❔┃ask-the-community

[robust talon]

oh it is the "Z"

sorry for ping,
so that means i can also use rune of ascendance and get it?

[brittle atlas]

Yes

[acoustic thicket]

are blessing unlocks account wide?

or will i have to farm them in every character?

[dense root]

they're by character

[acoustic thicket]

bbruh

[vapid aspen]

Would be pretty annoying otherwise lol

Imagine needing to run a timeline to swap to cold shred from phys shred and back every time you change characters

[knotty juniper]

Is Surge Spellblade still a thing? I haven't played in a good while and things seem to have changed a lot (rip free lightning blast chains)

[vapid aspen]

I'd lose my mind

[vapid aspen]

yes

[knotty juniper]

very nice

[vapid aspen]

Stronger now than before

[knotty juniper]

so my one build isn't bricked

[vapid aspen]

legendary humming bee + the movespeed scaling

[knotty juniper]

I do not know what the first part means

[vapid aspen]

humming bee unique sword

its low level so trash stats, but was able to compete with endgame gear

now you can give it stats with legendary

[knotty juniper]

Guess I'll still need to respec a whole lot

[vapid aspen]

Ah wait you were using LB?

never ran cast surge build

[knotty juniper]

Just triggering it with surge

and static

i did the whole "get a bunch of chains and use convergence"

thing

[vapid aspen]

Ah

maybe still works, idk

[knotty juniper]

not really

[vapid aspen]

all I know is that for sure hit surge is very good

[knotty juniper]

they made it so arcing power doesn't work with triggered lightning blasts

so that's -4 chains

[tight harbor]

Hello guys! is there a way to toggle item info in popup, rather than holding CTRL and/or ALT+CTRL ?

[knotty juniper]

Guess I'll have to figure out how to surge all over again

[robust talon]

to drop julra's uniques, the higher is the tier of her dungeon, the higher will be the drop chance (for her specific uniques)?
or does not matter at all?

[swift cairn]

Some of her uniques can only drop on certain tiers

like the relic can only drop on tier4

[astral seal]

They're all tier locked, every tier has an additional unique added to the loot pool, T1 Ring T2 Helment/Ring T3 Helmet/Ring/Gloves T4 Helmet/Ring/Gloves/Relic

[hasty tartan]

How hard is it to make your own build?

Like, will I fail the first few attempts at my own build?

[brittle atlas]

depends on the build

somethings are a lot more obvious than others

[hasty tartan]

Say I want to experiment with a wolf summoner

Is it worth taking resistance passives in general?

[brittle atlas]

depends on how much resist it is and what else is stapled to it

[copper fable]

the best way is to look at wolf builds and look at the reasons given why they have taken X passive or other skill and build your knowledge from there

[brittle atlas]

some are solid, some are not

[copper fable]

Tweak a wolf build until you make it your own twist then you can maybe make one from the ground up

[hasty tartan]

So if it's just 6% res per point and nothing else useful - don't take?

[brittle atlas]

the primalist attunement/cold/lightning res passive for example I would only take if you benefit from the attunement too

or as "travel" to progress further up the tree if there's something else beneficial to get

[hasty tartan]

Thanks. I'll probably not take it then

I see most wolf builds convert to squirrels - are there any that don't?

[copper fable]

Thats because by design the squirrels are factually always better in a pure minion build

they do 45% less damage, but you get twice as many, meaning there is actually a slight damage gain simply by going squirrels.

But that means you can most likely play almost any squirrel build as wolves and its fine.

[hasty tartan]

Hmmm.... are scorpion builds a thing either?

Trying to figure out what kind of beastmaster pet specs are viable

[copper fable]

Are you trying to have the minions do all the work, or mostly you with minion on the side or a balance?

cause it changes which pets are good

[hasty tartan]

Mainly minions

[copper fable]

You should try and look into wolves, scorpion and raptor.

[hasty tartan]

Thanks.

[copper fable]

Scorpion does not seem to be that popular these days, have not seen a build for them in a long time. but they did used to be played, and I dont think its been nerfed, other options just must be better

[thorny glen]

Glacier is still a good thing? I never used mage and want to

[hasty tartan]

I think it's good but mana intensive from my limited experience

[thorny glen]

I haven't seen any guide of that skill in the epoch tools, and idk if previous patch guides are good to take as reference or use 🤔

[copper fable]

if the class didnt change, it should be mostly fine

there is a glacier build from 0.8.3 iirc, that would should still work fine

[thorny glen]

Nice, time to go let it go on these frickers then, ty :D

[bronze trellis]

is there a way to guarantee I get the +1 hammer throw if I shattered this?
been using it forever since I have never been able to find another one with that affix, and I'm afraid to shatter it since it might not give me the shard for it back

unless I'm misunderstanding what affix shards you get back when you shatter

[copper fable]

shatter is not 100%, you might not get it

[bronze trellis]

😔

the hunt for another +1 hammer throw continues

speaking of, I've somehow haven't found another one at all

I'm cursed 😭

[copper fable]

some affixes are more rare then others, so you wanna filter for them and use removals on them

removal costs FP, but if it hits the affix, you get shards equal to the level at 100% chance

[bronze trellis]

that's a very good tip actually

if I knew that when I first had it I would've saved some potential for a removal

[stone granite]

always check the vendor too, sometimes they sell good stuff worth shattering

[sterile maple]

Guys what is the Best starter for new player ? With smooth gameplay ?

[brittle atlas]

devouring orb void knight probably

[stone granite]

Play literally anything

[brittle atlas]

low gear dependence, smooth playstyle, good enough for most low-mid tier content

but also that

there's...definitely stuff I wouldn't recommend personally, but ultimately it doesn't really matter what you play, everything is good enough to make it through the campaign and into level 100 content

[hasty tartan]

Is flat phys as strong as I think it is for wolves?

[brittle atlas]

yeah, flat damage in general is really good for almost everything

[hasty tartan]

Tunklab says they do 18 base phys, so 10 would add over 50% damage, right?

[brittle atlas]

yep

[hasty tartan]

Thanks, just wanted to make sure. Axe and Claw in beastmaster seems really strong then.

[urban sable]

whats it take to move a skill spec from one slot to another

for example i want to move a necro skill to slot one

[brittle atlas]

why?

like just moving them around? not changing them entirely?

[urban sable]

does the slot matter?

like do you get more points in the first slot as opposed to the one you get at lvl 8

[brittle atlas]

no

[acoustic thicket]

Any idea if it’s planned to make the player modifiers stacks also show in the mono web as the enemy modifiers do? More importantly the rarity %?

[sterile maple]

I have got lvl 70 druid and now I starter to have problems with content ofc cant have earthquake yet

[brittle atlas]

rarity should be bottom right when looking at the timeline map right?

or you mean separate out each modifiers associated rarity with it?

[acoustic thicket]

Yes, I’m assuming on the right side shows you how much rarity will be added and in the left bottom shows you how much % you’ve accumulated. But it doesn’t show x5..x2.. etc

Yes that’s what I mean

[brittle atlas]

so like instead of just your current total, have each modifier also list how much rarity it contributes?

[acoustic thicket]

Yes, so then that it shows you after how many monos a certain player mod (rarity%) will be taken away

So as you say instead of total rarity: 150% it would show 25%(2x), 18%(3x) so on, so that you can make sure you enter an orobys fight with highest rarity % possible.

So then with the example above, you’ll be able to determine that in 2 mono maps, 25% of your rarity will fall off, and 18% will fall off in 3 maps.

[acoustic thicket]

Do these 2 options not "respect" each other and act alone while filtering for items ?

I don't understand why its hiding this relic

[brittle atlas]

it has a T4 mod

your filter is looking for items with mods T3 or lower and total 8 or lower

[acoustic thicket]

yeah its a "hide these items" filter

so it shouldn't be affect this relic

but it is

[brittle atlas]

do you have any rules higher up that would show it?

[acoustic thicket]

No...

[brittle atlas]

hmm idk

I generally use filters in the opposite direction

hide everything and show what I want

vs hiding what I don't want

[acoustic thicket]

yeah if I change the direction of these two it makes the hide rule useless for some reason, not mattering what I do to it, the relic still shows up

Maybe its hiding it because there are tier 3 or less mods in it ?

[crude flame]

Ew Pam

[acoustic thicket]

Yeah thats it, I was hoping it would not work like that and show items if it has a more than tier 3 mod in it

[acoustic thicket]

What are you doing here

[crude flame]

Cant bully you here; my powers have waned

Well Cam was discussing LE and I was tempted to play after 8 months

[acoustic thicket]

This is what I mean (lol) wouldn’t it be a nice idea? Or does everyone just manually remember? Like yesterday I was at like 130% rarity, thought to do one more map to get abit more (25% or something) before hitting the orobys node, but the rarity was decreased. so I’m guessing one of the rarity mods dropped.

