Hello LE team and players! Here i got some thoughts about the design of the game, no wall of text, only short opinion
Disclaimer: i love the game and i want to thank all of the LE developer team for making such an amazing product.
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Leveling is good. It is short and challenging (if not using uber builds). Everyone loves that it doesn’t take a month to get to 99-100. 2 days of chill gaming and you’re at the endgame content - thats what we need.
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Endgame is fine, love bossing much more than clearing 500 echoes in a row. Id like to have a way to somehow skip stability farm and use good old baalrun method. But again, content is fine, no need to do it asap.
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Mechanical classes design is super weird and unbalanced. I dont think that “balance” itself is a goal in arpg. The problem is a distance between meta builds and others. A good balance, for me, is when meta build is 2-3 times better than non-meta. So for ex, i deal like 1000 dps with regular build, and 3000 with meta build. I think its okay. In Last epoch its like 1000 and 100.000 difference. Half of abilities are born dead. Most of uniques - same. If you dont use ward abuse you got 1shotted every minute. Armor and dodge - trash. Items cant heal dead classes because the stat ceiling is too low. Tons of mechanical problems inside. You couldve solve it if we store more dps inside our items. Right now its like 80% of the dps comes from skill trees/class trees, and items are for resistances. Bad decision, because if the ability is weaker mechanically, you cant deny it with perfect stats.
Solution: dont go nerf meta classes, go buff others, like every week. It works so good for player base! Yeah, and bugfix midseason is ok.
- Mechant guild is totally broken. Favour system - just delete it, let people trade what they want. Make favour to give bonuses in gold, more trade slots, etc. Restrictions=bad. Search system needs rework. Add some pricechecking tool - look how it is done in WoW for example. People selling items for 0 gold is a joke. We need to make MG better, because if we dont, there will be 0 ppl inside after the game’s hypetrain run away.
Cheers)