Community Designed Unique Event!

Hello Travelers,

There have been requests, there have been rumblings, and there have been bees. Today, the much anticipated Community Designed Unique Event begins! Starting today, every week we will be posting a new community poll. Each poll will help further refine a design for a Unique item to be immortalized in Last Epoch. The polls will be opened on Friday evenings two hours before the start of the Dev Stream at 1:00PM CDT, and be closed on the following Friday morning. That means you will have seven days to cast your vote to shape a new item to be introduced to the world of Eterra.

At each step along the way, you can also suggest in comments different aspects of the item, such as name, effect, theme, or even flavor text. Those that get the most likes and still fit within the world of Eterra will be included in the voting options. With this, we will try to include options for ideas that both we and the community enjoy the most: however do be aware, if an idea strays too far from the game, we may have to decline it as an option (sorry, even with a community designed unique, there won’t be any nyan cats in Last Epoch).

So to kick everything off, this week we’d like to get your opinions on the first shaping of the item! Below you will find the first two polls of the event: Cast your votes in the included Polls and lets see this item start to take form.

Note that once you click an option, your vote is permanently cast

Item Class

We want to start by defining a class focus for the item. The item won’t necessarily be restricted to use by this class, but instead be the “intended” use case. Having a class focus allows for more room for unique identity and allow it to have a more powerful unique effect. This will also help to focus suggestions down the road for the themeing, unique interactions, and art direction.

Item Group

However, lets not leave things at just some background theory regarding the item! We have here a second poll today to start getting down to the meat and potatoes of the item. Below you’ll find a selection of item groups to pick from. Next week the winner will be split into its seperate options for further refinement. For example, if “Armor” is selected, next week’s poll will have the options for “Helm”, “Body”, “Boots”, or “Gloves”.

With the Hype Week we received a lot of positive feedback in providing a planned schedule for the event with backlinks for posts. So we’re going to be doing the same thing here. Below you’ll find the schedule for all the posts, with what the topic for each post will be. In addition to today’s votes, please start suggesting different ideas for the unique in comments below, and we’ll start recording ideas we and the community enjoy the most. Remember, if you think an idea could be cool or interesting, heart the comment so we can see which ideas to look at for further polls! The big one right now to try to get options in for would be the item Theming. For example, “Themed around Lagon”, or “Themed around the Imperial Era”, or even “Themed around the most bestest boy in the whole wide Eterra - Maximus”. This will push the direction for the art, unique effect, and even name and flavour text.

We’ve also arranged the posts to go up shortly before our weekly Dev Streams, so make sure to check in on our dev stream at https://www.twitch.tv/lastepochgame on Fridays at 3:00 PM CDT to discuss different ideas, the game in general, or just hang out!

April 8th - Community Designed Unique Kick Off
April 15th - Community Designed Unique: Item Type
April 22nd - Community Designed Unique: Item Theme
April 29th - Community Designed Unique: Unique Effect
May 6th - Community Designed Unique: Item Art
May 13th - Community Designed Unique: Item Name and Flavour Text
May 27th - Community Designed Unique: Reveal!