❔┃ask-the-community

[native sail]

Do you have move speed on your boots?

[lament tundra]

not anymore :/

[native sail]

Get it.

[lament tundra]

i replaced them w/ health

i mean ones that had health

rolled

ok i will try when i get new boots

[native sail]

Ideal boots are almost always move speed + hybrid health + flat health or CDR and then whatever stat you feel like to fill

[lament tundra]

why flat health not %?

[native sail]

Boots don't have % iirc

[lament tundra]

ah

also i got confused

i replaced different boots

but i will try to get movemenet speed then try him again

but when do i jknow when to talk out the circle

[native sail]

Generally when he does the weird movement where he lurches backwards

[surreal verge]

Isn't there also a big ass AoE that appears when he starts winding the cast up?

[native sail]

It can be a bit behind the initial movement

Generic boots I look for. Vit can be swapped to whatever really, I just like to have more health cuz the others aren't as necessary

[lament tundra]

ok thanks

[native sail]

The cold res base is also decent, but this one is almost always going to be better

(EHG please, item bases need some rebalancing)

[lament tundra]

i got him to 30% hp

@native sail

thanks

[native sail]

Oh hey, you got a good roll on your blessing too!

[lament tundra]

i like that i insta kill boss when they drop low hp

as lich

[native sail]

Yup, cull is super nice

[lament tundra]

btw is it me or death comes quickly is bugged? i never see the effect

[native sail]

Post it? I'm not an encyclopedia unfortunately :P

[native sail]

It's possible that one doesn't have a visual timer

EHG has a weird philosophy with timers where they think buffs that are likely to be on all the time don't need a visual, this might fall under that umbrella. Of course it is also entirely possible it is bugged.

[lament tundra]

is there a way to note the strongest active cull %?

that i have active

[native sail]

I think it's legitimately just the highest one that you hit them with

[surreal verge]

^

[native sail]

Thanks for the confirmation, that one felt right to me but wasn't a 100% certainty

[surreal verge]

Yeah it's in an alt text somewhere

[lament tundra]

yes but i meant

how do i know the highest threshold i currently have

[native sail]

I think you'd have to manually check your sources

[surreal verge]

With a pen and paper.

[sterile bane]

Prima has a similar skill, does it work on bosses??

[native sail]

Yup

Cull works on everything

[visual plaza]

For rings with prefix "throwing damage and reduced mana cost", does this apply to Shield Throw?

[native sail]

It is a throwing attack, so yes

[knotty tinsel]

throwing tag = it works

[visual plaza]

Ok noted, thanks guys.

[knotty tinsel]

it'll even reduce the manacost of decoy. only a bit but it's consistent

[native sail]

I'm gonna reduce your mana cost soon enough, Torg

This is a threat

[knotty tinsel]

please do I'm a sentinel

we're fighting for our lives here

[visual plaza]

I am trying make shield throw have zero mana cost. Hahaha

[knotty tinsel]

definitely doable and worth doing if you wanna play capt. america

[visual plaza]

Assuming i max polished steel and steel barrage, i get -25 mana

I i max ricochet, i get +8 mana

I get ring with prefix throwing damage and reduced mana, i get -3 mana

The base cost of casting shield throw is +8 mana

Hence everything adds up to zero mana cost. Does it make sense?

[knotty tinsel]

seems about right

also an exalted throwing damage ring affix gives -4 manacost instead, might not be worth it though

and there's the forge guard shred node to consider. if you're a physical or fire build and can fit just one point of that in your budget that's a big win

[visual plaza]

I wana theory build a paladin shield throw manifest armor and also judgement for support damage / heal.

[native sail]

I mean, Shield Throw is already integral to a lot of MA builds tbf

[visual plaza]

The problem i only got 5 skill slots.
Shield throw
Manifest armor
Smite
Holy aura
Judgement

[native sail]

Smite seems like a wasted slot on that. Void Cleave has a pretty nice buff for MA though

[visual plaza]

You need smite so that you can proc smite on shield throw for healing sustain

[knotty tinsel]

you're also not gonna get that much mileage out of judgment I'd assume, since you wanna be shield throwing constantly

[native sail]

I mean

Healing sustain and MA are reaaaaaallly rough

[knotty tinsel]

scaling like 5 different things at once lol

[native sail]

Cuz then you sacrifice idol slots that you are going to NEED

MA's whole thing is a combination of "don't get hit" and "kill it before it moves" really

[visual plaza]

Shield Throw manifest armor is squishy build. I need healing sustain.

[native sail]

You're not gonna find it in an MA build

[knotty tinsel]

one problem at a time, having half of everything will fall flat

[visual plaza]

I feel like binashole shaman totem is so much easier to play than sentinel. You get both damage and sustain together. I wana build a good paladin too.

[native sail]

You are starting to see the sentinel problem

[visual plaza]

Yeah, i still can't crack the sentinel code

[knotty tinsel]

the code is you're the squishiest class, concealed by a thin metal shell

[visual plaza]

Haha true

[native sail]

There's no code to crack, everything Sent does something else does better. Can't even call it a jack of all trades because it doesn't even have half the capabilities other classes do

[desert tree]

Play judgment conc aura

It's so stupid and so easy to gear

I still can't believe I ve almost 1 phase lagon yesterday

[visual plaza]

the campaign lagon or the monlith lagon? what corruption?

[desert tree]

The non empowered lagon with a lvl 60 character

[visual plaza]

Cool

[desert tree]

With garbage tier stuff

[visual plaza]

judgement is very good skill because you get both damage and sustain in a single skill.

[unreal sonnet]

is storm crows basic attack a spell or physical attack?

[surreal verge]

Spell

[desert tree]

A spell can also be physical

Like avalanche

[unreal sonnet]

i got confused by the node that said melee damage but it was for the buff

kinda lame that you cant convert the ability to cold tho

[sterile bane]

time to respec

[desert tree]

You can

[unreal sonnet]

i have that they still cast lightning pet ablility

the crowstorm

oh wait

ure right

it has a lightning ring but a cold flash lol

[serene patrol]

Can I search tier 7 in my stash?

[desert tree]

Don't think so

[desert tree]

Yeah I don't know if it's just a visual bug (not getting change) or there is no vfx for the cold version

[sterile bane]

can you even search for tier affixes

[desert tree]

Don't think so

[wide sentinel]

no u dont, smite heals ok without being specced

and u had judgement healing

but overally idk why would u take judgment over banner which heals more and also buffs both u and armor

and also a teleport

holy aura is also questionable for that build, barely provides anything and void cleave would be way better

[obsidian orbit]

if my weapon have a "increased 40% lightning damage", i need to have a lightning dmg source right? or else it wont function?

[visual plaza]

What is "banner"? I can't find any skills with this name for sentinel class?

[surreal verge]

Yeah, it only buffs lightning damage.
If you somehow add flat lightning damage it DOES buff that.

[surreal verge]

Javelin, right side.

[visual plaza]

is it void cleave?

[surreal verge]

No, Javelin.

[visual plaza]

oh... banner is the battle standard.

I have not explored javelin class in the past... but now when this has been brought to my attention... i notice that the right side of javelin is pretty good for healing and sustain. there is even a node for it to cast smite every 1.6 seconds. it looks pretty awesome at first glace.

[pastel pebble]

Its very cool

I should play with Javelin more

[surreal verge]

It is

Javelin banner is like one of the two default sentinel traversals

Apart from Void Cleave

[desert tree]

Or if your skill has the lightning tag

[sterile sandal]

so I read elsewhere on here that Hakar's Phoenix is BiS for Locust Swarm. Why is it? When I equip it (I just reached level 63), my damage on skill bar drops by over 30% (from the 2 hander I'm using), and it has pretty good rolls (except +1 skill)

[knotty tinsel]

damage on skill bar is terrible dont trust it for anything

not sure about what hakar's phoenix does for it myself though

[pastel pebble]

Its so far off with Rive

[spark yacht]

did anyone experience extreme rubber banding while using channeled abilities (warpath)

[knotty tinsel]

you're better off asking who doesn't

birthing pains of online

[obsidian orbit]

is there anyway i can find out what's the total shred armor % i have?

didnt see it in character screen

[surreal verge]

Don't think so except with pen and paper

[sterile sandal]

should I use hakar phoenix + the mace, or the 2 hander, for locust swarm?

[obsidian orbit]

is the giant crab meat in coral pool quests bugged?

cleaared the map, but not a single meat...

[latent canyon]

Bis due to+2 skill and solid dmg(lots of flat+up to 20 pen).

