Losing echos

[CaiusMartius]

@grimlock9999

I really hope the devs read this post. Grinding is not fun, and not entertaining for a lot of people. For those that do enjoy it, they lose nothing if the game is tuned around casual players. Just add a checkbox for those who want a death penalty. It is so simple.

And then there is this thread…

An Update on Our Road to 1.0

[banner]   Hello Travelers, There’s some important news concerning Last Epoch’s launch I’d like to share with you. Before I get into the latest phase of our journey, I’d like to briefly cover how we got here. For those that don’t know, we first started work on Last Epoch in mid-2017; the first pieces of concept art, the first lines of code were created in May of that year. We began releasing playable demos of the game toward the end of that year, and in April 2018 we brought the game to K…

… in which over a hundred players have commented about how much they are enjoying the game.

A lot of suggestions are currently going on now concerning the boss and/or one-shot mechanics.

Adaptive damage reduction for bosses removes my motivation to play

for me, and i assume many others, the core experience of an ARPG is improving your character. there are three ways to do that: clearspeed, boss DPS, and defense. clear speed in LE is mostly finished by the time a character starts endgame. you have all your skills and they’re all level 18-20, and there’s little to no clear speed bonuses on gear (such as AOE increase, explode on kill, etc). i think that’s fine. LE isn’t a game about clearspeed, and it doesn’t need to become one. some people enjo…

So they most definitely should read this particular player’s post,. But I hoped they read ALL of the posts about feedback on the forum and weigh them accordingly because, in game design I’m fairly confident that it really isn’t “that simple” to balance and tune a game.