

you have anomaly right?

[raw coyote]

not yet

still putting points into VK

[knotty hull]

huge increased damage

[raw coyote]

only lvl 54

[knotty hull]

i use this tree, the circled are important

[raw coyote]

whats out to the left that you get?

future strike?

[knotty hull]

i dont use future strike

is an ailment right?

[raw coyote]

why you got 3/3 in anticipation

[knotty hull]

a anticipation

definetely not necessary

i only use anomaly on rare enemies and bosses

[raw coyote]

so you put puts there over time bubble?

and then also grab immediacy

[knotty hull]

i dont have strong reason to use antecipation

could definetely change

[raw coyote]

ok i'll focus on the circled ones first

[knotty hull]

i remember

i use this glove, so i dont have critical strike

but if you are not using this glove,

[raw coyote]

gottcha

[knotty hull]

invest points

in this node

[raw coyote]

what should i have for stats on all my gear?

[knotty hull]

echo damage when a skill echoes on helmet

damage while channeling on amulet and relic

all resist while channeling on amulet and relic

[raw coyote]

can you lik me profile on LEBP ?

[knotty hull]

what is lebp

[raw coyote]

LET

[knotty hull]

yes

https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/the-blender-2-0

[raw coyote]

last epoch build planner

[knotty hull]

im basicallyt doing what this giuy did

but be careful

[raw coyote]

ok ya i'm using that as well

[knotty hull]

this guide has some waist of points

on passives

in my opinon

he invest too much on time rot chance

doesnt need that much to cap

you know

[raw coyote]

you agree w/ the 30 pts he has in sentinel ?

[knotty hull]

yes 100%

[raw coyote]

the 15 in paladin ?

[knotty hull]

the 15 in paladin

i put like this

[raw coyote]

k

[knotty hull]

more elemntal resist

[raw coyote]

then VK ?

[raw coyote]

so no TR spread

[knotty hull]

no time rot spread

dont need in my opinion

dude

[raw coyote]

kk

i'lll try that out

[knotty hull]

it doesnt matter how much movemente speed you stack

in monooliths, i move using shield rush

100% worth

[raw coyote]

yeah, any other notes like that?

wait how do you shield rush w/ a 2hnd

[knotty hull]

node

it will save you a lot of time

using shield rush

totally 100% > than lunge

[raw coyote]

kk over lunge?

i'll try it out

[knotty hull]

for movespeed shield rush

lunge can give frailty and health which is +/- nice

[raw coyote]

also, i've been using Erasing strike since I became VK to clear packs in 1 shot

[knotty hull]

its good

[raw coyote]

will i need that / continue using that later?

[knotty hull]

definetely no

[raw coyote]

what are you 5 skills?

[knotty hull]

volatalie reversal just to gain mana back

from spending on sigils of hope

[raw coyote]

oh

why are you spending mana on SOH ?

[knotty hull]

it costs a lot of mana

[raw coyote]

i've never had to cast them

[knotty hull]

because of the node?

right, on monoliths i dont cast them too

what happens is, in boss fight, you have to cast

[raw coyote]

ah true

kk

i'll keep that in mind

any other mana regain mechanics i can employ?

[knotty hull]

dont know

i cast 4 sigils -> volatile reversal

and they last for long

after they expire can repeat process

[raw coyote]

would you be able to provide me the link to your character so i can bookmark it? i won't remember the changes/difference between what we talked about and the guide w/o reference

[knotty hull]

ok

[raw coyote]

thanks

[knotty hull]

1 second i have to create

[raw coyote]

np

[knotty hull]

my main disagrement is the time rot chance

i think he exarcebates TR chance

can alocate the points somewhere.

[raw coyote]

how about the guide's anomoly setup?

also can you copy pasta a screenshot of your shield rush?

[knotty hull]

his anomaly is the Critical Chance setup

bc he doesnt use the glove

and shield rush doesnt matter much, just the mana reduction is important

i will use critical chance anomaly too

because i dropped a nice ''equivalent'' glove

[willow tusk]

how do i unlock monolith level 70? I did 66 and somehow went straight to 75

[buoyant sinew]

you unlock the level 70 one by doing the level 62 one (which you unlock by picking the other option after defeating the boss in the level 58 one, if you haven't already)

[willow tusk]

I see , ty so much!

