❔┃ask-the-community

[fair talon]

well, I rather have ephemeral stance than either of those

[brittle atlas]

ephemeral stance is being tied into existing skills as a proc or something I think

same with juggernaut stance

I don't know if we have details on that yet

[steep flicker]

does rive not do both of those?

[brittle atlas]

I don't think so currently?

but I haven't played rive in a while

so it's possible it changed

my favorite builds so far have been poison lich and self-cast EQ druid. smite void knight also felt really nice

and I'm currently doing empowered monos in hc solo with spriggan form druid, which is ok feeling too

[terse roost]

i was gonna play eq druid, but hearing its getting nerfed made me stop

[brittle atlas]

only EQ bear is getting nerfed

[terse roost]

yeah, thats what i was doing lol

[brittle atlas]

self-cast should be unimpacted

[steep flicker]

druid is bear

[brittle atlas]

not at all

[fair talon]

what does lich do cuz it looks cool but reading the description doesn't really give me a clear image

[terse roost]

its main theme is losing/having low hp and a lot of leech

[cloud kindle]

She mainly applies damage over time. Necrotic or poison

[steep flicker]

I use necrotic only but it;s maunly damage over time

[brittle atlas]

lich can do necrotic, phys, and poison well

[steep flicker]

really slow on high hp mobs or bosses

[fair talon]

is it bad then

[brittle atlas]

https://streamable.com/nrjz98

[steep flicker]

at least necrotic version mainly using dot skills feels really slow for example fighting lagon

[brittle atlas]

there's a 600 something corruption kill on my poison lich

[terse roost]

i use your build

its ruined all the other builds

its so insane

leveling other builds has felt terrible now lol

[fair talon]

hmm, not sure what to reroll to then

[brittle atlas]

https://streamable.com/ck57q5

there's empowered lagon

[steep flicker]

i don;t use the spirit skill but i tried it out and only spawned like less than half the spirits you use cool down reduction?

[brittle atlas]

I have cooldown reduction, increased reveal rate, increased spirit duration, and my death seal extends all active spirits by 3 seconds on use

spirits are the main source of poison stacks for the build

[steep flicker]

ah that is truly disgusting

[brittle atlas]

it is probably the strongest poison applicator in the game

[fair talon]

https://i.imgur.com/q0L2t2j.png what is this

[steep flicker]

my lvl 80 lich does not get him below 80% even with stacked idols for necrotic dmg

[fair talon]

can you make a build with it

I like the look of that

[brittle atlas]

that's binary star black hole

yeah, all of my idols are poison chance and transplant cooldown

[fair talon]

is frozen orb good

[steep flicker]

you would think necrotic would be at least as good since it is a lich main stay

[brittle atlas]

necrotic crit is good

but necrotic damage over time just doesn't have good ways to scale

[steep flicker]

that will be where i went wrong then

i avoided crit

[brittle atlas]

you have pretty limited sources of damned and the other necrotic dot effects don't stack

[fair talon]

also what is the frozen orb called here

[brittle atlas]

uh volcanic orb

but it has a cold conversion node

[steep flicker]

but i still use soul feast

[brittle atlas]

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

there's a high corruption orobyss kill with no gear on

ssf viable confirmed

[steep flicker]

i might just switch to my marksman then since it is already built for poison

[fair talon]

rerolling is hard

[steep flicker]

have 1.3 million can only craft like 2-3 good items with that much lol

[brittle atlas]

lich needs like literally zero gear to be good

put on whatever you have with some life/res, get endurance cap and you're smooth sailing

[steep flicker]

<--- unable to be a lich then

i mean i felt like it was average, but maybe because I'm in the dead zone

80-99 feels slow and weird going to empowered mono see's dmg drop by 50%

was hopinh hitting a few levels on my spell blade would see the enemy resistance drop but has felt pretty slow

[fair talon]

what would you guys recommend me to reroll to

[steep flicker]

depends what you like

[fair talon]

I don't know

[steep flicker]

if I had to choose again without being invested in some of my pre built characters I would do blade dancer

[fair talon]

I don't like the look of blade dancer

[brittle atlas]

if you want something fast in monoliths, play lich or void knight. if you want something near immortal play druid

[fair talon]

neither, especially sentinel again

[steep flicker]

how did you handle lvl 80 where you complete all the lvl 90 monoliths easily but then in my instance struggle in emowered ones and can only get to 80-110 in arena and levelling slows down to a crawl

[brittle atlas]

I don't struggle in empowered

90 to empowered has been a smooth transition on all of the characters I've played so far this patch

[steep flicker]

at level 80 you just swept 100 monos?

[terse roost]

on lich i barely felt a differnce from 90 to 100 mono

[steep flicker]

i did the 90's with no deaths but in 100 I started dying

[brittle atlas]

I've just hit 100 monos on my hc solo druid that is currently level 82

[steep flicker]

and all you do is leech and endurance?

[terse roost]

my rogue started getting clapped at 100 monos tho

[brittle atlas]

this druid can't leech, but is endurance capped and has capped ele res

[steep flicker]

yeah i got capped res

and added crit avoid or extra hp

feels like must be endurance

why would a beast master not be king then?

[brittle atlas]

what do you mean

[steep flicker]

beast master gets good leech and endurance as a base

lots of dmg mitigation

[brittle atlas]

you can take the best damage mitigation parts from BM as any primalist

ursine strength, boar heart, porcine constitution

primalist itself has berserker

druid has hideskin

[weary moon]

Anyone know why there hasn't been any updates in almost 2 months?

[brittle atlas]

they typically do major updates every 3-ish months?>

[weary moon]

Ah ok

[steep flicker]

next patch looks like a big one

[weary moon]

Oh good!

Hopefully Multiplayer!

[brittle atlas]

yeah, next update is supposedly later this month

definitely not multiplayer in it

[weary moon]

😦

[fair talon]

I think I will either do frozen orb or something with spellblade, not sure what yet

[steep flicker]

i don't trust spell blade yet, feels good for boss fights but horrible in arena

im below average in this game though but was hoping to get my spellblade onto the ladder as the first one

doesn't seem possible though currently

[fair talon]

which ability is that shock whatever

[steep flicker]

if you wanna shock sorc is probably better

i mean definitely better

[brittle atlas]

spellblade is probably one of the two weakest masteries for arena currently

just lacks the defenses/control for high arena

[steep flicker]

oh damn there is a spell blade on sc ladder

[fair talon]

https://i.imgur.com/08tHO8s.png this thing

[steep flicker]

elsawithapenis stole my dream

[brittle atlas]

that is a brand new sentence

[fair talon]

man I really can't figure out what i wanna play

[steep flicker]

that's the glory of a game with multiple choices

grass is always greener on the other side

[brittle atlas]

https://streamable.com/f70ptg

this is what my druid is like in 100 monos atm

not super fast, but safe feeling

[fair talon]

I don't like druids or totems

shaman maaaaaaybe

[steep flicker]

looks good for hc but yeah too passive for me, beastmaster is about the most minion or totem oriented I'd go

[fair talon]

maybe spellblade if I can figure out what that spell is

[brittle atlas]

I really enjoyed serpent strike BM this patch

[fair talon]

does noone know what that spell is

[steep flicker]

looks like divine ire lol

[brittle atlas]

https://streamable.com/1js8gz

[fair talon]

oh it's probably lightning blast

[steep flicker]

to be honest my best guess is retaliation from a lightening based flame ward

[fair talon]

though looking at lightning blast it looks completely different

[brittle atlas]

that looks like focal blast lightning blast

[steep flicker]

i suppose there are idols that let you proc lightening blas then hit

[brittle atlas]

where it becomes a cone blast

could be lightning disintegrate too

[steep flicker]

those are sorc builds not spell blade though right?

[brittle atlas]

oh

that's uh

lightning firebrand

then

on spellblade

[steep flicker]

ah, i use mana strike to refill

[brittle atlas]

https://streamable.com/y0l8f7

this thing?

