❔┃ask-the-community

[ripe wasp]

can also throw a rare into a nemesis to get potentially higher multi exalted/forging potential can upgrade a rare sorry for misinfo but you can imprint a rare to start getting the right bases in weaver tree

a solid filter rule would be needed tho

[candid elm]

Nemesis Egg only takes regular Uniques. But if you see that base item in Nemesis, definitely Empower twice.

[queen sonnet]

alright cool ty guys

[vagrant furnace]

Okay I want to hear y’all’s opinion on a crack build I’m thinking to tank uber after judgement nerf, rebuke smite multi strike. The idea is to deal dmg using smite and gain mana + ward with multistrike while also reducing the cd of rebuke, using it with extended duration to tank the big attacks

Healing hands to proc from multi while healing and getting ward, as well as a mobility move

[thorny terrace]

It's not bad on paper or anything, but as someone who has messed around with ward a decent bit this patch it feels substantially weaker than in prior patches of the game.

You also kind of have to think about stat distribution if you're looking to make ward meaningfully face tank stuff.

[blazing umbra]

it's weaker because endurance doesn't affect it

previously you made up for it by the fact that builds hit a very ethical 20k ward plus

[thorny terrace]

It's hard to generate insane amounts of ward in current patch

Because ratio changes and stuff

[vagrant furnace]

Yeah I noticed on my judgement

[thorny terrace]

Me on spellblade

[blazing umbra]

spellblade had always a low ward upper ceiling

[vagrant furnace]

But since it’s getting nerfed I’m pulling stuff out of my ass go try and get a face tanking build that isn’t judgement

[thorny terrace]

That's fine, I'm just saying it's also lower now

[blazing umbra]

true, everything was brought down

well

low health bd and spark charge or something still can get close to 10k

[thorny terrace]

Yeah, I think low health is going to be interesting to check out next patch

I don't know that it will be invincible in the same way judgement is currently, but I'm excited to see how Lich plays out

[blazing umbra]

I don't expect it to be very balanced lol

[thorny terrace]

Me neither lmao

[vagrant furnace]

10 second uber clear time without any cheesy strata

Strats*

While judgement with the 10 minute kill time is gonna be limited to one consecrated ground at once and will have a cap to healing effectiveness

Without any dmg buffs

[blazing umbra]

it's ok I'm all about balance

falconer main etc

[vagrant furnace]

Next update: judgement nerfed into the ground acolyte and primalist are forgotten and falconeer is buffed

[blazing umbra]

I have a 13 second uber kill and that's not the shift oneshot build, regular umbrals

I feel like we've hit the ceiling for what buffing is

[vagrant furnace]

REF DO SOMETHING

[blazing umbra]

yeeah... we love balance

[vagrant furnace]

Devs look at that and think “balanced” but my king judgement isn’t allowed to have 5 minute uber kills with face tanking

[blazing umbra]

to be fair you don't really have a choice either way

it's not like you'd do more damage with a "move out of AoE" build

if anything, actually playing the fight would mean even less dps for paladin

[vagrant furnace]

That’s what I’m saying

At least buff or rework judgement before making it a forgotten skill

Dw I’ll cook something up but it’ll be insane and not in a good way

I’ll see how badly judgement got nerfed and then gonna make a new build with that in mind

[blazing umbra]

I'll be honest I don't love stationary ground AoE builds all too much, the only redeeming factor of judgement is that all the AoE does damage. If they're gonna nerf the defensive properties of stacking, they better not make it so that only one ground damages each individual enemy lol

[vagrant furnace]

Even with that judgement would be questionable in terms of viability

Cause ngl the clear speed makes me wanna commit crimes

[blazing umbra]

paladin should just embrace its true nature and go electrify forever

mike said it's their intended "holy element"

just go with it

[vagrant furnace]

Devs shouldn’t nerf judgement because would a true paladin back down in the face of evil?

The divine protection lets us facetank, if that is taken away then paladin becomes a palabum

[blazing umbra]

paladayum

[vagrant furnace]

Uberfraud summoning the devs to nerf judgement because he sucks and should have trained before the fight

“Lend me some one shots EHG, this is level 29 paladin I’m up against”

Breaking news, uberroth has been placed on fraud watch after being seen begging devs to nerf everything that kills him

[calm spire]

why does the game say controller detected when i have no controller connected ?

also i wish the mousepointer was more visible

i see, only possible by changing pointer size in wondows

[red ember]

There's also YoloMouse, a 5 dollar (iirc) program on steam that lets you do all sorts of graphical changes to the mouse

Though with it ive been able to change the default LE cursor to like 2-4x as big

[calm spire]

pretty decent until i get the build required hlmet

[red ember]

I also rock a UW monitor, so i need bigger mouse

[calm spire]

v

obviously the devs aren't adressing bugs.

haven't seen any signs of activity from devs.

died twice now from the invisible obstacles issue

it's like that map gets the wrong overlay/layout or something while the visual map is different

[toxic echo]

Devs have been addressing bugs. 1.2 recieved tons of bug fixes.

But at some point they gotta dev on 1.3. Its less than a month out...thats their focus.

Mike is literally in #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs daily and Agent is in there as well. Not to mentiom the friday streams Mike does. They are plenty active. Report it so they can fix it in 1.3

[calm spire]

i understand ya but kinda poor as it's a purchased product . but it is what it is

might as well test a dif screen res to see

[alpine pendant]

since maps are pre-generated what areas do you have this happen in? could try to memorize the locations and stay away from those

[calm spire]

it's the whole map when it happens

now it even happens on the timeline platform where the vendor and stash is

might be a graphic setting...hoping for that

[alpine pendant]

interesting, I've never had similar thing happen. thats a weird one for sure

[calm spire]

happen 1/3 - 1/4 ish

might make you understand my frustration

on a side note.

need some advice on slamming an item

left one just dropped

minion spell and int on it is kinda good i guess

ohh and i might just have found the bug trigger

when dropping focus on game window and going back it's there

[candid elm]

If you want to move the T7, craft on a 4th affix and use Havoc. If you're using this item to cap crit avoid, then getting that affix on the item is probably a priority. If that fire res is a T1, after you craft on the fourth affix you could use Despair to guarantee seal it. And then you could craft crit avoid in its place.

[calm spire]

so putting crit chance on me and minions on fourth ?

ahh nm. the avoidance

[candid elm]

Minion crit is a prefix, and you have an open prefix slot. So you can craft that on. No problem

[calm spire]

so my follow up is...can i make it good ?

[candid elm]

Possibly. Crafting is somewhat luck-based. You would need to get lucky with the Havoc to move the tier 7 to health, if you needed that tier 7.

Also, if this currently is best helmet option, you may want to imprint it to get some additional drops before you start crafting it

[calm spire]

imprint ?

nemesis ?

[candid elm]

Weaver tree

[vagrant furnace]

Imprint in weaver tree

[vagrant furnace]

Harbinger’s victim, the one you empower to get loot

[calm spire]

lol. can't find it

u means this ? kind of

[grand shoal]

yes

[calm spire]

guess i ruined my tree

[candid elm]

It takes just 20 Memory. Amber a point to respec your Weaver tree, it's very inexpensive to respec

[calm spire]

my build does not have a weaver tree

maybe you guys got a good one to follow ?

[candid elm]

You will as soon as you reach monoliths and do one Cemetery of the Erased echo.

[calm spire]

my planner i meant

action rpg didn't do that one

[candid elm]

it's inexpensive to respec so feel free and experiment and take things you enjoy. I started with some of the "more" passives near the middle, then got the Imprints as they're very good, Loot Lizards because I think they're fun, and some stuff for larger pack sizes, extra dungeon keys, and Champions. I also took the node where a random Shade of Orobyss can jump you in maps, also because I think it's fun. But there's lots of other stuff in there as well, such as things for Weaver's Will, Nemesis, Exiled Mages, etc etc

[bright sand]

Been playing for over a week when I'm not working. Pretty chill experience, lvl 87 sorcerer, etc. I've been doing well in empowered monos, but I feel that deep down, Ima get bodied soon...

[calm spire]

guess i can't remove the armor i placed in the tree

[candid elm]

Just put something new over top of it

The imprints are like a copy/picture of the item. It's not the actual item

[bright sand]

If it's not a hassle, would anyone be down to fill me in on a couple of things like optimizing endgame factions, gearing and farming tactics, and the like? I'm relatively new to arps.

[calm spire]

so i should put that helmet in that slot to see if i can get something better and also more of the required item

[vagrant furnace]

Everyone we must make this sorcerer face uber

[bright sand]

Why do I suddenly feel like I'm not safe...🤔

[calm spire]

when will that harbinger's victim be available ?

[desert tree]

Nemesis ? You already enccounter them

[bright sand]

Harbinger's victim? Wh-who?

[stark ravine]

The Harbinger's Victim is what I call my characters when I've got a woefully undergeared/underleveled character trying to go straight to empowered monos

[bright sand]

That's wild lmao, I respect it tho

[stark ravine]

More seriously, this is what folks are referring to: https://www.lastepochtools.com/guide/section/nemesis

[bright sand]

Oooooh

[calm spire]

thought it was a woven echo to put in a slot

[bright sand]

That's the official term for those, got it

[calm spire]

glad i can make u guys smile 😄

the egg like slot to put items in at nemesis then ?

[vagrant furnace]

You think that’s how the nemesis’s are created?

[storm wren]

lol that's a good idea for mtx. The Emperor's New Clothes :)

[stark ravine]

Game guide lists it as "Nemeses are formed from the remaining equipment of powerful warriors slain by the Harbingers" but doesn't say if they're explicitly travelers (aka player characters) or not, but also it doesn't say that travelers can't become a nemesis so it seems like that's on the table if EHG ever wants to be more explicit with lore in that regard

[red mortar]

anyone know if shield breaker passive from forgeguard works with the axe thrower passive from sentinel ?

[desert tree]

You get the Shred, but dont pay mana cost

[red mortar]

ty

[calm spire]

is the frozen citadel timeline boss badass ?

looks like it's Heorot

[calm spire]

what must i do when i got the harbinger eye to proceed ?

[alpine pendant]

need to raise corruption in another echo and then kill the next harbringer

you will need to kill one harbringer in each echo and each requires higher corruption than the previous

*timeline

[calm spire]

yeah it was (to me) a bit unclear on how to proceed but i finally got it

i had to click the new portal and then right click the eye

Ozzy Osbourne is dead btw.... sad day for heavy metal

[fringe sigil]

Imma say it now. LE crafting system is good

[zealous prairie]

how can I farm champions?

