Personally I havent baught any of the cosmetics because i think they are all very over designed and do not suite my personal aesthetic at all. Im probably an outlier but a simpler cleaner outfits would go a long way for me.
Or more joke skins and effects. BEE-teor is an adorable idea.
Also, while it probably would be very off brand, I think a goth-lolita magical girl skin for the Reaper Form skill would be HILARIOUS. But yeah very off brand.
One pet peeve about skill type change is that I wish for the option to chance icon color to match the skill type. It’s already jarring when I press a red meteor icon for a lightning one, if the same type of transformation occurs with a paid skill mtx I would expect at least that to change my icon or give me the option to. I mean it’s not a necessity but would be nice.
as a player that so far has only purchased packs for the purpose of supporting and not because I particularly liked what was offered:
1: obviously skill effects have the most appeal, but most of those offered are simply a hue change, perhaps buying a single hue selector for all skill effects, and then the team implementing more cool looking and advanced skill effects would have more impact.
packs, their prices and what they’re offer are already a perfect deal in my opinion, but the cosmetics are still the issue overall.
2: I would like to see less of a focus on “set” items of cosmetics meant to only look good when all together, instead, I would like cosmetics to be less themed or color themed so players can equip cosmetics from different packs without them looking so… off between them, obviously it doesn’t help that the store is new, and there’s not a lot of choice to transmog our characters yet.
3: I’ve always avoided and don’t equip/buy any back/wing item apart from cloaks or backpacks, I think none of the wing items are scaled or applied to the characters in a good way, they look bulky, too big, and maybe a little unattached to the characters. Only exception being the weaver pack with really cool wings that unfortunately, only look to fit a complete set.
I don’t offer solutions as I wouldn’t know any better, just my experience as a customer and long time arpg player.
The first and last time i bought cosmetics in LE was at the start of season 3, after seeing that all the cosmetics got removed each time i logged into the game i stopped using them and will never buy any again. Reinstalled the game and deleted all the leftovers files and nothing.
Which items do you feel offer the best value or appeal, and why?
For me personally the highest value is found in MTXs for the characters themselves.
Being able to change gender in particular, would open up so much more gameplay for me, because i tend to only play female characters.
Second after that is a nice selection of helmet MTXs (or actually lack of helmet), more crowns, tiaras, circlets, even hairstyles as a replacement for “real helmets”.
Are there specific themes, styles, or item types you’d like to see more of? Less of?
I like the more dark themes, not the flashy over the top things.
I way prefer, for example, a dark, clean, robe with some red or silver highlights, over huge shoulderpads + big chunky armour that sparkle with beams of light.
(also don´t be afraid, to make characters look more attractive with MTXs)
Are there any items you’ve avoided purchasing, and what influenced that decision?
I personally don´t care for pets.
I think skill effects are the best value, and of those, the ones that most drastically change the skill’s appearance. I typical create new builds based on the skills I want to use and how they can look and function, so something like the cherry blossoms effect for Smoke Bomb encouraged me to create a ‘samurai’ build. Although, this was also because I wanted to make a ‘samurai’ build before I saw the skill effect (due to basically wanting to recreate classes from another game I play). Thus, a large variety of skill effects would be good.
Honestly, there’s a lot. I want more ‘fantasy’ stuff (elves, dragons, fairy type things). I want some more ‘tech’-based stuff (turrets, explosive effects, lasers). More animals/forms for the primalist (snake forms, bull/minotaur, elephant, and so on).
I’d also love to see more pretty/elegant stuff like dresses for my acolytes and rogues (female versions of the other classes when?).
And voice-over packs would be really cool too, though I guess those might be wishful thinking.
Pets, evade effects, portals, and weapons/armor.
Pets because they sort of feel superfluous, like, if I want something following me around I’m probably playing a minion build, right? So they’re pretty much only for builds where I’m playing a character that doesn’t have a combat minion for gameplay reasons, but thematically has one, like a ranger with a scouting owl or something. Pets should basically be able to replace minion skins if you want them to, so like that one owl pet could be just a pet, or you could use it as the Falcon instead. Also, we should have like a pet-battling mode (you know you want it too).
Evade effects I haven’t bought because I never use evade. Like, I use things that change evade into other things (Crab Ring, Swiftness gloves) more than I use evade. And it just never feels good to use otherwise. Really, it would be better if evade mtx were also movement skill effects, or came with equivalent versions, because some of the evade mtx do look pretty nice.
Portals I just don’t feel like I use them enough to want different visuals for them.
Weapons/gear I haven’t bought any because I’m changing my gear often, and gear mtx feels like a ‘finishing touches’ on a build/character. They’re also just not generalized enough, I think. Weapons need to be more of a set/theme or not be tied to item type beyond 1h vs 2h; for example, I don’t use maces on any builds due to thematics, but if I could use say, a sword skin, on a mace, then I might be more inclined to buy it (and vice versa).
Sorry, my reply was kind of rambly, but there’s so much that could be added or improved it’s hard to address it all.
- Which items do you feel offer the best value or appeal, and why?
- Are there specific themes, styles, or item types you’d like to see more of? Less of?
- Are there any items you’ve avoided purchasing, and what influenced that decision?
