❔┃ask-the-community

[vale thistle]

it's not a rare affix, if you're not seeing them your filter might be broken somehow

0% reroll chance prefix on 4x1 idols

[blazing glacier]

does WP care about time rot stacks?

[vale thistle]

it gets a lot of more damage from having time rot stacks, so kinda yeah

3/3 Maw of the Deep is +15% Hit Damage per Time Rot

180% at 12 stacks

[blazing glacier]

So you just need to apply 3 per second to maintain stacks? Should be easy, no?

[slender swift]

which means, if you space for 3 seconds, you drop them all, that was my point

[faint cape]

I could see it helping with a void smite kind of warpath, but you will lose aurelis

[vale thistle]

there's not much you can do about that other than getting more time rot chance and duration, using a unique to solve that is a bit wild IMO

[blazing glacier]

Either way, even if you had 12 stacks with Bane vs 0 stacks with World Splitter you would probably still do more damage with splitter

[slender swift]

hmmmm

i see

thank you for the input

[jaunty garden]

what counts as "ranged" weapons in terms of the prophecies?

arent bows the only ranged weapons?

[vale thistle]

wands and quivers might count, idk

[jaunty garden]

wands and caster weapons are their own prophecy though

maybe quivers yeah

[vale thistle]

bows also have their own prophecy, that doesn't really tell you anything tbh

there's a prophecy for "exalted bow x3" "exalted bow x4" "exalted quiver x3" "exalted quiver x4" "exalted ranged weapon x4" "exalted ranged weapon x7" etc

[jaunty garden]

i just meant i think wands fall under the category of caster weapon

i just did a ranged weapon prophecy and it literally gave me 22 bows lmao

so i think its just bows

[vale thistle]

huh, weird design choice to have 4 different prophecies that only give bows

[jaunty garden]

yeah wack

[jaunty garden]

would using a havoc on this force both t6 to swap? or is it only going to force one?

[blazing glacier]

https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/havoc

[jaunty garden]

oh sick

bookmarking that

ty

[storm blaze]

wands are actually melee weapons as silly as that sounds.

[vale thistle]

definitely seems like a single-use melee weapon if you ask me 🤔

ye olde eyepoker

[storm blaze]

I remember finding the spoon and it kinda just slaps with it

[fringe birch]

#⭕┃circle-of-fortune message

[slender swift]

i think currently it is indeed bows only, as quivers are not tagged as weapons but as off hand (similar to catalysts).
the reason it is that non specific, i believe, is because it was mentioned they have placeholder IDs for crossbows, so in the future if ever CBs get introduced it may be a mix.
but maybe we also get RPGs at some point, who knows :7

different question regarding idols:
i've found it incredibly difficult to roll specific stats onto idols in woven cemeteries.
iregardless of whether main stats or weaver stats.
it seems i was either extremely unlucky or certain stats have higher weight. is there a table somewhere which stats can roll onto which idols, or what their weights are?

[storm blaze]

Clearly we need a handcannon

[slender swift]

ngl, a two handed ballista would be cool.
as a unique maybe even, that can not increase it's attackspeed/rate, but instead converts all sources of increased attack speed/rate into damage multiplier and aoe damage

[storm blaze]

I was thinking more along the lines of 1handed thingy

[slender swift]

crossbows and one handed crossbows :p

but yeah, RPG/ballista please kthxbye

[storm blaze]

I like crossbows

Bows are cool too

Ever used an actual hunting bow? it's cool

[native sail]

Lastepochtools should have the reroll chance for things including idol stats. Higher it is, lower the odds of getting it.

[slender swift]

i missed it then, gonna have another look, thank you

[storm wren]

lol what happened, EHG 🤔

[slender swift]

i used to do japanese bow archery

[storm wren]

Why warlock become the mastery which the least players selected

[slender swift]

Warlock is kinda messy to play cuz you have a lot of active skill rotation, from my experience, and it also does not compete on the same clear speed levels as other masteries imo

Also, Necro is more appealing to a lot of more casual players cuz big army hurrdurr

and because Necro is in most RPGs in one form or another, so it is easier to grasp, and requires much less deep dive into mechanics, it is much more straight forward

[storm wren]

🤔 interesting, active skill rotation you mean is why I like warlock

[slender swift]

and why would you play warlock if you can play void knight 😂

[storm wren]

Because I'm not a melee lover

[slender swift]

i was being cynical^^

they are not even the same class 😄

but yeah, active skill rotations, mechanical deep dive, and proper timing on rotations deters a lot of players on the more casual end

you can observe that trend across all ARPGs, be it Diablo, Path of Exile, etc.

[storm wren]

I think it's quite cool of you can just need to active a skill to use all offense skills you mastered... So I'm confused

[slender swift]

as an example, besides it's damage and survivability potential, Electric Orb builds for Mage currently reign supreme in D4.

because all you have to do is spam it, watch everything fall apart, and occasionally you blink to cross distance or create space

[storm wren]

But this gameplay will high-centred single skill indeed, so most warlock players use these skills

[slender swift]

In PoE2, it's Volley Rogue or Shieldmancer, for the same reasons, activate buffs (if they aren't mana reserved already), spam offensive skill, watching things die

minimum required effort for maximum payoff

it's simpler to handle for most players, and still as satisfying to watch succeed

if Warlock received a few buffs, it might become more popular, but for the average player, the effort to build it, maintain it, improve it, and execute it, is not exactly worth the effort and attention span required

also there is something to be said about intuitivity, Necro is much more intuitive to play, because you mostly only have to pay attention to not dying, while the damage just happens.

[storm wren]

😅 Quite interesting because warlock is the 2nd mastery I tried after I played necromancer as the 1st mastery to learn basic gameplay

[faint cape]

Lich got a bunch of updates this season, and directly competes with warlock. Warlock's big meta builds all got nerfed multiple times, so players mostly moved to lich or another class entirely.

[storm wren]

My complaint for warlock is different completely... Fissure is a spell which need to stack as more necrotic resistance as possible to increase crit chance to get more damage, it mean hard to balance another resistances, so it make warlock is tricky to balance offense and defense.

Make sense, not a melee lover so I don't care about lich at all

[faint cape]

Lich isn't specifically melee, just its meta build uses flay to proc spells. You could run lich without using any melee skills, if you want

[storm wren]

?!

[storm blaze]

Yup, Toast is correct

[desert tree]

Wait, you mean 1 top tier build or 1 skill doesn't define a whole mastery??!?!?

[jaunty garden]

Wild

So weird they have a whole category with only one weapon in there

[storm wren]

why they need to define a whole mastery?

[storm blaze]

There's crossbow in the code (have been for years) but they haven't been put in the game
but if they do get put in they'll also count for the ranged weapons

[jaunty garden]

Wack

[faint cape]

Consider it future planning... even though it might be another 8 years before we see any new ranged weapons 😅

[faint cape]

I believe Vlad was just poking fun at the community's tendency to think of masteries only as their most popular build

[shut walrus]

would this node in the chaos bolts skill tree for Lich will benefit from increases to cold damage right?

[slow eagle]

Yea

Reread the second sentence in the first paragraph

[shut walrus]

cool 😄

[muted vigil]

if I want rune of ascendancy to make a level 70 legendary, does the base item have to be 70? or just me, or nothing matters and suddenly nihilism

[toxic echo]

Just the base type matters. Rings into rings, 1h sword into 1h sword

[vale thistle]

if you're CoF you also want the item to have some CoF rank requirement on it

Rank 2 CoF: 45% chance for Runes of Ascendance to be preserved when used on an item that requires at least Circle of Fortune Rank 1.

[faint cape]

You can set a filter for the specific item type(s) you want to ascend with CoF requirement on them, it's an easy way to collect them as you go

[jaunty garden]

imprinting primordial uniques doesnt do anything right?

cause you have to buy them or drop them from a beast

[blazing glacier]

Iirc it can still give you similar items, just not that unique specifically since it's restricted
(To be specific, it seems like it treats it as if it was 99% Reroll Chance or something, basically you get a bunch of Normal, Magic, Rares, and Exalts)

[jaunty garden]

i.e. printing a primordial chest piece would drop other unique chest pieces?

ohhh interesting

thats a weird mechanic lol

[blazing glacier]

If for example you imprint a primal chest, you will get other unique chests, but less often than if you imprinted something that could actually drop.

[jaunty garden]

huh

[blazing glacier]

For some reason it seems like with high reroll chance or restricted drop uniques instead of giving you other uniques when it doesn't hit, most of the time it misses it just gives you non uniques

I think it's so that players don't get irritated with a bunch of procs that aren't what they want

[jaunty garden]

@blazing glacier btw you have definitely earned a sub from me, you've helped me a ton recently

preciate it

[blazing glacier]

Whats the fun of collecting a stupid amount of data if you aren't going to share it 🙂

[jaunty garden]

so true

[crystal ember]

Riftys can also drop the primordials and they would count as a "boss" im guessing

[muted vigil]

how does the game conclude im inactive while crafting gear xD

[slender swift]

across all classes, which is the most fun to play ranged build, that is not flask rogue, and that revolves around mostly just playing one ability but managing a second or third for buffs and movement, with the remainint 2-3 being triggered passively

[crystal jackal]

Got to maxrolls build guides:

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/tierlists?_gl=1*1qv4yu*_up*MQ.._gaMTczNTk1MTc0OS4xNzcyNzAwNTYy*_ga_8TEVGCYPY5*czE3NzI3MDA1NjIkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzI3MDA1NjIkajYwJGwwJGgw

open a guide and scroll down to the gameplay section and they describe how the build is played.

E.g Shields throw paladin matches that description. Ranged with 1 main spell and 1-2 for buffs. But I have no idea if you think that’s fun.

[slender swift]

yeah issue with that is, it shows too many old builds and i'd have to go through all builds to check.
was curious if someone had a suggestion from the top of their head.
gonna have a look at that, but i am kinda fed up with paladin after WPVK 😄
was hoping for a really fun rogue build

[crystal jackal]

Those are all up to date.

[crystal jackal]

Chaos bolt lich (bleed with explosions) works like that too. That’s what I’m playing now.

[slender swift]

then i might confuse maxroll with another build page, that still has stuff from S1 lol

[crystal jackal]

They have 2 different parts. Their own builds which appear in the tier lists. Those are all up to date and same format on the guide.
And then a general build guide section where anyone can make guides.

But if you look at their tier lists, all guides are up to date and have a gameplay section.

[slender swift]

will check, thank you

quick question, is there any capable meteor build?

cuz i see a couple builds that use meteor but it is kinda difficult to tell how far they are actually viable

[crystal jackal]

No clue. Think you better ask that in the mage channel

[slender swift]

gotcha

thank you!

[crystal jackal]

Some of the guides even have videos with gameplay footage.
Both shield throw pala and chaos bolt lich have it for instance

[languid rover]

if i wanted to put intelligence on a relic with LP could i slam this with runes of redemption until the int became t7 and use it?

or i guess i would need to use a rune of havoc?

similarly, if i had like t7 garbage and t1 vitality on an item, and i wanted intelligence, could i use that one weaver node that swaps attributes and then rune of havoc until it became t7 and use it to forge a legendary?

sorry for asking so many crafting questions ive been struggling to find basic resources on the web. in this case a lot of places describe that you can put t7 mods onto a unique with LP but they dont really describe much the ways you can manipulate the mods first

[fallen parcel]

Vitality can not be changed to other attributes but the other 4 can so if you have a relic with t7 streng and you want int you just go to woven echo and change the stat it cost 1 fp keep in mind

[fallen parcel]

If you want to change tier of mods so move a t7 to another affix you use runes of havoc they are very precious and your crafting can be limited if you have few,rampant coast echoes are great ways to obtain them

[languid rover]

hmm okay thank you!

