Hello !
First Topic ever, and this is because i really wanted to discuss about the Rogue (especially the Bladedancer) but also the future classes.
After trying her 5 hours; i must say i’m blown away. it’s the funniest and best gameplay i ever had in any ARPG of the genre and i’m still leveling and deciding on the skills / route i wanna go for.
I’m usually more of a caster player than a melee one, but i got to say i love the rogue gameplay. Every skill i tried felt smooth (and i’ll try to scale them with AS to see if it becomes even better) and the melee hit gives a lot of feedback.
A lot of the new skill feels very unique. Stuff i didn’t play anywhere else. Switching between melee and ranged with the same skill is very pleasant; but i especially wanna talk about the shadow mechanic.
For those who haven’t try yet they copy one spell between 3, and you have plenty of way of making them spawn. After a dash, or after hitting with a certain skill. etc. The result is a gameplay highly DYNAMIC and SYNERGISTIC covering a lot of area, giving burst of damage, rewarding positionning and making fighting melee fun.
But there is one problem that comes with all those benefits. All the classes i played in last epoch feel quite “boring” or too standard compared to this. I haven’t try the “bow” rogue yet and i plan to so i can’t judge this one. I must say i mostly played acolyte / mage and messed just a little bit with primalist. (i’m planning on testing everything OFC, but i’m waiting for a friend to delve deeper into the game mechanics)
My fear is that it’s too late to give another pass to the “old” classes and make it equally dynamic and fun as the rogue before the game launches.
But it also gives me hope for what is to come, (thinking about warlock and runemaster for example).
So thank you last epoch devs for the Rogue, it is crazy and i can’t wait to try a lot of things. If you’re able at some point to polish the other classes gameplay as nicely as the rogue one is, or make the future ones this good, i can say without a doubt that Last Epoch will get the reknown and recognition it deserves, and will get a bright future.
What do you guys think ? do you have the same feeling as i do ? Do you feel that “gameplay” gap between the rogue and the other classes ? or is it just me ? What do you expect for those future masteries ?
TLDR : rogue is dope, i fear i won’t be able to play anything else, please make at least the runemaster and warlock that fun. Thank you for reading.