1st of all, im playing since 0.6, love the game, great work! (Please continue ! )
I think the thread have been talked about already, but i was wondering what was the conclusion.
A feedback that we can see more and more in the global chat those last weeks is about empowered monoliths.
One idea seems to come up everytime : Would you consider to unlock all empowered monoliths once weāve been through all of the them with 1 char ?
Even if empowered monoliths wouldnāt be ādoableā with a lvl 40 reroll, weād feel less forced to go do it all āone more timeā.
It would be like : āyouāre free but uāll dieā
Yeah this has been talked about a couple of times in slightly different context. Some people want Monolith immediatly available, some want to not complete so many normal timelines. You are right that most builds would have a lot of issues doing empowered monolith. And while it might feel less forced, this would also be a potential trap for some players. The difficulty spike from Lvl 90 Normal Monolith Timeliens to empowered is already considerable. I donāt know if just unlocking empowered account-wide would be the right way to go.
Just having the possibility to do so, with your 2nd character creates a lot of expectations and possibly even an unhealthy social environment, where people tell other people they just need to do it once and after that they can jump into empowered way earlier.
But when a relatively new player fails, because the content is too strong for his build.
And when they ask aobut that in chat or forums they might get some āgit gudā reactions.
I think we will at least get one more story chapter before 1.0 and what I can see is a general overhaull of the pace and progression of the story into monolith, maybe this will help mitigate this issue.
I personally never had a big issue with the normal monolith progression, because playing and growing into new builds in LE is the best pace of progression of any ARPG IMO.
It wonāt. If you feel that normal monos are a tedious chore then having a smoother ramp up in difficulty before you even get to monos is unlikely to change that.
I mean I am all for it, just like I think arena could be used as an alternative to leveling after your first character, but why? You obviously know we would get wrecked, but isnt there also an experience penalty for zones both above and below you like PoE? I thought there was.
However, having that option for a second/third character because you already unlocked it with your first one, is not that wild.
Maybe you want to power-level your char in arena and when you are in lvl 76 you can fully equip it with cool stuff you were preparing.
Or maybe a friend helps you to level the character fast instead.
I mean, unlocking empowered as account-wide (and season specific when thatās a thing). Gives players more freedom with second characters and onwards.
Yeah, it would be nice to have the option to if you feel your character can cope with it rather than have to slog (IMO) through normal monos (by which time Iām bored & move on to something else).
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