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Ok, well in that case, I strongly recommend picking a different main skill to focus on for now as Tempest Strike is probably the worst primary damaging skill in the game.

Artor is not an enemy you can fight. Artor's Legacy is a level 44 item and a random drop. It can be found in any level 44 or higher zone. Once you do make it to the monolith, you can increase your odds of finding it by doing the Black Sun timeline. You can also get it by using a rune of ascension on a helmet.

Lagon has 0 resistances at all.

Shaman has some major power issues at the moment. I'm literally working on Tempest Strike's rework right now. You can also send a link to your character (by using the tool on the website I linked) to other players who can help you improve it if you want.

All information on the item is on it's page here: ht...

All the bosses that you can access with purely crafted gear have those same loot tables on that same site. I just picked the hardest one out of the field. You can change the tier at the top of that page if you want to see the lower versions of that same boss. You can go to a different boss if you want too. The information you're looking for is on that website I linked.

Edit: for example, here is the first boss of the end game. You can beat this boss with an extremely casual build. https://www.lastepochtools.com/endgame/monolith/fall-of-the-outcasts/normal/boss-items

All of the information is available on https://www.lastepochtools.com/ and probably tunklab too. Here is a link to the items for T4 Temporal Sanctum Boss Julra: https://www.lastepochtools.com/endgame/dungeons/temporal-sanctum/tier4/boss-items

Each boss in the end-game has a set of specific items that only it can drop. One of them will always drop. It picks one at a set weighted random roll. That information is available. To me, this is a loot table. We don't present it anywhere as a literal data table. Sorry if this isn't actually a loot table.

All enemies have random drops on top of that.

I'm not sure which one has the most. I just picked a few at random. Lightning Blast is 70, Transplant is 67 and Synchronized Strike is 84. Most are probably around that number. We've considered uniques with that much but the skill trees aren't prepared to handle +skills of that magnitude yet.

Well, funny enough the placeholder affixes for the experimental affixes were just +8 to a skill type.

It's a cool idea. I like giving big +skill spikes. We can't put this on a non-unique item outside of the slot that the skill x already has a +skill affix for. So one of helm, chest or relic depending on the skill. So sadly boots are a firm no for this.

The 3 items which specifically drop for those 17 bosses.

Lastepochtools.com it's only for the 3 boss specific drops on each of those bosses

As we've been in early access so long and with the volume of post-1.0 content that we will be creating, I hope that the game won't be "complete" for a decade. Picking a 1.0 launch date is fairly arbitrary. This will be the point where we feel like we have a complete experience for the players at a quality level we are proud of.

We are dedicated to launching significant updates to the game on a regular basis.

That is a very good point about it being arbitrary and I guess this is where we planted that flag. It's not necessarily a forever decision either. I think we probably won't budge much at all for 1.0 but it's a discussion that we will continue to engage with.

I'm pretty sure we are getting rid of that step. Don't quote me on that though. I'm pretty sure I heard something about an auto stash option for crafting mats. The original reason was to try and make them feel more like items but as we have made more and more of them, they end up feeling more and more like resources instead.

Well, we are on the next step of the slope with affix stards and we get daily requests to advance them to the next step so that's the information we are working with.

Level 4 Threadsurection spell. Very impressive.

Technically yes. 17 bosses have specific item drops.

It's a slippery slope to sad town. Did you play Magic Legends? It was very short lived and overall really disappointing. They took this idea of perfect filtering to the natural next next next step and it was one of the worst parts of the game.

At the end of an activity you would get the relevant gear just added to your inventory automatically.

So if we add in perfect filtering, every single item that drops you want to pick up so you just automatically pick up every single item. You might look at it or you might not. Once we get there, the calls for auto looting will increase dramatically. Then we cave to that and you can auto loot. Then the people who have dot builds and minion builds are up in arms because we are making the game worse for them. So we just make it auto loot infinite range and you've got Magic Legends' loot system.

Now, you can't really walk any of those steps back without massive negative press.

So, where do we hold the line? Because...

And that's totally fair. Delaying the game by another year would be way worse. So this is our best option.

You know when a TV show clearly has plans for a few more seasons but the network gets nervous and cancels the show early. Then the writers have to cram 3 seasons of story into 1 or they do a wrap-up mini movie after the fact. That was our other option. We did a bunch of research to see what people will generally prefer. We don't have the time to complete the story by a launch window that we need. So, the options are rush the ending or launch with the campaign unfinished.

Also, I don't expect everyone to track all of our news, but just in case, this wasn't a general revelation from last stream. I and many others have said that the last 3 chapters would be coming post 1.0 for a long time now.

And it's not like it's going to take years to finish it. And it's not like the story is going to just stop when the main campaign is finished either.

So while this might be disappointing, it is by far the best option we have.

-Mike

Crit avoidance is the chance to convert an incoming critical hit to a normal hit. See my reply to the guy who replied to me for an example. (I was being nice to the other guy, I'm right on this one)

I have always understood critical avoidance to be the chance to convert an incoming critical hit into a normal hit.

The example I've heard in the past is that if the player has 200% critical strike chance (overcapped by a full 100% extra) and they attack, all of their hits will be critical hits. Then if the enemy they are attempting to hit has 10% critical strike avoidance, 10% of those critical hits will be converted to normal hits. This means that 200% critical strike chance hitting a 10% critical avoidance enemy will crit 90% of the time. This means that overcapping critical strike chance doesn't compensate for crit avoidance.

I haven't attempted to recreate this example to test it though.

I'm willing to be wrong about this though and if you've got another explanation on how it actually works, I'm happy to hear it.

Edit: overcapping crit chance does help compensate for being blinded though. That's an ailment that gives you the stat 50% less critic...