[fair talon]

yeah looks like it

[steep flicker]

yeah that would be what he showed

thats not really a main skill though

[fair talon]

lame, no spellblade then

[steep flicker]

its like a while my mana recharges skill

[brittle atlas]

depending on the rest of the build, people use it to generate blade weaving stacks

and get a guaranteed crit

on something like flame reave

[fair talon]

back to thinking what I'm gonna play then

[steep flicker]

most builds use something like that, just you won't be stomping the whole game using only that skill is all

as Arborus said it's to set up another skill

[fair talon]

do shamans use totems

[steep flicker]

my spellblade used mana strike to keep my ward up and generate mana so i can keep shatter strike going

no thats a specific build

[brittle atlas]

shamans can be totems or self-cast spells

[steep flicker]

but most builds do drop a totem, for example one give you crit and stuff

[brittle atlas]

sometimes spell minion stuff

[steep flicker]

not always the thown totems you jsut saw

[fair talon]

no shaman then either

[steep flicker]

maybe go void knight

[fair talon]

no

[steep flicker]

seems like that will suit you

[fair talon]

I'm not playing sentinel again

[steep flicker]

so no sentinel no rogue no shaman no spell blade

what about nova sorc there is a unique helmet that lets you cast nova at cursor

[fair talon]

nah if I play sorc then it would be frozen orb

[steep flicker]

then do that?

I've been thinking of doing the same but deciding if i would convert to cold when i feel like freeze chance is not very good

might be better to keep it volcanic

[brittle atlas]

the main reason to go cold would be if you wanted to take the endurance blessing in spirits of fire

you could get cold res shred from hereot instead

[steep flicker]

chill chance seems good but does not appear as effective in this game as it does on paper

[brittle atlas]

whereas if you're fire you'd probably want fire res shred

chill chance doesn't even require you to do cold damage

[fair talon]

frozen orb seems kinda slow

[brittle atlas]

if you're a hit build you can just slap it onto your weapon for the free slow

it's pretty good

[steep flicker]

yeah only good because thats is a dead slot on weapons

no other options lol

[brittle atlas]

I mean...yeah? weapon suffixes are generally for utility stuff or ailments

so slow + chill

or bleed/poison/shock depending on your build

[steep flicker]

do you have a lot of + cold dmg gear already?

because if you go left in volcanic orb tree can increase its speed and projectiles

what made you stop wanting to play sentinel?

[fair talon]

build got boring, didn't feel like I could take it much further

and kinda not a fan of the removal of ephemeral stance

[brittle atlas]

that seems odd to me

ephemeral stance was like...something you used while leveling, but that was otherwise not very good

it's like...70% increased damage, right?

not even a single item slots worth

[fair talon]

I used it because I don't have a 5th skill so

might as well use something

[steep flicker]

#ring of shields

[brittle atlas]

I find it hard to believe there's not a useful 5th skill for your build

[fair talon]

no mana

[brittle atlas]

what were you playing with?

[fair talon]

hammer throw

[brittle atlas]

on what mastery

[fair talon]

fg

[brittle atlas]

hammer throw, smite, lunge, volatile reversal, ring of shield or sigils of hope

[cloud kindle]

I saw your build, how can you have no mana? You have a bit more than 150 and your hammers have a zero mana cost

[steep flicker]

everyone knows anomoly is the best one

[fair talon]

hammers cost 0 mana because they actually cost 40 mana

[brittle atlas]

if you're a VK and can spec anomaly it is a banger for sure

you can make hammers cost 40 mana?

[fair talon]

so they cost 0 mana because of mana starved forging that makes it cost 0 mana if you have no mana

shield breaker

https://i.imgur.com/UwbEi6l.png

anyway

I might try dot marksman

with puncture

[steep flicker]

for marksman would it be best to invest in bleed and poison

i use flurry multi but only using poison

was thinking of deviating away from full poison to add more phys and potentially bleed

[fair talon]

no idea, I'm just looking at skills and thinking what can I do and puncture sounds fun to me

[brittle atlas]

if you're looking at dots, poison is definitely the strongest at the moment

and poisons make each other stronger

so it's generally beneficial to go all-in on it

[fair talon]

why

[brittle atlas]

each poison reduces poison resistance by 5%(2% for bosses)

[steep flicker]

thanks, was wondering if double dipping would round out the damage better feels a bit slow currently

[fair talon]

I can do poison puncture then, same thing

but ugh, poison puncture makes it cost mana

[steep flicker]

i use flurry to regain mana 😄 and as a boss/elite killer

took the titan killer node

[fair talon]

well flurry isnt really a dot skill

[brittle atlas]

flurry is decent dot applicator

hits really fast

[steep flicker]

but chance to poison and increased poison dmg is

[brittle atlas]

it also has some generic more multiplier nodes that can apply to the dots you put on things with it

[fair talon]

I wanna have puncture as the main skill though

[steep flicker]

mostly multishot just use flurry to regain mana or to fight high hp stuff

well go full bleed then

damn you ahrd to please

[cloud kindle]

Unsure it's really suitable as a main damage dealer

[fair talon]

there is nothing about puncture that would even hint at being a support skill

[steep flicker]

if it costs 0 mana then its kind of a support skill imo

[brittle atlas]

puncture is used as the main damage source for rogue speedruns

[fair talon]

if it's 0 mana then it's a spammable skill

[brittle atlas]

it definitely has use as a main damage source

but it is also a good support skill

for bleed builds

something like this maybe, for main damage bleed puncture?

[steep flicker]

i find multishot pretty spammable with a few flurries to top up mana via rpgue talent

[fair talon]

though poison wouldnt be bad either with acid flask

[brittle atlas]

acid flask is a super strong support skill for poison

since you can proc it with shift

[steep flicker]

if you love draining mana you can change flurry to channeled 😄

[brittle atlas]

channeled flurry is fun

[fair talon]

though I think poison might be better

since there is overall more poison stuff on trees

would it work better with rogue or marksman

[steep flicker]

you said you didn't like the look of rogue so didn't you answer your own question?

/bladedancer

[fair talon]

I didn't like the look of what the classes site was showing, because honestly that looked lame

[steep flicker]

im going to bed, good luck choosing bro

[fair talon]

if your main damage is poison, do you need to care about physical shred

[brittle atlas]

no

[fair talon]

whack

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/rBrkK5op I tried, how does this look like, only did the skills

[brittle atlas]

You definitely want to fit in shift somehow imo

[fair talon]

oh true shift is a skill

hmm

[brittle atlas]

you probably want the hydrochloric acid nodes in acid flask

[fair talon]

but, isnt it the enemies who gonna stand in the poison

[brittle atlas]

you can stand in it too?

if you use something like shift you'll drop two flasks iirc

[fair talon]

hmm

well, flurry is only there for mana gain so I could remove that?

[brittle atlas]

maybe?

it'd be something to try at least

maybe unspec decoy and just keep it the unspec'd version on your bar for for the taunt

[fair talon]

I don't think I use that much mana

[brittle atlas]

that could be an option too

[fair talon]

but decoy has nice poison too

[brittle atlas]

I don't think it has that much poison synergy with what you're doing tbh

it won't benefit from any poison chance you have

since its poison is just a per second thing around it

which should be pretty minimal in value

you'd be getting not even 2 poison stacks per second from it

whereas puncture is probably applying 5-6 or more per hit

[fair talon]

fair point

https://i.imgur.com/XuSwHL0.png

how is this

though maybe only 1 point in jade

[brittle atlas]

I thought about jade stuff a bit, but I'm not sure how good it actually is, since it only effects one attack, I believe

[fair talon]

yeah but what else would you take

[brittle atlas]

I was looking at the shuriken nodes tbh

[fair talon]

sleight of hand?

