phenomenal video brother. I've played LE off and on over the past 2 years and getting really hyped for 1.0 and this video is just what I needed! No fluff, straight to the point and informative, but also entertaining to watch with my coffee. Seriously, great work! Viewers can hear/see how much you care and that my friend will take you a long way. You got my sub and future support!
Honestly the cleanest guide I've seen for Last Epoch. Knew most of the information but will definitely share this with my friends interested in the game.
Funny thing about the idols is that since D2 introduced talismans, I was preaching they should have had their own separate slots / inventory section available to arrange as you please within certain space limits. That would stop the very unfortunate situation when people fill their inventory with talismans because they are too powerful to skip. Idols and separate slot for these is as if someone finally listened to my prayer lmao. I love this solution so much.
Thanks man, feels amazing knowing you enjoyed the video! Isn't the balance wild? Don't think I have played an ARPG with this much viable build diversity
Thanks for the video. You just melted my brain. Just jumped back into the game for the first time since 2021 and there's such a change. (obviously 😀 ) Looking forward to 1.0 Cheers!
Nicely done. You should have a nice spot in the regular review rotation for Last Epoch on YT. Might be hard to penetrate all the hype, but your content is excellent and efficiently useful. Thanks and good luck with 1.0!
Thank you! hard to put into words how happy I am that so many people are enjoying the content and gaining something from it, appreciate the kind words :)
I haven't had the chance to create build guides for my characters just yet, but if you are looking for the hammerdin build you can find something similar on maxroll.gg for now! Thanks man
I believe it runs on lower settings and a lower FPS, but regardless you should be able to play Last Epoch on a steam deck. Hopefully when 1.0 release happens the game will have better performance on the steam deck!
In multiplayer everything is still tied to your character, the only difference is you can play with friends or other people, the monolith blessings are applied to your character only, not the monolith itself, as you say each player has their own progression, hope this cleared things up for you!
Correct it is random, but unlike rune of shattering, it guarantee's you the number of shards you want if it happens to remove that affix, all while having 4 attempts. With a rune of shattering you have 1 attempt, and there is no guarantee you get the affix shard you want, and even if you do, it will be a random amount of shards. My wording on this specific point could definitely be improved upon, and i am currently working on a crafting guide that will be more precise, apologies if this misled you
I don't see the need to shorten Monolith to Mono. Monolith has a definition that aligns with the game design. Mono makes me think of the kissing disease😅
Nah your incorrect, it works the exact same as all ARPG's, the only difference is the enemies penetrate resistances depending on level until 75%, rather than having those resistances stripped from your character when entering higher difficulties. Considering this is a beginner's guide, resistances are EXTREMELY helpful in the early levels especially when fighting Lagon which is a wall for lots of builds, most people struggle and don't realize they have no cold lightning or physical resistance.
Very well done! I really appreciate your clear, measured delivery and that you don’t rush through your VO talking a mile a minute. And very well organized video, too. I don’t have this game (yet) but you just got another sub from me.
Fantastic guide. I hope new players will get encouraged to play with their builds and have fun instead of sticking to "build guides" right from the get-go, missing the best this game has to offer in the process. Sub
A couple of precisions I feel need to be made : - Damage over time doesn't work like in most game. There are two type : Skills that do damage over time directly (for example : Disintegrate or Maelstrom), and Ailments. Damage over time skills scale with attack type (generally Spell damage) and don't trigger "hit" effects. They also can't crit (as a general rule, effects that don't "hit" can't crit). Apart from that, they mostly work like regular skills. Ailments are effects that are applied on "hits", and act as a debuff with generally a damage component (but not always) for example : Ignite. Ailments are special in the sense that they don't scale with flat damage or attack type like Spell damage. They have a fixed base value, and only scale with Damage type (like Fire damage will scale Ignite damages) and Damage over Time. They are debuffs with a fixed timer that can stack (some can have unlimited stacks, other can't) In other words, if you want to build around ailments, you don't care about flat damage, crit, and so on. What you want is a lot of attack speed (to generate a lot of hits as fast as possible) and appropriate Damage type (like Fire Damage) and Damage over Time. You don't care if the skill itself doesn't do a lot of damages, what you want is a skill that hit very fast (like for example Flurry). - Damage multipliers : they are the main way to boost your dps, you want as many as you can. However how do you know what is multiplicative, and what is additive ? It's simple : anything that is labelled "Increased damage" is additive. It means that if you have 100% increased fire damage, and 100% increased spell damage, then your Fireball spell will hit for 300% of its base damage. Anything labelled with "More damage" is multiplicative. If you have 100% increased fire damage, and 100% more damage to Fireball, then your Fireball spell will hit for 400% of its base damages. So be on the lookout for these "more" multipliers (generally in the skill tree), they are the best way to scale up your damages. Of courses, things like crit chance or attack speed also act like multipliers. So what's the difference between Fire damage and Elemental damage, if they work mecanically the same ? Well it matters when it comes to affixes that can appear on items. For the same level of affixes, you'll get a higher value in Fire damage than you would get from Elemental damage. As a rule of thumb, specialized affixes can get higher values than general affixes. that's why it's better to focalize on one specific damage type (like Fire damage) instead of more general one (like Elemental damage). - Resistance are not as important as it may seem. Don't get me wrong, they ARE important. However, they're are not as fundamentaly important as they are in other games like PoE for example. There is one thing important to know : monsters get a systematic 1% resistance penetration for each of their level (capped at 75% penetration at level 75). And it changes things quite a lot at high level. In a game like PoE, a character with 0 resistance will take 400% damages from the same hit, compared to a character with 75% resistance. It's a huge deal. However in LE, as monsters at lvl 75+ all have 75% penetration, a character with originally 75% resistance will get hit exactly like he had 0% resistance, while a character with 0% resistance will get hit like he had -75%. It means that, compared to character with 75% res, a character with 0% res will "only" take 175% damages from the same hit. Not something you can ignore, but the difference is far less drastic than in other games. In short, yes resistances are important, but not enough to prioritize them completely other the rest. It's at least as important to get as much life you can get, get to 60% endurance and 100% crit avoidance. Each class generally also get access to other type of powerfull defense. You can be perfectly fine at high level with 50% all res, as long as you have enough of the rest.
