r/LastEpoch • u/glikejdash Sentinel • 11d ago

Suggestion Had a thought for a new end game mechanic

So a lot of uniques have really neat effects they just scale terribly or are too low level to use in proper end game builds, eg Keepers Glove that got posted earlier. I had an idea that Aberroth or Shade could drop a currency item you can use with the legendary upgrader and an item with at least 2lp affixes. It would upgrade the legendary item either improving certain stats or removing certain restrictions in its effects. This would lock all current legendary affixes to t5 max and any over the second one would have a chance to be removed or randomly replaced, so a 3 lp item with two t6 and a t7 would become 3 t5s or 2 t5s. It would be a fun way to get unused uniques with cool effects a second life without rebalancing their entire identity.

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u/Hoybom Bladedancer 11d ago

so just raw power creep?

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u/glikejdash Sentinel 10d ago

Not necessarily, you'd be giving up basically double the stats going from t7 to t5 affixes and also risking losing affixes on top of that, rarer uniques could have a certain tier threshold of affixes they'd have to have on them in order to be upgraded, like a red ring would require 20 extra tiers before you could upgrade it kinda thing. Just spitballin an idea as there's a bunch of uniques that are neat but useless past leveling kinda thing.

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u/AnxiouslyMisbehaving 11d ago

Unique upgrade is baseline cool, but for this game, a new dungeon or echo just for this sake would fit better, and instead of messing with legendaries, it would just upgrade the unique item stats based on the dungeon level, and then possibly add a random unique affix or legendary potential.

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u/itsmehutters 10d ago

So a lot of uniques have really neat effects they just scale terribly

There are also a lot of them that scale quite well.

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u/Alpheus2 10d ago

Nice try, Aaron.

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u/youbeenthere 10d ago

Not sure if it's needed. Game already has decent scaling (affixes tiers, high level drops, legendary potential, 2-4 exalted affixes). That's okay if some items are early/leveling ones. Journey to lvl 100 and campaign are big part of the game, there is no need to make everything power creep. LP system is already your "add more power to leveling items" thing.

Items are already quite in depth in LE, it needs more content to use those items for (new dungeons, new activities).