❔┃ask-the-community

[acoustic thicket]

i could record a video too if you don't believe me, but those 2 instances of dmg are from the same shot

[balmy current]

But the additional Punctures are fired by your Shadows, not you & we know that skills from Shadows can hit the same target.

Probably not

[acoustic thicket]

alright, thanks

now the question is whether the aoe node actually increases the aoe when used with a bow or if its melee only

cause it has no visual indicator

also

weirdly enough it does not say shadows on the tooltip

it uses "mirages" instead

[sleek cypress]

if your build hits a lot, am i correct in assuming most times penetration is not worth it? as you could invest in shred to easily out-do that effect.

example, i am a lightning build. if i get a TIER 7 lightning pen affix on my amulet, that can easily be replicated by just 3 hits for shred on an enemy... (or 8 hits on a boss)

moreover, the effect nearly becomes negligible if you can manage 20 stacks in 3-4 seconds on a boss (2% x 20 = 40%.. dwarfs 15%). and thats with the exalted mod, the t5 is just 9% pen...

any thoughts on this?

i guess it can be marginally better than inc dmg if you already have 700% in cdmg

at that point i feel investing in utility prefix on ammy would be better..

[frosty mirage]

Unlike shred though, pen can actually make an enemy take more damage of that damage type. So if the enemy has 0% resistance, shred doesn’t do anything, but 10% penetration will make the enemy take 110% more damage.

In general terms, shred is typically better, but penetration does help.

[sleek cypress]

oh, shred can't go below 0. didnt know that

yeah that matters then

[balmy current]

Depends whether the incremental benefit of the 9% pen is more than the incremental benefit of an additional 70% increased damage (compared to the total of all your relevant % increased damage).

[sleek cypress]

ye

exactly

[balmy current]

Shred & pen are the same type of effect, shred will make a mob go below zero resist (since the vast majority of mobs don't have resist).

[sleek cypress]

oh...

[balmy current]

Also, 10% pen wouldn't make the target take 110% more damage.... They would take 10% more, or 110% of the incoming damage.

[sleek cypress]

XD

i mean that would be great if it was 110 more tho right

[frosty mirage]

Apologies, in my example I was equating 0% resistance to 100% damage taken of that damage type not taking into consideration any other defenses (I.e. armor)

[sleek cypress]

all g i know what u meant :)

[frosty mirage]

So if shred can go into negative values, why have penetration, outside of having a mechanic that can technically take a resistance into negative after shred since pen is after resistance

[sleek cypress]

ig it can still be meaningful.

example, if you manage to get 10% pen, on 40% shred, then that brings from 40% more dmg to 50% more dmg... which is a 25% more dmg modifier...

sorry thats dumb

its a 7% more dmg modifier

its something... 🤷‍♂️

[frosty mirage]

I’m also 100% still waking up this morning, so I’ve probably looked over or can’t recall situations where it is extremely useful

Edit: Looks like pen from skill trees can affect ailments applied by said skill unless specified as on hit, I also suppose pen is nice in that it’s not an ailment mechanic like shred is

[sleek cypress]

how many hits per second do you guys think you can get with flurry / multishot shotgunning a dummy

wish i could calc that kind of thing -_-

[balmy current]

Variety. Why have 7 different damage types? Why have so many different types of defenses (resist, health, ward, dodge, block, glancing blow, endurance, % reduced damage taken, etc)?

[versed shale]

Hello there. Have a question about blade dancer: I'm building poison shuriken build with acid flask, shift, decoy and probably smoke bomb (did not unlock last 2 specialization yet so have time to choose). And I face some serious mana issues. That is the part of character building, no complaints there. But I just cannot figure out what options I have to deal with it. Obviously I can craft mana and mana regen, and there is one node in shurikens that low their cost by 3 for 3 points but I also want to get another node that will raise cost by the same 3 mana so that would not help me at all. Is there any skill I can look into? Or maybe I overlook something in smoke bomb tree that will give me some mana?

[fluid cedar]

first thing i would try is going trough all skill trees and search for "mana". same with your class passive skill trees. all off them.
and then maybe open a loot filter rule and look trough "rogue class affixes".

not really answering your question, i know. but maybe you find something.

[versed shale]

Yes, and I think I just did. The main mana drain is shurikens skill. It actually does not have that big mana cost, I just spam it. And I just find that ballista affix should actually solve my problem - It lowers throw skills cost by flat amount, on t2 it will lower for 3 mana I think and that should be just enough for my mana regen to keep me positive even in long fights.

[tulip ruin]

does the +flat physical bow damage add/convert to lightning with detonate arrow?

both implicit and the the ones from prefix

[balmy current]

Yes, that's what the skill says.

[tulip ruin]

no it doesnt

it only says bow damage

so wasn't sure if PHYS was excluded

if it's all bow damage then even fire damage gets converted?

so i can put flat fire damage and it will convert? thats pretty op

[balmy current]

It does, "all added bow damage is converted to lightning".

Added damage is flat damage

[tulip ruin]

thats amazing thank you

[balmy current]

If it's only converting a specific element to a different one then it will say so.

Like "all added fire damage is converted to lightning"

[fluid cedar]

yo llama. you know if the "quality" of affixes on idols is related on item quality drop?
like, if it's more likely to 12% or 17%.
looking at dozens and hundreds of idols just to see everything be shit. and sadly it appears not possible to add this into loot filter rules.

[balmy current]

If an idol is more likely to drop a better roll on an affix from a high item quality monolith? Not a clue, could go either way.

https://tenor.com/view/dicaprio-maybe-gif-20413224

But I doubt that higher IQ monos would be more likely to drop "useable" idols (ie, idols with "matching" affixes.

[fluid cedar]

affixes type probably random i would say. just the quality of the roll is what makes me wonder. or they are generally more likely to be "bad".

[tight olive]

Is there a way to change the color between runes and shards from the loot filter?

[fluid cedar]

i wish it would

[sleek cypress]

anyone know if i can take the converted crit multi on bleed effectiveness with salt the wound

[balmy current]

No

Stuff can only be converted once

[sleek cypress]

heh

[balmy current]

Plus I don't think there's anything that converts bleed effectiveness

off the top of my head

[sleek cypress]

yea makes sense

was thinking about using this with it

but ur just gonna have frostbite with bleed effectiveness unconverted

[vital pumice]

hi all, ¿exist a way to turn off shadows and ambien oclussion?

[hollow coral]

How long does it take more or less for a support ticket to be responded to?

[tight kernel]

how do i measure 10 metre in game?

how many metre are we talking about when we say "nearby"?

[knotty hinge]

The circle around the training dummy is close.

[bronze ocean]

"nearby" depends on a skill/condition, it varies from 4 meters to 10-12

[unkempt patio]

I just got to the monolith for the first time, what's the best way to approach using the monolith? Clear condition as fast as possible and move up? Or is it clear out the maps then move on?

[unkempt patio]

Good to know. Thanks!

One more question, is there any reason to farm the endless arena other than for leaderboard pushing? I can't tell if the rewards can even be good enough for me to care before pretty high level.

[merry aspen]

arena is also supposed to be good for fast levelling but you need a build thats good for it. aside from that its pretty much only leaderboards, yeah.

[minor vigil]

hey do yall prefer smite void knight or like void cleave/erasing strike? ive tried both and i think smite scales better

but erasing strike seems more satisfying, just not sure about its viability

[fierce kraken]

i think hammer throw smite scales the best, but id say play what you have more fun with.

if going for the most optimal build is the most then smite hammer throw.

[minor vigil]

ah ok, honestly my preference for power is just "good enough" so if erasing strike is good then ill do that

[toxic bay]

Hey guys, I have a couple of weird questions. I got into Last Epoch recently, created my first character and I'm currently following boardman's Void Knight Warpath guide, approaching level 70. The build is really fun, works great, but I'm trying to get my head around gearing in this game.

I already learned some stuff about crafting, got the hang of the whole stability and fracture thing. Dunno how to go about upgrading my items tho. Coming from PoE I'm terrified that I cant even cap my resistances ;d
How do you generally gear a brand new character? How do I know if the items I dropped are good enough to spend my materials on? And what should be my priorities?
The loot filter helps a ton to filter out the best items for my build but I still doesn't get why it shows certain items. Half of the stuff I pick up seems unusable, just combinations of a good affix with couple of bad ones.

Sorry for the long post and a lack of clear questions but I'm looking for a guidance in terms of gearing ;d I understand the endgame, skills and passives, but I don't really see a progress path for my items.

[tight kernel]

oh my gosh... who can save me from merged stash tabs? T.T

[balmy current]

https://tenor.com/view/writing-notepad-pencil-cute-gif-19002315

Specifically this post: https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/stash-category-duplicate-need-to-manually-modify-a-file/40684

[tight kernel]

Gave up, couldn’t fix it after editing the file

[frosty mirage]

https://youtu.be/g3YP37Uzm-8

I really like this guide the LizardIRL has, you really want to try to derive your defenses from base implicits, passive points, and blessings as much as possible and then fill in the gaps with your gear

[visual oracle]

hi, does someone know if the game will be translated in french for the full release ?
(and when it will be fully released ? there is written 2021 on internet, if anyone has further information)

[frosty mirage]

I believe they are interested in localizing games in various languages , but it will probably be after launch when they are finished with the campaign.

There are also certain keywords for mechanics they want to make sure can be translated properly as intended. Such as added, increased, and more with damage. Each have a specific meaning in the game and a particular order when it comes to calculating damage. So if you get those incorrect on translations, it can lead to a lot of confusion

[visual oracle]

thx 🙂

[toxic bay]

Interesting, appreciate the link, I'll check it out tonight!

[cloud kindle]

Le jeu sera traduit dans les langues des pays où il y a le plus de joueurs. Le Français est parmi les plus probables, je pense 😉

[visual oracle]

ça marche merci 🙂 @cloud kindle

[balmy current]

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/interest-in-creating-non-english-speaking-communities-to-help-out-with-localization-and-translation/19106/2

[minor vigil]

does darkstride only drop in spirits of fire?