[potent wren]

Suppose you have a T7/T6 item. if you imprint this onto any weaver node that allows it, will it reliably upgrade to 2T7 rolls, or is this just straight up a bad base?

[vale thistle]

an imprinted t6 affix can upgrade to t7, I wouldn't call it reliable though

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BevLkVP3qn0JB2by7bpon_VZUQyjt1dJNlTfcGJ0xHI/

specific part from that document: t6 affix imprint tier has a 65% chance of rerolling, and a 0.14% (0.62% for CoF) chance of hitting t7 on the reroll

[fallen parcel]

Usually you will get a ton of 1t7 items and occasionally a 1t7 1t6 item its very hard to upgrade conquered tower is great place to get 2t7 items

[potent wren]

Does having weaver node imprinted items have any impact on nemesis towers at all?

Separate Question: Suppose I manage to find another copy of this item from weaver tree imprint drops with 50 forging potential. Is there any benefit to using rune of redemption to try and get an affix that I actually want? For example, instead of this item, it would be +10jav/+200health/+20% elemental res but with 30 forging potential.

[fallen parcel]

No ,you may get a proc from the killing enemies imprint but that applies to everything, you should definitely have points into 1 spawn chance for nemesis and nemesis leave exalted weapons that stuff is good

[fallen parcel]

Kinda sometimes it tries to pick whatever affixes it has on the imprint but for the most part just imprint whatever highest fp item you have and use redemption ,havocand seal for crafting,that being said an item with like 4 affixes is good specially if one of them is tier 1 making easier to craft whatever you want

[potent wren]

yeah that's why i was wondering if less forging potential for the correct imprint rolls is better or not.

For example, i play void knight and on the helmet I would LOVE to have T7 mana and any Tier suffix. THat's why I'm thinking if it's better to gamble on lowering the fp down to 30-40. My crafting potential / budget will be less but I don't need to craft as much is what my logic is. let me know if this doesn't work out in practice thouhg because i'm still learning

[fallen parcel]

I wouldn't do that last epoch crafting is so rng the more fp the better chances are you can craft something good,of course fp rng can kill a 60 fp item but it gives more chances than a 40 fp one

[fallen parcel]

Also you drop more items with higher fp , and if you need mana that helmet you have there when imprint procs its gonna be easy to get

If you doing warpath you may want to get a leonine later on as an imprint since imprint drops very heavily the item base its imprinted

[potent wren]

Alright last question for tonight: I understand that sealed affixes can impact future drops by REPLACING the affix but not necessarily the tier of affix.

This axe is a bad example but imagine I have a T1/T3 || T7/T3 weapon with primordially sealed T8 health. I've heard some people sayt that this weapon would (for the purpoes of future rolls) act as being a double exhalted suffix T7 weapon i.e. it is treated as T1/T3 | T7/T7. Is this the case?

[crystal jackal]

That’s what frozen said for a t7 sealed affix. But I haven’t checked the data mined document for the numbers myself.

[shy turret]

the t8 would have worked (for the purposes of acting like a t7) if it was a normal t8, not a champion affix

[slender swift]

huh, maxroll won't let me use it's interactive elements any more.

[crystal jackal]

it's what?

[slender swift]

interactive elements (class/mastery/search/etc)

[crystal jackal]

not sure where you're pressing, everything I've tried works for me

[slender swift]

i didn't say it doesn't work, i said it is not working for me.
my ad blocker had an update a few days ago, and some other website for another game has not been working properly for me since then either, i suspect it is related to that

[crystal jackal]

can you die if you equip this item, have enough HP and afk?
https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzCswdgZiA

[vale thistle]

short answer is no, %current health drained per second can never kill you

if you had 1 health, 6% of your current health would be 0.06

if you had 0.01 health, 6% would be 0.0006 (and so on)

basically the health drain would hit 0 before your actual health does

[crystal jackal]

ah, you're just looking at the math.
I don't think that's how it works.

seems to be rounding

I don't dare go further since Im in HC

[vale thistle]

ive had 20%+ current health lost per second before with health regen disabled and gone afk for hours before

it's not just math, it will never kill you

the health loss rounds to zero before your actual health will, by definition

[quiet terrace]

It’s an asymptotic function 😄

[vale thistle]

the only way that affix could kill you is if you had 100%+ current health loss per second.. and it would do so instantly in that case

[desert tree]

There is no max hp drain, right?

[slow eagle]

I don’t think so?

[vale thistle]

only current health loss and missing health gain as far as I'm aware

[slow eagle]

Maybe the reaper form thing counts as max health% lost

But you also can’t die from hitting 0 then

[vale thistle]

The rate at which your health decays in reaper form is not based on your current or maximum health.
The health decay accelerates while you remain in reaper form.

[slow eagle]

Ah

[vale thistle]

IIRC it does round, but only visually

can be scary if you see your health say 0

but it's actually 0.01 or something

"still technically alive"

not sure how much precision is used behind the scenes

it's probably single or double precision floating point

[slow eagle]

always fun when you go back and see you had 0 hp during a boss fight on hardcore

[blazing glacier]

No, and even if your health hit 0 from this effect you still wouldn't die because it's not actually 0

[faint cape]

iirc, single

But single or double doesn't make a ton of difference in terms of displaying it

[fallen parcel]

BTW I have 0 hp on my lich quite often from using titan hearth and I cannot die. You will never die from drain effects even at 0 hp

[crystal jackal]

Im using titan hearth too

[indigo scarab]

Is the new season out yet?!

😁

[muted vigil]

Whats the point of attack speed on a build where most of DPS comes from a skill with high cooldown? (bladedancer shadow sync. strike/shadow cascade)

[muted vigil]

😄

ty

[storm blaze]

And sync strike has a node that increases the attack speed if it hits at least one enemy

I've never actually used those skills because I've never played a blade dancer

[gaunt igloo]

I wonder if frenzy effects that too

[desert tree]

When it's fixed, it should 😁😅

[muted vigil]

How common is it to get resistance shredded/debuffed? should I overcap everything by a certain amount?

[desert tree]

Pretty rare
Don't overcap

[muted vigil]

nice

[desert tree]

What kind of content are you doing rn?

Like what corruption?

[muted vigil]

corr 100 mono getting my shadow cascade build nicely up and running now feels good

lets see how big corruption feels later xD

never really played the game beyond 150 ish always IRL distracts

Like now... supposed to be writing bachelors lol

[desert tree]

Lol

Do that first and come back to LE 😁

I usually aim at 60/65 when I am at 500c

Having other source of DR helps too
Dodge, armor, DR from skills or passives

[muted vigil]

You dont even bother getting it to 75 😄 ?

my PoE PTSD kicks in

[desert tree]

Nope

If it comes naturally thats fine

It's because of how resistances work in LE

Compare to Poe

[icy drift]

60 is a bit on the extreme end I'd say, you should still aim for around 70%. Going from 65% to 70% is still 4.5% DR

At 60% you're taking about 13% more damage than you would at cap

More than a red rings worth of DR

[faint cape]

It would be 15% more

[fallen parcel]

Just cap your resistances whenever you can with the weaver idols we got, capping resistances is a lot easier ,and even if last epoch is more forgiving always good thing to not take extra damage from mobs

[icy drift]

Well it depends on your frame of reference. If you're at 60% and go to 75% you're taking 13% less damage. But going from 75% to 60% means you take 15% more damage

(100 * 1.15 != 115 * 0.85)

[faint cape]

Ye, but when you say "more" that's the frame of reference

I think you just typo'd it above

[icy drift]

Ehhhh I see what you mean. Maybe my language could've been clearer

[faint cape]

More vs less, just opposite directions

[desert tree]

60 res is fine

[icy drift]

Vlad wants everyone to be squishy to lessen the competition

Smh

[desert tree]

We are not in hardcore

It's fine

[faint cape]

I have a habit of neglecting poison res

[icy drift]

You don't need to convince me to be squishy lul. I get one shot by a white mobs auto attack

[icy drift]

I haven't capped it in ages ngl

That's the only one I'd say is fine to ignore

[desert tree]

I would rather take more dmg or more speed

[icy drift]

I mean yeah but that only works to a point, especially on melee builds

13% DR is nothing to scoff at

Having 60% LE res is like having 71.25% Poe res, and it's easier than ever to cap your res. Unless you're playing falconer or something that oneshots everything from a distance there's no real reason not to get close to cap on at least the important resistances

[faint cape]

If it works, it works

I do usually end up with more than 60%... generally getting pretty close to 75% is not too tough, but it's not my top priority

Really just depends on my build

[icy drift]

Yeah for sure. I just think 60% is a bit extreme to be generally acceptable is all, like 70% is totally fine

[faint cape]

It varies by type, too, like I probably wouldn't even notice 60% phys res on a build that has a lot of armor, but I'll almost always aim for 75%ish void res

[muted vigil]

Having hard time keeping track of ward.
Have to squint at it in battle to stay updated in harder fights. Seems only way to enlarge it slightly is to increase the entire UI scaling 0.o
any other options?

[blazing glacier]

To be fair I was also hovering around 60% res in my HC run lmao. With all defenses its important to consider opportunity cost. If you can get 60 all res for free and the extra 15 is costly then it might be worth getting something else.

Some res are also more important than others, especially if you have DR for the other res.

Eg. Phys res always cap, and void if doing uber. But if I can choose between Armour or capping poison res, Ill take Armour every time.

[short pilot]

Helo, how do I upgrade a stat on an item from t7 to t8?

[storm blaze]

There's a rune that the merchant sells (the one that sells primordials)

[muted vigil]

can find him in ancient era garden town I think. Note u can only have one "primordial" tagged item equipped.

[storm blaze]

Yup, he's in act 10 town in the ancient era
or you can find him if you see the echo where you go to the ancient time

[muted vigil]

Do these gloves come in exalted variant? I dont get how my build guy got this ward mod onto his unique

[short pilot]

Thank you gentlemen

[storm blaze]

Yes, they do come in exalted variety

[muted vigil]

that would be purple too?

[storm blaze]

Think so
You can always check the tiers by holding alt so if it's tier 6 or 7 affix, it's exalted

And if the item has something else that's exalted you can just the rune (think it was havoc) to shuffle which one of them is exalted
If you want / need a higher tier experimental on your slam

[blazing glacier]

You want a glove with T7 suffix, then you go to the mage echo, craft ward mod (prefix), then rune of havoc for T7 ward mod

[muted vigil]

the mage echo? new to me

[storm blaze]

Woven echo that drops only from the exiled mages in areas above lvl 90

[rocky rapids]

rune prison complex is the name. it is the rarest woven echo by far unfortunately

[slender swift]

this is what i mean btw. on the right side, it should show the equipment, but it does not, as if the elements are blocked

this is the part about interactive elements i was referring to

they are greyed out, clicking any does not actually do anything

and if i click on the search function bar, it does not respond either

FF 148.0 (64-bit)

[candid elm]

If you want to report this to Maxroll, on the right side of their main page there's a "Follow us on" box with a Discord invite link. The "contact us" page on their site does mention sending bug reports to their Discord.