thank you for explaining. It's nice to see that you can specialize in one type of damage like fire/ignite dmg, as POE does often counter builds as a trap for players who aren't alert enough or built like tank with an oil tycoon budget.
I have always loved the idea of playing ARPGs, but I get easily overwhelmed by the affixes on gear and the massive talent trees (in Last Epoch, "Passives" and "Skill Specializations"). I ultimately start looking up build guides, and maybe find a few that interest me. Then I get frustrated because I'm just choosing a build because it has the highest damage potential, and it takes away the "discovery" feeling I get from learning and understanding build synergy for each Class/Mastery. Here, I find a video explaining exactly what I want: the ability to make my own decisions with some solid information on how to do that. I already had a good idea of how I should do this, but the author of this video does a great job of hammering down the essentials of how to create a build and what facets of damage and survival are the most important. At a length of 19:13, it still feels concise, and the author paces his voice well to where I don't need to rewind frequently to recall what was said. Subscribed and I very much look forward to future content, Manarith!
Ive watched at least a half dozen "new player guides" and I got more info out of this one than the rest combined. Its not necessarily the amount of info so much as how easily digestible it was. Now that I actually understand some of what's going on here, you convinced me to buy the game.
Looking up guides since the game is down / having issues. This game seems like something I’ll play once until a new season. The fact that starting completely over, finishing the same exact story quest and side quests. Getting gear, reaching end game only to do it over again. I totally get some are into that just not me.
Well you are in luck cause you don't have to, and you will still have access to everything that everyone else does, just won't be able to compete on the cycle leaderboard that's all, no worries my friend play the game however you want
I feel like we need one more skill fives just feels too low in 2024 for an RPG. Or at least give us the ability to add one basic skill along with five other skills. I can't wait for 1.0 more for some bug fixes than anything else. I love to use shield charge with my sentinel but it keeps getting stuck everywhere especially during boss battles and dies. Amazing game though I play pretty much every RPG in this one is one of the better ones
Fair point! What if every class's movement skill was just added to a seperate dodge button? And like you say, the ability to put a skill on left click, that's 2 extra skills we could be using right there! To be honest I'm worried for release just because there are so many small bugs right now, I really hope they work it all out so it doesn't drive new players away from a great game
Thanks for the guide, def one of the best I've seen! I also did not expect you to use the cookie the way you did in that analogy but hey it got the point across haha
Great video although at 17:40 I'm not entirely sure what are 'obvious' things yknow. I thought +1 to a specific skill was fine, and i didn't know Despairs were rare. Gotta assume the people who are watching don't know what's considered obvious.
"It doesn't matter how high your test dummy dps is if you're always dead in raid. I'd rather have a level 10 with low dps than a level 50 with 0." -One of my ESO guildmasters.
Anyone who plays this game just make your own build, do what you want experiment and be creative. Whatever happened to creativity in video games no need for OP meta guides, just play as you wish. ❤️
The thing I love most about the crafting system is that it just seems to fit so naturally into the gameplay loop.. like youre farming for the bases/items you need and the crafting is just tailoring those items to your needs.... in PoE, crafting just feels completely detached from the game.. most people wont even participate in it. They just buy the finished items they need in order to farm more currency.. if simply "farming currency" gets old, then PoE can get very stale (though, I think GGG does a great job at distracting you from the idea that "farming currency" is the entirety of what the game boils down to).
ok, one thing that I was expecting to be mentioned in the staying alive part is kiting. If you're good at kiting, you can survive longer with fewer/lower resistances. And you can't really reach cap resistances at the beginning, and if you try to get to resistance cap very early on, you might feel bored because, yeah, you won't die easily but it'll take longer to kill mobs as well. Using a + point to skill isn't that important imo, you'll be better off adding an affix that adds damage to your skills I feel
thank you for the awesome guide! I will start with 1.0 and would love to see more beginner focused guides. So maybe one for crafting, one for gearing, some overall game mechanics and so on!
The permanent mastery choice is bad game design imo. They should definitely add the option to respec masteries. Making a brand new character to play a new playstyle for the same class is pretty lame.
One of my FAVORITE things about LE has always been that you can Build around your Favorite Skill and the build be Viable for the whole MSQ and at least the first bunch of hours of End Game. SOOO many current aRPGs end up having 2 or 3 'great' builds and the rest are just 'meh'. As long as you have an understanding of how to 'learn into' the Skills correctly, you can make that shizz WORK!