For off hand people usually use a shield

Cradle or bastion

[sterile bane]

yes

[faint cape]

Hakar's is only really BiS if you are doing the bleed consuming build and want to rely 100% on consuming bleeds

[unreal sonnet]

any tricks to cast shields such as thron shield on yourself with controller?

it keeps targeting my minions 😦

[faint cape]

Not sure, does it do that even if you let go of all the joysticks? Controllers aren't fully supported yet, but that's a good thing to bring up maybe in #368968647114227723 so they know about it.
There's a node in spriggan form that does force it to always cast on you, if that's what you want to do.

[latent canyon]

there is no way a 1hander can compete with a 2hander for dmg, but most dont use 2h just to get a balance between dmg and dps, cuz that build do excessive amount of dmg.

[sterile bane]

im going to try squirel bleed with bee

[opal nest]

does higher tier in Lightless Arbor affect the Vault drops?

[lost delta]

Just need to zone out and back in and they will update properly.

[native sail]

Yes

[vale lake]

Tried, you can't invest enough in the bees to make them worth and they don't bring enough compared to what you lose for your squirrels

[sterile bane]

no i meant a squirrel and bee build

[vale lake]

Also, squirrels scales off of str and bees off of att

[sterile bane]

i saw one but ti requires springon form i want to see if i can do one without it

[vale lake]

You're better off just doing a full bees if you go sprigg imo

[sterile bane]

well if i get the bee glove ill let u know if it works at all

[vale lake]

Tried bees gloves and the relic on a BM, so no sprigg, not worth it, you have to split too much on your build and it ends up not being worth, let us know if Sprigg is better

[opal nest]

ty for the info

[runic slate]

Javelin build maybe ? 🤨

[pastel pebble]

+5 Javelin is kinda wild

Is there a Javelin + Hammerthrow build that can make use of that modifier?

[sterile bane]

isnt 22 the most a skill a can have?

[runic slate]

Maybe, I'm new to the game and was just grinding on my Fire Warpath when this droped and got the +4 javelin on it

+5 with the sentinel skills

[pastel pebble]

Some habe gone p high

[runic slate]

so I was curious about trying a javelin build

[sterile bane]

what???

[runic slate]

I'll maybe try some Javelin shenanigans since I'm not too invested in my Fire warpath yet

could be fun with the +5

[native sail]

There is no max

Why would +4 and +3 items exist if they capped at 22?

[sterile bane]

thats what iw as wondering

good to know

[native sail]

I think the highest recorded is 30 though

Most things can't get higher than that

Most can't even reach 30

[latent canyon]

on wolve/squirrels you can get to
+7 on helm. +6 from apogees. +1 from ww relic. +1 from omni

so thats 35 levels

[next quail]

hi can I have question about blessings ? If I pick blessing in one map like "Fall of the outcast" is this blessing valid only for this one map ? Or does is affect whole monolith (e.g. even black sun and later one) ?

[latent canyon]

blessing works globally with minor exceptions

the item specific magic find blessings doesnt work on boss only unique drops

[next quail]

oh thank you ! For some reason I though it's just for one map. That's make my build much easier.

[pastel pebble]

I knew it was high but that's obscene lol

Is it even worth going that high?

[latent canyon]

for wolves yes there are always more nodes

the omni one is kinda useless for sure just for wolves itself. fang is much better

so 34 is meaningful

and without 33 pts you cant even get all the flat dmg/more dmg/ias nodes

on top of all the ultility nodes

[faint cape]

yeah, wolf is a very point hungry skill for sure

[muted holly]

sup guys, what would be the best item to merge with hand of judgment? should i grab only an exalted attunement affix? or there is any better mods to put into it?

[mighty grotto]

What's the point of Ride the Lightning in Surge's Skilltree (30% more spell damage for surge). It doesn't seem to affect lightning blast and fire auras. Is it only supposed to affect spark charges? and if yes, why is it behind lightning blast. Am I missing something and does it affect the others (my testing so far seems to imply it doesn't, but I might have missed something)

[faint cape]

Yeah, exalted attunement is probably the best thing you can get here. Hybrid health is also nice.

[faint cape]

Just consider this node only for the zig-zag. The only thing the damage bonus can apply to is the tidal wave, and since that's a cold spell, you'd need to add typed lightning spell damage to it to benefit (and it's also behind surge's cold conversion).

I think they meant to make it global 30% more spell lightning damage while you are using surge, but it didn't get implemented that way, lol

[mighty grotto]

uff. thank you for the reply. hopefully they eventually fix that 🙂

[buoyant trench]

Had a great time playing the game in "offline" mode for a month since I was out of town, I came back home, played on my online mode characters, and can barely play the game, game is freezing and stuttering a lot, is this common?

[visual plaza]

Yes, online mode has many bugs.

I will also get random crashes at offline mode. All these random crashes is very discouraging. Make people want to rage quit.

[buoyant trench]

Honestly, I just decided to play the game in " Offline" mode.

[cinder pumice]

do double uniques stack. like 2 unique rings/dual wields

[surreal verge]

To an extent, yes.

SOme stuff won't matter if you stack them, like certain things over 100%, but otherwise

[stable pebble]

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the correct channel to ask, but does anyone know why I can't add void resistance here? I tried multiple items from the list on the right, but it still is marked as 'cannot be applied'.

[desert tree]

Hi there,
Void resistance is a suffix and you only have a prefix open

[stable pebble]

Thanks for the info! 🙂 How do I distinguish if a slot is suffix or prefix?

[surreal verge]

In the forge screen, left slots are prefixes, right slots are suffixes

[stable pebble]

Makes sense, thank you 🙂

[sterile bane]

ahhh i thought the bottom ones are suffixes. thank you

[knotty tinsel]

if in doubt you can hover the item, and the affix lines have a little > at the left or right

that's also the quickest way to scan a full stash tab for open affix slots to craft on

[sterile bane]

i know when you craft it tells you if its prefix or suffix

[sterile bane]

@vale lake do you use the vines boots with your squirrel bleed build?

[vale lake]

No

Will update my planner and link it to you after work if you want, right now it's still the version when I was trying to put bee in it and failed

[sterile bane]

ok thanks. i asked because i jsut got the boots

[visual plaza]

I have rushed to unlock empowered monoliths. However at Fall of the Outcasts, there is still a left branch I need to unlock. To unlock the left branch, can I do legendary echoes instead of normal ones? Or is the game need me to do normal echoes to unlock the left branch?

[surreal verge]

Normals, but on empowered unlock you should have waypoints to ALL monoliths.

Even without branches

[knotty tinsel]

do sealed affixes count towards total affix tiers? i.e. for the fractured crown rune requirement

[dense root]

you don’t have to do normal monoliths to unlock branches

[restive mortar]

hello. i respec`d transplant for summon skeletons, but something is stopping them being cast and i cant figure it out. must be a skill node somewhere or passive. any ideas ?

[knotty tinsel]

aarons will chest I presume?

read its affixes

[restive mortar]

you right you right.. good looking out. reading is key

[knotty tinsel]

tbf you should be able to still have skellies, that item needs all the help it can get 😛

[restive mortar]

now to find a chest to replace it, and cry when i lose the health leech from one less gollum

[surreal verge]

Oh today I learned

[minor schooner]

I recently started running empowered monoliths and finally have an endgame build that works super well. I was just wondering if anyone has any favorite ways to grind gold, because I love the loot explosion from Lightless Arbor and would like to run it some more for fun, even if I don't get anything that significantly modifies my build. Any suggestions?

[surreal verge]

Monolith gold rewards, afaik

[runic slate]

Quick question wonderful people : Friend and I hit the monolith grind. Do we bother with secondary objectives or not ? I feel like they are a waste of time/reward for now.

We are around level 66~ ish

[surreal verge]

What secondary objectives? Murder?

[latent canyon]

Stability?

Most of the time no

[knotty tinsel]

totem poles?

idk

[toxic saffron]

Is there a skill (sorcerer) or item that casts volcanic orb?

[runic slate]

Stability ones yeah

like "fill this bar" to get extra

every time we opened the chest, it was a dissapointement so was wondering if its worth it

[knotty tinsel]

stability only progresses the bar at the top of the screen on your monolith web far as I know

and it's much faster to keep rushing objective than to stick around looking for mobs

[surreal verge]

No. Must be self-cast.

[runic slate]

Thanks! Is there a moment in the game where doing these side objectives is required/worth ?

[knotty tinsel]

not really. It's a bit of a point of contention

no reason to stop, just run at the objective, do it, port out, repeat

[obsidian orbit]

what is a purple item? legendary?

and what do i do with items that have "legendary potential"?

[spark yacht]

Exalted aka with t6/7 mod

legendary potential is a special mod that lets you use exalted item with same item base and 4 mods to transfer them randomly onto unique item at the end of one dungeon

[knotty tinsel]

open game guide -> type in "purple" -> only result gives a detailed explanation

[obsidian orbit]

alright thanks

[sterile sandal]

dual wielding the hakar + mace, which from testing is a little higher damage than the 2H

but as stated, the damage on the 100% bleed consume is sick, on dummy I'm already up to over 300K at level 65 with my mostly crap gear

[sterile bane]

im fighting edler husk on last ruin and it keeps showing that i was hit by him when im running away. am i doing something wrong???

yea that was really weird. i was running from the beams he was channeling and it showed that i was still being hit. anyone ever experience that?

