Path of Exile: Ascendancy (News Coverage)

R.I.P low life ....

R.I.P Witch Spell crit ....

I often feel expansions are quite overhyped, but this one really hits the spot this time.

Not only does this encourage classes to play their meta, but it also gives the game a skill requirement in areas. Fun!

Very well done. I'm looking forward to the new mechanics, although I'm quite worried about having a garbage internet provider.

Also, is there anything a person can do with the +1 chaining on the deadeye ascendency when fighting atziri? Seems like the node might make it impossible to kill her when she splits due to the mirror clone. I'd really hate for these nodes to be hard to spec out of through regrets.

Question: Will ascendency mods work on corrupted items? It'd be a shame for corrupted implicits to be rather useless, because it sounds as though the ascendency implicits are rather powerful.

Here's hoping this replaces A-4. What a YAWN that one is.

the new passive trees make me laugh.

This is seriously insane!

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AbdulAlhazred wrote:

Of course, if they don't do this, and we are forced into certain character classes for certain builds, I'm not going to be upset. I'll be disappointed that I can't make an Iron Will EK Marauder, but I'll get over it. I just don't understand having always provided a choice, and now providing the illusion of choice.

Well said. Personally, I'd be more fascinated by a Development Manifesto article on this topic than any number of trailers or narrated gameplay videos (thanks for those too though!).

To heck with the complainers upset that GGG is hyping it 4 months in advance.....MMOs hype their expansion a YEAR in advance........ GGG can't please everyone. and regarding the poster that said that releasing the expansion info 4 months early makes them not way to play the new 2 month league. I don't understand that reasoning, it makes no sense!...I mean, you play to have fun right?

All aboard!!

You can still make any old build you wanted to. You were suboptimal then, and you'll be suboptimal now.

There has always been a "best" class for each and every skill. Whether or not you were smart enough to find it is another story. There is still a "best" class for every skill, it's just that you think you've finally found it so you're going to complain.

Protip: you still haven't found it

Get salty