❔┃ask-the-community

[rugged sinew]

you can get other sources of shock chance

like weapon suffix and such

so shred would be better

[high tusk]

Right, those are two different sources of "reduce lightning res" so if I can get it on a weapon, the shred is better. But If I can't, then baseline ability to shock would be good

[rugged sinew]

you can also get shock chance on your amulet if you drop a devotion with legendary potential

[high tusk]

Right, i can get it from a wand or amulet. Thank you. This was great.

Basically, depending on what I do or don't have on my gear, my best choice will differ

[hollow carbon]

I struggle to believe that though. Diminishing returns, right? So the chances of me not getting an item with a 50% drop chance after 7 runs is like 0.75%

[weary moon]

Is there any point continuing a monolith after beating the boss, if you can do the next dificulty one up?

[hollow carbon]

I assume you mean for empowered monos?

[weary moon]

I don't know 😒

xD

[hollow carbon]

First time through?

[weary moon]

Yeaah

[hollow carbon]

If thats the case the just move on

[weary moon]

How can you tell xD

[rugged sinew]

the chance that you get it after not getting it doesn't change

[weary moon]

Thank you ❤️

[faint cape]

Yep, the chance is non-zero

[hollow carbon]

Thats not how maths works....

[faint cape]

Which means it will happen that often, unfortunately to you in this case

[rugged sinew]

thats how probability works wdym
it can and will happen that often 0.75% of the time

[native sail]

It isn't bugged. There's no "pity" system in LE. You are at the mercy of legitimate, pure RNG.

[hollow carbon]

Yes, you just repeated back to me what I said the first time 🤦‍♂️

[rugged sinew]

yeah there is no diminishing returns

[hollow carbon]

You really aren't getting this

[native sail]

You're the one who isn't getting it

You can, and will, fail a 50/50 multiple times in a row. The game does not care. It rolls what it rolls.

[hollow carbon]

If it has a 50% drop chance and I havent got it after 7 times then there is only a 0.75% chance of me being that unlucky. That is diminishing returns. Just because the drop chance doesnt change doesnt affect diminishing likelihood of an outcome...

[native sail]

Let me sum it up for you better then, in a much more abrupt fashion

You didn't get it. Sucks. Try again.

[rugged sinew]

no diminishing returns means that if an event doesn't happen it's more likely to happen in the future

which LE doesn't have

[hollow carbon]

🤦‍♂️

Ok buddy, you do you

[native sail]

You're free to think its bugged. People have done entire spreadsheets testing it, it isn't.

[faint cape]

Yeah, diminishing returns isn't the right word, but we're all basically saying the same thing lol

[hollow carbon]

I asked if it WAS bugged and all I got was this guy telling me probabilities arent a real thing lol

But hey, as I said, you do you 🙂

Anyway Im off

[unreal hinge]

Probabilities are a thing. And the drop chance is still 50% on the next try even after not getting it 1000 times in a row

[vernal seal]

Are there any plans to add more defensive layers to Sentinel and masteries? It seems so backwards for them to be the squishiest builds in the game.

[rugged sinew]

sentinels are both the squishiest and one of the tankiest
as they are with bear druids the only ones that realistically can get 100% block chance using the shield face of the mountain
and block is very strong right now

though the devs said they are looking over class balance

[nova bolt]

its any trick here to connect with friends without problems? We cant get this

[acoustic thicket]

Question, can you wield a shield and still be considered unarmed?

[native sail]

Yeah

[acoustic thicket]

Cool

That'll make the gloves I picked up a lot more fun

[marble plume]

guys and girls I have a question that will probably be unpopular.... how do you deal with the monolith grind? I am new to the game, and it took me ages to unlock empowered monoliths... Just to figure out that I don't like the class that I picked and would rather play something else. Thinking of going through all the campaign and then to mindless normal monolith grind just makes me want to quit 😦 how do you deal with it?

[cobalt pumice]

its so unpopular that nobody wants to answer 😄

[native sail]

I just do it
It really doesn't bother me

[cobalt pumice]

i can feel what you are saying and i also feel the same, i believe they should implement some kind of "catch-up" if you have completed the game with a character so you dont need to mindlessly grind through normal monolith EVERY time you want to make a new character.

[acoustic thicket]

Okay, I have an extremely specific question lol. In the Lightning Blast skill tree, there's a node called Closed Circuit that says Lightning Blast can bounce off of you and allies, and give a damage and crit buff. Now, other things show up as icons when they buff you, such as the mirror from teleport, but I never see a buff icon for Closed Circuit. I do see it bounce off the mirror images, but not sure if it bounces off of me individually. I am playing solo. Does it work and not have an indicator when it's buffing you, or does it not work in solo play and therefore is a wasted point?

[native sail]

I think Closed Circuit is bugged

[cobalt pumice]

they could make it so that you can skip directly to empowered monoliths or something like that on your alts

[cobalt pumice]

well it may not bother you but it sure bothers a lot of people i see this coming up a lot lately

[native sail]

They asked, I gave my answer

how do you deal with the monolith grind?

[quartz blaze]

sorc's passive - is that added spell damage, or is it a global % dmg increase?

[native sail]

It's increased not added

[quartz blaze]

got it so 40 mana is a 40% dmg multiplier?

[acoustic thicket]

Okay. I'm gonna try finding a single target and smacking it with my stat screen open to test it, if no one else has a definitive answer.

[native sail]

Well... kinda? It is increased so it is additive with all other increased modifiers, so it is not strictly "I got 40 mana so now I deal 1.4x more damage"

[acoustic thicket]

Okay, after zapping my mirror image repeatedly and getting to max momentum with my stat screen open, it does look like it is not bouncing off of me and giving me the buff.

[marble plume]

honestly just thinking about lvling another character makes me want to quit until they implement that

[rugged sinew]

yes

well not multiplier

40% increased damage

[rough crow]

decent bow to build around?

[vernal seal]

Pretty sure DW lightning bug is tankier than Bastion Pally... What's shield of the mountain?

I think Bladedancers are tankier than Sentinels as well? And Lich potentially?

And Sorc...

[rugged sinew]

only sentinels and druids realistically cap block using this

[vernal seal]

Seems like a lot of itemization to burn to do that though...

[rugged sinew]

yes, but in turn it makes you extremely tanky

[vernal seal]

Only to phys damage though... Wouldn't it be better to pray for an LP Bastion and try to get reduced dmg% on block?

[rugged sinew]

block reduces all damage not just phys

[vernal seal]

Right, but the thing that sets that apart from Bastion really is the less phys damage taken on block. Or I guess working on ranged attacks too, but that seems less worth the burned itemization on all that extra endurance.

[rugged sinew]

quite a few melee enemies hit from more than 4 meters away

also with block chance itemization usually also comes block effectiveness

which you wont get with bastion

[high tusk]

In the interest of trying to Plvl my friend. i was curious if I could just jump around to various portions of the map to help him get his idols/passive points without having to go through the campaign in its entirety. Is this possible?

[rugged sinew]

there is an easier way, if you drag him through specific dungeons then you come out further into the campaign with all those quest passive and idol slots unlocked
this can also be done solo on second characters

[marble plume]

wait what? 😮

[rugged sinew]

you should however have him go to the refuge and do the first quest there so he can waypoint and town portal otherwise it will suck later

temporal sanctum skips everything between like level 35 and 55

[high tusk]

Whoa, might you have a video/resource/write up that would explain this (steps and such)

[marble plume]

I join his question XD

[rugged sinew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzpumI6x7rw @high tusk i think this might be fine?

you need 1 each of the dungeon keys

[high tusk]

We both need 1 key of each, right? Is that what you said?

[rugged sinew]

also be able to complete the dungeon

no

only 1 total

[high tusk]

Right yeah, I'm lvl 98, I think (I hope) I can complete all of them. Side question, if (when) he dies... is that going to cause issues?

[rugged sinew]

only 1 person needs a key for a group to enter a dungeon

[rugged sinew]

not sure tbh i don't think he can rejoin you

so you might need to start a new run

[high tusk]

Hmm okay, so it may be better to plvl him with arenas first, get him to say ... lvl 40 or so

[rugged sinew]

you can also just powerlevel him in echos first so he's a bit tankier

[high tusk]

and THEN do the campaign skip

In your opinion, is arenas faster, or echos

[rugged sinew]

no clue never pleveled anyone

[high tusk]

Fair enough. Thanks again, you've been a fantastic help.

[vernal seal]

Are fiery dragon shoes any good?

[rugged sinew]

i have an LP one i use for ignite builds if that helps

also less bonus damage from crits is nice

I'd only use them if the less bonus damage is rolled high though

[red otter]

Subjective question here but what classes have oyu found to be enjoyable. I am currently a Rogue (Bladedancer) and it really isnt doing anything for me. Was trying to go with a cinderstrike approach but it just feels boring

[high tusk]

I love bows... bowmage seems like fun ( though it's hard to gear)

[rugged sinew]

i come from poe so it's less about class for me and more about only having to press a few buttons

[high tusk]

I love paladin, hammerdin is pretty fun for me, though pallies have more builds. Judgement, holy trail, straight smite, I think even spin2win is semi decent

[rugged sinew]

lich and necromancer i guess since they have quite a few builds without many buttons

[red otter]

I was thinking of trying an acolyte I mean right now my rogue is literally spam cinderstrike.

I have other spells but i barely use them lol I have no clue wtf im doing

[rugged sinew]

if you have the gear i enjoy this
basically you stand therein reaper form channeling wandering spirits
and cast hungering souls and death seal every ~8s on tougher enemies

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/NoX9e5NA

[red otter]

Nice I will check it out

[rugged sinew]

it requires some gear tho
you kinda want those +levels they are very good

[vernal seal]

Is Holy Symbol worth specing into if you're using Bastion? or is it too small of a heal?

[rugged sinew]

probably not really worth it

maybe if you have some extra points after getting everything else?

[worthy plover]

wtf is this?

I can't pick it up and if I use a potion its wont pick up either

[rugged sinew]

it's a differently named potion

sometimes potions drop wierdly and are hard to pick up however

[vernal seal]

Is singularity any good for a smite hammeradin? Or do you want to be able to build crit?

[dry narwhal]

singularity is trash

any hit build you want to be able to crit, espescially on a smite build that has such easy access to crit, and it doesn't work on DoTs cause they don't HIT

[sly fable]

quick question - If an exalted has a sealed affix, it can't be used to create legendaries, right?

[dry narwhal]

it can, the seal will just be ignored

[zinc anchor]

As long as it has 4 UNsealed affixes, it can

[wheat flint]

is EU supposed to take priority for what server you end up in for party play?

[blissful zenith]

Is there a general rule of thumb as to how many Gaze's to carry before clearing them by killing a shade?

[spark thorn]

just curious, i started playing a lich today hit lvl 50 and even though transplant says it hits for over 8k and hungering souls ar at 3.5k in reaper form they hit like wet noodles... literally 100 dmg... just curious if someone can tell me if im doing something wrong or if this is a bug, or what?

[tidal mulch]

seems the first few (3 or 4) give 8 additional corruption, then it starts to go down. im holding 6 right now and its only giving 32

whats a good sweet spot for corruption to farm a 70 effective level for LP? im at 221 corruption and farming comfortably but its kinda meh

[merry aspen]

Tooltip DPS is not equal your actual damage and it's not supposed to be. The tooltip is meant to tell you whether your damage increases when you make changes to your gear.
Without knowing your current gear and skill points it's impossible to say how much damage you "should" be doing.