[obsidian orbit]

so, is the snek boss the last boss? cos now im sent to monoliths of fate...

[sinful laurel]

Yes of campaign. Start monos now

[pastel pebble]

For now anyways

More chapters to come

[sterile bane]

no one had the issue i had with elder husk?

[sinful laurel]

Pod no offense at all, but it's hard to take any issues you have as widespread with your current situation 😦

Who knows what severe, persistent lag would do to that fight with all the timings and rotations and backend calculations. Oof

[sterile bane]

well thats the thing, i wanted to know if it was my lag or if it was the boss so that way if i do it with cor i know what to look for. also, call me pear

[sinful laurel]

Gotcha :). And I don't think I recall any issues like that on husk

[obsidian orbit]

uhh, so i dont get to fight rayleh? iirc i saw videos of ppl fighting him

[sinful laurel]

Rahyeh is a timeline boss

Black sun

[obsidian orbit]

so i will get back to that timeline during the monos?

[fresh aspen]

alternate timeline

[sterile bane]

if i do elder with cor ill elt u know

[sinful laurel]

When I say timeline it's slang for the memory islands in the monolith of fate

[obsidian orbit]

ah i see, thanks

[sinful laurel]

Black sun is one of the alternate timelines

[fresh aspen]

its like the multiverse in mcu

[sinful laurel]

Player is loki. Confirmed

[sterile bane]

how do u merge leg and exalted?

[surreal verge]

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

In temporal Sanctum

[sterile bane]

ahhhhhhhhhhhh do u have to defeat the dungeon first?

[dense root]

yes

[surreal verge]

Yes

[sterile bane]

well thats going to have to wait

[sinful laurel]

To be clear, depending on the unique you don't have to tier 4. You can do an Easier version

[sterile bane]

once i clear normal monos ill try that and areana to unlock it

[sinful laurel]

Tier 1 sanctum is like level 45 or something lol.

I know you got the lag but if it's a low level unique you shouldn't have any issues clearing tier 1 to smash

[sterile bane]

do u have to clear it everytime you want to smash?

or jsut the first?

[sinful laurel]

Yup. One clear, one chance to smash

[sterile bane]

damn

[native sail]

Or do me and clear repeatedly to get a cup and cry when you never get a cup

30+ T4s in :D

[near path]

that cup is way rarer than what the LE tools site states

[pastel pebble]

Doubt it even exists

[knotty tinsel]

mfw I finally have a character with the power to do t4s but the main skill basically bricks the fight

(tornado pulling her into purple goop. aaaaaa)

[faint cape]

yes

[native sail]

7% chance my ass fr

[faint cape]

rng be rng

[native sail]

Let me dammit

I just have garbage luck when I actually want something

I've been storing exalted health regen items cuz I wanna try the cup but I can't get the damn cup

[faint cape]

Yeah, I hate trying to actively target something because then it always feels like it takes forever lol

[native sail]

Took me a year to get squirrels

[faint cape]

doesn't help that running dungeons on repeat feels miserable... at least it's not as bad as farming the arena boss uniques

[native sail]

There is a reason I have none of those

[near path]

I think I'll inadvertently push like 400+ corruption on Fall of the Outcasts just trying to get my bow

and probably 500+ on Spirits of Fire for an LP Bhuldar's

[native sail]

Which one?

[near path]

Flight of the First with LP

[native sail]

Ah, good luck

[near path]

game has given me 2LP of almost every other bow except Drelkor's

[native sail]

I want the weird new one with 2LP or more but I have gotten one drop of it

[near path]

I've got two of those if you mean Shadowstring

two 2LP I mean

[native sail]

No, Shadowstring is old

The blue one that repeats

[near path]

Gathering Fury? think I have a 1LP of that

[native sail]

Yeah that

I wanna get one and jack the attack speed up

[near path]

problem is the limited use cases because it specifies "when you DIRECTLY use a bow ability"

[faint cape]

The cooldown on its duplicate effect does kinda put a damper on aps stacking

[near path]

the only bow ability you can effectively spam is Puncture or non-channeled Flurry

[native sail]

I can spam Cinder Strike

[near path]

everything else has really high mana cost

[near path]

[faint cape]

yeah, there's quite a few

[native sail]

And since the entire reason I want to use Cinder requires attack speed scaling, Gathering Fury seems like a good choice

[faint cape]

you can spam all of the bow attacks except HoA, but that's just because of the cooldown

[sinful laurel]

Nah nothing has an uncomfortable mana cost unless you make the choice to make it so

Puncture, cinder, MS, flurry, DA, all are easily spammable at their base levels

[drowsy hornet]

What's the top frostbite dot builds, is it sorc and druid bear?

[vale lake]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/5BxX1yqB

That's what I ended up with, mostly min maxing at this point and a lot of my choices are a matter of preference and not necessarily optimal but there are quite some variations you could apply anyway

The empty idol slot are either some res to balance or health

This version is tanky af, I once tanked t4 Julra room wide aoe inadvertantly, not that you'd want to do that anyway but it's a very good build for not dying

[faint cape]

Druid swarmblade and sorc ice barrage (and I think bladedancer umbral blades?).

[wide sentinel]

didnt u forget sprigan ice thorns? he is the best oout of those on par with swarmblade

especially after the recent fix to thorns ailment application

[faint cape]

Maybe with the recent fix to spirit thorns, yeah. I forgot that happened.

[wide sentinel]

well even before, it dealt less damage(but even then respectable amount) than others

but it permafroze anything even on high corruption

which is absolutely stupid and must be fixed

[faint cape]

Swarmblade gets insane levels of frostbite pen, but it doesn't have a super high application rate

[wide sentinel]

ye but it doesn freeze enemies, just big dps

[faint cape]

yeah, my cold spriggan definitely permafreezes everything except mono bosses, where it's a little more unreliable - and my build doesn't even scale freeze rate lol

[wide sentinel]

oh thats why, quiet does freeze all bosses that arent immune

he scales freezerate tho

why dont u scale it? just need more gear?

[faint cape]

it's just a crit build rather than frostbite

[wide sentinel]

arhh ye then its different

i feel like dot version is better cause u scale both cc and damage with uniques

so freeze rate is very efficient scaling

plus eledot affixes are busted

[faint cape]

I've got no problems with cc on mine though, I still stun or freeze bosses often enough that a lot of the time they are trivialized

everything that's not a mono boss doesn't get to move if its getting hit

unless it's one of those eye things that's immune of course lol

[wide sentinel]

ye build is so stupid

maybe one day ehg reworks cc

both stun and freeze breaks the game

[faint cape]

they did at least get rid of acolyte's permastun on drain life, so they made some progress lol

[wide sentinel]

well freeze is slightly better cause affects less skills, but stun is out of control

people just dont abuse it that often cause probably dont know

[faint cape]

yeah, and hopefully they don't find out because it makes a lot of content really boring lol

I played around with the acolyte permastun for science, and I must say it was dreadful

like playing arena for every bossfight

[wide sentinel]

ye i cant count how many hammer throw players out there without 2 stun idols and stun blessing+affix on weapon, easily 600-700 stun chance

[toxic anvil]

How does freeze rate multi work?

[opal nest]

does blessings that grant shred resistance like "Shred Cold Resistance" from Age of Winter also affect minion?

[dense root]

if it does not contain the word minion it does not affect minions

[toxic anvil]

Ah

[toxic anvil]

What about a spell that is cast by one of your spells

Like lightning

[opal nest]

i see, ty for the confirmation

[faint cape]

The resistance shred does benefit everything, including minions and other players, assuming it's applied. The blessing only gives application chance to you, though.

[faint cape]

Can you clarify what you mean? Like subskills? If so, yes those still benefit from stats you have on yourself, as well as any stats specific to the skill that triggers the subskill (unless stated otherwise, though there's a few exceptions and skills that have a skill tree are almost never used as subskills).

[naive nimbus]

hey, I can't bring the party panel of portraits up in my multiplayer, is there like a known bug?

[toxic anvil]

subskills?

[drowsy hornet]

Thx - I found a t7 freeze rate staff and made a cold spriggan shaman that applies frostbite via thorns. Character sheet dot damage is high (1300 frostbite), but still feels weak in 100 corruption monos

[toxic anvil]

like lightning strike on tornado

[faint cape]

Ah yep, that is an example of a subskill, so the stuff I said above applies.

[toxic anvil]

doesn't that say it doesn't scale with the skill tree's points?