[raw coyote]

so, i've cleared the entirety of the majeka slums and no contract

isn't it supposed to be this piece of paper on the gorund after killing hte shadow/snake miniboss?

[buoyant sinew]

yes it is

IIRC it's sitting in a corner in the south of the room where you fight that miniboss

[raw coyote]

nvm i had only browsed the fence's wares. never clicked the dialogue

[polar sierra]

There's no mana on melee hit right? What's the best way to sustain mana on my void knight?

[ruby cairn]

Anybody know how to fix the black bars on the sides of my screen covering the skill menus on some resolutions? I keep switching resolutions to select passive points, but ... that's getting old.

[warm yew]

I'm a fan of Rive - one affix on your helm and it's a great recovery skill that actually does a ton of damage - Smite is also a big go-to for caster builds.

[polar sierra]

Good to know. Looking for something more auto, since I'm using warpath channeling, and would also like the auto cast void node, but it eats too much mana and stops warpath

[stone granite]

Warpath has a node to generate mana

[acoustic thicket]

I am wondering how important is the forge at low levels?

[polar sierra]

@stone granite hmm I don't see anything generating mana, only mana reduction

[buoyant sinew]

it's worth using right away IMO. common shards (things like life, attributes, resistances, basic damage stats) are found in huge numbers later on so you don't need to save them up, and spending a few on a decent item you find can provide a significant damage or survivability boost. there's not really a downside

[stone granite]

First playthrough probably not terribly useful since you have few shards, but later on you'll collect so many shards that you'll use it a lot on new characters

[acoustic thicket]

what is the forge stats based on my charcter level or the item lvl?

[stone granite]

Character, items don't have a level like in PoE

[sharp quartz]

That sounds like a default aspect ratio issue. They don’t cover anything, it’s likely your screen compensating like watching a dvd blue ray on a tv at an aspect ratio not native to the screen. You should be able to find a setting that negates this , either in-game resolution or GPU driver / windows config or possibly a function on your monitor that can adjust.

[ornate topaz]

Was there not a way to apply for testing the Multiplayer stuff?

Or was that just for the streams and NDA testing etc.?

EDIT:
A friend mentioned it but i didn't find anything about it on the mulitplayer post

[sharp quartz]

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

[ornate topaz]

Think that answers it all, ty!

[fiery salmon]

are you able to drop lower tier uniques in higher tier echoes?

say for example i want exanguinous. can i farm for that in higher level echo islands? since it is a random drop and not boss specific

[amber notch]

Yes

[sharp quartz]

yes... the pool of possible unique drops is just bigger at higher tiers...

[wary shadow]

Does last epoch have anything like a PoB (build planner)? Since it was said a few times the damage tooltip can be inaccurate and not sure if it takes crit chance/multi into account, a planner would make life a bit easier to figure out whether I get more from +1 melee or +1% physical for instance

[amber notch]

There's only last epoch tools nothing else

Doesn't really make sense to start something like that currently since so much will change during beta

[oblique barn]

hello. I am confused about the skill/leveling system. How does respeccing work, could I just build my character whichever I like and respec at lvl 70 or should I be more careful about how I put my points in the skilltrees?

[sharp quartz]

respec… yes. you can change anything except your mastery choice.. either with gold (passives) of xp re-earned (for skill respecs)

[oblique barn]

and the skill points "scale" am I right? I mean the first points are easy to get at high lvl exp

[desert tree]

The higher level your character is the more "base" point you have

Like level 100 iff you respect a skill you have 10 pts in your new one already

[sharp quartz]

and you earn back skill xp faster based on your level

[formal sentinel]

Guys, do i need to explore the zone map for new side quest to pop up ? or they get registered the moment i enter in the zone ?