[slender swift]

i am at this point not sure if this is a skill issue or something with their web page

i was hoping someone could check, who has newest FF too

also foremost, just wanted to reply to deew what i was referring to, when he asked^^

[candid elm]

I'm on Firefox 148 and it's not doing this for me. For what it's worth.

The archived Flame Reave guide you pictured before https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/flame-reave-spellblade-guide looks like this for me.

[slender swift]

hol up

can you check one thing for me please

see if you have hardware accelaration enabled or disabled

cuz i recently had to disable it

otherwise it is probably adblocker related

[candid elm]

which setting?

[slender swift]

check for "recommended"

also, btw, it refused to show me accelaration too, for a really long time, until i set base language for firefox itself to english, not just display language, afterward i could find it

not related to HA tho, just changed, still same

[candid elm]

still not seeing it

[slender swift]

it's actually adblock lmao

when i disable it, the site works perfectly

[candid elm]

ok you can just whitelist the site

[slender swift]

just did yeah

[candid elm]

I'm using uBlock Origin on FF and it's working ok for me without needing to whitelist Maxroll

[slender swift]

weird tho, cuz a week ago it worked fine, i wonder if this is related to the youtube nonsense that they try to block

i use adblock specifically cuz it works flawlessly on youtube and twitch

which ublock sometimes goofs

thank you for your time!!!

[candid elm]

welcome

[slender swift]

also why do so many builds push void -.-

i get it, barely any mob has res to void

but it's like.. comeon

xD

[candid elm]

Every enemy has zero resistance unless they have an Enemy modifier or Echo modifier that gives it.

[slender swift]

i know, but it ruins the themes for me 😄

might as well just play WPVK at that point 😂

[faint cape]

People like purple, I think

[blazing glacier]

We need to have like dev stream viewing party chats

[crystal ember]

Hey lads can someone dev stream link me so I can check a replay xox

[blazing glacier]

wym, this? https://www.twitch.tv/lastepochgame

[faint cape]

or this https://www.youtube.com/@LastEpochGame/streams

[crystal ember]

Yeah either of those - sorry just woke up lol thanks both x

[faint cape]

Twitch deletes replays fairly quick, YT has everything going back a while

[vernal sail]

Can anyone explain the uhhhh corruption thing or link it to me?

[vale thistle]

As players slay Omens, they may drop Runes of Corruption. This new rune can be used to corrupt an item, modifying it unpredictably. The resulting item may emerge vastly improved with new modifiers and effects that can only be obtained by Corruption, or the item may be downgraded or completely ruined.

[vernal sail]

Thank you

[indigo scarab]

Any plans for built in item filters for popular builds? More in game build guide help if needed or wanted.

[blazing glacier]

Not sure how this would even work tbh, there is no one size fits all for filters, and the guides already are community made and change week to week, would need to be verified, etc.

Even MG vs COF filters will look different. Early end game vs late end game different.

[indigo scarab]

Probably something that could be more of an option later in developing the game or not, just a thought, excited to play in few weeks, been about 5 months since I played, just would like more in game stuff that maybe can be connected with other websites, build sites through in game updating and such. Not sure if it would work, if it's worth it but I could see some cool things in game being more interactive and showcasing builds and other things while your in the game.

It's something I believe Path of Exile should have had, in poe2 I really liked the example video for skills, felt that was a nice add, little things I guess.

[icy drift]

Yeah a generic filter would be about as good as no filter at all tbh

[indigo scarab]

I get it

[icy drift]

If you mean that they'd have stuff like max roll build guides through an in-game UI I highly doubt that'll happen, more so because it sounds like a logistical nightmare more than anything and it doesn't really do much for the end user. Going through an in-game UI and a website isn't all that different for stuff like that, although some things are super nice to have in-game

[indigo scarab]

I would prefer it more in a game like poe but yeah I understand little things all add up.

[icy drift]

What do you mean? Poe's filter system is entirely outside the game

[indigo scarab]

Yes I'd like more in game support

[icy drift]

Yeah that's fair. LE at least let's you create and customize your filters entirely in-game which is nice

[indigo scarab]

Seems like lazy development reliance on community and others to do work

LE is chill no issues just have hopes

[icy drift]

I do think something like a community hub for stuff like build guides and filters entirely hosted by EHG themselves could be something that could happen eventually maybe. But I doubt it'll be any time soon if ever

But that's the only way I could imagine stuff like that making it in-game

[indigo scarab]

For sure makes sense

I played lot of Diablo II and love the work modders did and with new dlc Blozzard just released, I'd rather pay a modder for the work they did for through all the years.

[blazing glacier]

You'd need some sort of continuous moderation of any community made content in the game, and make it extremely clear that it is community made, use at your own risk. Wouldn't want players getting garbage then blaming EHG

[icy drift]

Yeah it's just a nightmare on all fronts tbh lol

[blazing glacier]

soon as you add external stuff into something you always open a pandora box of wild west shenanigan potential

[indigo scarab]

Seems like something a game company could utilize if they put in the effort.

[fallen parcel]

Learning to make and adjust your lootfilter its pretty easy you just watch a video about it , i have a general one that works well enough

[undone otter]

opinions on how to tweak a filter are as varied as grains of sand too

[weary tapir]

I can finally say after a bunch of work my character is done, all the remaining stuff is well just insanely rare. I might fix my helmet but that is a tonne of RNG.

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Vuthia/character/Unholyslayer

Also, any input ideas Id love to hear.

I am currently at 246k standing warpath damage and 134% movement in warpath. with 5.7K hitpoint and 1400 mana.

[desert tree]

No Flat Void on World Splitter?

[languid rover]

can you combine a 2hand exalted axe onto a 1hand unique axe to make a legendary?

[fallen parcel]

Its warpath vlad melee crit and attack speed are bis

[fallen parcel]

No

[languid rover]

thanks

[desert tree]

I am surprised Flat isn't better that's all

You can get AS elsewhere

Where as Flat is only on Weapon

[crystal jackal]

did they change or bug julra?
I keep getting those rotating dot beams during second explosiotn when I need to place the puddle

[fallen parcel]

Its because warpath takes only 60% of all added damage it gets so every 100 flat added it only accounts 60 in the meantime 96% attack speed is insane since it hits at twice your attack rate so its more damage

[lavish crane]

If you double your attack speed it double the damage.
If you double the flat you double the hit damage.
A x2 multiplier is a x2multiplier whatever the means to achieve the x2

[crystal jackal]

while technically true, they scale at different rates.
meaning that's very misleading for newer players who don't understand the math behind it and what it costs yo get either to 2x

[lavish crane]

The real advantage of attack speed are

• time rot faster application means faster full dps
• higher armorshred ->an other more multiplier add flat has no access to
• generally easier x2 attainable with attack speed vs added flat.

But the argument of jellal were false mathematically.

[crystal jackal]

you can't say what's BiS without looking at what you already have

[lavish crane]

Well what you say is true, but there are some things that generally overperfom the counterparts.

Attack speed on WP is generally better than flat for the reason i said. Until a point where investment in the other more multiplier is easier and has better performance.

If you have two similar mulpliplier and can invest 50% in each at the same cost as 100% for one. The 50% each outperform the other options.

If one more multiplier overperfom the other like attspeed for WP, you must invest first in it but there is a point where you should invest flat and to obtain the better performance.

[fallen parcel]

I am sorry bud but you are so wrong

Warpath doesn't work like your other melee skills

I would actually play the build then try to refute what other say

[lavish crane]

It is just basic math

[lavish crane]

Lets says you jave 100flat a0.6 added effectivness and 1 attack per second.
That enable 100x0,6x2=120dps with WP

Lets double the flat
200x0,6x2=240dps

Lets double the speed
100x0,6x4=240dps

[fallen parcel]

What basic math proves if you ever played the build which tou don't clearly is that flat with melee crit doesn't kill faster uber or dummy than attack speed and melee crit that is a fact

[lavish crane]

Yes cause armor shred

[fallen parcel]

Be cause I loose a lot of flat anyway while being able to get extra hits is stronger overall

Armor shred doesn't scale that much what you talking about it has a limit

Flat or attack speed which is all that matters since both are going to use shred armor . Flat looses vs attack speed

[lavish crane]

Well armor shred is up to a x1.6 multiplier

[fallen parcel]

Now is that the same for erasing strike or rive no

But for warpath is

Idk have you ever played warpath

Just a simple yes or no

[lavish crane]

Lol ok math are wrong and you are Right 👍

[fallen parcel]

Have you ever played warpath simple answer?

[lavish crane]

Yes ofc

[fallen parcel]

Ok so flat gave you more damage than attack speed?

Did you try uber with both or dummy at least?

[lavish crane]

No 😂 i said attackspeed is superior...

But not for the reason you said.

I was arguing the math, not the conclusion

[fallen parcel]

The point being is the same attack speed is superior mod since I can go from attacking idk 4 times per sec to 6 six since thats the point of warpath

There is no point in warpath where flat is better than attack speed likr none if tou can afford flat while not compromising attack speed then you do that

[lavish crane]

Yes but not for the reason you said. It is not the 60%added effectivness vs the x2 attacks speed that enable this conclusion.

[fallen parcel]

Its one of the reason

Harvest had awful added

So it was pretty bad

Nowdays is strongest melee ability of acolyte

Does more damage than flay

[fallen parcel]

You know what are the best mods for a rive build?

[crystal jackal]

going from 4 aps to 4 aps on world splitter requires over 110% attack speed, which is more than a t7

slammin on a t7 melee void instead would give higher dps on maxrol endgame planner, not counting any shred

[fallen parcel]

I ll give you a hint its not attack speed is flat and increase cause foe cleaver doubles that,you aint beating those ever with attack speed every skill has a gimmick some are similar some are special

[fallen parcel]

On a guide but you put into practice it doesn't

Likr everyone is gonna have shred on a hit build

[weary tapir]

no, I tested it. max crit does me way better. Only benefit of flat melee. Is if i use darkstrides for movement speed.

[weary tapir]

and attack speed is better, when bossing I swap to other rings with on hit effects such as armor shred.

so more attack speed = more armor shred.

[crystal jackal]

I know. That’s what they were discussing above.
I have a full WP dps calc excel sheet

[fallen parcel]

Dummy and uber are better dps calculations in general for me

[lavish crane]

This is called experiment not calculation.
Both are useful and experiment is the actual answer, but the problem of experiment is you need 2 different worldsplitter to compare. And you usually want to compare before the legendary slam.

[weary tapir]

I did timing, i swapped to ocean ring plus a couple boss items.

I did the uber in 90 seconds from the first point i could damage uber abb.

[fallen parcel]

The fact is if you have a flat crit and melee void vs attack speed and melee crit ,the attack speed combo is higher dps thats a fact when killing dummy when killing uber

[weary tapir]

you get the flat void on the passive tree and scale attack speed so it becomes more effective.

[fallen parcel]

No mods on weapon is pointless since the whole point is to min max the build to get stronger and as long you get 100 armor shred you dont care about getting many more armor shred scales so bad that the actual increase in damage it gives is very minimal just follow tunklabs

I got that too its good just talking about weapon

[icy drift]

Math wise astrex is correct. All other things negated double flat and double attack speed are equal. But like they mentioned attack speed has some advantages over flat. What I suspect is actually happening here is that attack speed was simply easier to attain than flat. Making the setup result in more total dps. But warpath having 60% damage effect (a lot higher when you look at damage effect per second) has nothing to do with flat being worse than attack speed.

[weary tapir]

Ive never noticed that, I just noticed flat melee felt weak. So the question really is. How does the relationship scaling mana vs attack speed for maximum damage? I have seen some VKs put Mana on their world + crit/melee attack speed.

