Path of Exile Development Update Livestream - March 2024: A Summary

Path of Exile Development Update Livestream – March 2024: A Summary

This livestream from Grinding Gear Games dives into upcoming content for Path of Exile, including Path of Exile 2 and the new Path of Exile: Necropolis league for Path of Exile 1.

Path of Exile 2

Focus on Revamped Classes: The presentation showcases a revamped Ranger class, highlighting its high agility and new skillset.
New Skill Gems and Support Gems: The Ranger utilizes various skill and support gems to create custom combos for mobility, damage, and crowd control. These include:
- Movement Skills: Skills allowing the Ranger to move while attacking (e.g., Lightning Arrow) and vaulting around the battlefield (e.g., Frost Escape).
- Damage Skills: Skills focusing on single-target damage (e.g., Snipe) and area-of-effect damage (e.g., Lightning Arrow, Rain of Arrows).
- Support Gems: Gems modifying existing skills (e.g., Multiple Projectiles, Faster Projectiles, Chain) to enhance their effects (e.g., increasing number of projectiles, applying shock to enemies).
- Utility Skills: Skills for slowing enemies (e.g., Electrocuting Rod, Frozen Nexus) and poisoning them (e.g., Vine Arrow, Poison Bloom Arrow, Gas Cloud Arrow).
- Charge Skills: Skills granting temporary buffs (e.g., Barrage triggering triple attacks).

Path of Exile: Necropolis

New League Mechanic: Lantern of Arimor: Players use this lantern to manipulate monster difficulty and rewards.
- Spirits: Monsters become haunted by spirits, increasing their danger and potential rewards. The lantern reveals details about these spirits, allowing players to strategically choose which monsters get tougher mods.
- Devotion: Occasionally, monsters become “Devoted” instead of haunted, granting benefits like increased experience or spawning the Nameless Seer, a unique item vendor.
Undead Collection and Crafting:
- Unresolved Anguish: Slain monsters with unresolved anguish can be taken to the Undertaker and stored in his morgue.
- Cemetery Crafting: Players “bury” these corpses in the cemetery, influencing the crafting outcomes of new items.
  - Each corpse has crafting effects that influence the resulting item.
  - Burying multiple corpses with synergistic effects can create powerful items.
  - Meta-crafting modifiers further enhance the crafting process.
Unique Items and League-Specific Rewards:
- Burying the corpses of specific Eternal Empire families together grants unique items specific to their lineage.
- Players can influence the rolls of unique items like “The Perandus Pact” by using the crafting system.
Embers of the Allflame: These are monster spirits trapped in an artifact. Players can release them by defeating them and even raise them as specters.
Map Manipulation: Players can manipulate endgame maps using the Lantern on the map device UI, replacing existing monster packs with different ones found as Embers.

Additional Notes

The full stream includes a Ranger gameplay demonstration and a trailer for Path of Exile: Necropolis.
The Necropolis league allows players to customize difficulty and rewards to a greater extent than ever before.
The stream also briefly mentions upcoming supporter packs and a Q&A session.