Not everybody plays 3-4+ hours and every day.
I’m at lvl 74 on my pg (no alts just a very low level warlock), played 40 hours and I feel I’m not progressing because everything takes way too long.
I don’t care being slower than who plays much but I wanna feel I’m improving my character while playing and I don’t…
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Wait till you are lvl 85 or higher.
There are game genres where you have to invest a lot of time to progress.
Even if you play 6-8 hours a day, you will soon have minimal progress left. There are some threads that criticize this. Whether rightly so or not is another question.
I have roughly an hour a day during the week to play and maybe 2-3 on weekend days. I’m having no trouble progressing my characters.
Time = Progress is a basic foundation in pretty much any RPG, in most games period, and just about any endeavor in life. That’s just how it is. If you can’t spend much time playing, you need to expect and accept slow progress.
70+ is a crawl because the planned endgame for that point on isnt really here yet. For now i would highly recommend just looking through the gear youve farmed and consider what alt builds they might make work. Its a lot more fun than corruption farming.
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It might feel that way now, because you aren’t familiar enough with the systems to maximized your time-usage. Once you get an idea of what is useful, what is not – and can configure your loot filters accordingly, and you get more comfortable with crafting, then things begin to speed up a little more again.
The game isn’t nearly as complex as something like POE, yet not quite as brain dead as D3 or D4. Some of the systems still take a bit to fully understand how to utilize them in an efficient manner. Which glyphs/runes to use, and when. When to invest rarer shards into crafting, and when not to… etc etc.
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I’m not sure that’s why 70+ is slower. There’s content at that level so it’s not like you hit that level & then get gimped on xp because you’re over levelled.
Thats just the point where youre no longer getting levels every other monolith and such, its not as bad as 90s obviously, and its much more within reason to trudge through it, but it is still noticeably slower than the rapid progression until that point.
So what i meant with crawl is more relative than actually being a grind. It’s just that leveling is extremely quick until that point.
The biggest mistake ppl/gamer can do is compare their progress with others. Maybe with streamers who make a living by playing 8 hours a day or maybe some ppl (they´ve found on some discord) that already push hard in the leaderboards.
Play at your pace and find ppl that maybe also play less then 3 hrs a day (or whatever your amount of time is).
If you keep comparing your progress/playstyle with ppl that are way more advanced or play 8hrs a day you will only get sad and fomo kicks in. Thats not the purpose of a game. The purpose is to have fun. Sourround yourself with ppl that are likeminded.
Afaik every game has their progress pushers, their dads (play for an hour a day or maybe just at the weekends) and their casual players (I just do whatever and have fun that way). You just need to find the crowd that you feel comfortable with IMO!
Good post.
I’m not playing D4 because people whined so hard for faster levelling that now I can’t get the uniques I am after, level my sigils, ANYTHING before hitting 100.
I respect that you have an opinion and my opinion does not necessarily mean more or any such nonsense but I must state, I do NOT want them to dumb levelling down. I LOVE it right where it is at.
Ah, that’s the fine line every developer must balance. In every ARPG there comes a point for each player, where the chase is no longer worth the investment. If I have all the items I need, and the only reason to play is to find lets say an 18% life leech vs my 15%, and all other stats are perfect, then that’s the end of the road for me.
You have to have that balance of progression not being too fast, yet still being obtainable.
Conversely, the opposite can be true. And that’s where I think LE is currently. When everything is random… and I mean everything, you’ll just never get what you want, ever. And that’s equally as off-putting as no longer having something to chase.
Right now, my chase is blessings in empowered monos. My necro hit 94 last night, and I am wearing not one item that I actually found myself, it’s all base MG items. I also have one pair of boots I happened to craft a useable set of stats on because that’s random too. But at least I know blessings are obtainable because they’re at the end of every timeline. So I’m just going through, updating my blessings to empowered versions. After that though, I don’t know. If I haven’t found anything in 94 levels, I don’t what EHG wants of me. You have to be able to chase something.
All I can really say to this is that in Last Epoch, levelling up from 1 and getting to end-game (let’s say empowered monos, around level 80) is VERY QUICK compared to every other game in the genre.