Last Epoch Cycle Starter Tips From Someone Who Actually Plays The Game

[@harrybalsach7499]

yoo...first

[@marcusd.sanders5065]

Being someone who creates his own (wack) builds but still loves the game, I appreciate these comments and tips Dre3d. Well done!

[@TalkativeTri]

big shots in the thumb against my eventual "TIME TO START UP LAST EPOCH AGAIN" video ;)

[@bobkerman3280]

Wonderful, What I was looking for! Veteran PoE player here, I joined the LE bandwagon recently and your Channel is gold! Thanks and keep the good work!

[@blech71]

The best LE info out there! Good stuff! Keep up the good work!

[@epyjacek]

This was very helpful and it's so true about experimenting with builds. Sure the experiments don't always pan out, but it's awesome when you find an improvement that works just for you.

[@seansol8586]

Love the exploring spirit!

[@max417481]

I started playing LE 2 weeks ago i have 70ish hours in and im haveing a blast, i like to follow a guide to save me time and start farming sooner so these tips are golden tyvm

[@Sosemaush]

Nice video, good tips for anyone. Although I'm still going to try to level with the skill I intend to use in the end game, yolo. My way of looking at it is: would I rather have fun spinning in the campaign for 6 hours or suffer by throwing hammers for 3 hours? Although I also understand that most people might consider leveling with Warpath to be suffering and have more fun just getting thru the campaign faster... 🤔 I left some feedback to the devs back in 0.9 that the skill leveling system feels backwards (in my opinion). You get penalized for experimenting early on while you can completely swap skills and level them to 20 in two echoes late game. It's especially weird to me because you're constantly unlocking new skills during leveling up but it's not really fun to try them out because with 0 skill points they will be bad and if you swap your main skills around, it'll probably be worse too since they're only at like lvl 5 instead of 10.

[@jermstuddog]

I've actually spent a lot of effort learning how to campaign and early mono. Currently, when using a 'leveling build' you can get into monos around level 34 in ~2 1/2 hours with a little bit of practice. That means you have 2-3 skills that are relevant to your 'leveling build' and your character is functionally capable of killing level 58 enemies in the first monolith - do that for ~1 hour and you'll be level 50. From there, you have 2 skills open to prep to transition into your 'real build' and climb your way through monos. Not only is this faster and stronger and all those other things, I also find that doing your 'real skill' from the earliest possible level isn't even really fulfilling, it often feels bad and plays COMPLETELY differently than it will when you have 5 skills with ~18 levels into them. It's just so much simpler, easier, and legitimately more fun to blast your way to 50-60, MAYBE swap to your desired build then (or even hold off longer if you can) and once you're at a high enough level you can flounder around for a few hours and figure out some of the weirder stuff you're thinking about trying. Leveling builds I Used (dread mentioned some of these): Glaicer Mage, Hammer/Javelin Sentinel, Totem Primalist, Bleed > Shadow Dagger Rogue, Golem/Mage/Zombie Necro, Wandering Spirits/DoT Warlock/Lich These are all builds that just work on 0 gear and CAN scale into endgame, but more-so, you can run them half-built while you prepare to swap to stuff that looks more fun. GL~

[@GBIGBIGBI]

Looking forward to the final patch notes and checking the tier lists

[@kennytretter]

I have tried googling what mobs spawn in which monos and I have never found a good recent answer. could we get a video or a post on discord of which mobs spawn in which monos. ty for the content dr3ad

[@desKoFiK]

Good shit, m8! Thx a lot!

[@svenchristen]

Great content like always Dr3ad ! Looking forward to the marksmen/falconer builds :D

[@LarpingAsALarper]

I think the XP system on respecs could be vastly improved. Like after you initially earn level 20 on any skill. It should trigger something that makes de-leveled skills gain even more XP than usual.

[@forcefulstorm6187]

Tip: run a mono that rewards XP books, finish it, but don't pick up the books. Respec what you want, pick up the books, boom. Hope this makes switching skills easier!