[brittle atlas]

yeah

[analog stump]

how do we farm for items in 8.4?
spam dungeon for purples? do i try to full clear each level before jura?
and spam the highest corruption i can do on monoliths for uniques?

i'm aware i can do specific timelines for specific unique slots nodes, just trying to figure out how to maximize my chances to look for LP uniques

[dense root]

lp uniques you get in monoliths

make sure you’re doing empowered because lp chances go up with area level and all empowered monos are level 100

[brittle atlas]

look for good dungeon modifiers mostly

imo speed clear first floor and full clear second floor if you want exalted

[dense root]

dungeon is really good for exalts yeah

one of the two doors before floor two is always exalted items as far as i can tell

[analog stump]

does corruption level matter?
or is 100 corr the same as 200 or 300 corr when it comes to LP uniques?

[analog stump]

ah nice thanks

[brittle atlas]

Same for LP, just more uniques overall

Due higher rarity mods at higher corruption

[analog stump]

👍🏻 thanks!

[acoustic thicket]

Btw arbours, I just noticed in your screenshot, 1000 corruption holy sheet man 🔥

Was that with lich?

[inland vortex]

What does the attack speed related part means?

that i wont be getting bonuses for attack speed but they will be related to phys cold light?

[wheat saddle]

u animal

[hearty jasper]

Hi! Are the drop chances for a low lvl unique (lvl 30-40) the same in empowered monos as in normal monos? Or is it better or even worse? Trying to figure out, if I should farm empowered to get high LP on it or if normal is better for more drops maybe?

[wheat prawn]

Does anyone know why Healing totems from Ancestral Renewal spawned through totems dont heal me? When i cast Eterra's Blessing on myself and a healing totem spawns it heals me just fine, but when i heal a totem and that spawns a healing totem it does nothing.

[exotic jetty]

Quick question, can i respec in these points aswell as the points i spec into skills?

[frosty mirage]

If referring to the ability to respec passive points, you can, looking at the level you haven’t made it to the first area that allows respec, without spoiling too much. Once you’ve finished the first chapter and hit the next town in chapter two, look for a purple head icon on the minimap in town, she will allow you to respec passive points in exchange for gold

[exotic jetty]

Awesome, thanks:D

[balmy current]

Kinda both, there would be more available uniques to drop in empowered monos (due to the higher level) so your chance of getting a specific low level unique is probably worse, but since empowered monos all start at 100 corruption you'll have a higher chance to drop a unique.

[sinful belfry]

hello...
why i cant craft this affix into my one hand dagger??

[snow spruce]

You can, but you should send all crafting shards to the correct inventory (theres a button in your personal inventory for this).

[sinful belfry]

how to send my crafting shards to the correct inventory??

[snow spruce]

Open your inventory, there's a button (I can't screenshot it right now, otherwise I would) Its below your equipped gear, but above the inventory itself

[sinful belfry]

what button bro??
sorry i still newbie..

[acoustic thicket]

Transfer crafting items

Right side right above your inventory

[sinful belfry]

ah yeah

its can...
thank you bro..

[daring aurora]

is Smelters Wrath fun to play? i just got this and might level a new char/reroll this Forge Guard for it

[solar juniper]

I tried dr3eads build for it, to me it was really fun

Especially with a head like that it looks fun, idk if the sunforged set is preferred usually. If you like big burst and aoe its nice

[marsh maple]

yeah

its a fun build

not a good build

[minor latch]

Can anyone explain why I don't have a forum badge on my account after buying the game on Steam?

[balmy current]

Either it's not updated or you just need to email support & ask them to fix it

[copper fable]

Yeah I dont have one either

but I wasnt sure if it was worth bothering them about it

hehe

[robust talon]

if i have 100%crit avoidance
why would i ever use this affix?
i dont understand the difference between this and crit avoid

[woven pine]

question regarding tooltip damage and character page info values... when i switch my body armor to a better one (only dmg stag is flurry crit%) i loose a lot of damage (e.g. 110% increased phys). unequipping armor doesnt do a thing, equipping one with better stats lowers my values. Any logic behind this?

[bronze trellis]

if you have 100% crit avoidance then you would have no need for less crit damage taken
one is just easier to get than the other, I think

[robust talon]

oh so those are 2 affixes with the same identical porpouse nothing special with "less damage from crit" versus "crit avoidance ?

[copper fable]

less damage from crit requires exalted iirc to be immune to crit damage but only requires 1 affix, where as crit avoidance needs a lot more.

its just different ways to get to the same end goal

[dense root]

i don’t it requires exalted i think it just needs a perfect roll

[bronze trellis]

that's good to know

[dense root]

i think the t5 range is like 80-100 or something

[copper fable]

ah close enough

get exalted so you dont have to roll ezpz

[dense root]

realistically i assume you’re probably fine with only 90% less damage from crits or something

[bronze trellis]

just tank the crits

[dense root]

like you just want to avoid massive damage spikes

[bronze trellis]

does this passive work well with orbiting hammer throws
like does the added flat damage persist for the entire hammer's duration, or just a single hit

[robust talon]

amazing! i have so many more rooms now

[robust talon]

eh sadly if i understood correctly , my english is bad,
it works with the next singular hit

so even if u hammerdin nova circle around you,
only the first 1 hammer will get that, then after 3 second , the next one.

it would have been to much broken otherwise

[bronze trellis]

yeah I was thinking that too
might have to post this in #👨┃ask-the-devs-not-support-no-bugs instead

[fiery sedge]

hi ,if i keep my current blessing (increased physical damage) and farm for the upgrade version does it have the chance or do i have to change with something else in order to have the upgraded blessing next time?

[robust talon]

same chance, totally random to appear
corruption 200 gives 5 blessing choices vs4 of corrupt100

[fiery sedge]

ty for the info.didnt know that 5 choices need 200 corrution

[robust talon]

@fiery sedge
i do also suggest u , if you are a pure physical build
to farm for the empowered mono timeline9
because it will grants as its blessing "physical shred chance"
wich is by far (all those shreds chance) an immense dps boost

same as (if new player, mid gear, bad gear)
the timeline7 for the blessing "all res20%" or "crit avoidance 70%"
really boost survivability

(these 2 should be the priority in every early-mid end game)

.
and timeline10 for the 320 flat armor, which as physical char as i understood u are
gives a nice nice damage reduction (armor does that is an ultra boost of survivability, but i would prioritize the other 2 i wrote, before this one)

[outer jay]

am I blind? for saving last refuge where tf do I go

cause the bridge is just gone

[rare fjord]

what kind of resistances does elemental resistance include exactly?

only fire cold lightning?

[solar juniper]

Fire ice Lightning

Y

[static glacier]

whats the level req of a low level unique item if you hit one t7 affixe?

sitting at a dreamthorn and a t7 void damage sword - want to make sure i can wear it if it works 😉

[pseudo dust]

T7 on an artors legacy didn't push it above 42, but t6 and T4 on a hellreach bumped it to 36, so I'd guess 28-34 for a dreamthorn with one t7?

[static glacier]

thank you guess i can try savley at nearly lvl 40 so ... gl 😄

[copper fable]

it depends on the mod

my dreamthorn with t6 %void damage and shockchance is level 45 req

[static glacier]

but you have 2 nodes

anyway i have spare 0 pot one so i guess ill just try 😛 let you know if i hit ^^

[copper fable]

is that what makes it increase? I couldnt tell in testing seemed random I wish it didnt increase at all so I could make mega twink gear 😏

[pseudo dust]

I assumed it counted the total added tiers, but I have no idea how it actually works

[static glacier]

the base sword of that t7 is a lvl 10 base 😄

RNG smiles at you 🙂

[solid void]

hello, I am a new player who is trying to play EarthQuake Werebear by Boardman21 guide, but the Passive Screen Shots are different from Build Planner, which one should I follow, please?

[icy bronze]

Im about to finish chapter 9 with my first character, a marksman. How should i progress further? Just start farming monoliths?

[dusky kite]

Monos and the dungeon are the way to go from there

[brittle atlas]

yep, just start trying to progress through monos to empowered asap

[dusky kite]

Arena is more niche and isn't a priority

[icy bronze]

Got it. End game, are most builds well crafted rares? Or largely uniques like d2? I absolutely love crafting in this game

[bronze trellis]

from what I've seen, well crafted rares with uniques / set items that boost your build in a way rares can't, or provide unique interactions

similar to Path of Exile's gearing

but it goes even further with some advanced forms of crafting

[icy bronze]

Fantastic. The crafting is a big reason im switching from poe

[bronze trellis]

have fun!

[dusky kite]

At endgame you are looking to replace your rares with sealed purples. Otherwise I'd say that roughly 40-50% of all builds are either completely or partially built around some unique or a combination thereof, others are mostly good stuff.

[icy bronze]

Got it! Thanks for setting expectations. So maybe running monos until i get a build defining unique to reroll with. Can the early monoliths drop every unique?

