New Player Experience

Official Last Epoch General FAQ item #2.

Respeccing requiring removing each point individually is really annoying, but I don’t think there’s any way around your second point (The issue that specifically arises from unspending points is if you have points invested that have a requirement that would no longer be met.) & other games have similar issues (GD/TQ, PoE).

They’re going to be increasing that at some point as they want hitting 100 to be an achievment & TBF, the last 5-10 passive points don’t do much for a build.

Flat bow lightning damage would be added to all/any skills that have the bow tag. The only thing that wouldn’t is if it were % increased lightning damage & you had no flat lightning damage for that to affect.

The character screen is being worked on but delayed due to them focussing on MP. One of the issues with the character screen is that each line on it will only show relevant modifiers, so the crit multi line wouldn’t include any bow crit multi or melee crit multi modifiers.

If that’s the case then that’s a bug. It’s possible that the tendrils is hitting mobs that were also hit by the explosion & that both damage numbers are being added together.

Yes, it’s a modifier to the Marksman mastery passive.

Did you try the in-game game guide (G)?

While the tool tips usually don’t include any conditional modifiers (since they can’t), they should still be good for swapping gear & seeing the impact that has.

They did add that recently (0.8.5c), though it’s only for empowered monos:

Re the Ospryx, yeah, you need to pay attention to these to move out of their AoEs. The Embermages shouldn’t be able to attack you from off-screen like they used to.

This is a known issue, not sure if it’s intended or not.

Known bug.

It is time-related (or you can currently log out & back in to force a refresh).