[sharp quartz]

usually gotta find the appropriate npc or quest marker. shouldnt be hard to find

[formal sentinel]

So as a new player i would miss several side quest ?

[sharp quartz]

maybe… but you dont need to do all of them.. the rewards from side quests cap before the side quests run out.

[formal sentinel]

Does stuns stack ?

[sharp quartz]

you can see this on the character sheet….

[formal sentinel]

Or what happens if you have over 100% chance of stun

I mean bleed apply 2 stacks

A chance of*

if you have over 100%

[sharp quartz]

the stun calc is different iirc… check the in game guide press ‘g’

[balmy current]

That's increased chance to stun, not chance to stun.

[formal sentinel]

good point

[sharp quartz]

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/community-game-guide/26057. there is an explanation in the community guide too

[tender blade]

Hey question. If I buy the 35$ support pack can I play the game immediately

[desert tree]

Yes

[balmy current]

Though it's single player only at the moment.

[austere hound]

When does the gambler sell higher bases? Its only up to lv40 right now and I'm almost lv60

[balmy current]

It doesn't, they changed it to be capped at 40 when they introduced the Soulfire Bastion dungeon.

[austere hound]

😱

Are dungeons worth it? Should I do them whenever I get a key?

[sonic kraken]

Are there any "meta" forge guard builds?

[hollow patrol]

"Epoch Builds" on YouTube got some older builds for this class

also https://www.lastepochtools.com/builds/mastery/forge-guard

is a good source for builds

[balmy current]

I think it's mainly Manifest Armour.

[thorn rune]

what is the "crossbow mercenary" on Melverns Writ? is that a skill? which class?

[balmy current]

Neither of those, it's a minion that is granted by the item.

[thorn rune]

oh I see

[balmy current]

@acoustic thicket The formula for crit multi is simple. If you crit, your damage is multiplied by the crit multi amount (200% = x2)

I'm ~99% sure that crit & crit multi is included in the tooltip DPS, as if you equip the amulet that gives you 100% crit chance (Gambler's Fallacy) your hit dps will increase significantly (at low levels of crit chance)

[balmy current]

Also, mobs have level-based damage reduction (up to ~90% ish at lvl 100) which the tooltip does not take into account so you can't compare the tooltip dps to actual damage on mobs unfortunately.

[acoustic thicket]

So I need more damage. This 200-300 damage to mobs isn't cutting it.

[sonic kraken]

What's the best source of idols? Echoes don't really cut it since there's no way to really target farm them so i'll need to go for quantity over quality

[brittle atlas]

T4 dungeon with boss drops idols modifier

Otherwise I’d just pick something else to farm

And you’ll get idols along the way

[hollow socket]

@outer sage You need to use bone curse to propagate rip blood properly.

It has a node that casts rip blood when it expires, and one that makes it expire after 1 hit.

[balmy current]

That requires minions to do the hitting though.

[hollow socket]

I checked them and it doesn't look like either of them does. Which one did you mean?

When I last played it did work without any minions.

[balmy current]

If you have this set up below for Bone Curse (all Rip Blood needs is the one of the Blood Splatter nodes at a minimum, having both of them just makes it double as awesome), with Cursed Limbs active (ie, after having cast Bone Curse) when you hit the target, Bone Curse is reapplied before it can fall off, so you'd only ever get a Rip Blood when the 5s Cursed Limbs ends.

If, however, you have minions hitting the target, their hit consumes the Bone Curse which proc's Rip Blood & then Rip Blood's hit re-applies Bone Curse. So as long as you have minions hitting the target, you have waves of Rip Blood being proc'd for as long as your Cursed Limbs lasts.

If you have a t7 cooldown affix on your helm, that is enough to get the Bone Curse cooldown down to 5s, matching Cursed Limbs giving you 100% uptime on this abomination.

This was shown on one of the MP teaser gifs on one of the MP threads, with Heavy, Dobster & myself. All of the teal #### exploding was my Rip Blood/Bone Curse stuff being proc'd

That's what I'm talking about.

[hollow socket]

Oh, makes sense! I wasn't reapplying it on hit because it cleared fine triggering just once, that's the difference.