[spark thorn]

i dont know then, I just played a druid and had no issues clearing everything and hitting 80 in a day... playing this lich im not able to kill anything at lvl 50 and ive checked out builds and guides to make sure i was doing it right...

[raw fern]

Check @zinc sinew lich, he's god like lich player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbpnmxzNpZA

Check the description for planner, not the video

[spark thorn]

i checked his video before i started playing, i even checked the build planner... im not really doing anything different, my damage hasnt gone up in like 30 levels...

[balmy pulsar]

hey guys more fo a tech question here which would be better for playing ryzen 7 5800x or ryzen 7 5800x3d plan on streaming as well

[fleet lava]

hey all, I'm a filthy lazy casual and prefer builds more similar to autobomber, but I heard it got nerfed into the ground. Are there any similar builds that I should look into? I saw a 1 button warpath build and a 1 button zoomaster, but that's all

[sterile widget]

When you say you're "not really" doing anything different, does that mean you are doing something different but you think it is irrelevant or you are not doing anything different at all?

How does your current character differ from the build planner?

Are the skill allocations different?
Is the gear different?

Ask yourself these questions and then you will be closer to an answer. 🙂

[lucid echo]

Are there any uniques for a Minionmancer TM I should keep an eye out for? All of my minions are close range combatants so things like the ranged skeleton wand is no go for me

[spark thorn]

the gear is deffinitely different, how could it not be im leveling... im still lvl 50..

[sterile widget]

So I note the build planner doesn't have any skill progression info. You may find that you've allocated skill nodes in a different order or that the build only kicks into gear at the higher end of skill node allocation (which i note requires +skill gear)

My recommendation is go through the build planner and read all the node choices and determine how it differs and which nodes or gear are most likely to fix the build.

If you don't want to do all the reading, best bet is to contact build creator on YT video and ask your questions there

[woeful haven]

Lagon seems to be my nemesis. If I can find a group member or three can I complete Mono quest that way or those always solo?

[dense lynx]

Question: I am currently starting to dip my toes into forge and upgrading items. Is there a way to remove a stat off of one item(example 20% increased cast speed on acolyte relic) from that relic and move it to another item?

[sterile widget]

Yep. You can group for any part of the game

[sterile widget]

You can use a Rune of Removal to remove a suffix or prefix at random and you will receive the shards you can then use to add it to the other item. Unless the source item only has one affix, there's no way to guarantee a specific affix is removed

[dense lynx]

Okay that makes sense! So I can only upgrade to a t-5 skill then past that is just RNG of a item/weapon?

[sterile widget]

Yeah. You can craft up to T5. Exalted items (which have T6 or T7 modifiers) drop randomly at higher level areas 🙂

[dense lynx]

Okay! Thank you for the help! I really do appreciate it.

[sterile widget]

You're welcome. Have fun 🙂

[pale jolt]

um i just lost my level 89 void knight by creating a new character?

[dense lynx]

Hey skip sorry another question. I was watching a Epoch video and the guys build had him duel wielding two weapons. Can an necro duel wield or can I only wield a weapon and a shield?

[swift fiber]

I just got a 2LP Calamity, what should I try to get on it?

[thorn monolith]

So you can only craft one legendary per trip to the forge

?

[sterile widget]

I scanned the passive tree on LE Tools quickly and I don't believe Acolyte classes have an option for dual wielding.

[sterile widget]

Correct

[dense lynx]

Okay thank you! So just offhand items/shields then?

[rugged sinew]

yes

[dense lynx]

Okay!

[rugged sinew]

some classes have a passive that let them put weapons in their offhands

[dense lynx]

That makes sense was hoping acolyte could do it too haha

[muted seal]

(Spoiler)wait so is the snake lady the final story boss?

[sterile widget]

Yes. For now.

[muted seal]

ah i thought it felt very cliff hangery XD

[native sail]

There are 12 planned chapters we have 9 of them atm

There's some vagueness and lack of information on how they're handling the remaining few, so it's hard to tell where those will land in timing

[autumn rivet]

Ive been target farming for Abberent Call at lv 81. Now I'm almost 98 and still no staff. Any suggestions?

[rugged sinew]

in regular monoliths or level 100 version?

[autumn rivet]

Empowered mono. It's my first char so I'm around 220 corruption atm. Also been using all my rune of ascendance (around 20) on staff too but no luck

[rugged sinew]

good luck eventually it will show up

there isn't really much different you can do i think

[autumn rivet]

Damn. Is there a consistent way to farm rune of ascendance?

[pastel pebble]

You're better off target farming the item than relying on runes

[forest vapor]

try runes you get by all means, but you'd be lucky. aberrant call is actually pretty common, youve just been quite unlucky.

[neat vector]

Trying to push my Werebear to its absolute MAXIMUM.

Assuming I have the gear for it, I'm assuming Lightning Swipe is the best bet?

Currently Cold DoT and I love it but ST scaling is limited.

[dusky flicker]

has any1 managed to successfully get a zero damage werebear tank build?

[red otter]

anyone know of an ability for a rogue that acts kind of like a shield with permanent uptime? like i have some points in shuriken that makes them circle around me but i have to recast it every few seconds

[frozen jungle]

hey guys how do i know if i'm getting lightning aegis? it's not a skill right?

[forest vapor]

if its anything like void aegis, a little buff icon will appear on the buff bar

[tidal mulch]

Shift has a node that casts 5 shurikens. That paired with the armor node and pierce gives it permanent up time

[weary tangle]

Okay, does anyone have a guide on low life, high ward, endurance builds?

[clever jay]

does anyone know, if i already have iron sprial on pally, if i take avatar of the spire, will it still double the number of hammer i cast? i know it wont do a " nova " anymore.

[weary tangle]

Also, has anyone effectively made a reflect build yet? :p

[strong rampart]

How good is beastmaster, compared to shaman and druid?

[neat vector]

Meh clear, extremely strong bosser.

Has some solid baseline builds, but the Squirrel Helm build is next level

[strong rampart]

Im currently running a tornado/maelstrom shaman, just curious about the other 2 masteries

[vapid vapor]

good for survivability but very very límited build options unless you build a niche one

[strong rampart]

Im running a shaman as my first character

[vapid vapor]

I have in the past with spriggan form with thorn shield, Next level OP to watch movies onnthe other monitor 😉

[strong rampart]

Thought about going druid my next playthrough

[boreal venture]

what do yall think is better blade master or marksman

[vapid vapor]

Even tho i downplayed BM a bit, look at Swarmblade builds, maybe you like It, serpent strike is OP for that build 🙂

[strong rampart]

Is werebear, cold DoT really THAT strong?

BM.. beastmaster?

I was thinking either werebear, or swarmblade

[vapid vapor]

Werebear for easy tank reliable mid dps / Swarmblade high mobility tank-ish if aggresive high dps, my preference on swarm

[strong rampart]

I'll check them both out

After I finish my shaman play through

[dim zealot]

Werebear doesnt seem to be all that fast, but Im only level 50

[strong rampart]

Is swipe good for werebear?

[vapid vapor]

I did Emp 100 With 800 corruption quite easily with swarm.and the almost 20% insta 1shot with serpent strike feels nice

[strong rampart]

I also dual wield

[vapid vapor]

Mandatory in most cases i'd say if im.not wrong

[strong rampart]

Doesn't serpent strike, you can only use spears?

[vapid vapor]

When youbare transformed

It also applies to the melee skill

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/EAL0KgdA

[strong rampart]

Mine says, requires spear

[vapid vapor]

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

[strong rampart]

That's the only reason I don't use serpent strike, I don't like spears

[vapid vapor]

Look at these two, when i used it, when transformed i was 1 shotting bosses at 20%~ hp, which is a passive exclusive to serpent strike 🙂

[strong rampart]

You can use snake, outside of spears?

[vapid vapor]

Yes

[strong rampart]

For some reason, when I try it, doesn't work

[vapid vapor]

Some skills, have passives that apply to other skills

Like the ice thorns skill, It has some passives that also upgrade shield thorn

[pine anvil]

Do you have to be within a certain distance to get exp from a party member? We're splitting the map

[strong rampart]

Even base form serpent strike, doesn't work for me

[dim zealot]

I think I just need better gear. My werebear is kinda trash

[vapid vapor]

When you transform to Swarmblade, you have a melee attack skill, that acquires the passives of serpent strike notables, but im not casting serpent strike directing, you know? 🙂

[strong rampart]

I mean direct using

[vapid vapor]

Direct using is trash, that's why im talking about Swarmblade 🙂

[strong rampart]

Im not druid though

[pine anvil]

Do you have to be close to the mob to get exp?

[vapid vapor]

2 screens if im.not wrong

[pine anvil]

Is this reply for me?

[vapid vapor]

Ye

[pine anvil]

Thanks big dog!

[strong rampart]

Ice thorn has a High freeze chance

[vapid vapor]

And passive chance to proc when hit, it's veery nice

Also tornado, investing 5 points in druid gets It unlocked and same goes for the maelstrom

[strong rampart]

I need to finish chapter 4

[vernal seal]

Here I am farming Spirits of Fire because there's TWO blessings I want from it, and I can't get EITHER to drop. Wtf.

[flat grail]

what build have the fastest echo build or atleast fast dont have to be fastest other than paladin hammers

[west vapor]

has anyone ever logged into the game to missing armor pieces

[wary turret]

When mine were "missing" it was just a visual bug and they could still be selected. (though be careful with this because it seems you could drop them as well). Changing areas got mine to "reappear".

[high tusk]

When running a friend through all the dungeons, is he supposed to get his idols/passives automatically? or is there something he has to do to get those idols/passives

[faint cape]

Still gotta do the quests to get the passives/idol as far as I know

[versed apex]

any way to fix the temp sanctum bug where the door doesnt open?

[vernal seal]

I'd say crit Lich is way up there. Shadow daggers Bladedancer isn't bad either.

What skill should I replace Spriggan with once I get high enough that Spriggan becomes useless because it's always dead? Ice Shards?

[acoustic thicket]

is there a way to reset the echo and do some nodes again ?

[native sail]

Vessel of Memory

[forest vapor]

fighting the shade of orobyss, in the 'Echo of a World' nodes you'll start seeing as you go further out, will reset the entire timeline and give you some corruption. vessel of memory is a echo node type that refreshes any nodes you have already done. Vessel of Chaos is a similiar thing, but it re-rolls nodes you have not already done.

[zinc anchor]

If I have an Arek's bone with 200% increased effect of armor shred and I have 130 stacks of armor shred on the enemy, is that like having 390 stacks? And I normally have around 70. Is 390 a LOT better than 70, or am I crazy?

according to this: https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/armor 70 stacks is about 72% more damage (with physical, which is what I do) but 298 stacks is about 84%, but it doesn't go higher than that

(That's at 0 armor, IDK how much armor the mobs have :-)

[forest vapor]

it should be better, by how much? its probably not linear but it would be a lot, i would think

armour doesnt just reduce physical hits, it also reduces non-phys hits at 70% effectiveness, so armour shred is pretty good

but yes it would be like having 390 stacks in terms of how much negative armour you have on them

[tight jacinth]

Can you merge a second copy of an affix onto a unique?

so if a unique has melee attack speed could you merge another attack speed affix off an exalted item?