[timber agate]

it can drop everywhere, but empowered Spirits of fire often had echo node with unique or set boots as reward

[minor vigil]

Ah thanks!

Hopefully they're common

[acoustic thicket]

can you equip anything on your second hand slot while two-handing a sword? like bow users can use a quiver in that slot even though the bow is two-handed

was just wondering cause the slot doesn't seem grayed out

[minor vigil]

not common enough apparently :(

[balmy current]

Common doesn't mean it drops so frequently you'll have more pairs than Imelda Marcos.

[balmy current]

No

[acoustic thicket]

ty

shouldn't this icon mean that the ability is capable of dealing void damage?

the bottom one

i don't see any nodes that have anything to do with void in the smite tree

i see some lightning nodes

[trim heath]

class passive tree has a node

[acoustic thicket]

aaaah

thanks

i was looking all over the smite tree for it lol

[trim heath]

sometimes it can be an item too

[acoustic thicket]

oh ok

[minor vigil]

whats the biggest thing to get on gear if i'm dying in early monoliths (level 75)

assuming just flat health

or would that woven flesh thing be good for the crit immunity

[cloud kindle]

hybrid health?

[minor vigil]

oh that does seem good lol

[minor vigil]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/9QnjmVQ0 can someone help me determine why im zdps on level 75 lagon

[lone flume]

get Hybrid Helth - https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/suffixes/AAwZgbEA gloves, belt, boots. Get %Armour on Helmet. One affix of 'chance to apply frailty on hit ' helps a lot . usually on amulet, relic .

800 armour is way low

you have too many resists overcapped? That is not needed. 75 is enough in most cases. Focus on other stats of defence

[minor vigil]

thanks!

[fluid cedar]

Would "on hit" effects be applied by void rift?

[brittle atlas]

Yes, anything that hits

[jovial leaf]

Hello, could you please clarify how exactly mob's penetration works?
Does penetration ignore overcupped resistances and is applied against basic resistances (up to 75%) or the penetration takes into account overcupped resistances values? For example I have 125% fire resistance in total. If the mob has 75% penetration will it be applied against 75% of fire resistance or against 125%, i.e. the fire damage dealt by the mob will be against 50% of fire resistance?

[dark fox]

You can only protect against 75% of mob damage at all times. At level 75, capped res results in taking nominal damage, and at level 100 you take +25% damage. Overcap is useful against shred (and shock or poison).

[iron thistle]

Also Death Mark.

But that's not a very common condition.

I think lightning, necro, phys, and maybe poison/void are the only resists to consider overcapping. There are more sources of poison damage now, but it often comes in the form of a dot if it's going to be giving the poison stats. The rest are either shock or common sources of Death Mark/shred.

[balmy current]

No, the area-level penetration that mobs get is capped at 75%. In a lvl 100 zone you'd take the same damage as you would in a lvl 75 zone.

[balmy current]

Your uncapped resist is modified by any shred stacks/Mark for Death you have on you, then it's capped at 75% then the mobs area-level penetration is applied (which is also capped at 75%).

So if you have 100% resist, 2 stacks of resist shred (-8% resist) in a lvl 100 zone, you'd still be capped (100% - 8% = 92%, capped to 75%)

[minor vigil]

do void spell builds like this staff? or is giving up the block from the shield too much of a cost

oh it looks like mine is very poorly rolled

that's unfortunate

[jovial leaf]

Very thanks. I thought so, and it was described in the game, but I needed to get confirmation from the outside in order to finally calm down.

It turns out that there is no special benefit from the overcap of resists. If the character for the endgame is correctly builded, of course.

If u build correctly, -25% resist no strong affect damage to you.

[pastel garnet]

I'd overcap lightning by up to 40

Act9 energy elementals apply instant 20 shock stacks to you

This is - 40 lightning res

[jovial leaf]

Yes, but luckily they are not common.

And you forget how shock works on players. Less 60% effectiveness on players.

Oh, its my fault. You right. But it's not common mobs.

[dusky robin]

Hi is 0.8.4 out yet?

I saw a video for it recently

[minor vigil]

No

[acoustic thicket]

does this item work to reduce warpath's mana cost? it's channeled so i'm not quite sure

i can't test because my warpath already costs 0 without it and i don't wanna respec

but if it did work to reduce it then i'd wanna respec

[brittle atlas]

I think it does? but it's generally not something you'd want to use other early game until you get access to the Argent Crest base at level 58

[acoustic thicket]

oh

i'm not level 58 yet so idk what argent crest is lol

i assume it does the job better?

[brittle atlas]

it's 30-45 cold res and 30-45 lightning res

[acoustic thicket]

and it also comes with the mana cost reduction/

?

[brittle atlas]

no

[acoustic thicket]

oh

well i'm not particularly struggling with cold/lightning res so i don't see a need to swap to that

[brittle atlas]

it just saves you two suffix slots on resists, making it the most affix efficient base to use

[acoustic thicket]

but i'm using warpath as my main skill, so having it cost 0 is very important to me

reducing its cost by -3 saves 2 points on the warpath tree

which is also pretty nice i think

that is, if it works

[brittle atlas]

I'm pretty sure it does, but using a non-resist implicit relic means you need to cover ~80% resists on gear, so you're losing like...200-300 hp and stressing your suffixes more when it comes to capping endurance, crit avoidance, etc.

[acoustic thicket]

what is the endurance cap?

[brittle atlas]

60%

[acoustic thicket]

is it very important to cap that?

i never really got past level 50 so idk what lategame really looks like

[brittle atlas]

it is the most powerful defensive layer

relative to the investment it takes

[acoustic thicket]

i see

i was more focused on just capping all my resistances then raising my armor as much as possible

didn't really think about endurance or crit avoidance

[brittle atlas]

you can cap endurance with gloves (15% implicit on Engraved base) and empowered blessing (25% or better roll) or you can use suffixes for it most efficiently on rings, though it's available on a lot of slots

if you're a paladin, you can get endurance % in the passives too

and that would save you suffix or needing the gloves if you have a 26% or better empowered blessing roll

[acoustic thicket]

is there any way to get my endurance threshold up? and is there a cap to it?

do people generally worry about getting the endurance threshold up or only the actual endurance stat

[iron thistle]

It's not a major concern during the early part of the game where you're still doing the story, though. Maybe once you start getting to the Heorot stuff around 48 you'll need to care about defenses a little.

[acoustic thicket]

i'm level 56 right now. first character i got this far

[brittle atlas]

there's endurance threshold suffixes and a blessing, there's no cap. Generally, people ignore threshold entirely, as you naturally get 20% of your max hp as threshold

so stacking more hp ends up being more efficient than using suffixes for threshold affixes

outside of very specific builds

[acoustic thicket]

i see

[iron thistle]

I think Primalist has a build where flat threshold is usable?

[acoustic thicket]

this is what my resistances look like rn. i guess i need to change my gear a lot

elemental resist is overkill cause i'm using the node that reduces my elemental resist by 30% when i'm spinning

[iron thistle]

You probably want to pick up some poison res for Majasa.

[acoustic thicket]

definitely

everything around this area is just vomiting poison on me lol

so i was looking to max that out

[iron thistle]

Are you DW or using a shield?

[acoustic thicket]

DW

well not DW

using a two-handed sword, is that considered bad?

[iron thistle]

I was gonna say, there's a really convenient shield base for poison res if you just need something to cover.

[acoustic thicket]

i have a ton of useless affix slots rn so i just need to find some gear that i can put poison resist in

but i'm also quite frustrated at the crafting system

multiple times i find a good base roll

[brittle atlas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gWE6xW8Xlw

I would suggest this video for when you get going into monoliths and endgame. It does a really good job I think of explaining the philosophy behind what I would call "suffix placement", that is, where it's best to have certain suffixes on your gear and the general concepts of trying to get your resists and defenses covered as efficiently as possible.

[acoustic thicket]

and then it cracks at 95% lol

[iron thistle]

Sweet, I like what I've seen of his vids. Efficiency is a good thing.

[brittle atlas]

following the concepts in the video will let you cover your bases defensively while still fitting as much HP as possible

[acoustic thicket]

i'll watch that later when i'm doing monoliths

[iron thistle]

Oh, doesn't Sentinel have a passive or idol that converts poison damage into phys or something?

[brittle atlas]

a small amount I think?

[acoustic thicket]

yeah ive seen some of those

but it feels awkward to use

feels like it'd be easier to just max out poison res instead

[brittle atlas]

it's on body armor and helmets

[iron thistle]

Helmet and chest prefix.

[brittle atlas]

but yeah, getting some poison res is definitely better than giving up a prefix for it imo

[iron thistle]

Yeah, especially since those slots have +skills most of the time.

[acoustic thicket]

so in general people value getting defensive affixes more than offensive ones?

like where do i make room to try to get offensive stuff

[brittle atlas]

generally prefixes are offensive, suffixes are defensive

[iron thistle]

Vitality being a notable prefix exception.

[brittle atlas]

^

[acoustic thicket]

i see

strength is kind of a defensive prefix too right? since strength increases your armor

[brittle atlas]

yeah, attributes are all prefixes and are a bit hybrid in use

[acoustic thicket]

also what is "hybrid health", i haven't seen that in the game yet but a while ago i saw someone say its good to get

[iron thistle]

It gives flat and percent.

[brittle atlas]

it's a suffix that gives a bit of flat health and a bit of increased health

[iron thistle]

Only available on a few item slots.

[acoustic thicket]

i see

does sound pretty good

[brittle atlas]

generally, increased health is the most important suffix to get on every available slot for it, then hybrid health

[acoustic thicket]

also

[brittle atlas]

and you're building around trying to get all of those suffixes and getting resists/other suffixes on slots that can't roll those

[acoustic thicket]

since i'm doing a build where warpath is my main ability and it costs 0

i'm effectively always channeling, at least when i'm in combat anyways

so i can use the "all resistances while channeling" shard

that's pretty good right

[iron thistle]

Could be useful.