[brittle atlas]

probably not without a shuriken spec tho

[fair talon]

yeah

I was gonna say that I have nothing shuriken

[brittle atlas]

you could get unseen strike

for cull

[fair talon]

that's melee

[brittle atlas]

15% kill threshold

oh, it requires a melee weapon equipped

unlucky

[fair talon]

more points in jade quiver affects more attacks so I could have it up to 4 attacks

3 max because no more points

or I could get 1 point in it and dump the rest into venom tipped arrows

[brittle atlas]

yeah

I think that or the dodge rating per dex

seem like the only real options

[fair talon]

I will go with venom tipped arrows

since I'm running full dots then I don't need to care about crit chance right

or physical damage

[brittle atlas]

yeah

flat weapon damage and crit chance won't do anything for dots

increased physical damage would scale bleeds

[fair talon]

so what scales poison

[terse roost]

dot damage poison damage and poison chance (if you are on hit)

[fair talon]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/DQ9kpDog alright I did the trees now too, I tried balancing damage and not dying

[terse roost]

wait how does sanguine obsession and scalebane being taken together work

[fair talon]

oh, I didn't realize I took both of those

I honestly didn't wanna take those together I just didn't realize

just pretend I didn't take it

I do think that there is stuff I could improve because there is some skills where I would like to have more points

maybe I can get rid of the frailty from acid flask

[brittle atlas]

you can probably get frailty on relic suffix

or something instead

[fair talon]

yeah

I will remove that, travel speed and instead max out hydrochloric acid

what do you think about the passives

[brittle atlas]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/MA1k3eBw

would be my take

[fair talon]

just the passives?

there was this one thing but idk where it was

oh right apostacy

hmm

yeah I think this might be better though I might change a few stuff

[sleek salmon]

is there a list available somewhere to see which affixes are applicable per item slot? i know shards show this but I dont own them all

[opaque vigil]

You can see all the affixes here: https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/category/shards/items

And also there if you click on item categories it lists the possible prefixes and suffixes, which correspond to the shards.

[sleek salmon]

thank you, exactly what I needed

[weak arrow]

dumb question but what determines the order of the character list? it seems kind of random, definitely not following like alphabetical order or order of creation

[brittle atlas]

it's order of creation, but I believe if you delete character then ones will take their spots first

[opaque vigil]

I thought it's what you most recently played.

[weak arrow]

top one is definitely most recent

[brittle atlas]

so if you have say...

sentinel
rogue
mage

and delete the rogue

[craggy bronze]

how much ward retention is good to nearly halt decay? im looking at 435% retention and a regen of 65 before skill and passive ward gain.

[weak arrow]

and that may explain it lol i delete tons of characters

[brittle atlas]

the next character you make will be in between sentinel and mage

[opaque vigil]

Oh yeah that'd... make it confusing.

But given how the save files look that makes sense. 😄

[brittle atlas]

you can't halt decay entirely- it always decays as a % of your current ward. You might get enough generation to offset that decay to a point, but yeah

435% I think is... a bit over 10% of current ward lost per second?

[craggy bronze]

hmm thanks, ill have to test more with generation 435% might be a bit overkill lol

just seeing if i could drop some

[brittle atlas]

generally, if you're a ward build, more retention is always good

[craggy bronze]

yeah doing a lich necrotic dot build ward is at least from that standpoint the easiest def to stack.

[brittle atlas]

you'll probably be hard pressed to get much over 500 or so

my all-in ward necro has like 645

[craggy bronze]

jebus but then again prolly has ward on most all gear

[brittle atlas]

with 102 int

and ward retention on every idol

[craggy bronze]

well thats something to aspire to, lol thanks again 😄

[coral cedar]

does increased physical dmg % apply to bleed dmg?

ah nvm it does

i cant find what the max # of bleeds on an enemy is though

[brittle atlas]

bleed has no stack cap

[coral cedar]

awesome, thanks

[fair talon]

If you use taste of blood and have poison conversion, does that work

[viscid dagger]

hey people! Are you all playing in border less window, as there is no full screen available? Or is it just me?

[fair talon]

fullscreen works for me

though lemme check

yeah, turns out full screen isn't actually works

can tell it's not actually full screen cuz you can see the game window on your taskbar

[viscid dagger]

yea

thats the thing

and it seems that this 'windowed' version is using way to much resources for what is happening on the screen

[steep flicker]

Anyone tried a hybrid build on spellblade using volcanus and just sending off a volcanic orb every now and then?

[hushed hazel]

what is this yellow bar above my current health? i see it every time i take a hit, but i never unederstand what it does?

[steep flicker]

Endurance, if you mouse over the health globe it tell you

[hushed hazel]

but i have endurance threshold of 134, and as you can see im at 238 live, so endurance should not be active yet

[steep flicker]

might be an issue with lich form?

[hushed hazel]

i also have it when outside of lich form, but im stil ldeathless, thats why i didnt risk taking a screenshot while taking a lot of dmg outside of reap form 😄

here it is outside of reap form, while at almost full health

it's there for a fraction of a second after taking dmg

[steep flicker]

is there a cap to damage reduction? For example 40% from endurance 40% from armor 10% from talents along with glancing blow and certain unique's for different item types like prismatic can we become immune to elemental dmage at low life?

[hushed hazel]

gradually being lowered until it catches up to my cuirrent life

[steep flicker]

no idea, all i know is the yellow is endurance according to tooltip

[hushed hazel]

i wonder if its like a oneshot protection, as in, you have time to react until you die or something

[rigid briar]

This just shows you that you took damage and where your health was before

[hushed hazel]

ok :/ seemed to scream "im a mechanic" but yeah, you're probably right

[steep flicker]

does make sense

[fair talon]

If the node says "converts all sources of bleed chance to poison", does that mean weapon bleed chance too?

And every other skill tree

[frosty mirage]

Is this for Hail of Arrows?

[fair talon]

puncture

[frosty mirage]

I believe it’s for all sources within the skill tree if I’m not mistaken

[brave herald]

Reduction should generally cap out at 75% as far as I know. So you will never be completely damage immune.

[steep flicker]

Thanks, there isn't enough info going into niche subjects when searching online lots of overlap with huge diminishing returns

for example chance to freeze is basically pointless, part of the reason I made a spell blade was because I thought ward generation and freeze procs would make me fairly tanky but then learned there is no point adding extra freeze chance

[trim heath]

Resistances cap at 75% but DR doesn't actually have a hard cap. It has practical caps from just not being able to get it in enough sources.

[steep flicker]

feels like I've found a way to at least get over 95% at least when endurance kicks in

[trim heath]

Yup

[steep flicker]

then if glancing blow is included 97.5%-99%

obviously dmg output becomes an issue when trying to accomplish this but is good to know there is no hard cap

[steep flicker]

you still trying to puncture bro?

[fair talon]

I went with it yesterday

what are you on about

[steep flicker]

yesterday was only moments ago, i was trying to help you with your dillema why mad?

[fair talon]

not mad

[steep flicker]

what're you on about made it seem like that, sorry

what level you get to just so i can judge myself because i started using my marksman again too

poison, flurry, multi

[fair talon]

I'm like level 25 so not very far

Though flurry doesn't really feel good to use but it is what it is

[steep flicker]

what do you plan or alternate attack other than puncture?

puncture/multi?

@fair talon just interested because I dropped lich as my alt and started working on marksman which was already level 70 and specced for poison so would like to compare notes

got it 95% to all resists, 100% crit avoidance 70% glancing blow 20% dodge 31% dr from armor plan to boost endurance and dodge and glancing blow as i level up n get more blessings

damage feels slow currently

[dusty escarp]

are map layouts for the main story/chapter random at all?

[snow spruce]

No

[dusty escarp]

Even chests and shrines always in same location?

