Skills are unlocked by investment in your passive trees, specific skills being tied to specific passive trees. You chose a base class which has a base passive tree, and at some point you make an irreversible decision to spec into a mastery tree, which expands on one aspect of the base class's abilities. You level up a tree and it lets you allocate points in the tree that are gated on your total level of investment in the tree. The passive point progression system is similar to Grim Dawn. It probably does hurt their adoption, but for the long-term health of the game it's the way to go.Īfter playing Path of Exile, Diablos 1, 2, and 3, Grim Dawn all for more hours than I care to think about, I guess I can say that I'm a big fan of ARPG looters. Having an entry price makes it possible to combat botting in a way that F2P games can't match (banning bots actually works). I think this is the ideal business model. (IMO, always a good sign if you care enough about a game idea to spin up a whole studio for it).Įarly access costs $35, and the promise from the devs has been that all new content is free, but there will be MTX. It is the developer's first and only title.
Last Epoch is a new ARPG in early access from Eleventh Hour Games.
