PC Gaming

6904 readers

86 users here now

Rule #1: Be civil

Rule #2: No spam, memes, off-topic, or low-effort posts/comments

Rule #3: No advertisements

Rule #4: No streams, random gameplay videos, highlights, or shorts

Rule #5: No erotic games or porn

Rule #6: No facilitating piracy

Rule #7: No duplicates

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

workerONE

127

Path of Exile 2 is 'freaking huge': adds 6 new classes, 100 bosses, and will run side-by-side with PoE (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by inclementimmigrant to c/pcgaming

19 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Oh yes, my friends, we're gonna be shapeshifting. Here's a quick (and almost certainly incomplete) list of new features for Path of Exile 2.

Six new character classes, along with the six from PoE 1 for 12 total (Sorceress, Monk, Huntress, Mercenary, Warrior, Druid)
New ascendancies, with three for each class
A revamped skill gem system where the links are in the gems themselves, not tied to equipment
Tons of new skills, including shapeshifting (bear, wolf, cat) and giant comets
Meta gems, which are gems that can have other gems socketed into them (think things like cast on crit or spell totem)
New weapon types, like spear and crossbow that have their own skills
A six act story campaign set 20 years after the death of Kitava
A new map-based endgame
A dodge roll for everyone that doesn't require a gem link, with the ability to dodge-cancel abilities
Changes to crafting and the economy, including changes to the way chaos orbs work and the introduction of gold as a currency
Over 100 new bosses to battle, each with unique mechanics

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Ultraviolet 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Will this dodge roll and all these unique boss mechanics actually be relevant, or is it "100 new bosses to ~~battle~~ instagib, each with unique mechanics that you'll never see"? PoE1 has a lot of unique boss mechanics in theory, but you don't get to see much when the meta outside of early leveling and a handful of pinnacle encounters is "if you have to learn mechanics your build is too weak, rework your build so you can just kill the boss before it does anything."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

In the presentation they mentioned that the whole zone resets if you die to the boss, preventing you from grinding down its health. That implies to me that they want them to be a more significant part of the game.