[brittle atlas]

no, there are uniques with higher level requirements

the first monolith is only zone level 58

and there are items, not just uniques, with requirements up into the 80s and even 90s in one case

some uniques (mostly boss ones) are empowered (level 100) monolith only

[bronze trellis]

I do like how gear keeps progressing up to such a high level

[icy bronze]

Oh wow, ok. Will i hit a wall with my first char, or is it a pretty smooth transition to the higher tiers?

[brittle atlas]

depends on the build/character, your knowledge/how fast you learn

some people definitely hit walls at like

chapter 9

[dusky kite]

More like "farm monos till you unlock all the blessings and hope that maybe an interesting unique drops" because the drop rates are meh in non-empowered monos. With the recent expansion of the crafting system you are not just looking for any uniques, you want uniques with legendary potential.

[brittle atlas]

and moving into empowered

there's basically no reason to farm non-empowered tbh

[dusky kite]

There are viable builds for every class in the game, so even if you do you can always respec.

[brittle atlas]

a well built/planned character can just smoothly progress all the way into empowered

even with pretty minimal gear

[bronze trellis]

is it unusual to be 40 hours into a character and not even finished with all the monoliths under level 80

[icy bronze]

I doubt mine is well built. I kinda decided i liked detonating arrow and just stuck with it the whole way. Still i can respec, like you said

[brittle atlas]

for me definitely, but idk what "normal" is in that regard

[bronze trellis]

this is my first ever time playing LE

[brittle atlas]

if I'm focused on a character I'll have it to 100 in ~30 hours

sometimes faster if it's a fast build

[hasty tartan]

How would you guys level a spellblade before Flame Reave is available?

[bronze trellis]

it surprised me how fun the 40 hours were
didn't feel like I was being super slow

[brittle atlas]

shatter strike or glacier

[bronze trellis]

and I still have literally every other character to try out

[acoustic thicket]

While LP is good. A unique by itself can enable a build and can be upgraded later with LP

[hasty tartan]

Shatter strike isn't available much earlier - glacier always ran me out of mana, any tips on that?

[brittle atlas]

mostly just don't cast it often, it should basically 1 shot everything

with the gambler's amulet you get from the early quest

if you do run low on mana, mana strike back up

[bronze trellis]

I wonder if the uniques are balanced around potentially have 1-2 extra modifiers

[hasty tartan]

Wait, should I be using that amulet?

[brittle atlas]

it's quite good for some leveling strategies

since it gives you a guaranteed crit

you can use that crit on cooldown basically with a big hit like glacier

[dense root]

i think it's really the opposite

[acoustic thicket]

Considering most of them were in the game before unlikely.

[dense root]

the chance to have various amounts of lp is balanced around how good the unique is

better uniques get less lp

[bronze trellis]

ahh true, forgot that LP is new

[bronze trellis]

I didn't know there was weighting to LP, good to know

[acoustic thicket]

Well it's by level req

[dense root]

no it's not

there's a hidden number that determines it

the hidden number is just the same as the level for many uniques

[brittle atlas]

ye, uniques have an "effective level" for LP that modifies how rare LP is on the item

https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/uniques

you can see it here

[acoustic thicket]

Ah missed that

[bronze trellis]

very good to know

[solid wagon]

What is steam even doing. why is it patching 12gb after downloading 30mb?

[brittle atlas]

because of how unity games store files it has to verify the entire file

[acoustic thicket]

^

[solid wagon]

Yikes. Thanks.

[brittle atlas]

ye

steam doesn't like games that keep lots of things in big single files

[dusky kite]

Nah, the uniques are largely unchanged from way before LP. What they did try to balance was giving bad uniques better chances for high LP

[icy bronze]

Thats a pretty elegant way to do that and it gives them a lever to adjust as things get weaker/stronger with the meta

[bronze trellis]

agreed

[icy bronze]

The devs are making some really good decisions from what i have seen. Im excited to be getting into the game at this early stage

[brittle atlas]

I've been following the game for a long time now and it just constantly gets better

[icy bronze]

Is there a way to support the game beyond buying it? Probably too late to be an early adopter or anything of that nature

[dusky kite]

Yeah the game has its downsides ofc, terrible optimization for instance, but the core gameplay is solid and is improving at a good pace.

[brittle atlas]

I think you can buy higher tier supporter packs on the website or upgrade by contacting support

there's no MTX or anything though

[bronze trellis]

and us early access gamers get free MTX money 😎

tree fiddy mtx points

[icy bronze]

Ahh ok i see em now

[snow tusk]

can Logi's Hunger drop anywhere?

[pseudo dust]

Nope, it's a rare drop from spirits of fire boss

[snow tusk]

arg, so I guess thats at the end of a chain of monoliths, right?

[brittle atlas]

it's the level 90 monolith, but logi's hunger is the empowered only drop for that boss

[pseudo dust]

It's not empowered only anymore, that's the idol

[brittle atlas]

oh? I thought the idol was just the non-empowered rare drop

kinda sad that the idol is the empowered one lol

[snow tusk]

I've never gotten over level 69 so I guess I'll see it in a year or two haha

thanks!

[rare fjord]

what is the benefit of spell werebear? I'm really hard to find it

[acoustic thicket]

Strength stacking for lots of flat added damage

[brittle atlas]

werebear gets 1 flat damage per strength via passives and can trigger entangling roots and maelstrom easily

and also gets to sustain rage easily via vines

[acoustic thicket]

^

[snow tusk]

for a Rune of Ascendance, is there a base I should be on the lookout for to ascend?

I found 2 of them and I don't want them to rot in my stash

[dense root]

just whatever you want to use them on really

worth noting that it only cares about the type of item (1h sword, 2h spear, amulet, etc.) and doesn't respect the specific base type (not every serpent bow becomes an acidfletch)

i've been using mine on boots recently because i want to get a bunch of legendary boots with movespeed on them

[snow tusk]

oh so any base 1h sword can be any unique 1h sword

[dense root]

it has to be one in the regular drop pool

so no boss uniques

but for the most part yeah

[snow tusk]

ok ok, ty

[acoustic thicket]

it also respects rarity

[hasty tartan]

Do you guys think we'll see Aphophis or Rahyeh as a boss in a later update?

[solar juniper]

I hope there ll be a "true form orobyss" or smth like that

Not just shades

[hasty tartan]

Yea, but he'd probably be an uber boss or something, right?

Not in acts

[bronze trellis]

I used to think the emperor was gonna be the end of the act bosses, but honestly he could very well be a much later boss
with Aphophis maybe being act 10
and Rahyeh being the acts closer

[solar juniper]

Yeah like after ending last timeline in empow at X corr or smth ridicoulus like that xd

Ld be fun

[bronze trellis]

True Orobyss seems like it'd be a level 100 boss ngl

or possibly even higher

[icy bronze]

if chapter 9 is kickin my ass, should i just go do monliths for a while

or asked another way, is there an actual need to finish the campaign?

[dense root]

you get +1 to all attributes for completing the last quest in chapter 9

[shut hinge]

hello all!

recently got a copy of last epoch, been enjoying the game so much

finally got Masaja down, I was surprised by the spike in difficulty 😅

[ripe tiger]

Hi im new, does pyre golem's fire aura stack?

for the passive that lets u use 2 golems

[solid wagon]

Suddenly my game stops responding whenever I press START when trying to enter an echo. Anyone had similar issues?

Basically all my echos are bricked, lol

[sterile sundial]

what is better for maul EQ damage?

[acoustic thicket]

depends on how much fire damage and shred you already have

[bronze trellis]

probably the shred

I'm guessing you're already stacking a bunch of increased damage

[ripe tiger]

are skeleton warriors just supposed to feel bad at lower levels?

or am i doing something horribly wrong

[hallow nacelle]

i see intelligence "improves skills that rely on magic". does that actually mean anything or is it flavor text?

[brittle atlas]

each skill has attribute scaling

mage and acolyte generally have the most intelligence scaling

the default is 4% increased damage per point of attribute, but some skills have something different

if you hold alt over a skill's icon you can see its attribute scaling

[hallow nacelle]

thank you!

[valid badger]

Are higher level items weighed towards higher tier mods or should I avoid filtering out level 30-40 items even into lategame?

[snow spruce]

You shouldn't really be filtering out all items of a certain level at all, as they can still roll with valuable affixes, and with high tiers of them as well. So, to answer your question, no don't do that, You should structure your filter to Show what you want to show, and have a Hide All rule at the bottom, so that anything that isn't what you'd like to see is filtered out. Hopefully that makes sense.

[valid badger]

Crystal clear. Thanks!

[vast plaza]

Hey, when trying to maximize stability/hr to farm a monolith boss for one of their uniques, what should my strategy outside of the echoes themselves be? Obviously when I'm in, I can be skipping as many non-objective mobs as is safe.

so far I've been avoiding mods that'd slow my clear down and exploring as far from the monolith as possible, but should I be resetting the web for corruption?