[snow spruce]

That, I'm unsure about. I know that certain chests are in the same location, as far as shrines I've never really payed attention to that

[dusty escarp]

okay thanks

[steep flicker]

is there a weird scaling effect in arena? If i use a golden key i get a lot further than if i use a regular key

[snow spruce]

The golden key starts you at wave 80

[steep flicker]

yeah using golden key lvl 100 waves feel like level 60-70 waves if i use a regular key

toa dd more context

if i use a regular key getitng to wave 100 feels like a struggle often die at around lvl 90, using a golden key only start feeling issues after wave 115

[snow spruce]

Maybe a bug? !bug

!bug

[ripe brook]

To make sure a bug gets fixed, please post about it here: https://forum.lastepoch.com/c/bug-reports.

[snow spruce]

You can search the forums to see if that's been reported or not.

[fair talon]

Was away sorry, I alternate puncture and flurry

While flurry feels eh to use it's still the best mana option

[steep flicker]

using the passive in rogue for mana gain while using 0 cost skill?

[fair talon]

Yes

[steep flicker]

thats why I'm hesitant to use the channelled version i need that mana to multi shot more

decoy and poison flask etc

[fair talon]

Well my poison flask has a cooldown so I won't spam it and I get free flasks from shift

[steep flicker]

do the decoy dummy flasks use the flasks that are upgraded from skills?

[fair talon]

I don't use decoy, also you don't have to reply all of my messages please

[steep flicker]

or just basic flasks with no skill talents?

ok i wont sorry

[fair talon]

and I get flasks whenever I use shift

[steep flicker]

cool will look into it thanks still working on my spellblade 50% of the time

[fair talon]

would send you the build but letools just went down

[steep flicker]

ah nah it is fine i use my own builds, even if they fail i'll find a way to adapt them just keen to compare notes once you get your build up and running

when you hit level 70+ will be good to see how it feels, mine feels tanky but low on damage

[fair talon]

will tell you when I get there

[cedar mulch]

hi everyone, you guys know if the war path node "draining assault" really gives global more damage? like to other skills as well, or what does that mean?

[opaque vigil]

global means all but doesn't include minions iirc

[cedar mulch]

thanks

[fair talon]

would you guys think the unique acidflesh would be good even if I'm not using hail of arrows?

[brittle atlas]

not particularly

[fair talon]

it's got a ton of poison damage though

[brittle atlas]

It has about the same increased poison damage that a rare bow can get

but no explicit poison chance or attack speed

[fair talon]

you can get 80-130% poison damage?

also it does have poison chance on implicit

[brittle atlas]

yes, but a rare bow can have poison chance explicit too

[fair talon]

fair enough

[brittle atlas]

and attack speed and chill or slow as well

T5 poison damage on bows is up to 96%, and T6 is up to 152%

[fair talon]

damn

also found out that the acid flasks on shift are acid flask casts so they use mana

a lot of mana

[brittle atlas]

how much mana does acid flask cost?

[fair talon]

15 and I drop 2 flasks so 30 extra mana

so shift costs about 40ish

[brittle atlas]

if you have toxic salvo you can probably drop that, which should put it down to 10

which I'm not sure will entirely solve the mana issue, but a 33% reduction should help some

[fair talon]

well it's not that big of an issue because I can get back my mana pretty fast, also only level 36 or something

so getting the mana nodes at the end of marksman should make it better

how do you even cap res on this build cuz nothing has res, I guess just armor?

[brittle atlas]

Yeah, armor implicits and blessings

[fair talon]

so for affixes I would probably want res, maybe dex, there is an increased acid flask area stat too

maybe extra dodge

[brittle atlas]

You want to avoid res as explicit affixes as much as possible

and get it from implicits and blessings

[fair talon]

there is very few armor pieces with res implicits

[brittle atlas]

solarum grieves, bone amulet, and ivory quiver

[fair talon]

if I only took armors with res implicits I would lose out on a ton of potential damage and I still wouldn't be capped

[brittle atlas]

alongside the all res blessings and void res blessings

res implicits allow you to put life on your gear

though a nagasa quiver is pretty hard to give up and 40% total res isn't super hard to make up

but solarum grieves and bone amulet are obvious picks

[fair talon]

I think I would die a lot if I had to go without res until I got the res blessings

[brittle atlas]

you don't have to go entirely without res, obviously

but I wouldn't go out of my way to cap every res

[fair talon]

can't I just toss all res on one of the pieces and done, issue mostly solved

[brittle atlas]

depends where you're at in the game

like early on you want void res

then necrotic

then cold

then lightning

then necrotic again for the first monolith timeline

then void for the second

physical is good pretty much all the time

[fair talon]

but even if I put elemental resistances on multiple armors, I still have space for life

[brittle atlas]

the big thing is trying to get hybrid life on boots, gloves, belt, % life on helm and chest

but ideally you want to try to keep res limited to items that only have 1 life roll available

like rings, neck, relic

and get double or even triple life on other pieces if you can

via vitality prefixes

[fair talon]

but how would you get triple life

you can't have both flat and % health

[brittle atlas]

you can

vitality + flat + % or hybrid

[fair talon]

letools doesn't allow you to put both flat and %

[brittle atlas]

it should?

ye, letools lets me put both on no problem

[fair talon]

weird

okay well

I have never seen that hybrid life

why would I even need that much health though

[brittle atlas]

it's a rarer affix, but you really only need 1 tier of it to start

to live?

[fair talon]

I guess I can still use scalebane helmet

res relic too or I can go venom phial

[brittle atlas]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/PQDvNwo0

there's the in-progress planner I'm looking at

for gear

figuring out how you could slot suffixes mostly

[fair talon]

well helmet and quiver could both have all elemental resistances on and that would mostly cap it

[brittle atlas]

all res would be wasted stats since I think it's capped with only one fire res roll right?

[fair talon]

fire is at 30% and other two is at 45

[brittle atlas]

are you looking at minimum rolls?

[fair talon]

a tier 5 roll would cap cold and lightning and leave fire at 60

prepare for the best, expect the worst

if it works with the worst possible outcome then it will work with any

[brittle atlas]

you're just never going to equip an item with the worst implicit roll

[fair talon]

you won't but

[brittle atlas]

or you'd refine/shape rune it

building around the worst will waste stats and affixes

especially when you don't need the exact res cap

it's fine to be a few % under

due to how res works in LE

[fair talon]

do you want life on amulet

[brittle atlas]

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

that's the setup I came up with for suffixes

and a few prefixes too

but those are obviously less important since they're just damage and more flexible

[fair talon]

eeeh I would still prefer to have those elemental resistances a bit higher

[brittle atlas]

put on a gold ring then

in place of a coral

but ideally they're only going to be a few % under

like low 70s

[fair talon]

could always build poe style and go full damage with 0 defenses

dead enemies can't deal damage

[brittle atlas]

There aren't many builds in LE that can do that

and there's also not many ways to give up defense for offense

since offensive/defensive modifiers are pretty well split between prefix/suffix

[fair talon]

true

[opaque vigil]

If an ability says based on missing mana, does not include the white "negative" mana

[tranquil kindle]

As a general rule, yes, so if you have 100 max mana and you're at -10 you have 110% missing mana. It's possible that there are one or two spots where it doesn't work like this, but should. If you have a specific case in mind I can have a look.

[fair talon]

which one would be better in you guys opinions

https://i.imgur.com/L0278oF.png

or

https://i.imgur.com/QK5E3h8.png

also does this mean that total you get 2 seconds of this buff or each second you get a stack that lasts 2 second and you get this until the smoke cloud runs out

[keen coral]

Can anyone help me understand gearing a character and lootfilters? I am using a guide from boardman and his loot filter. I havent switched an item out since like level 20 though and I am 65. Getting so many items to drop, dont understand the colors, or whats even an upgrade because they all seem not useful or things I dont want. So what is the loot filter even doing? and how do I go about gearing the char the way I want?