But I see why it wouldn't work if you choose that.

[violet terrace]

Does Eulogy of Blood cast a skill tree rip blood, or a base rip blood?

[balmy current]

Spec'd

[violet terrace]

Thanks

[balmy current]

The only time when a thing doesn't use your spec'd skill tree is if it's a minion casting it. Such as Skellie Mages, they cast their own version of Sacrifice.

[violet terrace]

Ahh okay, thanks Llama

[devout junco]

If I have Umbral Blades spec'd for explosions, are my Shadow's blade explosions supposed to be bigger than my self-cast explosions? I'm seeing significantly larger (maybe +20-30% radius) explosions from the Shadow's explosions.

[dense ravine]

anyone here playing marksman? need some tips

[balmy current]

No, they should just be getting more damage, not bigger explosions

[devout junco]

Hm. Maybe a snapshotting bug since I'd taken the one single big blade node and unspec'd it. The blades on ground also looked like the bigger ones. I tried logging out and back in to test that and was seeing same behavior. Maybe when I reboot later it'll be back to consistent.

[buoyant sinew]

is it maybe just the burst of agony node making the blades on the ground larger then?

[devout junco]

I have that allocated but I'm testing in end of time and from what I understand all blades should be taking the full 3 seconds to detonate.

[grave bobcat]

Lagging super bad any other way to optimize besides turning graphics down

[desert tree]

Quick question, if I use fireball and have "chance to apply frostbite on hit" does my fireball apply frostbite?

[buoyant sinew]

yes it does

[raw coyote]

anybody have a good filter for VK warpath. using the one from blender guide, but it shows a lot of misc. / 1 affix stuff

[spring knoll]

what do i need against lagon? he just chunks my health I have 75 all res his moon blast thing also one shots me :(

[raw coyote]

move more

that fight is 100% mechanics

you can kill him w/ no weapon

[spring knoll]

I see I just have a skill issue I'll keep going at then ty

[raw coyote]

how good is anomaly in the WP VK build?

[sonic kraken]

What does "masochist mode" do?

[vapid aspen]

Make you sad

basically everything does a bajillion damage

[sonic kraken]

No but for real does it just buff mob stats to the moon or do anything interesting

[vapid aspen]

Stats

its fun as a challenge but dont try to play it for extended periods

[sonic kraken]

I mean it is called masochist mode lol

[vapid aspen]

yeah it is named very well

[north mist]

You take 100% more damage and deal 50% less

[wide sentinel]

That mode is no different from the normal one, you will only struggle on the first 20 lvls and after that you are basically running monos with 2 additional mods

[solar wadi]

does empowered monoliths brick my ability to get the throne idol from stolen lance area?

[grave bobcat]

Is dmg conversion a thing such as cold to fire or phys to cold

[cinder fossil]

no

it will improve your chances of getting it due to the increased item rarity granted from corruption

[solar wadi]

doesnt it dilute the pool thogh

[cinder fossil]

i doubt it affects it enough to warrant running regular monoliths

that wouldn't make sense

[snow spruce]

Not generally, but specific uniques, passives, and skill customization options allow you to convert the damage type of a skill.

[hollow frigate]

any news on multiplayer full release boys?

[cinder fossil]

this year

all they've said

[hollow frigate]

what memers

[stone granite]

There's a #news channel that will tell you when things happen

[grave bobcat]

Sheeeeeeeeeeet that kinda limits the dps capabilities whats the max people have been able to push on average

[snow spruce]

Why would it do that? The mechanics in this game are not the same as other games.

[barren minnow]

Are +level of Judgement Relics something that is very rare? I have only found 1 and am level 82.
If they are rare, would it be a somewhat viable strategy to randomly chaos roll prefixes on sentinel relics or is the outcome of that similarly weighted as the natural spawn rate?

[snow spruce]

The +level to judgement affix is very rare https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/search?query=judgement&in_description=1&exact_match=0 , I believe the glyph of chaos uses the weights of the affixes chance to drop on an item, but I don't know that -- I just think its the case.

