Yes, devs are very close to the community, regularly interacting with the on all the different platforms.
Pretty exactly 2 months (+/- 1 week)
We currently have 8 chapters and there is a 9th planned already.
We don’t know yet if they will expand the story further after that.
Depending on your speed an experience the story gives you roughly 5-8 hours of content.
We don’t know anything about the economy yet, there will be somethign similar to a auction house, which they call Bazaar. we don’t have any details.
But since LE just received a new Website and they are already working on some API on their website, i am pretty sure that there wil be some interaction between website and in-game, not sure if it will be trading though.
We currently have a kinda “roadmap” for the EA phase
After launch we will get “cycles” (their version of leagues/seasons), but we don’t have any informations on that.
First off: you will not need builds in this game.
LE is very approachable and not very daunting.
The progression curve is the best of any aRPG i played and you will literally make every build work, if you put some thought into it.
I would highly advice you to just start the game on your own terms and experiment.
This is easily doable in LE and if you have any issues learning and figuring them out yourself, will teach you the game way better.
However, if you really want a guide i can highly recommend Wasted’s Lightning Blast Mage
This is not only a very beginenr friendly guide, but also has tons of usefull general tips in it, if you take your time and read through it all.