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Some of the inspiration I've personally taken from Diablo III is to seek to emulate Blizzard's ability to ask questions in ways the average player will answer without resorting to a build guide or wiki (e.g. "you have unlocked this rune, do you want to use it?"). This helps maintain the feeling of player agency and keep players engrossed in the main gameplay loop. I'm also a fan of some of their monster affixes, such as Arcane Enchanted. Aspects of other games in the genre - things we believe they've both done well and done poorly - are absolutely recurring topics in our design meetings, and we have definitely taken inspiration from games we have played.

To refer to the skills mentioned by u/nymphios, I have played both Grim Dawn's Aether Ray and Path of Exile's Scorching Ray more recently than I have pla...

We'd also love to hear your feedback on Patch 0.7.4's 'Skill Name Reminders' interface setting!

Last Epoch will indeed have those - we plan to call them Cycles. :)

https://lastepochgame.com/faq/#ongoing-cycles

Vale Spirits are still minions which deal Lightning Damage, however they'll be changed to use Physical Damage in future.

Oh, that picture's the preview from the page being linked to.

If you open the link you'll see a few examples from both classes. :)

Sorry to hear that! Here's a link. :)

Our estimated release date is April 2020. :)

Sacrifice is an Acolyte skill. :)