Last Epoch Runeword system Time-Woven Gear

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Time-Woven Gear, drawing inspiration from Diablo II’s Runewords, are a proposed addition to Last Epoch’s itemization.

Using Echoic Stones, These stones are described as physical manifestations of the game’s time-traveling lore, imbued with the echoes of powerful events and distinct eras.

Mechanics

Players would place or fuse Echoic Stones into specific base items, similar to how runes are used to craft runewords in Diablo II.

Echoic Stones are intended to have a wide range of rarities, similar to the rarity of runes.

A new section within the Forge interface would be dedicated to Echoic Stones, displaying the required stone sequence and the potential power of the resulting item.

Items enhanced with Echoic Stones would gain a unique set of powerful affixes, some of which might introduce entirely new mechanics.

These affixes are designed to synergize with the chosen Echoic Stones and the item’s base type.
This system aims to create a new tier of itemization, offering a powerful alternative to existing Unique and Legendary items.

Benefits

Fresh and Exciting Hunt: Echoic Stones would provide a new and engaging way for players to hunt for rare materials and craft incredibly powerful items.

Build Diversity: This system would open up new possibilities for build diversity by offering unique combinations of affixes and effects unavailable through other item types.

Item Value: Previously less desirable base items could become valuable again when combined with Echoic Stones.

Echoic Stone Names
Here are 30 potential Echoic Stone names:

Epoch Stone
Timeline Stone
Era Stone
Warp Stone
Chronos Stone
Temporal Stone
Fragment of Eterra
Echo Stone
Void-Touched Stone
Abyss Stone
Orobyss Stone
Ruined Stone
Oblivion Stone
Rift Stone
Continuum Stone
Paradox Stone
Destiny Stone
Fateweaver Stone
Star-Woven Stone
Celestial Anchor
Timeless Spark
Whispers of the Past Stone
Glimmer of the Future Stone
Primal Era Stone
Imperial Era Stone
Ancient Era Stone
Divine Era Stone
Scion Stone
Eon Stone
Singularity Stone
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If I’m not mistaken, something similar is being considered for Grim Dawn. In Last Epoch, this idea is appealing to me if these echo stone augmentations convert the base damage of skills (within the specialization class). Alternatively, it could be partial or complete changes to the tree. I might want to use meteors that deal cold damage in combat, and have the nod of Katerborn and shrapnel applied to cold instead of fire!
Alternatively, these affixes change the type of possible control. Freeze → stun. Root-> Sleep. Fear-> Hex. Slow-> Demoralization.

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Do you know why EHG have always said no to this kind of idea in the past? Because it’s basically already part of the game in the form of EHG’s implementation of crafting.

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The reason why runewords aren’t more widespread in games in this genre is because they suffer from the same issues as sets: they are usually either too weak that no one uses them (like D2 sets) or they’re so strong that they’re mandatory for all builds (like D2 runewords).

Runewords in D2 didn’t increase build variety. Quite the contrary. Pretty much all builds use runewords for the 4 available slots and most use always the same ones, with a few variants.

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I’ve heard mike say this many times its just simply not a good enough excuse imo there is plenty room to add sockets you also don’t need sockets for a runeword system using a new forge menu just put in the base item + the Echoic stones to make ad Time-Woven gear which is basically a unique you can craft by collecting parts

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D2 did runewords bad but runewords are just uniques you can find parts for and craft EHG would just need to design them the same way they would do uniques and limit them like Primordial uniques EHG is good at making all item types good but even now Legendaries take up most slots in a character build due to the guaranteed affix now

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You not liking it or disagreeing with it doesn’t invalidate it.

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Yes it does why every time you reply here on this forum you’re so negative or its your way or nothing please go away you are zero help here on these forums or anywhere literally for years everything you say here is negative