Path of Exile Expansion "The Awakening" Unveiled
Grinding Gear Games has revealed details for the expansion of its action RPG, Path of Exile. "The Awakening" features the sequel to the game's storyline, new skill gems, new areas and bosses and as Grinding Gears Games puts it... "masses of new loot". The game also strives to work on increasing the quality of life with user experience changes to the interface, additional game customizations and several changes taken from community feedback. As with any expansion, there will also be some helpful balance changes.
Path of Exile - The Awakening Update Combat Preview
- The Beast Awakens: Act Four continues Path of Exile's storyline. The time has finally come to venture into the center of corruption itself and drive a blade through its black heart.
- Explore Beyond Highgate: For the first time since launch, The Awakening introduces completely new areas, monsters and end-game maps to expand the world of Wraeclast.
- Defeat Legendary Bosses: Experience climactic boss encounters with characters from Wraeclast's past such as Voll, Daresso, Kaom and many more.
- Powerful New Skill Gems: With new classes of skills such as elemental Golems that fight by your side, warcries, and several new support gems, players are able to create new clever and intricate builds.
- Socketable Passive Tree: Collect and craft Jewels that can be socketed into the Passive Tree to drastically change the tree itself.
- Masses of New Gear: Find more than 70 new Unique Items and discover an entirely new set of equipment - the Maraketh Weapons.
- User Experience Improvements: We've made extensive user interface improvements, added more customization options and implemented many community-suggested changes.
- Complete Rebalance: We've reconsidered every core game system and rebalanced Path of Exile from the very first level. With these enhancements, both new and experienced players will enjoy The Awakening.
For those that want a head start, the game opens up for Closed Beta testing on April 20th, with a scheduled release date for sometime in June.
For more information you can check out the official teaser site here.
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