[faint cape]

It used to say that, a couple updates ago they fixed it to work and removed that text

[knotty tinsel]

oh so that one does get more multipliers

...I have some respeccing to do

[safe harness]

Maelstrom’s lighting doesn’t though

[knotty tinsel]

mhm that one has the alt text

I just assumed tornado was just missing it lol

single tornado might still be less damage overall but it's sure worth removing the pull strength

[muted holly]

sup guys, is it possible to tank the necrotic nova from the reign of dragon boss with rebuke?

[knotty tinsel]

probably

you dont lose much for trying

unless youre one of the brave souls playing sentinel HC lmao

[muted holly]

:x

he literally didnt dealt any damage while i was channeling rebuke

i guess im tankier than what i expected

[cedar locust]

Not heard of that one before - are you still having this issue?

[opal nest]

does DoT spell can inflict Resistance Shred from blessing each second it active?
e.g: Infernal Shade with Fire Resistance Shred blessing from Spirits of Fire

[surreal verge]

No, DoTs do not hit.

And thus cannot apply any ailment.

[opal nest]

ah isee, ty for the information

[faint cape]

Well no, they just can't apply on-hit effects. Some DOTs do have ailment application chance.

[surreal verge]

Close enough,probably

[faint cape]

yeh

[obsidian orbit]

is there a dummy where i can test out my damage?

I switched to a weapon that gives me more flat damage, but reduced my additional physical dmg %

......

and i'm not even sure if im doing more dps, because i haven't see the numbers at enemies (i don't usually notice the numbers too)

[dense root]

go to champion’s gate

[obsidian orbit]

oh where is that?

do you rmbr which era?

ok nvm found it, divine era, thanks

[timid monolith]

are their any known quest bugs going around right now? i have a quest available called 'a long detour' but i cant find out where to go to finish it

[drowsy hornet]

can rune of ascendences give monolith boss uniques

[native sail]

Nope, only random drop uniques

[serene patrol]

Does Primal resonance (swipe tree) trigger cry of the lynx (beastmaster passive tree)? I'm guessing not since the primal resonance node doesnt mention casting and aspect of the lynx requires you to cast the companion ability

[fading imp]

What does lich's playstyle look like? How much is the uptime on reaper form and do i focus on melee attacks or no?

[native sail]

The uptime on Reaper can be near permanent. The focus is usually spell focused though because the melee attack everyone wants to use on it (Harvest) is kinda... bad.

[fading imp]

Ohh dang. No harvest builds viable?

That's what i was building my acolyte with lol. Bone curse+harvest

[dense root]

harvest is alright if you ignore the words and numbers associated with the skill

[fading imp]

Wdym ignore the words and numbers?

[native sail]

If you're okay working significantly harder to do less than half the damage of other skills at similar investment, go ahead

[fading imp]

Ahhh i see. It's that bad huh

[dense root]

that's the real answer yes

[native sail]

It's a shame

[fading imp]

Sad. I was hoping lich would be like the spellblade equivalent

[native sail]

A lot of people are hoping Warlock will help it cuz Warlock is supposed to have a lot of curse support

[fading imp]

Ahhh the passives? I see. Not enough of negative feedback/big enough of an issue on lich for the devs to have some opinions on it? Like future buffs

From the community

[native sail]

In actuality, Lich is probably going to be nerfed in the future because the other Lich builds are disgusting

[dense root]

i agree

nerf everything until forge guard is the best mastery

[fading imp]

Ohh which builds are out there that are OP?

[native sail]

Rip Blood for one.

[sinful laurel]

god imagine the pure self flagellation and masochism to sit through 1000 waves of arena

[native sail]

Hungering Souls is also very good. Marrow Shards can do alright. Honestly, Acolyte has an issue of not having many "direct damage" spells, too much DoT imo

[sinful laurel]

hats off to that person

[fading imp]

Oh btw another unrelated question but do the dps shown when you hover over the skills take into consideration all stats like the 25% increased DoT and is the assumption of X dps is casting it every time a spell is on cooldown?

[native sail]

Tooltip is a meme

[dense root]

tooltip dps doesn't work

[native sail]

It takes into account not enough and too much at the same time

[sinful laurel]

lol. Tl;dr no one knows

[fading imp]

Oh for real? How do i assess my damage then? is it just feel?

[sinful laurel]

hit a dummy

[native sail]

It ignores cooldowns on some skills, doesn't take in the proper stats or buffs of others

[sinful laurel]

UI and character sheet and tooltip dps are on the list of things to work on

[fading imp]

1.0 comes out with all mastery classes right?

[buoyant sinew]

right

[faint cape]

You can also math out your damage

but yeah, tooltip dps is really miserable for most skills, and others it just doesn't exist on (e.g. minion skills)

in the end, feel is the most important imo, and use dummy to compare gear/passive/spec changes

[pastel pebble]

My anvil rive tooltip is miniscule compared to the dummy hits lol

[fading imp]

Are runes of ascendance easy to get by or do i stock them up for lategame?

[native sail]

Medium tier.

If you stock gold and run Arbor you won't have an issue.

[fading imp]

What is Arbor? Kind of end game dungeon? And why the need for gold

[native sail]

Yeah, endgame dungeon, it eats gold to give you rewards

[fading imp]

Ah isee. So i can just use it early on since I can reliably grind for runes of ascendance later on?

[native sail]

It uh, eats a lot of gold

[fading imp]

So better to just save it? For context im level 14 lmao

[native sail]

Oh yeah, you're a ways off from it :P
And I wouldn't worry about the runes in general for a while.

[fading imp]

Alright thanks man

[tribal rain]

when my primalist / druid goes into bear form, does the weapons i am wielding have any impact on my bear attack like Swipe ?

[surreal verge]

Yes, of course.

[fading imp]

In my spellblade character, i get a staff that gives +21 melee damage but my shatterstrike dps goes down when i equip it over my sword that gives +20 melee damage. Is there some multiplier here as well that im not seeing here that is based on weapon type?

[surreal verge]

1. Do not trust tooltip dps
2. It might be the affixes.

[fading imp]

Yeah i don't trust the tooltip, im basing it on the numbers shown but it still does bring it lower. Affixes dont have anything regarding damage except +17 melee lightning damage but im using the shatterstrike skill.

[tribal rain]

1. Do not trust tooltip dps

another thing stolen from Path of Exile 😄

[surreal verge]

That’s flat damage right? Flat damage always apply,even if it’s not the correct damage thpe

Eg. Getting +100 melee poison damage (if it even exists) would add 100 poison damage to all melee skills

[toxic anvil]

bruh rayeh is one shotting meeee

heeelp 🤣

[toxic anvil]

nvm i spam freezed him LOL

[raven scarab]

I am a little stuck, am on The immortal Empire questline, up to the bit where it says to talk to Gaspar in the end time.
I go talk to him, and he tells me to go back to the last refuge and talk to him there, however the quest doest complete and move forward, its still showing to talk to him in end time, and now the quest marker is missing and he is just repeating to talk to his old self.
The Gaspar in the last refuge (council chambers) doesn't want to talk to me at this stage.
I do have two active questlines, this one and "the ruined temple" do I need to progress one before the other will update?

[raven scarab]

oh nvm once I hit the imperial era it went away

[cedar locust]

Glad you solved it! I'll add this to our Quest Workarounds list in case anyone else runs into this issue!

Hope you're enjoying Last Epoch!

[faint cape]

In this case, it might be attack speed. Swords usually have a higher base attack rate than staves do. (Shatterstrike does also let you invest in boosting swords specifically, which I'll assume you don't have.)

[raven scarab]

Second everytime I log out I always log back in and find myself at the end of time recently, even though the last time I logged out it was in the outcast camp, which while not a city still has the amenities, I would have thought it would just leave you there (online play).

[cedar locust]

This happens to me too though I've never checked if it was intentional or a bug 🤔

It might be worth reporting to the Bug Forums here : https://forum.lastepoch.com/c/bug-reports/23 just in case and I can ask the team too!

[native sail]

I'm pretty sure it's intentional as End of Time is planned to be the "main" town

[flint grail]

Happens all the time to me and I find it very anticlimactic for a game that has been putting some effort into revamping its campaign, visuals and storytelling.

Would be nice if you log in whrmere you log out or the previous way point. But not always EoT.

[surreal verge]

But for now, it''s intended that you start out in End of Time.

[sterile bane]

if on the loot filert i hide non exalted items but i put show yellow blank, will it still show that item i put to show?

[undone nimbus]

Question: does Enchant Weapon's "Conflagrate" node explode all ignite stacks, including those applied by other players, minions, etc and whatnot?

