I don’t know if this is the right place to post this but I’d like some advice from the more experienced members of the community.
I have 150 hours and 3 characters. I started with golem necro. Everything was sweet. Got to 250 corruption and decided to try something else. Went for a paladin. I had to quit before even empowering monoliths. Nothing was dropping, I was so underpowered I couldn’t really progress. So I started a cold swarmblade druid. I gotta quit it as I literally can’t do a single empowered monolith. Everyone is saying the game is easy but I just don’t see it. In my experience, except the acolyte that rode on infinite ward and a minion to draw aggro, the game seems to me unplayably hard.
I did read a couple guides for LE, I mostly know the mechanics. I also know that both hammer paladin and cold swarmblade are rated as pretty good builds (after a failed attempt at building sth on my own I followed maxroll guides). To me, they just suck to the point I can’t make any progress. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I mean I know that the druid probably needs more health, armor and sustain but it’s just not dropping (dmg is also shite, tbh). Some gear I’m wearing is from 30-40 levels ago.
I got thousands of hours in other arpgs. No other game felt as frustrating at this does at the moment. Nothing is dropping. It feels like the game is programmed to give me everything I don’t need. And when something promising finally drops, it gets fucked by an unlucky craft for 20 CP. BTW, I don’t even filter out any exalted.
I think the game is excellent in many areas, and I see nothing but praise from most members of the community. But my personal experience is miserable to the point I wanna uninstall. Except the acolyte, my characters deal no dmg and that druid gets one shot by trash mobs. Here it is for reference Druid, level 82 (Release / 1.0.1) - Last Epoch Build Planner
What am I doing wrong? I can’t do 100 corruption on this to even get the blessings. What should I be doing?
When you near the end of the campaign you have an option to select a faction. The faction you select completely changes the game for you. Circle of Fortune (CoF) gives you better drop rates and changes how you can farm. Merchant’s Guild allows you to trade for items, essentially getting a servicable build that kills empowered monoliths with ease…fairly quickly.
If you never utilized your faction like Asmongold, I can easily see the game feeling awful. I played pre 1.0 and it got boring quick.
Even with CoF you can basically get everything (in my opinion actually sometimes faster than just buying it) , i think this guy should just look up some guides on how to target farm and look at the Last Epoch Item Database database… I struggled with gearing aswell but i legit didnt know some items are locked behind specific progression points or boss/mobtype only…
I felt abit the same until i started doing prophecies, some of them were like kill 3 mages, and get 5 unique daggers or do that dungeon tier 2 and get 5 exalted armours. I guess the merchants guild isn’t to bad either if u need some build enabling uniques, i honestly don’t know the prices but i would guess its rather cheap on SC with the amount of people playing.
Just the third character. I started pre-launch. CoF changed nothing for me. I have a belt, amulet, weapon, relic and a ring from level 40-50, nothing ever dropped for me for these slots.
So I take it CoF sucks? Can you change it to the other one?
So basically I check a build guide, check the base item types, look them up in the database, and find where the mob types that drop it are? Thing is I can’t even do empowered monos despite doing everything seemingly right.
So you have to use the kinda broken ward mechanics to play this game? Anything without ward is not playable?
For my 1st 1.0 character, I’m running a pre-1.0 Paladin build I found on LETools, picked it because it doesn’t require any uniques. It’s ok, but has slow clear speed compared to the healing hands builds I watch others play.
Drops could be better. So far I’ve crafted all my gear and doing 100 corruption now with level 85 character and beat a couple of the empowered monolith bosses. Even with level 7 CoF, I don’t get drops particularly good for my character, but the double XP and double shard drops are really nice. I’ve busted a lot of gear for crafting shards and just plodding along. Personally, I don’t care much about speed, but am really tempted to respec into Healing Hands. My build works, but after watching how those HH builds perform, it’s getting discouraging to play this Paladin.
I figure I still have a way to go before a lot of T7’s start to drop and I don’t need them right now anyway. My plan is to farm Prophesies for now and then start a Warlock.
A couple more comments: The best Paladin armor I find needs level 86 to equip, so I’m not expecting to push corruption until I have a few more levels. I don’t know anything about druid, but level 82 possibly needs more XP to be reliable.
As for drops, I have 4 pages of Sentinel idols (not counting the ones I threw away) and have exactly 1 that is for my build. So my advice to OP is to temper your expectations, or just play the broken build.
If you are struggling in corruption, go back to unempowered and gain some levels. Lvl 90 monos still drop everything that could be an upgrade for you. Playing a broken build might have skewed your expectations. Corruption is a huge increase in difficulty and your druid is only lvl 82. Used to be in beta that was okay but they changed corruption at release as well as drop rates. So you might have to farm the lvl 90s a couple days before actually going to empowered.
That’s EXACTLY how the game makes me feel ALL THE TIME. I know I’m being paranoid but I sometimes I could swear there’s algorithm that reads my builds and scuffs the drop rates.
That was helpful, thanks. I thought I should collect all the blessings first.
I feel you on Necro. My best friend and his kid both play Sentinels and when they play with my minion necro, they say it’s not fun since pets seem to be hilariously overpowered for the first half of the game. They just follow me while I kill all the things.
I’m 82 and agree with the loot comments. I was CoF and would just leave uniques on the ground. All the loot-splosions in the world are meaningless if you never get the bloody item you actually want. Might as well just be blues. Conversely, I swapped to Merchants last night, and got an Aarons Will in the bazaar in under two hours. It’s maddening.
I can’t speak to empowered mono’s yet, but I beat the 85 island with no issue at 79.
I can’t switch to Merchants because all my gear is tagged as CoF. And it’s not like the game showers you with replacements.
After about 20 hours of zero drops, I just got a thing that might have been a slight upgrade on one of my forgotten-for-35-levels slots. And guess what. 30 CP gone in two crafts, item bricked.
Just an opinion but the loot system here is stupidly unforgiving. How am I supposed to progress if the game doesn’t let me progress?
That’s gotta be it for me, folks, fun game but - after spending dozens of hours and ending up up with two bricked characters - evidently not for me.
I feel you. I hate crafting personally, I just want the item. Farm x boss for y item and its a z% chance…done.
I lost half my gear in the swap, but I just used a couple yellows to muscle through for a couple hours. Frankly, I don’t see the logic in locking gear with a particular faction. Seems losing all your currency when you swap is punishment enough. I lost over 30k CoF currency when I swapped, I can’t wear the gear now either? Eff out of here with that mess.
This is going to be the game my friends an I play for a while, but there does seem to be around 10 layers of overcomplication put in place in between “Kill things” and “get gear”.
What build? If you use any skill that triggers Healign Hands you can facetank the world almost naked.
Well in a nutshell: Petbuilds are strong. Ward builds are strong. For everything else you need some skill and brain capacity and experience to get it done. Not saying you are bad or whatever but it’s a whole other beast to tackle if you don’t go for the strong builds.
If that build is legit as you are stup ingame you should be fine so it looks like a skill issue or a knowledge issue… sorry. The numbers of the build seem legit.
It’s a different mindset on drops with this game. You’re rarely going to find the perfect item drop for you. You have to find the perfect item that gives you a chance to craft it into the perfect item. And before that, you have to find the perfect item to craft into something that reasonably fits into your build. You guys may need to adjust your loot filter if you’re not finding drops.