[grand shoal]

I think the best way is to increase their spawns via the weavers tree.

Put champion in the searchbar, and you'll see plenty options.

Also there's a few woven echoes, that spawn a ton champions

[zealous prairie]

which woven echos?

[grand shoal]

I'm not ingame to check names. What I know from the mind:

• There is one woven echo with just champions (careful, one echo means Arena champions, all other refer to the new champions)
• Gauntlet of Strife has a lot (7?)
• Oerdens Watch has around the same number

[verbal swan]

You're looking for Pillar of Skulls

9 champions

[calm spire]

Completely figured the invisible obstacles bug out.
Something crashes within the WASD setting,
Selecting point2click and then select WASD re-initializes the movement control and fixes it when it happens.

[molten canyon]

I've done a cursory search in discord and already filed a bug report but has anyone else noticed they've just been... losing arena keys? My inventory slot for arena keys is empty. A while ago, I came back from being afk I noticed a key on the ground in the observatory that I assume came out of my inventory and picked it up. At some point since then I must have lost it again? I haven't run arena at all

[desert tree]

Your keys tab is empty?

[molten canyon]

The slot for arena keys specifically

(non-memory)

[desert tree]

Oo

[tranquil obsidian]

guys is the black blade of chaos used in electric buids? does it make sense to keep the ones with lightning damage stats well rolled? or it's used mainly for the void damage stuff?

[desert tree]

Lightning Lethal Mirage?

There aren't much Lightning Melee Build

Lightning Surge maybe

[blazing umbra]

Mirage has really good clear but horrible dps

Does one big hit to clear packs in decent corruption

But the downtime between each big hit is meh

[native sail]

Bleed pop Mirage used to do pretty funny things, before we had like 6 years worth of power creep in two updates

[desert tree]

Well tbf, it took 6 years to release 2 updates

[blazing umbra]

Multiplayer when backpack remembers

[desert tree]

I am glad I got the backpack

[soft thorn]

ok... I think I might be a tad bit obsessed...

i bought everything i think...

[crude wharf]

I need a help with starting build, im kind of player that likes a lot of projectiles or flashy builds. Could you recommend somethign?

[candid elm]

Many of the builds on https://www.lastepochtools.com/builds/ and https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides have YT videos with them, if you wanted to see if you liked the way some of them played. Although those will be end game builds, with the exception of the few marked as leveling, and you'd switch to them once you have any necessary gear and/or idols.

[grand shoal]

Imo you can generally ignore level builds and do campaign leveling with whatever skill/topic you like 🤷‍♂️

[wooden shoal]

What would you guys say is the hardest class to play?

I'm looking for some classes/playstyles that are a bit more involved and "thinky" rather than something that largely repeats the same things in all situations

[desert tree]

I struggle with Marskman for that reason

If you play smth like Hail of Arrow you need to constantly pick up arrow, create shadow etc... Its fun and good

But too much for my brain

[wooden shoal]

Really?

Maybe it's my fault, but I was leveling a Marksman and got a little bored cause it felt like I was channeling Flurry and killing everything with only that

Maybe it's just a leveling thing?

[toxic echo]

Leveling is pretty easy no matter what

[wooden shoal]

Yea I have noticed that

I do wish it was more difficult

[toxic echo]

Unless you put on the vet boots

[wooden shoal]

What is that?

[toxic echo]

There is a pair of boots hidden in the first area behind some breakable walls with the first bear

It buffs mobs

And reduces your dmg. I think

Definately makes things a bit harder

[wooden shoal]

That's super cool that that even exists

And it's like a little secret. I like that

[toxic echo]

Yeah its a nice little fun thing

[wooden shoal]

I was looking at the Runemaster, that seemed like it would be pretty in-depth to learn I thought

[toxic echo]

Eh. It can be. A lot of people just focus on one or two invocations. So its not as in depth as it looks. But you can play it that way

[candid elm]

Some builds can definitely be button press and timing intensive than others. Depending on the Runemaster build, it may be. But you can use passives in the Runic Invocation like the Immutable Order node to really simplify things

[wooden shoal]

I was worried about that..

[candid elm]

Immutable Order makes the runes be based on the order of your Skills on the Skill Bar. For example if you put Flame Ward in first slot, then the first rune is always fire rune. But you can convert Flame Ward to Cold or Lightning to instead make it one of those runes instead. Let's you always have the same invocation

[wooden shoal]

I get you

Yea that sounds a lot less cool

[candid elm]

And there's other nodes that also let you change the invocations

[wooden shoal]

What about Sorcerer? My initial thought is that it'd be pretty nice to think about timing using Focus and Arcane Ascendence

[candid elm]

With the Mastery respec that was added in 1.2, you can always try Runemaster and if you don't like it switch to Sorcerer

[wooden shoal]

Wait huh

Respeccing is a thing now

I've been making new characters every time I wanted to try a different mastery

Is that like a max level thing you have to unlock or can you just do it

[candid elm]

It's always available in End of Time town with the brain icon NPC down at the bottom

The cost goes up as you level up

[wooden shoal]

...

I've made like at least 3 characters that I wouldn't have if I knew that was an option 😭

[candid elm]

Chart here. The NPC lists the cost which also includes respeccing all passives. You can just click on the vendor and it'll tell you.
https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/last-epoch-tombs-of-the-erased-patch-notes/75247#heading--qol-masteryrespec

[candid elm]

It was just added in 1.2. Previously yeah you had to make a new character to try a different Mastery

[wooden shoal]

Thank you for the information bro

That is gonna be so helpful

I got 2 Primalists now, how do I decide who to actually level to max 😟

"Dadslapper" and "HotrodMatt1996"

[candid elm]

Welcome

[storm blaze]

I'd pick Dadslapper

[wooden shoal]

Yea he's the original

HotrodMatt came afterwards when I wanted to test Beastmaster

[plain kayak]

Btw
Where can i change my "account name"

Didnt know it was like that when i 1st play and thought it was character name

[faint cape]

Dadslapper for sure lol. But in reality, I'd just pick whichever is highest level or farthest in progression at the moment

[faint cape]

!support can change it, I think

[ripe brook]

Anything we can help with? We've support articles and a contact form at https://support.lastepoch.com/.

[plain kayak]

What do i type here

[stark ravine]

That's the subject field on the support request, it's like the subject line of an email. Probably something like Account Name Change Request given the context in chat here?

[plain kayak]

Yeah i want to change my account name

[arctic scarab]

Guys, what would be fastest leveling class/mastery? I wanna try out some stuff as solo self found, but not sure what is fastest way to get to ch9

I would reckon falconer, but not sure if there is a faster one

[icy drift]

Yeah falconer

[vagrant furnace]

dad slapper is better, my primalist is called sigma balls and he one shots uber. My sentinel is called TouchMe and he tanks uber

The duality of man

[calm spire]

How and when do you get weaver tree points ?

Lvl85 with 11 points

[ripe wasp]

Doing all the woven echo nodes one time (there's a plus symbol next to the ones you haven't done) and then leveling the faction to max

[desert tree]

Completing Woven echo

[candid elm]

From ranking up Weaver faction and the first time you complete each woven echo. If you mouse over the X / 50 at the bottom of the Weaver tree it will show you

Oh sorry this question was already answered

[dense hazel]

yo, why is atropos used for builds like spellbalde where you don't have any throwing abilities to take advantage of kismet?

also is boneclamor bugged? the UI display shows ward that goes way above the necrotic cap but when i hover over the actual ward it's in line with what the necrotic cap is

[candid elm]

The large flat +damage, +melee skills, +attack speed, and if you're lucky you can get a high tier attack speed rolled on it. Maybe something else you can use as we like Armor Shred.

Like all the WW items it'll be really random though and you'll need a lot of copies

[dense hazel]

ahhhh so it's mostly just due to the crazy flat stats. got it makes sense. that's what I was suspecting

[candid elm]

I'm not in front of the game to test, but Boneclamor should scale off Uncapped Necrotic Resistance. As in the total number in parentheses below the 75%. Like if it shows 75% (200%) the uncapped is 200.

[dense hazel]

yeah, that's hiow it should work, but oddly having overcapped necrotic resistance affects the UI display of ward but actual hover it seems unaffected. idk what is going on lol

[verbal swan]

Heya folks, anyone know if favor caches scale with corruption? I'm farming at 3xx on HC and I'd bump that up a bit if it let me farm prophecies faster, but otherwise not worth it I think 🤔

[candid elm]

Probably? In general Favor gain is tied to XP gain and increasing Corruption also increases XP gain. There's no cap, but there are diminishing returns on XP / Favor gain after 1k. If you'd like to get an idea of the scaling, play around with https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/monolith-scaling

[verbal swan]

Very diminishing, thanks for the link 🙂

[near vale]

Can Orchirians Petals, Gamblers Fallacy, and Avarice uniques obtain Legendary Potential through Nemesis?

[thorny terrace]

No

[calm spire]

ohh...a patch ?

[hybrid raft]

hi does 2 ash of mortality have a shared cooldown or no ?

[native sail]

Shared cooldown, doubled value per proc though

[hybrid raft]

ty

[candid elm]

If you've encountered something you think is a bug, use F8 key in game to report it. Thank you!

[verbal swan]

I have multiple 4LP Tongue of the Aberrant Seer. Are there any builds where that might be BIS?

[wicked gull]

anyone running uber abby tonight?

[fringe sigil]

What does lp1 mean ?

[desert tree]

It has 1 legendary potential

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

[weak stump]

how can i apply time rot?

[storm blaze]

Get chance to apply time rot

[desert tree]

I feel like this wasn't the answer they were looking
Eve''though it's the answer to the question 😅

[soft thorn]

https://tenor.com/view/rpdr-willam-nurse-rupaulsdragrace-gif-10165140

hi... I am getting spanked so hard on Corruption 814 Fading Brink 😦 help me I feel very attacked

[storm wren]

Corruption 814 4121
Done.

[wooden shoal]

Is druid mechanically difficult to play?