[brittle atlas]

that one is pretty good yeah

[acoustic thicket]

should make it much easier to get resists

[brittle atlas]

which mastery are you again?

[acoustic thicket]

void knight

i thought the spinny clones were cool so i went with it

it's a bit of an awkward situation though

i have the spin ability, which i'm using 100% of the time

and then i can get it to cast abyssal echoes while i'm spinning, which is nice

but then i have 3 other skill specialization slots that i don't know what to do with

cause i won't use the other 3 abilities lol

i picked smite just so i can blink to enemies, but thats about all im using it for

and i have 2 empty specialization slots and i have no idea what to do with them since i just spin all the time

[brittle atlas]

anomaly and volatile reversal are both super strong for buffs

[acoustic thicket]

i can't understand what anomaly does and the more i try to read it the more it confuses me

[brittle atlas]

devouring orb is super good for applying tons of resistance/armor shred stacks around you

[acoustic thicket]

what the hell does sending enemies to the future mean

[brittle atlas]

normally, you use it and it just deletes enemies in that area for four seconds

then they come back

[acoustic thicket]

how do i make use of that

[brittle atlas]

but the way it's generally spec'd out is to make it put a time bubble around you instead and give you a bunch of attack speed, crit, leech

you can use the unspecialized version to cancel some boss abilities

[acoustic thicket]

aah. i see the time bubble now

does sound pretty nice

[near osprey]

heyo will our progress in early access be carried into release?

[brittle atlas]

Yes, but current progress is all on offline characters. You will still be able to play those offline characters going forward, but if you want to play online multiplayer you'll need to make online characters which will be separate.

offline and online can't mix, basically

[near osprey]

awesome ;>

[acoustic thicket]

think i'm gonna spec for the time bubble then just to buff myself up

[near osprey]

im debating to get it now or wait for sale ;>

[brittle atlas]

the bubble, especially the leech nodes are super strong

[acoustic thicket]

and the devouring orb can be used to shred armor you said?

[brittle atlas]

yeah, with the abyssal orbs nodes and the node to make it orbit you

you end up with a ton of these balls around you that hit enemies and puke out more balls

and each of those balls does a hit that can apply armor and resistance shred effects

[acoustic thicket]

well

my main concern with devouring orb is that it looks like its gonna devour my mana lol

wonder how i'm gonna sustain that

since whenever i'm spinning i can't regen mana

[iron thistle]

Magic. Duh.

[brittle atlas]

volatile reversal is the general answer to mana sustain on basically all of the sentinel classes

but takes some getting used to

[acoustic thicket]

yeah

i guess that'd mean giving up smite. but i'm literally only using smite to blink to enemies and that's not really necessary

oh, anomaly costs no mana. that's pretty handy

[iron thistle]

I still want to test that on my FG winion build instead of Vengeance, but I really like some of the buffs it gives.

[brittle atlas]

the time bubble nodes make it cost 20

[acoustic thicket]

nah

thats the node that makes the time bubble follow you

the time bubble node itself does not come with a mana cost

[brittle atlas]

yeah, you kinda need/want that

[acoustic thicket]

yeah i figured

i guess this is gonna be my new build

hooray, actually using all my specialization slots

[brittle atlas]

huzzah

devouring orb is one of my favorite skills in the game tbh

[acoustic thicket]

it does sound fun. i almost made my build around it

[brittle atlas]

full builds based around it feel super good to me

[acoustic thicket]

but the spin was too cool

what do people get on the volatile reversal to buff themselves up?

i see one node for attack and cast speed, and one node for movespeed

[brittle atlas]

something like this

[acoustic thicket]

seems about identical to what i was going to do lol

[brittle atlas]

you can also put points in the node that makes it send you back further

[acoustic thicket]

sounds like this ability is going to take a while to get used to

[brittle atlas]

yeah, I'd say it's one of the higher skill cap skills in the game

[iron thistle]

I think the time difference nodes take a lot of adjusting to.

[acoustic thicket]

reminds me of a similar ability in dota lol

[brittle atlas]

but once you're practiced with it you can do some really cool stuff

[acoustic thicket]

does about the exact same thing

brings you back like 5 seconds and sets your position, health and mana to what it was

[brittle atlas]

yeah

[acoustic thicket]

though that one you use like once every minute so its a bit easier to keep track of

sounds like i'm gonna be spamming this one which will melt my brain a bit

[iron thistle]

Melting baddies sometimes requires a sacrifice.

[kind sandal]

Yo so I made this helmet ages ago and recently came back. I could have sworn it was "full" when I made it

Why can I put another prefix on there?

ohh did the +%ele/gear get turned into endurance?

so they changed it from prefix to suffix which means this item is kinda bugged

[dense remnant]

thats pretty cool ngl

save it for prosperity

[steel phoenix]

was there a multiplayer progress update for the month of October put on the forum or talked about in a stream at all?

I know they were working on getting into the community play testers hands during october from the September update - but was just curious. 🙂 thank you in advance

Edit; also know the play test is slotted for 0.8.4

[upper merlin]

Anyone run this game on a comp that only hits the low requirements?

[tight kernel]

seconded... lovely skill to apply on hit stuff

[noble pelican]

Is it me or is the echoes on warpath a bit inconsistent?

[marsh maple]

What do you mean? If you need some help with it, I have made a lot of warpath builds in the past and know how it functions

[acoustic thicket]

is there some hotkey/command to drop items on the ground? (or perhaps drop everything in your inventory / current stash tab)
gets very tedious to drag-and-drop in batches.

[acoustic thicket]

you need to walk at least 4 meters before an echo can happen, other than that it’s just random how it happens. if you picked up all the nodes to increase echo chance in the void knight passive tree, they come out really often in my experience

so make sure to keep running

[rocky fable]

Is it possible to create a rule in the loot filter that will highlight loot that has rolled high?

Pour examplé

a Jade Amulet with max base stats?

So it'd be easier to find strong crafting bases?

[cloud kindle]

Not possible yet

[rocky fable]

If only I knew how to hack to game to make it possible

thank you for your answer

[woeful parcel]

They have something similar to that on Poe that was just recent, so perhaps it's something that will come

[sleek cypress]

Damn.. T5 increased CDR on helm is 14% and T7 is 19%... 🤒

[dusty void]

When will the druid update drop? I cant find a date.

[snow spruce]

We don't know. Likely in December if they keep up their current/past cadence

[regal osprey]

I'm confused about abyssal echoes, so abyssal decay doesn't stack anymore, right?

I used to play abyssal echoes before they changed it

[snow spruce]

.?That's correct, it has a max stacks amount of 1, what are you confused by

[regal osprey]

That kind of sucks doesn't it? What's the point of getting the 0 cooldown passive?

I'm guessing it also doesn't stack if I get the fragility passive?

Furthermore, how come there are essentially 2 nodes that allow it to be cast at cursor, screaming rifts, which also allows it to echo, and dark torrent, which only allows it to be cast at cursor

This skill is confusing, man. esentially I get nothing by spamming it now

except maybe the void rift chance

[brittle atlas]

If you’re gonna spam it it’s because you have a way to consume the dot with a hit that fast

Or because you’ve converted it to hit damage itself

[regal osprey]

I tried that hit damage passive. It sucks

The damage isn't good. I think it's intended for paladin

[brittle atlas]

Nah, by default if you hit the enemy it consumes the dot and does the entire dot damage at once

[regal osprey]

I'm using it with devouring orb. It's okay. But the devouring orb activation is inconsistent

[brittle atlas]

Are you using the abyssal orbs node? I found it quite consistent with that and the orbit node

[regal osprey]

and the devouring orb when it activates does the abyssal echoes damage

[brittle atlas]

End up with 4-5 orbs around you each spitting out 3-4 abyssal orbs per second

Which does a ton of hits to consume abyssal decay and apply void resist shred

[regal osprey]

Oh, I didn't consider that

[brittle atlas]

Yeah, I felt pretty good about the boss damage when I tried it like that earlier this patch

Used like... the node that makes it echo at cursor location and just maxed out duration

Used idols for void mana efficiency and more abyssal decay duration

[regal osprey]

You didn't go for time compression to remove cd?

[brittle atlas]

No

I was only using it for single target, and was trying to stack a ton of multipliers into a burst window

Like anomaly 100% increased void damage taken and Reversal increased damage taken

I was getting to like 45-50k pops on Orobyss, 5 times per cast iirc

[fresh mica]

Can I ‘unspecalize’ a skill?

I kinda chose the wrong specialized skill earlier in the game

[tranquil kindle]

Yes, if you open the tree there's a respec button at the top right and if you click on that it'll give you the choice to unspecialize the skill or respec individual nodes. In both cases you need to relevel the skill, but it'll level up faster than it did originally assuming you're a higher level than you were when you originally specialised in the skill, because you'll be gaining xp faster.

[fresh mica]

Ahh, I see

Thanks :)

[red heart]

Warpath sucks and so does the paladin -_-

[woeful parcel]

Wow

[marsh maple]

https://youtu.be/hjbAJnTuRUw I beg to differ.

[sleek cypress]

does endurance seem kind of shitty to anyone else as a defensive stat. or am i doing my calculations wrong.

for example, t7 helmet endurance gives 30%. t7 health gives 24% increased..

For example- i have 2,000 hp. Threshold = 400. +30% endurance gives 120 EHP. +24% increased health competes with 120 EHP if I have a 500 health base... which you most likely have more than that. More likely 24% increased health is gonna give you like 200 hp... AND the increased hp increases your endurance threhold...

Bottom line, it seems both endurance and hp scale of HP... but HP just scales better. endurance seems kind of lackluster, is my thinking off?

[woeful parcel]

That's pretty much what I noticed

I thought it'd be more like fortify/fortification from Poe

[sleek cypress]

it just seems to me like something youd never want to invest in save for niche circumstances. but i could be doing some incorrect calcs, cause i've seen people say you should prioritize endurance..