[surreal verge]

Oddly specific question since you're playing mage, what's the context

[surreal verge]

Order, so as long as the show rule is above hide it'll work

[sterile bane]

got it

[undone nimbus]

I’m playing ignite hungering souls, my partner went fireball ignite sorcerer and going down the path toward conflagrate

My build applies literally thousands of ignite stacks and I was wondering if another player could use conflagrate to pop them

[surreal verge]

unlike the node from Soul reap where it states otherwise, maybe?

fuck around and find out

[near path]

Imagine having a Rive VK in party

Oh wait never mind

That only works for self applied ignites

[faint cape]

I think the answer is yes currently (unless different consuming effects behave different). However, it's also likely/possible that popping ailments from other players will be disabled later on.

[undone nimbus]

Yeah Rive’s node also says it excludes ignites from other players and minions

[undone nimbus]

We’ll test later, its just that it occurred to me that Enchant Weapon’s node specifically didn’t say that it excludes stacks from other players, and since the game is in beta I’m not sure if its actually meant to be or if its a bug/oversight

[surreal verge]

Fuck around and find outtttttttttt

[sterile bane]

is there a unique or set item that is bis for the weapon slot for bleed squirrel?

hold on

i mistyped

[faint cape]

Ah yeah, maybe they already removed that interaction where you can remove other players' ailments... I haven't been keeping up with it lol

[faint cape]

Doubt it, probably gotta be a regular old dragonbone axe or something

there's not a lot of options for weapons for minion builds

[knotty tinsel]

unless you're manifest armor 😛

[faint cape]

yeah, FG is weird lol

[sterile bane]

fg?

[faint cape]

forge guard

(also, probably not dragonbone axe, I think that only gives flat damage to minions, you'd likely want soemthing that improves their bleed damage)

[sterile bane]

well i got an axe that increases bleed chance for me by a lot but i feel like theres something better

i am using a low level unique for now but i might switch

[faint cape]

yeah, there are sceptres with a % minion damage implicit and you can roll % minion phys damage on them

I'd probably run one of those and a shield, but that's probably a personal preference

you could also certainly run 2h or dw if you want

[sterile bane]

ohh im def keeping ym sheld its realyl good

does chance of bleed on player apply to minion?

[knotty tinsel]

no

if something applies to minions it will have the word "minion" or "allies" in it

Julra's Obsession is an exception with the affix "stats on this also apply to minions"

[sterile bane]

if this applied to minion it would def be BIS

are there any current bleed, non minion, builds that can use an axe?

[faint cape]

yeah, I think it's common to use axes for some bleed builds since they have such good implicits for bleed

[knotty tinsel]

the 2h axe base for bleed is the best option for a lot of different bleed angles

simply because it's a lot of application chance

Bardiche or summat

[faint cape]

only if you need to use a 2h, you can get more application chance or bleed duration from dw

[sterile bane]

whats dw?

[faint cape]

dual wield

[sterile bane]

yea i thought bout dw and go crazy bleed but my def would fall a lot

[knotty tinsel]

on an ailment ramping build I'd be less inclined to jump to dual wield just cuz more dmg taken

especially when the tradeoff is Titan Heart

[faint cape]

yeah, but attack speed

[knotty tinsel]

yeah but death

damage has a ceiling of functionality, survival doesnt

[latent canyon]

You peeps are catching on

[knotty tinsel]

you spend enough time in the kitchen you stumble into the right spices

[latent canyon]

[faint cape]

Hm? It's definitely the opposite unless you're trying to push endless scaling content

which I am definitely not touching lol

[knotty tinsel]

I have yet to break 250 corruption or beat a t4 dungeon boss on any character and I stand by my opinion

also softcore fwiw, because hardcore would prioritize tanky regardless

[faint cape]

it's not an opinion - you can always kill faster, but once you are survivable enough to not die, you can't die any less

[knotty tinsel]

I don't know how to respond to that one so I think I just won't.

[faint cape]

if the way I phrased it is confusing, I can try to rephrase - I'm a bit out of it atm lol, sorry

[native sail]

The balance of the game is weighted in a way that you don't need to stack damage on most things and survival is valued far, far more even in "early" endgame. There is a reason why we don't waste affixes on resistances.

[pastel pebble]

If rhing dead how I die?

Me am kill fast, me am not die

Me am outrunninf death

[faint cape]

thankfully getting to that point in this game isn't as big of a thing

[knotty tinsel]

greatly depends on the class you pick

on a druid? no big

[faint cape]

where you build enough damage that everything is trivialized

[knotty tinsel]

oh, nvm

[sterile bane]

if something says +melee fire damage does it add fire damage to your melee skill or does it increase the damage your fire melee skill deals

[faint cape]

• means it adds, it'll say "increased" if it increases (and it'll be by a %)

[sterile bane]

I UNLOCKED CORRUPTION!!!

[faint cape]

Congrats!

[sterile bane]

now i have to find the squirrel helmet

so you only do shade of orbyoss after corruption?

[faint cape]

that's just the way you increase corruption in your timeline

fighting the shade, that is

[sterile bane]

wait, i think everytime u beat the boss it increases the corruption?

[faint cape]

level 100 timelines have a minimum of 100 corruption

no, the timeline boss is separate from corruption changes - in empowered monos, you do get Gaze of Orobyss which can increase the corruption you get from your next shade fight, but doesn't increase corruption on its own

[sterile bane]

corruption def makes it harde rbut i get why people want to push it but how somoene does this at 1000+ i have no idea

i think im going tos tart a necro this week though

[toxic saffron]

Does the loot from lightless harbour chests depend 1) of your level 2) of the dungeon difficulty level?

[near path]

Fyi you'll have to unlock Empowered Monos separately on every char

[near path]

1. no
2. yes

[sterile bane]

ohh i know. just taking a break from the mastery ive been playing

[mighty grotto]

anyone aware if there has been some update on plasma ball (50% lightning conversion on fireball) + Liath's Machinations (another 50% conversion) not converting fire res shred and flame burst? The latter may be fully intended, but the former is just a major problem since it makes it 3 empty nodes to get homing plasma balls. Thanks for any information!

[sterile bane]

i know this is good but idk what to do with it??

[knotty tinsel]

get different affixes

prefixes*

either risk a rune of removal to hit one of them and seal the other, or glyph of chaos the other, or chaos both

[sterile bane]

but i use melee damage

i have to wath the video perry did on seal to see if its worth it

[knotty tinsel]

if you use melee damage then what use is bleed to you?

[sterile bane]

well im using the bleed and melee so the question is, do i save it for a different build, should i save it for a slam, or do i try to max it now

[native sail]

Wait why are you using melee damage and bleed at the same time

[sterile bane]

well im not using melee and bleed but since my minions do bleed and i do bleed as well

[knotty tinsel]

it's kind of one or the other, else you'll be bad at both

even if the damage type is the same

or is this a misconception about how flat damage works? that melee physical damage affix gives zero benefit to your bleeds

[sterile bane]

now i have to see if my build is optimal

and of course my echo froze on the one echo i wanted

[sterile bane]

do unique item echoes give you uniques from that mono or is their pool any, non boss, unique?

[native sail]

The latter.

[sterile bane]

ugh

[native sail]

There are no uniques that are not boss drops that are say "Fall of The Outcasts uniques"
Fall of The Outcasts just has nodes to get specifically a bow instead of any random unique.
You cannot farm any more specific than that.

[sterile bane]

i know you keep saying this but i keep hearing that to get the squirrel unique you have a better chance on that mono

well no not that one, but black sun

[faint cape]

Everything is working as intended, shred does not get converted. If you want to suggest a change, they do check #suggestions-and-like-to-see.

[native sail]

Yes, you have a better chance, not because of higher rates but because Black Sun spawns nodes that specifically only drop helmets. This does not make it a "Black Sun unique"

[faint cape]

^ these nodes are the ones that look half green, half orange and the reward says "unique or set X"

aside from the reward rock from those specific nodes and the boss drops, there's no difference in loot between the different monoliths

[sterile bane]

if endurance is capped at 60% does that mean theres no point in goign over 60???

[faint cape]

Correct, unless you have something that scales with your uncapped endurance (like Face of the Mountain)

[sterile bane]

is that the dugeon unique?

[faint cape]

one of the arbor ones, yeah

[sterile bane]

lightless thats the one

yea if you can sell/trade anything when factions come out its going to be interesting

[faint cape]

you will be able to trade everything that is equippable (including idols)

[sterile bane]

i know thats why its going to be interesting.

you could make your entire build just by buying stuff

[near path]

I mean, you'd still need a good build to farm the gold required

[native sail]

You also need to have the rep and rank required to buy and sell the items you're looking for

[sterile bane]

so to buy it youll still need rank?

not rep right just rank?

[native sail]

Both.

[sterile bane]

well i mean that is fari but still doable

[faint cape]

rep is spent through trading, so it's something you have to continue to farm just like the gold

[acoustic thicket]

Is glacier sorc good i feel the damage is low what do you think ?