It seems like it could be cause all the abilities and stances to balance, but I'm also not sure

Also seems nice cause each stance has a different playstyle so it'd kinda feel like you're always doing something different right

[desert tree]

Not really
Usually you stay in one form

[wooden shoal]

Ahh

That's sad

The whole thing that I was kinda interested in Druid for was the swapping between them and going from playstyle to playstyle in the middle of a fight

Like one minute I'm a big brute bear guy then a spell casting wood man then a weird bird thing you feel me

[desert tree]

Its an insect not a bird

But the problem is how do you scale 3 skills (the forms) that barely overlap

[wooden shoal]

I mean yea that makes sense

but I feel like it's a bit silly that that isn't really viable since like they clearly want you to think of a playstyle like that

The forms have skill points that let you switch from form to form, so why would they not also make it good

[desert tree]

Scaling 2 forms is imo much more doable

[alpine pendant]

I fully believe there is broken build there just waiting to be found. some point in future it will click for someone and triple form druid will one shot ubers like serpent venom

[desert tree]

Oo makes me think

Arf false hope

[wooden shoal]

I mean is using all 3 forms really that bad or is it just not optimal

I don't really mind not being so broken or meta, as long as I'm not struggling to do anything

I mean maybe a lil struggle is okay lol

[desert tree]

I havent seen anything good coming out of it

[wooden shoal]

Ass

I woulda liked to play it

but it seems everyone agrees that it's just not really doable

[wooden shoal]

Not you, the news about 3 forms being bad

[wooden shoal]

Does Spectral Distance and All For One on Dread Shade work together?

[faint cape]

All for one disables the aura buffs, so no reason to take a node that modifies the aura buffs

[wooden shoal]

Well my thinking was it makes people outside the aura gain buffs, and AfO removes the aura, so technically everyone is outside of the aura

[vagrant furnace]

For the judgement pally over build, is reduced fire dmg or reduced dot more important for orian’s eye?

[candid elm]

Probably the implicit. The fire affix also has a smaller roll range. The reduced DoT damage helps a lot extra tankiness as DoTs can bypass some of your damage reduction. Similar with Countenance of Majasa.

[vagrant furnace]

Hmm then I def need to reroll that mid 9% dot reduction

[acoustic estuary]

hey so my friend reset windows yesterday in an attempt to get his mouse to work in game. the mouse works now but for some reason it's switching to controller input every few seconds? is there a way to fix this

[wooden shoal]

Does he have a controller connected?

[acoustic estuary]

when they disabled steam input the mouse didn't work at all

no

[wooden shoal]

Like not plugged in or connected at all

[acoustic estuary]

I don't think he's even connected a controller since resetting

maybe he should just completely reinstall if the reset didn't work

idk

[wooden shoal]

Well

Tbh that doesn’t sound like something that is a last epoch problem

I feel like that’s something outside of the game

[acoustic estuary]

oh okay

[wooden shoal]

Has he tried other games and seen if that happens there too?

[acoustic estuary]

only games that don't support controller I think, so that's what I'll get them to try next

[wooden shoal]

Yea that’d be a good test

I mean I’m not an expert at all

But that doesn’t sound like a game problem to me

[acoustic estuary]

yeah no worries. the ideas are helpful

yeah me either

[wooden shoal]

Cause I mean, the game has to be getting a controller input to feel like it needs to switch from somewhere right?

[acoustic estuary]

yeah exactly

[wooden shoal]

I feel like it’d be the computer somehow doing that and giving it to the game

And the games just like “Idk man ig there’s a controller”

[storm blaze]

I remember someone else had an issue like that
I think it was some razer thingy connected to the pc

[faint cape]

It doesn't remove the aura, it just disables the aura buffs. The aura is still visible when you allocate that node and negative effects of the aura should still apply (like damning enemies within the aura)

[wooden shoal]

O

Lame

[rustic fjord]

anyone know of a leveling raptor builld?

[candid elm]

Could check https://www.lastepochtools.com/builds/ and https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides for guides marked as leveling.

With the Mastery respec that was added in 1.2 you now can also level with whatever Mastery you want, then switch later.

[limpid steeple]

If i run Unclaimed Throves do I actually need to boost them with Lostwood Folly or I only need to place the Sepulcher of the Lost in the middles?

[rustic fjord]

@candid elm TY

[novel lotus]

How do I reset the game settings to default? Not just the input key

[candid elm]

Hmm I'm not in front of the game to check, is there not a reset to default down at the bottom?

For the graphic settings at least there's a le_graphicsmanager.ini you can delete to reset the graphics settings. For Windows copy and paste this into a File Explorer address bar
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Eleventh Hour Games\Last Epoch
to get to the file location.

If you're on Linux it's located
~/.config/unity3d/Eleventh Hour Games/Last Epoch

[candid elm]

Up to you. Lostwood Folly would add some extra Weaver packs that will give you extra Memory Amber in the Unclaimed Troves.

[limpid steeple]

I just dont get where IO should place the folly. I need the sepulcher in the middle to have 6 chests no?

[candid elm]

Yes they have the same range

[limpid steeple]

So?

how do i place them? ^^"

[dense hazel]

what do you do with bricked weaver will uniques? just sell em?

[storm blaze]

Nothing really

[thorny terrace]

Cry

[dense hazel]

it is what it is

[desert tree]

You can use them to reroll your good ones

[dense hazel]

uhh is there any benefit to overcapping on armor shred chance

i lowkey did not realize i ahve 411% armor shred chacne on hit 💀

[desert tree]

Yes

Ailment can be applied multiples times per Hit

411% means 4 stacks of Shred and 11% chance for a fifth one

Although going over 100 stacks is not really useful

Due to diminishing returns on Armor

[dense hazel]

kk got it tyty

physical shred is a diff thing than armor shred right?

[desert tree]

Yes

The way armor and Phys res are different

Its different bucket of dmg / mitigation

[dense hazel]

tyty. omega nuked by build by swapping over to atropos for like 15 minutes lmfao]

[hallow yarrow]

So I've got this piece that I use and its amazing. This piece has 20 forging potential but the prefix and suffix are all T5 or T6 I cant do anymore with it. Is there anything I can do in crafting that would make this even better than it already is.

[vagrant furnace]

If you really wanted you could use rune if removal or wtv it’s called to remove a random affix but prob a bad idea. You can use rune of havoc if you want a different affix to be exalted, rune if redemption if you wanna try to change the exalted affix to a random new one that isn’t on the item; rune of refinement is the best option if the rolls within the tiers are bad

[hallow yarrow]

Yeah I looked at all my runes but there is a danger with them all that you will not get what you want and brick the item. I could duplicate the itsm but that removes all forging potential. Lastly I thought if I could get something similar to this piece with legendary potential and get the best of both world.

[vagrant furnace]

Lp is for uniques only

Also the item you have isn’t the best rn as it’s only a single t6 instead of a t7

Tho given your current gear it’ll do

[hallow yarrow]

None of my gear is from the build. I have received any yet but I've been farming. I started with my armor and looked to see where to farm and how to do it. I set up my prophecies how it said but so far no luck. I get mostly just pretty good pieces but not what I need.

[vagrant furnace]

Which gear do you need btw?

Max roll vk warpath build it what

[hallow yarrow]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/echo-warpath-void-knight-guide

[thin tinsel]

is it intended that even if i removed every single item from my "release" stash and moved it into my legacy stash its still... there? i tought it would dissapear lol

[vagrant furnace]

That chest isn’t too hard to get even with lp, try running that one cache woven echo after also putting it into weaver tree

[desert tree]

Yes

[hallow yarrow]

Yeah it says run blood frost and death so I do. I have to look at my weaver tree to make sure its set up properly.

[vagrant furnace]

Any timeline works to get it, just that blood frost and earth has the unique body armor echo rewards

[hallow yarrow]

Got ya. I think I have to just RNG the hell out of it and make sure everything is set the way it should be. I have the 2 handed sword but with none of the other gear I use something different for now.

[vagrant furnace]

You also gotta get the right affixes from weavers will on it

Use runes of weaving on it if you want

[hallow yarrow]

I don't understand that part yet. I'm getting there but this game is very in-depth and takes some learning to get it all right.

[vagrant furnace]

Basically certain uniques come either with legendary potential or could have length potential while others come with weaver’s will, which is different yet somewhat similar

Legendary potential lets you add affixes form exalted items into them through a dungeon, weaver’s will adds/upgrades 1 tier of an affix per weaver’s will. Rune of weaving lets you avoid farming enemies with the weaver’s will item to add the said affixes and rather consumes the rune to instantly convert some weaver’s will into affixes/affix upgrades

Max amount you can get is 28 (quad tier 7 affixes)

[hallow yarrow]

Thank you for such great information. I have I think 2 or 3 of that same sword with weavers on them.

[vagrant furnace]

Really hard to get what you need though because it’s all rng

From getting a good amount of weaver’s will in it to actually getting the affixes you want to getting the affixes to upgrade to t7

[hallow yarrow]

Well out of all the gear I need for the build I got that sword over and over again. I got so many I would just sell them because I had I think 8 of them. I am going to load the game a look at that sword to see what I can do with it.

[vagrant furnace]

You gotta get a good amount of WW on it too

[hallow yarrow]

Yeah I think that will be the test of patients. Thank you so much. I enjoy playing online and chatting with others in games too. I have my own server and I brought a friend of mine into the game too. I've been helping him understand and play the game. We game each night. If you want to join I would welcome the help and friendship. Thank you again.

[vagrant furnace]

Sure I don’t mind, be way tho the game is kinda dead-ish rn, end of season and whatnot

Invite me in dm’s

[hallow yarrow]

Sent an invite to my server. We chat on Last Epoch

[plain kayak]

Alot of people still chat in game tho

[vagrant furnace]

It’s mostly the same few

[thorny terrace]

Yeah there are a handful of giga yappers who carry gen chat everyday

Log on semi regularly and you'll know them all

[plain kayak]

It's a good small break from running 50 echos for me

Stop and talk with peeps

Then back to the grind

[thorny terrace]

I personally like to master chatting while doing echoes

Its like a form of challenge mode

[plain kayak]

[verbal swan]

I think there's only a single regular chatter active on HC 💀

[thorny terrace]

Homie, you guys got more important things to worry about than chat

[vernal sail]

Can anyone tell me what this season added to the game?

[vagrant furnace]

weaver stuff i think and sentinel rework

[vernal sail]

Ahhh okay, I'm new to game

What season is this?

[vagrant furnace]

end of s2

s3 dropping 21 aug afaik

[vernal sail]

Oh cool

I have trouble with games like this

[vagrant furnace]

The game IS a little bit dead tho cause most people already grinded for what they wanted and tried out the content

[vagrant furnace]

Games like what?

