Who balanced this game? Blizzard?

[Fraktal]

Going from a shaman to a falconer is night and day.

On my falconer it’s pure ez mode. My shaman was borderline frustrating to play.

Any other OP or UP classes out there?

[TyresTyco]

Shadow Dagger Bladedancer is pretty good. Bleed Warlock is S tier. Two good hammerdin builds. Warpath voidknight can kick butts too.

Imho Primalist is pretty meh. Same goes for all the mage classes besides runemaster.

Balance is a lil bit whack thats for sure.

[ptirodaktill]

I switched from spellblade to runemaster. 10 times more dps and 5 time more survivability, lol.

[AirSniffer]

For now ignore melee completely. Warlock, Runemaster and Falconeer dominate.

[Fraktal]

Originally posted by Xaro:

For now ignore melee completely. Warlock, Runemaster and Falconeer dominate.

lol sad to read this, maybe I’ll respec my shaman to be 100% caster

[bshock]

Just like in D4, melee is way undertuned.

[Vences]

Originally posted by bshock:

Just like in D4, melee is way undertuned.

This is no true. D4 has in Tier S both melee and ranged builds. D4 has problems with underperforming summoner builds.

[Kackstift]

Originally posted by bshock:

Just like in D4, melee is way undertuned.

have you even played D4 to release? barb was nr.1 for sure..

[Rontemon]

Currently playing hammerdin and having a blast. Planning to swap to arms of judgement when I can..

Haven't tried Falconer, Runemaster or Warlock.. is it a big diff compared to what I am playing now?

Also what is the chances of EHG nerfing those OP class mid season/cycle?

Granted, I am just playing offline cycle mode but it still would be dumb to get nerfed mid season if I decide to try the OP classes.

[tukkek]

It's one of the first classes they implemented versus the latest one released IIRC. EHG couldn't be bothered to do a balance pass for the big 1.0 launch.

Imagine having this much power creep before your game is even released!

[Frostfeather]

Lol and there are posts about how good Shaman is vs other classes.

Complaining about "balance" usually means you've got some misunderstanding of the class, abilities, and/or haven't created enough synergy. Especially this early on when players are inexperienced.

[tukkek]

You can have a good build with a bad class and a bad build with a good class. Doesn't mean the classes themselves aren't deeply unbalanced ~and with the trend of people complaining more about older classes and people then popping up to say how good the newer classes are, the trend becomes pretty obvious as to what happened during the almost 10 years of development.

Power creep is a well-known, thoroughly-documented phenomenon in ARPGs. It's just that it usually takes ten years after release to rear its ugly head... but of course Last Epoch has been in early-access development for almost that long and they couldn't be bothered to address it before the big 1.0 launch.

[ZombieL0RD]

explosive totem shaman FTW

[dragonczarxi]

Wouldn't say melee is bad, I'm playing a squirrel master doing lol 100 emp monos at 81, and swipe does a good bit of damage

[Ravenkid9266]

Originally posted by tukkek:

You can have a good build with a bad class and a bad build with a good class. Doesn't mean the classes themselves aren't deeply unbalanced ~and with the trend of people complaining more about older classes and people then popping up to say how good the newer classes are, the trend becomes pretty obvious as to what happened during the almost 10 years of development.

Power creep is a well-known, thoroughly-documented phenomenon in ARPGs. It's just that it usually takes ten years after release to rear its ugly head... but of course Last Epoch has been in early-access development for almost that long and they couldn't be bothered to address it before the big 1.0 launch.

I mean the Shaman is still missing a skill, Paladin is still missing a skill, Lich is still missing a skill, Blade Dancer is still missing a skill, Marksman is still missing a skill, and poor Rogue is missing 2 skills.

You can judge fairly because of all of the missing skills, right?

[Angel el Bizco]

Game is trash, already done w/ it