[brittle atlas]

I can't speak for the lootfilter bit, as it's often the case that you'll want to adjust a filter as you go and personalize it based on what you currently still need/are looking for, but as far as gearing:

I set up filters that look for the stats I want on bases I'm with using (or need to use, depending on the slot). So like for boots...I'm looking for anything that drops on the Solarum base with health, hybrid health, vit, movement speed, or whatever my other preferred attribute is (dex, attunement, strength, etc). Then I set it so I can see boots with those affixes where the affix total for those affixes is above t8 (or higher/stricter as my improves).

when something with that combination drops, possibly including some other stats I don't want, I try to remove the stats I don't want and improve the tiers of the stats I do want

for the most part, I'm not focusing too much on this until around level 75, which is when you have access to most of the endgame base types

while leveling I'm just trying to get physical res and whatever res I need for the area of the game I'm in sorted

and then as much life as possible

with damage wherever I need it most (like on a weapon)

From there, it's just a matter of playing enough to find more bases to attempt crafting on

and slowly improving your gear as you find better bases and have more successful crafts

and adjusting your filter as you go to filter out things that won't be upgrades or potential upgrades anymore

[keen coral]

do you know of a video guide that can explain this with examples etc

still so confusing to me lol

[brittle atlas]

I can't say that I know of any off the top of my head

[opaque vigil]

Does attachment of a Spark Charge on Mana Strike count as "casting a spell"? 🤔

[random dock]

I would try and learn as you go honestly

you will learn what affixes are valuable the more you play and in turn that will make building a loot filter ez

for the loot filter its best to get it down on your own rather than just downloading a premade one imo

its really easy to learn and you dont have to have coding knowledge haha 😅

[acoustic thicket]

0.8.3 launch date?

[terse roost]

[opaque vigil]

When playing mage, is it viable to run entirely on Ward, or is it recommended to have high HP as well?

[junior narwhal]

can anyone recommend a similar game to play while I wait for updates on LE?

not poe or grim dawn

[fair talon]

do you guys know how this works if puncture has bleed to poison converted, does this convert too? since it specifically says puncture

and not just chance to bleed

[sacred geyser]

so it'll be added to puncture as bleed chance then converted to poison, is that what you mean?

[fair talon]

yes, that's what I'm asking

[sacred geyser]

yes thats how it works

[fair talon]

nice

[hushed hazel]

does this mean my drop table stays the same, but there are more body armors dropping, or does this mean that its more body armors but at the cost of the other loot?

[opaque vigil]

What is Frostbite and how do I get it? (Mage)

[brave ibex]

Is the 40% less damage from Wings of Argentus worth giving up 450~ health and crit avoid from my chest?

[random dock]

it stays the same but you will see more body armors (really good blessing cause of the class specific affixes/armor of course)

[brittle atlas]

Depends on the rest of your gear, I’d say check the EHP calc on tunklabs. In most cases Wings should be better, though.

[hushed pelican]

guys, will there be any changes to Primalist in 0.8.3 ? Cause i have one that i've abandoned months ago at level 30 or so, and i want to continue with it instead of waiting for a patch to drop, unless it adds some changes to the class

i know Sentinel will be changed, but i want to make sure about Primalist

[frosty mirage]

Only the model is being updated, no major class changes as far as I know outside of perhaps some skill balancing. What is your mastery?

[hushed pelican]

beastmaster

yeah the skills is what i'm asking about, the visuals have nothing to do with gameplay, so i don't want to level my primalist and build it and then get slapped with skills changes

cause that would be a waste of time, that's why i'm asking

[rigid briar]

No major changes to Primalist are planned for next patch.

[hushed pelican]

great, imma level my caveman immediately then

[frosty mirage]

BM is fun on a bun, the only thing/skill I think that might be touched on in next patch is Earthquake but not sure if that's 100% happening or not, I just know it's been mentioned

[cloud kindle]

I don't think it will be touched. I'd rather bet on a change on the interaction with Buldar's Wrath, therefore on a change on the item

[frosty mirage]

Makes a lot more sense, I knew there was a funky interaction with one of the uniques and charge on werebear, right? Not sure how EQ factored into it, probably a proc?

[cloud kindle]

The unique procs the skill after each non channeled movement skill. Thay may add a cooldown for it

[rigid briar]

We are indeed making that interaction less abusable

[terse roost]

not sure if you know/can say, but is that coming next patch? started leveling that build, but dont want to bother if it wont be worth playing soon.

[fair talon]

is tempest strike a main skill

[cloud kindle]

If I remember well, yes it's coming next patch

[terse roost]

[junior stirrup]

How much impact deep strikes has?

Is it worth maxing?

Yeah i think it is

[lone flume]

Does World Eater passive of VK work for void DoT damage (non-hit)?

[hazy dew]

Has anyone noticed how tooltips are pretty unreliable? I understand that the tooltips is prior to enemies defense and resist and such but I have had many cases where I am over or under the tooltip dps by thousands and sometimes my clear speed is way higher with lower tooltips dps or the inverse. It’s one of my only complaints with the game

[junior stirrup]

I can't look at my real critical strike chance

But it definitely feels like 70% or more

[terse roost]

thats your global

if you have something that only targets one skill, it wont show

[junior stirrup]

Yeah i understand that it's my global

[junior stirrup]

And dev's already sad that tooltip will be improved

[fair talon]

so I assume tempest strike can be used as a main skill, right?

cuz it certainly seems like it

[junior stirrup]

So

Will it work?

[fair talon]

are you using a bow

[junior stirrup]

No

[fair talon]

then I would expect that it doesn't because then it's not a bow attack

[junior stirrup]

But it scales from it

[fair talon]

"a bow or melee attack..."

it's either this or that

it's not both melee and bow, it's either melee or bow

[dusty escarp]

Is it possible to delete your pre-order pet?

[sage kestrel]

Does less elemental damage taken and elemental resistance work together? so if you receive 100 elemental damage and have 75% resistance and 30% less elemental damage taken, do you then only take 16% of the elemental damage ?

[brittle atlas]

assuming no enemy penetration, yes

but if you have 75% res in a level 75 or higher zone you just take 30% less elemental damage

as enemies have 75% resistance penetration

@sage kestrel , since your question was a while ago

[silent grotto]

I was wondering why I was all of a sudden getting shredded leveling my Primalist...

And here I thought it was nice about resistances compared to PoE lol

[brittle atlas]

It's very forgiving compared to PoE

since you only need 75% resist to be capped

there's no -res penalties or anything

and due to the way resistance works, it's far less impactful to be under the cap

for example, being at 0% resist in PoE means you take 4x damage, while in LE you only take 1.75x damage

or even less, if you're in zones under level 75

[silent grotto]

Wait but if enemies at 75+ have 75% pen that means if you "capped" at 75 you take 100% damage, no mitigation

I don't get how that part's more forgiving? I must be misunderstanding

But also wow 4x vs. 1.75x I guess it never really felt like that in PoE, then again I was smart enough to get ele res before mud flats

Doesn't seem like gear in LE gives 'less' resists either, although there are more types of damage so it kinda makes sense?

[pseudo cipher]

It means the total mitigation is lower, so not being capped isn't as big. If you had no resists, you would be taking 175% of the damage at level 75. With capped resists, it's 100%, which comes out to something like 42.5% mitigation instead of 75%.

[silent grotto]

So it's not like having 150% matters

You just literally take more damage at higher levels

[pseudo cipher]

150% doesn't matter, since you're capped at 75%. The game is balanced around the pen, it's part of enemy scaling.

[silent grotto]

Gotcha

Ty for clearing that up lol for a second I thought I needed to scramble to get hella resists on my gear

[hoary ether]

Hello!
Say I have minions doing phy dmg. Is it better to scale minion dmg or minion phy dmg in this case?

is minion dmg = minion phy dmg for physical minions?

[snow spruce]

Yes

But, its generic, so it works with any damage they do

[opaque vigil]

I often see people (especially doing arena) with 0% poison resistance... is there something I'm missing there? Poison hurts, so what gives?

[cloud kindle]

That's because poison has one only form: poison pools on the ground. As they are avoidable, there is no need to invest on poison resistance

[opaque vigil]

Hmm. Is green goop thrown by the thingos that hit the ground a lot not poison? Seemed like not a pool. But good to know, thanks. 🙂

[brave ibex]

Does boosting a skill's damage via attribute (e.g. Warpath with Strength) also affect ailments applied by that skill?

