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I love Grim Dawn other than the whole multiplay system. Seaching for a group is tedious compared to games where you can easily jump into an open slot like D3. Worse however, is everything on GD is playerside saved so not only are many hosted games at a high ping but many of the open groups have characters that are cheated up and enhanced. Do not want to be in the same queue as these players.

I am thinking since LE is kind of a step child of PoE, everything should stay server side even if it introduced the delays and lag spikes associated with it.

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At release Last Epoch will have support for both locally stored offline-only characters, and server-side online-only characters. The two types will be strictly segregated. It's not something we've committed to, but something we're interested in providing at some point is the means to duplicate an online character for offline play. That's likely going to be a post-release thing (if it happens at all).