[vernal sail]

Arpg games

[vagrant furnace]

This one is easy, the entire campaign is basically a huge tutorial

monos are where the real challenges start

[vernal sail]

I just don't understand how to tell if something is an upgrade or not

[storm wren]

No worries, step by step, you will see them

I start from zero experience on loot-based ARPG too

[storm wren]

😅 My dps is quite poor indeed

[vagrant furnace]

Even judgement does more dmg than that dear god

[novel lotus]

Reinstalling the game and deleting the Steam and Last Epoch folders at C: didn't work; I restored the operating system backup from last month

[plain kayak]

[storm wren]

🤷‍♀️ .

It must a meme build. No way to play heartseeker as a throw skill. Before equip the helmet VS After equip the helmet

#💬┃general message Support for flat throwing damage just too poor on marksman's passive tree

[grand shoal]

What software do people use for an easy screencapture (video) these days, any tips?
Free and easy to use please

[desert tree]

I use the nvidia software that come with my graphic card

[grand shoal]

Not sure if my old graphic card has something like that, but I'll have an idea where to look for 👍

Update: That wont work my my card 😦

[desert tree]

Oh no

[grand shoal]

Ofc, Ravagers Dart is kinda meme, for people that can easily play 1kc+

But still a very solid one. Just came back to the char, found empty ring slots that I filled quickly with the first random -4 Throwing cost rings I could find and

Just saying.. ^^ (Cinder Strike doing Burning Daggers with Ravagers support)

[twin oak]

I have been using steam recording for months now
the recording is a bit darker than the actual game but other than that it's good

[grand shoal]

Lovely, I check that one out too!

[crystal ember]

With manifest armor the nodes that apply increased effect of stats on boots/gloves/armor - does this apply to slammed stats as well as base or just base?

[desert tree]

All stats

[red mortar]

hello. i have two questions -> 1) is marked for death a separate multiplier from resistance shred or are they additive 2) do the 75% resistance penetration from monster level apply against our minions too?

[desert tree]

Additive
Yes

[red mortar]

thanks

[desert tree]

Sorry I didn't say this earlier
There are some stats that don't work on the manifest armor be careful

[fringe sigil]

can someone explain to me about woven echoes ?

also where is " altar of the weaver " ?

[desert tree]

Woven echoes are special set echoes you can place in your timeline Web at the altar
The altar in found in cemeteries echoes

[tepid marten]

Hey guys, I am a bit confused about the Pebbles set. If I have all resistance at 75% but some are overcapped, does the set consider this?

[storm blaze]

it'll just give you lightning

[tepid marten]

Why lightning? 😵

[desert tree]

The most left res

[tepid marten]

Wouldn't that be fire?

[desert tree]

Indeed

Then nub is wrong and you get fire

[tepid marten]

Aaaah okay thanks!

[storm blaze]

I thought it was said in #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs that it would be lightning

[tepid marten]

You are right, Cyborgwars did say it is lightning. But he also mentioned that the priority is from left to right so maybe he also forgot about the fire 🧐

[faint cape]

If you're on Windows, I think it has built in software. Windows+Alt+R is the default keybind iirc.

[grand shoal]

Interesting. Seems to be Windows + G in my case, but that could work for short clips probably. Thanks for the idea!

[faint cape]

Win+G pulls up the game bar overlay thing for me, which is another way to get to that recording thing. And way easier to remember lol

[grand shoal]

Win+Alt+R doesn't work for me, and I find no way to enable it.

But nice to see there is really some easy solutions for casual screen recording

[glass delta]

do yuy guys think that with the stop killing games iniziative they could make a completely offline last epoch launcher?

[alpine pendant]

stop killing games cant make last epoch do that since stop killing games only applies to future games and isn't retroactive

[fringe sigil]

how do i gain memory amber fast

[sonic saddle]

btw this already exists kinda. you can just create a shortcut to the exe in the steam files and add [space]--offline to the target line

[faint cape]

Hmm, when I forget the keybind (which I might have said the wrong one lol), hovering over the record button in the game overlay for a bit should give a tooltip that says it. Not that it matters too much, just makes it a lil easier to use.

[icy drift]

That wouldn't make sense. They'd only do that if steam itself was going down, but then again every game ever would need to get off steam in that case xd

[faint cape]

We can already play LE completely offline anyway, so there's nothing to be done really

[icy drift]

Yep

[ruby lantern]

guys how do you reroll blessings numbers? ive tried to kill the boss but numbers are showing the same

[icy drift]

That's how to get new rolls, if you've gotten the exact same roll a few times it's just insane luck, but if it's like 5+ times in a row I'd get suspicious lol

[ruby lantern]

so there is no any corruption condition for it? just go and kill boss until you roll what you want?

[storm blaze]

Yeah
If you've high rank in the forgotten knights it'll roll it twice and keep the highest roll

You probably click the keep current one, right?

[arctic scarab]

Just to note, it doesn't change the numbers for the currently equipped one. You have to pick on top same blessing with maybe new numbers

[blazing umbra]

If you pick one, it stores all five iirc

[faint cape]

If you are on 200c or higher, you get an extra option to pick from, effectively increasing the chance you'll get a new roll for your blessing of choice. If you have Forgotten Knights rank 8, it improves the chance that the blessings that do appear roll with a higher stat.

[faint cape]

It stores all regardless of what you do, if they were higher than the ones already stored

[ruby lantern]

thanks for the info

[blazing umbra]

oh really? That's cool, I don't think I ever bothered to check something like that

[storm blaze]

Yeah I've accidentally clicked keep current one with higher roll being offered and it's been available at the brain npc

[faint cape]

For the dual stat blessings, it's a bit wonky because it only looks at the first stat roll, i.e., it will replace a stored 99%+100% roll with a 100%+0% roll, unfortunately.

[storm blaze]

rip

[weak stump]

Whats the hardest class/mastery to play?

[blazing umbra]

Without the passive that locks the runes in place, probably runemaster

[storm wren]

The hardest mastery to play exist in le?.... No feeling

Oh maybe transform, druid

[raw talon]

are there much differences with Temporal Sanctum T1 to T4 regarding using Eternity cache?.. I understand T2 and above allows 1 guaranteed affix to choose with Eternity cache.. are there any other benefits?.. Like do i want to go to T4 for some additional benefit I don't know?

[vagrant furnace]

Higher tiers = higher level cap on items you can put into the cache, t4 there’s no limit on level item at all

[raw talon]

okay. Thank you.. sounds like that might be the last detail for me to keep in mind then.

[faint cape]

@wintry oyster Replying here just because:
If you already have a copy of LE installed that has the full offline mode implemented, there is nothing they could possibly do to prevent you from playing that copy offline.
imo it's not likely to happen any time soon, but if this is a concern for you, make a backup of the game files and you're covered, at least for offline play.

[storm wren]

All of my memories and saves in offline so I'm fine

[tranquil obsidian]

who makes you think offline could not disappear? we already had the psyop of "part of the community" wants the build discovery

[vagrant furnace]

Me seeing the “pay $1.99 to unlock monoliths” in the game next season

[tranquil obsidian]

pay for instant level 100 and no more dungeon skip
eternal cache 30 slams with 1 guaranteed affix 9.99$

[dense jay]

🦖

[faint cape]

Make a backup so Steam can't possibly update to a version without it, if you want to be sure.

[vagrant furnace]

Ring might make set items somewhat worth running now

[vagrant furnace]

Way too cheap you gotta go mobile game type of monetization

[dense jay]

+6 skill 👀

+2 companion 👀

[shut knot]

oh man, that ring is soooo so interesting. If we can wear 2 and they both apply, it would FINALLY give sets some life in this game. I might even return to Last Epoch just for this!

[dense jay]

that flay skill

[vagrant furnace]

The krafton acquisition in question:

[tranquil obsidian]

primordial exalted items... GL same problem with the champion affixes. IT'S FOOOKIN RANDOM

[dense jay]

👀

[native sail]

Not a psyop, this was a legit thing, the community has been blasting EHG for letting CCs post builds from CT since 1.0

[faint cape]

Yay

[shut knot]

As for crafting, man, I wish they would let us reroll items in legendaries so much. It would allow us to move legendaries from one character to another without having to stress about locking in generic bonuses anymore...

[calm spire]

Will there be earthquakes following the sale of EHG ?

[shut knot]

I don't understand what do you mean. What is "krafton"?

[modest berry]

+6 look very powerfull

[native sail]

Mega scummy publisher, basically.

[shut knot]

Wait, did something happened to EHG? Have they been bought out or they have some scummy publisher now?

[dense jay]

like akastyr said, might burn you out trying to get it tho

[tranquil obsidian]

yeah i suggested a way to "reset" legendaries and restore them to LP0 uniques, even allowing a full reroll if they feel it's too unfair but if i remember correctly they already stated in a stream they don't want to do it

[native sail]

They've been bought out lol

[faint cape]

Earthquake will definitely still be viable, if not meta

[calm spire]

So nobody knows what this means

[shut knot]

Oh, ok. I understand the reference now. Thank you

[faint cape]

For now it means nothing, for the immediate future, also nothing. Sounds like they will be trying to hire more people, so maybe in a while they'll be able to churn out more stuff per season, idk

[tranquil obsidian]

yeah in general it's always more reliable having a slammed LP [1-3] than a legendary. Legendary could be BIS but it's a pain to even get 3 good affixes AFTER crafting, Forget doing that on head/body/relic. too many affixes

[storm wren]

That's @white linden 's tea definitely

I guess I need to go back to play minion builds for a while in 1.3. Through I have played minion build all the time (totem)

[fringe sigil]

does this thing even real

Mad Alchemist's Ladle

killed a lot of exiled mages

[median zenith]

heh, i know that feel, took me so long to farm one as well, you'll get it eventually!
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ take my RNG friend!

[storm wren]

You can give the boost blessing from Ave

Let me find...

[storm wren]

✨ Loot Drop Boost ✨ (single use, can be used for 1 (one) item or weapon or armour/gear, results not guaranteed) - May RNGregory bless you

[calm spire]

That should stir things up

Less than a month to S3 so why not sell it 😅

Jokes aside

Is there in current season a build that is superior and rips thru every content ?

Or is LE well balanced?

[toxic echo]

its not terribly balanced in teh since even bottom tier builds can do most/all content. but the top end is very busted still.

erasing strike, judgement, most things falconer are still very strong

there are some snapshot things that are strong too, but should be getting fixed next season

[calm spire]

My minion army can do most stuff and i have terrible gear

[glass delta]

it does make sense, because SKG is about end of service scenario, not just "playing offline"

so if they themselves one day stopped supporting LE

[calm spire]

I think getting killed is most likely to lack of mechanics etc

[toxic echo]

yup. unless you are trying to make a bad build, it'll do just about everything.