[balmy current]

No, it requires some investment, but if you can manage the threshold/your hp, it's an awesome defensive mechanic since it's not RNG based (like dodge & block) & it affects everything (unlike dodge, block & glancing blow).

Endurance is also makes regen/leech/life on hit more effective since you take less damage & likely have less hp so you regain your hp faster.

Endurance makes more sense for some builds/classes than others.

[minor vigil]

does this affect dots

[balmy current]

It only affects Spirit Plague, not ailments (poison, bleed, etc) since ailments aren't spells & don't scale with spell damage.

[minor vigil]

ahh ok so spirit plague is affected by all increases to spell damage but the plague and poison would not be if i specced into those

thanks

[balmy current]

Yes, though to complicate things, since Spirit Plague has the DoT tag, it'll also be affected by any % DoT damage (which will also affect your poison/etc)

[sleek cypress]

true, didnt think about this one

[dense remnant]

also in case you werent aware, endurance reduces the damage you take to your health in the endurance threshold, no matter how much health you had when you took the damage

[vestal heart]

hey guys any news on the multiplayer ?

[dense remnant]

i.e. if you endurance threshold is 500, and your health is 1500, being hit when at max health for 2000 damage, will mean endurance applies to the 0-500 health, and you wont get one shot. Its not just something that only applies if you get hit while your current health is in the endurance threshold

!mp

!multiplayer

[ripe brook]

Multiplayer is still being worked on. Here's an update: https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/official-last-epoch-multiplayer-faq/42036.

[dense remnant]

@vestal heart

[vestal heart]

@dense remnant i read the September update but no new one

[sleek cypress]

i was actually wondering about this - thanks for the clarification

[brittle atlas]

Endurance is good because you basically never need to commit more than one T5 suffix to cap it and for that level of investment it's about the best you can do in terms of EHP gain.

and most of the time, you don't need to use any suffixes for it

You just need the engraved gloves implicit and the spirits of fire empowered blessing

and that timeline otherwise basically only has fire res shred, necrotic res shred, and armor while channeling as useful blessings

so almost every build can take the endurance blessing

[sleek cypress]

good point

dodge rating aint bad

but thats niche

[brittle atlas]

I would never take the dodge blessing tbh

any build that can really use dodge is getting big dodge with basically no suffix/prefix investment

maybe suffixes on weapons

[sleek cypress]

I see..

[brittle atlas]

like...serpent strike, maelstrom, and any rogue that can stack dusk shrouds or use shift

[sleek cypress]

Yeah, i get what you mean by that

[brittle atlas]

I wouldn't really consider dodge for anyone else

[limber finch]

Where can I find good build for this game please ?

[balmy current]

the forum

[limber finch]

it is the best way to find good builds ?

[ivory otter]

is there a item that converts all lightning dmg into fire=

?

[frosty mirage]

In terms of all damage sources across all skills? Not that I know of, most damage conversions are either skill based via a skill node or via a set/unique. There are some uniques that act similarly, Such as Maehlin’s Hubris gloves that converts bleed chance to ignite chance. But those are much smaller in scope in terms of the conversion.

[bold pendant]

How is the fps optimitazion in the game right now? running at like 110 fps on medium - high - very high with my rtx 360 ti
3060*

[frosty mirage]

It’s something that they are continually working on. I will say that it’s probably the biggest drawback to the game, there can be some serious frame drops depending on mob and light particle density.

From my understanding, a lot of the optimization efforts are around CPU load, but optimization is a topic that any game that is more of a SaaS model will continue to work on throughout its life cycle

[ivory otter]

another question, in the lightning blast tree, it says it cant double cast if another skill casted it

but on the quadruple cast its only saying that its not working when channeled

ah nvm

can only quadruple cast if it hits with double cast

[mighty tinsel]

I have switched the left and right click to attack and move, however whenever i talk to an npc, or use anything left click i now do the basic attack as well. Is there a way to disable this or change it so it wont attack whilst im accepting quests?

[ancient moat]

hey do we have a date at all for .8.4

[dense remnant]

mid december

[minor vigil]

is there a solid way to keep my skeletons from dying to literally any magical damage

i have all the bone armor stuff

[iron thistle]

Have you tried giving them fancy hats?

[snow spruce]

Magical damage isn't a type of damage, you'll need to look at the damage type being done, and maybe consider minion resistances if you can find it and/or more health

[ashen anvil]

Does flat phys affect bleed at all?

[frosty prism]

Melee/spell/X added Phys damage won't but increased physical % damage will

[frosty mirage]

Like Amarathy said, ailment base damage is fixed, and thus isn’t affected by flat damage modifiers

[ashen anvil]

I see, I ask because I dropped a bardiche with T6 flat phys and everything else on it is nice too

figures

[frosty prism]

You can always look at hybrid builds that scale melee Phys and bleed. They're typically less popular because it's harder to gauge your dummy dps without seeing big crits or the ailment tick rate but they definitely work and have heaps of support

[vernal bluff]

saw these, and i am not sure, but what do i have to do to get leech from damage over time?

[acoustic thicket]

if a node gives 25% more damage to a spell (multiplicatively), does it affect the ailment the spell inflicts?

[balmy current]

As long as it doesn't specify hit damage, yes.

[acoustic thicket]

thanks

this extends to both ailments added by nodes and gears right?

[balmy current]

You need generic leech (such as the Lich's mastery bonus & a passive that it has) or elemental leech (such as the nodes the Sorcerer has for fire/cold/lightning) to leech from elemental DoTs.

[balmy current]

Yes

[rigid briar]

Does it say "more spell damage" or "more damage"? Even if it's a spell, generic more damage will affect ailments from all sources that spell inflicts. If it says "more spell damage" then that won't apply to ailments it inflicts, since those are not spells.

[vernal bluff]

thanks

[brave ibex]

There's also some nice items that let you leech DoT like Avarice (elemental) and Valdyr's Chalice (bleed)

[acoustic thicket]

so about "more damage" again, if a spell casts another spell (say, rip blood casting blood splash, or void erasing strike casting void rip), if the 2ndary skill isn't mentioned, then it's not affected by "more damage" right?

[rigid briar]

In some cases. We're making an effort to make it more consistent so "subskills" are affected by the skill tree that cast them.

[acoustic thicket]

I see, thanks

[rugged grotto]

Hi, a build that is similar to the path of exile cyclone builds?

[marsh maple]

@rugged grotto you got 2 choices

CoC Cyclone or just generic Crit Cyclone

theres also bleed cyclone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjbAJnTuRUw&t=70s

this is the one I recommend, the coc cyclone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXv0utNO7NU

this is the other one, if you want speed

[rugged grotto]

and are they good?

[marsh maple]

Yes some of the best builds in the game currently

Bleed is super tanky

[rugged grotto]

uu ok tks

[normal dust]

hi guys, is +armor from "rallying block" influenced by +%armour bonuses from affixes?

[marsh maple]

yes all of it would be @normal dust

[normal dust]

thx

[marsh maple]

@rugged grotto if you look on the channel theres multiple cyclone/warpath builds, there are many flavors in the game rn. I am only done with like half of them

[rugged grotto]

ok thanks a lot for the info

which is the cyclone bleeding?

[rugged grotto]

@marsh maple what is the build of tank bleeding?

[marsh maple]

@rugged grotto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhgUwLEI4qg&t=355s

planner is in the description

[rugged grotto]

ok

[manic thicket]

Do effects that trigger when a skill kills something trigger if ailments applied by it are the killing blow?

Like Lethal Mirage CDR node

[viscid musk]

Is there a timeline that you guys prefer for pushing corruption?

[brave ibex]

Last Ruin for chance of Ravenous Void drop

[tranquil kindle]

Yes

[manic thicket]

thanks!

[compact canyon]

Are filters not cloud saved? Had to reinstall windows and everything, and my filters are gone

[frosty mirage]

Nope, they are local

[compact canyon]

heck

[frosty mirage]

I ended up emailing mine to myself when I changed computers/upgraded. Sounds like it is the same computer. There’s possibly one drive but I have never used that feature so I don’t know if it would be there or not or if it can even be uploaded automatically

[compact canyon]

I had a breakdown. No chance to save anything

[lost acorn]

Anyone know a reason the dryad jailer mobs in farwood does not have a mini health bar when all other mobs have one?

[iron thistle]

They're not enemies. They're hostile friends.

[lost acorn]

haha, I'd accept that if it was their ice shield summons that had no health bar but these do have it 🙂

[balmy current]

Known bug.

[opaque quest]

Newbie question; Can a unique with a higher required level drop in a lower level zone?
EG: I want Omnividence, but Stolen Lance is level 62. Do I need to empower it first?

[brittle atlas]

Yes, you need to be in a zone level that meets the requirement

Omnividence is also quite rare, so you could be at it for a long time

[opaque quest]

I see, Thank you! 🙂

[minor vigil]

do we know if stash tabs are gonna reset each cycle

or if like our current amount of stash tabs will be offline only

[tight kernel]

does this lightning dmg gets converted to cold if i select the convert to cold node?

[rugged grotto]

I have skeleton minions, how do I know if the fire damage bonus to minions works or not?

If they are archer minions, does fire damage serve them or not?

or does it only affect if the minion already deals fire damage on its own?

[brittle atlas]

increased minion fire damage only applies if they have some source of fire damage already

added minion fire damage applies regardless

[rugged grotto]

ok

[brittle atlas]

skeleton archers I believe have a flame arrow skill, which does deal some base fire damage

[rugged grotto]

by default it would be physical

[brittle atlas]

their autoattacks deal physical damage yeah

[rugged grotto]

ok

tks

[sleek cypress]

anyone else noticing that all unique filter is failing for unique idols

[brittle atlas]

I think even in ingame they're not truly the unique rarity?

they have the like blue-ish idol rarity still instead

[sleek cypress]

wdym lol

[brittle atlas]

Hmm maybe I’m misremembering. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen them have the normal idol rarity color somewhere

[opaque quest]

I'm having frame drops occasionally, usually once every other area. Any good solution for this?