[valid badger]

Well, someone else can probably give you more certain advice, but it seems like the answer to grabbing more corruption depends on (1) how long you expect this to take and (2) can you handle any more corruption without dying

Target farming seems like it'd take a while, so I'd just hit the corruption as high as I could handle

[vast plaza]

well, It's a 50% drop chance unique I'm looking for, and I'm finding that I'm at the limits of my build's capabilities without it, so guess I'll keep on keeping on. Hopefully I'll get the drop soon enough. I've lost 2 rolls for it so far

[valid badger]

Makes sense, good luck!

[trim estuary]

Is it known how level requirement is calculated when make a legendary item?

[stoic steeple]

can low bases drop later in game?

or does the game automatically filter out bases by level to give you the best?

like, can you get a lvl 8 base from a lvl 60 area?

[foggy parrot]

I think so, not 100% sure but I've definitely seen like level 30 whites drop in level 90+ areas

[stoic steeple]

alright, ill take the time to learn the bases then 😐

[eternal owl]

does marked for death drop my resists? I just got owned like 6x by deadly enemies, marked for death and something was dropping all my resists

[timber agate]

marked for death inflicts -25% to all resistance, yeah

[eternal owl]

its destroying me xD

getting rekt

[static glacier]

you take 25% more damage that alone wont "destroy" you

[foggy parrot]

will a Vessel of Memory make me go back to the beginning of the echo web or will I be able to hop around wherever?

[foggy parrot]

Deadly Enemies also do 100% more damage, I believe

you can hold down ALT on echos to see a more in-depth explanation of what echo modifiers do (except for the obvious self-explanatory ones)

[frosty mirage]

You’ll have the option of the beginning or retrace your steps at the vessel as a secondary start point

[foggy parrot]

ahh, okay, that makes sense. thanks

[dry narwhal]

yeah chaos or orobyss resets the web iirc

i think and not or actually

[foggy parrot]

orobyss resets it completely

I don't remember what chaos does

[dry narwhal]

or does chaos only do reward rerolls

i havent used one lol

[foggy parrot]

yeah I think Chaos rerolls all non-completed echos?

[dry narwhal]

oh you know that sounds right too

[valid badger]

Do enemies have any resists? I'm wondering if I should invest in penetration stats

[foggy parrot]

yes

[dry narwhal]

penetration of your damage type is always more damage

so yes

[copper fable]

not at a baseline no, only through certain modifiers, they at a baseline have 0. But shred/pen is always a good damage modifier basically.

[dry narwhal]

resists can go negative so

[valid badger]

Gotcha, thanks guys

[sly brook]

when is endurance calculated especially for one shots? for example my endurance threshold = 90hp and let's say my max hp is 100. my endurance is 60%

an enemy hits me for 100, will i get damage reduction from endurance then?

[dry narwhal]

i don't think endurance prevents one shots

i think its damage reduction when you're below the threshold

[foggy parrot]

that's a good question, I'm not sure. it'd be interesting if damage is calculated sequentially like that

[dry narwhal]

if it prevents one shots, then its actually busted

[copper fable]

it does prevent one shots yes

As do the passives that reduce damage on low life

[foggy parrot]

it wouldn't always prevent one-shots per se, since a one-shot is a one-shot

[dry narwhal]

then it really is busted

[copper fable]

Well lets just say damage goes to endurance line and immediately starts getting reduced even if its in a singular hit

[foggy parrot]

like you're never going to survive the emperor of corpses dragon's one-shot attack

[dry narwhal]

so it "can" prevent them but it won't always

[copper fable]

Basically the DR is never wasted

[dry narwhal]

if you don't have enough hp, which is a problem to begin with lol

[copper fable]

if you have 3k hp, and take a 3.2k hit from a single blow, if you have 60% endurance you live

because the damage that hits your endurance threshold is gonna get reduced even though its all from a singular source that happened before you were below the threshold

[dry narwhal]

thats really good

[copper fable]

Basically endurance is just a really decent way to make hp more effective

[dry narwhal]

and part of why ward is "worse"

i won't say bad, but endurance kinda real good

[copper fable]

Ward is honestly worse not really because of endurance but because of how you generate it. my ward character has way more EHP then my hp character against 1 shots

but you dont actually get 1 shot that often in this game

[dry narwhal]

yeah, i dont think ive ever been one shot in le

[copper fable]

but leech characters heal insane amounts of damage that ward can never compete with

[dry narwhal]

unless it was EoC when i was learning that fight

[copper fable]

So its more so about recovery, ward has worse recovery but can get better ehp.

[dry narwhal]

so provided a constant generation somehow, ward will win

but its a harder fight to get there

[foggy parrot]

even with the crazy uniques and idols that generate ward?

[dry narwhal]

those don't generate ward that fast by themselves

unless you've optimized a ton of hp on gear

[foggy parrot]

kinda figured they would since there's one unique that generates like 30% of max life per second or something like that

[dry narwhal]

it's not that high

[foggy parrot]

then another unique where potions restore ward

[dry narwhal]

but it is based on a percent of missing hp

[foggy parrot]

and has like 90% chance to find potions

but I see your point, it'd take a specific item build to generate it quickly

[dry narwhal]

you don't wanna rely on potions that much

[copper fable]

so my low life ward character has 3.2k health, which means I get 35% of my missing hp per second as ward if im at 1 hp this translates to roughly 1120 ward per second

where as leech does the percentage of the damage dealt over 3 seconds

you just heal insane amounts that ward can never compete with

Ward basically will never be able to compare to leech

Ward is only useful for characters who otherwise cant leech, or have other benefits from it.

[dry narwhal]

my first char was swipe werebear and even with crap gear could tank the whole game lol

[robust talon]

true, leech swipe can facetank orobyss insane high corrupt

[robust talon]

absolute true, we wrote same thing at same time xd

[dry narwhal]

lol ye

well when i was doing swipe werebear orobyss either wasn't in the game yet or was newly introduced

[robust talon]

the only sad thing about leech swipe\whatever melee
is the close range, i hate so much chasing monsters

[dry narwhal]

that's what charge was for

i do miss how fast charge was

[robust talon]

heeeellll yeah

[dry narwhal]

rampage is fun as heck

but charge had benefits

[robust talon]

to not talk about charge low life werebearth earthquake(firestaff)
charge = no more monsters, next please

[dry narwhal]

yeah, that was real fun

never got last steps while that build was at full glory

[wheat saddle]

realy?

[dry narwhal]

but even full life version was super strong

[wheat saddle]

https://youtu.be/uJcSbksc0uc

check my ward there

[copper fable]

if you generate it on hit it is different imo

and not what most people think about when you say "ward build" I should have clarified

[wheat saddle]

yea well game progress

im not picking on you

i just want to understand if its true

i just dont think that sentiment is true anymore

[copper fable]

I mean thats just what everyone says, I think ward is better then people give it credit, but it really depends on how you get it

[wheat saddle]

and idk why you said this

"if you generate it on hit it is different imo"

like who made that rule

[acoustic thicket]

Ward gained on hit
Vs Ward based on life I'd say are different builds.

[copper fable]

Because ward werebear for example cant use heart to create massive amounts of ward

So it has to use low life ward stuff

which is trash and bad

[wheat saddle]

mine is actually ward based on life

u realise thats sorc

it is hitting yes, but also based on life

[copper fable]

Yeah im just saying that not all ward builds are that, and not all ward builds can be built that way

[wheat saddle]

bc without leech i wont keep 100% hp

so

[copper fable]

if you look at ward builds as a generic vs hp builds, they are worse

[wheat saddle]

yea sure but i also dont know why youre using absolutes to determine things like that

im aware of every ward build

[timber agate]

and the context for the discussion before is the lowlife ward build using exsang etc are usually not that good

[wheat saddle]

dunno, missing context

like a lot of missing context

[dry narwhal]

then can you back off lol

[wheat saddle]

?

back off what?

[acoustic thicket]

Okay so LL ward vs other types of Ward builds are bad

[copper fable]

like I think dragon heart is very special when it comes to ward gen because you dont actually have to lose the stuff that makes hp good

[dry narwhal]

you're down his throat about saying one sentence

[wheat saddle]

i think thats how you feel

i dont feel that way

[copper fable]

like vessal of strife is really good because you get to be a health build and still build potentially good amounts of ward

like do you have capped endurance jabba?

[wheat saddle]

what im saying is that its weird to determine whether something is good or not without thinking about extrenal factors

no

my build doesnt use endurance

[timber agate]

this line from dicedragon is enough context to show that he's talking about those low life ward build, not ward build in general

[wheat saddle]

its good enough, i can tank t4 julra aoe bomb or anything from her, except the doom that follows after

and i have 200 armor

so yea

this is sort of why i keep saying that youre missing context as to what other defensive layers follows the build

[copper fable]

I mean so can my LL ward build, its mostly about how fast can you recover which is what I was saying is bad for LL builds

[wheat saddle]

sure except im not ll ward ?

