❔┃ask-the-community

[paper elm]

you could say the same for lethal cadence, the amount of damage of the bow attack shouldnt affect the bleed, but it does

[stone granite]

Sure but it should specify ailments, it's a separate damage

[paper elm]

or at least it seemed like it does looking at the dummy numbers

[austere hound]

But if it's specifying ailments specifically then this line in the game guide makes no sense

Like if it's only scales the ailment if it says so specifically why then write in the game guide that the ailment damage scales with the skills tree nodes

[paper elm]

everything that says puncture should affect the ailment

according to the game guide

if it doesnt specify bow or hit damage and it's just generic

[austere hound]

Well if you notice such inconsistencies just report them, that's the best way to get them fixed or clarified

[paper elm]

Yeah but I'm also a noob in this game

I dont know how anything works/is supposed to work

I dont wanna make a bunch of tickets that are just me not knowing

:v

[austere hound]

Well worst thing that can happen is that someone says works as intended

And noobs should be able to understand mechanics

[marsh maple]

whats going on

[paper elm]

If you read above it's pretty clear :)

[marsh maple]

oh

so if more damage, if it doesn't specify hit or ailment

its generic

[paper elm]

Noticing some inconsistencies in what works for bleed

[marsh maple]

and works for everything

[paper elm]

ye

but here's the thing

it doesn't

[marsh maple]

Ah

it kinda makes sense because the node thats next

but yeah that should be a bug then

[paper elm]

well

by that same logic

the node before it is bleed related

[marsh maple]

Well yeah. No idea with that to be honest.

[paper elm]

-20% dam

I'll try for longer before submitting any bug dings

[marsh maple]

well actually

its every third puncture

so its only 6-7% in the grand scheme of things

[paper elm]

-6.66% dam

[marsh maple]

If thats enough to brick a build than its probably not a good build

[paper elm]

I'm making it

of course it's not a good build

:^)

[balmy current]

The Cadence of Death node should buff the bleeds from every 3rd Puncture hit (since it just says more damage, not more melee/bow damage) but doesn't, I'll post it as a bug report.

[austere hound]

Do I get that right that sanguine hoard is build enabling for bleed hail of arrows and without it you can't add more bleed chance other than that from its tree to it?

[lunar holly]

I started this build today .. the world is a simulation 😱 But yeah what you said is correct

can anyone confirm if this node applies to sanguine hoard ?

[austere hound]

I can't confirm or deny but I can't see why it wouldn't apply

[balmy current]

Correct, without Sanguine Hoard, you can't apply bleeds with Hail of Arrows (apart from taking the Skystrike node since that counts as a hit & so will apply bleeds or taking the Tear Flesh node).

[midnight knot]

How does Lp work with merging relics, can I just...Get any class specific one and combine it with a non-class specific unique?

[lunar holly]

yes but if you hit class-specific affix the legendary will become class-specific

[midnight knot]

That's fine by me, good to know - Thanks!
Another question: I found the Shattering Lance set, that has this bonus: https://i.imgur.com/ztYU5c3.png - Does that mean numerical Health regen, or the final Number? So, in essence: Does %-Increased health regen help this?

[balmy current]

It takes the total regen

So any way you can buff that health regen figure will give you more melee cold damage.

[midnight knot]

Dope, thanks!

[real salmon]

I am playing a bleed focused blademaster that uses umbral blades cast by my shadows to stack bleed. I am wondering, does the bleed that is applied by my shadows skills get increased with "increased damage of skills used by shadows" on my armor?

[balmy current]

Yes

[real salmon]

Thanks! havent been able to find that answer anywhere

[woven fulcrum]

it works a lot like Holy Trail except, well Health Regen instead of Effectiveness.
very cool interaction.

[real salmon]

Does anyone know if the "Efficacious Toxin" node for Puncture work? Im not seeing it show up under enemies healthbar when I hit them.

[balmy current]

It doesn't have a buff icon but I believe it works

[brittle atlas]

it does, it just doesn't have an icon afaik

[balmy current]

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/rogue-puncture-efficacious-toxin-has-no-corresponding-ailment-icon/49439

[nimble moth]

Anyone know if the meteors from Black Hole are Cold? Or is it fire by defualt even without the fire conversion node?

[brittle atlas]

Based on the wording I'd think they're just the default Meteor skill

which is fire

[nimble moth]

thats unfortunate, oh well ty!

[woven fulcrum]

I don't think this is the case.
If memory serves this is one of those weird places that they named it something they shouldn't because it isn't the actual skill
It's a completely seperate ability
Could be misremembering, so someone else may confirm this.

[brittle atlas]

It’s not the actual skill because it doesn’t inherit the meteor tree, but Im pretty sure it’s still a fire spell that is basically the default meteor skill in function?

[fossil vessel]

Is the MP beta open to anyone?

[brittle atlas]

no, currently it's invite only

the open MP beta should be later this year

[fossil vessel]

Gotcha, thanks

[floral badge]

As far as I know, this is essentially correct. It is not affected by any Meteor-specific affixes (like the Vilatria's staff that converts Meteor to Lightning).

With that said, I just realized that taking that node adds the Fire tag to Black Hole. Which could probably be used in some way with the various element-specific nodes on the Sorcerer tree.

[buoyant crater]

Hi guys. The game crashes when I launch it on my laptop with dual monitors, but works fine when the second monitor is disabled. Any idea how to fix this?
I did the file check and deleted the settings file as advised on the forum, but that didn't help.

[stone granite]

What video card?

[buoyant crater]

1060 6gb

[stone granite]

There is increased strain on a PC when there is more than one monitor so it's possible it's just not liking it.

[buoyant crater]

I've been playing with this setup for 5+ years, and this is the first game with this problem.

Btw I've also looked at the game's forum and subreddit, there are several people who have encountered this problem

[sharp quartz]

Post your player.log, dxdiag report, le_graphicsmanager.ini to the technical support section of the forum and I will have a look. It could be something in the laptop thats dynamically swapping internal iGPU with discreet GPU depending on the monitor uses. Revelasti could also be correct in assuming that your use of a second monitor (depending on how its technical configured) could add additional strain on the GPU especially if you are trying to run LE with higher settings or refresh rates on the 1060.

[midnight knot]

If my Tempest Strike buffs "lightning Bolt" in its tree, do those buffs also buff "Lightning Bolt" in the Leap Slam tree? Or are those not global?

Also, if I spec "Lightning Bolt has a chance to summon storm totems", and I have idols that if I spend 10 or more mana cast a lightning bolt - can those also summon storm totems? 🤔

[sharp quartz]

Nope. It would only affect Tempest Strike Lightning Bolt. Usually if it was going to affect other skills or global damage, the skill will say "global" or "affect next skill" or for X seconds if its going to apply to other skills.

[sharp quartz]

Maybe. The tempest lighting bolt according to lastepochtools seems to cost 10mana so if the idols are proc;ing on any skill, not ones you cast, it should work. I'd got test it on some enemy dummies. Problem is that its "a chance" so it may be difficult to test/see.

[balmy current]

That mana cost isn't used.

Or rather, if you could manually cast that skill it would use the mana cost, but you can't so it isn't

[sharp quartz]

oh well, then its unlikely the idols will proc then.

[midnight knot]

Gotcha, thanks

[midnight knot]

The idol casts Lightning strike not bolt, so that's that 🙃

wording can be confusing sometimes. Thanks for the help guys!

[tribal dagger]

can anyone help me understand why i simply can't use synchronized strike in the lagon boss battle?

but when he sends me down to fight regular mobs all of a sudden i can

[north mist]

You have to aim at the ground somewhere not on the boss, but lagon is infamous for lots of stuff not working properly

[sharp quartz]

Yip. Lagon has a hit box "issue" due to the ledge. Aim/target the ledge immediately in front of him in the middle as a workaround for targetting him. He is unfortunately a big buggy bastard at the moment and there are quite a few quirks with certain skills in his fight..

[normal steppe]

Hello there! I’m new here, i hopped on the server in dire hope of getting some desperately needed help. 😄
I started Last Epoch a few days ago for he first time after a few months and started a new character. My mighty Primalist is now lvl 46 and i’m in the Divine Era with the Quest „Rahyeh’s Warpath“. My current objective is „Make your way past the forces of Solarum“…and here’s where my problem begins: For he love of god, i can’t see ANY way to reach the burning forest. I remember yesterday, the last thing i did was the big double Bossfight at the end of the Gates of Solarum (Spymaster big-snake and Admiral too-many-legs), and apparently i forgot something after that? I’m now stuck in the Gates of Solarum with an empty Boss Area and no way forward…which depresses my mighty Primalist quite a bit! ^^
Since i’m not entirely sure if i fucked it up or if it’s a „true bug“ (let’s face it, it’s probably the first option), i wanted to check if maybe anyone here can help me before putting up an official ticket. 🙂

[lunar holly]

Do you have the waypoint for Gates of Solarum ? Burning Forest is south-west of it, you can't really miss it.

From what you've described it seems you're going north of the waypoint.

[normal steppe]

Wait, that's not where i entered the level?! Holy shit, i ran this area three times now and always assumed "yeah, that's where i initially came from" (since i started from the waypoint)...goddammit, i'm gonny bury myself under a rock...

[lunar holly]

No, you enter from the arena by time-travelling 😅

[normal steppe]

Yep, i'm an Idiot (especially since it says in BIG letters "Burning Forest" on the passage)...thanks a lot mate. 😅

[austere hound]

I don't quite understand this part of the multiplayer FAQ:

Follow Up: Does this make the most optimal way to play to be to split up and tackle multiple timelines at once, then just join for the boss fight?
No, because you gain the same stability with four players completing one echo together as you do with four players all completing different echoes (assuming each echo has the same stability reward).
If all do the same echo the party gets 4 of the same boss fights, which could be good if you farm specific blessings. But splitting up would result in 4 different boss fights and therefore faster quest progress assuming this is before empowered or am I missing something?

