Quality of Life, Dungeon & Other Improvements | Coming to Last Epoch April 17th

[Makszi]

I like how the death vacuum is explained in context of the lore

@Averielle

Upon death inside the Monolith of Fate, it’s not just the Traveler that is moved to the Monolith Hub, the loot surrounding you gets ‘caught in the pull of your fate’ and will move there too.

[DISMAMA]

That is Crazy let’s goo to Saison 2 LE login

[justdarkside]

Wow, these changes are incredible! Cannot wait form the stream/notes tomorrow and launch of Season 2 on the 17th!

[Breadfriend]

This might be one of my most anticipated ARPG season in a long time and I’m really glad EHG is seizing the moment. I always felt this game had tremendous potential if they fix a QoL issues, the new MTX looks amazing as well, just one more week to go!

[gatinyo]

@Averielle

A good example of this is Ballista. By default, Ballista is a long-range, easily damaged minion that you summon and stick close to. However, with the right choices in the Skill Tree, you could turn it into an explosive you want to hurl at your enemies. Previously, the system only allowed for one action - stay or throw - to take place, and thus Ballistae were always thrown regardless of how your Skill Tree was specced into. Now the new two-tiered system lets summoned Ballistae stay safely at your side while explosive Ballistae are correctly thrown at the nearest enemy.

I love this evolution of the controller system!

I hope at some point we can specify the controller behavior for our skills. For example, when I was Falcon swooping, I could see a use for either going maximum distance or maximum enemy or closest enemy depending on damage or mobility preferences.

[ArcticPotato]

No because you mf’s are doing actual insane work on this patch. Hands down biggest hype in this genre of game that happened in so long for me. I am more hyped about this than any league in poe season in d4 or even the PoE 2 early access release.

[C8die]

@Averielle

Controller targeting

Does this mean that a player can adjust their preferred behavior for a skill or that EHG is pre-configuring them to behave better?

[Demonparty]

Holy crap. Genuinely loving all these changes. I really like the additional campaign quests for skipping through on my alts.

You guys cooked. Take my money (and the next many weekends of my life)!

[NicotineLL]

This looks amazing guys, I see you’re pioneering some new QoL here and I like what I’m seeing! I really hope you hit it big with this patch and let’s hope the servers keep up with the demand this time

[Suhail]

Huge qol improvements here. Ty for the deterministic or random forge system, I love it

[Pzg77]

This looks amazing. Can’t wait.

[zeusnow]

very excited about the new season , everything looks great.
The 17th cant come fast enough!!!

[ExpedientFalcon]

The auto-inventory storage is HUGE. This patch is poggies.

[LividLegends]

Personally, dungeon respawning I don’t think was necessary. I just don’t think the game needed that sort of training wheels for the dungeons. I enjoyed the HC aspect to them as a test of skill. But it isn’t a bad change and I know people will enjoy it.

Otherwise, love this post like I loved all the others. Let’s fookin’ go m8s!

[Scipo0419]

@Averielle

Chronomancer Lerinne is already adept at helping you respecialize your Passive Points, and you can now respecialize your Class Mastery at the end of time. Simply choose the ‘Respecialize Mastery’ option, and Lerinne will let you know how much Gold will be required.

Again, please make sure this is a considerable cost given the fact that it will likely lead into “meta swapping” if it’s not. I’d prefer you overtune it and have complaints it’s too expensive and then adjust the price downward than undertune it and realize the game is already in a “swap mastery meta” and then try to fix it. You’ll get far more backlash from the latter.

@Averielle

Controller targeting has been significantly improved with a new “targeting paradigm" system, this means we can create custom behaviours for every skill based on the intended use of a skill while using a controller, such as - ‘Cast On Self’, ‘Cast Max Range Forwards’ and ‘Cast on Closest Enemy in Range’. ‘Cast On Enemy in Forward Facing Cone’ is the default behaviour. This also includes if a node or gear changes how a skill works, allowing us to create two-tiered behaviours, something far more specific that what was used before.

10/10 phenomenal change, as a Steam Deck player I thank you! Now we just need a better UI for Loot Filters on Controller lol

@Averielle

Shards, Runes, Glyphs, Keys, Woven Echoes… It’s a lot to track and loot and store, and something we have made some changes to with Auto-Storing! In Season 2 players will have more control over what stackable items move to their dedicated storage systems on looting and which move to the players Inventory, allowing the player to decide what happens to to those items next.

Another 10/10 change. I know the original intent was for runes/glyphs/shards to feel Runes from D2, but they’re just not even close in the current iteration. Even farming the Countess for Runes never resulted in the shard-splosions we see in LE, so the “deliberate pickup” felt out of place.

@Averielle

Now when comparing items to your equipped gear, you will be able to press CTRL to compare rings or weapons in your main hand as usual and while holding CTRL then press and hold ALT to compare an item to the ring or weapon in the off-hand slot. You can see this in action below.

10/10, it was only a matter of time before this was implemented.

[LividLegends]

@Scipo0419

Again, please make sure this is a considerable cost given the fact that it will likely lead into “meta swapping” if it’s not. I’d prefer you overtune it and have complaints it’s too expensive and then adjust the price downward than undertune it and realize the game is already in a “swap mastery meta” and then try to fix it. You’ll get far more backlash from the latter.

I worry about this also. For the same reason the skill respec is the way it is, not being able to change masteries meant you needed to commit to learning how you do content with that class. Now you can choose X to fly thorugh cmapaign and echo farming and swap to Y to do bosses on a “better” build. Not my favorite change. Nice for those who were wanting it for sure, but idk man.

[boxanata]

Those are some awesome QoL changes.

Damn fine work, EH!

[ExServ]

It might not seem like much but all this time comparing ring was a pain ^^
This and the new tabs in the inventory looks like they will save us some clicks to spend on combat instead, thanks !

[Scipo0419]

Thankfully Mike has already confirmed they’re going to keep an eye on things. I just wish they went a more thematic and limited route with an option to farm respecs later like D2 did. Lets you respec early and quickly if you’re not having fun or store them for later, but once you’re out of the freebies, best get to farming. 3 “free” respecs per character would be perfect: 1 from Mastery A to B, 1 from Mastery B to C, and one back to Mastery A or B if you’re still unhappy and preferred A or B. Unlock one immediately and 2 more for significant milestones (like beating Lagon or unlocking Empowered Monos)

[ApacheVE3D]

No more T4 Julra PTSD. YAY.