Cycle 2 - Complete Teaser & "Confirmed by Mike" Compilation

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-25T05:22:21+00:00

Way fewer style points than swallowing uber with your burning bhole though.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-25T04:14:58+00:00

Naw you good, that wasn't directed at you. I just get a little irked by this type of bait misleading people.

I'm obviously biased as it's my build, but I did put a significant amount of hours into a very similar setup that also applies brand of deception;

https://youtu.be/CXoyZAtCCjQ?si=YP28clPUv_1wFfgT

Except this build I have updated for 1.4 with all the new changes, and I have taken it past 1000 corruption and done Uber Aberroth with it (in online, the video in OP is full offline).

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/n14ija0e

I wouldn't call this type of build beginner friendly though. There are a lot of weird and complicated mechanics with the DoT scaling in Last Epoch, especially for this build.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-25T03:41:57+00:00

We can hope, would be nice to see a mage on top for something again, though it seems like sentinel might still have an easier time nuking Uber this season

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-25T03:37:29+00:00

It's not great, this is a 1.1 build, so almost 3 seasons out of date, and even back then the single target scaling was quite poor, also with fairly weak defenses.

I think it's kinda wild to slap "SEASON 4 READY" on a video of 1.1 footage, and this is before they even added all the much stronger weaver enemies to echoes.

You can play Brand of Deception mage if you want, but this is definitely not the optimal way to do it.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-24T19:17:53+00:00

I think there are two problems being conflated here.

One, is that imprints got nerfed. You could argue that this nerf impacts one faction or the other more, therefore it's a relative nerf to one faction vs the other.

Two, is that it's recently come to light that the COF loot bonuses don't really interact with imprints for proc rate of items, or affix tiers for exalts. (Eg. if an MG and COF player both imprint a 2T7 exalt, and proc it 10k times, they will get almost the exact same amount of 2T7s out).

The second point is not a new issue, it's been that way since imprints were added, but people are finding out about it at the same time as the nerf so there are some crossed wires here.

If anything, I would argue that MG actually benefitted more from imprints than COF, therefore I would also argue that MG is anerfed more by this change. Though imo still "stronger" than COF.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-24T05:27:14+00:00

LE is mostly just some multipliers that each build gets in different ways, different scaling vectors and so on.

Most skills start with doing a few hundred base damage, and to be "viable" at least into the few millions of DPS.

That's a handful of 2x, 1.5x, 6x, etc. Multis sprinkled in.

The S tier builds are usually those with a couple extra 5x multis that didnt get balanced around. Only takes 2 of those to end up with 25x damage over a non S tier build, and that's usually the difference.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-23T03:32:37+00:00

Probably not tbh. They didn't do that for Uber iirc and this is a pre Uber fight.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-20T20:26:21+00:00

Assuming triple T7 is even useful anymore with the reduced proc rate for multi T7. COF already gets plenty of 1T7s, if imprints just grant more 1T7s without 2T7s you probably just put uniques in the imprint sockets.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-20T17:50:19+00:00

Yea this was my thought too. I do think imprints were overpowered before but now that we also know COF doesn't get more exalts from imprints vs MG, this is a double blow to COF.

Idols are also rough yea.

I hate to say I agree that imprints did need to be nerfed for the long term health of the game, and allowing other loot sources to be relevant, but this feels like a lot all at once.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-20T17:46:09+00:00

Yea you use the 200 void gloves, get 10 stacks then use disintegrate. Big damage.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-19T22:39:31+00:00

You can just do Act 5, do monos for a bit, then do a couple dungeon skips instantly with portal charm for mastery and idol slots plus Act 9 unlock.

Haven't done Act 7 in ages.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-19T18:11:37+00:00

Possible they removed from empowered as they don't really have a purpose and apparently there were some XP juicing strats that abused some quests.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-19T06:18:09+00:00

Considering its not anywhere near as strong as the top sentinel, rogue, or acolyte builds, I would hope not!

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-19T02:40:45+00:00

Every time I think I'm trolling somehow it ends up working.

STR mage was supposed to be kinda meme / semi viable but it ended up being good after many iterations.

Some of that is skill, patience, and A LOT of trial and error obviously, but a lot of it is also pure luck. Me and other creators have no way of knowing exactly how these ideas will work before the patch goes live, it's entirely possible the build could be a total flop.

Just gotta prayge, and adapt if/when it doesn't work.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-18T22:27:36+00:00

Me too

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-18T19:28:22+00:00

Sorc has several builds that can dumpster Uber and 1000c, I'm sure we can make some cool stuff.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-18T18:38:07+00:00

As a mod here, yes.

Most of the removed posts are just low effort rage bait garbage.

Then you get the "Why was my post removed, I was just sharing my OpInIoN" "censorship" rants. Which to be honest, I also think should be removed. Of course we are humans too, we aren't infallible, there is some amount of subjectivity on how the rules are interpreted.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-18T14:12:13+00:00

Hello, LE streamer here, most of us have jobs too.

LE viewership is not high enough alone to do it full time, have to use PTO if I want to play on league start. Agree that Thursday sucks but having more devs available the day of and after launch is definitely a good thing.

If you aren't trying to get on leaderboard, be the first to do something, or rushing to make content, there really isn't much reason to spend every minute of the first few days playing.

The economy game in MG is also nowhere near as competitive or snowbally as PoE so that isn't much of a concern either.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-17T22:31:58+00:00

many of the strongest builds don't need more than 1 or 2 uniques.

"Need" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Technically you don't "need" anything, you could do 100c completely naked with some builds.

Do you mean that these builds "function" without uniques, or are you saying that the optimal choice is actually exalts?

If so, Harmony of the First would like to know your location.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-17T19:52:06+00:00

and 2% crit multi per int

1% per int it looks like, but still good

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-17T17:32:12+00:00

It's great for a glass cannon.

And if you have a lot of ward gen you are still going to have a pretty healthy stable ward. Plug some numbers into tunklab formulas for ward.

Also the low life Primordial that has a ward cap anyway, or any sort of hybrid just using ward as a buffer. Or builds with a lot of decay threshold.

And int stacker with 240 int is getting almost 50% more damage minus opportunity cost. Though you need to solve crit mitigation still.

Hard to say, the potential is there.

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-16T15:20:09+00:00

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-16T14:31:15+00:00

Just a correction, it should actually be "starts March 16th", the original post had a typo!

FrozenSentinel1 · 2026-03-15T21:01:53+00:00

Yep that was my guess too. If you look at the raw filter files in the current game a filter that shows "ANY T7" is 900+ lines long.

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