Last Epoch Dev Tracker

Every item that is purchased from the Bazaar (edit: and MG p2p trading) gets the MG tag upon purchasing.

Any item acquired due to the bonus of an item factions will be tagged with that faction. This means any item purchased from the Bazaar and any item that was affected by one of the CoF bonuses.

Basically the stuff you would have found if you weren't part of either faction isn't tagged.

Switching is only there as a fail safe in case you picked the wrong one so you don't brick the character. It's not a mechanic to me engaged with.

Yup, we've actually done that before.

When you swap to trade, you are missing a step of farming the favor to trade it while you are representing MG.

Oh and even if you did that, the only items that are eligible to be traded are those found while not representing CoF. This means that this plan doesn't work at all.

Big time! That's actually what I'm playing right now. Doing shield throw manifest armor. Cap and Iron Man

It's frustrating to me too. Especially when I haven't experienced it myself since it went live. I do the dev streams and every once in a while I'll get someone comment on how smooth it is for me and asking what my settings are to make it not do it.

Improving the multiplayer experience and server performance is our primary focus.

The big game philosophy difference is that the BM is designed to get in the trenches with your minions. You get buffs for both of you by attacking and your companions will often buff you too. By contrast, the Necromancer is much more interested in using her minions as a resource. She has several active summoning skills that will have you standing back a lot more.

The big BM build right now is squirrels (it's wolves but converted with the helmet Ziz made). You get a sizable squirrel army and go to town. My favorite way to do BM is to get Raptor, Bear and Sabertooth but it isn't very good right now.

My favorite Necro build right now is zombies. I like taking the jump node and it's like having a bunch of leaping banelings.

If I had to pick between the two, I'd probably go with Necro myself.

If you like the 1 single minion style, the Falconer will be coming with 1.0 that is a new style of minion build for LE.

We have much much smarter people than me working on those elements so I can't give you a first hand answer there.

However, I do spend a little time dealing with data storage and regardless of where the game is being played, we would still store all those saves in the same place. So from a technical point, I think cross-progression would be much easier to do than cross-play.

That doesn't mean it will happen, just that it's easier. I feel like that's kind of a nothing answer though.

I think the decision to have cross-progression or not will probably come down to a design decision. If the hypothetical console port doesn't have some sort of gameplay difference from the PC version, I think I'd be cautiously optimistic for it. Just like if you look at D3, the console version has a combat roll and PC doesn't.

Now, we already have controller support so the PC to console difference likely won't be that much if anything for us.

So I think it's going to...

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Oh for sure. We've had the CTs breaking it apart for a few months now. It's still possible to find a way to game the system but I will be surprised if it happens any time soon.

Here is the really straight forward way to think about it.

Do you want trade? Pick MG.

Do you not want trade? Pick CoF.

Do you regret your decision? Switch.

That's all you really need to know. There isn't an efficient way to use both. Don't plan to use switching as a tactic to get ahead. The most efficient path is to pick one and stick to it.

Yes, MG players will have a lower drop chance compared to CoF players that have ranked up to at least Rank 3 or higher.

I think this might come from a slight miscommunication from me.

Rank 1 CoF players will have higher drop rates over MG.

Rank 3 CoF will be above the current gear upgrade rate that you have currently on live.

We want to try gold because we want people to feel they can and actually should use their crafting resources. We’ll be keeping a close eye on feedback and like all things we’ll be ready to iterate if we and the community feel it’s the right move.

We aren't always quite so responsive but I try and find some time every day to answer questions like this. We're just on "high alert" right now because of the big news that just went out. Anyways, thanks :)

We have polish changes coming to most of the end game but no new systems at 1.0.

We do have plans for new end game systems in the not too distant future.

It auto does it by using your Steam account.