[barren minnow]

Thank you, that's pretty useful information. Now I know I can look at that site for at least rough estimations of rarity.

[raw coyote]

so, is the echo things all i can do after the campaign? if so how do i do it efficiently?

gotten this much done so far

[snow spruce]

The end game currently consists of Monoliths (what you're doing now) and dungeons. You can look on the forums for a better answer (I'm sure there are a few guides/discussions), but from what I know, people typically choose the far right side of monoliths "The Black Sun" etc to progress quickly through the standard Monoliths to get to Empowered Monoliths ASAP.

[raw coyote]

what's empowered?

[snow spruce]

Empowered Monoliths lift the restrictions on corruption and start at 100 corruption. Each point of corruption increases the difficulty and item rarity

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/community-game-guide/26057

[cinder fossil]

empowered monoliths are also all level 100

[raw coyote]

and doing these things afap is better , correct?

I'm basically just Shield Rushing through the map to the completion spot(s) and finishing an echo in like <1m

[snow spruce]

The normal ones, yes, generally -- though I wouldn't concern myself with that as a new player honestly.
That's not necessarily optimal either (rushing through) as you get bonus stability the more enemies you kill.

[solar wadi]

is this pog for any builds?

[flat vapor]

Are Hollow Blades super rare from gambling? I'm on my 77 void knight and not seeing any

[warm yew]

The normal gambler is capped at lv40 - only the Soul Gambler in Soulfire Bastion can go higher.

[flat vapor]

Oh wow, is that a new-ish thing? I haven't played in a few months

actually a year, looking at my last messages here lol

[warm yew]

It's been since they added Soulfire - they also removed the ability to get Set/Unique items from the gambler at the same time.

[flat vapor]

Good to know, thank you. Is Soulfire one of the dungeons?

[brittle atlas]

yep

[flat vapor]

ahh yeah, looks like it

Thanks for the info

[brittle atlas]

know it was a couple hours ago- but no, empowered doesn't dilute the pool

the rare drop and empowered drop are separate pools from the normal drop pool

so you can get all 3 off a single kill if you're particularly lucky

[solar wadi]

beautiful, ty

[willow tusk]

is there a way to target farm idols?

like a specific one preferably

[stone granite]

nope

[willow tusk]

specific type then?

[snow spruce]

Nope... type and "specific one" are the same thing

[willow tusk]

by specific I could mean "X type of idol with Y type of modifier" by type I just meant eg "adorned idols"

[stone granite]

There is no way to target farm idols

You are more likely to get your own class idols than other classes, but that's it

[willow tusk]

well that sucks >_<

[long star]

rune of shaping rerolls the implicit values or will replace the implicits all together?

that crit strike chance for example

It's 24% to 44%. Obviously i'd like to re-roll it but I don't know if they work that way or not

[cinder fossil]

it rerolls the value of the implicits

[long star]

Thank you 🙂

ouu, 39. nice.

[stone granite]

You can't change implicits, only reroll. The implicits are tied to the item base, they always have the same mods

[carmine wind]

Does anyone know if DoT can penetrate? For example, can the 10% Fire pen node in Holy Aura effect Holy Trail or Consecrated Ground? I am assumed it worked since it didn't say 'Fire pen on hit' but I am not sure.
Also is it possible to be effected by multiple HoT (Heal over time) effects? Say Holy Trail and Consecrated Ground HoTs. Or do I only get the benefits of the strongest one?

[minor kindle]

yep. i belive it is possible, need some tests to confirm

[carmine wind]

For both questions? Sweet, thanks. I wish game showed your heal per second combining every heal, regen and leech.

[long star]

That's what I thought. Just wanted to be sure. Thank you

[brittle atlas]

Yes and Yes.

[verbal swan]

Anyone happen to know if the bleed speed doubling on Taste of Blood works on Manifest Armor?

[fickle prawn]

Any tips on getting bleeding heart? Or it's just close your eyes and pray?

[sharp quartz]

Taste on MA... never tried it myslef... alway proc'd Abyssal Echo Sanguine Erruption to burst the Bleed stacks..