[balmy current]

No, you can't have a lvl 100 unique drop in a lvl 10 zone.

[exotic juniper]

Hello there, i just started the game yesterday and im really loving it , i was wondering, is there "builds" to follow or it's as i want ? Because i spend points a bit randomly, can i still reset them later ?

[neat creek]

you can reset all the points, the only thing you cannot reset is your ascendancy. You are able to complete story line by any build using crap gear, but if you want to push endgame you probably want to follow some build guide posted on forums.

[exotic juniper]

Ascendency is like the spec ? (lich necro for me)

[neat creek]

yeh sorry poe slave here, dont remember how it is called there

mastery

[exotic juniper]

Same no worries haha

[neat creek]

I have it too because of my cp throttling, cant do much aboit it

[exotic juniper]

Is lich a bad class ?

Spec*

[frosty mirage]

It could use some love.

Crit Lich is fine from my understanding but I know DoT lich got hit hard with the nerf hammer this last patch

[exotic juniper]

Oh :c

[frosty mirage]

To be fair, I did watch @brittle atlas absolutely destroy a 1000 corruption Orobyss with his build before the patch which is insane

[exotic juniper]

Sorry if this has been asked a millions times but, where can i find builds ?

[fringe birch]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/builds/

[frosty mirage]

The link that Tunk provided, though his site, https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/ is an amazing resource as well, particularly with game/system mechanics!

[exotic juniper]

Thanks you guys

[ivory otter]

what does

"increased abyssal decay duration" do?

[brittle atlas]

Increases the duration and therefore total damage of abyssal decay applied by the skill abyssal echoes

[ivory otter]

ah okey. so its for vk. thanks 😄

never played vk so i have no idea of the names of vk skills haha

[knotty merlin]

The tooltip damage generally seems accurate (which is great!) -- but with Ingvars's head and disintegrate I'm not sure if the 'spell critical damage' is accurate. Related question, is general crit also considered 'spell crit' for the same case with disintegrate? Because I add crit and it doesn't change the tooltip.

[balmy current]

Yes, general crit chance affects everything that you do, spell crit only affects spells.

Crit multi won't affect Disintegrate, just crit chance.

[knotty merlin]

It definitely seemed to on the training dummy, but if I add/remove gambler's fallacy or some other crit item the tooltip damage didn't change

[balmy current]

If the tooltip's not changing then that's a tooltip bug, the most important thing is that the damage on the dummy changes as expected.

!bug

[ripe brook]

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

[cunning sleet]

any update on a multiplayer release date yet? is it sapposed to be coming in 8.9?

[brittle atlas]

Almost certainly not in 0.8.4

My guess would be february or march

[sleek cypress]

anyone else got those items they're just afraid to craft on xd

[acoustic thicket]

can’t wait for item fracturing to go away

[opaque quest]

🤔 How balanced are the various end-game builds? I'm not sure if I just have a bad build but my summoner feels a lot worse than devouring orb

[knotty hinge]

They can definitely vary.

[balmy current]

I think that says more about Devouring Orb being a bit too strong than other builds being weak.

[opaque quest]

I've played a few more builds, I definitely think devouring orb is a bit on the strong side for lots of grouped enemies.
I also think Necromancer just feels..really weak without items, at least. Idk how it looks bis but of the 5 or 6 builds I've tried out now, Necro is definitely bottom of the ladder.
I'm probably just building it wrong, though. lol

[frosty mirage]

Necro has a few strong builds, I’d say it is closer to middle of the pack. I really enjoy necro and it does have a lot of build variety that work well

Bottom of the barrel I’d probably argue would be DoT Lich, Druid (0.8.4 fixes that), Shaman for high end monos and build variety

[sleek cypress]

have they thought about what if someone just makes a trade discord to serve as a more efficient bazaar. or are they already aware of that possibiliity

kind of like what happened with harvest crafts

i bet theyve thought about it but i wonder how it can be counter acted

[fierce kraken]

Well as far as we know the only way to trade is via the random Bazar and being in the party when the item drops.

[brave ibex]

Yeah I don't think they're necessarily allowing direct trades

[fierce kraken]

That being said I think having a short list of people (5-10) who you can trade with but that you need to wait 3 months to change or however long a cycle is.

[sleek cypress]

What if you join multi player and just drop trade lol

... 🤷‍♂️

[timber agate]

you can't, the plan is you can only trade item dropped when you play together

[fierce kraken]

Loot will be instanced so you won't even see anyone else's items.

[sleek cypress]

Nice

Thanks

https://tenor.com/view/yes-nice-nod-thumbs-up-gif-12292330

[minor vigil]

does corruption make certain echo rewards more likely

like exalted/unique stuff

[brittle atlas]

It certainly feels that way, but idk if anyone has looked into it

maybe @fringe birch ?

[random dock]

it does

[minor vigil]

oooh

missed that thanks

[random dock]

np 🙂 thats why the game guide is your best friend 😎

[minor vigil]

i need to press g more often

[random dock]

also the blue tags on skills and the ALT button when hovering over a skill and its nodes

[minor vigil]

oh i probably should unlock empowereds before target farming

[minor vigil]

hm so basically my goal is to like push out as far as possible to try and get vessels of chaos

and the reward refresh one which i have never seen

[fierce kraken]

usually i push until i see a shade node with 12-14 corruption. If you find those then they are potentially worth saving after you have uncovered more of the web. Focus on beacons if you do find one so you can reroll more nodes.

[minor vigil]

Gotcha

[brittle atlas]

I'd definitely just focus shades until 200 corruption

to help with farming out blessings

if your build can easily push further there's not much cost to pushing up to like 300-400

beyond that you'll probably start to lose some efficiency

[meager halo]

Yolo wondering if someone knows how to fix the skill point quest in A Study in Time
Side Quest
→ The Outcast Camp

Can't get past the door killed the captured souls a long time ago but i didn't get the completion for the quest bcuz i'm missing that one skill point i'm level 80

[dense remnant]

go through ruins of welryn

if you look at the map thats what connects to library, not the underground bit

[minor vigil]

is it just me or are chapter 9 enemies 15x worse than anything else

in echoes

[brittle atlas]

a couple types of them yeah

idk about 15x worse, but there's definitely a few of them that are noticeably stronger than other mob types

[minor vigil]

diamond matrons in particular lol

[broken pagoda]

guys havent been around for some time i saw some awesome teaser of 0.84 update is there any clue of when its coming out?

[random dock]

mid december

[broken pagoda]

very soon then thats amazing

thanks

[regal osprey]

Can somebody explain to me the abyssal echoes "impair the weak" node that does 5% of abyssal echo damage, or what it would have done over it's duration?

On hit*

Doesn't abyssal echoes already do damage on hit?

like it consumes the dot on the hit and does the full damage

so why would anybody take this node

[snow spruce]

Read the node before it "Fragility" and you'll likely understand

[sick yacht]

Is the release window for mp still "2021" or has that been delayed? Seems kind of glossed over in the monthly posts

[jovial leaf]

Hello there! Please, can anybody explain me how work various increased damage sources? Example, skill Lightning blast. I can increase damage two ways(except flat damage and other ways): increased spell and lightning damage. Will these two different sources be multiplied between each other and base damage, or will both first summed up and then multiply base damage? I tried running tests on a dummy, but unfortunately the odd numbers made it difficult for me to understand how this mechanic works.

[knotty hinge]

No longer 2021.

!multiplayer

[ripe brook]

Multiplayer is still being worked on. Here's an update: https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/official-last-epoch-multiplayer-faq/42036.

[neon geyser]

all "increased damage" sources are additive. 50% increased lightning and 20% increased spelldamage add up to 70% increased damage for a lightning spell.

Damage modifiers within skilltrees that say "more damage" are multiplicative

This is mentioned in the game guide also - press "g" ingame

[jovial leaf]

I know about mechanic more damage. Only need explain how synergize increased damage is various sources.

[jovial leaf]

Yes, i read that, but not understand.

They use very incomprehensible examples.

[neon geyser]

so did my first sentence explain it for you?

[jovial leaf]

Yes, very thanks for that.

[neon geyser]

ok 😁

[jovial leaf]

500% spell damage + 500% lightning damage = 1000% increased damage for lightning spell, right?

[neon geyser]

yes

[jovial leaf]

Very appreciate.

[balmy current]

If you can extend the duration enough & get a high enough attack speed then you'll be able to do more than the "original" damage.

Assuming you have no more duration increase than the 2 points in Turbulence (30% -> 7.8s duration), you'd need to score 20 hits within that 7.8s to do the "full" damage of Abyssal Echoes (2.56 hits/sec).

[low totem]

I like spears, are there any abilities that really benefit from them, or actually have nodes that do stuff while wielding them them, outside of Javelin and Lunge?

[iron thistle]

Serpent Strike on Primalist.

[tranquil vector]

hey guys, I have a question about the loot filter: from the build planner there is the rule for shattering items: one t5 affix. I want to add to the rule a number of at least 12 affixes on the item to show. Unfortunately, this is not working properly for me. I tested with an item with level 13 of affixes, which shows up, without the rule of levels and do not show up any more with a rule of more or equal to 10. Do you guys have the same issue, or know a solution for my problem?

[knotty hinge]

Dm me the filter with your attempt and I’ll take a look.

[supple wolf]

Has it been said if you will have to level through the story each time for whatever their version of seasons/leagues will be?

[knotty hinge]

There is a portion that mentions leveling on the topic of dungeons which can be viewed/read here: https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/dungeons-what-we-know-so-far/45257.

Unsure if the campaign will be required every season.

[supple wolf]

maybe something to ask the devs then

[knotty hinge]

It's a question worth asking but potentially one they don't have an answer to yet.