[calm spire]

We’ll see when i solo my first harbinger

[cinder radish]

Any tidbits y'all caught in the video? There was this Maiden-like(?) dark-ish figure.

[keen laurel]

Yeah he was cool looking, got me curious what he was doing there 🤔

[calm spire]

Tribute to Ozzy ? 🙈

[cinder radish]

LMAO

I chocked

[calm spire]

Would have been so cool

[cinder radish]

There's the added context of these guys having wings (pigeons) 💀

💀 💀 💀 💀

That's why it was funny.

[toxic echo]

this is one of the gods in the pantheon. like eterra/orobyss/observer

[cinder radish]

Wait, really

[toxic echo]

yeah. you seethem in a few places

the opening cutscene i think. some statues

the shade of orobyss is very similar

[cinder radish]

Well, the downside of playing spin-to-win - you don't see anything 😭

[toxic echo]

it actually looks a lot like the observer we have seen art of before

but it could also be a new one we havent met

but its def in that vein

[cinder radish]

That's ACTUALLY so interesting. Is there any lore/video for this?

[calm spire]

Spending real money on the game ”only” provide cosmetics? No advantage ?

[toxic echo]

this power tier thing was made by gavryn 2 loremaster streams ago

but both loremaster Q&As should be in the vods

[cinder radish]

Man, that's cool and all but ain't NO WAYZO I'm browsing through hours of vods for this like im happy for those gods or sorry that happened idk 😭

[toxic echo]

lmao

[cinder radish]

Oh, thank you for introducing me to Gavryn. I had no idea this existed.

[toxic echo]

gavryn does make lore videos with a breakdown of stuff

IK he has a first one. idk if he made the second one yet

@terse fjord you made the second Q&A video breakdown yet?

[cinder radish]

Where is the first? I can't find it on his channel. Can't find anything about "loremaster streams" either.

[toxic echo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH8Y6XggVlg&t=3425s

he has some other LE lore things too, but this is the one specifically with the loremaster from EHG

[cinder radish]

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Alright, watching it after the devstream.

[toxic echo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHBg-65Epx0

and this is the latest one from a few months ago (not edited just the vod from stream)

[terse fjord]

Uhh... working on a different video rn @toxic echo 👀

[toxic echo]

slacker 😛 still on poe2 eh?

[terse fjord]

and now WoW too lol I missed mythic raiding and player housing soon (and the toxic relationship/FOMO I have with the game lmao)

[toxic echo]

rip free time

[cinder radish]

Give me your BNET, and I can get you banned, so you have more free time OkayChamp

Friends help each other!

[calm spire]

#❔┃ask-the-community message ?

[storm blaze]

Only cosmetics.
no actual advantage

[calm spire]

So mainly luck based(RNG) 👍

P2W sucks

[cinder radish]

Only cosmetics, of course, and - might I add - they're priced very fairly. Sure, it's subjective, and everyone is from a different country, but relative to other games (and especially PoE), the prices are great.

[calm spire]

Poe2 is very expensive, even stashtabs is a robbery

[cinder radish]

Disagreed, but not heavily. It's at ~100h that tabs actually start mattering. In my opinion, if you got ~100h out of a game, you can shill out $25.

I do hate the fact that they claim PoE is F2P. It's not, not in practicality.

You quite literally cannot play the game without them after a certain level.

[calm spire]

On a side note, who is the scouser in here ?

[cinder radish]

O.O

A what

[calm spire]

I have 1600hrs in poe2

Liverpool supporter

Was a guy with pink name

Was CartooNic

[toxic echo]

she was a yellow name, and is no longer the CM

but i dont think she had tha tmuch time in poe anyways

[storm blaze]

Yeah I think she didn't actually play poe

[vernal sail]

How does weavers will and legendary power work?

I got an item with 15 ww

[toxic echo]

there are some good game guide sections you can read in game

but basicly each WW point = one affix that gets randomly selected

you can either wear it and kill things, or, use a rune of weaving

[vernal sail]

Sadly I'm at work rn so I'm unable to get on but I really appreciate you telling me that

So does legendary potential work like that too?

I think that's what it's called

[toxic echo]

similar, but, with LP, you need an exalt and go to a dungeon

[ripe wasp]

Legendary potential allows you to choose relatively the affixes that can be put on. Weavers is rng affixes

[vernal sail]

So does it combine the exalt item with the unique?

[ripe wasp]

Yea it sacrifices the exalted and chooses from that pool of affixes

[vernal sail]

Oh that's kind of cool

[ripe wasp]

So a 1 legendary potential takes 1 affixes, 2 LP takes 2 etc

[vernal sail]

What is the max legendary potential you can get on an item?

[ripe wasp]

Much smaller pool since there's 4 affixes. So 4 is the max LP

Guarantees all the affixes on the exalted item

Moved to the unique

[vernal sail]

Ahhhh okay

Is there a wiki for the game?

[toxic echo]

lastepochtools or tunklabs

do NOT use the wiki. it is so old and outdated

[vernal sail]

Thank you guys i really appreciate it 🙂

[calm spire]

Why all the fuzz about offline play ?

Same content but offline ?

And obviously solo play

[lilac plaza]

Guys if I have an item that gives +x% increase chance of shock on hit, does it also give a base chance of shocking on hit?

[toxic echo]

do you have a pic of this? cuz afaik its all base chance

[lilac plaza]

Nah sold the item 😦

[toxic echo]

100% means 1 stack guaranteed. 200% means 2 stacks guaranteed, and so on

yeah, ailment stuff is all base chance afaik. unless i am super blanking on something

[lilac plaza]

What I mean by base chance is what if i dont have any shock on hit proc=

Does the item itself give a shock proc then?

[toxic echo]

well thats what the affix gives you, just base chance

i cant find any increases chance...just chance

there is increased shock duration tho

[faint cape]

Yeah, there's no "increased chance" in game. There are the occasional things that apply at a rate, like warpath only applies 0.6x your ailment chance or defiling nova that appies 5x your poison chance.

[cinder radish]

Ok, I've rewatched the trailer a few times, and saw the new teasers. I think that:

• You find dynos with some clues. Probably not hard, but you'll get some visuals that "yep, there be dynos here". Probably feathers/husks, etc.?
• You steal each one of the dyno's eggs.
• The dynos are actually hard, just not seen in the trailer. You can't just take their stuff for fun.
• Those eggs get put on these spots where they grow inside Nemesis boxes from the same biome, and there's a sub-system where you might need to place them in a specific spot/way. The decorative metal is basically the egg-holder. To me, this reads like those eggs from Nemesis are something special in the universe, and now we get to see how they were back then, in the Ancient Era.
• I think you "extract" the essence, and the eggs "hatch" onto your piece of gear, turning it into a Primordial item.

Mike said to "go back and rewatch that thang!", and so I did.

The Nemesis system could potentially change/upgrade/whatever to this while in the Ancient Era. So, the eggs we currently have are now the new Nemesis eggs, and that's how you get the Primal Exalted items OR the Primal Uniques.

Did anyone else go through the trailers again, with the new spoilers and all?

[faint cape]

Spoilers potentially relevant to the above comment:

Anyone else happy we're going to finally meet the Observer?

[cinder radish]

Also, the steps (same category as the tooth, etc.)

[faint cape]

Also blood splatter trails seem present in many of the clips

[cinder radish]

Eagles linked me some lore-related stuff above, and I'll watch it soon, but even if I don't know who/what he is yet, I'm excited the story gets expanded.

[faint cape]

Oh yes excellent, Eagles is definitely another lorehead 😁

[toxic echo]

i am READY for the lore

[faint cape]

Same. Also hoping Mike succeeds in making a Kyle stream after every major patch a regular occurrence - especially after patches like this one!

[cinder radish]

~~In case those teasers for the monsters weren't...well, just monsters, it'd mean they're bosses. And if they are, they look weird. As if they got powers from other creatures that had no business with them.

Either:

• It's the above, and the more bosses you defeat, the more mechanics they inherit, and it gets crazy hard.
• There is some way (who knows the specifics) that you can augment the bosses. Multiple possibilities such as offerings to these bosses who might be sentient, imbuing them through a ritual, etc.

Might be reading too much into this specific one.~~

Completely wrong. I just misremembered how these were presented.

It's just that both this guy and the other (that I can't find) look WAY too polished and specific for them to be just random mobs.

I'm 80% 90% sure that, if it's this, then it's the above system. No way they spend the time to create these custom guys, just for them to not be some form of the above.

And if it is this...why not show it? Damn, this system is very interesting. In my eyes, probably more content than Woven, at least in terms of high-quality action.

[toxic echo]

i dont think bumblebear here is part of the dino hunt

[cinder radish]

Mike said that "in today's trailer, I feel bad that we didn't show more about the Beasts system, because there is a system".

[toxic echo]

could be some side boss in ch10 or something. there are plenty of side bosses and hidden bosses in the game

yeah, its one of the core mechanics, i am sure there is a good system in place for it

[cinder radish]

Aha, that's a good catch. If we can find some teasers for S2, where they had this level of detail/explanations/schematics, then it's most likely that.

[toxic echo]

iirc they teased the giant necro scorpion

[cinder radish]

Well, even without it, it's most likely that.

[toxic echo]

and that was just a champion

i was sure it was a boss of somekind then too. lol

[cinder radish]

Sorry, what was the necro scorpion? I didn't pay much attention before S2's release.

Got the beefy guy.

[toxic echo]

the necro scorpion is the exterminator champion guy

[cinder radish]

Ok, this is NOTHING like the guy above. This is just a random mob/boss, and it shows its references. Nothing more. I misremembered it.

[cinder radish]

I'll be HONEST ON G BRO I DID NOT LIKE EVER INTERACT WITH THAT SYSTEM 😭

...which is a shame, but yea.

Ok, the above theory never had a chance. This is clearly for a humanoid character, most likely a Druid Unique or whatever.

I just misremembered this bit.

looks like my uncle tho the helll

[plain kayak]

Damn +6 skill exalted gears

Devs be cookin

Waiting for the full course

[faint cape]

They are big on creating weird bear enemies, it could very well just be a random regular or rare enemy

but I do kinda hope it's a niche boss or secret enemy like Bell Bro

[cinder radish]

Yea, it's that, almost certainly. It's certainly not what I described above LMAO

[toxic echo]

this is what I am hoping. or the guardian to the secret bee level

[cinder radish]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but today Mike has re-acknowledged the idea that content is too easy, and that - quote - "it breaks the loop". Did he say that, or am I just hearing what I want to hear? My problem with the game (ARPGs in general, reall), is that you don't...really...do hard content. Like, all this gear/work, and you don't have interesting things to use them for. Mike acknowledged this issue before, multiple times, and I asked directly if they had ever seriously thought about combating it: #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs message

Was today's answer related to that, or was it just about the campaign?