[cloud kindle]

Some poison is spit in the air or on your face, but falls on the ground and become poison pools 😉

[fair talon]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/0oNyJ5B3 what do you guys think I can improve on this

[rigid briar]

It does indeed

[brave ibex]

Awesome, thanks

[steep flicker]

why when i have 405% increased poison damage does bleed and ignite have higher damage per stack?

no multipliers increasing their base

[opaque vigil]

Well poison does have lower base damage by default, but it lowers resistances

do you have dot increasers that are raising the ignite damage

[steep flicker]

yeah but as a secondy does dot not increase poison?

would say in terms of multipliers would be 80% poison 20% dot

[opaque vigil]

It does, but since ignite has a higher base, depending on math, it may benefit more

that's just my best guess as to what may be happening 😄

Poison is 20. So 300% of that is 60. Ignite is 35. 300% of that is 105

[steep flicker]

thanks, game is frustrating the hell out of me any help is very helpful

[opaque vigil]

I think. In before someone slaps me for my math. I'm bad at math

also says here poison has 60% less effect against bosses and players... 🤔

[steep flicker]

i wouldn't feel so bad if i didn't have 400% increase to poison and maybe 100% increase to dots and it showing bleed and ignite doing far more dmage per stack

bleed would be slightly more understandable if i had higher base physical damage but neglected phys dmg to gett poison chance and poison dmg/dot

so my bow hits for pretty much nothing more just a way to apply poison

[opaque vigil]

Yeah I'm not sure. Last I build a poison build it worked pretty well but I used a few mechanics that increased damage off of number of stacks

you may want to talk to a poison lich builder to get into the pros and cons of poison 🤔

i think poison is also meant to scale off of its resistance reduction

Meaning, you may want a lot of stacks of it, rather than lots of damage increases

[steep flicker]

Yeah have spoken to one the showed me clips of melting 600+ corruption bosses

i do apply stacks am using multishot and flurry

most anything i fight will have max stacks of poison after a second or 2

[opaque vigil]

Wait, poison has max stacks? Is tunklab lying to me?

[steep flicker]

i thought it was 20

[opaque vigil]

Well, either way, that should be more than enough.

[steep flicker]

afaik bleed is the one with no cap

[opaque vigil]

Yeah I dunno, I was under the impression all hte basic ones (bleed, ignite, poison, chill) could stack infinitely, but maybe there's an internal effective cap anyway

oh, chill stacks to 3 according to tunklab 🤔

[steep flicker]

yeah only thing that I've heard has no cap is attack speed and bleed stacks

oh and DR because aparrently too hard to get enough sources to make immune

so that is a soft cap

[rigid briar]

Poison doesn't have a max stack amount

Shred ailments can stack up to 20 times

[steep flicker]

Not what I've heard from other people from 11th hour

[rigid briar]

I highly doubt that

[opaque vigil]

🤭

[rigid briar]

Could they have been referring to the poison shred ailment?

[steep flicker]

possibly, but the context was not regarding shred at the time

[rigid briar]

Poison has never had a max stack count. Same as ignite and bleed.

[opaque vigil]

Would be good to list things like that in the game guide to avoid confusion 😇

[steep flicker]

im sure the context resulted in me learning that bleed did not have a capped stack but the others did

[rigid briar]

In the character sheet it should tell you if the ailment has a max stack count. Like chill and slow, say they can stack up to 3 times.

[steep flicker]

since applications of poison reduce enemy resistance and then there are things that increase poison duration, what is the feasible amount of applications you can get before the first cap wears off?

[rigid briar]

But poison, bleed and ignite don't mention max stack counts.

[steep flicker]

how can i differentiate from the poison damage done to target dummy being either reduced resistance from apllications or max damage increased from a new stack being added?

ive switched between 100% chance to poison to 100% chance and it seems neglibable

eg sorry 2005+

2005+

[steep flicker]

if 4 seconds is the magic number, and i have an item to increase it by 20% how many times does it proc per second?

if using flurry i can hit an enemy 15x a second ish and i lose 1 stack every 4 seconds diminishing returns only arrive after when?

should be seeing 10k+ poison ticks easily even at my current level

i assume poison lasts 4 seconds as that is how long everything alsts in the game

i think the only way my poison based marksman is even getting this far @lvl 77 is because i have 100% crit avoidance, 79% glancing blow chance 20% dodge chance well over capped resistances a bunch of life leech the ability to avoid aoe and dab potions when required, my effort into increasing poison damage seems like a waste of time

we should all just build paladin or or druids and stack thorns

-_-

after i blast a boss down with flurry and the biggest number i see is from flurry when i have not invested in physical dmg something is wront

wrong

@rigid briar >>>> ....

[rigid briar]

Please don't ping devs #rules especially on the weekend. I'm not fully here right now.

[steep flicker]

with no cap to poison aside from a stack wearing off after 4 seconds, and my gear is build around added poison damage and damage over time my physical damage is out performing on single target

[brave ibex]

Your character is built poorly then

[steep flicker]

aside from the resist i mentioned earlier im at 405% increased poison dmg 320% increased damage over time please explain where i build wrong?

[brave ibex]

How much poison chance?

[steep flicker]

100% but have had it over 220% no noticable difference between the 2

i swapped down to 100% chance to improve on other stats

[opaque vigil]

You sound kinda frustrated with the building maybe you should take a break. 😇

[wary shoal]

You need more poison stacks on the enemies

So go for more chance duration and hits

[steep flicker]

marksman with high application

i clan flurry single targets and spam multi shot to apply to packs

[brave ibex]

My Flurry Bladedancer had 700% poison chance and was melting bosses, poison is about getting as many stacks as possible because poison itself shreds poison res. You're crying at a dev when your build is just bad, you can't expect to do high poison dmg applying 1 stack at a time

[steep flicker]

each hit is 100% chance to poison adding an extra stack doesnt feel like it will make much difference when i can shoot again to apply the stack

flurry applies 3 stacks in .1 second

[wary shoal]

You said its not enough

We telling you whyy

[opaque vigil]

Basically comes down to whether you can apply a lot of stacks within 3 seconds.

Flurry is not that fast from what I recall.

[wary shoal]

Try it out or just be quiet

[steep flicker]

ive had higher application chance

[wary shoal]

if you cant see a difference between 100% and 200% theres sth wrong with either you reading the numbers or its not 100% to 200% chance

[steep flicker]

yup, I was over 200% chance to poison and decided to swap it down to fill out resistance and have not noticed a huge difference in the amount of dot dmg i was doing

[wary shoal]

mmathmetically its half your poison damage

which would indicate alarger portion of your damage comes from different things

[steep flicker]

tomorrow i will build back to higher application then

[wary shoal]

like we said, poison needs alot of stacks which means you gotta go all in or not bother at all

[pliant aurora]

Hello! Just bought the game yesterday and having a blast, but I have couple of questions regarding my build.

I'm playing a lich using Volatile Zombie with the Bone Pact passive.

1. Does the bone pact proc of Marrow Shards retain all my passives from having Marrow Shards specialized?

2)If it does, can I have Marrow Shards specialized but actually not kept on my bars and it would still benefit from the passives?

Thanks!

[wary shoal]

1. look at the wording, if it sais "you cast" it should be yours, if it sais "zombies cast" it should not take your tree since its their spell

2. assuming its your tree that would work yes

[pliant aurora]

Yeah, well that's what I wound confusing, ok then the idea I had is terrible. Thanks

[steep flicker]

I have not seen a build that benefits from having a skill talented but not on hot bar

could be some really niche examples but they would be out shined from having a talented skill on the bar

anywho, you know brain is messed up if you perform better in poe than this game :/

[opaque vigil]

I will keep asking this question. Do spark charges count for Dragon Mage? 😄

[wary shoal]

theres are some good rouge builds that use it

[rigid briar]

What's the exact wording on Dragon Mage?