[supple wolf]

I'd be ok even it were a "not sure yet" kind of thing. My least favorite thing about POE is having to level through the campaign every time and I enjoyed having rifts as an option to level each season on the D3 side of things

[random dock]

I just read that and big if true cause the map layout for dungeons is gonna be random

and its looks to be a lvling/endgame system 👁️👄👁️

[drowsy phoenix]

Hello!
Does Death Seal's damage reduction increase if your health falls for any reason DURING Death Seal?
Or is the damage reduction snapshotted at the moment of activation?

[brittle atlas]

I have a feeling it snapshots but it’s not something I ever bothered to test honestly

Maybe @zinc sinew knows?

I generally assumed it was always 32.5% DR for the sake of figuring out EHP

[drowsy phoenix]

Thank you! I was wondering about EHP too, and I realize I always just assumed Death Seal's DR floats

was going to start calculating integrals before I realized it might not be

[drowsy phoenix]

I tried some non-rigorous tests using Marrow Shard to drop HP, and it does seem to snapshot

[fierce kraken]

isn't marrow shards, hp removal? is doubt it would be affected by DR.

[dense remnant]

i think they mean they were using marrow shards so they could have control over their health

[balmy current]

Skills generally snapshot

[languid elbow]

Has Act 10 been confirmed for 0.8.4?

[balmy current]

No, just the Druid/forms reworks, Dungeons, Legendaries & Eternity Caches.

https://forum.lastepoch.com/uploads/default/original/2X/0/032554ef6758f892ebed21ca47dc7de3562a93b4.png

[languid elbow]

Aw okay. I'm really excited for the story continuation. All that stuff sounds great though :)

[drowsy phoenix]

oh, I meant that I activated Death Seal at full health, used Marrow Shards to drop my health down to ~50%, then let a sapphire nagasa hit me

Death Seal seems to provide no DR despite me being at ~<50% HP when used at max health

[tawny rain]

What's the ETA of 0.8.4?

Waiting to reroll and restart the game with the new druid revamp

[languid elbow]

Mid December

[vale holly]

How can I get to The Corrupted Lake? I'm 70 and still haven't done this quest

[timber agate]

there's a time rift in imperial era's risen lake

[vale holly]

Tyty

[rocky fable]

So I beat Fall of the Outcasts and I got a choice between Level 62 or Level 66 timeline?

Which one is The Black Sun timeline?

[timber agate]

66

[rocky fable]

thank you

I just looekd it up

I would say it'd be better if they just tell you what timeline your selecting

Since I want to Farm Black Sun for a specific unique

[balmy current]

You can also check the map (M by default) which shows the names & levels of the monoliths.

[rocky fable]

Only if they've been unlocked

@balmy current

It shows the levels of the two I unlocked but not the one to the top left

[balmy current]

Ah, fair enough.

[frosty mirage]

For Vengeance and Riposte, does riposte occur whenever an enemy hits you within that 2 second window?

It's hard to confirm/tell in testing and since dummy does not attack, no controlled testing available

[balmy current]

Yes, the Riposte is what happens when you have the black ball orbiting your character & get hit.

[frosty mirage]

Thanks Llama!

[rugged grotto]

any way to skip the story and start with a new pj at the end of the game?

[balmy current]

Nope

[rugged grotto]

xd ok

[regal osprey]

I have a question, does having higher adaptive spell damage influence healing from, for example, consecrated ground?

[marsh maple]

No it does not @regal osprey

[regal osprey]

I have another question now: In sentinal tree, there is a node at the end that says increases damage when welding scepter/mace. Does this damage increase include damage from spells and DoTs, or only weapon hit damage?

[regal osprey]

@marsh maple

[marsh maple]

Since it does not specify it will apply to all damage you deal while wielding a scepter or mace

Except Mike

Except minions

Mike too I guess

[regal osprey]

@marsh maple I see, thanks. I'm having trouble deciding on whether I want to take scepter or sword. Currently using sword and it has some advantages. Faster ignite stacking, faster mana generation, and slightly more survivability I suppose too because you are getting more health per hit due to faster attack speed

If the adaptive spell damage affix scaled then sword would win.

But that affix provides so little adaptive spell damage

my character is hybrid caster and melee. I use rive to stack ignites and also use judgement off cooldown as well as fire abyssal echoes

[cloud lichen]

Hello. How can I disable gamepads permanently so that they are not constantly reactivated when a button is pressed? Thank you

[fierce kraken]

in settings go to change input keys, then select remove controller

[cloud lichen]

yes but controller is automatically auto-detected when a button is pressed

i need to disable the auto-detection

[dense remnant]

unplug your controller ;D

[fierce kraken]

you could try unbinding the keys.

why can't you leave your controller alone? i know i just leave it plugged in but i almost always play with mouse and keyboard

[regal osprey]

Why is abyssal echoes skill descriptions so janky?

1. For the nether coat buff (embrace the darkness node) it says a prerequisite is "Directly casting", but I can still get the buff If I use abyssal echoes using void cleave.

2. For the node that makes you have a chance to do void rift from devouring orb (nether breach), it says "directly casting", but I cannot get void rift activation if I am using the Screaming Rifts node, even during initial cast of the abyssal echoes it does not activate the devouring orbs rifts, taking away screaming rifts makes it activate again. Meanwhile, I DO get nether coat when I use abyssal echoes using screaming rift eventhough that node has the same pre-requisite of needing "Directly casting".

It doesn't make any sense

[fierce kraken]

those sound like bugs

!bug

[ripe brook]

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

[primal lichen]

I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but I just got the game and I am wondering if Skeleton Vanguards from the Bone Curse tree get any of the multiplicative bonuses from the Summon Skeleton tree?

[tranquil kindle]

It does not. We're planning to rename them to Skeletal Vanguards to remove this confusion.

[primal lichen]

thanks!

another question: Is there a visual indicator for blood infusion?

I'm trying a build with a bunch of melee minions and blood splatter + blood infusion buff, but I am paranoid that it isn't actually buffing my minions at all

[tranquil kindle]

I don't believe there is.

[rocky fable]

Does lunge scale off of Healing Effectiveness with the Dawn Charge node?

[frosty mirage]

Nope

Notice it’s labeled as a regain and not a heal, they cleaned up a lot of the skill syntax in 0.8.3 to try and clear up confusion on what counts as a heal or not

[static glacier]

guess the wording is really fine now : if the verb isnt "heal" it is no heal

same goes for life decay and life drain e.g.

[narrow compass]

hi everyone, I just started, and I was wondering if it's normal to see a certain area around me where the graphics are better and at a certain distance outside the area the graphics are less beautiful. Like I have a sync problem

[fierce kraken]

That sounds like it's worth posting about in technical support.

[regal osprey]

I have a question about beastmaster summons. I noticed that Bear summon in particular can get swipe and ice thorn activation as retaliation. Are swipe and ice thorns affected by my passive swipe and ice thorns tree?

[brave ibex]

Nope, minions use a different version

[regal osprey]

Wait a second, frost nova damage from sabertooth pet scales with character strength and not attunement?? Or does it mean pet strength?

[brittle atlas]

pets can't have strength

the sabertooth skill scales off of your strength, so your strength will scale every aspect of it, including subskills like the frost nova

[regal osprey]

If I get the absolute zero node in the tempest tree, will all of my attacks be affected by spell damage modifiers? Or how does it work?

+spell crit etc.

Sorry tempest strike

absolute zero is the right-most node, it says tempest ow does spell cold damage

It's odd because it looks still like a melee attack and not a spell

[brittle atlas]

No, Tempest Strike has four base components- the melee attack, and three spells: earth spikes, northern winds, and lightning bolt

that node adds cold damage to the spell components

but makes two of them- lightning bolt and earth spikes- less likely to happen

[regal osprey]

Oh wow

?So the spell damage will not be added if it doesn't proc

[brittle atlas]

Yeah, the spell damage only applies to the spell components

the melee hit is an attack, not a spell

so if a spell doesn't proc there's no spell to add damage to

[regal osprey]

@brittle atlas Does the attunement and strength scaling apply to bot the sepll and the melee compotenets?

Or atunement only for spell?

[brittle atlas]

Both should apply

[regal osprey]

Absolute zero's description is so janked.

Look at that description and see how misleading it is.

[brittle atlas]

the wording is technically correct, but is definitely going to be unclear to anyone who doesn't know the way the game uses certain words

Tempest Strike here is the entire skill

so all components of it that can deal spell damage will get additional spell cold damage and have a chance to freeze

or rather, all of components of it that deal spell damage and hit

since I believe two of the components you can add to it via nodes are damage over time

and thus don't hit

[regal osprey]

It makes sense now that you explain it. But I was initially thinking that the melee hits without procs would somehow start doing spell damage

because supposedly the melee hits are also tempest strike hits

[manic narwhal]

With Wandering Spirits, is Soul of Filth (10/20% more frequent use of Spectral Putrescence) multiplicative or additive with the base Spectral Putrescence chance (30%)?

[tranquil kindle]

multiplicative

[manic narwhal]

Thanks. I find it hard to judge the value of the nodes on Wandering Spirit because of the nature of the spell.

[frosty mirage]

Yeah, TS is still one of those skills that in concept/theory is cool and all, but execution has its issues

[raw stirrup]

How easy is rerolling? I've always loved trying different builds in arpgs, but leveling new characters is usually boring imo.