[sharp quartz]

No tips... its just a RNG drop... you could try ascension runes on amulets or just farm higher corruption to improve overall loot quantities.. maybe do the Age of Winter timeline for ring/amulet echo reward nodes

[fickle prawn]

Yeah Im doing AoW 225+ corruption atm 😦

[sharp quartz]

Then its just a question of luck and RNG... and obviously Murphys Law at play..

[verbal swan]

Yeah I was hoping to free up the skill slot and be able to use a shield for HC

[sharp quartz]

You could be naughty and use the snapshotting till they correct it... but yeah... HC could be a little tricky trying to kite everything while the MA does its job...

maybe sacrifice some of the MA damage for something more tanky... It can do a tremendous amount of damage already so you should have some wiggle room for more HC defence?

[marsh maple]

https://tenor.com/view/never-more-was-naughty-freaky-fred-courage-the-cowardly-dog-gif-16983940

[slate torrent]

between acolyte and primalist, which is better for playing a summoner? I'm currently playing both and it seems like companions don't die but have less dps than full melee skeletons/deathknights/wraiths.

But I don't know about endgame builds and also build diversity (for the summoner archetype).

[austere hound]

So I want to farm omnividence in stolen lance, it requires lv70, so does it drop in the lv62 timeline or how does it work?

I guess it can't drop there, only in the empowered one or in other areas lv70+ right?

[spring knoll]

can you reset quest echos? im trying to get to fall of the empire from blood frost and death and I chose the level 80 timeline but nothing unlocked

[sharp quartz]

yip...

[sharp quartz]

hhmm? to finish the monolith timeline you have to do the three quests (top left) in normal monos.. once you kill the boss, the timeline is complete and you follow the now activated path to the next timeline starting point.. Which path depends on which option you chose in the previous timeline quest (usually the second quest iirc)... you can see which route you opened by viewing the map and looking at the paths between the monolith islands...

all roads lead to rome so to speak, but the path taken depends on the choice in the quest...

[warm yew]

I'm of the opinion that Primalist is more active in your playstyle - Acolyte is more "wait for things to die" though there are a couple fun interactions you can pump out to make it much faster.

[raw coyote]

should i save all my CRA gear?

just started lvl 66 echos

[balmy current]

CRA?

[raw coyote]

crit avoid

[ancient light]

Who can help with abomination build? Can't use Infernal shade bcz abomination dies very fast and leech isn't enough. https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/bBGz7yxQ

[elfin plaza]

new player here feeling stuck, im currently lvl79 in lvl85 echo, the boss here all one shot me with their huge aoe attacks, I just feel like the process of becoming stronger is so slow now, takes forever to level and all my needed gear are uniques locked in empowered echos.

playing a void warpath build

what should I do? melee just feels so helpless when the boss spam aoes around them

[amber notch]

You got capped resists?

Health on your gear?

[elfin plaza]

missing some poison necro and void resist, should I just ignore damage affix and cap them first? I feel I would just do no damage if I do that

[amber notch]

You alos do no damage if you're dead 😛

[flat vapor]

How do you farm bosses like Argentus in empowered monoliths? Do I need to rebuild Stability each time I fight him? Haven't tried yet, but want to make sure I don't mess something up and make it take longer

[elfin plaza]

does elemental resist cover void?

[amber notch]

No

[knotty hull]

@elfin plaza you are playing void knight warpath right?

[elfin plaza]

yes

[knotty hull]

sigils of hope can give you 800 armor

wich is huge defense boost

are you using?

[elfin plaza]

I dont have enough points to spec in that yet, should I respec some void knight into paladin first?

[knotty hull]

yes my friend

[sharp quartz]

Yip... its just stability... I personally like to run through echos and stock up enough stability to run a boss two or more times (if possible) in a row... but there isnt anything beyond preference.. Obviously if you are farming stability its best to go out far for the higher stability in each echo

[elfin plaza]

Okay thanks!