[vernal seal]

Holy crap the blessings have been BRUTAL today. I ran like 5 bosses on my Paladin and 3 on my Druid and didn't see a SINGLE one I wanted. My Paladin was running one with TWO acceptable options too. Like... What in the actual hell. There needs to be some kind of bad luck protection for blessings. Like... Reduce the odds of any blessing showing up more than 3 times in a row or something.

[forest vapor]

yes, i believe so

[acoustic thicket]

is there a way to skip the campaign to a certain level ?

[vernal seal]

I believe there's a dungeon you can do to skip it. Then you just have to go back and do enough side quests to get all your passives and idle slots.

[acoustic thicket]

Can i do temporial sanctum tier 1 at level 59 ?

[vernal seal]

Probably... You should be able to. Tier 1 and 2 are both really easy. Even 3 isn't TOO bad. 4 is brutal though.

[acoustic thicket]

i am a necromancer

[vernal seal]

That doesn't really matter.

[acoustic thicket]

alright

ill try then

that should help me skip through a good amount of the story

[vernal seal]

If you're level 59 you're probably pretty close to the end anyways.

[acoustic thicket]

nah i have been farming monoliths

[vernal seal]

Ah

[native sail]

None btw.

[coral gust]

hey gusy i am new. i am wondering with the hammer throw skill. does hammer of want work with the skill ricochet. i feel like the first hammer hit gives me an orb but not the additional chains

[strong rampart]

Why doesn't any primalist build, use eterra blessing for healing?

[dry narwhal]

There's a couple beastmasters that do iirc

But leech is found on a lot of items easier

[strong rampart]

I know swipe has good leech

[dry narwhal]

it's better to not waste a button on an ability that you don't need lol

[opal holly]

Guys say I find a really good exalted item what would be the optimal craft I only been using glyph of chaos on the affixes I want to change and the glyph that potential locks the affix but gives you another slot.. but I feel like there's a better way since I rarely utilize other runes / glyphs

[strong rampart]

I do need swipe

[dry narwhal]

i mean the eterras blessing

its just not that good on most builds

[strong rampart]

I understand, I was just curious is all

What's better, cold DoT werebear, or lightning werebear?

Also what's the difference between the

[lean reef]

What is considered best sword/dagger for bladedancer ?

[river hull]

are different damage types additive with one another or multiplicative - ie. fire damage +50%, spell damage +50% and elemental damage +50% ; is that just +150% to fire spells? (as opposed to ((y x 1.5) x 1.5) x 1.5)

and then assume i'm using manifest armor with no bonus to the item from skills within the tree; would +50% fire damage on say the chest, be the same as +50% damage to minions on another item, assuming that the manifest armor is just casting a fire spell?

[hollow bane]

Cold DoT is more meta/beginner friendly. It's less gear reliant and clears really fast. Lightning scales better with gear and is tankier. Personal preference for which you prefer, they don't play all that similarly.

[forest vapor]

yes, depending on the very specific word used. 'Increased' works the first way - as long as the tag matches (increased "X" damage) a skill tag, you can add all those increases up to the final multiplier there. if it says 'more', however, that is a flat multiplier of that much to the end amount. so 'more' is a lot more effective than 'increased'

[river hull]

thanks - what about the + minion damage on manifest armor, does the manifest armor effectively take your armor as base damage first then multiplicatively x increased minion damage, or does it somehow work out that +50% spell damage to chest is the same as +50% minion damage (assuming it is casting a spell)

[acoustic thicket]

i am fightiing a boss i am out of health potions a health potion drops why cant i pick it up

[forest vapor]

im not sure, ill have to go look that skill up

honestly i coudlnt say one way or the other on that topic, you may have to go ask some forgeguard experts on that one

[gray wasp]

is there an immediate fix if the door to julra is bugged so that the keyholder cannot see the selection to proceed or stay behind?

[shy egret]

any way to switch what server you default connect to when you join the game

i used to connect to the Australia server, now i get connected to US east and have 200+ ms

[rapid talon]

How is bowmage this patch?

[elfin meteor]

I've been leveling my first character as a Shadow Daggers blade dancer, but i'm not really liking the playstyle, as stuff usually dies behind me and i would have to backtrack to get my loot or have massive FOMO if i don't. Is there any build that is equally fast in clearing while being properly tanky and decent at bossing?

[forest vapor]

currently no, but it is planned (because of stuff like that)

VPN may help if you have one already

[grizzled tapir]

hi guys, still in early game here, which one do you guys think better for my pala smiter? im using banner of restoration on my javelin skill so having increased healing seems useful. i currently have 35% block chance and 20% healing effectiveness

[cobalt pumice]

why did it redirect me there instead of reign of dragons? is this new with the new patch?

[shy egret]

VPN worked, getting invited to a party with someone on the
server also worked

thanks 😄

[forest vapor]

nice, glad you could get in

[cobalt pumice]

anyone else getting low fps in echos (like 30-40) AFTER the patch, while before the patch it was over 100 all the time?

its sad..

[forest vapor]

check that it hasnt reverted or changed any graphics settings

[cobalt pumice]

nothing changed, everything is as it was

[forest vapor]

change something, apply, then change back : check it's actually applying what it shown there

that might be a bit paranoid but i think we've all seen games work in wierd ways like that sometimes

and i literally had to do that like five minutes ago because the game decided to default back to native screen res, which makes it crash.. which it did. despite me looking right at the resolution setting and it saying it was at the lower res (it was not).

[native sail]

Wrong dialogue option with Liath.

[cobalt pumice]

There is no Liath in ending the storm timeline, it never gave me an option to choose

[native sail]

There is

She is in the second quest echo

[cobalt pumice]

Ohhh you are right

Oh well

[flat grail]

Does the firebrand stacks apply to all the shatter strike charges

[red otter]

So question for a bladedancer under cinderstrike i took something the converts poison to ignite. then under shuriken i took something that has a chance to inflict poison... does that mean that will nnow have a chance to ignite?

[native sail]

No, because it isn't Cinderstrike applying it

[red otter]

damn, just when i think i am figuring out this build stuff

i dunno figured my shift spawn shurinkens which spin around me those shuriken would apply poison but since cinderstike converts poison to fire they would now apply fire

[native sail]

If memory serves, it is phrased as "FOR Cinderstrike"

[red otter]

"Poison chance from all sources is is converted to ignite chance for cinderstike"

so does that mean poison chance on weapons and armour?

[rugged sinew]

all sources means all

but only for cinderstrike

[elfin meteor]

What's everyone's favorite way to level druid? I've been told the maxroll guide is decent, but i might also like going thorn totem or even totem pop for leveling? Any tips?

[red otter]

I am missing something because there is literally nothing within the cinderstrike tree that applys poison. So i guess what im saying is if I use shuriken and it applies poision then i follow up with cinderstrike then does that hit from cinderstrike change the poision to ignite

[rugged sinew]

no

anything that gives "#% chance to poison" will instead be considered "#% chance to ignite" if you hit with cinderstrike

[red otter]

ok so it isnt from "all sources" then just stats on weapons and/or armor?

[rugged sinew]

if you have a skill that gave all other skills a buff that applies "#% chance to poison" that would also be converted

basically anything that gives cinderstrike chance to poison

for example smoke bomb or shift have passives that give your attacks chance to poison @red otter
if you then use cinderstrike, cinderstrike itself would instead of poisoning inflict ignite based on that chance to poison

chance to poison from gear also gets converted yes

but only for cinderstrike

other skills will still poison

I hope it's clear now?

[strange wedge]

Is there any benefit to keeping all idols that you find? At what point do the smaller idols become obsolete?

[red otter]

not sure if this might help to show what i am going for
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/jQex4xnA
my first attempt at building

still a work in progress but my goal is essentially shift in and spam cinderstrike. Shift drops acid flask and puts on shield of shurikens.

[strong rampart]

Is there a way to make swipe cold damage?

[rugged sinew]

Well larger idols aren't automatically better than smaller ones
The smaller 2by1 idols for example can roll very good mods like health/vitality + resistances
Or % health + flat health
Which will make you a lot tankier

Whether an idol is good or not depends on the mods it has

Just like gear

[molten crescent]

what happens when your illumination goes down to 0 in lightless arbor?

or rather if

[rugged sinew]

I think it's a good idea but you should be more focused, if you build around ignites then the flat damage passives won't help you and if you build around the flat damage then the fire damage over time nodes won't help you

It's better if you focus on a single type of damage than on multiple in most cases

[drifting socket]

qq - re legendary potential. what does this value actually mean?

[buoyant sinew]

A unique item with legendary potential can be merged with an exalted item in the temporal sanctum dungeon, creating a legendary item which has all the properties of the unique plus some of the mods from the exalted item. The amount of legendary potential is the number of mods from the exalted item that will be transferred onto the new legendary item

[rugged sinew]

So you have exalted items (items with tier6/7 mods)
When you have a unique item with a potential of 2 then you can transfer 2 random mods from the exalted item onto the unique and turn it into a legendary that is the unique + 2 mods

You can do this after clearing timeless sanctum I recommend watching a YouTube guide on it

[drifting socket]

thanks both!

[faint cape]

You're in for a rough time

[faint cape]

There's no conversion, but you can certainly make it cold damage by using weapons with a cold implicit or just adding a lot of cold damage (like shattered lance set)

[rugged sinew]

They gain damage and resistances from not being in the light

You can increase it again by slaying those orange crystal enemies

[molten crescent]

it was on the boss it almost ran out

but i made it

[strong rampart]

I know I can convert to lightning

[rugged sinew]

If you send it away from your character it won't get reduced from you taking damage

[molten crescent]

ah so i can send it next to the kindling

and then just stand there?

[faint cape]

^ at the heart stage I just plop it right on the center

[molten crescent]

that would make it a lot easier

in that phase

[rugged sinew]

Yes

[molten crescent]

gotcha

thanks!

[manic cave]

so how does story skipping/power leveling work? have a fresh acolyte cause I wanted to try lich

[strong rampart]

Would lightning werebear, do more dps than cold DoT?

[chilly rivet]

first time epoch playere here. just finished download. where should i start. ill be playing hardcore if there is such a thing

[forest vapor]

wouldnt recommend hardcore right now. a few too many bugs of the 'you got one shot kind of unavoidably' variety

unless you enjoy that sort of thing in which case by all means please proceed

[strong rampart]

Crystal sword, and Cresent axe, drop from who/where?

[worthy plover]

do things like flat + spell cold damage or +spell lightning damage apply to all spells or only the spell type its the same as?

[worldly pivot]

when farming for the Curse of Perseverance staff, do I just do whatever rifts in the Stolen Lance, or do I look for specific ones? I'm new to this kinda farming

[outer cosmos]

Hey all I’m level 75 about to be going into empowered monoliths. This is my first big ARPG game and I’ve been enjoying it. I’m having a hard time figuring out how to optimize what I’m doing so I can keep pushing. I’m playing a lightning Sorceror that throws the big static orbs that booms the mobs.
Are there certain affixes I should be looking for on exhaulted gear?

[faint cape]

@drifting inlet Electrify is just a very new ailment, so not a lot uses it yet. Pretty sure mage has sources by now.

[outer cosmos]

It only applies to things that are spell AND lightning

[drifting inlet]

Mage? Which skill has it?