Dude you hit the nail on the head here! I was actually just talking to some friends about new D4 season, one major issue I have is I can count my fingers the amount of viable builds in that game lol, whereas LE has opportunity for every skill not just build to shine. Thanks for hanging out and watching the vid brother I appreciate it :)
I have endurance question: Let's say you have 1k life, 50% endurance, and 500 endurance threshold. If you're in full life and receive 1k damage, will you receive -750 life or -1k life (because your life is not below 50%)?
thank you a lot :) since i get bored after 10 years of POE / Torchlight I'm gonna give this a try . also great that there is a kinda SSF-variant for marking, since my times to play vary it's near impossible to find a group that accepts floaters / casuals like me that treat the game as a game and not a competition / job . so paladin is a good starter ? that's what i hopped for ( DnD-nerd since 1991 )
Paladin is an amazing starter man, so many great build options and they all just feel great to play, you will definitely feel the class fantasy, thanks for tuning in my guy :)
Great informative vid :D I'm thinking of getting it when it releases. Quick question: Does anything other than the stuff in the stash affect all characters? For example, in PoE, endgame atlas tree and lab trials affect all characters. (Lab trials so new characters in the same league don't have to do them again) Another question: What class/class mastery do you think is easier to start with for ranged attackers? Thanks! :D
To answer your first question, not really, just your stash effects all characters, but having a high level character to make a low level unique into a legendary with end game stats, basically allows you to create powerful "Heirlooms" to power level your alts, like adding 290% extra damage to a lvl 1 unique for example. As for the class I say pick a Mage and go Runemaster! There are lots of very powerful and fun skills to use, definitely a great choice for any ranged enjoyers. Thanks for tuning into the video my guy!
The “blessed hammer”- like skill is 100% straight up copy of diablo 2’s hammer but more so it copies d3 graphic wise… One thing i dont like is all these spell attacks dont have that specific impact feel when they contact the monsters. That is something bliz does well with their physic and ragdoll engine.
There is no doubt that Blizzard is the reining champion when it comes to game feel, controls, and fluidity, but even then I find myself drawn to this game over D4 because of the sheer creativity it allows when crafting your own character and build. Of course I hope full release will be able to capture the impact and overall game feel of a blizzard game, but even without that extreme level of polish, Last Epoch is incredible.
You just wanted to flex that 3LP Last Laugh didn't you lol. Anyway solid guide. Some people like to be hand held through a build but others (the ones who tend to stick around longer in a game) just want advice on how to contruct or improve their own builds.
Maybe... hahaha thanks man appreciate it, although build guides help people just play the game and have fun, i think ARPG's special quality is going through the process of creating a build yourself and seeing it succeed, hell even if it fails, the things you learn along the way make every build after the first more fun and rewarding
Wow this was a complete eye opener for me. Just picked up the game, and was feeling pretty overwhelmed. I tried looking at recommended builds and felt even more confused. The way you've explained everything in this video has me super inspired to just play the game my own way and try to make something awesome.
I played S3 D4 for a couple days and i'm already back to LE, it is fantastic my guy, if you like build crafting you will have a blast, tons of fun builds to play
Very clear general guide 👌 I played the early access for about 300 hours, I will delete all my lvl 100 and start fresh and blind, no guides. I cannot wait for 1.0 🤗
Cheers for the guide, about to jump into the gam for the 1st time. I'm guessing you meant at 15:40 - "gives you the maximum amount of stability for that MONO*"
Thanks for chillin, and no I did mean the echo, each echo has a max amount of stability you can earn, so yes killing all the enemies will give you the max amount of stability from that specific echo
Oh and dude there is way more you can do with it, i'm doing smite but you can do void, or throw one giant hammer straight through enemies like Thor, etc, its badass
This game doesn't need a starter guide, the campaign and beginning of monoliths is intentionally designed to be as easy as possible and unfailable, like a mobile game. It's a shame because it's a great game completely ruined by zero difficulty and endless bugs.
Not true, most will struggle late in the campaign cause the difficulty spikes with Lagon, and more so in monoliths if you don't scale gear and stats properly, the game is intentionally designed to embrace creativity with how you play the game, certainly does not hold your hand like a mobile game.
Thanks man, and not really for the loot filter, unless you get tired of looking at every item that drops, in that case its pretty easy to go into the loot filter and Emphasize the Affixes you want for your build, so you can just look at the items that drop in all CAPS, hope that helps!
About level 30 the amount of loot dropping started to become pretty bad. Trying to loot filter but having to do that really dampened my desire to play the game.
Hey man, I'm just getting back to LE for the launch and I appreciate your content, well done! On a side note, I'm a health professional looking to start a professional YT channel and it'd be a big help if you could tell me what music type you're using in this video, and from which library. Thanks in advance!
Thanks glad you enjoyed the video! I use epidemic sound for all of my music, I just pick a specific mood, mostly the Relaxing category, there are a lot of great music choices there
You just got an instant new Sub good sir. Amazing presentation, logical flow, easy to follow and comprehend. Will keep an eye out on more videos. Thanks a lot! 🎉
its the crafting system that lets you keep killing shit, you don't need to pick up and sell every item for gold, or run to town to dismantle every item after a dungeon like D4, the fascination with crafting is the opposite of what you think, its the reason you get to keep killing shit, more so than PoE and D4
@manarith8081 I spent 30 mins trying to figure it out last night and still no idea wtf to do. I didn't look for a guide or anything because you shouldn't NEED an outside source to figure it out. Like I have a bunch of shards, I clicked to put them in the crafting inventory (which should be automatic anyway?) And then I click on all the crafting spots in the forge and there's nothing listed. I guess I just prefer to kill things to find my upgrades. I play an arpg to kill things not to stop and take a break to craft items then kill things. If it takes away from my time spamming buttons that isn't fun to me. The wow developers said it best when they were describing what haste was going to do after they changed it. "Pushing more buttons is more fun".