[copper fable]

we were talking mostly about LL ward because thats what the majority of ward builds are gonna be unless they are sorc or spellblade....

[acoustic thicket]

He was never talking about your shit He was talking about LL

[wheat saddle]

i just basically picked on the thing you said re: ward

[acoustic thicket]

You jumped into his convo about LL builds

[wheat saddle]

this one

[copper fable]

Yes for 90% of all the game that statement is true

[wheat saddle]

yea but that sounds pretty isolated to me

i mean, its all good

[copper fable]

like you can always point to a counter arguement, I mean im not actually speaking in absolutes there is always rules

[wheat saddle]

the thing is idk if there is even rules

i think people tunnel on something

and not thinking about context

[copper fable]

Nah I think if you try and go marksman ward

[wheat saddle]

ok?

[copper fable]

you are simply gonna have a bad time

[wheat saddle]

why?

can i ask what your hours on the game is like?

just for context

[copper fable]

I have 800 hours, am 250 arena, and like 250 corruption

and I play a ward build

l0l

[wheat saddle]

ok.

[copper fable]

its like trying to make necrotic or void marksmen, you are just spending extra resources to make something out of the box work

it CAN work, its just not gonna be the best possible build

Thats all the convo was about, is that ward is kinda bad for the majority of classes, for the classes with support for it, it has a lot more potential

But thats an entirely other conversation 😛

[wheat saddle]

id think that until i saw a low life bd

and it looked really good actually

dunno, marksman is bad with ward is not a matter of compatibility issue or w/e

its just issues within marksman as a class

[copper fable]

its sorta like LL bear, its a thing, it is a good option. But once you get to the nitty gritty being able to heal 10k a second vs 1k a second it just makes life much better

BD is gonna be mostly the same. its hard to beat fully healing instantly

When you do 1m poison damage to julra leech means you cant die, where as ward means you do die thats why most people share the sentiment that health just ends up being better in most cases

[wheat saddle]

except u cant heal if u get one shot

idk

[acoustic thicket]

Its why spellblade getting a metric fuckload of ward and sustaining it is nuts vs a regular ward build.

A regular LL ward build can't even tank half as well in most cases and can't regain it when it gets hit as fast

It's a no contest between the non-LL and the LL versions.

[copper fable]

Well you generally shouldnt get 1 shot depending on your layers, like I use bastion and have cracked out block effectiveness so I just stand next to julra and she literally does 1-2k with most attacks, but I could do the same if I had leech and a 3k health pool

[acoustic thicket]

But if you get hit multiple times in quick succession then you pop when the other builds shrug it off

[copper fable]

Ward just has an upper limit where as leech does not, which is the crux of the argument basically.

[wheat saddle]

yeah i have nothing like bastion etc

but i have a lot of % less damage taken

15% from orian, 30% from prism wraps, 25% from aegis, and 48% from flameward

[copper fable]

like trust me, im a fan of ward builds, but its just not in the cards for the majority of the classes which prolly why I mostly play sorc/acolyte lol

[wheat saddle]

which i can activate altogether

im not arguing about that poiont anymore fyi

its ok we can move on 🙂

just sharing my build and how i deal with it

[radiant stratus]

Anyone have an issue with the game crashing to desktop and then steam thinking it's still running?

:/ I can't play

[radiant thunder]

same

cant open

it starts loading and crashes

[stoic steeple]

this is literally the reason i 100% didnt want to buy it off steam

also i wanted devs to get money

steam means steam takes a huge cut

this money goes directly to devs

[rare fjord]

how does this work with umbral blade? because it says 'attacks', not 'hit', it only inflicts 5 stacks regardless of the number of blades?

[brittle atlas]

it gives your third throw 500% bleed chance

so each blade gets ~300% bleed chance

[rare fjord]

wow....

[static glacier]

and then you convert all those extra bleed stacks to poison and be like "melt!"

[carmine chasm]

how good is this from 1-10 ?

for a nova/lightning blast sorc

[robust talon]

There is any secret special interaction sinergy am i missing with wolf Howl ?
the only way to proc it is by killing something right?
no way to proc on hit for solo\boss fight

[copper fable]

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

[robust talon]

daiummmmmmmmmmmmm thankss

[wispy vine]

coming back since like may, has the consensus on autocasting changed? will it become a core feature, is it unintended?

[dense root]

i believe i've seen the devs say multiple times that it's unintended and we've definitely seen them make design choices that discourage autocasting

[wispy vine]

alright, ive found myself in a weird spot where im playing void knight autobomber without realizing what autobomber meant until i switched into the build lol

im not a fan of it myself

[brittle atlas]

it's not something they're going to stop, so much as they want to make skills whose optimal usage isn't autocasting

and have/will make changes to skills such that autocasting isn't the optimal way to use them

[wispy vine]

seems devouring orb and anomaly heavily benefit from autocasting right now

[brittle atlas]

eh, devouring orbs cast time makes autocasting very mediocre in practice imo

[dense root]

i tried autobomber yesterday actually since i got a legendary omni with % void damage

and like it seemed strong

[midnight timber]

easy enough to respec to a more active build, if you don't enjoy the autobomber 🙂

[brittle atlas]

much better to have control over your casts and not spam cast

[dense root]

but also felt really awkward to play

[marsh maple]

its better to just simply press the button 😄

[brittle atlas]

since you don't always need max orbs to clear an echo, for example

[wispy vine]

im gonna be a cool kid

and just press the buttons

[brittle atlas]

you can just get 2-3 and lunge/charge through everything

[wispy vine]

im coming from median xl where i just got done playing a literal piano build, i think i can handle a couple buttons, dont need to go full lazy brain off lol

[brittle atlas]

outside of instant-use skills with no animation time/lock I feel like autocasting is generally not optimal, since locking yourself in place without your direct input is likely to get you killed at times

[dense root]

it did seem awkward that if you tried to autocast orbs your character would just stand still for half a second every couple of seconds

[fiery sedge]

is more corruption affecting how fast do i get to bosses of empowered timelines? or the stability bar grow simultaneously?

[vapid aspen]

Corruption makes you get more stability and does not change requirement

[acoustic thicket]

What happens if a glyph of despair fails ?

[brittle atlas]

the affix is just upgraded but not sealed

[acoustic thicket]

I have 2 chances then on my tier 3 thing that I want to seal

[bronze trellis]

do you guys think the coin echos are gonna be valuable once multiplayer and economy comes in

[dense root]

probably not unless stuff gets rebalanced

[bronze trellis]

I'm thinking that coins are gonna become a lot rarer

instead of items costing like millions of coins

[copper fable]

I think multiplayer is just gonna not really have trading, if they stick to the current thoughts on trade, you cant trade for legendaries and you cant trade for targeted items, only what the bazaar presents you, meaning that relying on or even using trade most likely wont be a thing

[dense root]

i doubt they're going to substantially nerf gold acquisition

but also that would be "stuff gets rebalanced"

[bronze trellis]

true

[robust talon]

really sad , but from what i can think this looks like the only way to block sort of RMT i suppose.
but daium trading is such a good part of any arpg\mmo.
can t think or figureout any other way to block rmt, guess random bazar is the only way

[bronze trellis]

I'd be fine with semi-ssf too tbh

[copper fable]

they would need to regear a few systems to mess with gold gain, are stashes cheaper? is respeccing cheaper? remember, MP is a restart for everyone who wants to play online and each and every cycle you start over

if you have ever played solo, gold still does not matter but if you hampered its drop rate, it very well could start to become an issue

[woven token]

Someone playing Fire aura , is good in this patch??

[bronze trellis]

true as well, everything's starting fresh so the devs can really do anything with the economy and not have to worry about people with millions of gold

I'm excited to see how they're gonna go about it

[copper fable]

im very excited for MP as well

[brittle atlas]

I'm mostly interested in seeing how broken some party comps can be

[copper fable]

Dreadshade + MA

😏

boss go byebye

[bronze trellis]

partying is gonna get weird

I don't think current echos can handle more than a single person

[dense root]

sadly the busted comp is probably just stacking poison right?

[brittle atlas]

currently yeah probably

poison squirrel BMs with a necro support comes to mind

[robust talon]

Mp party will obliterate everything
i strongly believe
9.0.1 till 9.9.9 patch is gonna be a balance fix everyday with nuke nerfs

[bronze trellis]

lmao, party play is so strong it takes the devs eternities to balance it

they have to use the power of the epoch to go back in time and stop themselves from ever implementing it

[robust talon]

true story xd,
hope monsters will scales a lot in terms of health\dmg for every player added to the party, or it gonna be a bad patch for monsters enemies

[vapid aspen]

Poison is fairly easy to balance in MP though

Currently bosses dont get as much shred, they just need to reduce the shred power per player

Not like halve with 2 players, but maybe like 30% less per player

still makes the party cool and fun, keeps it from getting out of hand

[lilac coral]

do you take "Enemy Modifiers" into Monolith Quest Echos with you (ie the actual quests rather than simple map echoes)?