[faint cape]

Also, related to your ghost maker question, I imagine it's mainly thematic

[worthy plover]

so like an ice sceptre is basically like having 0 spell damage for anything that isn't cold then?

[forest vapor]

zone level based only

[forest vapor]

specific 'unique/set staff' nodes in that timeline

[blissful zenith]

Any advice for my first LP? Just grab the same item type with good stats and hope for the best?

[worldly pivot]

oh boy, that's gonna be painful then. Thanks 🙂

[faint cape]

Added damage gets added to everything applicable

In this case, all your spells

[worthy plover]

ah right ok, I was mostly wondering about the copper amulet and primalist relic with cold as well

[strong rampart]

What lvl, you know?

[faint cape]

Dammitt did the lookup, apparently none yet 😂 but for reference, electrify wasn't a thing before the last major update before 0.9

The one that added chapter 9

[worthy plover]

Is it possible to target farm types of exalted e.g. an eagle wing axe by going to an area that is around the level it would have started dropping?

does that even make sense?

[forest vapor]

kind of, temporal sanctum has rotating different boosted drops on a daily basis, higher effect at higher tiers

something like a 20 day rotation

[worthy plover]

interesting thank you

[forest vapor]

or, do soulfire bastion, soul gambler probably has at least one or two of what you are after

might not end up exalted, mind

[worthy plover]

I've so far only done the other one I think for Julras ring so have yet to try the dungeons but have a good few keys saved up

[native sail]

What was that, 0.8.4?

[drifting socket]

that might be a silly question but how can I zoom out the map when i press "tab"?

[vernal seal]

So, I'm currently playing an umbral blades speed clear BD and having fun with it. But can anyone suggest an end game BD build to farm for that will be good for pushing corruption and maybe killing T4 Julra?

[drifting socket]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/shadow-daggers-bladedancer-guide/skills-passives I'm using this

it's pretty lit

[forest vapor]

you cant do it on the fly i think, but there are sliders in the main settings menu, under the gameplay tab i think

[drifting socket]

there we go, thank you!

[vernal seal]

Shadow daggers is what I meant by umbral blades haha

Is that the best one? Thought it was mostly just mapping

[drifting socket]

i'll reply in the #🔪┃rogue chat as it fits there better

[clever jay]

is maelstrom classed as an elemental skill?

[strong rampart]

Cold, spell, dot l, area, attunement

Elemental damage is fire/lightning/ice

[restive wasp]

To the more experienced, how do I craft Crit Multiplier on this Staff?

I'm assuming I try to seal the Lightning Damage and craft Crit Multi in the open slot but I'm not too sure... This is basically the dream staff for my current build and it would be deflating to mess it up

[fallen tundra]

Anyone know if the Spriggan summoned from Friend of the Forest in the Spriggan Form tree also grant additional benefits from the Spriggan skill tree (increased spell damage, dodge rating...etc)? Would it stack with a regular spriggan companion?

[agile lodge]

Can a rune of ascendance give me a monolith boss unique drop?

[restive wasp]

No

[worthy plover]

is there any way to target farm glyphs of despair other than finding glyph echos?

[tight jacinth]

Think youve got it right. Glyph of Despair the lighning damage and then put crit multi in its place.

[tight jacinth]

Its in the Julra rotation. Two days ago shed drop one every time youy killed her

[restive wasp]

Thanks, that's what I thought. Fingers crossed

@tight jacinth Hell yeah sealed it! Thanks!

[spark drum]

Options

[tight jacinth]

This is life changing

[faint cape]

Yes, unless you convert it to something else like phys or necrotic

[faint cape]

In addition to what the other guy said, despair is also easy to get from lightless arbor's gold sink mechanic

[midnight harbor]

Now im into emp mono - whats my goal here? same as before, stability then bosses and reset?

[faint cape]

The goal is farming up more character improvements (partly by doing what you said). Basically blessings and target farming in addition to the usual looting

[next root]

Are rollbacks a common thing during this beta? I just logged back in and some of my stash items are gone as well as the 2H I used

[raw fern]

Try relog once more, if items will still be missing report that: #1088489316407328879 message

[spring igloo]

Anybody belong to any farming groups?

[ornate horizon]

How is the build variety in LE? Is it possible to see several different builds for the same subspec?

[bleak vine]

Is there a way for Acolyte to dual wield?

[quiet sandal]

@dawn flint Rune of removal does use forging potential. It's not guaranteed to use all of it. Use a glyph of hope when using them to increase your chances of using more than one

[strong rampart]

Weapon and catalyst/shield only

[mighty jackal]

Could someone help me with one doubt here? Why my Hail of Arrows deals more damage with this blue item than the yellow item? How Bow Attack Speed influences in this case?

[outer cosmos]

For lightning sorcerer what idols should I be looking for?

[nocturne sparrow]

Anyone having problems with vk hammers not showing up when echoed? I am playing offline.

My echos will show up but will not have the hammer show up when the echo does the ability

[gritty zodiac]

is anyone experiencing a weird bug where skills dont work after you zone? it happens to me about 50% of the time. Warpath works, once i cast that for 1 second, all other skills work after that. Is it a know bug? is there a fix? its forcing me to keep warpath on my bar. (Sorry new just started couple days back! beena great game)

[ebon falcon]

Hey guys does anyone have a build for a minion necro? High fire dog but I need to improve crit chance cos its on 15% only , level 81.

I've tried a few different things but I feel like I'm making it worse😅

[tight jacinth]

anyone know where to see the Dungeon reward and door bonus rotations?

[dire herald]

what happend with static orbs scatter blast? I cant seem to generate as many small orbs as before? Only every few casts it spawns a few

oh nvm I see now there is only a 20% chance to spawn them now if you take the ball lightning node

[crimson herald]

anyone getting some heavy rubber banding in monoliths?

[carmine apex]

how to change to widescreen? i'm using monitor with reso 1080

[gentle pasture]

does acid flask dps include damage from poison application?

[fossil halo]

Hi. I'm building a druid that focus on minions using bleed and poison. Including totems. Which stats will increase their damage?

[rare bobcat]

simplest question as a beginner to LE but a vet to these games. sell all or shatter all as im leveling?

what to do with all the gear

[red otter]

curious does anyone know if the latest updates have messed up imports of loot filters from maxroll? wont let me paste from clipboard

[crude jewel]

if i have blessing of the black sun lvl 66 active and do a 100 monolith and finish it, do i get both blessings then or does it only upgrade?

[zinc anchor]

When you do an empowered monolith, you will see options for blessings to pick, same as beating the lower level version. So you can keep the one you have or replace it. You don't get 2 blessings, you get either the lower level one or the higher one, not both @crude jewel

[zinc anchor]

increase minion damage over time, minion damage, minion poison damage, minion physical damage (that's for bleed)

[zinc anchor]

You should keep all items you find with very rare affixes to shatter later, but save them and wait to shatter until you need it as runes of shattering will be sparse early. Most people say the only ones you should keep are +1 to skill level and hybrid health, but there are others that are fairly rare too I recommend keeping around. especially, though, ones you plan to use for your build

[zinc anchor]

And, most things aren't worth picking up to sell so just not picking up at all is the general advice but you can sell if you want. the exception being uniques and set pieces as well as amulets sell for more

[fossil halo]

@zinc anchor thanks. So totem is affected by minion affixes?

[zinc anchor]

yes

[zinc anchor]

Probably not, DPS is very wonky. Best to test on a target dummy and even that isn't always good enough. 😦 Sorry

[swift fiber]

I got into empowered monoliths and I noticed my gold rate dropped off. Is there an effective way to farm gold other than just "kill things" and the echo reward?

[rare bobcat]

thank you for the answer. still very new so no idea whats of value yet but im learning

how to know what a rare affix is, now that is the question

[zinc anchor]

What are you using gold for?

[swift fiber]

Tabs

[zinc anchor]

Well I don't know any better way to farm gold 😕

[swift fiber]

Is it expected that gold rate drops off in empowered? Or am I just unlucky?

[zinc anchor]

Well, I would say anything that has damage penetration. fire penetration, void penetration, etc. And pretty much any class-specific ones. The loot filter is really easy to use and you can single out what you want to see, emphasize it and/or change color so you know you're seeing it just for that. Most people don't save that stuff, but the thing is, if you have an otherwise good piece of gear and you want to chaos or glyph of despair that affix away, you'll need a shard to do it with. And you might not find one for a while cuz they are rare. So if you find a good piece later and you hadn't been saving them, you might not be able to craft on it like you'd like. You can use a rune of removal, but it's riskier

[zinc anchor]

I always have a steady supply of gold coming in in empowered, so maybe you're just unlucky? But I don't buy like a TON of stash tabs so I'm not sure how many you have, maybe it's worse for people who buy them more

[elder onyx]

I'm trying to level a paladin per this guide at https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/paladin-leveling-guide/skills-passives . I don 't see how Javelin can be the only/main damage skill because of the cooldown. I'm guessing i'm missing something?

[digital pivot]

Is the lp level of arena uniques affected by arena tier? or would it make it no difference if I farmed tier 1 besides the smaller drop rate?

[lime plaza]

Any recommendations on a Starter Class thats pretty easy? I struggled with Primalist but did get him to druid but would like to try another. Any advice greatly appreciated 😄

[rare bobcat]

like something that says +1 to warpath?

[elder onyx]

@lime plaza I have leveled almost every class to about 35-65 and I found anything to do with Accolite to be hard or boring. Sentinel subclasses are all easy though they all seem boring to me. Rogue is also 1-dimensional sort of but bladedancer was fun somewhat. I had the most fun period with Spellblade.

[zinc anchor]

Yeah. At least for your class, or any class you plan to play

[lime plaza]

Noted thank you!

[zinc anchor]

Necromancer is generally considered to be rather easy compared to other classes

At least that's what most people say. Not sure why kamenjar had trouble with it. But you just have minions do your bidding and you sit back and watch them kill. Pretty easy 😛 Fun, too, IMO but of course it's not for everybody

[elder onyx]

Maybe I could find the right build. I could not get damage out of necro. I teried the maxroll's bone golem build, then I swapped zombie+fire golem build that I found and still not much luck. It seemed slow to clear compared to other classes. Any Sentinel build I tried for example was much easier to put together and better in both damage and survivability.

[faint cape]

None of the classes have trouble leveling if you use the right skills, really

minions will probably always be slower clear compared to a hit build, though

[bleak vine]

Can you get + level to skills on legendary body armour?

[faint cape]

Yep

[elder onyx]

That's true, but some classes are easier and faster. If minions are slower, then how are they easy when I will make twwice the level on a void knight compared to necromancer in given time?

[faint cape]

I wouldn't say they are slower to level though

[elder onyx]

Which means harder in my book

[bleak vine]

So virtually any affixes can transfer to the legendary? That's nice

[elder onyx]

To each their own

[faint cape]

you just walk past enemies and they die somewhere behind you, still give you xp

I don't really like pure minion builds in this game because I feel the AI is not adequate, but I wouldn't say they are worse than other builds

[elder onyx]

Takling about walking .. I was leveling a shaman the otrher day, I was killing things as fast as I could walk just lcicking the totem button. With nerco it was never like that.

[bleak vine]

Flame wraith with stationary minions solves this

[faint cape]

Yes, anything that you can get on a regular item of the same type (like 2h axe)

[elder onyx]

I've actually seen this build on youtube I think but didn't give it too much thought. Is clear speed ok (with not so much great gear)?