just curious how poison scales. So if im doing a build where i have chance to poison, poison duration, poison damage all on my skills/items and another skill says "next skill does 30% more damage" will only the hit for that skill do the more or will the poison that skill applies do more as well?
good question, I want to say only the hit from the skill, poison dot damage scales from increases to damage over time, the hit itself does not make the poison hit harder, I could be wrong but I think that is mainly because poison scales infinite, and has its own damage
Ok, cause I was looking at the node “braskulas hesitation” on the skill shift, and it just says “ you do more damage with your next skill”, so I was hoping that if I used puncture with scalebane node that the poisons it inflicted would also do 30% more. If it does not scale the poison damage then attack speed/shred would really be the only way to scale my poison damage with other skills
yeah no doubt, but what about the people trying out an ARPG for the first time? not everyone is used to the format my guy. Equipping a skill only to find out it has a web of different possibilities and outcomes can be overwhelming for some.
As someone who is primarily a Monster Hunter and Souls-like fan when it comes to ARPGs, it breaks my heart that the defense stat system in Last Epoch looks identical to Path of Exile. I prefer skill-based defense mechanics (Rolling, spacing, blocking, countering) not a checklist of numbers 😞
Yeah unfortunate for people who don't like dealin with all the numbers, just like all the other top down ARPG's Diablo, Grim Dawn, PoE, Torchlight, etc. make number go up, get loot, and make crazy fun builds!
@@Wauly Oh dude PoE 2 is looking incredible, they are definitely taking innovation seriously, the merc with WASD movement, and the combos with the werebear, I can't wait for PoE 2
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full, half, or crumbs my friend
@@manarith8081Yes.
But if the crumbs land in my eye i'm blinded, and a blinded warrior is a dead warrior. aaararggh@@manarith8081
phenomenal video brother. I've played LE off and on over the past 2 years and getting really hyped for 1.0 and this video is just what I needed! No fluff, straight to the point and informative, but also entertaining to watch with my coffee. Seriously, great work! Viewers can hear/see how much you care and that my friend will take you a long way. You got my sub and future support!
Wow thank you man, it means a lot that you could just hang out and watch with a coffee, seriously I appreciate you my guy!
Best video online for LE, period. Thank you!
Appreciate that my guy!
Honestly the cleanest guide I've seen for Last Epoch. Knew most of the information but will definitely share this with my friends interested in the game.
Appreciate the compliment! Big thanks my guy
What did you not know?
Funny thing about the idols is that since D2 introduced talismans, I was preaching they should have had their own separate slots / inventory section available to arrange as you please within certain space limits. That would stop the very unfortunate situation when people fill their inventory with talismans because they are too powerful to skip. Idols and separate slot for these is as if someone finally listened to my prayer lmao. I love this solution so much.
first thing to say is this guide is phenomenal. Great admiration. Second thing is hard to believe they made such good balance.
Thanks man, feels amazing knowing you enjoyed the video! Isn't the balance wild? Don't think I have played an ARPG with this much viable build diversity
great video seriously. watched dozens of videos that explain loot filters etc, but not really how to play the game.
What a helpful guide! I already was enjoying the game and now I’m really excited to progress further. Thank you so much!
Thanks for the video. You just melted my brain. Just jumped back into the game for the first time since 2021 and there's such a change. (obviously 😀 )
Looking forward to 1.0
Cheers!
Nicely done. You should have a nice spot in the regular review rotation for Last Epoch on YT. Might be hard to penetrate all the hype, but your content is excellent and efficiently useful. Thanks and good luck with 1.0!
Thank you! hard to put into words how happy I am that so many people are enjoying the content and gaining something from it, appreciate the kind words :)
Love all the information you shared mate! thank you so much! Looking forward to play LE this weekend so I'm scouring for info. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the kind words my friend :) glad my little info dump is contributing to your info hunt!
Nice guide! Went into the game blind to get a raw experience but wanted to see where I can improve for launch
Link that build :) !
I haven't had the chance to create build guides for my characters just yet, but if you are looking for the hammerdin build you can find something similar on maxroll.gg for now! Thanks man
the perfect video does not exis.... wait!
What a good video bro! thank you for this
Hahaha stoked you liked the video man, for real I appreciate it!
Bro, perfect guide, im thinking of buying this game after this video
Nice! It's only gunna get better with 1.0 release
rlly nice format quide I liked.
Quality content! Keep hustlin’ brother 👏🏼
Thank you my friend appreciate ya!
Excellent well paced guide. Thank you!
Thanks man!
Great video, very informative. Looking forward to play the game when 1.0 comes out.
Appreciate the compliment! I cant wait till 1.0 drops, thanks for chillin man
any chance that you will do a video with this build? I liked the hammer with lightning!!
For sure! Working on a few videos right now and the Smite Hammerdin build is one of em
so you found the skill you wanna specialize in, you open it up, and -- woah. **little skill tree** kekw
Great guide! Liked and subscribed.
Thanks my guy
Nice vid. Thank you. By the way, that build looks fun. Will you make a vid with it ?
Thanks for chillin! And yes, planning on making build guides for the Earthquake Bear and the Smite Hammerdin soon
Full Healadin guide plz!
Can you please explain Corruption (in Monoiths) in greater details?
Wtf.. This is best video for noobs like me on RUclips. Phenomenal work here.
😳
Insta sub.
Thanks brother appreciate that!
Would this run on a steam deck? Normally a console Andy but really tempted to get a deck.
I believe it runs on lower settings and a lower FPS, but regardless you should be able to play Last Epoch on a steam deck. Hopefully when 1.0 release happens the game will have better performance on the steam deck!