[brave ibex]

Very fast when you know what you're doing, but you do have to go through the campaign again

[minor vigil]

worst part is acts 1-3

after that it's pretty smooth

[frosty mirage]

It’s not too bad, the early levels before masteries are probably the worst IMO, but you learn the peaks and valleys of the leveling process. You can technically do monos as soon as you hit level End of Time

If I were to not level my alts with the builds I have in mind and was focused purely on speed I can get a character up to 60 in about 7-8 hours

And that’s running the campaign up to chapter 9

I usually go straight to monos after 8 though

[minor vigil]

i think act 6 feels a little slow also but like you have your cool skills by that point so it's easy

[surreal iron]

is it worth doing mono's asap? My first char just got to chap 9

[dense remnant]

i usually start monos around lvl 35~

the sweet spot normally feels like its just before the admiral+spymaster fight

[frosty mirage]

You unlock idols and passive points along the way, so you’ll eventually want to go back if hitting a monos earlier but it’s honestly just personal preference

[surreal iron]

ah

i see

[dense remnant]

i mean, objectively you want to go into monos before end of campaign, if you're talking about going fast

(which is what id apply to it being worthwhile or not to)

[surreal iron]

i think i have all the idol slots unlocked - and act 9 is starting to feel very ouchie

so farming monos is the way to get better gear to beat a9 then?

[frosty mirage]

That’s what I typically do

[surreal iron]

nice, tyvm

[dense remnant]

its also slightly class dependant on when the best point to start monos is

sentinel wants to go in as early as it possibly can (while still effectively clearing the monos), because once your a higher level you can just shield rush through all the campaign levels

and you zoom through the campaign stupidly quickly that way

[brittle atlas]

I personally just ignore monos until I finish campaign tbh, but I've got the campaign and leveling down pretty well now

[frosty mirage]

I love the campaign, I just know 9 can be a bit of a wall for new players

As there is a bit of a difficulty spike, but dang is it fun

[brittle atlas]

ye, really depends on build

a lot of the stuff I've leveled recently just cuts through A9 tho

[frosty mirage]

You’re also one of the best players in the community mate 😂😂

[brittle atlas]

idk, I think just about anyone could walk through A9 with devouring orb right now

skill is cracked in the mid game

[minor vigil]

the only annoying leveling ive had is with lich

[brittle atlas]

I haven't yet leveled an acolyte since the patch came out

since I already had necro and lich at 100 to respec

[minor vigil]

it felt like i wasn't playing the game before death seal

but i was certainly building it wrong

[brittle atlas]

yeah, a lot of lich's power is in death seal

[minor vigil]

i ended up doing ok w/ spirit plague but it was still a little awkward

[frosty mirage]

Sentinel was fine, so was rogue with ch9 straight after 8 (it was pally/bd), my shield throw FG is struggle bussing right now but that’s more from intentional sabotage than anything and not wanting to use forge strike 😂

[minor vigil]

sentinel and rogue were sooo smooth for me too

[brittle atlas]

sorc was super good for me as well

will have to see how primalist feels after the upcoming patch

[vast charm]

Overhauled Primalist GO!

Make me hope they fixed up skills that felt lacking for other classes too.

[vagrant coyote]

hello, do we need to start the 0.8.4 Patch with new char?

[brittle atlas]

no

[vagrant coyote]

very good thx 🙂

[tribal coyote]

hey there! a couple days ago I reached the echoes and started grinding the timelines but everything seems pretty easy

got there at level 56, and starter with the 58 timeline, then changed to the 66 at level 60 and still pretty easy

right now I'm 69 (nice) and still in the 66 timeline but it seems pretty easy to grind :/

died just once when I decided to body tank a colosus 😂

am I doing something wrong? just a Bladedancer with all in Flurry :/

[brittle atlas]

If you're playing a decently built character then everything up to empowered monoliths will be pretty easy, and depending on the build it could make the first few hundred corruption in empowered content pretty easy too

[tribal coyote]

and grinding Uniques til I can get to the next timeline

[tribal coyote]

these empowered monoliths are the ones at the end of the timelines?

[brittle atlas]

normal monoliths don't put much pressure on you to have defenses built out or that much damage output

empowered monoliths you unlock after you complete the three level 90 timelines

in empowered, all timelines are level 100

[tribal coyote]

yeah, I also tried having good defenses, this game makes a good job explining how the go

[brittle atlas]

and have uncapped corruption, so you can push that up to further increase difficulty and rewards

[tribal coyote]

had a hard time grasping that in other games... ehem PoE ehem

nice, thank you so much @brittle atlas !

I'll get there and reset when the new patch drops

it looks amazing and seems a good moment to change to another SSF toon

[regal osprey]

wait a second... shards and stuff are not shared across characters in an account anymore? When did this happen?

[jovial leaf]

Why did you come to this conclusion? Everything remains the same.

[minor vigil]

Did you roll hardcore or solo or something

[regal osprey]

oh I rolled solo

[minor vigil]

Yea that's what solo does

[regal osprey]

is there any way to go back and make my character non-solo?

nvm found it

I have a question: Does the Eye of the storm node in Maelstorm also affect tsunami damage?

[brittle atlas]

the damage aspect should, idk about the area

[static glacier]

Does tsunami have a "range/area"?

usually every subskill inherts everything from the parent skill tree if it "matches"

[light kite]

ayo what is this game about?

[regal osprey]

In this game there is a kind of holy doge and it's trapped in an aquarium. Your duty is to race against it and win and that will make it free.

[jovial leaf]

Anybody know how work taunt, exclude main mechanic? Taunt give us more damage to taunted enemies or something?

[balmy current]

No, it just forces affected mobs to attack whatever it was that did the taunt

[frosty mirage]

It is also primarily via proximity when the taunt is applied, they needed the strength of taunt in 0.8.3 but it’s still really good

[raw stirrup]

Anyone playing on linux? I seem to have some stuttering, should i use proton instead?

[frosty mirage]

There’s a forum user who is very knowledgeable about Linux and LE, not sure he’s on discord or not

[rocky fable]

Is it me or is Lagon's hitbox a little scuffed as a melee user?

I mean I FEEL i hit him he's fatter than Kayne West's ego

But game be like no

[iron thistle]

That's something they said they're trying to work on, since technically his model is below the platform you're standing on.

[rocky fable]

I see it isn't just me

[minor vigil]

Yea also lunge and stuff do not play very nice with him

And you can't target him with smite on controller

[rocky fable]

By that you mean you simply can't

And even if I could i'm too lazy to find the perfect pixel which lets me lunge

[rocky fable]

If i were to cast a Cold Spell but not directly like it's casted through another skill or ability would this still proc?

[marsh maple]

it has to be casted directly

[rugged grotto]

a minion build that doesn't depend on legendaries?

[brittle atlas]

most of them? I think most minion builds are just getting some extra value out of certain uniques, rather than requiring them to function?

[rocky fable]

would be nice if it said on the tooltip

but thank you

[brittle atlas]

I think the word "use" generally implies direct casting in LE?

[rugged grotto]

ok

So which build of minions is good at the moment?

[brittle atlas]

I think epoch builds put out a video on abom necro recently

[rugged grotto]

Sorry for bothering, I don't understand much English and I use pages to translate, so it tells me to find builds

[brittle atlas]

also a beastmaster wolf build

ah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz7Trx5TL0c

this one

[rugged grotto]

ok

[eternal acorn]

Just starting the game, can anyone recommend a fun build that is melee - has high mobility and attacks fast? Something around that playstyle

[cloud kindle]

Make your own, the game is very forgiving!

[brittle atlas]

bleed or poison flurry bladedancer

[eternal acorn]

Ill check it out ty

[lyric oyster]

Does the echo casts from Void Knight cost me mana when it triggers?

[frosty mirage]

Is it expected that the Shurikens from Shift’s Sleight of Hand node do not proc Shadow's shurikens?

I know the writing on it is a bit more ambiguous compared to Dancing Shadows. So I can understand if it doesn’t affect it as it could be intended as an implicit cast

[jovial leaf]

This echo? You mean echo that have chance repeat any attack or spell skills that you do? If yes, this no cost mana, its zero cost.

[lyric oyster]

Yeah, that's the one. Just wanted to make sure since triggered casts used mana. Thanks!

[frosty prism]

Yeah shift is a prime example of inconsistency on the proc'd skills as the behaviour of shurikens, cascade and acid flask. It effectively will just cast shurikens X shurikens and take some of the modifiers of the shuriken tree. Things that add additional shurikens won't count nor will it consume shadows for additional casts but it'll take on blade shirked, chakrams and all dmg nodes. The wording could definitely be better.

[restive cradle]

is anything wrong with my filter or am i just unlucky?

like i want to hide every under 75, and who shows level 75+ with those types and affixes

[brittle atlas]

level 75 excludes the massive majority of items since the game doesn't have item levels

I just wouldn't use level filters at all tbh

and just filter to the affixes you want on the bases you want

[restive cradle]

hmmm ok

ill try that

thanks!

[brittle atlas]

Yeah, you won't see most of the best bases with a level 75 restriction

even 4x T5 Solarum Greaves for example are only level 74

[restive cradle]

so something like this?

[brittle atlas]

yeah, and then a hide all rule at the bottom

this is what my filter looks like for example

[restive cradle]

is there a quick way to do hide all?

[brittle atlas]

yes, make a rule with no conditions set to hide

[restive cradle]

ah got it

thanks

oh man ❤️ u

i was like WTF

how is nothing dropping

[brittle atlas]

np

[fierce kraken]

Personally I like hide normal/magic/rare so I see set and unique and only need 1 rule.

[balmy current]

No, it's a free repeat of the skill that was echoed.

[balmy current]

I know this has been gone over before, but if the game doesn't have item levels, what's this?

In LE, item level = required character level

[marsh maple]

Let's be real llama it's not really free...you pay with your heart and soul. Every time a Void Knight is created ingame another forge guard is lost without a family...pay 6 easy payments of 16 orians eyes to save your local forge guard today, and maybe one day his rework will be reverted..... 😢

[balmy current]

https://tenor.com/view/alex-dainis-tea-science-gif-5375975

[frosty mirage]

Thanks Amarathy, that’s what I thought as well, particularly since it is a x/5 skill node rather than a single point node. Still has applications with Blade Coat, Deadly Aim, and Throwing Star in terms of application. Too bad it doesn’t trigger shadows though, would have let the gameplay operate similarly to shadow cascade as a nice trigger on shadow set up

[brittle atlas]

Generally I would consider item level as something separate to required level, in that two items of the same required level could have a different item level. LE only has required levels.

