Last Epoch
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Early on in the development cycle they came out and stated they wanted something other than the PoE type game play to where the entire screen explodes as you dash around.
Different strokes for different folks, but watching a high end game stream of PoE is awful. Cast 1 or 2 spells, zip across half the map, and shit explodes.
While some may enjoy it, I am glad there is a middle ground found here.
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Some mobs have shred and shock will also shred lightning, but it isn't nearly as important as in poe where you usually overcap to account for curses and because resists are so important in mitigating damage, in this game if your resist drop to 60% you're "only" taking 15% more damage, which usually is fine. You can even run with uncapped resists and not be in too much trouble as long as they're decently high and you don't facetank the high damage things.
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Borzak
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I watched a couple of videos before I bought the game to see what it was about and such. Almost all of them went over the classes and they all said it doesn't matter you can get through the game with anything, so why was that 75% of your video?
I did watch the guy in the hoodie. I've seen him before doing D4 in the week that D4 was actually semi popular.
I'm sure it's some setting in the game I have checked wrong or something. In town I don't get any titles to tell what someone is or what they do like a vendor or anything else unless I walk over and click on them. Just a group of random people standing around waiting for you to click on each one.
I did watch the guy in the hoodie. I've seen him before doing D4 in the week that D4 was actually semi popular.
I'm sure it's some setting in the game I have checked wrong or something. In town I don't get any titles to tell what someone is or what they do like a vendor or anything else unless I walk over and click on them. Just a group of random people standing around waiting for you to click on each one.
Seananigans
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This. That psychotic frenetic kill 2340 mobs across 4 screens in 1.3 seconds rinse repeat "gameplay" is fucking AIDS.
Anyone who says they enjoy it is really saying they're addicted to the skinner box under the hood.
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Hekotat
FoH nuclear response team
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That guy has an endgame guide that I was listening to this morning. I don't know who any of these people are, and likeBorzak said, it seems there's this big blood of just random video game dorks making videos that you don't necessarily learn anything useful from. For whatever reason this game is really bad about it. Most of the class guide videos and stuff I found are almost impossible to watch or listen to.
This guy's at least somewhat normal.
I don't know if maybe YouTube is prioritizing newer content versus old stuff because I know the game's been out for a long time, but most of the videos that are popping up are all recent. Is there somebody out there that's got a bunch of older stuff that would still be applicable to 1.0?
I would say no because they changed some of the crafting rules near the end of the beta and I don't know how up to date/correct they are.
Khane
Got something right about marriage
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Sorry but most people enjoy this, and one of the most popular builds on LE already is falconer explodey ballistas which do exactly that.
You may not enjoy it, but you are in an extreme minority. This has always been a defining feature of ARPGs
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Seananigans
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Anyone that doesn't enjoy Herald of Ice self-chaining explosions is lying or hasn't tried it.
Anyway, that's not the point. The amount of walking between packs is boring and I don't feel like the class I've tried(Sentinel) quite has enough tools to mitigate that.
Anyway, that's not the point. The amount of walking between packs is boring and I don't feel like the class I've tried(Sentinel) quite has enough tools to mitigate that.
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Seananigans
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There's a sweet spot. Killing things fast is fun. Moving fast is fun.
If you're spam-clicking the map so you can teleport every .0003 seconds and blow everything on the screen up in .000002 seconds then you've removed literally all of the gameplay. So why are you even still playing? Because you're addicted to skinner box number-get-bigger. That's the AIDS gameplay I'm talking about.
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Hekotat
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I'll never understand those playstyles but whatever. I like things like the runemaster where i have combos I can pull off at perfect times and chokepoints.
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Palum
what Suineg set it to
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Totes agree. I like active combat but still rational enough that you can understand what is going on.
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Oblio
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I used to watch Rax when I was really into D3 with my kids a few years ago. We would play and watch his stream together and sometimes join his group. He would would help me blast my kids through some content to get them some drops. Not saying I know him RL or he is a buddy or anything. I just used my prime sub on him for a few months and he would respond to me in chat when I had questions for my kids builds. Overall a very chill and knowledgeable dude that plays ARPGs for a living.That guy has an endgame guide that I was listening to this morning. I don't know who any of these people are, and like
This guy's at least somewhat normal.
I don't know if maybe YouTube is prioritizing newer content versus old stuff because I know the game's been out for a long time, but most of the videos that are popping up are all recent. Is there somebody out there that's got a bunch of older stuff that would still be applicable to 1.0?
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I know you're exaggerating, but you seem to be describing Headhunter gameplay. I've never been a fan of that either, but not for how fast it gets. I don't like the implicit pressure of having to use the stolen buffs before they expire. I alt tab frequently.
Let me try to describe it another way. I think the speed of combat is irrelevant. PoE feels slow as shit at the start too. But it gives you the tools to fix that with implicit opportunity costs. With LE lacking tools, even if you enjoy slower combat, it can feel like the game is forcing slow combat instead of the player deciding to play that way.
zombiewizardhawk
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Something fucky seems to be going on with my runemaster. Every time I add dex on gear, my damage on plasma orb is going down, but it should be going up since i'm using fundamental criterion... Not losing any other damage stats to get the dex either, just straight up adding dex on build and damage going down.
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Brikker
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Monolith question.
I'm only mid 60s and just running through the quests to do each monolith timeline. I've done two so far. If I want to get a specific unique (cradle of the erased), LE tools says to target farm the Black sun timeline looking for shield rewards. Should I do this or should I wait until I get to "empowered" monoliths down the line?
I'm only mid 60s and just running through the quests to do each monolith timeline. I've done two so far. If I want to get a specific unique (cradle of the erased), LE tools says to target farm the Black sun timeline looking for shield rewards. Should I do this or should I wait until I get to "empowered" monoliths down the line?