Last Epoch(Epic).
How to change character appearance and gender?
In multiplayer, which monolith blessing apply? Is it the host's or is it instanced and each player has their own progression?
In multiplayer everything is still tied to your character, the only difference is you can play with friends or other people, the monolith blessings are applied to your character only, not the monolith itself, as you say each player has their own progression, hope this cleared things up for you!
i paused the video when you spoke about rune of removal, removing the affix you want. but the description says when you hover over it that its random?
Correct it is random, but unlike rune of shattering, it guarantee's you the number of shards you want if it happens to remove that affix, all while having 4 attempts. With a rune of shattering you have 1 attempt, and there is no guarantee you get the affix shard you want, and even if you do, it will be a random amount of shards. My wording on this specific point could definitely be improved upon, and i am currently working on a crafting guide that will be more precise, apologies if this misled you
@@manarith8081 ohhh i see! thanks heaps for that explanation i understand now
Can I play it now before the february launch ??
absolutely, its in beta right now!
@manarith8081 ok.....gonna buy it tomorrow....I thought the pre-sale means I buy it in advance for the february release.
I don't see the need to shorten Monolith to Mono. Monolith has a definition that aligns with the game design. Mono makes me think of the kissing disease😅
The resistance info is wrong. Resistance doesnt work like poe.
Nah your incorrect, it works the exact same as all ARPG's, the only difference is the enemies penetrate resistances depending on level until 75%, rather than having those resistances stripped from your character when entering higher difficulties. Considering this is a beginner's guide, resistances are EXTREMELY helpful in the early levels especially when fighting Lagon which is a wall for lots of builds, most people struggle and don't realize they have no cold lightning or physical resistance.
Very well done! I really appreciate your clear, measured delivery and that you don’t rush through your VO talking a mile a minute. And very well organized video, too. I don’t have this game (yet) but you just got another sub from me.
Stoked you enjoyed the video :) Thanks my friend appreciate the kind words, as well as that sub!
Fantastic guide. I hope new players will get encouraged to play with their builds and have fun instead of sticking to "build guides" right from the get-go, missing the best this game has to offer in the process. Sub
A couple of precisions I feel need to be made :
- Damage over time doesn't work like in most game. There are two type : Skills that do damage over time directly (for example : Disintegrate or Maelstrom), and Ailments.
Damage over time skills scale with attack type (generally Spell damage) and don't trigger "hit" effects. They also can't crit (as a general rule, effects that don't "hit" can't crit). Apart from that, they mostly work like regular skills.
Ailments are effects that are applied on "hits", and act as a debuff with generally a damage component (but not always) for example : Ignite. Ailments are special in the sense that they don't scale with flat damage or attack type like Spell damage. They have a fixed base value, and only scale with Damage type (like Fire damage will scale Ignite damages) and Damage over Time. They are debuffs with a fixed timer that can stack (some can have unlimited stacks, other can't)
In other words, if you want to build around ailments, you don't care about flat damage, crit, and so on. What you want is a lot of attack speed (to generate a lot of hits as fast as possible) and appropriate Damage type (like Fire Damage) and Damage over Time. You don't care if the skill itself doesn't do a lot of damages, what you want is a skill that hit very fast (like for example Flurry).
- Damage multipliers : they are the main way to boost your dps, you want as many as you can.
However how do you know what is multiplicative, and what is additive ?
It's simple : anything that is labelled "Increased damage" is additive. It means that if you have 100% increased fire damage, and 100% increased spell damage, then your Fireball spell will hit for 300% of its base damage.
Anything labelled with "More damage" is multiplicative. If you have 100% increased fire damage, and 100% more damage to Fireball, then your Fireball spell will hit for 400% of its base damages.
So be on the lookout for these "more" multipliers (generally in the skill tree), they are the best way to scale up your damages. Of courses, things like crit chance or attack speed also act like multipliers.
So what's the difference between Fire damage and Elemental damage, if they work mecanically the same ? Well it matters when it comes to affixes that can appear on items. For the same level of affixes, you'll get a higher value in Fire damage than you would get from Elemental damage. As a rule of thumb, specialized affixes can get higher values than general affixes. that's why it's better to focalize on one specific damage type (like Fire damage) instead of more general one (like Elemental damage).
- Resistance are not as important as it may seem.
Don't get me wrong, they ARE important. However, they're are not as fundamentaly important as they are in other games like PoE for example.
There is one thing important to know : monsters get a systematic 1% resistance penetration for each of their level (capped at 75% penetration at level 75). And it changes things quite a lot at high level.
In a game like PoE, a character with 0 resistance will take 400% damages from the same hit, compared to a character with 75% resistance. It's a huge deal.
However in LE, as monsters at lvl 75+ all have 75% penetration, a character with originally 75% resistance will get hit exactly like he had 0% resistance, while a character with 0% resistance will get hit like he had -75%. It means that, compared to character with 75% res, a character with 0% res will "only" take 175% damages from the same hit. Not something you can ignore, but the difference is far less drastic than in other games.
In short, yes resistances are important, but not enough to prioritize them completely other the rest. It's at least as important to get as much life you can get, get to 60% endurance and 100% crit avoidance. Each class generally also get access to other type of powerfull defense. You can be perfectly fine at high level with 50% all res, as long as you have enough of the rest.
I was wondering about the ailments thank you!
thank you for explaining. It's nice to see that you can specialize in one type of damage like fire/ignite dmg, as POE does often counter builds as a trap for players who aren't alert enough or built like tank with an oil tycoon budget.