[opaque vigil]

"Whenever you have casted a spell"

I don't know if spark charges or other reactive spells count as "you" casting them, and wording is confusing sometimes

Like, Distant Spark passive says "you have a chance to cast", which sounds like it should count. I am just not sure and since Dragon Mage doesn't show up as any kind of buff idk how to test 😄

Hmm. Put 100% spark charge on mana strike and slashing air (lol) seems to increase my cold dmg by 20%... (my dragon mage atm)... seems to work. 🤔

[rigid briar]

I'm not sure. I would think dragon mage only worked from directly using a skill.

[opaque vigil]

Yeah I'm not sure how the game manages skills that are cast by... no one

It has to grab the damage from someone, so it would seem the someone here has to be you

Presumably, dragon mage does the same thing

[rigid briar]

It's still you applying it, the location is just at the enemy.

But I'm not sure it counts as casting a spell.

[opaque vigil]

Yeah but "applying" is potentially not a thing in the engine

maybe it shouldn't count as a spell but yeah 😄

[rigid briar]

It's fine to count as a spell so it can benefit from spell damage. But I'm not sure if the wording of dragon mage is correct.

[opaque vigil]

Ahh, yeah, that may be the other angle

I'm also amused it works even though the spark charge has nothing to attach to...

.......actually, I wonder if it's checking for Spell tags

.....it isn't

I feel cheated. I OVERTHOUGHT THIS SO MUCH fix tooltips plz

[wary shoal]

noob

who thinks

[opaque vigil]

Rofl.

Yes.

[wary shoal]

in this day ans age

boomer

[opaque vigil]

Ok now that

is offensive

I'm a millenian tyvm

[wary shoal]

of course you are

pats the delusional boomer

[pliant aurora]

Hey, one more question - how would Lyches Drain life (leech 30% of the damage) work with Hollow Lich passive?

[reef jewel]

do you lose skillpoints if you respec?

[opaque vigil]

you lose skill points down to the minimum skill level if you despecialize a skill

nothing else loses the skillpoints I believe

[reef jewel]

so if i had 20, then i have like 15 or something?

[opaque vigil]

Don't know if min level goes as high as 15

[reef jewel]

im not sure i've conveyed what i'm trying to ask

there's spent skllpoints, and unspent skill points, which would add up to your total skillpoints

will i lose total skillpoints if i respec?

[opaque vigil]

Are you talking about passive skillpoints?

[reef jewel]

yes

[opaque vigil]

passive skillpoints are respecced by talking to an NPC and they just give you your points back one by one for gold

[reef jewel]

ok

does it cost more each time like in grim dawn?

[opaque vigil]

The opposite, the further in you are the more it costs to respec a point

[reef jewel]

thats what i said

[opaque vigil]

so it's relative to how many points you have invested

You said cost more each time

lol

[reef jewel]

if it costs more, even if its in the way you said, thats not opposite

thats just different

[opaque vigil]

I don't think you understood what I said but carry on

[reef jewel]

you're saying the further i am in the story, or character progression, the more it costs per point to respec right?

[opaque vigil]

No

[reef jewel]

its not based on how many times i've respecced?

[opaque vigil]

If you have 60 points invested

respeccing one costs more

than if you have 5 points invested

and it decreases

every time

just go to an NPC and try it lol

it's not expensive enough to think about

[reef jewel]

the further in you are the more it costs to respec a point

[opaque vigil]

Further in in your trees, yes

with your points investment

[reef jewel]

so thats more expensive

[opaque vigil]

Mate

[reef jewel]

yes?

do you see the source of my confusion?

[brittle atlas]

Each point you currently have invested makes it more expensive. But, outside of extremely early on, it is never more than a trivial amount of gold. There has never been a situation where I have wanted to respec and not had the gold to so. Even for things like respeccing some points when I get my mastery.

The cost is really not something to even think about given how low it is and how little it scales vs how your gold income scales

[junior stirrup]

When you hit monolits two Islands of gold is enough to solve any money problem

Honestly it's hard to understand how trade balance will work with that crazy amounts of gold

[terse roost]

have a feeling its gonna be like diablo AH. millions of gold for anything half decent

[junior stirrup]

That would work for auction system. But the case here - auction system won't exist in LE

[terse roost]

i just mean how much things will cost

but not being able to easily look up how much other people are selling for, prices will probably be all over the place

[fair talon]

since tempest strike is both melee and spell and there is 2 nodes that give you a chance to cast lightning on spell and cast lightning on melee

do those two stack

[snow spruce]

Which two nodes are you referring to?

If you're referring to Lagon's Answer and Thunderstrike, then not in this particular case. I believe that because the spells on Tempest Strike are Triggered and not Cast, Tempest Strike can only proc Thunderstrike.

[fair talon]

lame

[reef jewel]

should i be selling trash loot or is there a way to break them down for materials?

[brittle atlas]

You can find or buy runes of shattering

That will shatter an item and give you some affix shards based on what the item had, though it won’t always get you everything that was on an item

Selling loot is typically not worth it, most items don’t vendor for very much

[patent cloak]

how to farm end game gear? i have been just running mono and try to pick up something that i can craft on it. But i have been using the same gears for a while now o.o

[reef jewel]

is there a way to expand the mini map?

[brittle atlas]

What level are you? For the most part, yeah, you just run mono and find incremental upgrades via good bases to craft on. If you're still pretty early on into monos, you'll be getting new, endgame bases to drop through the 60s and 70s

beyond that, you'll be looking for exalted affixes on good bases you can craft on

[patent cloak]

i am lvl 82. I see thank you. Should i be gambling with my money? because i have close to 1m and idk what to do with it

[brittle atlas]

Yeah, gambling and stash tabs are the only real things to do with it currently

gambling is a decent way to get non-exalted bases to craft on if you're looking to upgrade one of your slots

[patent cloak]

ah make sense

for certain affixes like

https://i.imgur.com/QaPkAia.png

Is it just super rare? or do they drop from certain areas/bosses

[brittle atlas]

just rare

[pastel haven]

is minion health regen not showing right? I put on a +10 minion health regen and reads zero

[amber rain]

Is there a currently known bug where all the options in the menu only say "option A-C" instead of say the resolutions, fps etc.?

[wary shoal]

first time i heard sth like it but doesnt mean anything, have you checked the forums?

[stone gust]

Is the in-game game guide also available on the web somewhere?

[fair talon]

do you guys know any whacky build ideas? I was thinking smelters wrath for one

[wary shoal]

Bee rouge?

[fair talon]

what is bee rogue, I thought bees didn't scale yet

[fair talon]

after looking through everything multiple times, there isn't anything whacky I came up with

[clever steppe]

Hey, what would be the fastest build to farm monoliths?

[sleek salmon]

is the area "the ruins of etendell" of use for anything?

[cloud kindle]

Not yet, that would be next patch

[cloud kindle]

Maybe try either Nova Boy (Sorcerer with Elemental Nova and Lightning Blast) or Necromancer with skeletons, skeletal mages, volatile zombies and golem

[cloud kindle]

No. Either it did in the past, or it's a placeholder for a quest to come

[sleek salmon]

have a feeling it may have been connected to the one in the divine era before or smt

[brittle atlas]

poison lich, shadow daggers bladedancer, smite/devouring orb vk, EQ werebear, ele nova sorc

[dense ravine]

anyone who has played a good amount of hours that can spare a bit of his time with me in dms?

im thinking about buying the game

but i would like to talk to someone who has a lot of play time first

[fair talon]

why do I have such a hard time deciding what to play

[hushed hazel]

how do i calculate ward retention with the formula given in game?

because the stat is shown in percentag?

Does this mean, when i have 64% i do "0.4 x Ward / 0.5 x 0.64"?

[wary shoal]

Use 64 instead

Of 0.64 I think

[tight olive]

Is it possible to wipe my account clean of everything and start fresh?