Maybe the question is just pretty vague because it depends on what the "most optimal way" means, for quest progress the answer seems to be yes, for farming a specific blessing plitting up would not be the most optimal way

[frank wasp]

Can you get a skeletal vanguard from a vanguard?

also does a minion expiring to time or sacrificing them
do those 2 things count as them "dying" ?

[balmy current]

Yes.

Also counts for the ward on minion/nearby death passive

[sonic kraken]

What are some cool paladin builds that don't rely on uniques?

[north mist]

What they are trying to get across is that they dont want there to be way to "cheese" the system by playing multiplayer, exactly like youre describing. How they are solving that issue im not sure of, but theyve said they dont want that to be a thing in general

[knotty hull]

hey

what is the point of more than 100% stun chance

increases the duration of stun?

[brittle atlas]

I'm pretty sure the stat is "increased stun chance"

it's increasing your base stun chance, which is based on the damage of the hit vs the enemy's max hp

so 100% is doubling it, more than 100% increases it even more

[knotty hull]

😅

my bad

[main plover]

Leveling Shaman, just got Ice Thorns for first time (only 5 points so far) But when I tried to use it on autocast, I can't move. Apparently when it casts I have to be standing still. So no autocast for this skill?

[north mist]

Spells with cast times cannot be cast while moving

[main plover]

Currently there is not a cooldown, just a mana cost, it's instant

[native sail]

Cast times, not cooldowns

[main plover]

OK thanks

[wanton hatch]

I rarely see 2x Exalted mods, as I'm fairly new and low sample size. Any value in this?

[frank wasp]

this seems like it could be good somewhere?

[wanton hatch]

isn't that a leveling unique

[frank wasp]

idk, bleed duration and making bleeds go faster seems good, especially with 2LP ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[brittle atlas]

Double exalts are quite rare. I’d hold onto it, maybe some use in the future by itself or for a legendary

[native sail]

I use one for bleed shield rush, so there's that.

[frank wasp]

neat, ty

[native sail]

I can never find one above 1LP and it hurts me every time I drop a 1LP

[frank wasp]

desire sensor is too strong

[native sail]

I never get what I want

[frank wasp]

no one ever does

i think ive killed lagon like, 40 times, ive gotten like 3 stormcarved relics

meanwhile im not even in lance timeline for the boss drops but I kill argentus like 20 times and i have 4 wings of argentus and like 7 throne of ambitions

[ornate cipher]

anyone know why im missing 15%? looking at another build planner and it seems to work normally on that

[minor kindle]

what 15% ?

[ornate cipher]

18+15+24+24=81 (and yh i set it to max)

diff build planner it works normal

[frail compass]

is frostbite shackles a rare item?

seems like it never drops

like a rare unique

[marsh maple]

I believe it's a 10% chance. Make sure to stack rarity when you kill him. It will increase the chances of seeing it. TL:DR do him with as many modifiers as possible

[frail compass]

kinda tough now, my build is quite fragile and sometimes die during an echo

doing amarathy's frostbite shatter

[solar moss]

so i found totem pop shaman to do basicly no boss dmg, any reccomendations for other builds that can do basicly everything

[marsh maple]

what kind of totem pop?

[solar moss]

stacks poison to boost hit dmg on totems

[marsh maple]

I know Perry played a version of it

idk if your following that

[austere hound]

How do the tomes of xp work exactly? I got that they scale with your level, but do they give a certain % of xp to the next level or?

[wanton hatch]

New to game, and I see some outdated builds. But is any sort of lowlife werebear viable in 8.5?

[austere hound]

afaik builds for 8.4.0 are also viable for 8.5

[wanton hatch]

yes. these builds are like 8.1 though. but the bigger question is:

any sort of lowlife werebear viable in 8.5?

Ideally, I'd like to find a way to stack damage on LL. Similar to Pain Attunement in PoE (back in the day).

[amber notch]

Doesn't druid have that passive where they take less damage and do more damage on low life?

[wanton hatch]

Druid has Berserker passive.

the more dmg is limited to Melee Dmg.

[amber notch]

LL isn't that great since it is hard to stay on low life

And really requires multiple uniques

Unless you're lich

[wanton hatch]

That doesn't mean LL "isn't great".

[amber notch]

It's subjective

[wanton hatch]

I prefer a game where top tier builds require investment. But it doesn't mean they're "not great".

[wanton hatch]

What build are you thinking of? Cuz that's really what I'm asking.

[amber notch]

Nothing in particular really, just the unreliability of being/staying on low life

[mystic sapphire]

only exalted affixes can be transferred to a unique?

[marsh maple]

no it takes any of them

it takes any 4 affixes randomly depending on the LP value

like a 3 LP item would take 3 random affixes from the item

[mystic sapphire]

ok tanks!

[blazing steeple]

ffs i got my god roll helm and just as i saw it was god rolled i got nuked by the flame spire mortar

[vapid aspen]

Don't do that.

[sick yacht]

Have the devs said why the unlocking of emp monos is not account wide? Seems like once monos are open you should be able to get into emp

[cedar light]

For minions, do you generally want to aim for damage, health, or primary stat (in my case, attunement, to scale hp and damage, since forged weapons). With all three being prefixes you can't really focus on all three, not sure what the proper balance is.

[sick yacht]

health til you arent dying. dam and primary are the same. pick whichever scales harder

[sharp quartz]

no reason that I recall, but the subject has been discussed many times with various solutions offered by players over the years - everything from straight unlocking monos for all alts to unlocking it once you have a char that dings 100. plenty of suggestions. Devs are mum on the subject thos.

[sick yacht]

reg monos seem like they are unlocked at a good time. emp ones are the issue imo

can run shaper as soon as you get the map device in comparison

[formal sentinel]

Guys any up to date devouring orb auto bomber ?

[sharp quartz]

Most of the ones on lastepochtools still work fine. Perrys, LizardIRL etc. they are all variations of the same concept. Personally I use LizardIRLs one from 0.8.4 and its still OP

[formal sentinel]

Mind to share a link ?

[sharp quartz]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/builds/skill/devouring_orb

[austere hound]

I followed abyssal echoes from epoch builds, its basically autobomber up to a certain point but abyssal echoes adds so much single target its great

[sharp quartz]

Done. But be sure to put your own spin on it. Dorb is so strong that you dont have to follow other builds exactly, variations work.

[formal sentinel]

Oh yeah i just want to get few pointers

[austere hound]

https://youtu.be/2vViyw13iC4

[sharp quartz]

You may find pointers from watching the youtube vids then...

[austere hound]

My first lv100

Because I didn't had the sword he suggests I simply played with wand+catalyst and then staff

[wanton hatch]

Has the community tried this combination of Death Knights?
scaling minion spell / necrotic dmg?

(sorry for the wall of spam, I though the images might stack 3 in a row, instead of a column).

[austere hound]

I think it's a valid approach too and a design choice. You can see it as part of the mandatory quests and emp is the endgame. You can already skip huge parts of the story. For me personally I find it nice to go through low level monos to progress a char and its gear. In poe especially in ssf I'm often a bit lost how to progress a new char or would rather progress the atlas again with it instead of having everything unlocked already. Both approaches have its pros and cons and different people like the one or the other more

Many things LE does differently than poe I really like and I think that's a goal, to not be another poe

[wanton hatch]

agreed. the "mid game" (going through the mono timeline to reach empowered) is noticeably drawn out.

Would be nice to unlock empowered monos account-wide, to give players the option to do empowered and level faster / start getting the relevant blessings, at an increased risk, of course.

[austere hound]

Do you level faster? Isn't xp capped anyways. Emp blessings are a valid point tho

[wanton hatch]

Well, I think the monos yield more % experience in empowered. Level is capped at +5, but you're right maybe exp isn't a huge impact.
But yes, going through with alt chars and collecting the blessings just feels bad when I know I'll have to go back and replace all of them later.

[austere hound]

Ah yes more xp because of corruption

One thing I can think about is also frustration. If you have the option to do emp right away you will possibly do it and maybe your char isn't ready for that and you quit instead of going regular

Sure if you are pretty experienced you would rather go emp asap but maybe the devs want to prevent the majority of players to do too hard content too soon

[marsh gyro]

Yeah I wish. Path of exile at least has account wide process on most things outside the campaign progress on a new character. It's nice to just jump in immediately and share progress. Empowered monos and high corruption probably make that funky for a new level 50, so each character likely should start from the beginning but at least they are all unlocked.

[zinc belfry]

Hi guys, just a quick question. When the Multiplayer comes out will it just be a party system to play with friends? Or will there be online areas where you can see and interact with other players? Also, will there be PvP? I'm a huge fan of PvP

[sharp quartz]

No Pvp as yet. I think the devs mentioned it may be a possibility at some future time but definitely not before 1.0. How it may look is also unknown. Check the Faq below for more details on what multiplayer itself will look like

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

[blazing steeple]

man the twisted heart unique relic is so rare

ive ran 12 monos and not a single drop haha

[wide sentinel]

party system

op relic

[blazing steeple]

yeah but still, its classed as "rare drop"

but the other rare classefied unique from that boss has dropped twice already haha

does corruption increase the droprate of rare uniques?

[brittle atlas]

it increases the rarity modifiers you get, which will improve your chances to get rare uniques

[wide sentinel]

They dont have the same drop chance

[blazing steeple]

how much does it differ then?

both says rare

[wide sentinel]

Idk, i have only 2 i think

[brittle atlas]

in my experience, the empowered specific drop is generally 15-20%, the regular rare drop is 10% ish

[minor vigil]

i got like 3 horns before twisted heart lol

[sharp quartz]

Its not perfect, but you can get a rough idea based on Tunks drop simulators... https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/uniquesim https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/ascsim

[brittle atlas]

that doesn't do boss drops

[blazing steeple]

^

[sharp quartz]

Yeah, but it gives you something to work from to compare rare, very rare etc

[brittle atlas]

we have the exact values for all of the non-boss items, though

I'm not sure there's a direct comparison

since the drop system is different

for boss uniques

[sharp quartz]

well, there isnt anything else to work from so take it or leave it.

