Last Epoch

For some reason I'm getting a queue but other people I'm playing with are not. Also the queue is not going down at all for me.

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Going negative mana, what is the reason for that? Any drawbacks or just something they went with?

Mostly I think its just a sort of soft cap OOM warning system. I think their might be a passive or skill node or two that directly interacts with it, but most classes dont.

most of the time, its not really any different then just having a larger mana pool. however, whats interesting is, its cap then is functionally varied base on the skill you use.
meaning, lets say you have 100 mana. and a 10mana skill, and a 40 one. you could use that 10 mana one 11 times. putting you at -10mana, effective 110mana pool which would at that point stop you from casting. or, you could cast that 10mana skill 10 times, and THEN the 40mana one with 1 or 0 mana, and put yourself at -40. effective 140mana pool.

so its neat in that sense, being more flexible.

Aazrael said:

Going negative mana, what is the reason for that? Any drawbacks or just something they went with?

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Instead of the constant "I am out of mana" spam that most games do, they let you overcharge mana. I don't think there are any drawbacks other than mana in the negative takes slightly longer to regenerate (regen speeds up once you go positive)

Utnayan said:

So do servers suck?

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On EU it takes a few minutes to switch zones. Not too bad though, was worse yesterday.

Utnayan said:

So do servers suck?

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Yes.

Utnayan said:

So do servers suck?

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yeah, everything is still busted pretty bad. way off peak, and its 50/50 at best to be able to join a new area.

Hateyou said:

I've just been playing fully offline for now, zones load in like 1 second. There's no reason to play online unless you're playing with a friend or planning on trading eventually. Or if you like chat spam I guess.

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Offline mode has chat and works fine. I'll keep playing like this until they fix it.

Utnayan said:

Ok my buddy and I will hold off then because we want to play coop without 5 hours of issues.

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Probably a safe bet. I can literally load into a new zone, it takes so long I do some work, then notice I've been working for about 15-20 minutes and the zone is still loading.

It doesn't seem like it's server load in this instance. Something about API issues, makes me wonder what got broke between EA and release.

Dr.Retarded said:

So when do you start doing the monolith stuff? Played yesterday and got a void knight up to about 30 and logged off when getting to the empire era in the campaign. Is that function gated behind something?

I just asked because I want to say somebody said they started running them in their twenties in the thread, didn't know if I ought to be mixing that up with the campaign.

The game is pretty fun though.

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Unless they changed it they don't open up until after the story which is about level 56.

Hateyou said:

It’s not like mana management is some handicap you have to deal with forever. There are tools to deal with it. I don’t have mana issues on a single one of my many higher level characters.

Every post you make feels like you’re grasping at anything you can to shit on the game. Give it a rest Debbie downer.

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You okay?

The "tools" you're talking about to deal with mana issues are mostly tied to secondary skills that you have to spec into or late game items. And the "tools" aren't very interesting. The way mana is handled in this game is meh at best.

Utnayan said:

Ok my buddy and I will hold off then because we want to play coop without 5 hours of issues.

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oh, and to be clear its a handshake issue. In areas/maps etc, theres no lag or anything. is just connecting to new areas fails constantly