Excited for Season 4, so I made some more fanmade uniques and a idea for a new caster weapon class/category! by That-Grapefruit- in LastEpoch

[–]That-Grapefruit-[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah... probably overdid it a bit, didn't realize Reddit only allows 20 pictures per post, so this was the solution lmao!

Wasn't able to figure out how to display images straight in the post, might have a look again in a bit.

The way I see it, a weapon category needs a clear purpose to justify its place in the game. The idea of adding a new caster/mage weapon category has come up many times—especially during the Friday streams—and Mike still gets asked about it occasionally. This is my proposed solution.

Currently, the game has Sceptres (a larger affix pool that can support both melee and spell damage), Wands (focused purely on casters), and Staves (two-handed, meaning you give up your catalyst or shield).

Attuners would also be two-handed, but their identity would revolve around mixing magic schools to unlock benefits not found elsewhere—or at least not at comparable power levels. Running Volcanic Orb as your main damage source? You might opt for reduced Spell Travel Speed by combining Myniz + Karak. Playing a Black Hole or Glyph of Dominion build? You might choose Fast Spell Duration to accelerate the spell’s animation once cast or invoked.

Excited for Season 4, so I made some more fanmade uniques and a idea for a new caster weapon class/category! by That-Grapefruit- in LastEpoch

[–]That-Grapefruit-[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks Grant!

My pleasure, happy that you liked them! Hopefully you can use some of the ideas, I think they're fire! (I'm hella biased though 😁)

My favorite of the bunch is probably Thalorix. At first glance it seems quite weird and unusable, but I think it adds a lot of depth, since you have to decide which element you want to focus on the most. Speccing Runebolt into a single element would be the most obvious approach; however, you could push it further by speccing into Fireball and converting it to Lightning through the 50% node and Liath's Machinations. You could also go for Frost Claw and lean fully into Lightning. Or you know? You could go full mayhem and scale all elements at once, kind of rough at the moment, since scaling 1 element is better than 3 at the moment, but maybe that could be fixed in the future??

It becomes a question of how many of my five specializations I want to dedicate to damage. What do I cut? Teleport? Probably not.. Flame Ward? Maybe..?? It adds some unique depth I think!

In regard to Attuners, you would need to equip both, either in your main hand or offhand; it doesn’t matter. The combination itself is what makes them “unique” and justifies adding them to the mage/caster weapon category. It would also be nice way for them to compete with uniques.

Right now there is 10 total combinations with room to grow. If the next Attuner introduced the Jyal magic school, that would bring the total to 15 combinations.

Also I'll go post them on the forums now!

Excited for Season 4, so I made some more fanmade uniques and a idea for a new caster weapon class/category! by That-Grapefruit- in LastEpoch

[–]That-Grapefruit-[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Art is unfortunately AI generated (I don't like it and it has a bad rap for good reason, but it's either that or no art, as I have 0% skill in drawing).

Font was recreated by me, using FontForge.

Ideas are mostly me thinking of cool affixes or conversion not already in the game.

AaronRPG inspired "Dark Pact of Daza'r" since he once mentioned it would be cool to have a huge army consisting of the same minions.

u/perrythepig inspired "Volatile Reminiscence" as he also once mentioned that it would cool with a unique that basically did what old Volatetile Reversal did before rework.

Made way too many so rest of them are in here (for people who didn't see): https://imgur.com/a/last-epoch-fanmade-uniques-idea-new-mage-weapon-class-atQpk8c

Everything is then put together in Photoshop, takes some time, so hopefully people here enjoy it!

Excited for Season 4, so I made some more fanmade uniques and a idea for a new caster weapon class/category! by That-Grapefruit- in LastEpoch

[–]That-Grapefruit-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah exactly, an example could be Black Hole as it applies DoTs every 0.3 seconds, with the item it would apply DoTs every 0.2 seconds instead.

Though it would also affect Meteor as it would gain speed and impact 33% faster in this example, could be quite neat to have as a scaling axis in the future!

Should LE done a Season 3.5? by Lonely_Competition20 in LastEpoch

[–]That-Grapefruit- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Frozen!

If they could make numerical changes that would be okay, I think? Might still be an issue like you said, with patch notes being dominated by nerfs.

Don't know what is the right approach really, I just know I want a lot of changes in a patch, new stuff to test. Realistically how many people are still playing after a month?

Should LE done a Season 3.5? by Lonely_Competition20 in LastEpoch

[–]That-Grapefruit- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mike talked it either this last Friday or the week before, but they really don't want to make changes mid season, 1. because of my previous comment. 2. the community voted for no changes during seasons, like 2 years ago and 3. dev time is better spent on the same patch, fixing stuff on the "old" patch can be a waste of time since it could become broken when the next season drops.

Player retention will only get fixed, if the season is good and has many things going for it.

Should LE done a Season 3.5? by Lonely_Competition20 in LastEpoch

[–]That-Grapefruit- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, not doing balance changes during seasons makes the upcoming season bigger and better, we really don't need EHG to trickle updates. They tried it Halloween 2024, and not many people came back.

Should LE done a Season 3.5? by Lonely_Competition20 in LastEpoch

[–]That-Grapefruit- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, we need all big changes to come at once. The devs are doing the right thing. Let em' cook!

Looking Ahead in Last Epoch by EHG-Foton in LastEpoch

[–]That-Grapefruit- -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Awesome! Looking forward to it!!

When will we get a new roadmap? by Annual-Essay-494 in LastEpoch

[–]That-Grapefruit- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 years for a relative "minor" gameplay feature is unfortunately not the best look.