[blazing steeple]

woah first dubble exalt drop, didnt know they existed

[brittle atlas]

they're quite rare

[blazing steeple]

what the fuck -22 in first tap, bricked it from 1 tap lmao

[wide sentinel]

Git gud

[peak mortar]

yoo multiplayer when? before xmas?

[austere hound]

even the devs doesn't know and hope to deliver this year

[peak mortar]

daaaaaaaam

[timid cedar]

I'm having serious crash issues with the game

After defeating the first boss and getting the "wormhole" sequence, my game crashed

then it crashed again trying to load the character

[brittle atlas]

did you verify game files?

[timid cedar]

I tried another time and it completely disabled my Graphics card somehow

Screen just went black "no signal"

It's a fresh install that's only an hour old

not sure how it could be corrupted,

[brittle atlas]

do it anyways, steam is weird sometimes

[timid cedar]

validated succesfully

I'm going to try setting the graphics to low

[blazing steeple]

does healing effectivness increase the hp gained from leech?

[timid cedar]

Ok, it started again this time

[brittle atlas]

no, only from things that specifically say "heal"

[blazing steeple]

ah okey rip

[wide sentinel]

But what if your build leeches, heals and generates ward all at the same time

[austere hound]

then it still doesn't apply to leech

[blazing steeple]

can you see your total completed empowered monos?

[brittle atlas]

I think it's bottom right or left of the timeline map?

[blazing steeple]

isnt that just the total monos completed including normal monos

[brittle atlas]

probably, can just subtract out ~140 if you wanna remove normal monos

[unkempt pulsar]

How do I complete these? I thought I finished all the monoliths including the level 90 ones

[blazing steeple]

the empowered ones counts as one too

so u gotta complete them all at empowered version

the lvl 100 version

[unkempt pulsar]

Thanks. How do I empower them?

[blazing steeple]

walk into this middloe

and there will be a cut scene

after that u can do the lvl 100 versions

[unkempt pulsar]

Thanks! That worked!

[blazing steeple]

np enjoy 😄

if i use this on a relic item, can it become every unique relic?

boss uniques included?

[quasi hatch]

Anything but boss specific uniques

[sinful wedge]

What is the level cap you can reach ?

[north mist]

100

[loud harbor]

hey all, question - if I'm after Dragonsong (https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzBsCYBYGYg) for my Hail of Arrows marksman, is it the most efficient to just keep doing echoes in random direction away from the center of Fall of the Outcasts, ignoring stability and the Quest echoes, sprinkling in corruption if I meet and can handle it? Is there any benefit to resetting the timeline by completing the 3 quest echoes?

Since I'm only after the unique/set item echoes.

(Which, as I understand it, are the only way to get this bow...)

Thank you :)

[north mist]

The further away you are from the starting point the more likely you are to find the more rare echos, as well as the higher corruption you have

I would advise against farming it in non-empowered monos though

[north mist]

the bow can drop anywhere, its just that the bow ones are the best way to specifically farm it

[old scroll]

Hello fellow gamers ! I'm new on this discord. I have a question concerning a certain "stat" in the game : Shadow Dagger Effect. From what I read, Shadow Dagger Effect previously reduced the amount of stacks you needed to proc Shadow Dagger. What does it do now ? For exemple, if I have a helmet with 50% Increased Shadow Dagger Effect, what does it do exactly ? If it increase the damage, then a simple "generic" damage line is always better, like "Increased Damage while wielding a dagger" ?

[keen viper]

It increases shadow dagger damage

But it does so multiplicatively instead

So if you got 1000% increased from other sources and 50% effect

It's like if you had 1500%

[old scroll]

Ooooooh ok ! I was like " Its kinda stupid that Shadow effect get lower values than Generic Damage affixes". Now It explains alot ! Thanks you very much !

[keen viper]

So it's very good stat for builds that focus on that ailment

But kinda useless stat for all other builds

[old scroll]

Its like a "more" multiplier, I see. thanks

[wanton hatch]

Does snapshotting Aura of Decay (even removing it from bar and despecing the skill) still work?

[brittle atlas]

yes

[knotty hull]

having more than 75% penetration is useless right?

[somber dragon]

With the automated filters, what would be a good time to remove the lower tier gear highlighting? By this I mean the White, Yellow, Blue, Orange and Red filter rules. I'm assuming white, blue and yellow would be removed first, but I wasn't sure if there was a good time to do so.

[stone granite]

I couldn't answer that. No idea how the auto filters work or your build or anything. That's why I recommend making your own filters so you know what they are doing and how to manage them.

[somber dragon]

No worries, totally understand. It's a strange system. Figured I might try to be lazy about it but it's going to be better to make my own.

[tranquil kindle]

More penetration is always helpful as it can make effective resistance negative, causing the enemy to take more damage.

[loud harbor]

So, anywhere in FotO timeline? Why would you recommend the empowered timeline specifically? The uniques are identical, but is there higher droprate in empowered? Or just because there is generally more xp? :)

[amber notch]

Empowered has higher monster levels and more rarity

And thus higher uniquedrop rates

[austere hound]

and higher corruption also makes rarer echo rewards appear more often. I'm wondering is there a list with rarity of them?

[desert tree]

there are echos reward with specific unique types in empowered like unique bow/quiver for example

[austere hound]

idk if its just strange rng, but twice it happened to me that I got many of the unique glove rewards for example at 100 corruption and almost none at 200

[sharp quartz]

Dragonsong has a roughly 15% chance to be created from a Rune of Ascendance and about 10% chance from a Bow Unique Echo node (in Fall of the Outcast Timeline) on lvl 100 monoliths and about 0.5% change to drop from an Any Unique Echo Reward (in lvl 100 monoliths).

This info is from Tunks simulators on https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/

I personally got mine from the Rune after a few tries.

Obviously higher corruption monoliths will increase the chances of the bow dropping (or any unique) simply because more uniques will drop

[solar moss]

can resist go into the negative?

[sharp quartz]

certain mobs can apply shreds, then theoretically yes.

[solar moss]

i meant more against mobs as im looking at shock chance

[sharp quartz]

Yeah, it just becomes increased damage.

Shock is a great ailment to apply

[loud harbor]

Whoa that's pretty low, considering last epoch tools have it listed as "common" drop...!

Corruption doesn't increase the number of rewards from echoes, though, so it would only increase the in-echo drops, correct?

[sharp quartz]

Corruption yes - just random drops, not the echo reward. I suppose its a common bow type drop because there arent many bows in the game?

to be honest tho 10-15% drop is pretty high chance for a unique drop

[loud harbor]

Well yes, but the unique bow echoes are quite rare, impossible to "farm" them really. I mainly just see "unique item" echoes, which may drop anything, and even those are perhaps 10-15% of echo types.

[solar moss]

was mostly looking at the boardmans set which seems to be some totem/minion hybrid set

no idea if its good but im just messing about at this stage

[loud harbor]

(I've only seen perhaps 2 unique bow echoes ever in my endgame playtime)

[amber notch]

They're fairly rare but not crazy so

And they are only in FotO timeilne

[dry narwhal]

i think i've gotten 2 from the nodes and 1 from a random drop in about ~5 hours

[north mist]

There are significantly more "bow unique" nodes in empowered, and even moreso if you increase your corruption

And generally its not worth farming non-empowered as you'll have to farm the empowered version anyway later as the blessings are just strictly better (besides getting way less loot and xp in general)

[acoustic thicket]

Thanks for posting that link. Makes me feel a lot better that I haven't farmed an Ashen crown yet. But surprisingly all the others in the top 10 rarity helmets heh

Also, since it is so juicy: TFW you're new to an arpg and think "nahhh, no way that'll be useful" and vendor something that actually would have been and is rare lol

[nocturne notch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9cRJWoBPIc

Is this still accurate

I know there were a lot of loot filter changeS?

well Ive heard

I was thinking of making my first one today

[sharp quartz]

It should be fine as a beginner. There are also Heavys posts on the forum for Step by Step making your own and his downloadable filters to try (although I would recommend doing your own first).

[nocturne notch]

oh okay, why is there more to it for non beginners

are those covered in the forum posts?

oh like setting it up for all classes etc?

[sharp quartz]

Filters can be a blessing and a danger. So for first time filter creators (i.e. beginners) I'd recommend something simple

[nocturne notch]

I found this post it looks

beautiful

thank you

[sharp quartz]

The danger of filters is that if you overcomplicate them, then you could end up ruining your loot drops and getting frustrated with the game without realising it.

[nocturne notch]

Ill be reading this in detail later, and ill use the simple one for now

thanks!!

[acoustic thicket]

On 'performance issues'. I bought the game about 2 weeks ago, and with everything maxed I seemed to be pushing around 130fps on 3440x1440p. 5950X, 3090 Strix, ssd, fast ram (as the system). When I was streaming on Sunday - on some maps - my fps would drop to around 20 during fights? Also, sometimes when I'd zone in the map, it would 'lock' at around 2 fps, until I alt-tabbed out and back in. Any ideas? When I look at actual cpu/gpu usage it doesn't seem like they are being maxed out. I haven't Googled this yet, wanted to ask here in case there's a go-to authority on optimizing performance in the game.

[wide sentinel]

Probably there is nothing u can do

[sharp quartz]

Hmm... Open a thread on the technical support part of the forum, and post your player.log, dxdiag report (assuming windows) and the le_graphicsmanager.ini - there are a few things that could be happening that can cause odd things like this.... While there are map instances where fps drops can and do occur, usually framerates dont drop down to 2fps unless there is something wrong or something else involved. Even dropping from 130-20fps is not normal. And definitely not on your level of hardware.