[topaz parrot]

is there any way to make devouring orbs auto-cast so I don't have to constantly hold my key down in order to spawn them?

[dense root]

map the skill to a number on your numpad, hold down the number, turn off numlock

[robust talon]

you can trick that with the numpad block.
still unable to understand why they dont make it a toggle on\off option, because we can easily bypass with numpad

[dense root]

because they don't want it in the game it's just something they haven't gotten rid of

it's not like a design choice they made and then hid behind the numlock key it's just how keyboards work

[spiral umbra]

Do the primalist "Survival of the Pack" minion leech count towards my own health or only theirs, I assume only their own hp

[brittle atlas]

only theirs

[dense root]

they've been clear that autocasting is not really a playstyle they want to support and the way skills are designed mostly reflects this

[spiral umbra]

@brittle atlas ty

[robust talon]

true true, but being so easy to "bypass" that ,
does not make anysense

[topaz parrot]

ty boys

[brittle atlas]

they would prefer to rework/redesign skills that are commonly autocast to make autocasting them suboptimal

[eager magnet]

And yet still better to auto most

[dense root]

no?

the majority of skills are not better when autocast

[eager magnet]

Clearly I don’t mean everyone good lord

[dense root]

i mean you said "most"

i think it's like a single digit number of skills

[brittle atlas]

eh, there's only a few skills right now I'd consider truly optimal to autocast

[dense root]

really the only skill i've played with that i'm fairly confident was better when i tried autocasting it was anomaly but even then i ended up just doing it manually

[brittle atlas]

and then some that people autocast despite it being suboptimal that need more changes

[eager magnet]

Whatever works for you

[brittle atlas]

the only skills I'd personally autocast rn are tornado, maelstrom, and avalanche with their instant cast nodes

stuff like devouring orb is imo a mistake to autocast

due to the delay and generally not needing your max orbs to clear

so autocasting will slow you down in most situations

[dense root]

just get so much increased cast speed that it's instant

ez

[brittle atlas]

or something like enchant weapon where you don't need the buff to 1 shot stuff while clearing but want it up for a boss/objective monster

[bronze trellis]

smite autocast gonna get smacked 😔

tbf though you need to spec into smite to make the healing worth having it autocasted

[copper fable]

I dont think you are talking about auto cast

no one autocasts smite

triggering other abilities is by design

autocasting is something else entirely

[bronze trellis]

ahh gotcha

[copper fable]

Auto casting involves setting up a skill with a CD to be held down thanks to numpad, this lets it "auto cast" as soon as the cd is up

if you do it with stuff with no CD you just are stuck in place spamming

😏

[bronze trellis]

no wonder I got it confused then
since autocasting sounds unintentional

[snow tusk]

does anyone have like a no-brainer build? I feel like everything I try is very gear dependent

[copper fable]

its just how keyboards work yeah, they are slowly removing it by reworking skills to suck when you autocast them, or reward you for not.

Also do you like minions? MA and abomination will farm t4 julra and 200-300 corruption with new player gear

[snow tusk]

minions are fine

whats MA shorthand for?

[copper fable]

manifest armor, its a more active single minion build

[snow tusk]

you got planner for it?

or I can look one up

[copper fable]

sec ill get stuff

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/0-8-4d-kryces-manifest-armour-shield-throw-simply-unethical-damage/46581/56

I played this version, but as a caveat this version is gear based, but I molded it to my own liking.

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/5Q0VEbGo this was a character I played up to 200 corruption in "Solo" with no starting gear

I made my version as a paladin just for holy aura to ease gear requirements

[snow tusk]

so you shield throw on your MA and it attacks from it, right?

[copper fable]

the guide should go over the basics of Manifest armor as a skill and how it works. But for gear as long as you get a flat crit melee two hander the damage will be fine, the boots are sorta manditory, but it works without them just less damage

and yeah just throw shield and it attacks

with my gear I am able to do t4 julra on only 1-2 cycles which is very nice

[snow tusk]

does that melee crit multi affect your MA?

[copper fable]

on the boots yes

[snow tusk]

and you don't need a shield for shield throw??

[copper fable]

nope

We use axes/swords so you can get the 30% attack speed in base sentinal tree to throw shields faster

The relic is missing, but any hp/minion damage/attunement set up works, I was using vessel of strife which looks like it did not import

but its not needed right away

[snow tusk]

I'll give it a go, thanks!

[copper fable]

the boots are a large part of damage, so if you dont have them, its the one item id try and farm

but you dont need anything else other hten that basicly

[snow tusk]

do they drop a specific place?

[copper fable]

uhhh you can try farming spirits of fire

thats where unique boot rewards are

and if you want something that requires basically no uniques 0 gear at all, https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/ascheres-vinebear-monolith-speed-clearer-0-8-4f-10k-ehp-50-100k-dps-very-fast-clear-new-player-and-hardcore-friendly-detailed-written-guide-200-empowered/46999/41 this one is very good too

[snow tusk]

I don't think I've gotten through the first endgame monolith thing

[fiery sedge]

i have a blessing(empowered) but the roll is bad. Is it possible to roll again with better stat or i have to change to another blessing and then run again to find it better?

[robust talon]

it is possible dont worry , u r gonna get 4-5 random blessings every time no matter what u currently have

[buoyant sparrow]

Can I drop Sanguine Hoard on a lich even if it's for marksman? I want to find the item for another build than the one I'm playing at the moment

[brittle atlas]

Yes

[buoyant sparrow]

ok thanks!

[brittle atlas]

You can get items for any class, though at a slightly lower rate

[hasty tartan]

Is flame reave bad until you get firebrand, or did I screw something up?

I can't even kill immortal eyes before they explode

[dense root]

you can always run away if your damage isn't enough

[hasty tartan]

Yeah, I'm just wondering if the damage normally sucks early on

[brittle atlas]

Flame Reave is definitely a case of “good because it stacks a bunch of more multipliers”

If you don’t have those yet- the rhythm nodes, firebrand autocrit, blade weaving

Then it’s not nearly as good

[hasty tartan]

I have rhythm but not the others

I'm level 31 so no firebrand

Thanks - guess I need to just keep going

[fiery sedge]

does % increased physical damage affect +X bow damage?

[topaz parrot]

is there any safer way to get rid of the mods u dont want on an item rather than using the rune of removal?

[dense root]

you can glyph of chaos them if they're below t5 which is sometimes better

depends a bit on the details

[topaz parrot]

oh yeah great idea mate, also running a bit short on removals so yeah that'll do

cheers!

[raw coyote]

the loot filter is top down, correct?

[brittle atlas]

Yes, highest rule is highest priority

[brittle atlas]

It affects any physical damage, including +X bow physical damage

[radiant thunder]

hey, i think i found a bug, how should i proceed?

[raw fern]

!bug

[ripe brook]

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

[radiant thunder]

ty!

[fierce kraken]

You can also use glyphs of despair to seal unwanted affixes and craft what you do want.

[topaz parrot]

Oh thats great news, thanks mate

[bronze trellis]

does each stack of shock increase the enemy's chance to be stunned, or does it increase your own chance to stun when you hit that shocked enemy

[fierce kraken]

Increases enemy's chance to be stunned

[bronze trellis]

oh that's great then

I got a choice between an inc stun chance blessing and a shock on hit blessing

[stone granite]

Glyph of chaos is way better than glyph of despair if it's an unwanted affix

Despairs are rare

And not guaranteed to seal

[fierce kraken]

It depends

T1 on a exalted is guaranteed or really close

I would definitely use removals if you're just going to yolo something but despairs give you a different option.

[stone granite]

I would never use a rune of removal period

[fierce kraken]

There is a 25% chance of doing it for free. If an item is not an upgrade but could be if one affix was removed then it sounds okay. A lot of times the odds are better than chaosing into what you do want (depending on available affixes).

[pseudo dust]

I only use rune of removal to scrape off rare affixes for the shards

Too many bad memories to do anything else

[vapid aspen]

I use them when an item has 1 good affix and all bad

Worst case I get shards for good affix

[foggy parrot]

yeesh, the enemy power jump from normal monos to legendary is nuts... I'm still surviving but my health is jumping down really fast (leech is fast enough to help save me from almost dying). is that normal? level 91 right now, all my resistances are overcapped with only nectrotic and void at around 60-70%

[north mist]

Overcapping your resistances does almost nothing (only against mobs which shred res). Resistances should never be your only defensive layer, endurance, armour, dodge and/or high health total is what you need (should aim for atleast 2k health generally, some builds can and should definitely get more)

[frosty tinsel]

Let's say I have a darkstride with 1 legendary potential and some exalted boots with movement speed. Can darkstride turn legendary with the movements speed affix from the exalted item or not?