[bleak vine]

It's very easy without a lot of gear, you only need the staff

[faint cape]

Clear speed is similar to any stationary minion build at late game

and the mentioned staff is super easy to get

[elder onyx]

Thx. I'll give it a try sometime down the road.

[faint cape]

It's probably faster than totems late game, but slower early game

I guess to be fair the staff is like level 70ish lol

[bleak vine]

The major obstacle at early game is mana regeneration

Before 70, you still use skeleton and bone golem along with the wraiths to get free damage

[zinc anchor]

Minion builds are "easy" because you're less at risk of dying, don't have to dodge stuff, don't have to press a lot of buttons, etc. It might be slightly slower but it just depends on how well you build it honestly. For example, bone golems are meant to be tanky and defensive, not damage dealing, and yet that's what you used BOTH times apparently

[bleak vine]

The staff is what forces you to respect any other minions skill

[faint cape]

The golem is so good, I love the rework so much

and I think you could likely slap the entire game with bone shatter golem from a very early level

[remote kayak]

Does the kickstarter page still work/count?

[analog condor]

Is anyone have issues loading into echos? It stays stuck on loading forever :x

[hollow jetty]

if i dual wield forge guard my forge weapons get stats from both weapons right?

[faint cape]

It seems so yes

[hollow jetty]

ok. thanks

[worthy plover]

are there any items or affixes that raise base mana regen outside of increased mana regen?

[faint cape]

No

You do gain a little base mana regen per level

er nevermind

that's health regen only

[worthy plover]

I noticed this passive only gives me 1 point in actual mana regen lol

wasnt sure if I was missing something just wanted to check as I couldnt find any base mana regen anywher

[onyx lance]

is this supposed to be outlined red?

[faint cape]

Yeah, no flat mana regen is available anywhere. It doesn't round though, so despite the display you do get full benefit of the regen % you get even if it doesn't up the number on your character sheet

[faint cape]

!bug

[ripe brook]

Please post bug reports on our forum: https://forum.lastepoch.com/c/bug-reports. Thanks!

[half mason]

Quick question, I keep running empowered monolith, been doing that for a while. How do I unlock the 5th choice for blessing? Also, I see that I have 11/20 monolith completed, I actually did a lot more!

[faint cape]

The last option is unlocked at 200 corruption; the monolith completion counts empowered an non-empowered separately, gotta complete each once (there's no reward though)

[half mason]

Thank you very much!!

[visual mountain]

Found a decent exalted with only 3 affixes, if I put on a 4th could I still combine it with a unique?

[zinc anchor]

of course

[visual mountain]

ty!

[zinc anchor]

as long as you have 4 UNsealed affixes, it can be combined with a unique

doesn't matter how it got there and it doesn't even need to have forging potential

[wooden walrus]

does FG's "Shield Crafter" node work on hit or on block? the description says both

[analog phoenix]

If I get for example. +10 Spell Cold Damage from the passive tree, and then convert a cold spell to physical in its tree (for example the Rockfall node in the Avalanche tree), will this added cold damage also be converted? Or is only the spell's own basic damage converted and no added flat damage is converted?

[wraith badge]

can sub skill Blood Splatter of Rip Blood hit Bone Golem and trigger the retaliate Bone Shatter ?

[quiet sandal]

Unless the conversion says it includes added damage, no. Only base damage is converted

[atomic swift]

Anyone have the third door to lightless arbor not open?

[zinc anchor]

If you hit alt it should say "scales with physical instead of cold" or some such

[raw iron]

where can i farm many rune of shattering?

[modern pilot]

how do i progress? i disconnected in the next map now theres no npc to open the portal..

[frank veldt]

Is it no longer possible to get the adorned drop rate increase blessing? I've done the correct timeline 3 times and each it dropped the large idol increase blessing.

[zinc anchor]

That's a super small sample size to be making such bold assumptions

[warped glacier]

im playing bladedancer shadow build and a lot of the end of time bosses one shot with most attacks is there a way to help this

[zinc anchor]

Runes of Shattering are available to buy at every shop, they restock after a while so check often if you need them

[zinc anchor]

Do you have critical strike avoidance at 100% or reduced bonus damage from critical hits?

[frank veldt]

It's just a question - does timelines offer up different blessings? I'm still fairly new to the game and everyone said do this timeline for the adorned idol drop rate increase.

[zinc anchor]

Can you teleport to a different node and walk from there?

[warped glacier]

i do not how do you get that

[modern pilot]

the rest are locked..

[zinc anchor]

Ah, well there's like 10-12ish different blessings each monolith can offer you so if you see 3, only like a 3 in 10 or 3 in 12 chance you see it each time

[frank veldt]

Thanks, that's more of what I was wanting to know. I wanted to make sure I wasn't spending time doing the wrong timeline

[zinc anchor]

have you tried teleporting somewhere else and then back to where you are? It looks like you just need to walk northwest to the map northwest of you

Sorry Idris, I'm not super familiar with the campaign in general as I've only made a couple characters

[zinc anchor]

There's only one with idols (I think) so as long as you're seeing idols, it's the right one 🙂 This is a good website to look stuff up: https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/category/blessings/items

[modern pilot]

this happened cuz i disconnected. i've tried restarting twice

[zinc anchor]

Critical strike avoidance can drop or be crafted on boots, gloves, belt, ring, and helmet, you need 3 tier 5's to get to 100 (pretty high roll) or like 2 high roll tier 6. You can also get from the lvl 85 monolith boss, the lvl 100 version gives more but it's just 1 of the blessing he offers

[frank veldt]

Thank you for the tip, I'll check that out.

[zinc anchor]

less bonus damage from critical hits can come on 2-handed axes, maces, spears, or swords. Only 2-handed. If you happen to be using this, this is a better way to go as it's only 1 affix you need sacrifice, and it doesn't need to be 100%, but T5 can roll up to 100 so pretty easy option there (as opposed to critical strike avoidance, not really good enough if not 100%)

But most builds don't or can't use those weapons so sadly doesn't help everyone

[zinc anchor]

To me it looks like you just need to head northwest, your yellow ? is on the map NW of you other than that I don't know what to tell you sorry 😕

[rotund flame]

I'm tryhing to put point in rotten to the core and I'm just not able to. Is it disabled or something?

it also says the 5/0

[zinc anchor]

"If you activate a controller and access the skill menu, you can go to the node to the right, move to the left and then allocate a point and it seems to allocate.

Only just found this out so not sure if the node is functioning correctly, but at least it means you can keep allocating further points." @rotund flame

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/rotten-to-the-core-broken/57505/8

[rotund flame]

interesting

ill give it a try

thanks!

[zinc anchor]

ok. A lot of people said it worked for them

😄

[sterile widget]

And they said controller support needed improvement. Now the controller people get workarounds for the bugs!

https://tenor.com/view/outrageous-egregious-preposterous-jackie-chiles-seinfeld-kramer-amazing-gif-10683223

[pastel pebble]

Stay mad, keyboard peasant

[zinc anchor]

llol

hope we get some mouse and keyboard support soon

[pastel pebble]

Unlikely as the devs stated that they don't wanna support those social degenerative types

[spark drum]

Imagine having to move and target with the same hand

[analog condor]

IS lightless arbor bugged? My friend can click the door to proceed but I'm unable to? It highlights with the white outline but clicking does nothing :/

[polar narwhal]

I'm with her ^^^ and i get the voting screen whenever she clicks on the gate

[strong rampart]

Is it just me, but mage/spellblade seems a bit op

[robust verge]

is there a good way to import my current character into lebp?

[shrewd pebble]

is it possible to get boss drops from Rune Of Ascendance ?

[dry narwhal]

nope

[dry narwhal]

only manually for now

[shrewd pebble]

damn f me just wasted 7 then

[orchid nymph]

Are purple equipment just yellow with higher tiered stats?

[shrewd pebble]

Yes

[orchid nymph]

Cheers, and reds are a tier above that? how does red work?

[shrewd pebble]

Reds are Legendary item that u have to craft

see here https://www.lastepochtools.com/guide/section/legendary_items

[gentle pasture]

What chapter is the divine era because when i hit esc it says chapter 3 but i doubt it

[dry narwhal]

what are you looking for

cause pretty sure divine era is like...chapter 7

[jovial ermine]

Armor reduces damage taken from spells unless spells apply DoT, right?

[crude jewel]

how many tabs you guys have in stash?

and do you guys hord uniques with 1 leg potental?

[dry narwhal]

43, and i just generally keep 1 of everything unless it can be dualwielded

[sleek sluice]

around 50, but i keep more than 1 even on 1lp, if i know ill probably want em for a build, or ill delete if i get 2lp+

[twin oak]

80 something, I usually throw away items with LP as I get better ones, unless they are very good ones

[crude jewel]

i see ty

what does that mean cant drop? the item is not in the game but it was datamined? or is that a quest item?

[viscid musk]

Thats just the item base for Ravenous Void. It has a dedicated implicit, no other item can have. Thats why you cant drop it

[crude jewel]

i dont understand

[buoyant sinew]

(there are quite a lot of base types that are only used on uniques and don't exist normally)

[crude jewel]

so they dont exist?

and if they are unique? i am confused

[buoyant sinew]

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

[crude jewel]

what you guys mean with "base types"

AH i see

ty

[acoustic thicket]

Is this known already? Spirit plague is just useless now cause of this
Cant put points into this line anymore

[elder oyster]

is it possible to make beams and minimap marks for custom rules in loot filter?

[sleek sluice]

They were talking about its being under development but as of now no

[blissful zenith]

Am I doing something wrong for LP Prism Wraps? Had 6 drop at Corruption 200 and no LP. Or is it just super rare?

[sterile widget]

Prism Wraps effective level for legendary potential is 90. The chances of getting 1LP is very low.

Since 0.9, I've seen direct evidence of two people getting a 2LP Prism Wraps.

[tulip patrol]

Im trying to figure out lp too, corruption has no effect it sais on the guide but zone level does, im trying to get boot with lp farming 280 corruption

[blissful zenith]

I'm level 99, so I guess just keep going?

[tulip patrol]

Rarety comes into it also the rarer the item the less likely it will have lp i think

[sterile widget]

If you are farming the item in the empowered timeline with the unique echo of your desired item type AND at as high corruption as you can comfortably farm AND using full advantage of the vessels of chaos, memory, etc, you are doing everything you can 🙂

[tulip patrol]

but ive done 60 or more boot monoliths and still only had 1 with 1 lp and they are a common drop

[native sail]

Rarity does not directly impact LP, only the odds of dropping a unique itself.

[tulip patrol]

yea its a farm thing, just keep going until you get them i guess

[sterile widget]

We don't know the LP formula. We know that it is based on area level (with 100 being max area level attainable at the moment) abd the effective level for legendary potential (LPL).

More drops gives you more chances to get the item which gives you more chances to get LP

Welcome to the lottery 🙂

[tulip patrol]

yea area level it sais on the guide nothing else affects it

[native sail]

If you want some weird information on it, the minimum area level to get LP on a unique is 19 less than its effective level for LP. That's about the most in depth thing we know.

[sterile widget]

We also know that LPL affects the likelihood of getting particular LP value on the item, with each level being exponentially rare apparently

[native sail]

Yeah. We don't know how much of an effect the level has on it, odds-wise. Lots of mysteries with it.