[austere hound]

I don't get the wording on Bhuldar's Wrath

100% Chance to use Earthquake after using a Non-Channelled Movement Ability every 5 seconds
Can I proc EQ every 5 seconds or do I need to use a movement ability every 5 seconds or do I proc EQ every 5 seconds?

[brittle atlas]

You proc an EQ when you use a non-channeled movement ability

and it has a 5 second cooldown

on proccing the EQ

[desert tree]

Does it work with another class than primalist?

[brittle atlas]

yes

[austere hound]

Thx on other abilities it's written like "this has x seconds cooldown" or smth

[brittle atlas]

you just miss out on being able to specialize earthquake, obviously

[austere hound]

When using Bhuldar's Wrath do I need to invest 15 points in shaman to specialize EQ? Found 1 planner that does invest into rather suboptimal nodes in shaman up to EQ and another one with 0 points in shaman

[north mist]

If you want to specialize EQ you need atleast 15 points in shaman yes

[outer jay]

is there an online release date or is it unspecified

i could be blind and didnt see it in the pins if there was any

[nocturne notch]

do prism wraps drop anywhere?

having troubles finding it

[brittle atlas]

the cheesy strat is to spend 15 points, specialize it, then respec those 15 points

and you'll keep the specalization

without needing to take shaman points

[brittle atlas]

it's a global drop

[nocturne notch]

ok also which mono should I farm if i want a specific unique Helmet?

[brittle atlas]

Helmet nodes are in Black Sun

[nocturne notch]

ok thanks

[austere hound]

Oh do you know if that's intended?

[brittle atlas]

Pretty sure it's not

but it's been an issue for a long time so who knows when it'll be fixed

[dry narwhal]

There's no way they want it to be around

[balmy current]

It's definitely not.

But probably not an easy fix

[austere hound]

well either prevent the passive point respec and say you need to despecialize or despecialize automatically

on the other hand I've seen suggestions that unique items which provide skills should also give the possibility to specialize in those skills

[brittle atlas]

I would like this personally, allow for some cross class specialization even

I think it'd make some neat stuff possible

[worldly valve]

Hi, I'm a bit confused, working on a loot filter atm and cant find "spell (or void) dmg leeched as life". What am I missing?

[north mist]

There are no spell dmg leeched as health affixes that doesnt have the channelling condition (and those are only available to mages and acolytes)

There is however a blessing that gives you up to 5% spell dmg leeched as life, which should be enough in most cases, its from the black sun

[woven fulcrum]

I think some uniques have it as well.

[desert tree]

Bleeding heart has generic life leech

[brittle atlas]

if you're looking for void leech specifically for something like void knight- you should get all you need via passives and anomaly spec tree

[worldly valve]

Ah okay, in boardmans guide he listed "spell/void damage leeched as health" as a defensive stat, did not realize it was mostly restricted to the passive tree/anomaly.

ty everyone

[acoustic thicket]

is ||majasa the last boss?||

[desert tree]

of the campaign yes

[frank wasp]

until acts 10,11,and 12 are added

[nocturne notch]

Is there a place to see how corruption scales

How much more xp/item rarity while going up

[brittle atlas]

the xp/item rarity is related to modifier scaling

I don't think anyone has posted graphs for how monolith scaling works anywhere tho

[wanton hatch]

Anyone ever try Giant Zombie + Rite of the Grave? (single stationary zombie, big aoe big dmg)

wow things like Ignite just deal a flat damage, independent of the damage dealt by the hit?
There's probably some really good builds that scale with high attack speed or cast speed, with ailment chance, but not scaling the initial hit damage.

Such as many many minions that attack super fast and have [ailment] chance.

I guess I'd have to scale minion damage then in that case, instead of my own Inc Damage over Time or whatever.

[low field]

Does non-legendary gear get more FP as you level?

[wanton hatch]

the higher the area level, the higher the chance of FP on Uniques, if that answers your question.

[low field]

no, I'm talking on yellow and blue gear

I actually haven't seen too many uniques show up yet

[wanton hatch]

Oh, FP, I was thinking of LP. Not sure. That's a good question.

I do know that Exotics (purple) have a ton of FP.

[dry narwhal]

amount of FP on an item is random

i believe a higher rarity has a higher amount on average

but its been awhile since i actually paid attention

[wanton hatch]

anecdotally, that would make sense IMO.

[dry narwhal]

it would make sense for a rare item to have more FP than a white normal item

[low field]

that makes sense to me too, the problem though, is that I'm not finding anything that either isn't better than what I have or isn't oriented toward my build

[dry narwhal]

that is how rng works

it will happen eventually

this game isn't nearly as gear intensive as other games in the genre

[low field]

yeah I can tell

I'm still using equipment I found in chapter one or two on my Acolyte

[dry narwhal]

honestly for levelling just prioritize health/vitality

[low field]

I have been for the most part

and using Rip Blood as my main attack

[dry narwhal]

resistances of course are nice, but enemies are fairly color-coded so you can tell what damage type they do generally

[low field]

I currently have 566 Health and I just entered into Maj'elka

[dry narwhal]

chapter..4 i think?

[wanton hatch]

do u have a loot filter set up

[low field]

@wanton hatch I set up a basic one?

I think its pretty shitty though honestly :/

[wanton hatch]

a shit one is better than nothing, as long as you're not hiding anything

[dry narwhal]

^

[low field]

I'm hiding white and blues on it

[wanton hatch]

so show everything as default. Then just add a rule like this... sec.

[wanton hatch]

The "Show all items with 12 affixes" is where you can create your loot filter

And click "Advanced Options and say you want it to have a total affix tiers of X (start with a low number, like 3 or 4), and increase it if you're seeing too many items that you cant work with. But be careful with that.

With the Affixes you want to show, include generic stuff and then build-specific stuff:

Generic:
All 3 Health affixes (flat health, percent health, hybrid health)
All 9 Resistance types

Build-specific stuff:
Depends if you're doing damage, or minions, or whatever. I can point out these stats if you need help and share your build concept.

[low field]

what is hybrid health?

[wanton hatch]

Lastly, click "Show" on the left and change it to "RECOLOR", and pick a color you want. Magic/Rare/Unique, is obviously already taken.

[low field]

that confused me when I first saw it

[wanton hatch]

Hyrbid health is 1 affix that has both Flat Health and % Inc Health.

[low field]

oh okay

I'm wanting to do a skeleton necro build

[wanton hatch]

So get all healht and resistance in your affixes.
Then search for keywords that are intuitively good. for example, search for the word "Minion".

Then you'll find stuff like "Minion Health", "Minion Damage".

Also, search for the keyword such as "Skeleton"

And you'll find stuff like "+ Maximum Number of Skeletons", and "+ Level to Summon Skeletons"

Click all those, be generous. As gear drops you will identify which stats you value over others. For example, if you click "Minion Crit Chance", and keep finding gear with minion crit chance but don't plan to build minion crit, you can deselect it.

E.G. Here are the one's you'll most likely want selected already, and the yellow slash is build-specific. i.e. are you building minion spell dmg? melee dmg? phys dmg?

[low field]

I'm gonna mostly focus on mages

[wanton hatch]

Don't worry about the idols section yet. Don't change anything here. Pick up all the idols you find as you learn the game you'll know which ones are important.

[low field]

using regular skeles as tanks (they're already specced to spawn base skeletons)

[wanton hatch]

What kind of Mage skellies, do you know yet?

[low field]

I looked at the tree a bit and I think I want pyro and cryo mancers

but I don't want archmage

[wanton hatch]

my first build (went into the game build and just came up w/ my own build on the fly). Was Cryo. It was very fun, and ended up strong. I paired that with Cold Archer Skeletons too.

[low field]

nice

[wanton hatch]

So I can say Cryo is strong, and I hear Fire is strong too. So I don't think you'll be disappointed.

[low field]

is health recovery worth going into?

[wanton hatch]

for you or minion?

[low field]

health recovery doing go for minions I don't think

doesn't go for*

yeah that's just for me

so I'ma go with no there lol

[wanton hatch]

It exists for minions on Helmet/Belt/Relic.

[low field]

I don't have a lot of those :/

I think I have 4 or 5

[wanton hatch]

For some builds, maybe. But for yours, no IMO. But to that point, you want some "sustain"...

[wanton hatch]

Yeah don't worry. u dont want those for your build either. So the answer is no for both 🙂 but I want to give you alternatives

Skeleton Mages have a node (bottom left) where they heal on crit. This is very strong if you're building crit, and we all know from other aRPGs that crit in general is usually very strong too...

[low field]

yeah I did plan to go in that direction

[wanton hatch]

You on the other hand want to sustain through other ways. THere's a couple ways. I think you said something about Rip Blood earlier, that is a good sustain method.

[low field]

Is Damned worth going into at all?

I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere in my tree

[wanton hatch]

I haven't used the Damned mechanic beforer

[low field]

okay, gonna just leave that out for now then

that may be a lich/warlock mechanic

[wanton hatch]

yeah may be. i'm going to theorycraft a lich next, I believe.

[low field]

yeah i looked at the Lich's skills and it looks phenomenal

[wanton hatch]

I haven't looked yet, but I see they get a ton of +Int from the tree. and I want to scale Int for my next build.

Lich gets 46 int from tree -_-

[low field]

jesus

so I've been using Spirit Plague to supplement my damage and I've been wondering if that's good or not

[wanton hatch]

yeah. And Int increases Ward Retention (essentially, your ability to get more Ward (this game's version of Energy Shield) and reduces the regen rate of it). And Int of course scales certain skills.

I've never used Spirit Plague

[low field]

its pretty decent

[wanton hatch]

It could be a good sleepr skill. Maybe you're on to something

[low field]

deals nuke necro damage and jumps to another enemy if the original target dies

[wanton hatch]

Cool part about this game is it's fairly new and the player base isn't huge, so there's definitely viable builds that haven't been turned "meta" yet by a content creator.