[pseudo dust]

when you're killed by "unraveling void" in the julra fight, does that mean the rotating beams?

[fringe pawn]

yes it has a 1 in 4 chance

[brittle atlas]

I believe that's the name for the beams, yeah

could be the puddles too?

[pseudo dust]

i placed the puddles pretty carefully, but i guess i misjudged the beam hitbox

hard to tell, they'd just spawned in and then i was dead

[brittle atlas]

they do a lot of damage

[pseudo dust]

sure do, they oneshot basically all my non-vk characters

[brittle atlas]

on my bladedancer with RV equipped, capped void res, and crimson shrouds for reduced dot taken they tick for ~1100

[vapid aspen]

Dont beams also shred res?

or is that just pools

[brittle atlas]

they do

[vapid aspen]

So you want ~100% void res if your goal is facetank

Funny thing is my regen bear actually can facetank those numbers

[brittle atlas]

yeah I can survive them via leech on BD

[vapid aspen]

Wonder if you can tank pool and beams XD

[pseudo dust]

welp, i'm definitely doing something wrong

maybe i should be testing the hitbox on the first dungeon

[nova jackal]

should I be full clearing the temporal sanctum or is it not worth?

[brittle atlas]

the second floor is ok to clear if you want to farm exalted items

the first floor if the first modifier is good

[stone granite]

I'm playing lightning blast and it feels like the further out the target is the slower I cast, does anyone else feel like that?

[gilded plover]

How do resistances work exactly? Say you take 500 fire damage before mitigation and you have 75% fire res with area level 1 (no passive penetration), is this accurate?

Damage Taken = 500 * (1-0.75)

[toxic anvil]

Doesn’t area level 1 mean you essentially have 74% resistance?

[restive lodge]

Hi im new, and abt to buy thr game. Wanted to ask if this game has achievements?

[gilded plover]

For simplicity I’m pretending there’s no penetration but yes I believe you are correct

[bronze trellis]

yeah the damage calculation would work like that

[sour scaffold]

For simplicity yes, 75% res = 25% of 500

[bronze trellis]

not a useful calculation though since you'll almost always be at effectively 0% res

[gilded plover]

Well 1 - Res is correct because it also includes penetration properly. A negative resistance will increase the damage taken

[bronze trellis]

yeah, having not capped res is much less punishing in this game than in other ARPGs

it's pretty nice ngl

[gilded plover]

Res is capped tho

It’s capped at 75%

[bronze trellis]

yeah im just saying

[gilded plover]

Cap only matters with shred which reduces your uncapped res

[sour scaffold]

Tempest Strike has melee+spell scaling tag but they're still completely separate as normal right? The rock spikes won't get my melee phys?

[snow spruce]

No, they shouldn't

[sour scaffold]

Thanks.

[bronze trellis]

is this the unique people use to gain giga ward

[dense root]

also exsanguinous

[bronze trellis]

look that up rq

oh cool

they stack together

[gilded plover]

Do any abilities gain damage from ward though? Could be neat to stack a ton of regen and max health and roll exsanguinous with huge ward

[static glacier]

If you want huge ward low life alone wont help

The big Show numbers are from ward on hit or kill stuff usually

If you have 4k life and no regen you would gain ~1,3k ward per second from ll... that will not take you to above 10 or 20k 😬

[bronze trellis]

you would need the boots + chestpiece too, 2 slots taken by uniques

probably a lot of ehp though ngl

[earnest nacelle]

that's not as big a deal as it once was due to legendary items now

a large part of getting big ward numbers isn't actually in gaining ward, but keeping it, so you need a lot of ward retention

[static glacier]

If you are for Show
Frostbite gloves and t6/7 cold res on everything 👀

[fierce kraken]

I think so. I know it is something they want to add and improve on.

[valid badger]

Is attack speed from a skill tree like serpent strike multiplicative with global attack speed the same way damage is?

[analog copper]

Hey all I was wondering where I would go from here with this build now I'm following an auto bomber guide at the moment just wondering what i should be looking out for now I am starting empowered Monos
https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/KBakObrA

[dry narwhal]

that relic is pretty bad

[brittle atlas]

@robust talon RE: your questions in ask the devs.

A) it doesn’t seem like it? At least in empowered it seems relatively consistent, my benchmark is 25 echoes for +12.

B) I have never seen an orobyss with more than +20 base corruption, my understanding is that the map is limited in dimensions and will always result in dead ends, most often before you can find a +20. +16 is a much more common dead end.

[robust talon]

really thank u for the answers

for "A)"
do u actually believe the math formula (approximate if going perfect streight line cardinals)
is
25 echoes = orobyss encounter is the 26th is +12 corruption ?
so this can go infinite?

let's suppose as pure exemple
250 echoes (streight line, approximate math formula)
will result in +120 corruption after killing the Orobyss in that streight cardinal line ?
(my english is trash hope u get it)

[brittle atlas]

It seems like every two units of distance is roughly +1 corruption for an orobyss, yeah. I don’t think it’s possible to go that far out, you’ll hit a dead end way before then. As I said, I’ve never seen an orobyss higher than +20. I strongly believe that is the maximum you’ll find before reaching a dead end.

More often, you’ll only reach +16 or sometimes +18.

[robust talon]

ah rip.

and that
2 units = +1 corruption
is identical no matter which was your starting corruption?

same identical formula
if you are in 100 corruption, same as 1000 corruption?
so you can only obtain a +20(max theory) corruption after every reset?

[brittle atlas]

In my experience pushing to 1k corruption it seemed pretty static yeah.

[robust talon]

really thank u a lot

[brittle atlas]

I was often going for only +12 or so before a reset, however

The higher in corruption you get the more likely it is that your path forward will be blocked off by a modifier or series of modifiers that you can’t run (multiple 400%+ damage modifiers, for example)

[robust talon]

yeah i v really got some of those blockers, and i was never able to understand if there was a "dead end" as u suggested,
so i guess
+15 corruption is really the "top" we can aim for each reset.

and what about the
corruption bonus sometimes you can see in the orobyss web echo?
sometimes it seems He gives you not just its planned corruption formula (2unit =1corruption) but also a special Corruption bonus

how do u trigger that?

[brittle atlas]

You get bonus corruption if you’re killing orobyss in a timeline that is below the corruption of your highest corruption timeline

At +10 base corruption, it seems to be half of the difference to your maximum

Perhaps 5% per base corruption?

As running a 100 corruption timeline while having 1005 as my highest made a +12 node give 606 bonus

[robust talon]

that truly explains a lot, thank u for real

[robust talon]

Guys do u know
how item rarity actually works for items?

A)does the drop of an item has an internal roll to be unique\set?
i haven t got more or less uniques\set based on which rarity i am, in echoes
it seems pretty stabilized (only thing that increases it , is the blessing timeline1 with +20% unique drop chance)

b)i do believe that item rarity only increases the number of ** total tiers affixes**
you can drop from a monster
(Not their rolls min-max, this seems extremely randomized)
for exemple (throwing random values)
1000% rarity you have xxx chance to obtain item with tier20+ total
while
100% rarity you have much much lower chance for that.

[sage wedge]

Having trouble with my first Aspect of Orobyss in the attempt to corrupt my first echo

looking for advice on that boss fight

this is my first attempt at corruption, and I'm dying to what seems to be full-screen Void damage

[frigid orbit]

He picks a set of skills out of a big pool of skils. So there is not 'one' simple guide. Easiest in the beginning is try to learn his skills and how they are telegraphed and can be dodged. I think there are some guides on yt

[sage wedge]

ok. when there's three purple orbs then the whole screen erupts in purple circles.... how do I dodge that one?

I'm seeing it telegraphed but it seems to affect the entire (small) arena

[frigid orbit]

Is it a big beam going through the screen or void pools explodign when you touch them or a three area growing void scone with small area in between?

[sage wedge]

I think three area

but I see no 'in between' in which to hide out

[brittle atlas]

it always explodes outward to inward

stay on the inner bit, then go to the outer bit

[sage wedge]

ok

[frigid orbit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtub8Lwp1nA

[brittle atlas]

https://youtu.be/fftQXctdBGk?t=49

this one?

at the timestamp

[sage wedge]

not that one

there's three small purple sspheres

then everything becomes bathed in the purple swirly lights

and that does a ton of Void damage

I can survive the first usually, not the second time it happens

[brittle atlas]

hmmm I'm not entirely sure which ability it is from that description :\

[static glacier]

the void balls that explode?

[frigid orbit]

The balls can be 'touched' and explode shortly after so you can walk away after triggering them

[sage wedge]

huh. if I avoid them, they still seem to cover the screen in purple

then I take a ton of Void damage

should I try to run through them and move away?