[tulip patrol]

yea that about what ive come to figure out in the last few days, its a lottery, you could get 3 lp in a 100 zone with 0 corruption, but the more monoliths you farm the better your chance and more corruption gives you more itemised monoliths to farm. if im getting it right.

[native sail]

I still like pointing to 4LP Omnis as my example of "things that will never happen"
It also goes to show an idea of how rare 4LP really is on the big ticket items

[sterile widget]

4LP items are ridiculously rare, even on low LPL stuff

[tulip patrol]

yea ive got 3lp on some very common items but the rare drops seldom have lp on them

[native sail]

I'd be legitimately at a loss for words if someone got an actual 4LP drop of any of the big items

[crisp quartz]

jo guys i just got this helmet which i was first hyped for but then i realised this helmet is trash cuz it still needs a target for Lunge and i thought the cooldown was shorter but actually it is 35 % more cooldown now any thoughts on that?

[native sail]

That helmet is bugged atm because of Lunge targeting problems.

[crisp quartz]

oh okay but the longer cooldown is wanted?

[native sail]

Yeah that's intentional. You can offset it pretty easily though.

Cooldown reduction on gear, in passives, on skill tree, should mitigate that pretty hard.

[dry narwhal]

And 2 charges

[crisp quartz]

yea i have all that but i thought it was even shorter now :/ i kinda misunderstood it

[dry narwhal]

Yeah the wording is weird there

[native sail]

You're reducing the speed of the recovery :P
Phrasing matters a lot here

[sterile widget]

Yeah, "less reduced" is a double negative. Confuse much

Reduced recovery rather

[native sail]

But there's only one negative

[sterile widget]

Can't even write it back out correctly 😪

Cooldown recovery speed increases cooldown recovery and we're reducing that increase. Check Roger check

[crisp quartz]

😂

[native sail]

Tbf the ones that increase the speed are phrased as increased cooldown recovery speed

[crisp quartz]

ok thanks for the help i go back to farming shields hoping for bastion with lp

[sterile widget]

Yah. It just reads wacky. Because cooldown recovery speed is about making something recover faster and we aren't making it recover slower, but we are making the faster recovery slower. Am I making sense yet or is the covid taking over

[native sail]

Well.... why isn't this same logic applicable to Movement Speed then?

[dry narwhal]

Taking over? Could have fooled me

[sterile widget]

Because movement speed is noun-adjunct noun (like chicken soup) and cooldown recovery speed is noun-adjunct noun-adjunct noun.

[native sail]

Honestly... I don't get it. It's the recovery speed of X thing, modified by either an increase or a decrease.

[sterile widget]

Increased cooldown recovery speed

Increased "cooldown recovery" speed

Increased cooldown "recovery speed"

Reduced cooldown recovery speed

Reduced "cooldown recovery" speed

Reduced cooldown "recovery speed"

[native sail]

Skip the variants all read the same to me

[sterile widget]

Chicken soup bowl

Is it a bowl made from chicken soup or a bowl of chicken soup?

[native sail]

I legitimately do not get the point here. The thing in discussion is cooldown recovery speed. It can be either increased or reduced. From my perspective, it doesn't have any confusion to it because it is... straightforward. You have a cooldown, it's the recovery speed of it, modified in the state listed. The comparison here doesn't make sense to me because the main focus is one phrase that explains itself and the other is a mash of words that doesn't have enough context to it to be figured out from a logical perspective.

[sterile widget]

They are the same grammatically. To somebody who is unfamiliar with the game mechanics, isn't a native English speaker, has the dreaded lurgy, or some combination, very easy to misinterpret and end up trying to eat the bowl

[blissful zenith]

I'm assuming for LP upgrade you need to use the same type?

(Like Exalted Gloves for Unique Gloves)

[sterile widget]

Yup. To make a legendary, you combine a unique with LP and exalted item of the same base type

[sleek sluice]

Just remember it has to have 4 affixes(2 Suffix 2 Prefix) just so you dont try and remove affixes to try and get the last onto the unique

not saying you would, just saw people that lost good exalted like that

[rare bobcat]

can i be experimental and have fun leveling or is it more "youd better research first" ala PoE

[acoustic thicket]

why am i stuck in the loading screen

i can hear i am moving around but i am stuck in the loading screen

[atomic grove]

can somone help me powerlevel my void knight?

[jovial ermine]

Does Rampage still proc Roar even if Roar is on cooldown?

[rugged sinew]

respeccing is much easier than in poe so have fun

[rugged sinew]

it shouldn't

[jovial ermine]

Okay. Thanks.

[acoustic thicket]

Why does it say LE-62 failed to portal to player

how od i fix this

[thorn monolith]

I just want to know what I'm doing wrong to cause julra to teleport to me and blow me up after I phase to the other realm

[rugged sinew]

she creates a dot below you after a few seconds and you need to quickly leave if after it's made

it's a dot ground effect

[thorn monolith]

That's what I'm saying

I teleport

And she follows and blows me up

[rugged sinew]

thats supposed to happen yes

[thorn monolith]

She's only suppose to blow you up if you stay in that time line

[rugged sinew]

you mean the big explosion?

[thorn monolith]

I use the button to bring me to the other timeline

Yes the big clock on the ground

[rugged sinew]

do you accidentally use it twice that happens to me a lot

[thorn monolith]

Nope

Cause I thought the same thing

[rugged sinew]

then make a bug report

[raw fern]

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/julra-bugged/56359/13

There's a solution in last comment

[thorn monolith]

Okay let me read thank you

Wow

So much for trying to squeeze out damage

I play a mm and chakrams so that makes sense I'm all spam

And I have noticed it in the maze as well

[acoustic thicket]

What is a good lich build

[tulip patrol]

Guys I.m on my first play through, it's on a rouge, I have the "Apostamy" node, cant dodge but 200% glancing blow based off dodge . Thing is no matter how much dodge i stack it wont go above 73% yet in dust cloud it goes above 100, is this how its intended to work or can i get it to 100% glancing blow all the time.

[rugged sinew]

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

[carmine apex]

how to do that? i'm still reverted to normal resolution

[faint cape]

The conversion doesn't show on your character sheet. You have to manually calc by looking at what % it shows your dodge, multiply that by 2 and add to what % it shows your GB

[faint cape]

Definitely can just jump in and play, the game is very forgiving, especially in the campaign. You can respec everything on your character except for class and mastery choices.

[strong rampart]

Im stuck on a boss on my primalist, could anyone help me kill it?

[tulip patrol]

Ahh so at 30% dodge by 2 added to 73% i should be ok , with dust cloud on top its over capped, and im at 140% crit reduction too, but still get 1 shot, sooo, dont stand still too long or you die lol

[tulip patrol]

if you can find demonfreak and its not over 200 corruption i can mbe help bud.

[candid elm]

Try asking in #👥┃lfg or in the in game chat.

[tulip patrol]

but yea there is a channel for that kind of request

[candid elm]

In game? I don't know if it matters. There's only a couple channels and most people just use the main one

[faint cape]

Yeah, you might need more health if you are still getting oneshot on near-capped resists, 100% GB, and crit immune. What is you health and % endurance?

[grim walrus]

anyone have any tips for finding ravenous void? is farming gaspar with gloves blessing better than farming gloves nodes in ending the storm?

[stuck wasp]

can someone run me through how power levelling works? i've got a level ~50 atm

[forest vapor]

glove blessing doesnt affect boss specific drop chances

[atomic grove]

do our online character get whiped eventually?

[raw fern]

No, #💬┃general message

[worldly pivot]

Any tips for finding / grinding for a Curse of Perseverance staff? It's my first time trying to get a specific unique and I'm not sure if there's a better way than just randomly progressing the floating islands in search for a unique drop map

[forest vapor]

that's the strat. it's a common drop so hopefully it should not take you too long.

[worldly pivot]

I've only found 1 map that drops uniques so far after an hour, so i hope it's really common lol

[forest vapor]

not in normal monoliths

much more common at 200-300 corruption in empowered

dont farm in normal, basically.

[worldly pivot]

lmao, i'm lvl 63 and just "started" stolen lance monolith. I can't handle empowered haha

and this is a build-enabling item 😰

[candid elm]

If you wanted to

1. Do Empowered/Legendary Monoliths and
2. Do Stolen Lance timeline and look for Unique/Set Staff echo rewards
   Both would help you give additional drop chances.

[candid elm]

Oh, the unique/set staff reward nodes are not very common in regular

[worldly pivot]

so am i better respeccing into something else so that i can handle empowered monoliths? Because right now I'm running them not too quickly without the staff

[candid elm]

It's a global drop, requires level 20, so you can potentially get it anywhere that's area level 20+.

The "target farm"stuff is just a way to get extra drop chances

[forest vapor]

its probably best not to have a build which needs build enabling uniques.. unless you already have those uniques

you may need to adjust your build a bit

or just level up more, that'll help

[worldly pivot]

Got it, thanks for the advice. I might need to level up my void knight then for some farming i guess 😅

[vague badge]

are blessings account wide or character specific?

[worldly pivot]

i joined a buddy with a brand new account and now all teleports are locked. Can i somehow reset that progress somehow or is my char bugged?

[forest vapor]

character

[forest vapor]

he is hosting, i take it? i think youll need to host if you want to use all your waypoints, maybe

[worldly pivot]

i tried hosting as a brand new char and all of his waypoints were locked as well

[forest vapor]

its a brand new char, why would the waypoints be unlocked

[worldly pivot]

both of our waypoints are locked, even the ones he unlocked before

[vague badge]

waypoints are per character

[worldly pivot]

and my teleport skill is blocked as well

like, i log in and go to the end of time immediately. I have my specialization at lvl 2 too, lol

[forest vapor]

you cant use any skills in end of time, its a town

[worldly pivot]

but that's not what i said?

[worldly pivot]

yes, everywhere, in every zone

[blissful zenith]

Can you reforge exalted items before consuming them for LP?

[rugged sinew]

yes

[mighty jackal]

I have a bow skill with COLD tag and I want to add a affix in a equipment. Are there any difference between Bow Damage and Bow Cold Damage in this case?

[faint cape]

If the skill does all cold damage, then no there's no functional difference between generic damage modifiers and cold damage modifiers

[mighty jackal]

So, in this case I can either, bow dmg or bow cold dmg, right?

[faint cape]

Yep, exactly

Elemental damage over time affixes will also be a strong pick if this is your primary damage, since it rolls really high % values on rare/exalted items

[candid elm]

Yes, but when you're finished, the item must still have at least one T6-7 affix and four total affixes - sealed are not counted or used.

If you use Removal or Seal, you need to put another affix back in its place. If you Remove all of the T6-7 mods, then it becomes a Rare and can't be used.

[hollow oriole]

Is the drowned thetmia mission from monoliths broken. Its infinitely loading everytime i try it.

[weary tangle]

The Judgement Aura just lasts as long as the base consecrated ground + duration buffs would last right?

[faint cape]

Yeah

[crude mason]

Hey all, quick question: does the Electropulse skill in Surge use Lightning Blast's specialization tree on cast? Or just the mana as it says?

Or better yet, does every procced skill use the full tree if it doesn't specifically specify?

[hollow oriole]

Best way to get gear I need as far as crafting the right stuff on all slots. I can't seem to get lucky with glyph of hope./

Also, how to i speed up progress of a new character

[candid elm]

If you've specced into a skill, it will use it. Otherwise it'll use the basic version.