Which leads to, I do notice with melee attack speed base damage is way higher so easier to spin up with damage, mana would be more top end if you stay in a long spin?

[icy drift]

It all depends on how much you currently have of each stat vs how much you would get putting each one on the weapon

(same thing goes for attack speed vs flat, attack speed seems to have won in jella's case)

[weary tapir]

I am pretty much decked out, so I found more mana only was effective on orby, i reached up to 2600 corruption. otherwise regular echo I prefer melee attack speed.

[weary tapir]

I also found on uber abb. more mana really didnt matter as all the phases.

[calm epoch]

Hello! Question for anyone that can help or let me know if this is a dev question.
Are "health lost" effects the same as "health drained" effects?
I'm trying to put a lich together and I'm not sure about these concepts.

[faint cape]

Not quite. Which interaction are you trying to figure out?

[calm epoch]

There is a passive in the lich mastery Essence Devourer and I'm not sure if "health lost" effects also count for this node.

[queen ermine]

According to reddit (citing Mike in this discord) they do work together

[calm epoch]

Thank you for the responses! That gives me the green light to go forward!

[faint cape]

Yeah, this one in particular works with all the effects that lower a % of your current health per second, including on the passive tree (which I think all/most do say "health drained") and on items like exsang or last steps (which say "health lost")

The death seal node that disables health drain effects only works on the actual health drain effects, not health loss

[lavish crane]

I am nowhere near the 50% chance stated , do you know how to improve this chance ?

• Corruption ?
• stability obtained in the particular echoes ?

[meager junco]

full clear echoes, dont do echos that don't drop it (folly, cenotaph, sepulchre, anything w/o an egg at the end)

corruption scales a bit (500c is ~98% of the chance from corruption)

[lavish crane]

But Sepulchre of the Lost does work, the 6 chest can proc the imprint.

I don't know how it scales though as there isn't the stability counter.

[meager junco]

arenas - 15.91%, bosses like bloodline (and tomb/sepulchre chests) - 9.79% at high corruption

[lavish crane]

Nice ! ty how do you know all that?

And do you know if being far away for monolith center help as there is more stability gain ?

[marble vortex]

what are the minions in the middle they always follow me and are not consumed by abomination? "sceleton vanguard"

[faint cape]

They can come from passives or skill nodes, most likely you are getting them from the aegisfall necro passive (5 point bonus)

[marble vortex]

yes, thank you! I was loosing my mind, completely missed the 2nd part of the talent thought it's just shred armor.

[fallen parcel]

echoing riches from a guy who aint looking at code like frozen or Dominis seems to scale with killing mobs if you kill little doesn't proc that much,and needs to have reward at the end to proc ,like the chest at the end of a cementery and that kind of echo can still proc it from time to time

[hardy forum]

Does Mad Alchemist's Ladle have any mathematical chance to go up to 4LP if after the first empower it's only 1LP in Nemesis? As CoF Rank 12?

[storm blaze]

It could

[faint cape]

Yes. You can't roll 4 LP on first empower, and I'm not sure if rolling 2 or 3 LP on the first even affects the second's chance at 4 LP.

[hardy forum]

thank you

[hardy forum]

I'd love to know the answer to that

[blazing glacier]

It should, but not by that much.

All the checks are sequential, so if you already pass a 1/2 chance first try you don't need that 1/2 check 2nd try.

You only ever get 1 chance to pass 1LP check, if fail, no 2nd check. And 1 chance for 4LP check, since even if you get 3LP first empower it stops before 4LP check.

You do get a 2nd chance at 2LP check if stops at 1LP, or 3LP check if stops at 2LP

[hardy forum]

okay so if first try it goes to 3LP, does it make it more likely to get 4lp on the second try as it doesn't need to pass the checks for 1Lp, 2lp and 3lp again?

or it needs to pass 1lp ,2lp, 3lp AND 4lp on the second empower?

[blazing glacier]

it seems like the former

[hardy forum]

assume I'm CoF, so 1lp is guaranteed for Ladle

[blazing glacier]

not nemesis but it shouldn't be that hard to farm it

few hours of strife some good roles, then turtle, nemesis, repeat

[gaunt igloo]

have hype days ever been on weekends? trying to figure out when patch notes and letools will drop and update

[meager junco]

i think every system that can reroll keeps a min and takes a max of subsequent attempts including that min. so for nemesis uniques you have 1 LP roll (up to 3) then 3 LP rolls (up to cap). if the first one hit 3LP and the next three hit 0LP, 0LP, 2LP then you get 3LP.

[sonic saddle]

Wrong ladle

[desert tree]

I dont think dammit update with patch notes now

[blazing glacier]

oops

[desert tree]

He wait to datamine the patch directly iirc

[paper magnet]

ehg gives dammit and maxroll access to the data early and they update off of that. I remember LE Tools took a bit to update for s3 because he was busy at the time.

[desert tree]

Pretty sure they dont anymore

[hardy forum]

I think I have taken 2 stash rows of Ladles for the 3rd turn now. All above 40% shred 😂 it’s probably 10 or 12 items in a row, so 20-24 ladles for 3 runs = 60-72 attempts. I’m halfway there 😃

[minor path]

Is there a place where I can try my dps ? (With summon and DOT)

[faint cape]

It took him a bit because he didn't get any early access and the season launches overnight in his time zone

[faint cape]

Kinda. In the arena "town" area, there are dummies you can damage. They have zero damage resist and don't record your DPS or anything, you just have to look at the number popups. If you have high enough DPS, you can time how long it takes to kill them to get a pretty solid DPS estimate.

(they have 1 billion health and 100k health regen)

[candid elm]

@gaunt igloo Patch notes are typically posted about a week-ish before the update. Previously, 4-6 days before update. The LE Tools update will be based on when Dammitt, who runs that site, gets access to the updated information and has time to work on it.

For reference:

Season 1 patch notes were 4 days before update. The Season 1 patch notes posted on July 5 https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/last-epoch-harbingers-of-ruin-patch-notes/71790 and Season 1 released on July 9.

Season 2 patch notes were 6 days before update. The Season 2 patch notes posted on April 11 https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/last-epoch-tombs-of-the-erased-patch-notes/75247 and Season 2 released on April 17.

Season 3 patch notes were 6 days before update. The Season 3 patch notes were posted on Aug 15 https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/last-epoch-beneath-ancient-skies-patch-notes/78635 and Season 3 released on August 21.

[cedar light]

Stupid question maybe but I can't seem to find an answer to this for some reason. When using Gauntlet of Strife map to re-roll affixes, does it re-roll every affix on the item or just the legendary ones? And will it change the legendary affixes or just move them around inside their normal rolling range?

[icy drift]

All, won't change the legendary affixes, just roll them in their tiers

[faint cape]

It's a fair question. It rerolls everything; legendary affixes, implicits, and unique effects. If you somehow have sealed affixes on your unique, it might not affect those, I don't know since these are currently only the result of bugs and legacy stuff.
The affixes don't change type or tier, just rolled in range similar to refinement + shaping runes.

[queen ermine]

Dual wielding mad alchemist's ladle applies the effects twice right?

(The cast speed per intelligence)

[vale thistle]

I mean.. it should, but.. can any class actually dual wield wands in LE?

[faint cape]

No, you can't dual wield wands

[queen ermine]

Oh shoot, good point

[vale thistle]

scouring passive trees for "dual wield" thinking "surely not..." 🤣

[faint cape]

Wands, sceptres, and maces are all "not allowed" in offhand

[queen ermine]

Well let me ask a different question then, is Ladle still the go to for cast speed? Marina's Lost Soul or Wrongwarp look good too for a warlock

[faint cape]

Ladle is definitely very strong because of the cast speed and the more multi, but it's only good if the skill you use has plenty of flat spell damage available elsewhere, since ladle itself has very low flat damage

[muted vigil]

How do I get this high glove roll? all my experimental findings are 5-7% rolls im at 180 corruption

[vale thistle]

You probably want the Rune Prison Complex (Woven Echo) where you can craft your own experimental items

https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/IIzAMHZQJgFleg the woven echo is a rare drop, so it's better to put in your weaver tree instead of directly using it

[jaunty garden]

which one of these should I use? Do i prioritize higher LP or higher chance to inflict doom

[desert tree]

Lp

[languid rover]

i forgot i need 4 affixes to make a legendary, is there any way to get a 4th affix on this or am i screwed? would imprinting it in weaver node work or would only 0fp belts drop?

[crystal jackal]

It’s possible to get with 1-2 fp, but the health could also reroll to something else.

Best is to just keep playing and get more belts.

Do you know how rune of havoc works?

[languid rover]

just that it shuffles affixes around so you can get the t7 you want

[sonic saddle]

screwd

oh

[languid rover]

:-( dang thanks

[sonic saddle]

imprinting can definitely work

if you're under about 30 fp imprinting will generally drop items with more FP than the imprint

0fp included

[languid rover]

hmm

hopefully i find something

i really wanted both health mods

ill give it a try though

[sonic saddle]

i'd try for T7 increased health

also belts can have hybrid health as well

so you can go for T7 increased + T5 hybrid or vice versa

whichever nets you more overall

[crystal jackal]

Just find any belt with t7 prefix and imprint it.
Then when you get a proc try crafting on health on suffixes. If you succeed then you rune of havoc it

[sonic saddle]

when your item has low FP it has a pretty good chance to reroll FP on drop

with imprints

[crystal jackal]

You want to imprint a Belt with a t7 prefix and work your way to an empty suffix while having as least 40 fp

[sonic saddle]

40fp is overkill for what they want rofl

[crystal jackal]

Might as well teach him how to craft exalted for slams.

Instead of teaching him how to get a corner case in the fastest way. Or he’ll be stuck with next craft anyway.

Once you get a t7 prefix belt with empty suffix. You craft on HP. Then seal the other suffix and craft on other HP and then tune of havoc

[languid rover]

Thanks, that helps a lot

[crystal jackal]

You can do the same thing with double t7. You just need to start with a belt that has 2t7 prefixes

[lavish crane]

So i understand you datamined the imprint info.

Do you have a link to a document that summarizes all this good info ? Could you share it if you have one? 👀

[languid rover]

sometimes we get crazy lucky instead of doing work

[desert tree]

Noice

[gaunt igloo]

Beautiful. Thank you!

[rose solstice]

Hey guys just bought this game. Can anyone give me an advice on the mode I will play? Is SSF fine for a start? I recently played poe2 and I didn't like the fact I had to trade to improve my character because the loot was junk. Is loot in LE useful? I know there is deterministic crafting which I prefer over an RNG

[desert tree]

Ssf is fine

You will use CoF faction that greatly improve target farming

[rose solstice]

Thanks

[slender swift]

i'd advise against SSF tho, as usually at some point people attempt different classes sooner or later, and since this game has no loot class restriction, you will drop anything for any class at some point.
and last thing you wanna experience is drop a LP3 Premium Unique for a class you don't play, that is also super meta, just to later into the season want to play it and not be able to use it 😛

[desert tree]

You can go solo account found

[rose solstice]

What can I do with this item if I play SSF?

[slender swift]

nothing

[rose solstice]

I guess I am used to that. Played Grim dawn as well so all useless items go to a merchant. But there are also tools in grim dawn where you can stash good items for other characters. Nothing like that in LE?