[static glacier]

trigger them and move out of the puddle

[sage wedge]

I can't seem to see any 'gap' in the resulting huge bath of void

it's wider than the circular platform I'm fighting the shade on top of

[brittle atlas]

the only arena-wide void damage is the three sequential explosions

there's nothing else that covers the entire platform

[sage wedge]

huh

[frigid orbit]

These balls? https://youtu.be/rtub8Lwp1nA?t=228

[sage wedge]

I'll try again shortly, this time with rip blood

see if it helps me survive

[brittle atlas]

if you can take a video it'd help a lot to understand what you mean

[sage wedge]

I'll try, thanks for the advice

[sage wedge]

video seems not to be working.... still researching

it looks like the three purple balls then burst into five way shards that shoot outwards

I hae now survived a few more iterations (1187 health, 76% resist) but still die to void most times

and my minions get wrecked (Necromancer)

[brittle atlas]

ah those

yeah they have an area of damage over time around them

then they burst into projectiles

[sage wedge]

it's hard to escape all three

I'm gettinb etter with practice. glad there's no death penalty

[brittle atlas]

try to be up against a wall and roughly equidistant from two of them

[balmy pulsar]

With sigils skill in paladin is there any other way to auto summon them than the 6% on kill node?

[brittle atlas]

no

[icy compass]

Does "x% increased fire damage" count torwards minions/totems aswell? or does it have to be "x% minion fire dmg"

[brittle atlas]

has to specifically mention minions

[icy compass]

thank you!

[dusky kite]

Only minion stats count for pets

[static glacier]

play a build that uses no mana, make them instant and numlock them

hammer throw works quite fine this way 😉

[sage wedge]

found a differe shade, different set of skills, made it further befoere I died to Physical+Void area damage

[balmy pulsar]

Cheers Arborus and Hybria will look into it as want the Xtra block chance

[brittle atlas]

you can also avoid the three projectile nova things by standing in the middle of the arena

but that is imo his hardest skill to manually avoid

[static glacier]

its the most anoying skill in the game 😛

[dusky kite]

Perhaps your build is not ready for the shades yet, don't forget that endgame is all about stacking defense

[static glacier]

too good to skip but still a pain

[balmy pulsar]

Working on a warpath ignite build for the lols of it

[sage wedge]

I've spent a lot of time stacking attack power. Need to pivot to defensive buffs and affixes

any good defensive skills for Necro damage mitigation?

I'm probably not ready for Shades, you're right

not level 70 either

[brittle atlas]

volatile zombies for ward can hard carry defenses themselves for quite a while

something like this

and some intelligence and minion life on gear/passives

will give you large bursts of ward when you need it, and otherwise sustain a decent amount

[sage wedge]

would "Less damage taken" help too?

I'm going to try zombies, thank you. never used that skill

[brittle atlas]

most definitely

anything that is "less damage taken" is quite strong

[sage wedge]

but I probably can't 'dodge' those things

right?

[brittle atlas]

you can't dodge damage over time, but you can dodge the projectiles

[sage wedge]

would "ward on hit" help too?

or are those not considered hits?

[brittle atlas]

they are hits, so it would work, but ward on hit isn't particularly strong

[balmy pulsar]

Might be a weird question how many times does a dot damage proc per it's time of damage cycle? Eg ignite for instance does it do a tic once a second or is it every .5secs so forth

[brittle atlas]

each dot deals damage at different rates, but the damage is collated into a single number every so often

visually collated, that is

[balmy pulsar]

So for instance how often does ignite do a tic per single stack?

As I can work out the rest once I know that base line

So x amount of damage every 1sec for instance

[brittle atlas]

ignite is 35 dps base

jk

I lied

it's 37 damage over 3 seconds

12.333333 dps

[copper fable]

it ticks faster then that however, but thats really not that important

[brittle atlas]

yeah, there's no way to interact with the actual tick rate

afaik

[balmy pulsar]

Ok cool cheers for the math I can work the rest out

There's no way to increase ignite duration is there under the sentinal and it's masteries or skills is there, or is there any idols that might increase its duration?

[copper fable]

you would need to look at the database, it might be possible but Im not sure off-hand. mage iirc does have ignite duration

[balmy pulsar]

I know there's lots of way to increase chance to ignite wasn't sure if there was any way to increase its duration

Ye I'm pali as doing an ignite warpath pali build

For the giggles

[copper fable]

of forgefire, its a suffix for helmets/body armor

for sentinel

its ignite duration and fire damage together as an affix

[balmy pulsar]

Oh nice I'll have to hunt for them then

[copper fable]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/search?query=ignite duration&in_description=1&exact_match=0

[balmy pulsar]

Cheers for that

Ye I'm on dad duties at the mo so not at computer to search myself wasn't sure if anyone new off the top of there head

[copper fable]

np, gl hunting them 🙂

[static glacier]

Ignite duration on sentinel is a chest and helm affixe isnt it?

Ignite needs some cool effect right now its just a bad bleed 😫

[topaz parrot]

tf

just randomly dropped a bastion

[dense root]

yeah i mean that’s possible

[copper fable]

congrats now you enter the phase of build planning where you try and fit it on to every build and realize you cant

[dense root]

wow my bastion is just sitting in my stash

[copper fable]

good rolls too

[topaz parrot]

this is like a chase-item in LE right?

[dense root]

i need to find a shield to smash together with it i guess but idk i’m lazy

[copper fable]

its chase yes, its I think the 5th or 6th rarest item

its not a top tier god item, but its really really good.

its just a kinda top tier item

[topaz parrot]

Ight thats good to know lmao, I'm still getting used to the game and I'm only level 65 so yeah

saw in in Path of Matth's vid and I figured its gotta be something quite decent, especially after I searched it up on lastepochtools

[balmy pulsar]

I'm finding the ignite is doing pretty well especially if you stack fire and dot damage increase lol especially when 1 ignite is doing about 90 per tic at lvl 30 ish

And with my ignite warpath skill regularly hitting about 5-6 stacks info is saying 230 over 3 secs

Is ignite effected by fire pen?

[copper fable]

yes

[balmy pulsar]

Was never sure if it was as not sure if it's actually classed as fire due to being a dot and cheers for answering before I posted this lol

[brittle atlas]

I mean, Bastion is probably the second best unique in the game as far as things without lp

[topaz parrot]

what's a really efficient way of getting to level 100 fairly quickly?

[brittle atlas]

do monos through to empowered and push up corruption

25 hours or so from 1-100 on a decently fast character

[copper fable]

yeah but now we got legendaries so there is real chase chase type items, guess thats pedantic tho

hehe

[brittle atlas]

just find an lp bastion

[topaz parrot]

ight, ty

[dusky kite]

Do it and you have used up your luck for the next year

[balmy pulsar]

Erm any uniques 1 handed weapons you know of that boost ignite chance and damage?

Preferably melee

[brittle atlas]

Eye of Reen

[balmy pulsar]

Cool lvl 70 for that wasn't sure if that was the only one or if there was other options

[brittle atlas]

rainbow edge is fine at lower levels

[static glacier]

A 200% eor is pretty unrivaled for pure ignite 1h

[balmy pulsar]

Ye I'll look at them later when I'm off dad duties and daughters in bed

Just checking you know the node on warpath that increases your fire melee and ignite effectiveness against ignited enemies does that increase the damage of ignite or speed up the tics for the ignite effectiveness part of that node?

Want to be fully cover my bases and make sure I fully understand the skill so when I cover it on my stream I'm giving correct information

[dusky kite]

Ironically I've never seen eye of reen used anywhere but flame reave builds

For crit multi

[balmy pulsar]

I think it's more for the fire damage boost and the stacking damage buff it gives that's why he suggested it for my build

As it gives a pretty hefty fire boost if I'm not much mistaken over 150% if I'm not much mistaken

As well as the fire melee will always be nice for the warpath skill being converted to fire lol

[topaz parrot]

is glyph of despair rare?

[dense root]

it's reasonably rare

[dusky kite]

Yes it's fairly uncommon

Not as rare as runes of ascendance or duplication

[topaz parrot]

havent dropped one in 3 days

but I did drop a mirror

[daring aurora]

is there a reason to kill Lagoon and the Oracle right now if i have all passives and skill points?

[static glacier]

Final boss is +1 attributes

[copper fable]

10 flat hp from that +1 vitality, true minmaxer stuff

[daring aurora]

ok, if its just that ill level a bit in monos and comne back once i can just sweep them ^^

[static glacier]

And 4% ED!

[lethal crane]

@azure lion hey a couple day you asked in last epoch discord about the dude and 100k gold, it just skip the fight xd

[azure lion]

ahh thank you 😄

[lethal crane]

np, just give me 100k 😄

[hardy bramble]

How can somone target farm eye of reen?

two of them

[dusky kite]

Rune of ascension? The mono with 1h nodes? Either way it will be a pita and it has a poor LP rate

But anyways don't go out of your way for the second one, better grab a bastion of honor or something