[native sail]

There are very few exceptions to this but I'm not sure exactly which off the top of my head. I can recall that the tornado from Rule of The Simoon (I think that's the name) is unaffected by Tornado tree. My guess is that it's because it specifies a certain variant of it.

[candid elm]

Yeah and like minions have their own skills

[native sail]

Right, yeah. Sacrifice mages moment.

[candid elm]

It would be interesting if they could use yours, though

[native sail]

Might be a bit busted though. Afaik Sacrifice can do quite a bit of damage and if it costs you nothing to use...

[crude mason]

Thanks a bunch!

[west vapor]

if i use 2 humming bee does the ward stack or does it just do the higher one

[native sail]

They stack. They're funny.

[shut walrus]

anyone else having issues with multiplayer?

[median rose]

I'm assuming grand rage of winter blessing doesn't work for minions, right?

[native sail]

If it doesn't say "minion" it doesn't affect minions

[steady star]

Does (image) remove the spell tag on flame ward?

[sleek sluice]

Need alot of luck if this should turn into anything usefull, would you just yolo and try and use removal rune?

only 1 mod is pt correct xD

ofc not removal for all, chaos for some but need at least one or so gone

[spark drum]

I usually go for despair

[sleek sluice]

despair on t3 wont turn out well imo

and just gonan cost all the forging

but the t2 maybe

[restive wasp]

Which Marksman build is more fun... Bowmage with Reign of Winter or Multishot with Drelkor's Compass?

[steady star]

Reign i say but u need the uniques to even start it

[restive wasp]

As far as I'm aware, I have them all... I see Reign of Winter, Mourningfrost, and Arrowguard as the baseline

Also, do you recommend using a leveling build then transitioning to the main build via respec? Doesn't seem feasible to play bowmage without the bow so I'd have to use a leveling build

[foggy totem]

Here I am with another question regarding crafting and again the same item I'm comparing to, but it's my main weapon so bear with me.

tl;dr I have this weapon I crafted when I was just learning how to craft and yet it seems nothing I built can surpass it.

Can someone explain to me why the difference between two weapons is still at advantage for the sword?

And I'm not talking miniscule advantage, it's well above 15%.

It's not like I'm dying to change a good weapon, I am actually trying to understand the math behind. I'm trying to learn if someone can explain it nicely, heh. Thanks in advance.

[wheat flint]

does cooldown recovery for totems affect healing totem heal pulses, or does cast speed affect it?

[hushed bobcat]

any way to reduce CPU/GPU temps when playing this game? i followed https://guides.magicgameworld.com/how-to-fix-last-epoch-pc-performance-issues-lag-low-fps/ (radeon rx 580 and amd ryzen 5 3600) but it seems to be the same

[vivid monolith]

Had the same problem

[analog condor]

Yeah it just seems to happen sometimes, we ran it again and we were able to open it. Iunno what causes it, sometimes it just randomly doesn't work I guess aha

[fathom glacier]

Anyone here make a fractured crown unique helmet?

[zinc anchor]

You're comparing a rare with 4 affixes to an exalted with 5, of course it's going to be worse. You have a very good sword there, assuming you need the melee void damage. You even got a sealed affix on it. You can't craft past tier 5, so that exalted that dropped with +78 melee void damage, you're not going to surpass that on another item by crafting, only if one drops that way, and if that's the stat you need it's going to be hard to get something better. Don't go just crafting on any random rare weapon and expect it to be better than that sword because you have an exceptionally good one. Only look for swords that start off good, with a good T6 or T7 affix before you start crafting next time, for a chance at something better.

[pastel pebble]

38 flat damage goes pretty far

[zinc anchor]

To be fair it's only 13 higher because the axe has more in the implicit.

But that's another thing, I assume you need the 13.1% melee damage leeched as health, and the poison resistance is probably at least partly wasted I have to assume. So the sword has a better implicit, so keep that in mind when crafting in the future too (though if you don't need melee damage leeched as health, the axe's implicit is obviously better)

The added damage and % damage probably cancel each other out. The attack speed is probably the main reason why the DPS is higher.

[rugged sinew]

also if you were to craft on a weapon you'd do better with a hollow blade 2 handed sword as a base since those can roll void penetration implicits

unless you for some reason need an axe

[zinc anchor]

I think I answered the wrong question the first time so meh, hopefully that helps explain better lol. I think you just wanted to know WHY it's better and not complaining that you can't make a rare as good

[foggy totem]

I understand what you are saying, but I did not compare some random item to it: the axe is just a bit lower in total melee damage as you just pointed out, 13 to be exact. As you can see from the screenshot, I have 550%+ for void damage as that's my main damage output.

I guess that's the answer in itself then: the small void damage difference makes a huge difference in the end with such huge void damage percentage bonuses.

I'm just trying to figure things out, input like this helps me to process things, thanks.

But yeah, I was probably underestimating the exalted items, thinking I can overcome their basic advantage...

[zinc anchor]

As Chainezo said, some weapons have better implcitis than others too and you should look out for that when crafting. BUT Void penetration is only useful if you don't already a source of it in your build

[waxen pilot]

Has anyone here ever had the problem or has an idea of ​​what I can do, I can no longer interact with any npc or with the item chest, can no longer accept or submit quests and the telerporter does not work either.
other characters work.

[zinc anchor]

Yeah honestly I think it's just the attack speed if you're comparing DPS. But, the life leech is probably helpful to you too, as well as increased AOE.

[rugged sinew]

wdym void penetration has so little sources that even 2 or 3 sources of it would be good

and it's an implicit so it's not like it conflicts with other mods

[foggy totem]

Yeah, I'm playing both AOE and life-leech dependent build, so it's a good item... it's just that I have had it for like 20 levels and can't make anything better than an item I literally crafted by luck when I was just starting.

[rugged sinew]

that just happens sometimes

you could put in your filter a search for specific exalted bases with the stats you need

if one gets highlighted then you can try crafting something better

but you wont get something better that easily

you can make the filter for example look for t7 or t8 flat void damage on good two handed swords/axes

[foggy totem]

And also true, I have a whole trunk of Hollow Blades which look sooo tempting, I'd love to have one as it's literally Void Knight's weapon, but still can't match this damage whatever I try...

[rugged sinew]

probably best to start with an exalted item

[foggy totem]

Probably, which is an issue, hehe. 🙂 But probably true...

[zinc anchor]

Chill, I know zero about melee void damage builds so IDK what sources he has for it. And if it has THAT implcit, then that means it doesn't have something else, like the melee damage leech of 13%!? that he has.

[rugged sinew]

yes it'd have void pen instead of the leech

[foggy totem]

I'd take that really.

[rugged sinew]

if he wants more damage then pen is a good option

[zinc anchor]

Ok. I never said it wasn't useful, I just don't know the builds

[foggy totem]

I'm just trying to learn something here and the consensus is pretty clear: it's hard to match exalted void damage regardless of other bonuses, so that should be a start.

Which is good, I learned something, no matter it's the outcome I personally dislike. 🙂

[pastel pebble]

Flat damages tend to go a lot farther in this game so somethinf like 38 void damage difference genuinely does mean a lot when you have multipliers about

[rugged sinew]

depending on how much flat damage you get and other parts of your build exalted crit or attack speed might also be an option to increase your damage

idk your exact build so you'd have to try it out

[pastel pebble]

Attack speed goes very far

[zinc anchor]

Again, 13 damage

Like I said, the attack speed is probably the main reason it's higher

Though I don't know how important attack speed is to your build

[foggy totem]

Attack speed does not come into value when I'm looking at damage of Erasing Strike or Void Cleave, right?

[rugged sinew]

or putting those stats on a high LP apathys maw or other unique

[rugged sinew]

void cleave no, erasing strike only if you run no cooldown build

[foggy totem]

Because I use those as main benchmark. Then I move onto DPS skills, but those single-hit skills shouldn't be taking attack speed into account, otherwise, I'm doing my calculations wrongly.

If I am doing it right, then attack speed has no influence on these numbers we are discussing here.

[zinc anchor]

HOW are you calculating this DPS of yours? In-game tooltips, the target dummy, some other means?

I wouldn't think 13 flat damage is as much as 15% higher than 45% damage, especially when the base is already clearly high (we are comparing +158 to +145, who knows how high they are from other sources)

158 isn't even 15% higher than 145, lol

It HAS to be the attack speed

The Axe has 45% more damage AND 4 STR

[rugged sinew]

keep in mind there is damage variance

you don't always hit for the same damage

[zinc anchor]

You don't get it

There's ALSO 45% more damage AND 4 STR, on top of the not even being 15% higher

Like, it's not even CLOSE to 15% higher (ignoring attack speed), is what I'm saying

[rugged sinew]

45% increased

[zinc anchor]

And he says he has like +550% damage, so adding 45% is a decent chunk to that. PLUS we don't know the bases

[rugged sinew]

and he reportedly already has 500% which this stacks additively with

damage variance is your hit damage +/- 20%
so if your skills damage is 100
then you can hit for as low as 80
and for as high as 120
@foggy totem

[zinc anchor]

650% (100+550%) to 695% is probably a lot better jump than X +145 to X +158, we don't even know what X is

[rugged sinew]

you need to take that into account

[rugged sinew]

x = 2 if it's void cleave or erasing strike

[zinc anchor]

Oh really that low?

[rugged sinew]

and thats base damage they have an added damage scaling of
400% void cleave
450% erasing strike

[zinc anchor]

Looks like with the axe equipped he has +728% melee void damage, so 828% total which is higher than he said. If the base damage REALLY IS only 2...then yeah, maybe I can see it

(corrected my typo)

Do void knights get that much of their damagej ust from their weapon?

[rugged sinew]

so with the axe his void cleave base damage is 654
713 with the exalted sword

thats before increases

[zinc anchor]

As a necromancer I get maybe 40% from my weapon and/or off-hand, maybe even less 😛

[rugged sinew]

well spells have higher base damage

than attacks

attacks damage is mainly from weapon

[zinc anchor]

interesting

[faint cape]

Yeah, melee attacks have a standard base damage equivalent to 2 added damage. Spells are typically equivalent to 20 added.

minions usually have 18 for their base attacks, though

[rugged sinew]

flat minion damage is much rarer in turn

and more valuable when you can get it

[zinc anchor]

yes, I didn't realize how good "The Fang" was until I equipped one and tried it out

[azure basin]

i dont get this one

how do i directly cast spirit thorns

none of my skills say spirit thorns while in spriggan form

[rugged sinew]

you can change your skills in spirggan form

[azure basin]

ooooh thanks

[gleaming phoenix]

Is there a viable empowered smelters wrath build that anyone can direct me too

[fair remnant]

I have a question. Does this game have Dedicated servers for Co-op or through steam?

[shell niche]

which monolith have some good defensive blesings?

it looks like ending of the storm is mostly resistance and the rest have shards?

[sacred terrace]

Anyone having issues loading multiplayer monoliths? We complete one fine and the next one just gets stuck loading in a loop

[floral badge]

Uh, neither? EHG handles the servers for multiplayer.

[fair remnant]

Awesome! Thank you!

[lucid echo]

So, are all classes just as hard to learn and master compared to each other?

