Feedback and suggestions from a new player

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@Kod1n

Difficulty curve in campaign is not really a curve but step-wise. I only noticed difficulty increase in 3 spots: first ancient era rift, ice cave and lagon island. Maybe my resistances were not good enough at that time, but still. Other than that I didn’t really felt any change in difficulty at any point. I would have expected some build up in an act form the beginning of it to the boss fight, maybe bigger mobs or more rare enemies. Even if this is already the case, it wasn’t enough in my opinion.

Even as a veteran player i can agree on this.

@Kod1n

A big fan of the boss fights (expect the last one in campaign). I am really happy that they are not facetanking dps races. Maybe some of the mechanical / telegraphed attacks that are boss-only can be given to mobs / rare enemies. (The radial attack of Rahyeh in Black Sun comes to my mind, which gave me some trouble in my first couple of tries.)

Yeah i already suggested multiple times to give “mini-versions” of boss abilities to more normal mobs, to better prepare the player for the upcoming challenge.

@Kod1n

I can see that the late game grind or leveling my 20th character could be underwhelming, because I won’t be needing any currencies anymore (gold, shards etc.). So, the late game is either grinding for a perfect roll; gear or blessing. Some shortcut mechanics might be meaningful since you get the good gear at higher echoes and the blessing at the end of a timeline.

That’s definitely the case currently, but we don’t have all endgame systems in place.
Also you could choose to play solo mode, to make a “fresh start” with a single char.

@Kod1n

Better explanation of class-specific mechanics. I didn’t knew what a shadow does for a long time, until I accidentally pressed ALT on a skill node, even if it didn’t say on the tooltip that there was more information for it.

The advanced tooltips when pressing [ALT] should definitely be made more prominent.
Maybe give the player a more clear tutorial about those.

@Kod1n

Show, for how many echoes the given modifier is still active.

Agreed, there is just a recent thread about it.

Showing Echoes remaining on Active map modifiers

As the title suggest, is it possible to include how many echoes is left per active map modifier. Another suggestion would be to combine map modifiers attributes, for example combine all the map monster damage mods same with all the increased monster health, etc.

@Kod1n

Option to auto pick-up and/or auto stash crafting items. At least a hotkey to send crafting items to forge, so I don’t have to open my inventory every time and click it manually.

This is a very hot topic.
I do agree, that there could be a hotkey to send shards to the forge, but the whole auto-pickup thing was already discussed in several threads very intensely.
Here is one of the more recent ones.

Money and Crafting Ingredients should drop directly into stash

Its nothing but busy work for the player having to pick them all up. Just QoL it and have them drop straight to stash. Forge stash for the crafting ingredients.

@Kod1n

More runes, not to remove/modify but to add effects.

@Kod1n

More glyphs effecting rune mechanics.

We will get more crafting updates and probably new runes and glyphs eventually.
We just received a new “Rune Of Shaping” in the most recent patch, which allows implciits value reroll.

@Kod1n

• Make the power-roll of a blessing slightly dependent of the level of echoes conquered before finishing the quest. So, more echoes finished, greater chance for a better blessing roll.
• Option to roll the power level of the blessing player have instead of choosing a new one, to reduce the endless blessing grinding.
• Option to roll (once) the offered blessings for three new ones for some expensive currency, also to reduce blessing grinding.

All 3 of those are good suggestions

@Kod1n

Since there is already a critical success mechanic in crafting, allowing a critical success to create affixes >T5 can be considered. Maybe with a new glyph which increases critical success chance. But since you can’t use a Glyph of Guardian it would mean high fracture chance. A high risk-high reward craft.

Even with luck and very high risk i don’t like the idea of possible exalted items via crafting.
I would prefer to keep them “special”, so they only can drop.

Other than those few points great feedback from a fresh perspective.