I agree with some others that i’ve seen post. the cosmetics look good, but having a themed set gets ruined if you dont have the full theme. I’m personally a fan of dragons and things of a draconic nature so i’d love to see more draconic themed cosmetics. that includes finishing some of the sets that are missing matching pieces like weapons, or skill transmogs… (would love to make my fire mage look like a dragon mage) as well more mage style cosmetics (flowing robes, a hood or other type of mystic helmet ornament stuff) i did avoid some of the void things because it just didnt appeal to me, but having theme bundles, both full armor sets and full weapon sets, is nice and i’d love to see those more
I like to have a complete set of cosmetics, such as being everything on fire/frozen in armor and then changing the weapons with a different theme. With the back piece, I do like big cool things such as dragon wings, but i imagine in these themes could enter some funny stuff too to have a different “flavor” to call it something.
Something it would be interesting is if you could get the community to create their own cosmetics. I’ve seen in other games like Warframe where they have an entire section of community’s cosmetics, where as i understand it, they give a part of what they charge from the cosmetic to the creator.
I love that you are asking this question.
As someone who really likes your game and wants to support it, I have purchased A lot of the cosmetics you offer. I would imagine I’m probably pretty above average on MTX spending.
With that in mind, I personally find that the styles of your MTX are pretty terrible. I don’t use a lot of them.
Don’t care too much about cosmetics but in POE2 I bought a few stat trackers. They don’t tell you anything groundbreaking but it’s fun to see how many Xs you’ve picked up or Ys you’ve killed.
I also bought some execution cosmetics which play when you kill a rare enemy.
In general I’d recommend raiding other ARPGs for ideas. Other freemium games I know of have a heavy character focus but LE doesn’t really have that to lean on. I guess you could buy skins for the NPCs you most frequently interact with, but in the endgame they aren’t major characters.
Definitely abilities transmog
In other games, I enjoy having weapon effects that has after kill effect – having eye candy every kill when grinding for hours makes game play more enjoyable.
I’m not very keen on cosmetics in general, as a preamble.
Which items do you feel offer the best value or appeal, and why?
Cosmetic effect sets for a class’ skills. If I am buying cosmetics, it will be skill effects, because those I actually notice while playing the game.
Are there specific themes, styles, or item types you’d like to see more of? Less of?
If we talk about character appearance, then a few fancy but grounded themes.
Are there any items you’ve avoided purchasing, and what influenced that decision?
Pets.
I’m no whale by any means, but I have bought all your supporter packs and most of the cosmetics, that said, I did so to support an amazing game, but personally (and I hate to be so crass to the art team that put ao much work in, I’m so sorry!) I just don’t like the looks of any of the armor sets. I own most Diablo 4 and a ton of POE armor sets and love them (especially D4 armor) but Last Epoch armor looks strange to me with all the purple balls everywhere and no really cool visual effects. I’d love to see more thematic sets for our builds ie; fire, ice, lightning, holy, blood, poison. And honestly the supporter packs give a pittance in ship coins compared to POE, but that’s completely understandable with the game being so new and finding it’s footing still. I hope this comes off as helpful and not judgemental. Can’t wait to see what you all come up with!
Hire someone from MTX who has a college degree and understands body proportions, because most MTXs are just mutations, without shape. Same about weapons… large weapon can have good proportion. Those here doesn’t havy any quality asset in them
The metal armor bends like plastic and lacks immersion. They look like something from Fortnite.
I want to look like a barbarian, not a Fortnite character, like a mage, not some childish skin from a mobile game with a thousand ornaments.
minimalizm and aesthetic over looking like gothical architecture.
allow us to turn-off glowing stuff from skins… like bone weapons, it looks so low in quality.
Take inspiration from the aesthetics of Dungeons and Dragons, not Fortnite and mobile games.
Really i cant spent even dollar… bought just class inspired back attachments that’s all what shop offers.
MTX lack immersion, quality, they are deformed and metal deformed like plastic on movement,
MTX are not class themed - we don’t want to be fish. Primalist want to be primalist… but skulls are deformed.
I want themes based on class - inspired by DND and not fortnite… without gloving elements, some nice more “femine” for ranger and acolyte and so on.
I have spent about 3000$ on poe and here i have bought just back attachment because those are only immersion items - that extense fantasy of a class im playing.
and mtx’es are important for me. I like to collect them… but not to like a fish or mutated bone. While bone-animal fur are my favourite i never seen so wrongly made skins for an actual game that’s not a asian-mobile game, While many people buying just whatever here i spent a lot on aesthetic stuff that looks in vibe to universe, immersion to class, class themes and simple stuff.
Big rock hammer, excalibur in stone taken out with rock, actually being hammer, 2h pile of iron (guts sword) 2h sword and so on.
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follow the dugneons and dragons aesthetic and not mobile games
follow minimalizm not asian ornamental style to look like overdesigned-architecture and not character
For me I like more Realistic Weapons and armor not the Wacky World of Warcraft style weapons/armor so I’d like so see more Realistic stuff Pets are pointless unless they can pick up crafting shards/gold I’m sure there’s more things i can’t think of right now too lol
They are currently usable offline.
I prefer packs with multiple mtx options. I enjoy the skill, pet and portal mtx the most.
More skill mtx.
I avoided buying skill mtx if im not playing that skill this season.
If you add a My little Pony themed thing, my money is yours 
Rainbow Dash pegasus pet, here we come!
Sunset Shimmer unicorn pet, here we come!