[faint cape]

Hm, was that in the stream today? I usually miss the streams since they happen to be at a bad time for me.
I will give a disclaimer that Mike answers super literally in the ask-the-devs channel, so almost always the answer to any question about "has the team thought/considered X" is just "yes" meaning they considered it (usually implying they decided against it). But in the streams he tends to give longer form answers with more explanation.

[cinder radish]

I was literally (hehe) thinking that it was just a literal answer, 'cause Mike is busy.

[faint cape]

heh

[cinder radish]

Butttttttttttttttt, you can look to their actions.

They said this specific thing on stream, and then went ahead and added the boss ward-guards.

[faint cape]

Yeah, they definitely buffed enemies up a lot over the past few major patches, added the pinnacle boss, and then added an uber version of it

[cinder radish]

Definitely would make me very sad if they don't have a plan for 1.4 to actually create some progression path, so that you don't just play loon-pinata-number-go-up simulator.

[cinder radish]

My question (and the people's from streams, think it was 2 events) were specifically about how even Uber bosses are something you run over with a lot of builds, and how that's not ok.

[faint cape]

I suspect they will take a serious look at any builds that can trivialize uber Abby, and probably will nerf them

either through DPS or face tanking

[cinder radish]

Then that would be the wrong approach, because it'll always happen that some builds will nuke bosses out of the sky.

Given how many small knobs you get to improve your character, it's bound to always happen.

[faint cape]

Yeah, it is bound to happen, but they have also said that they kinda like having the possibility out there for players to constantly chase for

I'm not sure what the right approach is personally, probably all approaches have pros and cons

[cinder radish]

Well, that wouldn't get removed at all. It's the bossing system that would get changed. They added the wards, and acknowledged this very issue, but due to power creep, that basically did nothing.

My problem is that, if EHG really doesn't recognize that they're running into PoE's original issue, and that EHG will actually hit the wall waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay faster than PoE, because now there are 500 competitors, it means the long-term health of the game will suffer. People will only play the loot pinata simulator for so long. Introducing meaningful progression is, imho, mandatory.

[toxic echo]

Well without content creators 'solving' before patch launches...you wont have the everyone playing erasing strike cuz we know what it can do, as much. Im sure some theory crafters can figure it out just on notes There will be a longer discovery period to find that uber trivialization

[cinder radish]

That was a big thing that they did, yes. It's the first step. But the other issue still remains: nothing to think about every patch, you just farm. A model where you get a few bosses/challenges every patch (tied to the story, of course) is where I hope they'll eventually land on.

The flow should be: farm <-> attempt the challenge, and adapt
The flow, right now: farm > farm > farm > farm > go and one-shot Uberroth.

Not to mention that this gets way worse the longer Uberroth remains the only piece of content like that. He's been figured out a year ago.

They have the procedural generation tech. Arenas. Monos. Some marriage of that where you have an infinite string of monos that get "uber empowered", and you just keep doing monos, with each one of them getting increasingly harder and more involved, ala roguelikes.

[toxic echo]

There are definately steps between farming and uber. Lol

But i think these dino hunts will help fill in that midgame gap

[faint cape]

I do think they are likely to add a system vaguely similar to PoE's league challenges

at least, it seems to be brought up favorably by Mike, of course he doesn't represent the whole team

[cinder radish]

I saw an overview of the system, and then my friend explained it. I like it, even if I wouldn't engage with it. It's a good progression system for most people. However, my friend who plays a lot of PoE tells me nobody really engages with them, because it's a secondary system. Well, that's a problem.

So, that system, but actually making it so that, for example, if you defeat this line of bosses, which ends with Uberroth, you get this COOL transmog, and this powerful item.

You must give people meaningful rewards, else they won't do it.

[faint cape]

That's odd, the challenges are usually all I and anyone I know go for in PoE. I think describing it as a few challenges every patch largely tied to the theme of the patch is a good description for it, and it rewards cosmetics for beating them.

But definitely the system PoE uses has a lot of room for improvement, and EHG has so far been pretty good at finding clever ways to improve familiar systems

[noble tulip]

wait wait, how did you get this?

Looks dope

[frigid wraith]

can anyone tldr primordial exalteds? is it just an extra stat?

[faint cape]

It was a teaser revealed on one of Mike's livestreams a while back

Running album of teasers: https://imgur.com/a/last-epoch-season-3-teasers-MmXTzAs

[thorny terrace]

New lich animations kind of look like they took a step up, thanks for album

[storm wren]

https://youtu.be/Tm6Kr-dCjxw
First time to kill a harbinger in 2 mins...

Burning dagger marksman is much more fun than pure fire heartseeker marksman exactly. My action skills reach a new level too... You can watch how busy I have been
(Collasping horizan give me a chance to enjoy pure fun from fighting with a harbinger because the arena is much bigger. I can't handle the difficulty of harbinger when they're in arenas of timeline bosses)

[limpid steeple]

what is the fastest way to enchant idols?
I need a specific roll

[desert tree]

Run Reweaving echoes

You get 3 enchants iirc

[dawn spear]

I am pretty new and currently playing level 50 sorcerer and using static orb as main dps. My build feels really mana hungry and Ive been using focus to alleviate that but it feels not super efficient. I'm wondering what kinds of stuff I should be looking for to really help with mana issues or if I'm already doing the right thing and just have to deal

[storm wren]

349c, here's my defense.

[dense jay]

isn't the dodge kinda low for a rogue?

also the gb

but my gb was low :P

[storm wren]

I suppose it's the balance issue like ray issue from possessed enemies before so I shared it here.

349c just normal level but... Champions under this level of corruption can deal 3700+ physical damage...

100% avoid crit damage I'm already 🤔

[faint cape]

In the pic, it's just 3k damage btw, the overkill is just the part of that 3k that was not needed to kill you

[storm wren]

Do you mean 3054 damage is what kills me already, remain damage after I died is 730?

Then damage from this champion still is 3054 + 730 = 3784

And 3054 is the value after reduced by my defense

[faint cape]

No, the damage from the champ was just 3054

and yes, that's after all your reductions

You were at full health when you took that 3054 damage hit, so it only needed 2324 damage to kill you

3054 - 2324 = 730 overkill damage

[storm wren]

Glad to know what overkill damage mean finally... 🙏

🤔 Marksman, 3055 health...Emmmmmmmmmm That's quite hard

[faint cape]

at >300c some enemies do start to get pretty dangerous, especially depending on the current echo mods you have going

that was a champion, specifically, and some of them have really dangerous stuff, so an easier strategy might be to play it more careful around champs

[storm wren]

Key reason: I can't one shot champions

The speed of health reduction just too low then I'm slain...

[fringe birch]

overkill damage = killing blow damage - (health + ward before hit)

[limpid steeple]

is there a wayy to make the cursor more visible?

[icy drift]

Not in game sadly. They have greenlit a third party program called yolomouse though. Hopefully we'll get the functionality in game one day

#1230525636263546940 message

[gaunt mica]

So with the new season coming out, will Necro be stronger you guys think or some other dark horse (besides Void Knight)?

[toxic echo]

necro and lich are both getting a good bit of attention so they should be pretty strong

[limpid steeple]

Got it :3

[icy drift]

Did you change the resolution?

Or wait

Is it an actual setting now? I can't remember lmao

[icy drift]

I know they added some UI scaling settings but can't remember if it included the cursor

[storm wren]

lol so many skills void knight have been owned

[limpid steeple]

no I bought thew software you told me

[storm wren]

🤣 My Jesus. The background burst me into laughing because the difference just too big

I just feel the contrast of light and dark on the background is quite...Emmmmmm it's like ps

[icy drift]

Ah right on lol

[sour trout]

Does anyone know a way to contact EHG media/communication team?

[desert tree]

!support

[ripe brook]

Need a hand? Just head on down to https://support.lastepoch.com/ for support articles or to reach out to us directly.

[sour trout]

Yeah I checked it only saw technical support

Not media inquiries

[jaunty nebula]

What is it about ARPGs that people do seasonal stuff then bail after two weeks

[ripe wasp]

Cuz then the season in the next ARPG is out haha hype is over time to move on for most

[thorny terrace]

Arpgs are also not particularly strong social hubs either.

There are some exceptions, but for the most part

[raw talon]

do the implicit stats not apply to minions? so like phys pen in my pic for example?

[faint cape]

Stuff like new content, races/events, and burnout all combine to make that cycle what it is

[toxic echo]

it will not unless it says minion

[raw talon]

oh i see.. THnk u.. ya i knew for awhile they don't show in the minion stat sheet.. but always wondered.

[calm spire]

Cursor size scales with windows setting so change the cursor size in windoze and it will be bigger in-game

[frigid wraith]

do we have a date for when more items for next cycle are revealed?

[icy drift]

We don't

[indigo berry]

Gotta love the Ambitions of an Erased Acolyte relic..

[true pulsar]

Whats this

[indigo berry]

Killing bosses on high corruption with this Relic (highlighted stat) makes the ward spike - sometimes a lot, like in the previous picture.

[lyric bramble]

you should try the vines boots if you aren't already

[candid elm]

From this page https://lastepoch.com/media
There's an email for Press Contact - [e-mail]

[sour trout]

tysm

[frigid wraith]

cant anyone remind me how set crafting works again? it needs to be on the same base? e.g 2h staff onto 2h staff?

[lyric bramble]

right

[toxic echo]

Yes same base

[frigid wraith]

tyvm, trying to remember the basics before next cycle 😂

[royal musk]

does anyone play this game while using a VPN? Specifically NordVPN? I don't seem to be able to connect online when using it

[ebon oar]

I can't connect also when using a VPN

Are there prophecies for adorned idols? If yes are they really rare?
I have not seen one yet and been rerolling about 15 times already

[frigid wraith]

do we know how often the trex roars? from new relic.

[faint cape]

No, we don't know anything other than that tooltip text - no alt text, stat rolls, nor minion stats

[frigid wraith]

sad

[winter sandal]

do rarity boosts from monolith affect prophecy drops?

anyone?

[faint cape]

No, corruption does affect LP chance though

[toxic echo]

Some vpns work, some dont. Nord never works for LE

[winter sandal]

is their anyway to get void horrors to spawn in monoliths

i havent seen a single one in such a long time

[plain kayak]

Run echos in Black Sun/Fall of the Empire or the Last Ruin

Those are void theme monos if im not wrong

Im pretty certain with black sun and fall of the empire

[loud hamlet]

with S3 about 3-4 weeks away, is there a preview schedule for deep dives on the new features?