[@GBIGBIGBI]

great tips, thank you

[@nerdedkyle3515]

This is one of my favorite things to do in this game is to use off meta or way less overplayed builds and mesh some stuff together.

[@plabis7134]

Would a video of top leveling builds per class be good?

[@Julian2280]

FINALLY HYBRID MANA REGEN! I was struggling with mana regen with my Meteor build.

[@imortalcaio]

Excellent video. Is there a website that tells the mobs of each monolith?

[@ScoobyTimes2]

Werebear always wererbear 😁

[@Applegawd]

Say buh bye to my auto caster Lich. Fully expect that to be nerfed into oblivion.

[@worktimeman8198]

what is that build at 7:44 ?

[@posteingang4218]

the biggerst question, did they fix the performance? since release? to name some the extreme fps drops after doing 3-5 monos? or the fps drops in some zones, or some warlock skills? that was the big doomer for me, dropping from 160 fps to 40 after 2-3 monos and restarting the game x times a day hopefully, any1 have some insight from the last months?

[@marijnvdkant2]

HYPE!

[@eepopgames2741]

On release, I played I think 8 characters up to the 90s. One thing eventually had me quitting all of them and getting frustrated with Last Epoch overall. I would love to see advice on how to set up defensive layers to deal with the various one-shot ground effects that start popping up everywhere in monoliths. The most obnoxious one being the spires that fire a one shot at you from across the map. Every time I have brought up the issue elsewhere, all I hear is "git gud" which is not at all helpful. Yeah, I get it, these do tend to be telegraphed. But there are tons of them, with various different graphics, which often get lost in the visual clutter. I also like to play melee characters most, so very often I have to be using up my positional equity on being able to actually do damage. In hindsight, I probably hindered myself some by going CoF instead of MG. I can see how CoF would be better long game, but from watching some others it seems MG is better at getting gear at the point where my characters all seemed to be stalling out at. Anyway, yeah, would love to see some tips on that aspect. I had tons of fun in the 1-90 parts of the game, but then always hit that wall, and would really like to know how to push through it.

[@MrDarkBM]

From someone who actually plays the game hahah shots fired

[@CassFenrir]

I love this, and I love that I disagree. I love playing a skill too early and watching it slowly, painfully come online. I like killing bosses easily and watching my monolith clear speed slowly improve. All you said is very correct though, I just like being sad. Mana/Mana Regen is incredibly legit though.

[@fuscazo5399]

When do patch notes drop?

[@Dr3adful]

anywhere from a week before patch (very unlikely) to about 2 days before patch

[@666Rageburst666]

Easiest mon - Last Ruin .. No way! (void marksman 😂)

[@corbingray3788]

Well ward is gnna be completely changed which is gnna change all the builds

[@dylanstanfill2897]

Some for sure, but not all. A lot of skills don't care what your defense layers are. Even the ones that do generate ward, you could still use it as another defense layer with your life build.

[@Skazzo]

Psyched!

[@GerdionXT]

Game looks less flashy or it is only me ??

[@uhskippy23]

My lock gameplay is pretty tough on my pc

[@Dr3adful]

I play on low settings because I like fps over cool looking graphics

[@GerdionXT]

@@Dr3adful I need to check that because now game is to bright to me, even on low brightness - some skill are bright as fc. In sam maps it is ok and then on another one (where winter is ) it is so bright still. I hope devs will do something with it as it'a a lot post on games forumand redit I remember in beta all was fine and then when they add new lighting in 1.0 all go south

[@koopakape]

Man, this sucks. No, I'm not going to subscribe to a "leveling meta", I don't care how easy it is to respec, that's the most boring tripe I've ever heard. And no, I'm not going to stop experimenting early and often, it's more fun to try different things out than wait till I'm corruption 999999 to do anything. Also this is counter intuitive; you say to respec from leveling meta at 40 but then that 60 is too early to respec even a single skill; you also say that respeccing early is good in the case of mobility vs survivability but also it's not good to before late game?? Idk man

[@yavormilinov6315]

3rd