[knotty hull]

i recoomend those 2

gives you elemental resist and time rot chance

and sigilf of hope tree, you wanna get this node

[elfin plaza]

should I give up on the echo chance for now?

[knotty hull]

no

what level are you?

[elfin plaza]

79

I dont even have my void knight's vit in full

[knotty hull]

thing is, you should invest points in really good passives

[flat vapor]

thanks!

[knotty hull]

not waste in bad passives

[elfin plaza]

im following a build guide

[knotty hull]

the blender, i believe?

[elfin plaza]

yes

[knotty hull]

can i see you void knight passive tree?

[knotty hull]

ok

look, see if you will agree with mee

if dont agree, no problem

phoenix strike gives 84% ignite chance

which is converted to time rot chance

plus the ignite chance you may have on your gear

plus this node

if you wanna invest points

in my opinion, i think time rot chance on void knight passive tree is wasting points

i can reach 12 stack time rot, pretty easily on target dummy

therefore, i would not invest point in time rot chance in VK passive tree, which will give you some extra points

[elfin plaza]

one sec let me try to respec

I need 4/5 for the void dmg perk, maybe I should just remove 5% of echo chance

[knotty hull]

or, invest in the upper node

[elfin plaza]

ohh true

[knotty hull]

is your sentinel tree equal to the guide?

[elfin plaza]

yes

at 30

[knotty hull]

id say to respec these 3

i know it will nerf a bit your damage, but you will get the points back as you level

but sigil of hope buffs your defense, and your daamge as well

[elfin plaza]

I have 6 points atm

[knotty hull]

dont worry about losing damage

in fact, you will probably have more damage with these 3

nodes

[elfin plaza]

the thing is, even if I dump these free 6 points into paladin, im only at 8/15 for sigil of hope

maybe I should level more?

[knotty hull]

destroy these

[elfin plaza]

oh

[knotty hull]

you will have them in the future

but for now, sigil of hope is a must

[elfin plaza]

huh

I have 46

[knotty hull]

yeah

maybe you will have to destroy every node

and re-do all again

[elfin plaza]

lmao why is it like this? bug?

[knotty hull]

no, is something to prevent abuses

i believe

[balmy current]

You can't remove points lower down on the passive tree if further up nodes rely on those earlier points

It's like removing a brick from the bottom of a tower & expecting it to not fall down.

[elfin plaza]

but those arent connected tho

[balmy current]

Doesn't matter.

[knotty hull]

its because you have to have a certain points in the tree

[balmy current]

Count the number of passive points below Eternal Form, that needs to be 30

[elfin plaza]

Oh

ohhhh

now that makes sense

[knotty hull]

dont worry

you have the money right?

[elfin plaza]

ye

[knotty hull]

it isnt expensive

[elfin plaza]

okay respecced

I will try it out! thanks for the help guys!

[knotty hull]

nope bro

just be sure to use volatilve reversal

to re-gain your mana back, as warpath prevents mana regeneration

after using sigils

👍

and good luck trying to drop a LP apathys maw

[elfin plaza]

I need empowered for that right?

[knotty hull]

in theory, no

in practice, yes

[elfin plaza]

lmao okay

ive been getting nothing but rings

[knotty hull]

thats because apathys maw drops after 50+ corruption

[elfin plaza]

ahhh

[knotty hull]

empowered starts at 100

so its good to farm it after epowered

also, do note that you dont need to wear a shield to use shield rush

in case you didnt know

[elfin plaza]

yeah i know, but im fine without it atm

[knotty hull]

👍

[vital token]

Is there an updated list of all uniques somwhere? Trying to sort out if I need to target farm some for my build later on

[sharp quartz]

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

[vital token]

Noice, thx!

[acoustic thicket]

I have a question about the cinder strike burning dagger. I read an article online, a wiki for the burning dagger skill and it said that it scales with attack speed. I read the burning dagger node and it says that it has a 1 second delay before attacking. If I were to get some throwing attacking speed, could that theoretically make Burning dagger instantly attack?