[cinder radish]

I think they're delaying the entire "hype" cycle by a week? Hard to see how they're gonna do 2 weeks of content creator stuff.

So, probably no extended video next week, into content creator stuff, into the long video.

Actually, it's not even delayed. It's what happened last time as well.

[raw talon]

i wonder if Primordial Exalted items are simply 6 stat affix items?..

(2 prefix, 2 suffix, plus sealed affix and a 6th affix-- which seems to be T6 or T7)

[ripe wasp]

I mean that's what was showcased. I'm more curious to see if those are the only ones or if there's more primordial affixes. The 17% melee crit is juicy

[raw talon]

agreed.. wonder if u can make a PEI (is that gona be the new acronym?) reforgable...? im making up words here now...

[loud hamlet]

seems like a 6th affix that can roll "T8" basically. values looked like 50%-100% higher than T7 for some of the 6th affixes shown

[raw talon]

oh ~! i didn't know..that's cool. thk u for sharing that.

[loud hamlet]

https://imgur.com/a/last-epoch-season-3-teasers-MmXTzAs you can see like +6 Meteor ranks (T7 is +4) and +297% spell damage (T7 max 150% on the meteor/spell damage affix) as an example

[raw talon]

is it possible the teaser trailer had it wrong and the dino was a male?.. even tho the hunter said clever girl?.. lol

[faint cape]

It's possible, but also that thing is a shapeshifter so maybe its gender just depends on its mood

[cinder radish]

And @raw talon Mike said that there is some mechanism about Primordial Exalted items that is not "just another affix on top of it".

There is something about the Rift Beasts system that Mike said they didn't cover in the video, and that it is "definitely a system, not just rares". Whether that is positive or not, we don't know. He could've meant "it is definitely A system (not good, not bad, he could be disappointed".

#❔┃ask-the-community message and the next messages after. It feels like they didn't really actually showcase any of the Rift Beast system and how involved it is.

I genuinely think this was a mistake on EHG's part, to not talk about the MAIN system at all. Yea, they need to build hype but leaving us in the dark, **to potentially think there is no "meaningful" new endgame content at all...**just not good.

[fallow geyser]

Trailer and acolyte buff is enough hype for me but he showed us two similar looking „badges“ and said they are somewhat related to the system.
So my guess is they are ranks, the beasts have different strengths/difficulty and we have to fight our way to the big alpha that rules over all others

I really don’t mind not mentioning the system personally. Coming weeks it’ll get revealed anyways

[cinder radish]

That was my theory right after that initial writeup! I thought the beasts presented to us as teasers were actually those bosses, but they're just random NPCs.

I'd be shocked if it wasn't like you say it is, the system culminating in this big "The Alpha" fight. Not an Uber fight, but definitely a challenge.

[fallow geyser]

Yeah, difficulty of the alpha could be between abby and ubby. They want to fill the gap anyways so that’s probably the first part of it

[cinder radish]

Oh, I just realized something based on y'all's comments.

The Nemesis system could potentially change(?) to this while in the Ancient Era. So, the eggs we currently have are now the new Nemesis eggs, and that's how you get the Primal Exalted items OR the Primal Uniques. 

[fallow geyser]

[cinder radish]

I mean, it's how we get TURBO EXALTED items right now, it has an egg, and so on. How the hell did I not see it before?

So, Rift Beasts plays hand in hand with the Nemesis system when in Ancient Era?

[fallow geyser]

You’re onto something! That could definitely be the case. Nemesis egg was a bit random and strange imo^^
Still, how come those eggs are in nemesis system then? I‘m not a lore person but it still seems a bit strange even tho the origin of the egg would be solved then

[cinder radish]

Same question, actually.

Like, what those dudes just pop eggs out? 😳

I think this egg-like thing is something that'll be revealed to us in the lore, because we now have two versions of it:

• The "Ruined"/bad version.
• The Ancient version.
  So, to me, this reads like "thes eggs are something important to the universe, and now we get to see what they were BACK THEN!"

[fallow geyser]

Someone in another channel mentioned the beasts are shapeshifters. Dunno if that’s the case (we saw one „evolve“ or change because he got angry) but maybe they are nemesis but in a different era 🤔

[cinder radish]

@terse fjord #❔┃ask-the-community message take a look, king/queen

[cinder radish]

You mean EVERY beast that we'll get to fight?

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

Uhm

That could actually be the case, yea.

So, the Nemesis system is getting a "global" rework, and each Era has its own Nemesis. Would make sense.

[fallow geyser]

New void nemesis = alpha

🤯

[cinder radish]

Yea, the system could culminate with some Orobyss-influenced-beast that's super powerful, and it's how everything starts to go to crap.

[fallow geyser]

But that would mean there is only a few beasts 😔

Would be ok tho given they haven’t had that much time now that we‘re back to a normal season length

I wonder if we get a new monolith 🤔
Maybe later, that’s probably too much for the timeframe even tho it’s the same assets as the new chapter

[raw talon]

did i see from the trailer a new portal.. cosmetic or something too?

[cinder radish]

There will only be a few beasts, yea. It was clear from the trailer and the scope.

Well, this all makes sense.

[cinder radish]

We are not getting a new timeline, no.

[fallow geyser]

Yep, it’s canon now in my head 😅

[cinder radish]

But Mike said "he can't tell us" exactly how the Ancient Era plays with Monoliths, and how do you move from it to Monoliths, and so on.

I'd KILL for a timeline that's not all dark and messed up. ARPGs are too dark imho.

[cinder radish]

Yes. New cosmetic for the portals after Monos, etc.

[fallow geyser]

We got some ancient like woven echoes that are very pretty lookin 🙃

[cinder radish]

Oh, man. Now I feel bad that we're not getting an Ancient Era timeline 😭

[raw talon]

is that gona be a purchase thing or like how we got free bees be4.. and a cape?

[cinder radish]

I think it's just whatever you have as a portal MTX, you'll be able to use it on this new category.

[raw talon]

i wish i could grind for cosmetics.. even on offline mode..lol.. which i have been working on ...

[raw talon]

ah i see.

[cinder radish]

Never gonna happen. Pretty much no proper game allows you to farm for $-based stuff. The only proper game that lets you do that, would be WoW.

[fallow geyser]

Tbh I assume we get a free portal because we can change blue/green portal then and would be nice then.
We get some mtx to earn in endgame, right? 🤔

[raw talon]

well D4 incorporated some cosmetics you can grind for.. but yeah the good stuff they are pay only.

[cinder radish]

I meant "farm for whatever you want" as a model. You can pay to get it instantly, or farm for it. That's so rare to have as a system.

[raw talon]

i see.. makes sense.. ya biz is biz.

[cinder radish]

There is occasional MTX you can get, yes. But they haven't specificied if they'll reward any for doing upcoming content. Safer to assume it'll always be just something you can buy.

[fallow geyser]

Yeah that’s rare but I think they meant „kill abby get abby‘s mount“

[cinder radish]

Yea, that'll make everyone want to kill him at least once, assuming the transmog is really good.

Missed opportunity, tbh.

[fallow geyser]

Wasn’t it in the trailer? Something something mtx to get by doing certain tasks?

[cinder radish]

o.O

[fallow geyser]

I could be wrong 😬

[cinder radish]

Nothing in the trailer, no.

Maybe the wording of "Monolith Completion Portal Cosmetic" tripped you up? It's just that you'll be able to assign a Portal MTX to the portal you get when finishing a Monolith.

It doesn't mean you'll get a portal cosmetic for completing anything.

[fallow geyser]

Ah, that might be it 💀

Here’s hoping season 3 has challenges like PoE even tho mike said it’s not ready or something like that.
(He did do that for season 2 too..saying nope to something and then it’s still in..just can’t remember what it was)

[faint cape]

The divine era ones are pretty nice imo, and there are ancient era echo maps in the pool

[cinder radish]

There are some arenas, I remember now, yea, but what besides that? I don't recall.

[fallow geyser]

I‘ve never been in an arena 😂

[cinder radish]

Arena Monos

[faint cape]

I'm not sure really, but they do reuse campaign assets to make echo maps, so it's also possible we'll get new echo maps based on the new chapter

[fallow geyser]

Well, the echo ones but not THE arena

[faint cape]

they definitely did add a few new ancient era mobs to echoes in S2

[cinder radish]

Mike said "yea, we can't speak about this" on stream. It'd be a shame if not, but not a new timeline, no.

[faint cape]

It would definitely be nice to get an ancient era timeline

[cinder radish]

I'd love to basically just alternate between snowy and these "beach"-like monos.

[fallow geyser]

I think timeline comes next or later. Can’t do all in one season

[faint cape]

Not sure what the blessing would be, maybe one related to favor gain or something like that

[cinder radish]

I hope it doesn't, at least not soon. LE needs endgame. In fact, although I LOVE this stuff, it's definitely a mistake, at learn short-term, to not invest everything into the endgame.

However, the fact that they now have a publisher changes things a bit. They can safely play for the long-term.

[faint cape]

or they could replace an existing timeline, like fall of the empire is kinda not too unique

[cinder radish]

That'll never happen. They'd have to rework the story/rewards/etc.

[faint cape]

There's not really any story tied to any particular timeline other than its own

[cinder radish]

Yea, they're not MAIN pieces, but they correspond to each Era, and are connected.

Ok, I'll retract my comment. I can't say NEVER, but I think highly unlikely they remove a timeline, at least anytime soon.

[faint cape]

They are all alternate "what if?" scenarios, so they aren't part of the actual campaign timeline

but yeah, probably unlikely they'll replace one any time soon

also unlikely they'll add another, 10 is already quite a lot

(probably more unlikely to add more imo)

[cinder radish]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2marzkqSxE&t=4m

More lengthy discussion about the Rift Beast system, I just found this out.

[cinder radish]

Yea, they're just "connected" to an Era, but nothing more. They're a standalone product, even if only somewhat connected. So they COULD play with them however they want.

For the foreseeable future, they said they're not removing anything big from the game, as a rule.

[faint cape]

Right, they basically just take place in parallel universes

[faint cape]

Yeah, but redoing things is definitely on the table, like we know they aren't quite happy with the imperial era campaign atm, though they did redo a lot of the assets in it recently

[cinder radish]

That's a crazy big mistake, imho.

Most people don't care about the campaign/story.

