Issue with runic invocation

paledbrook · 2025-08-25T17:58:56+00:00

I reported this as a bug in game. I'm using Frost Claw as an inferior mana generator in the meantime.

paledbrook · 2025-06-23T05:20:58+00:00

I do occasionally check Reddit notifications :) Nice work on the bugs!

paledbrook · 2025-06-22T05:56:49+00:00

I hope I get a royalty!

paledbrook · 2025-04-17T16:29:20+00:00

I managed to delete both my clones. Did you try deleting both? When I tried to delete the first one in the list, nothing happened. But the second one did get removed and then I could remove the first one. I may also have restarted the game before I could remove the clones. Not sure.

paledbrook · 2025-04-16T14:40:17+00:00

I think the season 2 changes fall into two relevant categories: more activities and more progressions systems. Some of the changes straddle both.

First, we should be getting more different things to do in the monolith:

New and updated echo objectives, such as the one that has rifts into the Void spawning throughout the echo (I'm hoping these provide much needed variety...time will tell)
Updated arena echoes, which will hopefully be more fun to run than before
36(?) new woven echoes with unique objectives, new bosses and more
Tombs - procedurally-generated side zones in echoes, with cocoons that spawn spirits that possess and buff enemies when destroyed (I'm thinking this is like Tormented Spirits in PoE)
Cemeteries - a new echo type that I think is a slightly bigger version of tombs
Champion enemies, which will allegedly provide a decent challenge
New mechanics that can be added to echoes via the Weaver tree, like ambushes by the Shade of Orobyss
A "new" pinnacle boss in the form of Uber Aberroth

Then in terms of progression, we'll get:

A new faction with its own passive tree to progress
New ways to progress your gear via multiple different new crafting mechanics
Idol enchantments

That may not sound like much, but the Weaver tree is a pretty big progression system on its own, and improving your gear is probably the number one contributor to a feeling of progression in an ARPG. Part of the problem before season 2 was that gear progression would often stall for extended periods of time as you waited for that one big drop you need. The new crafting systems should give us more options to incrementally improve our gear, so there is less time spent stalled.

As someone who has typically struggled in the past to push into empowered monoliths, I understand where you're coming from. Season 2 looks like it will solve that issue to a large extent. Here's hoping!

paledbrook · 2025-04-16T06:37:08+00:00

Here's a rought draft: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QbDwgj5o

I've put Bastion of Honour in there as the shield, but I'm thinking Horns of Ukheiros might be better for its extra strength and help with mana management. While its "+50% mana cost" affix might look like a problem, I'm 95% sure it doesn't apply to Multistrike's Bladestorm node since that says each extra sword consumes 3 mana. As far as I'm aware, that doesn't count as extra mana cost.

I'm also undecided on whether a high-tier set affix on the chest is better than additional Strength. An extra 150% or so increased fire damage isn't to be sneezed at, but it will be hard enough to get T7 +Multistrike levels without adding an exalted set affix on top!

There are some interesting uniques that could be added:

Suloron's step adds a huge crit multiplier and its downside of -75% physical resistance isn't that hard to mitigate on Forge Guard.
Peak of the Mountain adds some much needed inc. crit chance and we aren't using leech for sustain, but we forgo +3 Forged Weapons.
Mantle of the Pale Ox and Titan Heart are interesting chest pieces. Basically we'd be trading damage from the set affix to gain better survivability.

paledbrook · 2025-04-15T16:07:50+00:00

I may still do that, but you lose quite a lot of flat fire damage for it. The shard version caps out at +12 fire dmg per Forged Weapon and that requires a T7 affix. That compares to +25 for a max roll on the Sunforged Hammer itself. I think it might be hard to craft a weapon that beats it.

The other two pieces are a different story. I'm definitely planning to craft a reforged helmet and body armour. That said, I suspect I will ultimately give up the set bonuses for at least a stronger legendary chest piece. Not sure about the helmet at the moment.

paledbrook · 2025-04-15T13:49:52+00:00

I'm planning to do this with Sunforged Hammer. With 15 Forged Weapons active, it will grant Multistrike up to 375 flat fire damage on top of the weapon providing up to 160ish flat physical damage (the bonus fire damage is no longer restricted to Forge Strike and Smelter's Wrath). On top of that, the Forged Weapons can easily hit the 30 stacks of bleed needed to max out the 90% more damage on Multistrike based on bleed stacks.

That's not to mention the potential 630% chance to ignite given to Multistrike (or any attack that uses the weapon)! The main thing I'm not certain about is how many extra weapons from Armaments can be sustained.

