Last Epoch Reveals Character Build Changes After Player Survey and Feedback

Eleventh Hour Games (EHG), the developer behind popular action RPG Last Epoch, has announced a number of key changes coming to the game after a large survey. These changes will impact the players who use builds that become overpowered due to a bug in the game. Based on the survey feedback, these OP builds will be fixed sooner than usual, with the company alerting players about the adjustment in advance.

Earlier this week, EHG announced that it had started working on nerfing certain OP builds, caused by a bug, on the basis of overwhelming votes asking for the balancing pass. More than 69,000 votes were counted in the poll, with the survey results shedding light upon what the players want to see in Last Epoch.

In an official blog post, EHG declared the results that would define its mid-season balance changes. As per the report, 55.5% of voters strongly agreed that the highly OP builds caused by bugs should be nerfed during the course of an in-game season. Currently, the nerfs are set to hit Profane Veil’s Vampiric Pool and Sanguine Runestone. On the other hand, votes for mildly overpowered builds were spread evenly, leading the developer to state that the fate of these builds will be decided on “case-by-case discretion” with reference to community feedback. In addition, EHG revealed that the players preferred to be notified of forthcoming nerfs via the public forum – 73.2% of votes strongly agreed with this.

In regard to OP builds not caused by a bug, a 34% majority of votes agreed that it would be good to keep Last Epoch's highly OP builds, and 52.5% agreed to keeping the mildly OP ones. On top of that, the developer also addressed that, based on voting patterns, it will not bring any leaderboard reset to compensate for the bug-driven highly OP builds. The game will show information about when the leaderboard entry occurred or which patch was in use instead of showing whether a player used buggy OP builds or not, stating that the latter could look like a “mark of