I have always loved the idea of playing ARPGs, but I get easily overwhelmed by the affixes on gear and the massive talent trees (in Last Epoch, "Passives" and "Skill Specializations").
I ultimately start looking up build guides, and maybe find a few that interest me.
Then I get frustrated because I'm just choosing a build because it has the highest damage potential, and it takes away the "discovery" feeling I get from learning and understanding build synergy for each Class/Mastery.
Here, I find a video explaining exactly what I want: the ability to make my own decisions with some solid information on how to do that. I already had a good idea of how I should do this, but the author of this video does a great job of hammering down the essentials of how to create a build and what facets of damage and survival are the most important. At a length of 19:13, it still feels concise, and the author paces his voice well to where I don't need to rewind frequently to recall what was said.
Subscribed and I very much look forward to future content, Manarith!
Thanks for the kind words man appreciate that!
Ive watched at least a half dozen "new player guides" and I got more info out of this one than the rest combined. Its not necessarily the amount of info so much as how easily digestible it was. Now that I actually understand some of what's going on here, you convinced me to buy the game.
Appreciate that man, thanks for chillin! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
Looking up guides since the game is down / having issues. This game seems like something I’ll play once until a new season. The fact that starting completely over, finishing the same exact story quest and side quests. Getting gear, reaching end game only to do it over again. I totally get some are into that just not me.
Well you are in luck cause you don't have to, and you will still have access to everything that everyone else does, just won't be able to compete on the cycle leaderboard that's all, no worries my friend play the game however you want
I feel like we need one more skill fives just feels too low in 2024 for an RPG. Or at least give us the ability to add one basic skill along with five other skills.
I can't wait for 1.0 more for some bug fixes than anything else. I love to use shield charge with my sentinel but it keeps getting stuck everywhere especially during boss battles and dies.
Amazing game though I play pretty much every RPG in this one is one of the better ones
Fair point! What if every class's movement skill was just added to a seperate dodge button? And like you say, the ability to put a skill on left click, that's 2 extra skills we could be using right there! To be honest I'm worried for release just because there are so many small bugs right now, I really hope they work it all out so it doesn't drive new players away from a great game
Thanks for the guide, def one of the best I've seen! I also did not expect you to use the cookie the way you did in that analogy but hey it got the point across haha
Great video although at 17:40 I'm not entirely sure what are 'obvious' things yknow. I thought +1 to a specific skill was fine, and i didn't know Despairs were rare. Gotta assume the people who are watching don't know what's considered obvious.
i never knew about the hexagon nodes and i have almost 300 hours is this game! great guide will be sending this too all my noobie friends at 1.0
Hey man i appreciate it, thanks! can't believe you didn't notice in 300 hours hahaha thats crazy xD
you know your having fun when
Clear speaking and precise. I'm JUST now barely getting a grip on how arpg's work (first one) and this helps even more
"It doesn't matter how high your test dummy dps is if you're always dead in raid. I'd rather have a level 10 with low dps than a level 50 with 0."
-One of my ESO guildmasters.
Anyone who plays this game just make your own build, do what you want experiment and be creative. Whatever happened to creativity in video games no need for OP meta guides, just play as you wish. ❤️
The thing I love most about the crafting system is that it just seems to fit so naturally into the gameplay loop.. like youre farming for the bases/items you need and the crafting is just tailoring those items to your needs.... in PoE, crafting just feels completely detached from the game.. most people wont even participate in it. They just buy the finished items they need in order to farm more currency.. if simply "farming currency" gets old, then PoE can get very stale (though, I think GGG does a great job at distracting you from the idea that "farming currency" is the entirety of what the game boils down to).
ok, one thing that I was expecting to be mentioned in the staying alive part is kiting. If you're good at kiting, you can survive longer with fewer/lower resistances. And you can't really reach cap resistances at the beginning, and if you try to get to resistance cap very early on, you might feel bored because, yeah, you won't die easily but it'll take longer to kill mobs as well. Using a + point to skill isn't that important imo, you'll be better off adding an affix that adds damage to your skills I feel
Great video, relaxed voice and summary of the essentials. Will share. Truly an ultimate guide to get started.
Thank you my friend, appreciate the kind words! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
This channel is so underrated. A great comprehensive guide!
thank you for the awesome guide! I will start with 1.0 and would love to see more beginner focused guides. So maybe one for crafting, one for gearing, some overall game mechanics and so on!
Likewise!
Appreciate it man! Currently working on a crafting guide right now, as well as another dungeon guide my guy, Thanks for chillin
@@manarith8081 sounds awesome! I will absorb every bit of info until 1.0 release.
The permanent mastery choice is bad game design imo. They should definitely add the option to respec masteries. Making a brand new character to play a new playstyle for the same class is pretty lame.
This is honestly overwhelming to a new player to ARPGs as a whole, but I am determined to be better at them.
If "explain it to me like I'm 5" was a video, lol. Good watch, was helpful.
What an original crafting system. Seems simpler than Poe but still complex enough for my taste
great video man, it helped me understand some things I had questions about. I am looking forward to the 1.0 release
Thank you my guy, last Epoch about to claim a spot with the big dogs of the ARPG games in 1.0!
One of my FAVORITE things about LE has always been that you can Build around your Favorite Skill and the build be Viable for the whole MSQ and at least the first bunch of hours of End Game.
SOOO many current aRPGs end up having 2 or 3 'great' builds and the rest are just 'meh'.
As long as you have an understanding of how to 'learn into' the Skills correctly, you can make that shizz WORK!
