Greetings.

I wonder if these marks are a "must have" to compete with other players in the late game.
Personally I fancy the Night Lords alot for the reason that they don't have a god they follow, and so I would like to play without the marks.
But I fear that by doing so I will lose alot that would make a Chaos player valuable in late game.

I know it might be too early to get a good grasp on how the endgame works, but I wonder if anyone might have some insight whether it can work without using any marks.

I think the intent is to add a 'Mark of the Undivided' or something similar for people who don't want to bow to one particular God.

Considering that every mark has specific disadvantages and that there are also other gear available in the game competing with the marks it depends on what class you play and how.Though dont try GA with MoN.

You could go the same way I'm going, instead of getting a mark of chaos you can go for the sigil of corruption, it gives you 40 extra armor and since it doesn't give the same amount of perks as the chaos sigil's I'd imagine its cheaper on points.

Isn't the Sigil of Corruption 400 LP? and other Sigils about 500?

Call me back when they get a Mark of Malal.

I'm not a 100% certain on how many LP it is, I'm just assuming it cheaper because it just gives you 40 armor where the others give you 40 armor and the buff from the mark's of chaos.

You forget the other marks have disadvantages aswell SoC doesnt.

I thought about that but I really didn't think the disadvantages were significant enough to affect the price.

I dont know fo sure about price but those disadvantages really effect the classes .And some marks/classes combos are not viable in my opinion.