[slender swift]

I mean, just don't play SSF lol

you can still play Offline or Fully Offline, or just normally. It's not like SSF provides anything in particular, besides restricting your options to share items with other chars

[rose solstice]

Right this is some good point to consider

I also see Dammitt made lastepochtools just like he did it for grimtools. Wow that is cool

[slender swift]

I feel like, in most games that offer SSF, there is no real incentive to actually take it, besides if you want to challenge yourself in a specific way.
If SSF offered like 50% increased droprate for class specific items (rebalancing loot tables), I'd have a reason to want to play it.
But for the most part it is mostly just "here have a mode taht restricts you but provides nothing"

[crystal jackal]

you’re confusing SSF with SCF

It provides a fresh start at any time

[slender swift]

?
SSF = Solo Self Found
no incentive to play really as it locks you from sharing items with other chars while not manipulating loot tables in a way that benefits the class you play.

the fresh start argument is not a bad one tho. but i still find it meh that you get items you will never be able to put to use cuz they are class locked :x

[desert tree]

In LE we have SAF for Solo Account Found

[sonic saddle]

So if you just mean "i don't want to trade" and aren't actually using the restrictive modes, absolutely

In LE there's a choice between two "item factions", one that gives you access to the player marketplace, and one which doesn't but gives you a lot of drop rate boosts

[crystal jackal]

SSF = SAF in LE
you're thinking about SCF

[sonic saddle]

Also this advice is meaningless as you can disable the solo challenge restrictions at any point

[unreal hinge]

No it doesnt. You can share items with your friends when playing with them and there is also a mechanic to share items that you found solo.

[slender swift]

uniques and set items can not be shattered, or am i missing something

[faint cape]

Solo Character Found (SCF) is the one that prevents you from sharing items among your characters. Solo Account Found is the same as PoE's SSF, where you can share among your characters.
The CoF faction boosts self-found loot and is pretty much the only faction you would pick for either SCF or SAF, but works in normal mode as well where you're able to play SSF-style (no trade) and still able to party up and play with other people.

[faint cape]

The two SSF modes in LE don't let you share with friends because you can't party up in SSF

[crystal jackal]

apparently there's a bug that when you enter a rift beast area and there are champions outside casting spells, they all started casting spells ontop of me in the rift beast area with no delay.

[indigo haven]

Morning! Any tips on how to fix very long loading zone times while offline?

[desert tree]

Is the game on an ssd?

[indigo haven]

aye it on SSD, I get 50+seconds on load screen

thru steam

[jaunty garden]

What CPU are you using

[indigo haven]

2.5 processor with 12Gram and 6G graphics, might it be steam?

[indigo haven]

Intel i5

[slender swift]

Laptop?

those specs seem really low tbh

[blazing glacier]

6g graphics also doesn't tell us much

or a lot ofthose specs to be fair

[slender swift]

I think those are specs of a laptop

2.5GHz i5, 12GB RAM, 6GB VRAM

[indigo haven]

it's a PC, let see video is Nvidia GTX 1660

[jaunty garden]

Idk, kinda sounds like you need some hardware upgrades. Not sure how you can get faster speeds with your current setup.

[indigo haven]

tyvm guys!

[slender swift]

i am surprised the game runs smoothly for you, tbh, long loading aside

[indigo haven]

aye it does run buttery smoth, guess offline helps with that

[blazing glacier]

could also be old slower HDD

for loading

[indigo haven]

the SSD is around 6 months old like the PC

[lavish crane]

The computer may be 6 months old, but the GTX 1660 graphics card has been on the market since 2019 and its production ceased more than 2 years ago.

If you are sure the game files are on ssd, then there is nothing to do except upgrade components.

This game is quite RAM-intensive; you may need to add more or close all applications while playing to free up all the RAM.

[indigo haven]

tyvm, would improving the video card improve the loading time? It was kinda 1st on the list for upgrade

[lavish crane]

I would say that the loading time is probably related to the hard drive speed, the decompression speed (and therefore the processor), or the RAM. The graphics card is the last thing I would change to improve loading time.

[slender swift]

please correct me if i am mistaken: but i think a big factor is also clockspeed of RAM here

is it DDR 3, 4 or 5?

cuz if it is only 1600 Hz, increasing volume won't improve loading times

nor will getting a faster SSD improve anything

[indigo haven]

it'S DDR4

[slender swift]

also matters which system you are running

win 7/ 8/ 10/ 11

[indigo haven]

it's all very nothworthy points you bring up here, will have to remember all that, it'S on Win11

[slender swift]

as they occupy different volume of your RAM

ah yeah then 12GB is definitely not enough RAM

[indigo haven]

make sense tyvm

[lavish crane]

If you have not enough ram the ssd is used to complement but it is mich slower. It is surprising if you have no shutter or crash while playing though.

[indigo haven]

darn with the increase of RAM price , guess it'll have to wait a bit

[slender swift]

only if he has paging enbaled

or what ever that function was called

[obtuse olive]

hello there
what's the best way to get exalted armor with this affixes?

[slender swift]

farm, lel

[obtuse olive]

have never seen first affix on body armor(

[lavish crane]

It is acolyte only.

[faint cape]

Since class-specific affixes are rare, easiest way is to get a T7 exalt of the right class with an open prefix and the other affix you want (any tier, or open slot), craft on the class-specific, and havoc the T7 onto the affix you want.
There's a little nuance to the way you craft, but that's the general idea.

I guess the "any tier or open prefix" applies to the first part, too

[obtuse olive]

does the "increase fire damage" affix works on minion fire damage?

[desert tree]

Unless you have some kind of special shared scaling, no

[weary tapir]

kill mages then havoc the t7 onto that or you use woven forget the name (prison of mages), and then you can put experimental on items.

[obtuse olive]

@desert tree like this?

[desert tree]

No, like that

[hardy forum]

which is a better imprint for farming 2x t7 prefixes? I'm thinking the 0177 but I'd love to get a pro POV

[cedar light]

Are there any known bugs about the Imperial Summit doors not opening to let you into the citadel?

I checked the whole map for a switch just in case, don't see one unless I'm blind

[faint cape]

Normally, a big flesh dude breaks through the door when you wait in front of it for a little while

[cedar light]

...I didn't even think to attack the doors. Welp. That worked. Ok, thank you lol

[faint cape]

Oh nice 😁

[pulsar elk]

does having multiple throne of addition stack the effects of the stacks?

[toxic echo]

No

Pretty much everything on it is capped so even at more than 1 you still have the same cap

[fallen parcel]

The first one with t1 prefix its really easy to get 2 prefix with amulet like that

[hardy forum]

Thank you!

[vernal sail]

What the heck is this idol inventory type thing for new season? Is it just for Tetris?

[paper magnet]

The new layouts change the way you can tetris the idols around, yeah. I don't think they've said what the little purple squares do yet?

[pulsar elk]

thats unfortunate, would be interesting if at 4 it would be 8% per stack

[fallen parcel]

I would be too op if thats the case 160% more damage and armor kinda bonkers

[muted vigil]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/shadow-cascade-bladedancer-guide
how does the aspiration version of the build manage without any potion health gained as ward?

I need like a ring + 2-3 dedicated 1x2 idols for potions to be effective

[storm wren]

I wonder do EHG have official group on facebook suddenly

It's the group I joined

[rocky rapids]

you have an insane amount of ward per second, you just turn off auto potions and ignore them as your recovery is sufficient enough to not need them usually. you could swap an affix somewhere (probably on one of the rings) for t7 potion health converted, but you’re giving up a lot for relatively little gain

[muted vigil]

ok I guess once I get inc. health mod on chest I just forget potions?

have 3300 ward atm

[rocky rapids]

yeah you will have so much recovery from your ward gen already you won’t really miss it

[near vale]

It shows that I have 111% crit strike avoidance, tet when I view my character on LE Tools it only shows 39%. Why is this? I checked my blessings, gear, and passive nodes and can't find where the game is pulling all of this crit strike avoidance. Im playing Relfect Shaman.

[paper magnet]

Link it

[near vale]

Ah nevermind just found it. The spriggan pet node

[left path]

is progressing the main story the only way to unlock the observatory to pick up prophecies?

[vale thistle]

you can join a party with someone already at the observatory and teleport to them

[midnight fiber]

Optimization thought experiment: you hate dying. What if instead of stopping at enough defenses you just...kept going. For fun

[wintry totem]

for blade dancer rogue should i focus on melee damage throw damage and crit?

im also doing a combo oriented build as well

[muted vigil]

My build is recommending first modding "x% increased health" then dmg mods on the unique chest.
but I found this rare ward gain mod with the opportunity of havocing it into T7.

I did some testing with the exalted chest on: I had about 400 ward baseline with it and while attacking with my 4 shadows I maintaned 1800 ward. WOnder what it would look like on the unique chest

[crystal jackal]

What build is that? Are you doing any dmg?

[fallen parcel]

The answer is very little to no damage dr higher than this since le tools cant use some dr options likr immortal vise in calculation

[cinder sonnet]

Is there known time that season 4 launches? Not just the date but the time? I'm trying to figure out if I should take a day off work 😄
Thanks in advance

[storm blaze]

It's at 11am whatever timezone it is they usually launch at

[cinder sonnet]

Great thanks, now to figure out what time zone that is 😛

[storm blaze]

Possibly central?

[vale thistle]

Last Epoch - Season 4 "Shattered Omens" - <t:1774548000:F>

I don't remember where I got that timestamp from, but I have it tagged as "direct from EHG" and pinned in my notes, so

[storm blaze]

Ah yea
It's a bit later for me because they've changed to summer time already and we change at the end of the month

[cinder sonnet]

Yess!!!!

No need to take time off work, but you bet I took myself a long weekend! 😎

[muted vigil]

I'm used to 120-144FPS in ultra on games. LE seems to dip all the way to 40-70 in the 1% low. Especially in big packs with several champions and my skills going off at same time.
Is there a known unoptimized setting I should reduce? shadows, effects?

[storm blaze]

Did you try enabling streamer mode?
It disables some settings in the game

[icy drift]

It also caps it at 60 fps so that's a no go for this situation

There's no setting you can really change in LE that impacts CPU demand, which is likely what this is

[storm blaze]

Ah yea I forgot about that part

[severe pecan]

Is it almost time for the hype week ?

[storm blaze]

I think that starts next week?

[severe valve]

it's gotta start next monday

[desert tree]

19th?

[severe valve]

i wonder if they are gona make an annoucment before that...

[desert tree]

They usually don't

The 1st post will go live and that's it

[severe valve]

why 19th? shouldnt it be the 16th?

[desert tree]

I believe a post mentioned the 19th

I might be wrong

[severe valve]

but that would be a thursday?

[icy drift]

Hype week is basically the 7 days before launch, not necessarily the actual week before the week the launch is in

[severe valve]

okay, does anyone remember how it was for 1.3?

[severe valve]

but then we would have no time studying the patch notes?

[icy drift]

Yeah you're right it is the week before since patch notes drop on the last day and they're a few days ahead

so I guess hype week usually starts around 13 days or so before

Patch notes usually come out on a friday and the patch is the following thursday

[severe valve]

thats what im thinking

[icy drift]

So yeah should start 16'th

[broken mango]

Hello. Please help me. We're playing in a group, and my teammate can see Nemesis, but I can't. What could be causing this? How can I fix it?

[sonic cove]

Is there a fast way to get to the factions without playing the last two acts?

