I have owned Last Epoch for a while now and was privileged enough to play 1.0 on the CT servers before launch. (So I have even more playtime than is shown on steam.)

The servers are pretty pretty messed up ATM for launch, but I am sure they are working on it and most likely by the time you are reading this they have it all ironed out.(Hopefully)

I'm not going to try and sell you the game, the truth is... I don't care if you buy it or not... But, I will tell you why I enjoy the game and the few things I don't.
1.The game looks and feels great.
There are enough different bioms that you don't feel like your just running back and forth on the same color gradient for the entire game
Playing the game feels good, Every thing about the combat is just next lvl for an arpg; The enemies look slightly different depending on how "strong" they are, most of the abilitites that I have used have great sound effects and animations, and heck the enemies even have different death animations depending on how you kill them.
2.The crafting is great. It might seem confusing at first, but once you understand how to use the UI and how shattering works everything else is just common sense.
3. The loot filter being in the game is great. This one might be a bit confusing and I do often run into things that i want to do but just can't because of the way it's designed.(Mostly just convience things though) for example If I want to make a lvling filter for armor pointing out only base items with certain aspects. Then have multiple different base items. It can be done... But, it's a mess. I have to make five different rules... one for each armor slot.
4.The stash is just AMAZING. It has a search bar... Enough said. Oh, it also doesn't cost real money to expand.
ATM the endgame is pretty... meh... honestly once I hit empowered monoliths I am usually wanting to roll another character, so I haven't even experienced "All The Game Has To Offer" like; the different dungeons, climbing the arena leader boards, the faction system, or high end monolith farming. Well, I have done a little bit of all of it, but that's the point... It feels Kind of stale pretty quick to me.
Uh... Performance... yeah... I have a pretty good p.c. and don't run into many problems. I will say the different areas have different baselines, but they will stay at those baselines. For example in town I get capped frames of 244, in the fire area I'll get like a steady 90-120, in a void area I'll get like 144-160, etc. Some Skills do Murder my fps consistently as well... sooo LOL. If your a 60 FPS GAMER then your more than fine. I'm also running at 2k resolution so if your a 1080P gamer you should be fine.(relative to your hardware)

TLDR: Even though I don't really play the endgame much, don't usually play with other people, server issues, and run into performance issues from time to time I still think the game is worth the base price of (currently) 35 USD... Not on sale. Not to mention the game has an actually offline launch mode you can choose in steam.

I have owned Last Epoch for a while now and was privileged enough to play 1.0 on the CT servers before launch. (So I have even more playtime than is shown on steam.) The servers are pretty pretty messed up ATM for launch, but I am sure they are working on it and most likely by the time you are reading this they have it all ironed out.(Hopefully) I'm not going to try and sell you the game, the truth is... I don't care if you buy it or not... But, I will tell you why I enjoy the game and the few things I don't. 1.The game looks and feels great. There are enough different bioms that you don't feel like your just running back and forth on the same color gradient for the entire game Playing the game feels good, Every thing about the combat is just next lvl for an arpg; The enemies look slightly different depending on how "strong" they are, most of the abilitites that I have used have great sound effects and animations, and heck the enemies even have different death animations depending on how you kill them. 2.The crafting is great. It might seem confusing at first, but once you understand how to use the UI and how shattering works everything else is just common sense. 3. The loot filter being in the game is great. This one might be a bit confusing and I do often run into things that i want to do but just can't because of the way it's designed.(Mostly just convience things though) for example If I want to make a lvling filter for armor pointing out only base items with certain aspects. Then have multiple different base items. It can be done... But, it's a mess. I have to make five different rules... one for each armor slot. 4.The stash is just AMAZING. It has a search bar... Enough said. Oh, it also doesn't cost real money to expand. ATM the endgame is pretty... meh... honestly once I hit empowered monoliths I am usually wanting to roll another character, so I haven't even experienced "All The Game Has To Offer" like; the different dungeons, climbing the arena leader boards, the faction system, or high end monolith farming. Well, I have done a little bit of all of it, but that's the point... It feels Kind of stale pretty quick to me. Uh... Performance... yeah... I have a pretty good p.c. and don't run into many problems. I will say the different areas have different baselines, but they will stay at those baselines. For example in town I get capped frames of 244, in the fire area I'll get like a steady 90-120, in a void area I'll get like 144-160, etc. Some Skills do Murder my fps consistently as well... sooo LOL. If your a 60 FPS GAMER then your more than fine. I'm also running at 2k resolution so if your a 1080P gamer you should be fine.(relative to your hardware) TLDR: Even though I don't really play the endgame much, don't usually play with other people, server issues, and run into performance issues from time to time I still think the game is worth the base price of (currently) 35 USD... Not on sale. Not to mention the game has an actually offline launch mode you can choose in steam.