[faint cape]

I haven't played it, but I've heard that it's very strong

[hollow oriole]

Is crit chance bonus multiplicative or additive

[sinful laurel]

% crit chance is additive to base crit, % increased crit chance is additive with itself and multiplied by the base.

There are a couple sources of multiplicate increased crit (more crit) but they are rare and only apply to specific builds/classes

[native sail]

Flat crit * (1 + total increased crit) * (1 + more crit)

Repeat the more crit step for every source of more crit, if you somehow have multiple

[toxic anvil]

what are shields good for?

not sure if I should want block that badly

[sinful laurel]

Shields are good for blocking indeed

[sterile bane]

from what ive seen shield have good blocking/armor/resistance affixes

[fading imp]

if i add points to hollow lich, i cease to have health leech? It just becomes increased damage? Or do i get both?

[surreal verge]

It gets converted to increased damage.

This covers ALL sources of leech.,

(IF you get both it would be a must take on all lich builds)

[fading imp]

I thought so haha it sounded too good to be true. Thanks!

So taking this is detrimental? Since i wont be able to sustain reaper form for long periods?

[surreal verge]

You won't be sustain reaper form AT ALL.

Reaper form sets your health regen to 0.

Leech is the only way to sustain it.

[fading imp]

I see i see

[knotty tinsel]

technically you could use healing abilities and effects that give health on hit or kill

not that those are plentiful enough usually but it exists

[pastel garnet]

just dropping for a random question

the last patch was fairly disappointing for me

when is the next (big) patch supposed to arrive roughly?

[surreal verge]

Aug is the current guess and estimate.

[surreal verge]

Nah, it's not enough for reaper form, since we don't really have those, or enough of them

[fading imp]

Also are scythes not a normal weapon type here? Is it just unique items that can be a scythe?

[knotty tinsel]

they're two handed axes, and some of those common ones look like a scythe too

considering scythes are wildly impractical to use as actual weapons I think it's a good compromise 😛

[fading imp]

hmmm i guess. since they're axes they do melee dmg?

or are there any that look like scythes that also do spell dmg

[knotty tinsel]

you can hold one and cast spells, sure

I think they give some necrotic damage which is actually pretty good for Acolyte's spells most of the time

[fading imp]

campaign is not yet done right? so i can go to endgame without finishing campaign and how early can i start it

[knotty tinsel]

you can go to endgame at like level 15 if you want and can kill the enemies XD

[visual plaza]

If I play necromancer full minion build, I can have high dps with 8 regular skeletons, 4 skeleton mages, 2 wraiths and 1 golem. But I find it hard to survive. How do you build sustain for necromancer?

[surreal verge]

Sounds like you have a lot of minions, did you use this node?

[visual plaza]

Yes I use this node.

[surreal verge]

Then just more hp,res and armor

You can focus on dodging

[knotty tinsel]

that node feels very meh from when I tried to build around it

16 armor per minion is nice collateral but not worth summoning extra stuff for I feel

[surreal verge]

This is for builds that already want to spam minions

[faint cape]

The only weapons that are not melee weapons are bows

Pure minion builds typically struggle with sustain. You can use dual blood golems, that unique axe that gives you life on minion hit, regen, ward, or probably some other stuff

But it's balanced around you being able to just flat out not take damage most of the time

[rocky ravine]

Hey guys. Do I have a chance to see all the skill animations in the game ?

[faint cape]

I'm not sure what you mean. You might be able to find people just happening to use nearly every skill by searching on youtube or something, but otherwise the best way is to use the skills in game

[surreal verge]

What do you mean?

[rocky ravine]

I watched a lot of youtube videos. On the wiki pages, there are only the descriptions of the skills. I am currently playing in the Sentinel class. But for example, I'm curious about the base&mastery skill animations of the rogue class. Unfortunately, the skills are not clearly visible in the videos on Youtube. So I was wondering if there is a bulk video or page like this page (https://lastepoch.com/class/rogue). Thanks for the replies. I guess the best way seems to be to keep playing 😄

[surreal verge]

That is certainly oddly specific

[faint cape]

Yeah, definitely. Keep in mind that a lot of skills' visual effects change based on skill spec

[rocky ravine]

Yep. Thank u sm ✌🏻

[runic slate]

Hello everyone o/
So, I hit level 80 and I have an ok-ish build for my Warpath paladin but I'm missing the uniques that makes it better. Eye of Reen and Throne of ambition idol. I was wondering if it was worth my time trying to get them in normal monos or should I just push my maps, unlock empowered and then farm for them

[native sail]

Throne is a rare drop from the boss in Fall of The Empire iirc, so absolutely go to empowered first. Eye of Reen is a global drop (like all non-boss uniques, with like 5 total exceptions) and happens to be pretty rare so I'd also head to empowered for your best chances on that too

[surreal verge]

Always farm in empowered.

[runic slate]

Aight, I will just get empowored monos then

You get them when you complete the last 3 zones and then activated blue altar thinigy in the middle right ?

[native sail]

Odds are you'll be okay without the items for a bit there, most things that aren't directly enabled by a unique but are still cohesive builds can at least get to 250-300ish with okay gear

[native sail]

Correct, yeah

[runic slate]

Yeah my build is doing ok right now even without them - I'm lacking some Res cap or some good rolls on my gear but I can clear whatever map there is. Lack a bit of crit i'd say

[native sail]

Don't stress about res cap (and definitely don't stress about overcap, its protection is limited), 60+ and you're fine for almost everything really

Layered defenses + mediocre res > res cap every time

[runic slate]

Oh yeah, I mostly focused on getting Health rolls than having res cap

just that, they are somewaht cap by themselves with some rolls here and there

I guess it's time I unlock empowered monos then - thanks guys for the quick anwser and see ya

❤️

[cedar locust]

Good Luck! And if I haven't said it to you yet

[visual plaza]

How does dual blood golems give sustain to Necromancer?

[sterile bane]

so i dont understand what this does

[faint cape]

The node right before the blood golem node gives golems life gain for you on hit, you take the double golem to double it, and make them blood golems because they cast a multi-hit spell

You can definitely use the health on hit node with any golem type, but the example I gave is a generic setup

[faint cape]

Which thing? The shade?

[sterile bane]

no i mean is that how i get corruption or is the ebst way to get to 1000 than do orboys?

or am i confusing myself

[quartz blaze]

thats how you gain corruption yes

you must complete those nodes to gain corruption

[faint cape]

Stability is not related to the shade fight. If you do have enough stability and are trying to get your corruption up, run the timeline boss first to get Gaze of Orobyss

[sterile bane]

so whats that 800 stability thing on top

[faint cape]

That's for the timeline boss

[snow raven]

Im need a help to choose my First build, i like skills with great aoe and like warpath and bow builds

Any sugestions ??

[sterile bane]

dont do marksman

[sterile bane]

so i cant face timeline boss till i hit 800 but i can reset mono and get higher corr before that?

[sinful laurel]

You can do marksman lol. Marksman works just fine

[near path]

Yes

[sinful laurel]

Rake you liar!!! You said you were leaving! 🙂

[near path]

I'm not playing tho

Game uninstalled

[sinful laurel]

Ah now just discord lurking. I feel that 🙂

[near path]

Ye

[snow raven]

Why ?

[snow raven]

Im following the marksman leveling guide on maxroll, but i dont like so much the gameplay of detonate arrow, so im looking another skill to play with marksman (maybe multishot).

[near path]

There's two somewhat problematic things about Marksman: 1. It's squishy, 2. It's more item dependent than a lot of masteries

[native sail]

I think I'd consider it second most reliant. Maybe third.

Both Mage specs are really item hungry

[sinful laurel]

It is true that marksman is more item dependent than BD, but there are some pretty baller marksman specs for leveling and campaign imo. Especially if you have access to even one low level unique

[native sail]

Funny Decoy

What's a boss health bar

[sinful laurel]

I personally do rogue campaign with cinder strike. It's such easy leveling with just one unique, maybe two

Puncture is also piss easy to go through the campaign and early monos. Dots rule in early to mid game and puncture lays on the bleed strong

[snow raven]

Which builds you sugest for the first char, just to learning the content (monoliths,etc) and farm some itens for another builds ???

My objective is farm the itens to make a build like that : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6AI88X1nK0

[near path]

Oh fire pally. You can start Paladin itself, there's beginner friendly builds for that. There's Holy Trail Javelin, Bleed Hammer Throw, two pretty solid starters

Which can function just fine on crafted gear

[vale lake]

Bone curse lich, still worth it to take illusion of pain with the cursed limbs nerf ? You pretty much can't gain a full uptime so isn't the full uptime better ?
And if someone had the formula of # of hits needed per cursed limbs duration to roughly see if it's worth, that'd be great

[sinful laurel]

When it first changed a bit of testing was done and iirc the general consensus was that cursed limbs is def still worth. It won't have a full uptime but with some CDR investment you can have a very decent uptime

It's just not free anymore

[vale lake]

Yeah free crit and the 150% more still seems strong, and decent uptime with transplant but wasn't sure, thanks 👍

[sterile bane]

thank you

can detonating arrow do mid corr?