[crisp swan]

Hello community, ive done my fair share of googling now, did not find any answers though. Does anyone else have problems starting the game in Ubuntu ?

I just get a black screen, sometimes a splash-screen, computer freezes for like 1 minute. Then the game closes

[split helm]

How long does it generally take to farm gear for an end-game build? I ask because so far I haven't found a single piece of gear that has >2 useful mods on it - I don't know if this gets better once you start pushing high-tier empowered corruptions or not. At best, I've either been finding items with 1 useful mod at T4+ and 3 blank/useless ones, or items with 2 useful mods, but with both at like T1/T2.

[brittle atlas]

if you want like perfect exalted gear, I don't think you'll ever really get there. T20 crafted stuff it depends on the slot, but a lot of that is just a matter of playing enough to find a decent base that's like T8 or so total with 2-3 mods you want and crafting it up.

T20 belts and boots are pretty easy since their overall mod pool is pretty small

something like a ring is going to be a lot harder

a lot of slots you don't really need T20 gear in to do fine

like a relic can have a T1 frailty chance roll and still be decent

you could have a lower chill chance or slow chance roll on a weapon and be fine

even on like...belt, boots, gloves you could settle for T3 hybrid health and not be losing that much

[iron thistle]

+skills, flat health, resists, and damage rolls on weapons really benefit from being higher tiers. The rest is often fine at t3 or t4.

At least until you get to the point where you're fine-tuning in high corruption empowered content.

There are obviously exceptions, but they're circumstantial and build reliant.

[eternal acorn]

I just swapped all my skills on my old level 50 VK and they are all level 6. Is there a recommended area to go level the skills up? Because trying to do my current level story with level 6 skills is no bueno

[midnight timber]

go do low level monos, if you've unlocked the end of time

first one is lvl 58, shouldn't be too bad, and your skills will level up fast to where they were

[iron thistle]

After you reset them, they gain bonus XP for a bit, so they'll catch back up to where you had them pretty quickly. Maybe even just going through some story zones.

[vestal yew]

hello! can mark of death take enemy resistances into negative value ?

[frosty mirage]

It should be able to, I do not believe enemies naturally have any resistances outside of general damage reduction unless they get a modifier in monos that applies resistance to enemies

[west fox]

Hey everyone, I just started playing and I'm trying to figure out a vague starting character build. I was considering playing a Sentinel and focusing on polearms, but I'm starting to doubt that after looking at the passives and skills for the class.

I'm seeing a lot of bonuses for other weapon types (swords, axes, etc) but so far I've only noticed one bonus for polearms (on the Javelin skill). Is that not actually a big deal or is that a sign that polearms are a bad choice for Sentinel unless I want to focus on Javelin?

[amber rain]

Polearms will get reworked next patch on dec 10th, but at the moment they are mainly used on builds where you want the high flat crit chance on a 2h weapon and don't need any other weapon specific nodes

[brittle atlas]

Enemies generally have no resistances, so yes- all penetration and resistance reduction puts them into the negative.

[acoustic thicket]

In theory is it possible to get just enough resistance of all kinds to not get one shot on the same set of gear? Or will it have to be different sets/pieces for different monoliths?

So meaning a frost resist set, fire, etc etc

[brittle atlas]

You can cap all of your resistances with relatively minor resistances on gear

[acoustic thicket]

I’ve saved up a bunch of gear which have high amounts of resist but their stats are no good for me, but thought save them for shattering and use their resistances on my gear

[brittle atlas]

I generally put a single resist on each ring and then get the rest from implicits, blessings, passives

https://youtu.be/4gWE6xW8Xlw

Would recommend this video

[acoustic thicket]

Thanks a bunch 👍 will check it out

[brittle atlas]

Generally the goal is avoid resistances as affixes on your gear as much as possible

Since they share suffix slots with health

So you want to get resistances in ways that don’t use suffix slots

[acoustic thicket]

Ah interesting was not aware of this

[west fox]

I appreciate the info, but I don't really have enough context yet on how the game works to know what to do with that info.

[strange blaze]

What are some good builds for clearing enemies in easier monoliths using just movement skills? I've looked at nova+teleport sorcerer and shadow cascade+shift blade dancer, but I'm curious what else is out there. Is reap+transplant viable for clearing easy stuff on a lich?

[brave ibex]

So to answer your question simply: no, Polearms are not bad, they are used in crit builds. This is subject to change in the upcoming patch as the weapon class is getting significant changes

[west fox]

Got it, thanks. I was unsure of how valuable flat crit chance is in this game, how well it synergizes with Sentinel stuff, how important the unavailable skills / upgrades are, etc.

[brittle atlas]

The best clearing stuff at the moment is Devouring Orb + Lunge and Spirit Plague + Reap imo

[strange blaze]

I tried devouring orb a little bit, but the stutter-steps from autocasting it felt too awkward to me

[brittle atlas]

Yeah I definitely wouldn’t autocast it

[strange blaze]

spirit plague looks fun, but i'm hesitating to try it on a lich because i imagine it's going to be a core skill for warlocks whenever they come out

[brittle atlas]

I don’t know if we have much info on warlocks yet and I doubt we get them anytime soon

Like probably 7+ months would be absolute minimum guess

[brave ibex]

It's quite valuable for some specific characters. Javelin is definitely the skill that benefits from a polearm the most, but overall they are just more niche than axes/swords. Hopefully they can make them a little more relevant with the new changes

[dark storm]

Is spirit plague good in itself to be a good DPS skill for end game?

[marsh maple]

https://youtu.be/AnQk6uEYRlg @dark storm

I like this version a lot

if you don't want to push that high of corruption its insane

[brittle atlas]

yeah, anything 300-ish and under it cuts through like butter

the boss damage isn't amazing, but it does echoes super quick

[unkempt sand]

Is there a reason the imperial spymaster wears a shai-halud skinsuit

also, why does the empire have an industrial slaughterhouse full of sandworms

and what is the spymaster doing there when he could be doing his job in the field or in an actual office

It's a cool area and bossfight and all but it's a little out of left field

[fierce kraken]

Very good questions coming from an appropriately named account.

[brittle atlas]

he's spying on you obviously

inside of a worm

[fierce kraken]

Why doesn't spy master zerrick recognize us?

[brittle atlas]

maybe he does and just doesn't to let us know he recognizes us

he's a spymaster afterall, h'es like...200 steps ahead

[dark storm]

Thanks. BTW really like your videos.

[marsh maple]

thanks @dark storm

more are always coming

[iron thistle]

The current story we have available is missing a lot of the middle parts that lead the later chapters to become the early chapters, so I imagine we'll fill in that part of the loop by the end.

[vestal yew]

hello, does the volatile blood passive from Lich affect the health decay while in reaper form? (does it slow it down?)

[static glacier]

Reduced Health Drain 5% per point

wording is quite accurate here

reaper form is decay

so no it doesnt work cause a decay is no drain (like a leech is no heal)

[soft prairie]

Guy/gals, how long should I grind certain monoliths, should I get to the next one when I finish the 3rd quest or continue on the same one and reset echoes?

[frosty mirage]

I’d say move on and try to get to empowered. The modifiers on empowered are a lot stronger in terms of rarity drops and some boss only uniques also require empowered timelines for them to drop

[soft prairie]

Alright, thanks, so I shouldn't spend much time and stressing about missing echoes and whatnot, got it.

Still lvl 70, long time before I get the winter bow at 90

[frosty mirage]

You don’t have to be the same level as the timeline in order to advance, those levels are just zone levels, you typically can unlock the 90 monos around level 80. Some can get there faster, others slower. Just depends on how much refining a build needs as they make their way to it

[soft prairie]

Yeah, still trying to learn the itemization, I mean, I'm following a build, but new game, new stats and whatnot.

Still trying to learn what's a priority when itemizing

Lots of stats to look at, especially all the elemental damage and crit chance/multipliers.

Also flat ele dmg/phys etc.

[obsidian spire]

this video is an eye opener for sure, till now I was just stacking dmg and similar things, and keeping my resistance at 75%,
I am lvl 71 with 900hp necro

[soft prairie]

70 marksman here with just about 1k lmao

is Bronze Belt BiS base?

[frosty mirage]

In general you’ll see a lot of builds use the same bases for gloves/belts/boots. This is because the implicits on these items are not extremely varied. So bronze belt gives you 4 potion slots and additional armor which is added ehp/defense with 0 cost. The same with the Engraved Gauntlets and their endurance implicit.

Where these items lose in variety in base types, they make up for with variety in uniques. You’ll see that alt here are a LOT of unique belts/boots/gloves. These slots are nice as it allows you to enhance your build without sacrificing some of the most important gear slots that have the affixes that will have a high impact on your build (like torso, helms, and relics do)

[static glacier]

you can be quite sure that all old base types get overhauled in the next patches

every of the last patches gave love to 1 or 2 base types

[frosty mirage]

Would love to see it, but those seem to be primarily weapon bases that are getting the largest overhauls. Boots were touched in 0.8.3 but only for the movement speed changes and lower level changes, nothing truly overhauled about it in my opinion

I would absolutely love to see belts get overhauled. Boots had an opportunity last patch but didn’t see anything substantial.

[balmy current]

I'm not sure about that, the Boots/Gloves were reworked "recently" though Belts haven't been changed yet.

[lavish dew]

Anyone tried flat fire bow cinder strike yet ?

I've theorycrafted this https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/GBONmJQx but idk if dmg will hold up

[brave ibex]

Cinder Strike is really just a 'fine' skill, both the hit and ignite variants are good early on but fall off damage wise late game because of a lack of multipliers. You can still make it work though if you enjoy the ability

[lavish dew]

Empowered is what i'm worried bout

looks like it may be weak and aoe won't be great either

[brave ibex]

Well, you can still kill stuff, especially with Marksman's easy access to crit vuln + armor shred. But it's not gonna be fast, especially if you wanna push corruption