[low field]

has a DoT component as well

[wanton hatch]

I like that.

[low field]

Yeah that's why I wanted to get into it during beta

[wanton hatch]

could be great for just dropping packs as you go through the map/area. If you scale it enough and it can just jump and melt the pack

[low field]

oh it is

[wanton hatch]

"lasts 3 seconds". Wonder if there's a node that turns it permanent.

[low field]

it clears packs of minor mobs like they're nothing

[wanton hatch]

Certainly Inc Dur, I imagine.

[low field]

let me check real quick

Yup, one of the first nodes you can get

makes it cheaper and it lasts longer

[wanton hatch]

Not bad.

[low field]

Efficacious Application

[wanton hatch]

Also the next node (to its right)

Interesting.

[low field]

then Conductor of Plagues is also really good

yeah lol

[wanton hatch]

can you spam multiple targets w/ the plague at once?

[low field]

you can have up to 4 I think

[wanton hatch]

wondering how that "recast" would work. Maybe if you're not highlighting an enemy and use the skill again

[low field]

I think its like an AoE nuke

similar to Glacier maybe

but instead of a set area it just targets three random nearby enemies

[wanton hatch]

Strong

[low field]

OH NO

IT NOW COSTS MANA

what ever will I do XD

[wanton hatch]

lol

[low field]

what were the 12 affixes you chose for the first rule?

just general defenses?

like the 3 healths and 9 resistances?

[wanton hatch]

exactly

[low field]

okay

can I include endurance too or no?

[wanton hatch]

but you want to add all the damage stuff too, fo ryour build.

[low field]

ok

[wanton hatch]

You can do wahtever you like, because showing more affixes will show you more items (as a different color if you set it up that way). If you find that yoiu don't like Endurance anymore, you can hit Shift + F (hotkey for Filter interface), and just quickly drop Endurance from the affix list, and it will auto update.

It's a fantastic mechanic / system they've built.

This is kinda of interesting/crazy. Wonder if anyone has made a build around this combo.

Stack Int, just melt everything

Would need a supplement for single target though of course.

[low field]

definitely

hmmm

having some issues figuring out the Advanced Filter for the affixes

[wanton hatch]

send me a screenshot

Windows Key + Shift + S, will allow you to highlight a part of the screen and Ctrl + V it here.

[low field]

I'm on a laptop

[wanton hatch]

feel free to send a screenie or ask the q.

[low field]

I dmed it, hope that's okay

[wanton hatch]

can you send it here. i turned off notifiaction for dm

[wanton hatch]

Looks good. So what do you want to do?

It's preference, but I find "Total Affix Tiers of" == More or Equal to; and then pick a number.

Start low, you can always increase it if you feel like you're seeing too many items that are not good enough

[low field]

what about Tier of Individual Modifiers?

[wanton hatch]

ALSO, as you level, the items will naturally drop with more total affix tiers. (not max tiers. Max tiers is always 5, unless the item is "Exotic", can be Tier 6 or 7, not sure if it can be higher than that though).

The point is, you'll want to increase this number slightly as you level.

I'm not sure, but I think that could be dangerous, because you have so many affixes selected, are you asking the item to show only if all listed tiers are above X tier?

[low field]

idk, I have no idea how the system works tbh

[wanton hatch]

Also, I like "Total affix tiers" because of how the crafting works in this game. As long as you hit the Affix you want, even if it's T1, you can upgrade it... It's so easy.

[low field]

yeah I love the crafting in the game

nothing really RNG about it, besides the FP drain

[wanton hatch]

Say you have "Show Affix Tiers more or equal to 4", and you get an item that drops with T3 Health and T1 Minion Damage. BOOM BOOM BOOM, upgrade Minion Damage 3 times in the forge.

or BOOM BOOM, and maybe you want to throw a resistnace on if the item has an open Suffix.

You'll find that crafting (forge; "F" key and can be done from anywhere) gives you so much flexibility and gear upgrade potential.

Craft like your life depends on it - because it does.

[low field]

Oh I've been trying

I'm just struggling to find any real upgrades

[wanton hatch]

I'm new and this is how many crafting mateirals I have. YOu'll ultimately have an abundance.

[low field]

like I gave over 550 health and I'm in Maj'elka

and I still feel like paper

I know its cause my resistances suck btw lol

they're super low

[wanton hatch]

So add that to your loot filter, and play the campaign, and you'll find a ton of gear that you can do something with ( as long as your affixes are expansive yet beneifical, and your Total Affix Tiers is low to start).

[wanton hatch]

What Chapter is that

Res in this game are important, but not as improtant as like a D2 or PoE, keep in mind.

[low field]

its either 4 or 5

[wanton hatch]

550 sounds fine tbh. Are you dying a lot?

[low field]

I think its 5 cause the chapter I was JUST on was something to do with outcasts

not really, just when groups get sufficiently large I get overrun easy

[wanton hatch]

You can push Esc btw, and it will show you the "Chapter" at the top.

[low field]

yeah its 5

[wanton hatch]

Sounds like you might not have enough damage then, unless you're referring to a boss fight specifically.

[low field]

nope

I definitely don't have enough damage though

[wanton hatch]

so adding things like "minion damage" etc, to your filter, will be nice for you.

[low field]

oksy

[wanton hatch]

since you're using Spirit Plague, make sure you're also adding things like "Necrotic Damage", "Spell Damage", and "Damage Over Time"

I'd also add attributes. Intelligence.

Now, as you can see, you're spreading yourself into two different camps: damage for minions on gear, and spell damage for you on gear.

This typically could not be the best thing (there may be mechanics in this game that turn it into a great synergisitic build, I can't speak to that). And you likely won't struggle til late end game when min-max really matters.

But keep in mind, you are focusing on scaling 2 non-syergistic things such as your own spell damage, but also trying to scale the damage of your minions.

[low field]

I know

I'll focus more towards one side as I need to

[wanton hatch]

good idea

[low field]

what's a good weapon to go after? one or two handed?

[wanton hatch]

I'd keep your options open. You might end up getting a nice staff, or a nice wand. It really all depends on your affixes.

[low field]

this is what I'm currently using

[wanton hatch]

But I'm not sure, I got very lucky and dropped this early.

If you have good affixes and look at the gear, you'll eventually realize that X weapon type seems to be giving you better affixes to use.

[dry narwhal]

you just wanna look for what your damage type is really and boost that

[wanton hatch]

That's great because you get the leech from Spirit Plague, the + 1 skill, the 70 HP. and inc Necrotic Dmg

[low field]

I actually have one of those

[dry narwhal]

ah you're running minions

[wanton hatch]

so again, going back to my thing - you're splitting between your spell dmg and minion dmg.

[low field]

I think I'ma go get that from my stash

it'll work better with the buffs it gives my mages

[dry narwhal]

yeah

my necro still using it in monos

i took a break from it

[low field]

should I use a catalyst or a shield?

[wanton hatch]

whatever is giving you better stats. you can trade out.

if you're softcore, I'd recommend starting to scale more dmg

[low field]

ok ty

[dry narwhal]

if you're dying though shield

[low field]

?

[dry narwhal]

if you feel you wanna be tankier

damage isn't everything

[low field]

oh, yeah I know

I'm trying to stay balanced between the 2

[dry narwhal]

i try to lean tankier

[frail compass]

is there specific monoliths to farm certain item bases?

[dry narwhal]

i think those are just level based

[frail compass]

just doesnt seem to drop at empowered monoliths

or maybe my filter is blocking it

[rough rain]

does this passives stack?

[austere hound]

Which skill is that

[acoustic thicket]

Yes, although one does disables the other

[upper island]

i've just started to play, 1 hour into the game, and seems like there are so many drops of items , what should I do with them? ignore? keep track of what best item every 5 seconds?

[native sail]

Set up a filter

[upper island]

what do u mean

[native sail]

Set up a loot filter. Hit shift+F, there's a couple videos that explain it pretty well.

[upper island]

oh ok

ty

[rough rain]

question was if it will fork from main target as it hit again for chain amount times and its fork 4 targets bcs of chain limit

[acoustic thicket]

Convergence prevents any hits (chain/fork) to hit additional targets but your main target.

[grave rose]

question, what is this. I've seen it a couple times on the ground and it shows up on the minimap too, but i can't see it even by temporarily disabling the loot filter.

[dry narwhal]

press alt-z

that should be a set item

[grave rose]

oh, ididnt even realize i had ground items disabled, how did i manage that

[dry narwhal]

cause alt-z is the key command for that

it was just z before too many people hit it

[grave rose]

well, i'll keep an eye out for it.

[dry narwhal]

yee

[grave rose]

i swear it took me too long to realize i wasnt getting items

[dry narwhal]

its actually fairly common post here

[grave rose]

what annoys me too, i had a puple one of these drop, and i left it cause i had no idea this was toggled

eitherway, thanks for the help

[rough rain]

does mana strike (melee skill) count as range with this perk ? when i click on skill panel its till say - melee

[austere hound]

@grave rose no worries I had that too and I didn't figure out the hotkey and restartet the game

[sick yacht]

if you hover over the skill on your bar and press alt, I'm pretty sure it gets a ranged tag once you select that. I could be wrong though

[wide sentinel]

No its always melee

[woven fulcrum]

Found the 4 x T7 exalted drop. 😉

[naive ore]

Hello, the multiplayer alpha is still open?

[grave rose]

Probably not as this was like lvl 55

[desert tree]

You can apply for the community testing, other than that there is no multiplayer yet

[midnight knot]

Can you ignore people in chat with a feature?

Like /ignore or sth?

[desert tree]

You can disable the tchat

[naive ore]

Yea I was talking about that, too bad

[sharp quartz]

things like that are apparently coming with the new systems but right now its a fairly "dumb" chat system that isnt capable of much.

[midnight knot]

Kk was mostly wondering for the future.