[toxic anvil]

how do I not get oneshot at monos?

[safe harness]

Get 100% crit avoid, 60% endurance, hp on every gear slot that can

[toxic anvil]

where do I get crit avoid on?

rings?

[safe harness]

It can be on most on most armor; rings, boots, belts, etc. There is also a blessing from Reign of Dragons that gives a lot

[toxic anvil]

im dying to lagon boss

his eye laser melts me

and his ground explosion 1 shots me

i can take the claw hits

[surreal verge]

As intended.

Any projectile he shoots that isn't the waves hit really really hard.

[safe harness]

You have to not get hit by those, unfortunately

[toxic anvil]

ah ok

just beat him haha

7th try 🤣

where can I see my blessings?

[grizzled ice]

guys, I really dont understand what going on lightless arbor dungeon. When I cross the portal I die when the loading screen ends. Then when I click on respawn botton my character stays freeze and I need disconnect the game

[visual plaza]

Thank you for the suggestions for necro sustain. Very much appreciated.
Yesterday I was experimenting with rip blood and I think I finally crack the code for sustain. There's some nodes there for targeting minions for greatly increase health regain and also converting health regain into wards. This works wonders and I am able to greatly generate at least one thousand wards as a defense layer by spamming rip blood on my minions. So far it's working good. 😀

[sterile bane]

@vale lake you never sent me your build

[cedar locust]

There is a bug that can cause the load grace period to end before the load screen fades out.

Did you move or press any inputs during the load screen, or did you load in with minions?

[quartz lily]

I have the same problem. Clearly a player-skill problem 🙂 as my kids have no problems with Lagon, it's just me. As far as I can tell, Lagon has 2 different big-hitter attacks that as must-avoids. Can anyone tell me what indicators to look for, i.e. how does Lagon telegraph his big attacks in advance?

[visual plaza]

One of the indicators is the lagon eye turning red. Just before it shoot the massive laser beam, the eye will turn red. So far I only know this. As for other indicators, I have no idea. I spent all my time anticipating this indicator because only this particular attack one-shots me... to the point where I completely disregard the rest of the other indicators.

[faint cape]

Awesome! I totally forgot about the minion-targetable skills like rip blood and drain life

[flint grail]

There's the circle on the ground that charges up so gives you time to run.
He tilts his head lightly to one side and then beings the laser to the opposite side (like he tilts to the left and then the laser goes from left to right)
He tilts the head down and then opens the eye and throws the laser in a straight line.

And then the claws, he lifts one and then swings it down to your location.

[buoyant trench]

I'm new at using legendary potential:

Is there a possibility the sealed affix will attach to the Unique?

[surreal verge]

No, it ignores the sealed affix.

(Also does not count for the 4 affixes needed)

[buoyant trench]

Aw man! Oh well, time to clean my chest then.

[vale lake]

#❔┃ask-the-community messageI very much did sir

[sterile bane]

i stand corrected

[acoustic thicket]

Static orb or elemental nova channel what is easier to start as begginer sorc and what is stronger plz ?

[surreal verge]

Meta wise I think static orb is more consistent.

Idk what's easier tho

(Also if you're playing the campaign as long as you can read you can clear it easily)

[acoustic thicket]

so static is better atm than nova ?

[surreal verge]

Not strictly

[knotty tinsel]

there's so many ways to play that even now the best is subjective in a lot of ways

[buoyant trench]

Is there a video i can look at regarding what to keep regarding Exalted for LP use?

[knotty tinsel]

Be like me and keep a copy of everything

[visual plaza]

What happens if critical chance or minion critical chance becomes more than 100%? Any additional benefits or bonuses to damages?

[dense root]

no

[knotty tinsel]

there's some very specific effects that benefit but those are one unique and one skill node

[visual plaza]

What's these and where can I find these?

[knotty tinsel]

Ignivar's head, which is* a catalyst does it; and the primalist skill serpent strike can enhance a DoT ailment with it.

Unfortunately neither is very good right now as far as I know.

[faint cape]

Has anyone really tried to push serpent's venom?

[knotty tinsel]

I didn't after I found out gamblers fallacy doesnt work for no reason

[faint cape]

yeah, I basically did the same lol

[unreal sonnet]

does this convert to frostbite if u have the cold node?

[unreal sonnet]

i feel like u drew those lines in anger but thanks

[knotty tinsel]

I am lefthanded and use mouse with right

😢 I try ok

[native sail]

Saaaaaame

[surreal verge]

COndolences to both of you-

[pastel pebble]

Haha get fucked

[dense root]

wow

[sterile bane]

is confluece of fate common drop?

[knotty tinsel]

bookmark lastepochtools.com to find out

[sterile bane]

im in the game and my internet is too laggy to do bothh

[knotty tinsel]

(but not really no)

(I said yes because I get them constantly)

[near path]

https://tenor.com/view/well-yes-but-actually-no-well-yes-no-yes-yes-no-gif-13736934

[sterile bane]

is it smart to do a shade of orobyss without studying a how to first?

do high health enemy modifiers apply to shade or bosses?

[latent canyon]

Yes and yes. Early corruption shade is not very threatening

[sterile bane]

i have to get rid of some of these modifiers

ohh wow that wasnt bad

[pearl plank]

Connection problem I've been having while playing with a friend: can't warp anywhere, just has an infinite loading saying "Entering blah blah blah"

It gets fixed if I restart the game but it happens every 5 minutes

I open the game again and two or three portals work then it gets stuck and I have to restart

Anyone have the same thing?

Or a fix

[wide sentinel]

depends on where your friend is from, usually if you are in the same region it shouldnt happen

if not then you are f'ed

[faint cape]

The only modifier that I recommend avoiding for all boss fights on all builds is "enemies enrage at half health". Enemies frenzy when hit is also kinda sus.

[sterile bane]

i did get help but we will see on the second round how it goes, if i do one

how do ppl do 1000+cc

primalist can channel??

[faint cape]

Yeah, all classes have at least one channeling skill (except beastmaster)

[knotty tinsel]

and if it didn't you'd see the affix anyway lol

looking at you, increased spell crit chance on rogue relics

[faint cape]

Hey now, rogue can trigger spells

[knotty tinsel]

most of which are... on crit

[latent canyon]

but youd want the triggered spell to also crit XD

[knotty tinsel]

ah yes of course my bad, I better separately stack attack and spell crit

[latent canyon]

low key tho. low life BD is op af. 24% flat crit hello.

not only you get more defense you also get free crit. poggers

[knotty tinsel]

free crit is indeed poggers

harvest OP

[pearl plank]

We are both in EU west, with that being the lowest ping for both of us

[latent canyon]

dicovering low life is good is very interesting tho.

tested 6 builds right after. technically i tested like 8 of them. 2 not listed here

[toxic anvil]

How does low life work?

There a node that stops regen?

[latent canyon]

Last step of living+exsanguinous

[toxic anvil]

What are those?

[latent canyon]

Typically a four piece combo. Last step+exsanguinous+building hp for ward regen.
Frostbite shackles+strands of souls+stacking cold res for ward retention

Uniques

[toxic anvil]

Oh 😭

[sterile bane]

isnt there an item that says if your life is below your ward you gain something?

[toxic anvil]

That’s the one thing I don’t like about the game lol

[latent canyon]

Its meant to be a high end build

[sterile bane]

hey tomorrow is stream night

[toxic anvil]

Building hp for ward regen?

[faint cape]

yeah, the new weaver ring - haven't messed with LL since it was released, though

[latent canyon]

But getting the base uniques you can also have a functional pretty equivalent build vs not going low life

[pastel pebble]

Not all ward stacking is just via building HP. But its fairly reliable with those items

[latent canyon]

We are talking about low life here sir.

[toxic anvil]

Is ward worth it with most low cost builds?

[knotty tinsel]

it's also one of the few ways to solve the problem of resting ward vs. fighting ward, you don't want to only be tanky when you're hitting a bag of HPs

[faint cape]

but has potential if you're stacking mana and sit on an empty mana globe... if sentinel had some good LL stuff, I'd totally use it on devotion

[latent canyon]

Low cost of what. Skills or gear

[toxic anvil]

Gear

[pastel pebble]

I assumed Zack meant towarfs building ward in general

[toxic anvil]

Yep

[latent canyon]

Yes. Specifically on primalist and bladedancer tho

[latent canyon]

Here

[toxic anvil]

Was asking about ward in general

[latent canyon]

Ohh cool

[sterile bane]

but seriously how crazy is doing 1000+cc. do you have to use zoom zoom build to do that?