[vapid aspen]

Even if it does work, it will never be instant

I wouldn't expect attack speed to interact with the delay though

Unless skill specifically says it does

[balmy current]

It doesn't scale with attack speed (other than the attack speed of Cinder Strike).

[acoustic thicket]

Here is a link to the article. https://www.lastepochtools.com/skills/burning_dagger_throw

It says "Scales with attack speed"

[vapid aspen]

That only means if you were to use the skill directly

you cannot use it directly though

[sonic kraken]

Generic damage increases like the relentless node for Sentinel applies to elemental damage too right?

[vapid aspen]

yes

[austere hound]

Just did a staff reward echo and got a staff which requires lv74 in the lv62 timeline, so omnividence could've dropped there too

[sharp quartz]

yeah, the rewards are in the special map outside of the monos - I think that location has its own level linked to yours... @balmy current may know for sure...

[austere hound]

I'm level 67 tho

[sharp quartz]

not sure, just recall something about how the levels work from the rewards from long ago
corruption in maps also scales the level drops too ... hence pinging llama8... cause I cannot remember for sure

[austere hound]

well as I also don't have any corruption I guess the unique reward can drop any unique no matter the required level

[sharp quartz]

its something like that...

[acoustic thicket]

Where does it say "Only when using the skill directly" at? I don't know. But I sure am being called a liar a lot in this community. I don't deserve that and I don't appreciate it.

[austere hound]

well the actual thing is that it circles 1s no matter what, this duration isn't scaling with anything

[raw coyote]

attack speed is when your character performs a melee/ranged (physical) attack (that skill). the cast rate / trigger rate of the item Cinderw/e is what determines the frequency of the Burning dagger

IF burning daggers were a skill you could manually perform, then attack speed would be how quickly you perform it. it has no bearing on the item that procs it

that would be an ICR (internal cooldown rate), which for the item in question, is 1sec.

not sure if all the terminology is correct for LE, but the concept remains the same.

[balmy current]

It is & that's what the gear from the chest at the end is based off, not the lvl of the zone you just cleared. You can get t7 exalts from the reward chest of a lvl 58 mono with a lvl 100 character.

[balmy current]

Nobody called you a liar, that's just not how the game works. If you can't directly use a thing (such as Burning Daggers), but that thing is an attack (therefore it would normally scale with attack speed), the game data will say it scales with attack speed even though it doesn't 'cause you can't directly use it.

[austere hound]

@balmy currentmy question was about unique rewards and what uniques they can drop. if for instance the broken lance timeline lv62 can drop omnividence which has lv70 requirement

[raw coyote]

any of the unique nodes can drop ANY unique (of that ytpe), that aren't gated

[austere hound]

thats what I got from testing it myself now too, but thx anyways

[balmy current]

Ok. If you were lvl 70+ the chest at the end would be able to drop it, yes, but not the mobs during the mono

[raw coyote]

that's always been the case

[austere hound]

I'm level 67 and got a staff which requires lv74

[balmy current]

Was it a unique reward node?

[raw coyote]

unique nodes can drop any wrold-drop unique of that type

[austere hound]

yes as I said already

[raw coyote]

some unique have level reqs

[austere hound]

my question was specifically about unique rewards, not about the chest or the monsters in the mono. but I know it now so thx

[raw coyote]

what do you mean by 'unique rewards', if not the chest at the end of a unique-node echo ?

[austere hound]

the crystal in the middle which gives for example set/unique staff

[raw coyote]

that's not what gives the reward, it's the chest at the end

oh, you mean when you portal out

that's a chest

it jsut glows

i guess it looks liek a crystal

and that's what were both referring to

[austere hound]

I mean you answered it correctly and seems like llama didn't so idk

[raw coyote]

that chest has no level restriction on world uniques

we both said the same thing

[lunar holly]

related question - why normal Lagon can drop Stonecarved Testament?

[austere hound]

or he meant the other chest on the right

[raw coyote]

no he meant the node reward

same as me

[austere hound]

he said I would've needed to be lv70+ which is not correct

[raw coyote]

they are just both considered 'chests', regardless of what they look like

from the completion chest, not the node reward chest

and from mobs