Haven't had any bad interactions so far

[desert quest]

Hello. I know DPS isn't everything and it isn't the only measure but what do you guys think the ballpark figure for empowered monolith farming is? I can do them and die like once every 7-8 nodes (usually due to not paying attention) but since this is my first build after like 2 years, not sure if I it is good enough or too slow. I might consider playing a better build to farm some items if I am hampering myself sticking with current one. As my gear progress slowed down quite a bit currently.

[sharp quartz]

DPS is really hard to quantify what would be a good value because there are so many different factors. I am sure someone here will try and give you a hard fast value but some things with lower dps can be as good as other things with huge one shot nukes due to things like shreds and ailment stacking. Defense is far more important in LE. imho, I aim for about 800% increased damage of a single chosen type when building a char. that seems to be enough to get through decently in empowered monoliths and dungeons. It assumes a decent level of flat damage but thats my target. Its very simplistic, but most times it works. Pushing high corruption needs more but thats a different requirement than enjoying the game and doing all the content.

As you know, some builds are better at clearing vs single target boss fights so that could also be something that you need to consider - i.e. its not so much the damage its how many mobs its dealing with too - especially if you want to farm for drops etc.

[tiny jungle]

anybody willing to help me out on my build? Really struggling with mana. Void Beam VK with resetting mana for shield charge (which doesnt seem to work properly if i spam it without cooldown). Really open to any idea to fix mana for this. https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/KBgRd7YQ

[sharp quartz]

The most obvious thing is that you dont seem to have any mana earning beyond mana regen. Sure shield gets the refund and reversal helps, but nothing gains you mana.

[tiny jungle]

mana regen kinda wont help because it is stopped while charging :/

[sharp quartz]

then thats even worse... you have nothing earning mana

You have all the skills using it but none generating it... No use of the Time & Faith Passive for example.

[tiny jungle]

well time and faith wont fit because i really dont wanna stop spamming charge in this kind of build

[sharp quartz]

True, but I am trying to say you need something earning mana. and thats probably going to mean changing something

[tiny jungle]

yeah but a "builder" is not really viable, is there something like focus for sentinel? Like a skill i can just pump all passives into mana gain

[sharp quartz]

Nope.

[tiny jungle]

mhhh

like im open to dropping anomaly fully in the build it's got enough damage already

[sharp quartz]

Rebuke but it doesnt really provide much... The key about sentinel mana is the mana earning on zero cost skills - you dont have any

[tiny jungle]

yeah thats too bad kinda

because then this turns into shield charging until it bugs out, then smite

[sharp quartz]

Honestly, you could go void beams without shield rush and take a mana generator to then allow you to erasing strike void beam.

[tiny jungle]

true but on monoliths void beams will only proc from kills with erasing strike

because of less rares

[sharp quartz]

and so its back to the drawing board

[tiny jungle]

and i dont scale melee void

smite will also be really weird because i also dont have any cast speed investment since it's mostly an attack build

and more attack speed for other builders just seems to bug out the shield charge even more

[woven fulcrum]

trying to feel how this works
It's got a lot of "big" mana spenders (anomaly, sigils) that constantly drain when on cooldown, right?

[sharp quartz]

I have played many Sentinel builds and the one thing thats never usually a problem is mana. you can get a lot and you can easily have a skill that earns more than enough to keep you topped off. Most LE builds need a mana earner no matter what class or build type.

[tiny jungle]

well i reversal trick the sigils

[woven fulcrum]

yeah, but that's not going to do anything when you're empty

[tiny jungle]

and i also reversal trick the anamoly and erasing strike

so i go anomaly, strike, reverse

which equals 0 mana used

and shield charge should just revert

[woven fulcrum]

the big problem I can see is that when all yoru stuff goes off, you'll be getting to empty over a few seconds and then volatile reversal won't get you back to wear you started

[tiny jungle]

but if you spam it because it has no cooldown it uses its 50 mana sometimes

[woven fulcrum]

okay so you aren't 'holding down' anomaly. you're only using it at fights?

[tiny jungle]

yeah correct

i use it on bigger packs with the strike

[sharp quartz]

how are you possibly managing this? you must be mashing the hell out of reversal so how is it staying positive? with the duration changing and things like sigils on autocast?

[tiny jungle]

well for normal mobs i just charge all the time

bigger pack: Anomaly, strike , reversal, spam charge

[woven fulcrum]

have you tried just upping your mana pool? Like maybe 400 mana?
For something like this 180 seems sort of low.

[tiny jungle]

yeah ill try that maybe just putting some points into the mana vk node but it really feels like it needs a "oops im high negative mana" button

[woven fulcrum]

by the way, pretty sure Mana Memory only restores mana used from shield rush.

[tiny jungle]

no i can confirm this works

if i do it slowly it resets every time

if you start spamming right click it just eats the cast sometimes

[woven fulcrum]

reseets ALL mana?

[tiny jungle]

yes

well mana it used

the 50

since all other mana should be handled by reversal since i only use them in conjunction

[woven fulcrum]

that's what I meant when i said mana used by shield rush.

[tiny jungle]

yeah thats correct

but even that doesnt work

i shouldnt go minus mana by just spamming it then

[woven fulcrum]

honestly, i think you should try 400+ mana.
Shield rush in. Poop anomaly. Stirike Reversal.
that might be doable. no idea. should be fun to play around with though and see.

[tiny jungle]

mhhh tough one this is

thanks ill try to pop on some mana to see if that does anything.

[woven fulcrum]

also, how are you using shield rush in this case with the 'return' to starting position node?

[tiny jungle]

its like permanently reversaling

[woven fulcrum]

you won't be able to Rush INTO enemies. then poop off anomaly and strike because you'll have returned to your start pointn?

[sharp quartz]

I was wondering the same - how are you getting anywere

[tiny jungle]

but it makes the disco lights

that go into the mobs

[woven fulcrum]

lol typo poop.

[tiny jungle]

i just walk

theres no movement skill in this one

[sharp quartz]

do you trip the light fantastic before playing this build?

[tiny jungle]

it looks great really disco feeling

[woven fulcrum]

oh, so you're doing it for damage boost

only

[tiny jungle]

its my main skill

[sharp quartz]

Whatever you do, dont go fighting Julra with this setup.

[tiny jungle]

the void beams it triggers is like 95% of my monolith damage

it's really tanky with the leech tho 😄

[woven fulcrum]

yeah, it's the void beam, not the shield itself. It triggers it.

[tiny jungle]

yeah im just using it for that

[woven fulcrum]

cause you have void beams on the other skill too.

right.

[tiny jungle]

yeah but erasing strike is on cooldowns

[woven fulcrum]

yeah, i've never used shield bash this way (thought I've seen it.)
someone recently did one like this, there's a video. it might have some clearer input on mana mangement.
i'll see if I can find it.

[tiny jungle]

so i need some "normal" skill to go with it. Also Erasing strike only does void beams on rares

usually this kind of a build is done with bleed shield rush

and paladin

then you take final hit + double hit nodes

[woven fulcrum]

actually there are a few. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=last+epoch+shield+rush
try watching some of those.

[tiny jungle]

since theres good bleed leech support you can afford the 15% health loss better there

[woven fulcrum]

👍

holy moly. just looked at some of those. I don't think I could play that. The strobe lights...
yeah, not my cup of tea.
good luck though on figuring it out.

[tiny jungle]

😄 Thanks. The boardman build is kind of similar but more of a VK autobomber than a true ABBA fan

[sharp quartz]

@tiny jungle I think there may be a bug in the shield rush . I have been doing some testing. The refund of the shield rush mana doesnt happen if you hit an obstacle and dont release the keypress/mousebutton. It lags and skips refunds... If you hit shield rush in a tap tap fashion and not holding down the key, then the refund works more often but even then, if it is hitting map obstacles it doesnt work properly. Its worse if the shield rush distance is short - i.e. bashing into a wall close to the char each time.

I think this is why you cannot get it to work properly with mana management.

[tiny jungle]

yeah i think so too, it bugs out on the really "fast" charges against terrain

which is a shame it's such a cool concept. I ll swap this over to a hybrid ravaging aura from void cleave with vengeance for mana for now

[sharp quartz]

I think this should be reported on the bug section in the forum. Do you want to do it or should I?

[outer jay]

this should work for having no T1 items show up but T2 and above should show up right? but I dropped a T3 and its not enlargened text should more or equal mean it should show T3

[sharp quartz]

Did the total tiers of the t3 item equal or exceed T4? ie. did it have at least one more affix of teir 1? AND were those affixes one of the 19 you selected?

[tiny jungle]

ill do it later but thanks for the offer

[outer jay]

it exceeded T4

[sharp quartz]

Did it only include the 19 affixes you selected?

[outer jay]

ill look and see what I missed

[carmine wind]

Does anyone know the limit for 'Baby Scorpions'? Is it 1 per Mother or up to my companion limit?

[brittle atlas]

I think it's 3?

they don't count towards companion limit

[sharp quartz]

iirc they are the Mothers minions not companions but that was a long time ago so I could be mistaken

[carmine wind]

Yeah, I have seen that but don't know if changed. Are they affected by 'Minion' affixes or passives? Or because they belong to the mother they don't benefit?

[carmine wind]

Per Mother Scorpion or total?

[brittle atlas]

I don't think you can have more than 1 mother scorpion right?

did they add a way to summon an additional one? because last I knew there was no way to summon more than 1

[sharp quartz]

dont think they benefit from minion stats because they are not your minions bu the mothers. again, its a long time since i recall discussions on the babies. so maybe it changed or i dont remember correctly.

[brittle atlas]

they do benefit from minion stats

[sharp quartz]

+ve?

[brittle atlas]

what?

[sharp quartz]

positive on the minion stats?

[brittle atlas]

Unless there was some other factor interfering with tests I did for them a while back, pretty positive, yeah

was messing around w/ them on a serpent strike bm

[carmine wind]

Currently trying to build exactly that but if I can't spam an army don't want to waste my time.

