Last Epoch Dev Tracker

Our itemization isn’t complete yet - we expect the content we are adding before 1.0 to add a substantial amount of replayability and item chase. Keep an eye on social posts a bit after the 0.8.3 release!

This is the Zizaran unique, but that's not the right base type for it, and it's not functional yet. That one will be eventually be released, but I'd advise against looking for unavailable uniques and getting excited about them, because a lot of them are abandoned designs that won't end up in the game for various reasons. We are adding a lot of new uniques in 0.8.3, but I don't think many, if any, of them are represented in the files of the current version.

When does an enemy count as in that range? When its center is in that range?

No, it's measured from roughly the edge of the enemy, so larger enemies especially can count as nearby even if their centre isn't that near the circle.

There are vfx showing the range while you have the shield equipped. It's the same range as the bubble for the "less damage taken from distant enemies" mod for rare enemies.

Skill trees are definitely not set in stone, and we frequently add new nodes or change existing ones. We try to avoid the total number of nodes going over 30 where possible, so we're unlikely to add lots of new nodes to a tree that's already fairly large, unless we're reworking all or part of that tree. In 0.8.3 in particular several sentinel and necromancer skill trees are receiving full or partial reworks.

Currently only Rogues can use bows and they're the only class planned to have a bow focused mastery, the Marksman. However we do hope to add bow support for other classes in future. This may not come soon because of two major blockers.

1. Adding another weapon type to a class requires a large number of animations, of course there's the animation of firing the bow, then there are the various spell cast animations which all need a bow variant, there are idle animations, movement animations, a stunned animation, and a death animation. This would all have to be done for four classes and is a big undertaking when we're also working on animations for new skills, adding new enemies, and refining old skill animations.

2. If a class can use a bow, but the only bow ability they can use is a basic attack, there wouldn't be any point to them actually using a bow. There wouldn't be any viable bow builds. So we've got to look at their various melee attacks assess which...

I’m hoping that by having our development team more involved personally in community engagement and making sure that community feedback is very frequently discussed and acted upon we can keep the great community discourse we have for a long time to come. I’m sure it will be more challenging as the game becomes more popular but the entirety of EHG will continue to make the community and their feedback a top priority. We were all big ARPG players on the other side of the coin not too long ago!

Thanks for fostering good discussion in the community, Mael!

Thank you for taking the time to write this. The quality of life changes you’re suggesting are all things we agree with and will improve after we get some more of the “meat” of the game completed. I believe the vast majority of these suggestions actually exist as backlogged items to get to when we can - so we’re on the same page.

We agree with your assessment of echoes generally being too short and are discussing ways to make those a bit more lengthy by making players want to kill enemies instead of feeling like they’re just running to the objective as fast as possible and we have some other plans to decrease that downtime between them you’ve mentioned, though that plan is probably a bit too early to talk to.

We have a few more things we’re doing with itemization before we take a step back and assess how we feel about the entire picture, but the desire for slightly more depth/chase is heard loud and clear. We’ve known that we’d be adding additional systems for thi...

We’ll be explaining the legendary item system after 0.8.3 drops. We’re pretty excited about it and it will add good chase to all classes and all item slots.

Right now finding items with multiple good T6/T7 mods and certain uniques are very rare

This is true. Though next patch we're adding a node to the disintegrate tree that gives it chance to ignite per second equal to your chance to ignite on hit.

They do actually drop, they're just much rarer than most shards.

what about closing the game and re launching it?

That does not reroll it either. There's no manual action you can take to reroll it, it just happens occasionally.

i love the game but im very worried about trade and multiplayer and how it will affect current loot drops and gold and all that stuff.

We're very specifically trying to avoid trade overshadowing loot drops and crafting, and we're hopeful that it can be avoided with this sort of trade system. Even if you use the Bazaar, most of your items should still come from drops and crafting, and if that's not happening our first course of action will be to reassess the Bazaar rather than rebalancing the game or its drops.

It does. In general, increased effect of an ailment amplifies all debuffs and damage that it applies.

Not going to lie, I'm a little jealous of the QA team! It's a great group of people who do more than just QA - they are a big part of the game design team as well

If you didn’t see our post from today:

New multiplayer FAQ: https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/official-last-epoch-multiplayer-faq/42036

July Multiplayer Dev Update: ...

https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/official-last-epoch-multiplayer-faq/42036

We’ve been listening ;)

We have. We don’t want people to be re-rolling spawns of locations, vendors or enemies over and over. We know players would do it if it were the most efficient way to upgrade which means it’s on us to make sure that is not the case.

Leaving and re-entering the Bazaar will not reroll what's on offer.