1.1 feedback

[ponpoko]

All in all, I am very satisfied with 1.1 patch!!

1. Nemesis
Excellent!
It give the power to the 0 LP unique items.
Also sometime drops usuful and powerful Exalted items.
Very fun!

2. Harbinger & Leveling & Corruption process
Excellent!
I reached 300 corruptions at 10’th timeline, before coming 1.1.3.
I understand it is hard work to increase the corruption to fight each harbingers in each timelines.
However, the leveling & corruption of old balances (before 1.1.3) were not wrong, it was enough calculated, I believe.
When I reached 10’th harbinger, I reached at level 98. I believe that was a excellent balance.
Of course, new catch-up balance is also good for speed up.
It is good.
The old balance seems had received a lot of criticism, however I want to tell that "old balance was also excellent.

The only thing I don’t like is Harbinger eye does not drop always.

3. Pinacle boss
Excellent!
He is enough strong, but can kill with realistic range of ingenuity and effort, even if COF.

The two things I don’t like are linear DOT floor after the Stomp is too much damage, and it is hard to notice Curse of aberroth, that is deadly and cruely debuff.
Because I don’t have time to look around in the fight against Aberroth, I did not notice the debuff icon the first few times.
If the curse shows some visual effect on the character, like a chill’s effect I could notice it more easily.

4. Evade
Excellent!
I was concern about evade because it were not good in the same genre games for me.
I was betrayed, in a good way.
Now, I can not think without Evade.

But evade is not perfect yet.
In some case, it roll unexpected direction, or sometime not reaction even if push the key.
…well, these may or may not be ping trouble, not evade.

5. Boss ward
Some good, some bad.

First, I didn’t like the old system, DDR.

New system is better than DDR because new system is clarity, not need to see the low damage number.
That’s definitely true.

But this system is not best yet in my feeling.
Because now I feel this is “work” to delete Boss’s Ward, than feel fighting the Boss.
Some great build now can kill boss easy than before.
So some player may want to say “your build is not enough power”
But regardless of that, I feel strange itself that need to reduce the boss’s a lot of the wards than bosses health.
On the other hand, I feel that the boss’s ward works well for the transition of phases, as Aberroth fight.
At least, new system is good than old one.

I can’t explain well that what do I want of the Boss battle system, but my feeling is above.

6. Cosmetic items
Great, but…

This may be due to differences in ethnic preferences regarding visuals.
However, many players in my country are negative about the quality of cosmetic items of current.

They say,
「Last epoch is great games!」
「I want to pay cosmetic items, but there are not good」
「There are not enough sufficiently sophisticated compare to the rival games.」

Actually, look closely, most MTXs are finely crafted, and the quality is by no means low.
But there are few stylish or cute ones.

One caveat: I’m not criticizing by using other’s voice.
(I have all the cosmetic items so far and tried them. And I want to continue to support LE.)

I think that matching the game world is of course a priority, but it maay need some Design with a different taste.

…Personally, I think birds are too many.

I am looking forward to the next big update!

[ponpoko]

Incidentally, there’s only one MTX I don’t like.

I feel verdant shroud in Eternal traveler’s pack is bad.
Unlike others, it is too flimsy and lacks three-dimensionality.

[gIZOF]

For me ward system feels good on paper but don’t do what it’s supposed to do.

DDR and Ward were supposed to fight one shot on bosses. Ward clearly doesn’t work at all because you have builds that are one shotting abberoth. So what’s the point of this system anyway? It’s just hindrance to casual players and low damage builds.

If you remove it gameplay for top builds will not change at all.