Dude you hit the nail on the head here! I was actually just talking to some friends about new D4 season, one major issue I have is I can count my fingers the amount of viable builds in that game lol, whereas LE has opportunity for every skill not just build to shine. Thanks for hanging out and watching the vid brother I appreciate it :)
This guide is awesome! Thanks to you I see that I invested in to many damage types on my skills.
Just finish the campaign, didn't know the loot filter was in the menu thx for the tip
I have endurance question: Let's say you have 1k life, 50% endurance, and 500 endurance threshold. If you're in full life and receive 1k damage, will you receive -750 life or -1k life (because your life is not below 50%)?
-750, it helps to avoid one shots
thank you a lot :)
since i get bored after 10 years of POE / Torchlight I'm gonna give this a try .
also great that there is a kinda SSF-variant for marking, since my times to play vary it's near impossible to find a group
that accepts floaters / casuals like me that treat the game as a game and not a competition / job .
so paladin is a good starter ? that's what i hopped for ( DnD-nerd since 1991 )
Paladin is an amazing starter man, so many great build options and they all just feel great to play, you will definitely feel the class fantasy, thanks for tuning in my guy :)
Can I WASD on this game??
There is no WASD
Great informative vid :D I'm thinking of getting it when it releases. Quick question: Does anything other than the stuff in the stash affect all characters? For example, in PoE, endgame atlas tree and lab trials affect all characters. (Lab trials so new characters in the same league don't have to do them again) Another question: What class/class mastery do you think is easier to start with for ranged attackers? Thanks! :D
To answer your first question, not really, just your stash effects all characters, but having a high level character to make a low level unique into a legendary with end game stats, basically allows you to create powerful "Heirlooms" to power level your alts, like adding 290% extra damage to a lvl 1 unique for example. As for the class I say pick a Mage and go Runemaster! There are lots of very powerful and fun skills to use, definitely a great choice for any ranged enjoyers. Thanks for tuning into the video my guy!
@Manarith Hey there. Just installed the game and dont know ANYTHING about this game so this was a great video. Thank you
Thanks appreciate ya!
The “blessed hammer”- like skill is 100% straight up copy of diablo 2’s hammer but more so it copies d3 graphic wise…
One thing i dont like is all these spell attacks dont have that specific impact feel when they contact the monsters. That is something bliz does well with their physic and ragdoll engine.
There is no doubt that Blizzard is the reining champion when it comes to game feel, controls, and fluidity, but even then I find myself drawn to this game over D4 because of the sheer creativity it allows when crafting your own character and build. Of course I hope full release will be able to capture the impact and overall game feel of a blizzard game, but even without that extreme level of polish, Last Epoch is incredible.
You just wanted to flex that 3LP Last Laugh didn't you lol.
Anyway solid guide.
Some people like to be hand held through a build but others (the ones who tend to stick around longer in a game) just want advice on how to contruct or improve their own builds.
Maybe... hahaha thanks man appreciate it, although build guides help people just play the game and have fun, i think ARPG's special quality is going through the process of creating a build yourself and seeing it succeed, hell even if it fails, the things you learn along the way make every build after the first more fun and rewarding
Wow this was a complete eye opener for me. Just picked up the game, and was feeling pretty overwhelmed. I tried looking at recommended builds and felt even more confused. The way you've explained everything in this video has me super inspired to just play the game my own way and try to make something awesome.
Awesome to hear my guy, good luck with the build! Have fun with it, Last Epoch is pretty lenient with creating a build you like
Great video. D4 player and I've just bought LE yesterday. Think I'm uninstalling D4. This game looks insane
I played S3 D4 for a couple days and i'm already back to LE, it is fantastic my guy, if you like build crafting you will have a blast, tons of fun builds to play
Very clear general guide 👌
I played the early access for about 300 hours, I will delete all my lvl 100 and start fresh and blind, no guides. I cannot wait for 1.0 🤗
Thanks man, can't wait for 1.0!
Level 92 Minion Build, and stuck at Reign of Dragons. The Emperor loves one shot, one kill. Wicked video, though!
Send in the squirrel army! Thanks man
Cheers for the guide, about to jump into the gam for the 1st time. I'm guessing you meant at 15:40 - "gives you the maximum amount of stability for that MONO*"
Thanks for chillin, and no I did mean the echo, each echo has a max amount of stability you can earn, so yes killing all the enemies will give you the max amount of stability from that specific echo
The best video explaining all !! :D COOL
I want a build that prevents the cookie from being thrown!? Nice video, thanks. -subbed
That would definitely remove the need to worry about crumbs and pieces lol, thanks man appreciate it :)
This game has so cool Diablo 2 vibe, I saw this Hammerdin and shed a tear. Must play, but will wait for 1.0.
Oh and dude there is way more you can do with it, i'm doing smite but you can do void, or throw one giant hammer straight through enemies like Thor, etc, its badass
This game doesn't need a starter guide, the campaign and beginning of monoliths is intentionally designed to be as easy as possible and unfailable, like a mobile game.
It's a shame because it's a great game completely ruined by zero difficulty and endless bugs.
Not true, most will struggle late in the campaign cause the difficulty spikes with Lagon, and more so in monoliths if you don't scale gear and stats properly, the game is intentionally designed to embrace creativity with how you play the game, certainly does not hold your hand like a mobile game.
Omg you can make a Hammerdin?! I'm sold.
Amazing video i am currently level 20 should i care about loot filter when i am going fór specific build?
Thanks man, and not really for the loot filter, unless you get tired of looking at every item that drops, in that case its pretty easy to go into the loot filter and Emphasize the Affixes you want for your build, so you can just look at the items that drop in all CAPS, hope that helps!