[icy drift]

Act 10 has nothing to do with the factions

You just need to get to majelka at the start of act 9

If it's your first character of the stash then you have to get there

If it's a subsequent character there will be an npc at the first town you can talk with to get the faction

[sonic cove]

okay, but is there a shortcut? It's my first char this season, but I was there in another season

[icy drift]

If you're playing in season then no

[faint cape]

Are you still in campaign? Generally, when you access higher level nemeses and then go to lower level areas, it gets disabled for you.
This shouldn't happen in any end game content, though.

[broken mango]

Yes, we're in a company. But I don't think we've jumped into low-level zones. I've written to the support team, but is there any way to fix this without starting a new character?

[faint cape]

Yeah, it'll just fix itself as you progress. At the latest, by the time you complete the campaign

[shy turret]

the way most efficiency blasters do it at the start of a season is to do the campaign to either act 5 or act 7, then go straight to monos until a temporal sanctum key drops, then do julra to skip to act 9. the act7 way lets you get all passives and idol slots, that's probably the recommended way of doing it. act 5 is technically possible but you miss out on some passives/idols, and you end up being pretty under levelled.

[sonic cove]

uuh that's nice

[faint cape]

The only shortcuts are dungeons, which require you to jump to a higher level zone to get a key for

Monos are usually that zone since you can access them by like level 18ish

[wet chasm]

are patchnotes being released before the patch?

[severe valve]

Yes the friday before patch

[crystal ember]

If you are playing an aliment build and you crit with the initial hit, say poison, does this affect the size of the ticks or is that always going to be purely based on your dmg over time scaling etc

[icy drift]

Critting does nothing for ailments

Nothing about the initial hit affects ailments outside of it hitting them and applying the ailment

However the skill tree of the skill that caused the ailment does matter

[crystal ember]

aight I was pretty sure that was the answer but thought I'd double check lol, thank you

[languid rover]

can i farm nemesis by leaving conquered tower before killing the boss? or do they stop spawning

[fallen parcel]

You cannot cheese it ,nemesis won't spawn and you will have to go kill boss at the end anyway

[languid rover]

dang

thanks

[south fern]

Hey, is this for a specific monolith or any, because i reached C200 in the age of winter and killed the boss but i still have the quest

[desert tree]

You need a fresh harbinger kill

Maybe you already killed the aow harbinger

[south fern]

okay i'll try another one thanks

[blazing glacier]

It says which ones you still need to do in the faction panel for Forgotten Knight

[south fern]

Thanks alot, that's much better

[weary tapir]

this is a 2t7 1t7 sealed affix.

If I put this into warlord riches does it get 2 chances to upgrades to 4t7 vs 1? and keep the 1t7 seal affix, so I can havoc then get the 1t7 into the weapon into 4t7?

[blazing glacier]

I forget the names, warlord was the one that does the affix added as sealed, yea?

If yes, we haven't found a good use for that one yet.

If you mean the normal imprints it has a chance of moving the T7 stun chance onto a suffix slot giving 3T7, you wont get seal

[weary tapir]

It keeps the sealed affix yes, I was wondering can it still upgrade. to 3t7 1t7 sealed affix, then you imprint it normally to get 1t7 to go into the 3t7. making a true 4t7.

hope that makes sense.

since the 2t7s is less needed to keep all the rolls + and 2 chances

[blazing glacier]

Are you sure it "keeps the sealed"? My understanding was that it moves an existing non sealed to sealed with chance of up to T7.

The problem is that it doesnt keep the other non sealed so you basically wont get more than a 2T7 most likely

[blazing glacier]

Yea this is poo. Unless there is some top secret tech we haven't yet found for it

[weary tapir]

this is the secret tech I am guessing here 😛

[blazing glacier]

I don't think so. Even if you get the seal added you then lose the other T7s and you haven't made any progress

[weary tapir]

so data mining on this then.

[blazing glacier]

Yea

[weary tapir]

ill keep it in there and test, it's a useless slot anyways. May be surprized

[paper magnet]

I've never gotten anything good out of warlord's. Like, I've never even seen a t5+ sealed affix at all from that imprint let alone that and affixes that are actually what you want.

[weary tapir]

It is all rare at this point to get 3t7 or even 4t7, It is more about how much better are the odds.

[fallen parcel]

Pointless node should get a rework

[blazing glacier]

Just move the imprints to COF 😉

[fallen parcel]

I am ok with this more empowerment to us or buff prophecies idk make them reroll like imprints can

[rose solstice]

Hey guys new to this game. I got the impression killing swarms of normal mobs gives me more xp than focusing on tougher mobs. Is that correct?

I mean I'm level 50 and went to Monolith of Fate for the first time. And once I get a big pack of mobs my xp bar is moving fast

[weary tapir]

Faster clearing is always better as long as you stay around the same level area you are in, going into a too difficult location and less packs per minute slows down XP.

There is a xp penalty also if you are in an area 10 levels above your level, so take that into consideration.

key notes:

1. max out champions/rare on the weaver tree huge xp
2. get nodes for xp and and look for XP rewards

[storm blaze]

Well they're also higher lvl than you are in the monos so killing anything fast there gives you a lot of exp

[rose solstice]

Oh thanks. I have not unlocked a weaver tree yet. I think so

[weary tapir]

I think you need to enter a tomb or something to unlock it and get wovens to unlock more passives, it's been awhile.

the weaver tree is super important and is your best friend in adjusting your echos and your rewards.

[rose solstice]

Should I just finish the campaign first? Is there any benefit doing so? Or can I jump into monoliths. I am in act 7 I think

[weary tapir]

It's been a super long time and i play legacy, so i can't remember that part of the game 🙁

[storm blaze]

Well you get the item faction in chapter9
And finishing chapters 9 & 10 gives +1 to all attributes from both

[rose solstice]

All right then. Means I should 😃

Not the best timing for me. New leagues starts soon

[desert tree]

You can keep playing in legacy

[weary tapir]

you can always play legacy, you keep all your progress. That is why I play it.

I am not a fan of sinking a tonne of time into a character then well, restarting over 😛

[blazing glacier]

You can do it later if you want, I rarely finish campaign before reaching level 100 tbh lol

[rose solstice]

I wanted to start SSF but my last experience from poe2 was bad and I decided to play league

I guess this is different in LE

[weary tapir]

SSF legacy is pretty amazing, and good solid community in legacy also.

[storm blaze]

Circle of Fortune in last epoch makes solo self found way more doable

[rose solstice]

Yea I noticed. I get tons of good loot just like in Grim Dawn. In poe2 I had to switch to trading because all the loot was junk

[weary tapir]

I played poe2 also a lot of hours, I dropped the game until they fix all the stuff needing fixing. I can't handle it.

They nerfed my build mid season 3 by making tower changes and forcing a boss every map, etc. season 2 was a flop( dawn of the hunt)

So yeah, not playing untill full release.

[rose solstice]

I mean this is probably not a good channel to talk about it but there are things I like and dislike about poe2 and other arpgs. Basically crafting is gambling and loot is trash so I decided to try LE and I am pretty happy now. Only 15 hours into it so far though

[paper magnet]

I have bad news

[storm blaze]

Is it that Season 4 isn't out yet?

[desert tree]

FG will still be made fun of in S4 ?

[storm blaze]

No, Froge Guard will be the new meta

[paper magnet]

No it's that crafting is gambling

[fallen parcel]

It all depends of the patch notes if at least some changes were made like get rid of the less damage and not access to haste from the passive that allows you to use a shield and a 2 hand weapon that would be a good start

[faint cape]

I mean that would be just straight auto take then

Like a 1 pointer that gives you +150 flat damage or something

[crystal ember]

Well, kind of. You're guarenteed a slam on 1LP so thats 100% not a gamble

[fallen parcel]

Rather have that option ,symbols oh hope is kinda mandatory and I dont mind that ,!forgeguard being bad since 1.0 its a joke among sentinels not everything's needs to have a downside if its already underperformed this badly

Doing 20% less damage from a mastery that already does not output more damage than a vk and a pally is very bad

And losing 30% ms is so bad in the endgame

[desert tree]

So what you are saying is nerf vk and paladin by about 50% ?

😄

[fallen parcel]

If you want people to play rogue all day sure

I rather play a cool as mastery like vk that at least has me covered in lategame strength

[desert tree]

I was playing sentinel when it was bad; Ill keep playing it
And I dont care what people play

[fallen parcel]

So

The answer is to keep forge guard being bad I hope not

I rather have a kick ass forge weapons build that kicks uber ass and its viable

[desert tree]

No, but not removing the downside on that node is not the right move

The right move would be to buff the rest

Make skill actually do dmg

Otherwise there is no thinking

Being able to dw 2h+shield without downside is infinitely better than 2h solo

Thats not where the problem is

If there is no downside, why would you ever not click it ?

FG problem is not in the downside of that node, its in SW doing abysmal dps, FS being a worse ES; MA being better as Paladin, FW being meh on good days and every other skills being better on other mastery

[vale thistle]

I think the movespeed penalty on 2H+shield should be removed, the DPS penalty is fine as long as some other forge guard exclusive passives get some buffs

the DPS penalty exists so you aren't just forced to go 2H+shield, haste->block is just annoying for no good reason

[faint cape]

I mean why not just buff FG instead of removing meaningful build choices

I'd be all for letting the haste block chance at least scale with haste effect

[hardy forum]

I now have 15x LP3 Ladle's, all above 40% shred 😄 No 4LP so far, it's tough 😄 I'll probably Turtle around 10 of the 3LP ones because they have good rolls. Maybe tomorrow 😄

[vale thistle]

my main problem with converting haste to block is, there's basically never any situation where you don't want movement speed (maybe arena stuff..?) and the block chance is mostly redundant, as you can typically get to 100% block chance even without that conversion, at worst you might need some block suffixes on your gear

like think about boots: when did you last seriously consider anything other than t7 movement speed as your first slam on a good pair of LP1+ boots? would you ever willingly choose to slam 10% block chance there instead, if that affix existed as a prefix on boots? 🙃

that's the decision that forge guard node is making for you

except it's even worse, because it's more like 45% movespeed -> 10% block, because haste effect exists

[vale thistle]

tbh I'd actually expect the exact opposite thing to happen: if you're over-encumbered and slightly off-balance (because you're swinging around a 2H mace instead of a 1H sword or whatever) your odds of successfully blocking should be lower, not higher

[slender swift]

actually, if you are overencumbered, you are not gonna swing anything, least of all something 2h
if we are speaking irl.
and to that degree, medieval (at least european) two handed weapons are masterfully crafted. they had EXCELLENT balance and unexpectedly low weight for their size.
a mallet or massive warhammer as depicted in games never existed. they had precisely forged small heads, to deal major damage to helmets, plate armor, and bones. which small heads do better than large ones.
And you would typically never swing them left to right or vice versa to begin with. but up to down or down to up.
side to side swings would only happen in niche scenarios. and on most open battlefields or close quarter combat fields you wouldn't even have the space for sideways swings.
and blocking a swing with a long staff like handle is easier midswing of a two handed weapon, than it is with a onehanded + shield. as the latter requires multiple shifts in momentum and direction.

<-- HEMA

tldr: you wrong 😄

[faint cape]

tbh this just needs to follow rule of cool, we got magic and stuff and swords can swing themselves here

[fallen parcel]

I am sure losing haste makes sense right

Forgeguard has not been in a good spot for a really long time a true rework id needed but let's be real if that rework comes in 3 season so 2 years does that mean Forgeguard should still be as bad a it is

[graceful cliff]

Dont forget the flat spell damage on the wand. And tech the mana is nice as well. Even at max roll on the wand it would still be recommended to get a shred roll elsewhere. You do really want 100 total.