[latent canyon]

Not too crazy

There are 25 builds that have done it with real players. Strictly powerlevel speaking there are probably at least a few dozens more that can also do it

[faint cape]

it's definitely harder to zoom at that level of corruption

[latent canyon]

If you meant ward in general then it's a viable defense option for all classes. But some classes gets it easier than others

[toxic anvil]

Is it worth is over health?

Like it’s not mit right?

[latent canyon]

Depends on how you obtain ward.

[toxic anvil]

Whereas health scales endurance thresh also

[knotty tinsel]

"is ward worth it over health" is a question that's different for each build and class and player

[latent canyon]

Twisted heart and low life builds gets ward from converting hp to ward so you'd wanna build both

[toxic anvil]

Right yeah

[latent canyon]

For other architypes hp is way less important when ward is your primary defense

[toxic anvil]

Like is it worth over like armor or other defensive layers?

[latent canyon]

No. They work together

[faint cape]

Main differences are ward has no leech or endurance, but usually you can get higher values

[toxic anvil]

Ah ok

Ward gain and retention are weird lmao

[sterile bane]

what does ward do? does it prevent you from dying ot does it lower hits?

[latent canyon]

Armor and dodge and generic DR and glacing blows and block are the only ways to protect your ward.(excluding res cuz everyone builds res)

[toxic anvil]

Like it’s not like poe with energy shield

[faint cape]

ward is just blue health

[latent canyon]

Just as how it also protects your hp

[pastel pebble]

Lmfao

[latent canyon]

So with ward you'd ideally wanna have other defense layers to amplify it

[toxic anvil]

Why can’t we just get flat ward on items and skills 😭

[latent canyon]

You can

[toxic anvil]

Not this retention crap lmao

[pastel pebble]

We have some ward per sec stuff

[latent canyon]

But numbers are low

[faint cape]

only things that don't work to protect ward are things that specifically protect health, which I think are just endurance and damage to health taken by mana

[pastel pebble]

Retention crap is important!

[toxic anvil]

Was talking about in general

Lmao nahhhhhhhh

I wish it worked similarly to health

Sorry similarly to poe energy shield

[faint cape]

mechanically speaking, there's no reason to have a second health bar

[latent canyon]

Then it wouldn't be fun.

[faint cape]

that behaves identically

[pastel pebble]

I kinda prefer it this way. Gives it its own identity

[toxic anvil]

Fair enough

[knotty tinsel]

if you were talking in general why am I reading a chat topic in #❔┃ask-the-community then

[toxic anvil]

It’s weird to understand tho

[knotty tinsel]

https://tenor.com/view/sneaky-hide-peek-george-clooney-gif-17744618

[toxic anvil]

Cause I don’t completely understand how it works lol

[pastel pebble]

Torgor has a good point

[faint cape]

You can get 100% health damage taken as mana, and then you basically have PoE energy shield lol

[sterile bane]

so what does ward do?

[toxic anvil]

Lol

[knotty tinsel]

PoE has its own mana damage taken, it just doesn't get 60% DR for free on top 😛

[latent canyon]

Wdym for free sir

Takes a lot of affixes

[knotty tinsel]

which you have bcs no health scaling so it's pretty fair

the affixes that is. not sure of endurance on mana as a concept is fair

[pastel pebble]

Isn't it a bug?

[latent canyon]

when you see what low life builds do

you will understand why its fair

[faint cape]

endurance should not affect your mana, if there's any case where it does, that's a bug

[latent canyon]

if damage to mana and endurance is a bug then low life is way way way too strong

[native sail]

I mean, it's not intentional

Mike said multiple times endurance should not affect damage to mana

But it does

[latent canyon]

low life gets 1-2x dmg to mana ehp and very high passive regen

[native sail]

Therefore

Unintentional

[pastel pebble]

Fuck it just buff Sentinel more to balance it all out

[toxic anvil]

Lol

How does ward regen work in general?

I know retention drops the decay rate

[sterile bane]

Once damage is taken the amount is subtracted from

The characters Ward
Percent dealt to mana equal to the Damage Dealt to Mana Before Health modifier
The characters Health

so its blue health

[pastel pebble]

No mana is blue health

Ward is ghosty health

[latent canyon]

if you are talking about builds with a static ward regen source then your max ward can be calculated with a formula

[native sail]

Health with no leech/endurance and weird mechanics for upkeep.

[faint cape]

The more ward you have, the more ward you lose per second, so eventually you reach a steady state. When you take a hit, you'll get up to an okay amount of ward really fast, but it takes a long time to fully recover without ward generating skills

[native sail]

Otherwise pretty much identical

[latent canyon]

like vessel of stryfe builds, low life builds, regular ward per sec builds

[knotty tinsel]

oh my god I just had a terrible revelation

[pastel pebble]

Its all identical until it isn't

[knotty tinsel]

ravenous void is the grimace gloves

[pastel pebble]

Torgor I will kill you

Keep that shit OUTTA HERE

[knotty tinsel]

you take a sip when you hit endurance threshold

[pastel pebble]

Mods! Mods!!

[knotty tinsel]

turn your hp into grimace hp and then die to DoT

[sterile bane]

but it says that if you get hit and you have ward it takes from the ward first, so if you have crazy amount of ward you wont die

[faint cape]

There is also one extra layer here since it's possible to get 'damage dealt to mana', which happens before the ward loss

[latent canyon]

0.4 x (max ward) / (1+0.5*ward retention)=total ward per sec

[latent canyon]

if you want any decent amount of dmg to mana ratio then there are only two ways. one is using fractured crown which explicitly says you have no ward. The other way is using flameward, which never has 100% up time, and also the way mental aegis works you actually take mana dmg before ward

[sterile bane]

all im asking is if the way those low life builds work is because tehy rely on ward and maybe mana damage so they survive more even though they have low health?

[latent canyon]

low life builds takes heavy investments in uniques. it is virtually impossible to have both going

you can but then you either will have a low hp pool(which hurts your ward per sec) a low mana pool(which makes dmg to mana ineffective) or a low ward retention number. basically by branching out it makes your build worse

low life builds are also pretty equivelent to just building hp if you dont have a lot of LP gear with selective affixes to support it, if you do tho thats when it scales way beyond building hp.

[faint cape]

No. You usually have an insignificant amount of health, so health damage mitigation like endurance and health damage to mana are not used

If you run 100% health damage to mana on a low life build, yeah sure, but to get that to 100% you cannot have ward

that actually might be funny, a low life 100% damage to mana build lol - but I guess mage doesn't really have anything to benefit from being on low life to make it interesting

[latent canyon]

that lives only in offline save editing land

[dense root]

isn’t 100% damage to mana worse than like 90% or something

i haven’t done the math but i assume it’s actively good to have your hp regen and leech constantly be applying to some of the incoming damage rather than only after you’re completely out of mana

[faint cape]

for normal builds probably worse yeah, but for one relying on taking no health damage nope

[dense root]

i guess if you’re low life sure

[sterile bane]

so how do low life builds survive?

[dense root]

ward

[latent canyon]

large ward pool. and high passive regen number

[sterile bane]

ok so they rely on ward not mana damage or watheer it is

got it

[latent canyon]

those are usually mutually exclusive defensive options yea

[sterile bane]

i do see mike run around with quite a bit of ward, or at least to me it is

[latent canyon]

thats because he was playing a spellblade/sorc?

the coc metoer i assume

[toxic anvil]

Does armor shred and elem shred apply before dmg?

And I assume elem pen applies before

[faint cape]

If you have chance to apply on hit, the applying hit is not affected by the things it applies.

[toxic anvil]

got it

what is cap for block chance?

[dense root]

100

[toxic anvil]

wait fr?

is that tough to get?

[dense root]

yes

[buoyant sinew]

it's extremely hard unless you're using bastion

but not impossible

face of the mountain or bulwark of the last abyss with lp can get you there

[latent canyon]

Or cradle

[buoyant sinew]

oh yeah sorry I still need to properly learn 0.9.1 uniques

[latent canyon]

Cradle on max roll is 76% block for the first hit. So t7 block chance get you to 102%. Or you be a sentinel and get there easier

[toxic anvil]

Lmao yikes

[latent canyon]

Its worse than it sounds due to block not affecting dot also block effectiveness is another consideration

[safe harness]

I hate how most defensive layers are only for hit

[pastel pebble]

I think they may be expanding ways to mitigate DoT more in some cases. IK we just got more items for it

[latent canyon]

They can add low life support to all classes then everyone magically can get a large hp pool vs dot

[pastel pebble]

Lmfao

Wardguard dreams really do come true!