My stashes specifically

[fair talon]

just sell the stuff from it

or just turn on solo mode

[tight olive]

I wana delete everything, materials and all

I wana start fresh

[brave ibex]

Does Endurance help vs one-shots?

[opaque vigil]

delete the save files

[brittle atlas]

you can delete saves or play a solo character

[tight olive]

I deleted my save files, but my stuff are still in there
Stashes, gold, materials

I prefer to not do a solo character, I simply want to start a new fresh account

[opaque vigil]

you missed something, then, because the stash is part of a save file

I've done this recently. You sure steam cloud or something isn't bringing it back?

[tight olive]

It probably is now that you mention it

I'll test this again

[opaque vigil]

if you have steam cloud, the trick is to load the game, delete the files (while the game is loaded), and then close it. I think that sends to cloud that the files should be deleted

i had to fiddle with it a bit 😄

[tight olive]

That did work! Thank you. I can be at peace now

[raven patrol]

Hi guys im looking at buying this game how is beastmaster and what skills does he get?

I was a little disappointed there is no like warrior berserker option which is sadge

[opaque vigil]

He can summon a couple beasts (you can choose from a range of things: wolves, sabercats, scorpion, etc.), and is expected to fight along side them.

[raven patrol]

he is ranged?

[opaque vigil]

Not really, no

[raven patrol]

do the beasts do all the damage?

[opaque vigil]

I mean.... maybe there's a throwign beastmaster idk 🤷

i imagine you can build it different ways but it's more that you and the beasts supplement each other

"minions do all the work" is more acolyte

[raven patrol]

i come from poe how is end-game?

[opaque vigil]

I only played PoE long ago, but current main endgame is similar to maps

there's also a horde mode (arena)

[raven patrol]

thanks for the info, i guess ill jump in and give it a go

[frosty mirage]

End game is relatively light, mainly you Monoliths of Fate and the Arena, with more planned end-game content being worked on with two being mentioned by name (Gates of Memorium and Epoch’s Call) though no timeline on when those would be released or if there’s even any more public information on them

But monoliths of fate do have a variety mechanic with the various buffs that creatures receive that require some fun planning

[brittle atlas]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/ will let you look at the classes and their skills

beastmaster can be build as minions, melee, hybrid minion/melee. Typically if you're melee on him you'll be looking to get tons of attack speed via Aspect of the Shark

he also has a solid dot build via serpent strike

all the minions except sabertooth are pretty decent

[hushed hazel]

but why does it give the stat in % then? :/

[opaque vigil]

Whenever I see ward retention %

I always wanna ask

"% of what tho"

[hushed hazel]

that's what i was asking about :/

the tooltip gives the way to calculate it, but i have no idea why the stat is shown in %

[opaque vigil]

math goes here

the stat

lol

[hushed hazel]

but yeah it's probably "0.4 x current / (1 + 0.5 x 0.94)" in this case

[opaque vigil]

yeah that's what I'd expect

[hushed hazel]

if i have 500 ward ward atm it would be "0.4 x 500 / (1 + 0.47)"

200 / 1.47 = 136.05 ward lost per second

i feel like thats what it is more or less

i dont agree with showing it in % because it's not intuitive this way, you'd think its related to something this way.

[opaque vigil]

I imagine they went with % because it's a fraction

otherwise you'd have +.12 ward retention 😄

[snow spruce]

It is though, its related to your currentWard, just like "less/more" damage is related to the damage done.

[hushed hazel]

it isn't percantage-relative related to it tho

[opaque vigil]

how is it related to your current ward

thta equation doesn't indicate that

[hushed hazel]

the point i'm trying to get at is, what does a noob think when he sees the stat?

[opaque vigil]

yeah no disagreement there

[hushed hazel]

when i see "94% ward retention" as a noob, i assume i can retain 94% of my ward, right?

[opaque vigil]

odd stat to reason about, besides "there's some complex relationship between ward, ward retention, and ward addition"

another odd thing is how ward is displayed relative to your health pool

there are some notches adn stuff and.... idk what's going on with them lol

[tight olive]

I'm trying to tell the game to only highlight tier 1 & 2 of the chosen affixes, could someone explain how to do that

[snow spruce]

Perhaps a better way to say it / reason about it is the following :

Ward Decays at a rate of 40% of your current ward per second

Ward Retention is a rate that determines how much of your current ward is "ignored" when determining your current decay rate

For instance

If you have 100 ward and 0% ward retention you lose 40 ward per second

If you have 100 ward and 1% ward retention you lose ~39.8 ward per second because ward retention applies at 1/2 its strength, otherwise it would be ~39.6 ward per second which is also 1% of of your current ward.

I do agree that it could be better explained / cleaned up -- either remove the .5 from the equation and cut all sources of ward retention in half or something, idk.

[tight olive]

I figured it out in case someone looks at this

[terse roost]

is there a "fastest" way to level up? just doing mono's or would arena be faster?

[hazy dew]

Arena is only useful to climb the ladder to flex

Monos all the way for loot and exp

[tight olive]

Does Critical Strike Chance prefix apply to spells?

[brittle atlas]

yes

"increased critical strike chance" applies to everything as a multiplier to its base crit

more specific critical strike chances only apply to those things, like spell critical strike chance for spells, melee critical strike chance for melee, etc.

[frosty mirage]

It is most likely expected, but just to confirm, Storm Crows activated ability will always be lightning based, despite Frigid Wings, correct?

[severe birch]

Is there a website which lists all the blessing per region (unlike lastepochtools which shows every blessing at ONCE)

[snow spruce]

I mean, lastepochtools does this? If you hover over the blessing slot it shows you the region that its assigned to

[severe birch]

@snow spruce Oh, thank you, i didnt think about the planner! I just looked it up on .../db/category/blessings/items

[snow spruce]

Oh, yeah okay that makes sense, I hardly use the database, but its useful sometimes

[brittle atlas]

https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/timelines has them too

[severe birch]

@brittle atlas thanks! Even better :)

[sleek salmon]

anyone playing poison lich with spirit plague knows if "increased plague effect" is something worth taking?

[fair talon]

can you do a static orb build without fractured crown

[fair talon]

nevermind, I'm doing a meteor build

[simple ice]

this question has probably been asked and answered already somewhere but does this game have oceanic servers?

[cloud kindle]

Currently it is purely offline so no server. At launch, we don't have a list of servers' locations

[simple ice]

@cloud kindle cheers mate 🙂

[cloud kindle]

My pleasure. There is one online component though: the chat. Nothing more. 😉

[dusty escarp]

Can anyone give me some build ideas that are heavily inspired by d2? For example, I have already tried hammerdin, whirlwind(warpath) and frozen orb.

[sleek salmon]

@dusty escarp theres a marksman build that is resolved around spamming multshit with insane attackspeed, its supposed to mirror a build from d2 if thats ur cup of tea

[dusty escarp]

ahh multishot okay cool i'll try that one out, thanks

[junior stirrup]

So how much +# to damage matters?

#% increased damage is better or i'm wrong?

[sleek salmon]

depends on build, but flat damage is what % increased scales on

flat is usually better

but depends per case ofc

[junior stirrup]

So basically if i have pure phys whith two blades 90% increased phys damage than flat from tree must be huge boost?

And on the opposite if two blades have +# flat phys than %increased from tree is what i need

[sleek salmon]

correct, keep in mind that weapons have base flat damage too

respeccing is super cheap so if u arent sure which is better, easy to test around

[junior stirrup]

With build through armor shred and crictical strikes with strange tooltip i can't really tell what i need now the most

Flat, increased, crit chance or crit multi

[sleek salmon]

what build are you going for

[junior stirrup]

Rogue Bladedancer flurry

Critical strikes, armor shred, adrenaline - main damage sources

I'm using sword and dagger

[sleek salmon]

what strange tooltip do you mean?

[junior stirrup]

I heard that critical strikes not correctly showed on tooltip