Last Epoch Dev Tracker

It's a placeholder, as when we created a new UI we wanted to have it as final as possible to reduce future work.

Ah alright. Don't think we've produced any optimization improvements since then! :P

If performance is degrading over time it might be worth checking system temperatures. You could have HWMonitor open in the background while playing for a bit and see what the worst reported temperatures for each component are. There's definitely a lot of work on optimization left to be done - please don't think I'm trying to dodge responsibility for that - but performance gradually decreasing doesn't really fit most of the performance issues I've seen people reporting to us.

The intention is for most enemies types to survive long enough to get various attacks off that make their base types and mods have a significant impact on gameplay.

Along with that we want to make sure that mana remains a relevant resource so high mana cost skills, including movement skills and high damage skills with large AoEs, aren't something you can spam at any point in the game.

There is mana regen, but we don't (and won't) have mana leech. We're trying to keep mana as a limitation for skills, so you won't be able to spam high mana cost skills. We implemented negative mana to give builds that use high cost skills some more flexibility at a cost.

Our goal is to discourage one-button builds, so if you're using a high cost skill it's usually a good idea to have lower cost skills that you can use when your mana is lower, or recovery skills like mana strike and focus.

Glad you are enjoying it! Keep an eye out for beta, we've got some good stuff on the way

Based on your comment I'm assuming you have, but if you haven't you should definitely talk to support. We haven't seen that issue very often, so any information on you can give about your case would be very helpful.

Sorry it's not working for you, I hope we'll be able to help!

From what I've seen the driver issues like that are fairly uncommon, and primarily on Linux. Barring something out of the ordinary you should be able to run it.

More in the vein of magical traps. Glyphs, Runes, etc. Runemaster is designed to be the more calculating class, setting traps and controlling the environment.

Here's the class description we have on the website:

A savant of the art of runes, able to infuse magic into offensive and protective wards that devastate those who trespass them.

You have tamed the power of raw arcane, weaving its chaos with the art of runes. You can recall your youth, the trouble you once had transcribing the simplest glyph, and scoff. You now carve intricate symbols into the air ensnaring your foes, raising walls and golems from nothing but your own knowledge. You have become an artisan of sorts, but your craft is that of reality itself.

The beta will start next year. The alpha will continue to run and be updated until the start of beta.

It's something we have discussed, but haven't reached a conclusion on. We would like to support offline modding if we are able to, but we need to make sure we are able to before we make any promises.

Spot on. One additional thing to note, online characters will be able to be converted to offline characters.

Regarding secrets/datamining, because we intend to support offline play we will not able to prevent datamining to the degree we could if the game was purely online. It's unfortunate, but it's a necessary compromise to offer the features we want to have

That feeling of a companion levelling with you is something we want to achieve with the skill trees of summoning skills.

Spot on, one additional thing to note is that some particular uniques will be exclusive to certain bosses or will have higher drop chances with their respective bosses, though these will not be the majority case.

In Masochist you and your minions take (100 + zone level)% more damage and deal (50 + zone level/4)% less damage.

The zone level of the arena is always equal to the player's level.

It should be within the next couple of hours now. We'll announce on Discord when it goes live, so keep an eye on #announcements!

-Mitch

If it helps conceptualise it the actual formula is

mana cost = raw mana cost / (1 + mana efficiency)

This last example would be able to translate the very way you stated mana efficiency would, I believe.

It's interesting that you bring this up, mana efficiency was originally called "increased mana cost divider", which is more descriptive. However we decided against going with that name as it was pretty long, and could be confused with "increased mana cost" at a glance, which would give entirely the wrong impression.

Stats like mana efficiency whose exact mechanics are not clear from their name will have detailed tooltips in game, and many, such as tenacity, already do. The only reason why mana efficiency doesn't yet is because at the moment you can't get it on items or passives so there's no character sheet description for it.

Hi Pajingtonn,

We're glad you're enjoying it and we appreciate the feedback.

A lot these points - like the skill point confirmation, and missing X on the dialogue window - are aspects of the UI or controls that are definitely rough around the edges in the pre-Alpha and that we plan to smooth out during Alpha, so rest assured that those will be looked at and improved on.

For skill tree node, we are planning a system for that, and respeccing individual nodes will definitely be a lot easier than it is in Pre-Alpha. We haven't finalised exactly how it's going to work though.

Thanks again for you feedback and I hope you enjoy our future releases.

Update: We have implemented a fix, let us know if you're still having issues.

Enjoy the patch!

Sorry for the inconvenience. This is Kickstarter's video player so we needed to use it post this as an update on our Kickstarter page.

The eleventh hour is a common saying referring to the last minute, and because most of our team have other jobs we do most of our development at night, thus eleventh hour games