Last Epoch

Mountain Biker said:

I can't put my finger on it but something about the character movement in LE just feels off. Grim Dawn feels similar to D3, in that everything feels responsive. That's one thing I would love to see changed in LE.

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Yeah, it’s still feels jerky and not as responsive as it should be. Grim Dawn movement and skills play perfectly.

Vorph said:

LE got a lot better for me when I switched to playing it with a gamepad. I expected it to be fine for the autobomber but it's even really good on a bow mage too. Only problem they need to work on is the way the autoaim is in effect for movement skills too, it makes it a bit difficult to use them to dodge out of AOEs, and also annoying when you want to shield charge across the map and instead it sends you into a wall because there was a crate there.

Inventory management and general UI stuff is terrible of course, but I just pick up the mouse for that.

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They also need to fix the god damn inventory bug where if you’re highlighting something with the game pad it equips it when you close the window. That actually fucked me a few times when I didn’t realize it had happened, then I’m in the damn stage or boss battle with gimped gear on wondering why they’re hitting so hard. I’m not sure if it happens with mouse too but it’s annoying as fuck.

Agree about the movement skills, it can suck trying to go in a specific direction and it goes the wrong way, or highlights some crate and you launch sideways instead of forward. It’s like it needs to be able to turn off auto-aim on specific skills. They need a stick cursor speed adjustment too. If it were 2-3x as fast it wouldn’t be too bad to use. I’d probably still use mouse for inventory but for everything else UI related like skills and crafting the stick speed increase would be sufficient.

Slaanesh69 said:

Couple more points:

(1) I just loaded a loot filter for my build and the game became 100% more enjoyable.
(2) I have not dabbled much into crafting but I just maxxed out my current items and that made that build even more powerful. I will be interested perhaps in delving deeper into the crafting, since I have not used any of the extra items yet. I assume you save your biggest crafting for purples that have affixes you desire?
(3) Do you guys typically clear the entirety of an Echo? I assume random loot dropping is the main source of items as you level, so it is better to clear everything (within reason, ain't walking across the map for the last group, etc)?

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2. Kind of. You basically get uniques (orange) and exalted (purples). You try to refill your purples to go towards stats you need and cover your resists. Most exalted you’ll end up with 1-2 stats you don’t even use. A perfect exalted is a great item. Even greater if you can replace it with a more perfect one because then you can use the old one for legendary (red) crafting.

Uniques have 1 through 4 slots open (legendary potential). You can take a unique and an exalted and combine them to make a legendary. What happens is the unique randomly takes 1-4 of the stats on the exalted.

3. Nope. Just speed clear them as fast as possible. You churn through end rewards faster that way. Once you clear the last three (or four, I forget) high level islands you can then move on to empowered monoliths which is a level 100 version, which has better rewards. You can also make them higher and higher levels by defeating the shades which add corruption.

Edit: On the crafting, when I said “kind of” I mostly just meant you don’t have to save your crafting stuff for purples. You can use them on whites, blues, yellows til you find other stuff to replace it. You can get your mats back by shattering old items. Crafting in this game is rng but nothing like POE. You actually create useful stuff all the time, and you don’t get fucked if you mess up. I really enjoy the crafting in LE, most games I hate it.

Intrinsic That’s how Grim Dawns end game rifts work. You just grind X number of mobs until a gate appears, then go to the next. I think that should be one of the goals LE puts into its monoliths. I like how they have a variety of goals, they just need to add more variety to them so you aren’t repeating the same 4 or 5 goals. Repeat the same 15 goals is like three times better!

Slaanesh69 said:

Roger.

I will charge through my echoes. that seemed like the smarter way.

Thanks for the intro on crafting. I will look into it more as I progress. I am peeling through content quickly still so don't need a lot of adjustments at the moment. When I do, then I will have to work at it.

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Just make sure to save your uniques and any exalted you think you may use on a different build (or just all for now, til you learn which stats are for which build). If you get a unique with legendary potential (it displays near the top) feel free to vendor any non L version unless it’s something you’re using, or low level items you’d use to level up. Making a unique into a legendary raises the required level, so it’s good to keep a spare for the leveling items.

Here’s a recent crafting overview that goes over all the different ways you can craft stuff up.

AladainAF said:

For me, when you hit monsters, it doesnt really feel like you're hitting them. Like your sword goes through them and some numbers appear and that's it. It's strange, because like with PoE , D3, GD and shit its similar, but you actually feel the hits. It just feels like you're hitting something. In LE, its not.

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Yeah, I think it’s the sound. It’s not timed very well with hits and it doesn’t sound very impactful. I think the devs agree as it’s something they’re working on.

AladainAF said:

That makes sense, would also be why everyone freaked out in poe when they fucked with the ice shatter sound. The sound itself was so satisfying, LE needs some of that. I can't wait till this game is MP and shit like this feels good. This is gonna be a game that's going to have astronomical potential someday.

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Having played it, it absolutely has a ton of potential, they just need to develop it. From their notes I think they’re on the right track for every aspect of the game that is currently lacking.