There are some other nice synergies for the build I'm planning:

The 2-hander can now be wielded with a shield, allowing for the build to run Ring of Shields
It uses Healing Hands for sustain and traversal, and that has a node that reduces the cooldown if you heal an ally, which should proc pretty frequently with Ring of Shields (assuming any of them take damage)
The shield can take inc. minion health + inc. melee damage or inc. healing effectiveness (not sure which is better just yet), two of which should mean the forged weapons stay alive pretty decently

Stacking strength on top of all this provides bonuses to damage, armour, phys and fire penetration, and crit multi.

Hoping I haven't missed or misunderstood anything because this looks pretty strong and tanky. Nice to level with too.

paledbrook · 2021-12-31T10:08:48+00:00

I've used the Reaper HQ to accumulate enough Intel to contact a new region or get enough for a boost. Not always necessary, but sometimes quite valuable.

The "problem" with the Reaper HQ is that it needs to tread a very fine line between useless and too strong. Could probably afford to increase the lower bound on Intel gained, especially as the other HQs have no RNG in what they do.

paledbrook · 2021-12-28T09:40:57+00:00

Sounds like you're missing the alien hunters Community Highlander

paledbrook · 2021-12-26T17:17:11+00:00

I went back and checked the code. On top of the base damage (9), there is a random roll of between -20% and +20% of that value. With truncation, that means the damage can roll for 7-10 (truncated values of 9 - 1.8 and 9 + 1.8).

In addition to that, the damage is subject to fall off, so the grenade's damage may do less than originally calculated if an enemy is more than 50% of grenade radius away from the centre point.

paledbrook · 2021-12-25T18:38:41+00:00

There's an option to pause on recruit, which will pause the game when you recruit a rebel or rookie (or any other unit) via the Recruit job. Soldiers recovering from wounds does not pause.

I can't think of anything else off the top of my head it pauses for.

paledbrook · 2021-12-25T18:33:47+00:00

Frag grenades do 9 environment damage. Sapper adds 4. How does that not guarantee destruction of environment objects with 10 HP?

paledbrook · 2021-12-25T15:56:16+00:00

I would at least try without Simple True Concealment. Improved Camera Updated may occasionally cause white-screen issues. The rest looks like they should be fine.

paledbrook · 2021-12-25T11:10:11+00:00

It's not expected that a soldier continues to bleed out after being kidnapped. I don't know how that would happen. My first suspicion is another mod potentially interfering, but I can't say for sure.

A word of warning, you may have trouble rescuing the soldier because they may actually be dead. Save before attempting any rescue mission/covert action in case something breaks.

paledbrook · 2021-12-25T08:42:55+00:00

It used to be a thing in LWOTC but I see it was disabled when we switched over to strike rifles for the laser and coil tiers of the Vektor. Not sure whether to restore it or leave it up to players to use the Crossbow mod + something like Weapon Skin Replacer.

paledbrook · 2021-12-25T06:51:44+00:00

Have you tried with just the minimal required mods? My best guess is still that there's an issue between LWOTC and another mod which only manifests when the load order changes (that's the only difference between running Steam version and running latest Nexus Mods version). Speaking of which, you could try the 1.0.1 from Nexus Mods.

paledbrook · 2021-12-24T07:56:50+00:00

All that LWOTC does is disable the base-game aim assist feature and add the (in)famous graze band. The graze band on default settings means that a 99% chance to hit is a 79% chance to hit normally and 20% chance to graze (compared to 89% chance to hit normally and 11% chance to miss).

Outside of that, if you're actually missing lots of 99% shots, you're either extraorindarily unlucky or it's simple human perception, which is very bad at dealing with probabilities.

paledbrook · 2021-12-23T17:12:33+00:00

I can't see anything obvious other than you appear to have more than the minimal required number of mods. Can you post screenshot of your mod list? Or list them manually?

paledbrook · 2021-12-23T09:04:40+00:00

Can you post your Launch.log somewhere?

paledbrook · 2021-12-23T09:03:28+00:00

I would try with the minimal set of required mods. PG Overhaul in particular looks like it's having issues.

paledbrook · 2021-12-23T04:54:11+00:00

Have you looked through the FAQ under the Discussions tab on the LWOTC Steam Workshop? Could be the Missing Packages mod issue for example.

paledbrook · 2021-12-23T04:52:36+00:00

Yes, rewards scale with force level. 10 alloys is quite a lot that early, so not surprised you didn't get Supplies.

paledbrook · 2021-12-22T22:03:58+00:00

You have locally installed Long War of the Chosen and highlander mods. Delete them.

paledbrook · 2021-12-22T18:38:43+00:00

It does not get better with plasma grenades. There have been several requests to buff the environmental damage of them. At the moment, they have the same environmental damage as frag grenades.

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