[faint cape]

Half of the timelines grant stat blessings and the other half grant magic find blessings. All the stat ones have both defensive and offensive blessings (though not all will be applicable to all builds)

[faint cape]

No, some classes definitely have a steeper learning curve in terms of playing and/or gearing

[lucid echo]

Oh? Where does Lich and Necromancer fall on that curve?

[sterile widget]

Probably depends on your background, but my feeling is that in terms of ease to learn

Sentinel + Primalist > Rogue + Mage > Acolyte > Lich

Lich being most weird

[lucid echo]

Oh lol

[sterile widget]

Necro might actually be easier, but I haven't played it

[faint cape]

I think necro, and minion-based classes in general, are more confusing to first time ARPG players

[sterile widget]

Yah. It would depend on background for sure. If you know what a minion is, that helps 😄

[faint cape]

but definitely sentinel, particularly paladin, is solidly the easiest class to pick up with 0 knowledge

[lucid echo]

Hmm. Yeah that checks out. Last Epoch is my first ARPG. What would you guys suggest for me to use to get a better grasp of the basics down?

Oh nvm

There's my answer

[sterile widget]

Paladin is great fun 🙂 lots of options

[lucid echo]

Guess it's time to start over once again. But this time hopefully I'll actually learn something

[sterile widget]

But nothing that is wildly too complicated

[lucid echo]

I've been kinda bumbling around, pussyfooting my way through without any comprehension of what I've thrown together

[sterile widget]

Hey that's one way to learn

Basically what I did with Last Epoch, too. Except I've played a pile of arpgs before

Nothing wrong with starting over and using what you learnt last time to have a better go at it 🙂

[lucid echo]

Nah, it's not really helping me rn tbh. I've made it to the Corpse of Emperor by the skin of my teeth and the ideology of "Throw enough bodies at my problem until it disappears". Then that boss happened and it didn't work

[faint cape]

Yep, absolutely a fine way to learn. I definitely started new characters many times in this game before getting very far in the end game

[sterile widget]

Emperor of Corpses?

[faint cape]

Heh yeah, that one is definitely a hard one - he takes some effort and patience to avoid dying in

[lucid echo]

It's a boss for one of the monoliths. Arguably one of if not the hardest boss

Oh nvm

Big dumb

Yeah thag

I just got off work so my brain is mush

I thought I wrote emperor of Corpses but guess not

[pastel pebble]

Movespeed helps a lot on him

[floral badge]

If you aren't stacking as much movespeed as possible, how are you even playing the game?

[lucid echo]

Very carefully

My necromancer who has gotten to him has a movement speed of 27%

[autumn rivet]

What stats on the exalted amulet I should use on this? Playing as a flame wraith necro

[spark drum]

Fire

[faint cape]

Not a lot to pick from for a minion build. Probably just minion damage unless you need more defense for some reason

[autumn rivet]

ty! guess Ill go for that or some health

[zinc anchor]

I use a physical minion build with The Fang, and got one with 1 LP and was lucky enough to get health from it 😄

Probably 2nd best after minion damage

[broken galleon]

rapid detonation and mana arrow dont interact - the node from mana arrow works in this case but RD doesn't. Nothing is mentioned in the tool tips, is that normal

[uneven bloom]

anyone know an easy fix to my characters not saving progress?

[peak elbow]

Hey everyone. Quick question on blessing rerolling for echos. Is there method to get other blessings? I did the echo twice and I got the same 3 blessings again. Or is it just random?

[tropic radish]

does this mean just repeating lagon from campaign has a chance to drop?

or just from the monolith

[peak elbow]

Pretty sure you have to farm Lagon @tropic radish

[bleak vine]

Not Lagon in campaign, and not monolith in general.

It drop from Lagon in the end of the Monolith named "ending of the storm"

[bleak vine]

Are you doing normal monolith, or empowered ones?

[quiet sandal]

If they got 3 choices it's normal monos. Either way, it's all random. Just bad luck to get the same 3

[bleak vine]

Prefixes:
Minion dmg/mana regeneration/minion health/ward on potion use
Suffixes:
Resistances/health regeneration

Depends on your version of flame wraith build. Some stats are more important than others, but usually mana regeneration is most important

[bleak vine]

Why one would reroll blessing on normal monolith?

In most cases it's better to rush to unlock empowered

[quiet sandal]

Of course it's better to rush to empowered. I'm just saying, they said "got the same 3 blessings again" which means they're doing normal because they had 3 options. They could be new and not know about empowered and it's benefits

[autumn rivet]

Thanks!

[ivory kite]

Hey guys. I have a question about Exclusive Echo Rewards in the monolith.

I'm trying to farm some unique bows. I've been doing "The Fall Of The Outcasts" timeline because I hear that's where I can get them from.
But I'm not sure where they drop from...
Do they drop after defeating the abomination boss of the quest echoes?

[mental cradle]

@ivory kite No, all you have to do is just do the nodes, this mono has a chance of a special node appearing that will give you an unique bow as a reward. The chance of a node appearing goes up with higher corruption.

[ivory kite]

I see... Thanks for the info 🙂

[orchid nymph]

just completed my first 100 monolith, do i just continue it at level 100? is there a mechanic to increase item rarity drop rate?

[mental cradle]

Yes, you can increase the corruption of a mono by going deeper into the mono (further away from the centre). At some point Echos of a world nodes will increase your corruption. Killing monos boss before reseting a mono with echo of a world will grant you bonus corruption.

[orchid nymph]

hmm quite confussled by the mechanic, ill just play on. thanks!

[shrewd sentinel]

is there a bug with emperor of corpses ignoring ward? i just took massive health damage while still having a ton of ward.

[zinc anchor]

I did too! I don't know if it's a bug or intended

I changed soul feast to giving health instead of ward and made it super easy. Dunno i that'll work for your build

[shrewd sentinel]

it's a spellblade, so my primary defense is building ward through attacking.

i died with 2k+ ward still showing on the character

it wasn't the soul bomb, but some sort of very fast dot

[safe harness]

It’s likely your ward regen is kicking in after you died

[shrewd sentinel]

no i was health potting while still having ward active, and eventually ran out of pots

i think it was the red bloody puddles on the ground. i was trying to move around but they were everywhere and i wasn't expecting the damage to my health since i rarely take health damage. especially not with ward still active.

[zinc anchor]

It's the blood pools, I believe

yeah, I definitely experienced the same gain, soul feast gives so much ward i know it drains health. and so much easier if soul feast gives health. Sorry that's not an option for you

[orchid nymph]

does it mean the sanctum archive in divine era?

[shrewd sentinel]

well it needs to be changed. if ward is supposed to affect all damage, that is clearly not working. it's definitely not ok to have 1 random boss ability that bypasses ward when nothing else in the game can (that I know of).

from the game guide:

[raw fern]

Press D and interact again

[orchid nymph]

duh 🤦‍♂️

[sterile widget]

!bug

[ripe brook]

Please post bug reports on our forum: https://forum.lastepoch.com/c/bug-reports. Thanks!

[sterile widget]

Even though I posted ref to bug reports, I'd note that maxroll identified "some ground DoT effects" are exceptions and bypass ward. It might be better as a forum suggestion or feedback

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/resources/defenses-explained#patoc-heading-3

[zinc anchor]

I agree. I always struggled with that boss when I had a ward build

[shrewd sentinel]

interesting explanation of the blood pool. so i'm guessing what happened is while i was panicking trying to figure out what was going on with my health i got hit by something else that i wasn't able to see cause i was distracted.

now that i know it can't actually kill me i won't have any issues with it, but man that was a shock trying to figure out what was going on.

[sterile widget]

Possibly. It would be hard as a player to accurately test whether the pool itself was able to kill you outright as your pretty much constantly assailed by other stuff.

You'd have to kill all the extra mobs and then stand there on a pool while he was charging up soul bomb 😄

🙂

Cold comfort I suppose knowing you can be at 1HP from pools and a big enough hit from something else can send you to another timeline 😄

[shrewd sentinel]

well i wasn't exactly watching where i was stepping all that closely trying to see my health and potion count and just move anywhere.

in fact i was fine, but taking huge health damage distracted me into dying.

still a pretty unfair mechanic imo

[orchid nymph]

for gear, would it be better to farm arena, or monoliths?

[crude jewel]

"Added Melee Physical Damage" T3 +9 means +9 damage or to the physical damage scale and way more +dmg?

like +spell damage 3 makes not +3 more dmg it makes more then 3 cause its added to the spell +3 attributes?

dono how to word my question better

also add void dmg or fire or whatever, means +attribute or dmg itself?

[polar narwhal]

does minion dot count as my dot as well? like if they do bleed, does it count as my bleed?

[calm forum]

Spells and attacks have a base amount of damage.
In addition to this you get +damage (this is called added damage) from passives and weapons of various types such as Melee or Spell, and even further into elemental/etc types. These things all add together directly. Generic "Melee" and "Spell" damage are considered "Adaptive" and are "all elemental types" (they become the relevant type that corresponds to a skill's damage type tag).

Base damage for attacks is 2 plus any added damage from weapons/passives.
Then you multiply by relevant damage increases (these are added together).
Then you multiply by any "more damage" multipliers (this includes all of those in your skills' passives).

For example, you use a Melee skill:

• You have 2 base Melee damage.
• Your weapon has +10 Melee damage
• You have +50% Melee damage in your passives.
• Your skill has +20% more Melee damage.

(2 + 10) * (100% + 50%) * (100% * 20%) = 21.6 Damage.

This gets more complicated with damage types such as if the skill has a damage type tag and you have a weapon with a different damage type.

Melee skill with Physical tag, but you have +Cold damage or something:

• You have 2 base Melee damage.
• Your weapon has +10 Melee damage, +10 Melee Cold damage.
• You have +50% Melee damage and +50% Physical damage.
• Your skill has +20% more Melee damage.
  Any adaptive Melee damage is converted to Physical from the Physical tag.

Melee Physical damage: (2 + 10) * (100% + 100%) * (100% + 20%) = 28.8
Melee Cold damage: 10 * (100% + 50%) * (100% + 20%) = 18
Total damage = 28.8 + 18 = 46.8

(If I got any of this wrong someone can correct me...)

[sterile widget]

That is a nope matey.

[crude jewel]

awesome thanks!! ok so its not an attribute its base dmg ok ty... and do i understand it right, if i dont make cold damage, and change my weapon to one with the affix "added cold damage" then i make in addition to physical also cold? and second question on your example of 46.8 dmg; do i make 46.8 cold damage or only 18? so if enemy has lets say invulnerably to cold dmg would that mean i only make 28.8 dmg or non dmg at all?

[calm forum]

Individual damage types are handled separately by the target's defenses. In that example both Physical and Cold are being dealt as specified by the separate totals.

[crude jewel]

ok so if he would get half cold dmg that means 28.8 + 9, right?

just to clarify i did understand you right ^^

[calm forum]

Yes

[crude jewel]

big thanks

[ivory kite]

Hey mates, I've been trying to farm the first monolith timeline for some unique bows but haven't found any yet. Been here for quite a few hours now. Wondering if I'm best just to move on to the other timelines... I kinda want to get my build up-and-running a bit better with some nice uniques first, though.
I'm not sure I fully understand how the target-farming works here.

[crude jewel]

"Sentinel Void/Poisen Damage Taken As Physical" why would i want use that? so that i can have 0% void resistance? i dont get it

[storm blaze]

Armor is more efficient