Path of Exile: Ascendancy (News Coverage)

This is epic.
You guys are amazing. Thanks a lot for adding excellent content again.

Please post the trees for Raider and Assassin. The websites that featured them did not post them. :/

All sounds great. Traps and potentially other puzzles might be my favorite addition - I always felt the game was missing danger/need for awareness of your environment (besides maybe punching barrels in the Twilight Strand). Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance thieves' guild, anyone?

I like the ascendancy stuff, but honestly the thing that page made me most excited about was the possibility of Alternate Character Art MTX options. THAT would be amazing.

I just came. GG, GGG!

My only concern is the dungeon traps, how does it work well with predictive mode? You know not all of the players can use lockstep, desync... RIP?

Awww yisss, another HYPE TRAIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNN

Wow, I have a few concerns with the ascendancy stuff, such as the possibility of there being more limiting factors on the character you're playing, but doesn't really bother me too much at the moment.

What I'm REALLY concerned about is how much GGG is spoiling us. We just got 2 expansions for a free game in the last what? 2 years? Constant updates, new league content every 3-4 months with stuff in between that they take the time to put out for us (I didn't like dark shrines that much, but I'm grateful they did the event to fill the time), massive changes that keep true to the game, but keep the game fresh and interesting for the PoE veterans out there, excellent support team (at least in my experience), on a free to play model that doesn't beg the lazy or casual player base for their wallets to get ahead, and now we're getting an OTHER expansion, presumably shortly after our next temp league that already has a ton of new stuff for us.

I say they're spoiling us, because I wouldn't ask this much from a AAA title, it blows my mind that GGG is giving us so much, for so little. They're certainly making an example of some AAA companies and some companies that follow poor FtP business models. Sure, I gave GGG more money than I'd pay for most games, but I certainly didn't have to. I also certainly got way more out of PoE than any other game I've had to pay for.

It's crazy how the video game industry is right now, so many (and many reputable) companies just churn out last year's garbage with some minor changes and ask 80$ for it, put out horribly disappointing, lazy, corner cutting trash that doesn't even work on launch dates (must be particularly embarrassing for one of the most reputable video game companies in the world), chop off content that should be part of the core game, but release it later for 20$, put out promising early access games, but flop when they get their peak sales, and the list can go on, but you guys at GGG really stand out among the list of businesses in the video game industry. You guys are KILLING it, figuratively, not the game, please don't kill PoE.

I just hope this can last as long as possible, speaking of which, does it comply to the terms of service to will my account to a friend or relative should I meet my demise? I'd like to pass on my legacy items to my children.

Is that a darkshrine in the trailer at 1:43? Does that mean they're going into the core game?? Yahoo!

Edit: Please don't ban me for saying "Yahoo!"...I don't know what I was thinking! xD

I wonder if the gear shown in the ascendancy classes actually represents updated 3D art or microtransactions or even nothing and they're just drawings...really hoping for an 3D art update, most of the old armors look incomplete and don't match the "newer" helms

This why I support Grinding Gear Games. You guys never fail to amaze, nice work!