About level 30 the amount of loot dropping started to become pretty bad. Trying to loot filter but having to do that really dampened my desire to play the game.
yeah i feel you there man, i always let out a deep sigh when i get to that 30 mark and know i have to set up a loot filter lol
Really helpful video, thank you!
You should make a PoE players guide to LE since I expect a lot of PoE players try out the game when it launches.
Pretty good idea for a video, I'll see what I can do, thanks for the suggestion!
This game wins just by having paladin with shield in :D
D4 doesn't have one and POE doesn't have one :D
I really wish D4 would add a paladin already lol, how can you not when dealing with forces of good and evil
Bought this game long time ago. I love smite skills in games like this, so I think I got my first char when the official release is. One month left.
It is a super fun build, probably my favorite up there beside my earthquake werebear, ONE month can't wait!
If anything I'm left more confused
Does this game have a monthly subscription or is it buy and play? Also, is it on computer or console?
Buy and play on PC my guy
Amazing video man, keep it up
Thanks my guy
Great guide. Currently grinding through Grim Dawn, but might give this one a go in the future!
Oh man Grim Dawn, that game is incredible glad to hear you are grinding that out, Thanks for chillin my guy
I'd like to add: Stay mobile, don't stand in the explosion radius of enemies ;p
lol truuue movement speed is everything!
This makes me want to go back to LE but I must endure and wait for the 1.0 release
Endure my guy, we are almost there!
This rules - great for a guide on how to learn to play rather than ‘follow x’ without explaining the why of it
Thanks trashcangoblin420, dang that is a fantastic name
I would rather get hit by the whole cookie, just saying
That's wild, lol
Hey man, I'm just getting back to LE for the launch and I appreciate your content, well done!
On a side note, I'm a health professional looking to start a professional YT channel and it'd be a big help if you could tell me what music type you're using in this video, and from which library.
Thanks in advance!
Thanks glad you enjoyed the video! I use epidemic sound for all of my music, I just pick a specific mood, mostly the Relaxing category, there are a lot of great music choices there
@@manarith8081 thanks my friend
@Manarith Can't like this enough, thanks for a very good guide.
Thanks man!
You just got an instant new Sub good sir. Amazing presentation, logical flow, easy to follow and comprehend. Will keep an eye out on more videos. Thanks a lot! 🎉
The crafting sounds overly complicated and mandatory. I dont understand wveryones fascination with crafting.. just let me keep killing shit..
its the crafting system that lets you keep killing shit, you don't need to pick up and sell every item for gold, or run to town to dismantle every item after a dungeon like D4, the fascination with crafting is the opposite of what you think, its the reason you get to keep killing shit, more so than PoE and D4
@manarith8081 I spent 30 mins trying to figure it out last night and still no idea wtf to do. I didn't look for a guide or anything because you shouldn't NEED an outside source to figure it out. Like I have a bunch of shards, I clicked to put them in the crafting inventory (which should be automatic anyway?) And then I click on all the crafting spots in the forge and there's nothing listed.
I guess I just prefer to kill things to find my upgrades. I play an arpg to kill things not to stop and take a break to craft items then kill things. If it takes away from my time spamming buttons that isn't fun to me. The wow developers said it best when they were describing what haste was going to do after they changed it. "Pushing more buttons is more fun".
Attack / cast speed is the best multiplier, since it multipliers everything.
Hit damage, DoT's, buffs, debuffs, health/ward per hit, everything is multiplied by attack speed.
just curious how poison scales. So if im doing a build where i have chance to poison, poison duration, poison damage all on my skills/items and another skill says "next skill does 30% more damage" will only the hit for that skill do the more or will the poison that skill applies do more as well?
good question, I want to say only the hit from the skill, poison dot damage scales from increases to damage over time, the hit itself does not make the poison hit harder, I could be wrong but I think that is mainly because poison scales infinite, and has its own damage
Ok, cause I was looking at the node “braskulas hesitation” on the skill shift, and it just says “ you do more damage with your next skill”, so I was hoping that if I used puncture with scalebane node that the poisons it inflicted would also do 30% more. If it does not scale the poison damage then attack speed/shred would really be the only way to scale my poison damage with other skills
ilia for real has short man complex...
3:30 'Woah!'... Seriously? Most of us will be coming in from POE & D4 for gods sake. lol
yeah no doubt, but what about the people trying out an ARPG for the first time? not everyone is used to the format my guy. Equipping a skill only to find out it has a web of different possibilities and outcomes can be overwhelming for some.
Compare it with the "tree" for each individual D4 skill and uhhhh yeah there is basically nothing there, so yeah it's big in LE for a lot of players
As someone who is primarily a Monster Hunter and Souls-like fan when it comes to ARPGs, it breaks my heart that the defense stat system in Last Epoch looks identical to Path of Exile.
I prefer skill-based defense mechanics (Rolling, spacing, blocking, countering) not a checklist of numbers 😞
Yeah unfortunate for people who don't like dealin with all the numbers, just like all the other top down ARPG's Diablo, Grim Dawn, PoE, Torchlight, etc. make number go up, get loot, and make crazy fun builds!
@@manarith8081 PoE 2's dodge looks promising though. I crave the innovation
@@Wauly Oh dude PoE 2 is looking incredible, they are definitely taking innovation seriously, the merc with WASD movement, and the combos with the werebear, I can't wait for PoE 2
Great guide
Concepts were clear, with a nice focus on not making newbies feel dumb.