[fallen parcel]

I rather have a buff here and there than no buff since the only 2 viable builds endgame forgeguard has is shield bash and shield throw .

Minions being affected by it kinda sucks unless manifest armor would be op if it wasn't,oh 10% less attack speed cool too

[vale thistle]

most of your argument here has nothing to do with the point I was making, lol

I'm not saying 2H weapons are unwieldy, I'm saying it's more difficult to block with a shield if your other arm is occupied with a larger, heavier object; when compared to a lighter, smaller one

like if I threw 30 baseballs at you from varying angles over the course of a minute, it would be harder to block all of them successfully with a buckler if your other arm was preoccupied with holding a zweihander compared to a dagger

particularly if you're trying to attack me between blocks

even if the difference is only a few pounds, exhaustion would build up faster, and it would be more challenging to react in time

blocking with a 2H (and no shield) is a completely different topic, and although interesting it's not super relevant to the Forgemaster's Might passive 😂

I suppose if you had superman-level strength it wouldn't make a difference, and the larger object would make blocking "easier" simply by virtue of occupying more space.. I never really got the impression our characters in LE were that strong, though

[crystal ember]

Bro don't be making statements about 2 handers and shield comparing them in real life when you're playing a video game where people can summon giant undead minions, teleport, time travel and other crazy shit

FM node is trash, even if it was no penalty the FG would still doing XX% less over all dmg than it's counterparts and it's minion does about 250 million less dmg per hit than ol' mate with his bear lmao

[buoyant sinew]

these feel like unrelated things. I agree that forge guard is still in a terrible place right now, but why is that a problem with this one node that's already good? surely they should actually fix the problems with the rest of the class rather than trying to make this one passive good enough to compensate for them.

[crystal ember]

The node is basically 28% damage reduction to your total damage output then you lose out on I think it was said 30% move speed when you convert haste to block - I don't see how this is actually good? - you're right though they need to fix all the other problems as well lol

[buoyant sinew]

you get an entire extra item in exchange though, of course if you only talk about the downsides and ignore the upsides then it sounds bad.

if you just want to zoom then fair enough you probably won't like this cause there's no compensating for the movement speed loss from haste.

[crystal ember]

Do you play FG like as a main char?

[fallen parcel]

I don't think they do or the only thing that matters to them is do 300 corruption and call it a day

[crystal ember]

Id say so haha. Even with comparisons in time to kill a main feature like UA the quickest smelters wrath kill I've seen was like 13-14 mins in 1.2 lol, 20 min Jav kill with shield (8-9 with pally same skill) and some streamer on HC doing it in like 23 - seems really fair to the 1% of people who play it that every other class can do it quicker. It's not about nerfing other sent's either its about pure over all clunky, low damage, make no sense skills/nodes lol. I'm gonna go lick a cheese grater for a while it's less painful 😄

[vale thistle]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/build-guides/lavaguard---spell-shield-throw-forge-guard is the best example I'm aware of that demonstrates how/why Forgemaster's Might is good; not talking about Forge Guard as a class overall (undertuned IMO), just "what scenario is the damage penalty on Forgemaster's Might worth it"

[blazing glacier]

Was the Lizard kill on HC?

that's some WILD level of commitment if so, damn

[vale thistle]

removing the haste conversion from Forgemaster's Might, buffing some Forge Guard passives so they're actually powerful (like the scaling offered by Rot Grip or Judgment of the Storm), and updating Smelter's Wrath + Forge Strike would be a good first-pass IMO

the last update to Forge Guard didn't really hit the mark

[blazing glacier]

I feel like Sentinel as a class overall is not really lacking for defense options, a keystone level passive that just gives more defense without really opening much up for more offense elsewhere, while also reducing offense, on already the lowest offense sentinel spec, seems pretty not great.

[buoyant sinew]

I've given up playing him for now cause he's trash lol. I really don't understand this discussion, you seem to be saying that I think forge guard is fine because I think forgemaster's might is a fine node? I don't think that at all, forge guard is no fun to build at the moment. I just don't have a problem with that one specific node...

[vale thistle]

presumably the damage penalty exists because EHG doesn't want literally every forge guard to feel forced into 2H + shield, it's meant to be an option, not mandatory (and it would be mandatory with no damage penalty)

the mastery overall lacking good damage scaling options is a separate topic

[buoyant sinew]

it's also just disappointing that they did a mini rework to FG and didn't at all fix how terrible his passive tree feels

why are half the nodes still unclickable

[faint cape]

And the node does provide massive damage in some very niche scenarios as-is

[vale thistle]

this is way too accurate TBH, like I can pretty easily justify putting 88 points into Void Knight, I can't imagine doing the same thing with Forge Guard right now, on any build

[faint cape]

tbh this is a problem on the sent class as a whole, it's just FG's optimal path is worse than the other twos'

[blazing glacier]

I feel like the passive should have had less defense from the downside rather than less offense. The alternative to 2H + Shield is 1H + Shield. If you are opting for 2H you probably want more damage.

How about this for the node;

• Can equip 2H while using a shield.
• Shields have 20% increased effect from stats when a 1H is equipped
• Shields have 20% reduced effect from stats when a 2H is equipped

Or something like that

[vale thistle]

less defense could work for sure, the penalty existing is the important part, not necessarily what it does

(not a movement speed penalty though please)

[faint cape]

iirc the heat maps for all the sent masteries had almost all nodes at either near 100% or near 0% pick

[blazing glacier]

some of the new thresholds are absolutely insane value

as a Mage I look at some 5 pointers in sentinel and its like, worth 20 points for me

lmao

[faint cape]

Yeah, there are just insaneo more multis for some things, too

[blazing glacier]

And a bunch of different stacking options

[buoyant sinew]

you're right you're right, so much damage on tuesdays on the whole class but it feels like more on FG

plus yes the good nodes are mostly less good

[faint cape]

Yeah, it feels real bad on FG because the optimal path feels more like picking the least bad options while the other two are feeling like you don't have enough points to get all the good options lol

Kinda like shaman

Goodness I can't type lol

[buoyant sinew]

yup, any time you try to play a shaman without totems

[vale thistle]

I actually like totems in PoE but they just feel so weird and restricted in LE, never really got into them

[faint cape]

Same

[vale thistle]

feel like they would be far more interesting if they could interact with more skills/subskills than they currently do

[faint cape]

Yeah, in PoE they fit a whole different archetype. Like a minion, but not minion scaled. Here, they are just minions but worse.

[vale thistle]

like give me gathering storm totems or tornado totems or avalanche totems

frenzy totem and thorn totem are just kinda lame

[faint cape]

Upheaval and swipe totems, take it or leave it

[vale thistle]

gathering storm is actually a really cool skill IMO, it's just.. the tree for it is horrible?

there's basically zero synergy with anything and no multipliers anywhere; the only thing people use it for is Excited Bolts

[faint cape]

The tree is horrible on top of its horrible base numbers

[vale thistle]

like you can invest 20 skill points in it, and it feels exactly the same as it did with 5 skill points

[faint cape]

It's funny that it's almost the complete worst way to use its own key subskill

[vale thistle]

imagining any other skill working like gathering storm

hammer throw: it throws 1 hammer and does 2 damage, regardless of how many skill points you invest in it... but if you spec into the "fancy lightning bolt node" and use forge strike to trigger "fancy lightning bolt" now it does 9999 damage

[buoyant sinew]

it's not completely different to smite but at least manual cast smite is also good and has lots of dedicated stuff happening

[vale thistle]

self-cast smite is actually pretty good tbh, it just gets outclassed by stuff triggering smite later on (assuming you can negate the mana cost) purely because those triggers can smite more frequently than you could ever cast it

main weakness is the (lack of) AoE

[buoyant sinew]

I still think people overrate hammer smite and underrate selfcast smite because of the triggers good mentality

[vale thistle]

multistrike smite is best IMO

(also the hardest to solve mana for)

[buoyant sinew]

I think you're right

that feels correctly rated

[vale thistle]

I'm pretty sure this is the strongest way to build it (ignore the crazy gear, just pointing out Omnividence mostly): https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/B7GwPmZK

[neon compass]

Void Knight, Level 100

Game Cycle / Version:

Beneath Ancient Skies / 1.3.5

Class:

Sentinel (20) / Void Knight (88) / Paladin (5)

General:

▸ Health: 5,023, Regen: 0/s
▸ Mana: 230.56, Regen: 12.08/s
▸ Ward Retention: 32%, Regen: 0/s
▸ Attributes: 31 Str / 16 Dex / 16 Int / 21 Att / 97 Vit
▸ Resistances: 72% / 72% / 82% / 77% / 77% / 154% / 154%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 53%, Threshold: 1,154
▸ Dodge Chance: 3% (87)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 62% (4,698)

Used skills:

Smite / Multistrike / Anomaly / Javelin / Devouring Orb

[vale thistle]

Unbalanced Scale is roughly +75% more DPS (single target) FYI

it casts Lightning Bolt at 3 nearby enemies (it doesn't say anything about them being OTHER enemies, just enemies in general)

Lightning Bolt has 100% ADE, Smite has 150% ADE

sustaining the mana for that setup is impossible without the giga -cost from Omnividence

[buoyant sinew]

yeah that's a very cool setup

nice

[faint cape]

Does lightning bolt get the multis vs ignited and vs blinded enemies?

[vale thistle]

it inherits everything

[faint cape]

Those multis can't be inherited, they would have had to be manually made to apply

I never tested it, just curious if it was known or not yet

[vale thistle]

well, you may be right; I don't actually know how that interaction works; I tested it with DoTs so maybe those two don't

it was roughly 75% more DPS with electrify when I tried it

on the boss target dummy

even without Unbalanced Scale the build is uber aberroth viable though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYeP94qhsMA

[faint cape]

Oh yeah, for ailments definitely neither apply, and the dmg eff doesn't matter either

Interesting that it's only 75% on electrify, I guess it's MS so you maybe get some from the melee hit and HH?

[vale thistle]

I never really looked into it beyond confirming that my electrify stacks (and damage ticks) on single target were significantly higher with vs without, confirming that it does impact single target

could be due to melee hits though, you're right

if Blinding Flash and Conflagration don't apply to Lightning Bolt, and it uses Smite's ADE, Unbalanced Scale is 33.3% more Damage (for Hits); if it uses Lightning Bolt's ADE, it's 22.3% more Damage (for Hits); it should be 100% more for ailments but doesn't seem to be that high in practice

[faint cape]

Yeah, still significant for hits either way, and should be double ailment damage, but definitely will mean some amount less than double overall damage for the build

[crystal ember]

@vale thistle i just saw that link earlier - sorry was out, I watched debris vid at 1500c which is pretty easy with ST, the clears never a problem, no uber vid. Compare that with Volcas firestarter torch at 1000c vid on pally and he's doing 3x the dmg lol, 2h + shield just is not "currently" good 😛 (even his 500c 2h + shield vid the hits, dmg output are massively less)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGU2fD7ZH2w vs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_j2OgTnbts if you're interested in looking

[vale thistle]

is it? I see 427K+ crits on debris video where he's fighting 1500c Emperor of Corpses, highest hit I saw from volca on a 1000c rift beast was ~198K
edit: nvm, 441K from volca on aberroth

[fallen parcel]

Uber aberroth?