[faint cape]

It's the first experience new people have with the game though

[cinder radish]

But I also think that the game has cemented its spot, so, I'll downgrade from "crazy big" to a lesser term 😛

[faint cape]

they massively overhauled chapter 1 recently as well

[cinder radish]

Yep, and most people right now, and in the future are not new anymore.

Some details, if you care: #📚┃off-topic message

Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE to have all of this. But we're better off if they focus on the "critical things".

[faint cape]

Maybe, but replacing and updating the campaign content is still nice for those of us who grind through the campaign several times each season

[fallow geyser]

Would it be strange that ancient era echoes can spawn in all timelines? If there won‘t be a AE timeline

[cinder radish]

Yes and no. Per my findings, most people just don't care about the campaign, at least not actively. However, underestimating the power of world-building is always a mistake. So, they have to have a world, somewhere you go to, some faces you recognize, etc.

[faint cape]

Right, and also even if new folk aren't the majority, a constant stream of them is always needed

[cinder radish]

But right now, it's endgame systems that they need to push, and have another (sub?)team work on this.

[cinder radish]

New people are more likely to engage with the game, yes. Those that have tried it, and don't like it, probably don't like it for good reasons, and you won't change their minds. However, most of LE's active players are not new. And it seems that, at least for this season, EHG hasn't (as of now) done any major marketing effort to try to get new people in.

Per my data, iirc, some ~3M+ copies were sold, but only <2M people have actually actively engaged with the game. As of ~2-3 months ago?

The rest have only logged in here and there, and most people who have actively played are not new.

In essence, LE's playerbase has largely cemented itself some ~3+ months ago, possibly sooner. From now on, it's either a MASSIVE marketing campaign that'll get new people in, or they'll have to do a bangerrrrrrrrr season to catch the eyes of those who weren't interested until now.

[faint cape]

They can grow slow and steady, as long as they keep putting out good seasons like the past few have been, it'll continue that way

3 months ago was S2 release, so it's pretty natural that it's stagnated since, and will probably grow again in a month when S3 releases and then stagnate until S4

[cinder radish]

It won't.

There just aren't numbers to pull from to make it go up. In the message I linked, there's the predicted peak/unique numbers for the next season.

[cinder radish]

Sorry, I meant that I AGREE with you for the long-term, but in the short-term, it likely won't go up.

That's not a bad-bad thing, but it's certainly not optimal.

[faint cape]

EHG definitely needs to advertise more, they did a good bit for 1.0, almost none for 1.1, and then tried something different entirely for 1.2

idk what they are planning leading into S3

because it'll probably not be what they did for S2

[cinder radish]

Yea, it's why I'm not doing the final numbers until I see ad/partner networks' data to see how much EHG is advertising for S3.

However, my prediction is that they won't spend too much on S3.

It's a smaller patch that they can tell isn't gonna be that hot.

Every capable company has capable marketing partners that are able to tap into lots of datasets to be able to at at least give a decent answer to EHG, and if they also have a partnership like that, every company would tell them that it's not looking good. Even by public signals, you can tell there's just not that much buzz:

• Number of reddit comments.
• Number of YT comments.
• Activity in the server.
  etc.
  ...which should at least give you SOME direction of the hype. They're dumb metrics on their own, but still useful for the direction. However, these dumb metrics become very useful when they swing very hard. As they did this season (relative to S2).

I'll ping you later on these days when I take a look again. Curious to see how big the gap in activity is between S2 and S3 when it comes to these dumb metrics.

[faint cape]

Yeah, will be interesting to see. Though mostly I just focus on knowing lore stuff and silly game mechanics. lol

[cinder radish]

They work hand in hand, if we're talking about predicting what comes next, which is what we were doing. When there's budgets, you can assume they'll focus on more "lesser stuff", but when there aren't, it's pretty much just the core of the game that gets worked on.

But I would imagine this campaign bit was worked on for...years? Like, they just kept adding a bit here and there, and there you go.

So, it likely hasn't impacted the normal releases, but unless they have something ready right now, given the numbers for S3, I don't imagine we'll get anything new in S4, etc. Again, UNLESS they have a lot of it in a good state already.

The new hires also won't likely make a big impact for months, and given the Senior staff has to train them, it's probably gonna affect development a bit.

[faint cape]

They pivoted mid dev cycle for S2. The new campaign chapter was supposed to come S2, but they changed to focus hard on end game stuff. It resulted in S2 being huge and also came after nearly a year of downtime since S1.

So, it kinda did impact the releases... or you could say the Weaver stuff did that, depending on your perspective lol

[cinder radish]

Makes sense, yea. In dire times, they'll always focus on "core". This move - if they really said they did this - should tell you how they view the game's systems and what's really important. Since S3 is looking to be a slow one, and the added slowness from the new acquisition, the new hires, etc. - I'd expect S4 to also be not big**, but then, come S5+, they'll be banging left and right.

[cinder radish]

Yea, as I said, MOST people don't care about the campaign, however, there is an objective line to this. If they don't spend time on the core of the game (the endgame), people who enjoy the campaign will 100% never get any new content.

[faint cape]

Too real

[faint cape]

That is the hope, yeah

[dire bronze]

can you craft a set mod on a champ item?

[cinder radish]

The one thing I hope EHG will do from now on, is run some audience research/focus group stuff, because...bruh...dinos? 😭 (or, if they did, definitely change the company they're working with)

[faint cape]

Yes

[faint cape]

Dinos were always part of the plan, one of LE's primary inspirations is Chrono Trigger

[dull ferry]

emm guyss do i still get reign of winter bow after i beat heorot and harbinger?

or i just need to beat heorot?

[unkempt delta]

harbingers can still drop the boss' loot

[dull ferry]

aight

thanks

[red mortar]

hello. the wraithlord consume your mana when he summons wraith ?

[storm wren]

In my case, no. Mana just be consumed when I summoned wraithlord

[red mortar]

ok thanks

[green isle]

are they going to add more necro minions or just buffing the existing minions?

[faint axle]

how do i pick the tier for a dungeon?

[storm blaze]

You put in the key and then it lets you pick the tier
you have to beat the lower tiers to get access to higher tier

[faint axle]

ah ok, thats why, ty

[topaz mirage]

quick question im farming a ring in a dungeon does the tier i run the dungeon on determine the rolls on the ring?

[storm blaze]

If you mean a ring that drops from boss then running higher tier dungeon makes it more liekly to roll higher LP

[toxic echo]

the only new skill that we know about is the lich one. so im pretty sure its just a balance pass on them and the necro passive tree

[dapper mica]

Does anyone know why I can't set a different limit?

I try to click but nothing happens.

[green isle]

sadge

[faint axle]

if im 100 corruption, will this put me at 200+?

[candid elm]

Do you have Streamer Mode turned on? That appears to lock the FPS to 60.

[candid elm]

Yes, looks like 100 + 105 for 205. The "Bonus Corruption" is based on your Timeline with the highest Corruption. So completing this will put your close to your highest.

[faint axle]

i see makes sense, oki doki

ty

[candid elm]

Those are the Runes of Redemption, Weaving, and Havoc that were added in 1.2
Redemption https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/IIzAMCZTUaA
Weaving https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/IIzAMCZVAOLSA
Havoc https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/IIzAMCZVBOLSA

[storm wren]

Only this channel allow us to post pictures so...

[lyric bramble]

has anyone tried using the corsair set + falconer's deflect and weave? do you end up losing both glancing blow and block?

[cedar jasper]

Will there be a grace period where legacy characters can't attempt any new big bosses, to let seasonal characters have first dibs?

[supple linden]

Has there been anymore info on the buyout? Like are there things in the contract that protect LE from getting the subnautica treatment? From what I have seen it looks like they straight up just got bought out?

[toxic echo]

afaik there havent been any talks about it. they have done it before but it was voted on with the community so the fact we havent seen one yet leads me to believe no. dont think there is a pinacle boss coming, mike has said aberroth will be on top for a lil while

[dapper mica]

That's it! Thank u so much!

[candid elm]

Welcome!

[chrome quail]

if an item scales with two stats, does increasing both stats benefit that scaling? e.g. reign of winter scales with attunmenet and dex, I have 100 dex but like 10attunement. is this affecting damage output?

[frigid wraith]

so ive just learnt prim uniques can only have 1 equipped, does this translate to exalts in any way? if we know

[toxic echo]

not really...its the same scaling for icicle

unless you have something else using attunement

but most rogues just do dex

[toxic echo]

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

i dont think its been confirmed yet, cuz people are still asking

[frigid wraith]

fair, tyvm

[kindred nimbus]

Hey do we now when we will have more info of season 3

[cinder radish]

@fallow geyser (from the website)

It seems your theory was right. All these smaller bosses we fight are minions of "The Rift Beast", and we can choose to fight them or not (and maybe the order matters, too?), and based on these choices, the final encounter changes.

[candid elm]

It sounds kind of like Nemesis.

[toxic echo]

kinda, but it sounds more like you choose what it becomes with the 'shape the nature', instead of just having it get buffed like with nem. maybe a bit more agency in rewards too. nem is just rando

[quiet terrace]

Maybe some kind of affix choice is given ? Or like dungeons where you choose an option to go forward?

[toxic echo]

could be

fits and it already kinda exists

[gaunt igloo]

the new primordial ring does it allow you to make a 3 set item require only one of the pieces with the ring?

[candid elm]

It reads to me that it would take the place of 1 part of the set. Will be interesting to see what people come up with using that and the Reforge Set crafting. Picture is from about 0:57 playing time in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnDnhPqC0BA

[gaunt igloo]

oh okay gotcha yea makes sense now. so 3 items set require just two and 2 require just one

[candid elm]

Yeah that's how I read it

[faint cape]

Your GB and block chance just swap places

[lyric bramble]

huh, interesting

[wanton hearth]

am I able to get World Splitter from Rune of Ascendance?

[dense jay]

It is a boss drop, so no

[coral crescent]

Do we still have high hopes now that epoch studio has been bought out?

[hallow yarrow]

I cant respect my weaver tree. When I hit respect the button changes to respeccing and just sits there. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong.

[icy drift]

You gotta select nodes to unspec after clicking the Respec button

It doesn't just reset the entire tree

[hallow yarrow]

Ahh makes sense TY

[midnight thistle]

Is there a way to check which blessing needs 200+ corruption?

[cold quarry]

No blessings require 200+ corruption

[dense jay]

You just unlock an additional slot for blessing to appear

[midnight thistle]

ohh! i see what you mean , ok thank you 😄