[wanton hatch]

I might scale up an Acolyte to test out some Lich stuff. Anyone able to suggest the best leveling method for Acolyte?

[midnight knot]

Idk about "best" but Hungering souls + summoning 3 skeletons was really decent

got a lotta projectiles, and the skeletons are mainly there to buff H.souls :)

[buoyant sinew]

I believe volatile zombie is the "meta" levelling skill

cause it has huge AoE and damage, just is a bit clunky

take the vomit node

[wanton hatch]

vomit? I lvled a necro with Leap Attack zombies, and it was pretty darn good.

i never thought vomit could be good for clear speed because it's not instant dmg like the aoe explosion?

[midnight knot]

Oh ye, volatile zombies are nice

idk bout vomit but just them goin boom is neat

[outer jay]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/wBEd4DRQ what do people think about this build cause it looks nice but idk

I dont trust actionRPG he pronounced alacrity "alcridy"

[brittle atlas]

looks fine at a glance, nothing stands out as particularly strong about it.

pretty standard stuff tbh

rive isn't gonna win any awards for being op or anything, but it should work and be fine

[desert tree]

Instead of the shock wave I would take the pull on 2nd rive

Feels so good

[wanton hatch]

Does the explosion from Volatile Zombies count as "Minion Spell Damage"?

[brittle atlas]

yes

[wanton hatch]

i.e. benefiting 100% inc dmg from Reach of the Grave

nice. strong

[wanton hatch]

Have you ever tried or heard of someone trying to scale Spirit Plague, and getting these

[brittle atlas]

I've never tried those nodes personally

the mana cost one especially is really steep

for the most part, my experience is that scaling spirit plague normally with spread and everything gives it enough damage to work as a great clearing skill

and there's not really enough more damage available to make it a single target skill

[wanton hatch]

Right. Def couldnt do single target, would have to find an option for that. But was just thinking it as possibly a really good clear trash skill

[brittle atlas]

I think the mana cost would be too high to feel good as a clearing skill

20 mana is a lot

[wanton hatch]

Yeah. agreed

Maybe build around the spread instead

duration and scale the dmg so everything melts

[vapid aspen]

I thought it had enough dps with self ignite setup?

Although that mana cost on the self ignite setup would be a nightmare lol

[brittle atlas]

with self-ignite you want it to cost 0 imo

at least in the setups I've played, you're spamming plague since you can get it to 0 cost with super minimal investment and it gets really high cast speed

and it generates the most ignites on you

and then death seal/hungering souls actually do the damage

[vapid aspen]

Yeah like 70 or so. Does that still not work for single target?

[brittle atlas]

it does, but spirit plague's damage itself is a pretty small portion of the single target output

[vapid aspen]

Ah you mean the other skills you're proccing just do way more

[brittle atlas]

yeah

death seal and the waves especially

scale super hard

[vapid aspen]

I'm still sad that ignite duration doesnt work with belt

[brittle atlas]

I didn't have optimal gear at all and even without armor/necrotic shred they were critting like 550-600k on the dummy

[outer jay]

would you have a suggestion for sentinel besides that?

[vapid aspen]

holy trail is pretty great

[brittle atlas]

devouring orb vk, smite hammers paladin, smite hammers vk, holy trail/judgement paladin, manifest armor forge guard, ignite warpath, warpath vk

[outer jay]

im pretty bad at everything so went sentinel

[vapid aspen]

if you want raw tank druid lich and bladedancer imo are the best

[outer jay]

how much damage do they do though

[wide sentinel]

druid<lich=bd

depends on the build but all have plenty of options to do respectable dmg

[brittle atlas]

bd is disgusting damage if you go poison stuff

[wide sentinel]

^+1

[brittle atlas]

just build full tank, get rid of dodge, get dusk shrouds on being hit, and scale damage with umbrals blade's more damage per dusk shroud stuff

with glancing blow, armor, bastion block

and a huge hp pool

[vapid aspen]

bd poison is disgusting damage if you go poison do stuff

[brittle atlas]

to an extent yeah

[wide sentinel]

psn itself requires way less investment, the freest damage in the game, its purely determined by the skill you are using and everything else doesnt affect it that much

[brittle atlas]

just nothing quite like umbral blades for really taking your damage to the moon

[outer jay]

so poison umbral blades? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[vapid aspen]

poison is totally binary though. Either your skill can apply like 200+ stacks and you actually deal damage or your skill cant apply 200+ stacks and it does nothing at all.

I say 200 because aura of decay can do like 120 if you factor in effect and its still horrible

[brittle atlas]

AoD just doesn't have any real more multis tho ye?

it's just effect scaling

which is additive with stw

[vapid aspen]

just

better than any other attribute scaling in the game

[brittle atlas]

you're getting like...maybe 140-150% effect at most from int, which is most definitely nothing to sneeze at

but bladedancer is getting like 130% effect and applying 10x the stacks and has several good more multis on its applying skill

if lich was getting that much effect and say...wandering spirits was still applying poisons like it used to

it'd be pretty similar

[outer jay]

ive gone with void knight spin to win cause it seems better

[zinc belfry]

So I’m on my first play through and been following the infernal souls lich build, currently level 47 and I just seem to be struggling with getting gear that goes with my build? How does it work? Do I just play through the campaign until I can do monoliths and dungeons and that’s where I get the actual gear I need for my build? Or am I missing something because the gear I’m getting just playing is awful and doesn’t have anything I neee, not even good items as a baseline for me to craft my own

[sick yacht]

Crafting is how you fill the gaps. That early on though your gear is going to suck.

[safe harness]

what node in swipe gives it the lightning tag?

[frank wasp]

i assume stormclaw

[safe harness]

i assumed that too, but it's not

[wide sentinel]

maybe the follow up that gives +flat dmg?

but are you sure it can even get the lightning tag?

if so, cant wait for next patch with new weapon damage changes

[safe harness]

theres a lightning symbol next to the skill on the skill page, which I thought meant that it's possible to get that tag

[wide sentinel]

ye i just checked its the followup node that umjol's guidance

[safe harness]

cool, thanks!

[vapid aspen]

those icons aren't always right. Umbral blades can't get fire tag for example.

[safe harness]

well that sounds like a bug then?

[minor kindle]

I think the explosion will have the fire tag?

rather than UB itself

[prisma plinth]

is there anywhere to see the pool of uniques that can roll with runes of ascendancy? trying to figure out if darkstriders can be rolled

[buoyant sinew]

can check https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/unique, find the unique you want and see whether it says "random drop" at the bottom. if it does you can get it with a rune of ascendance

e.g., can be made with a rune

can't

[prisma plinth]

ahh ok ty!

[buoyant sinew]

darkstride is a random drop so you're all good

[vapid aspen]

Yeah the explosion has the tag, but its weird that the icon is there. Lots of cases where a subskill with the tag doesn't show up on those icons.

Like enchant weapon has a 2 subskills but it never gets tags for lightning or cold, nor does it display those icons

[abstract aspen]

Does it matter if i use either a amd gpu or nvidia gpu?

[rough rain]

on lvl 3 this node give +3 max possible stack of shock on target for each 50 charges - with possible 200 charges, is this must give +12 max stacks?

[austere hound]

ye should be 12 then

[keen viper]

It's always 1 per 50

With 1 point it's 1 shock at 200

With 3 points it's 3 points at 200

[rough rain]

thx

[ancient kelp]

I want to build a pure bossing build for my next character. What's some recommendations (preferably with guides)

[sharp quartz]

Suggestion.

Paladin or Forge Guard Manifest Armour, Void Cleave or Shield Throw version - bleed/void damage options. General idea is that you hit your Manifest armour with void cleave or shield throw, causing it to do massive damage to everything around it - in the millions if you min/max and time skill rotations well. Bleed version takes advantage of a skill interaction that consumes all bleed stacks immediatly for huge damage. Various versions of the builds to mess with - all work. Very good bosser and pretty good clearing too.

https://www.lastepochtools.com/builds/skill/manifest_armor

[sharp quartz]

Alternatively https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/ - check for the tag "Boss Killer" there are plenty to chose from - some better than others.

[paper elm]

Any idea why I can't add minion health to my relic?

[sharp quartz]

It has to be added to a relic that meets the criteria of Primalist / Acolyte / Non-Specific

I think that relic is sentinel?

[paper elm]

it is

but it doesnt say anything about that in game

where did you find it?

[sharp quartz]

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

[paper elm]

Still makes no sense that minion damage is allowed but minion life isn't

or that the devs are being racist to forge guards :c

[sharp quartz]

There are lots of affixes like this - they require specific classes or items only.

Lots of them were also changed after they were added to the game when the devs realised they were OP for certain classes. The descriptions unfortunately were not updated with the new info tho so it generally causes some confusion.

Forge Guards in particular have very big minion health options in the passive and lets face it, a Manifest Armour minion can already be incredibly tanky, adding more health makes it virtually immortal with even minor health leech.

[paper elm]

Well I wont talk balance because I obviously don't know shit

Just seems weird that they added it for the minon classes but left one out

[sharp quartz]

This particular interaction is different because Sentinels only "true" minion (Manifest armour) is different to those of primalists/acolytes so it sort of makes sense once you understand the differences. Sure, Rings of Shields and Forged Weapons are minions but still different. If this affix wasnt avaible for primalists vs acolytes that that wouldnt make sense at all imho.

[paper elm]

Are the animate weapons not minions?

[sharp quartz]

Forged Weapons, yes they are minions.

[gusty nest]

so I'm looking for a build using some damage mechanic that rewards effort in the gameplay sense, a la clunky but performs great, what would you guys recommend?