[vale thistle]

volca was on normal aberroth, haven't seen either of those builds attempt uber

[crystal ember]

Ummm you should screen grab and slow that down lol

you're missing a number off those hits, thats 40k not 400

[vale thistle]

from debris' forge guard? no I'm not

[fallen parcel]

I play with debris in my cof legacy group

He definitely has killed uber on that

[vale thistle]

427479 crit on emperor of corpses

[crystal ember]

the only 300-400 is when its hitting the addons

not the boss

[vale thistle]

there's also a 516544 crit a bit earlier

[fallen parcel]

Not like its stronger than example his time rot shield throw but its doable

[crystal ember]

nice bro I asked him to upload a vid cos I love ST and would love to see a sub 10 min with 2H to show how strong that node is

Mistias timerot shield throw which really isnt ST is pretty quick lol

[fallen parcel]

Oh debris is great when his connection is good probably share

Ty to him we have a group and 4t7 gear

[vale thistle]

anyway my linking that specific build wasn't to say like, wow look this build is the greatest

[crystal ember]

lol i know you werent bro, sorry i wasn't having a go at you

[vale thistle]

it was just an example of a scenario where 2H + shield is "good" in the sense that it gets strong scaling out of the node

[fallen parcel]

He did that his weapon is a lot stronger than mistia😅

[crystal ember]

i was just saying compared to 1h on pally it still does less dmg

i feel like all mistia's builds smash with XXX weapon and timerot lol

[vale thistle]

time rot is weird like that, you can use it with pretty much any skill without changing much

[fallen parcel]

I mean the only reason the forgemaster its ok with that build is that he gets flat spell damage from idols and quite a bit

You can use the 2 hand axe from dungeon soulfire for a ton more damage btw

[vale thistle]

TBH I would never consider actually playing lavaguard outside of legacy just because getting all those t7 enchants sounds super annoying

[fallen parcel]

It was according to him🤣

[crystal ember]

ive got a bunch of lp3 and 4 stuff in seasonal and i stopped back in october lol

errr 777 and 7777

just start league with a few mates easiest way, I'm still shit at the game tho

😄

[fallen parcel]

So just saying if you go for the damage version it will be more damage than pally but a lot more painful to fix stuff likr crit flat

[crystal ember]

the stuff I yell at my screen when I die even though its purely skill based that I died is ridiculous

Ive never ever considered lavaburst cranking with spell dmg on a build tho so I'm here for that build and you mentioning the SF axe

[crystal ember]

ST is by far my fav build I just wish it was as strong as my ollddddd poe1 char

[fallen parcel]

This

[crystal ember]

Yeee

[fallen parcel]

Yeah lavaburst is your damage

Shield throw you get some flat for clear adn some extra dps

[crystal ember]

you'd stack with the belt from there too I guess

lost count of how many times I've asked but I wish they'd allow ST to bounce off objects/terrain for more single target D:

[fallen parcel]

Yep inmolator oblivion

[vale thistle]

"Can Ricochet To You" should just be default behavior IMO

[obtuse olive]

Hello, what’s the best way to farm rune of havoc?

[icy drift]

Technically killing uber aberroth afaik

Outside of that I don't think there's a specific mechanic or anything that drops more of them.

[obtuse olive]

Saw guide that told rampant coast echo is good place to farm it

[icy drift]

Rampant coast is just good in general. So yea

[obtuse olive]

Ty

[jaunty garden]

If I don't have rampant coast unlocked in weaver ranks yet, what's the best way to farm amber to get it unlocked? I've only had it drop randomly once. Also what weaver rank do you unlock it at?

[blazing glacier]

You dont want to buy it anyway its too expensive. You imprint it and it procs constantly

[jaunty garden]

Ah. So just need to find another copy?

I used the only one I got before I imprinted it 😭

[blazing glacier]

Yep

[jaunty garden]

Blegh

[blazing glacier]

Always keep at least 1 copy of each echo

[jaunty garden]

Farm cemeteries for that?

[blazing glacier]

Probably

[jaunty garden]

👍

[dim valley]

hey have yall encountered this mob before? been playing for a while and don't remember seeing this until today

instead of busting open and with woven echo stuff it releashed 4 wolves that apply a stacking bleed and have a pretty big health pool

[blazing glacier]

https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/npc/WolvenCocoon

pretty sure that is weaver stuff, but can't say I actually pay attention to the names of stuff I fight

[dim valley]

ok cool i was trying to find any information on this mob because i don't recall getting wrecked so hard in the past

[storm wren]

#❔┃ask-the-community message

Based on my history, I can guess it's a new thing from 1.3

[dim valley]

honestly was sort of a concern in my mentioning it, not trying to leak anything but if it's happening they should maybe know

[storm wren]

No worries, they did so well on NDA so we know nothing before 1.4 is out

[blazing glacier]

yea that is from Aug '25, around when 1.3 dropped so you probably right

weird though, doesn't seem related to the rift beast?

[dim valley]

they just seem to have replaced all of my otherwise woven coccoons

no, they're tinted red and unrelated to other mechanics it seems

their health pools were drastically higher than others in the given echo too, they take a few hits before dying. just feels like something i'd remember seeing?

[blazing glacier]

could it be from this?

[dim valley]

nope nothing related to that, these seem to have just replaced cocoons entirely, like i'm not sure i can acquire amber outside of an actual cemetary

i played enough to have gotten a couple primordial items and become familiar with the mechanics, but the whole time i've never seen these cacoons

they also are regular white mobs without any sort of empowerment, so i'm not sure where these tie in to seasonal mechanics

[wet flare]

any other experiecncing LE-65 server connection error today?

[fringe birch]

there's 0.5% chance to get echo with wolven cocoons instead of normal ones I believe

[dim valley]

Thats interesting. I got three in a row so i wonder whats up

Thanks for that

[fringe birch]

I was already testing them v1.2, found nothing interesting though

[dim valley]

got two more wolven cocoons before i saw a regular one. not sure if it's interesting but i'm happy my rogue isnt getting punished for having 0 phys res

[faint cape]

They are just a rare easter egg. No real significance, just fun/silly.

The normal cocoons are "silken", while the funnie ones are a misspelling of "woven"

The actual Weaver ones may have been called woven cocoons originally, which would have made the joke better

[dim valley]

that's funny, i didn't even realize they were called silken, i just assumed it was that same play on words

very cool to know thank you for that, wonder why i got it so many echoes consecutively but it's neat

[vernal sail]

Is there supposed to be a new season soon and does it have a date?

[buoyant sinew]

yes, march 26. we'll get all the information about it next week.

[faint cape]

Yeah, quite the odd coincidence! I feel like when I got them, I had maybe 2 in a row and never seen since

[vernal sail]

Oh thank you so much, I'm used to diablo and poe. I know those games also have a decrease in resistances that happen overtime. Is that in this game too?

[buoyant sinew]

the opposite, monsters gain resistance penetration based on their level. this doesn't impact your gearing and you can't do anything about it, it's just for balance reasons to make resistances less mandatory earlier on.

it's basically the same design goal though, just balanced around having 7 types of resistance and not expecting you to cap all of them until much later in the game instead of expecting you to keep working to stay capped through a penalty

[vernal sail]

Do they have a max pen they can get to? Or does that just scale infinitely?

[buoyant sinew]

they max out at 75%

so your effective endgame resistance is 0 if you cap everything

and then monster damage is balanced around this, so the logic is that the impact of missing resistances is less extreme and more intuitive (if you're missing 25% resist you take 25% more damage, in other games you'd take double damage)

[vernal sail]

Hmmmm okay

I appreciate you answering my questions

[buoyant sinew]

no problem

[languid rover]

Is there a way to disable attacking without a target? I am playing Flay lich and sometimes i will flay directly adjacent to an enemy instead of on the enemy. and usually i will die during the attack animation when that happens

or worse when i try to flay to spirit step away and instead of spirit stepping it locks me in place for the entire attack anim

im struggling to complete oerden's watch because i'll be completely fine for like 5 minutes and then flay will just hit nothing three times in a row and i instagib

feels more like i have to get lucky with hitboxes than anything else to do the content

[near vale]

Why is T7 Attunement considered better on Thicket of Blinding Light than T7 Damage Reflect? I have one of each and I get 23k damage in the Damage Reflect but only 21k on the Attunement.

[desert tree]

Because that's your only source of Inc Reflect

[near vale]

So does that stat increase from Thornshell not show up on the tool tip then?

[desert tree]

That I am not sure

Or maybe you don't have enough Flat to make Inc better

[near vale]

Does the mana gained as ward stat work for rage as well?

[desert tree]

If you spend rage, yes

If you consume rage, no

Same as with mana

[crystal jackal]

It does show up.

[crystal jackal]

What’s best depends on how much of each you have on the rest of your gear. Attunement is better for when you have full gear.

Also depends on the % roll on the shield and if you’re playing primalist or pala.

[faint cape]

What tooltip? Thicket doesn't have one

Oh, I guess we're talking char sheet

[faint cape]

iirc one of the few (or maybe only) ways to actually spend rage is summoning healing totem

[crystal jackal]

yeah, under the "defense" tab

[rose solstice]

Guys if I manage to get Grand Emmity of the Clans blessing will that also increase chances for Unique swords or just rare/exalted ones?

[alpine pendant]

I'm not 100% confident, but from my understanding it should since more swords = more chances for them to roll unique rarity when the rarity of the drop is rolled

[faint cape]

Yes, it also means you get more unique sword drops.
To note, blessing do not affect boss-specific drops, so it won't help you for those.

[rose solstice]

Not a boss drop. It's the Transcriber's Graver

I got plenty of time so will get it at some point. Just trying to understand the details

[faint cape]

Then yeah, it will help with that one

[obtuse olive]

hi
can u tell me how to get double T7 items?
have lots of double T6 and a few T6T7

[crystal jackal]

nemesis = best
CoF prophecies = not that great, needs high corruption
just play the game

[vernal sail]

Can anyone explain the endgame skill tree type thing to me?

Also what does corruption effect loot wise?

[jaunty garden]

Do you mean the Weaver Faction Skill Tree?

[jaunty garden]

Corruption increases item rarity on a pretty linear scale for a while. So 500 corruption is 500% increased rarity of the items that drop for you. Basically, you'll get more exalted affixes on items, and better chance of higher LP or WW on your uniques

[vernal sail]

Yeah that

[vernal sail]

This makes me way more interested in it now

I've gotta find out about new season stuff at some point

[jaunty garden]

So the Weaver Skill Tree directly affects the echoes (or "maps") that you run in the monolith timelines. It can modify and increase certain reward types and loot, add different enemy types, and if you imprint desired gear in the slots you see in the tree, those items will drop much more commonly for you, depending on which slot you put it in.

[vernal sail]

Do the stats on the imprinted gear matter or just the base item type?

[faint cape]

The imprints are great, generally you want all of them except warlord's riches

[jaunty garden]

Yeah corruption is the main endgame mechanic at this point in time. Higher corruption means better loot. T7 affixes will start dropping like candy around 200-300 corruption.

[faint cape]

Everything on it matters

[vernal sail]

I come from poe, is there a mechanic like recombobulator on this game? Like putting two items together to make one but with random things taken from each?

[jaunty garden]

The stats do matter, especially if it's a non-unique item. If you imprint a unique, it will roll near the affixe range of the imprinted gear. If you imprint a non unique item, it will roll with the same affix level (or higher) in that same slot.

[faint cape]

Nothing quite like that yet

[vernal sail]

That's actually extremely cool

Thank you guys

I'm really looking forward to the new season

[faint cape]

Any time, I'm looking forward to it too 😁