I really liked Firebrand - Flame Reave in that sense

bonus if it doesn't require an unique to function as well

[austere hound]

for me it is poison umbral blades, need to keep up puncture stacks and many skills that interact to boost single target dmg

doesn't require a unique but salt the wound is pretty big for dmg

[shut vault]

Hey guys I accidently destroyed my insane neck... i'm guessing there is no item recovery in this game ?

[austere hound]

only buy back if you sold at the vendor

but shattered is shattered

[shut vault]

well fuck me

it was just my best piece of gear

[paper elm]

How do you give the armor leech? I don't see any affixes that would do that and it's not mentioned in the guide I'm following.

oh maybe he gets it from stats on items nodes

[desert quest]

Is it normal that I am getting less exalted items in empowered monoliths compared to level 85? Am I having a really bad RNG?

[shut vault]

at what level do I drop the best bases in the game ? Can i craft perfect gear before level 100 ?

[native sail]

I think the highest tier bases are level 90

[gusty nest]

what's the consensus on which build clear monolith the fastest?

just the fastest to murder the trash and get maximum amount of stability from a node

single target damage doesn't have to be stellar, as long as it can actually kill the bosses

maybe not t4 julra

[north mist]

Hail of arrows (cold) is clunky but incredibly strong imo

[shut vault]

I went through my first 100 empowered mono map but still haven't unlocked 2 mono maps (lvl 66 and 75) how do I unlock them ?

[sharp quartz]

You mean health leech? Manifest armour gets it from Ribbons of Blood ring usually.

[paper elm]

weird they didnt mention that

I guess he just resummons instead

[sharp quartz]

Depends on which MA build you are going for, there are multiple - some just use the MA as a sponge, others use it as the primary Ddealer, still others throw it in for sh1ts and giggles.

[austere hound]

@shut vault you need to do the quest echo where you make the choice. but tbh I don't know where to find this information. if one clicks at the quest echo there is always the text "contains unfinished timeline" or smth like that even if this quest echo doesn't have a choice or even if I unlocked all already

the quest tracker is also not helpful with that as it doesn't tell you which quest echo you need to do to make the choice

[shut vault]

Yes i figured it was some fuckury with my quests, problem is I ran every monolith in order and my quest is still pinging me everywhere in this zone and not really helping

[austere hound]

well there are multiple monoliths which have 2 branches and if you did them only once then there is a branch missing

you can't unlock both branches in one go

but lets see, you said you need the 66 one, which is the black sun, for that you need to do the boss (3rd quest echo) in fall of the outcasts and pick unlock lv66 monolith after defeating it

the lv75 one is then from completing the black sun

[shut vault]

Thank you so much i'll try that !

[midnight knot]

...can throne of ambition have LP? lol

probably not since it's an idol right?

[amber notch]

Indeed

[lunar holly]

it wouldn't be very useful since there are no exalted idols

[midnight knot]

yea

Any blessings to increase my chances for Bastion of Honour?

[austere hound]

Shield drop rate from stolen lance

[minor kindle]

Someone said "the drops will roll rarity before base type" and "unique drop chance is only affected by unique drop chance blessings", I'm not entirely sure that's right 🤔

[weary roost]

Hi Maybe someone can help me. To craft a legendary with lp on it do i need to do Jurla T4 or can i do it below T4?

I play HC and never did her yet

[minor kindle]

depends on the item level of it

[weary roost]

requires lvl 57 and 53

[minor kindle]

Only the unqieu items above level 75 require T4, and not related to exalted item's level

[weary roost]

ok ty very much

[midnight knot]

Huh... Okay

[austere hound]

Oh not intuitive at all

[native sail]

Devs have confirmed those blessings DO affect unique drops

[minor kindle]

hope a link be posted? tyvm

[native sail]

#👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message
There's this one for a question regarding target farming Singularity for example

#👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message
And this one for exactly what is being asked now

[austere hound]

Well in this context you linked it tells exactly what mistia said #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message

[native sail]

That context specifically points out idol reward monoliths

Same as completing a monolith for rare helmets will not drop a unique

[austere hound]

You're right

And he said "get the relevant blessings" which doesn't sound like he meant only the generic unique drop chance

[native sail]

Yup, if you check the second one I posted it points it out clearer

[formal sentinel]

Is true that next patch will change ailments ?

[wide sentinel]

some of them

[brittle atlas]

Details are in the news post from a while back

[midnight knot]

Does Humming bee affect ALL damage from an attack, even from spell procs of a melee attack?
Specifically: I wanna use it with Shatter Strike from Spellblade and its Frost projectiles

[balmy current]

No, it only has attack/melee modifiers (other than the movement speed line, obviously), not spell modifiers.

[midnight knot]

I see, thanks :)

[north mist]

It does say This effects all damage from the attack, including damage from ailments and non-elemental damage., but im fairly sure the ice spikes are coded as their own spell rather than a part of shatter strike.

[midnight knot]

Yeah that's what I figured :>

One day I'll make use of this chest, just dunno how yet https://i.imgur.com/sped5Jx.png

[north mist]

It is however, a bit odd that the spikes from shatter strike dont have any freeze rate but the ones from elemental weapon do

Or perhaps they just inherit the freeze rate from shatter strike

[cunning crow]

The only way we can affect unique items, stat-wise, is to make them legendary, correct? We can't reroll implicits or anything else?

[minor vigil]

yeah you cant reroll any values on uniques

[cunning crow]

Thanks, that's what I thought.

For the timeline-exclusive 'set/unique [item type]' nodes, how are those spawned? Is it one per web, or just a low chance per node?

For that matter, how much do we know about how the webs are designed? Are there any constants/rules they follow?

[north mist]

Its a low chance per node, the chance to get rarer nodes increase the further away you are from the starting point and the more corruption you have

Just a side note, if youre farming for those nodes, do not do it in non-empowered monoliths as youll just end up wasting your time

[brittle atlas]

yeah, empowered spawns way more of them

I've had like 14-15 per web at times

[tiny jungle]

does way of the hunt in swipe skill tree scale ailments? It states "Swipe deals more Damage" (not hit) but then the sub text has hit: 40%

[balmy current]

It should do, yes, should be easy to test.

[eternal badge]

Hi! With the following skill, will I equip two swords? Right now I have the sword in the picture. Thanks!

[north mist]

You are currently wearing a two handed sword, you can only dual wield one handed swords

And you would need two of them, it doesnt just copy your main weapon into your offhand slot

[eternal badge]

thanks!!

[wanton hatch]

Is there a good ward-stacking Lich Build?

I see that Lich gets great +Int from Passive Tree. I have Twisted Heart. Some sort of way to stay near low life, scale good ward, might be strong

[tulip gate]

I got a a RF-like build idea using Judgement aura (Consecrated Ground following you). Does its damage scale minimally well?

[tulip gate]

Yes, search on Youtube for Death Seal and/or Volatile Zombies, some of them generate lots of ward.

[wanton hatch]

I thought Death Seal prevented ward

or used it all or something

[tulip gate]

You're right, let me try to find the exact build I was thinking about

[snow spruce]

It uses it. But you don't have to reactivate it

Combine that with effects like those on Last steps of the living or Exsanguinous, and you have a ward build with death seal -- though you need other parts too

[tulip gate]

@wanton hatch I was actually thinking about a Necro build, mb: https://youtu.be/RUfKce3TGvY

Necro Skeleton Mage Sacrifice

[wanton hatch]

ah interesting. thx

i already spec'd Lich though

I really liked the Shaman low life spirit barbs concept because the ravens are such graet ward generation

I fear that Lich may not have a similar mechanic to scale up ward so quickly

[tulip gate]

Perhaps using those uniques that drain your life and give ward, but I'm not an expert on this haha

[tulip gate]

Hey guys, would something like this work as a main damage skill?
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/jQeYg9xQ

[minor kindle]

yes, and for reference
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/volV2zqQ

[north mist]

Youve not taken multiple of the big damage nodes for Consecrated ground in the planner you linked

The one mistia linked seems like it would do massively more damage

[tulip gate]

Thanks! Any videos of that in action?

[minor kindle]

Search YouTube for Judgment and I think there will be many videos of similar builds

[vapid aspen]

Lich is great for ward builds but there is one issue. Death seal is just directly better than ward builds unless you start getting t7 %life rolls on every single slot.

and even then you lose damage for it

Twisted heart might work better than LL ward at least since you can actually use reaper form and endurance but that would be a very late game switch you make

[sly fable]

I have a confusing issue - I'm testing a tri-element elemental nova build. From my skill tree and my passive tree I'm thinking I should have at least 70% chance to ignite on hit, but the training dummy is never ignited

Fire Nova is enabled, and I'm channeling elemental nova

[minor kindle]

post the build planner?

[sly fable]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/YQWXvqdB I think

Not very much of it is relevant. Just a few nodes in elemental nova and the passive tree

When channeled, it's not applying any ailments

when I removed the channeling node for elemental nova, it does apply ailments

[minor kindle]

not even shred armor? wierd..
If there is no other answer, will test it when get home 😐

[sly fable]

It seems that any ailments that only proc on a specific element cast don't work when it's channelled, and any ailments that proc on any will work

[desert tree]

Well from the planner you posted you don't have ignite on your gear and it is not spec in your nova tree

[shut vault]

Will there be a data reset on release ? Wiping everything that we have done so far ?

[minor kindle]

That's not matter because he has some other ailment chance elsewhere, but he says he still can't apply any ailments when channeling

[sharp quartz]

Not if the dev can help it. Currently, everyone will start new on the online character/multiplayer servers but all offline chars that we all have right now will remain as they are and can continue to be played. No wipes. Note however that offline & online characters will be entirely independant of each other. i.e. no imports of existing offline chars into the online system. The devs have said that when 1.0 launches they will likely do a "season" rollover of online chars but no wipe.

[shut vault]

Thanks for the answer!

good decisions imo

[keen rain]

I'm following a guide for my build and it provides an endgame loot filter. Is it a good idea to use it as I'm going through the monoliths or is it more for like really endgame endgame 😄