Path of Exile 2 News

Path Of Exile 2 will introduce Druid, one of the 6 new classes that will be introduced after the original 6 classes. This will make the game class build more diverse.

Next, I will introduce some information we know about Druid class.

Overview

Druid is a new class with STR/INT attributes. The addition of Druid can highlight the differences between different versions of the game and make the game become better. And Druid, as his class name suggests, will specialize in Shapeshifting Spells.

From the gameplay we’ve seen so far, Druid matches its STR/INT attributes well, being a mix of melee and spellcasting. On one hand, depending on its starting position, Druid may be more inclined to use things like Armor, Energy Shield for defense. On the other hand, Druid may focus on attacking with a mix of physical, fire, or lightning damage.

Shapeshifting Skills

As we all know, one of the main features of Druid is that it can greatly increase melee damage and survivability by changing into bear form. When the player uses Shapeshifting Spells, they will automatically switch between human and animal forms, but it is not yet confirmed whether there are other animal forms.

• Human form: cast devastating elemental spells, gain control and ranged advantages.
• Bear form: unlock rage-fueled melee skills and improve survivability.

However, this transition takes a certain amount of time, and players can use this to get higher damage. By familiarizing yourself with the order of your skills, you can use regular spells as a human, and then transform into a bear and start pounding the ground.

As before, players can also increase the attack power of Druid by enhancing the strength of the equipment itself. You can obtain POE 2 Exalted Orbs from killed monsters, treasure chests, etc., and use this orb to enhance rare equipment.

Weapons

In addition, this play style is also enhanced by the Dual Specialization system. For example, players can pair a set of equipment with a regular spell used in human form, and prepare a set of equipment for the transformed bear form. Players can make more targeted bonuses based on the advantages of different forms, thereby improving their overall strength.

Druid mainly uses the Staves as a signature weapon, combining its strength and intelligence attributes. It can enhance elemental damage and also help players with melee builds.

• Casting Staves: It can enhance the elemental damage of spells such as Lightning Storm or Volcano.
• Melee Staves: It can enhance the physical damage and scaling of Bear Form skills.

Skill Gems

The following Druid skill gems are currently known:

Lightning Storm

Creates a lightning storm that lasts for a period of time, repeatedly attacking enemies in the area with shocking lightning. The base duration is 10.00 seconds, and it deals continuous Lightning damage to enemies.

Volcano

Creates a volcano that fires projectiles in all directions. Channeling the skill can cause it to fire more projectiles and deal more damage to its first eruption, or it can be cast over a longer period to deal more damage. Slamming near a volcano can cause it to erupt and fire more additional projectiles.

Bear Maul

Creates Rage, causing the player to transform into a bear and lash out with claws in anger, increasing physical attack damage.

Rampage

This is a powerful transformation skill gem that uses the bear’s primal rage to slam the ground as it moves forward, dealing devastating physical damage to enemies.

Furious Slam

Transforms into a bear and slams the surrounding ground with significant force, creating a shockwave that stuns enemies and deals damage to a large area around you.

Ferocious Roar

Players can transform into bears and trigger Warcry skill, applying another Slam to the enemy, causing a second aftershock.

Summoned Wolves

Summoned Wolves in POE 2 are servant companions that provide attack and practical benefits. You can disperse the enemy and cause damage by summoning wolves. Its howl can increase the probability of a critical hit for nearby allies.

Overall, Druid adds to the game experience and fun of POE 2, and we are also looking forward to GGG bringing us new news.

If you are a new player of POE2, you may be confused by some issues in the game. You will notice a strange phenomenon that many players will choose Witch class for their characters in the game.

In fact, whether it is the free original, or the current paid version of the early access version of the sequel, Witch class is deeply loved by players.

The reason why it is loved by fans is that it has an efficient minion build. Those minions can rush through various areas and clear monsters at all costs. This is a powerful help in battle. You must be attracted to this point.

But as a rookie,how to unleash potential of witch class in POE 2? If you want to challenge the final stage of the game with Witch class, you have to lay a solid foundation. In addition to using Path Of Exile 2 Currency for equipment upgrades and farming XP, there is another very important thing: choosing the right starting skills.

Best Early Game Skills

As we all know, the skills unlocked by professions in POE 2 range from level 1 to level 13. However, you should focus on levels 1, 3, and 5, which will lay the foundation for your success in the early game.

• Tier I: Skeletal Sniper

During the prologue on the beach, you can use Unearth skill, which is a relatively basic and practical AoE skill, and it is free. But if you want to enhance area damage, you will want to choose Skeletal Sniper as your first-level skill. This minion spell is very powerful, and it summons a skeleton archer with a bow and arrows with poison gas.

• Tier III: Skeletal Arsonist

Next, your second skill, Skeletal Arsonist will keep with AoE theme. It is also a minion summoning spell that summons a group of bomb-throwing skeletons that will damage a specific area. The arena is very suitable for it to control in many optional boss battles in the game.

• Tier V: Raise Zombie

Finally, it is recommended that you use Raise Zombie skill on the fifth tier. Like the previous two skills, it is also a spell that summons minions, but it lasts for a shorter time. You can summon up to 10 zombies and a large group of minions to attack enemies at a closer range.

Best Passive Skills

Based on the above, you will need a summon build next. As a new player, you may feel confused, but you don’t have to be overwhelmed by the passive skill tree. In fact, it is not as scary as it looks. Let me explain it to you.

First, you need to focus on the left path, which will increase spell and minion damage. The first node will significantly increase your damage output, increasing both minion damage and spell damage by 8%. Then develop along this path for a while, and then your focus needs to change to the right path, which will improve survivability.

In fact, it is very worthwhile to increase the power of summons, which will take enemy firepower and distract enemies for you.

Some time ago, Blizzard announced that it would benchmark Path of Exile 2 and increase the difficulty in Diablo 4 Season 8, which made many players difficult to accept. Because compared with other dungeon crawling RPG games, D4’s exploration difficulty is relatively low, and therefore, it has attracted many novice MMO players.

On the other hand, POE 2 has been claiming that its exploration difficulty will only be higher than the original since the early access was released on December 6 last year, which has selected a group of players with higher game levels from the beginning.

So from the beginning, this blind benchmarking is not realistic, and even if it is achieved, there will be many problems in the future. If you are interested in this, then continue to understand how D4 is going further and further on the road to death, and why it cannot reach the game difficulty of POE 2.

Diablo 4’s Positioning Is Not Clear Enough

Although Diablo 4 received a very good response when it was first released in June 2023, it has become less and less present in the current game market as the seasons change, and each season has not left a particularly deep impression on players.

And most importantly, the difficulty of D4 was very low from the beginning, causing many high-level players to complete all the campaigns and pass the endgame content test in a relatively short time, which makes these players completely lack immersion and fun in it.

Although POE 2 and D4 are essentially games with loot mechanisms, they cannot have the same game difficulty due to different farming methods and exploration game styles.

For example, the drop rate of loot in Diablo 4 is fixed, but the generation rate of POE 2 Currency is a range and can be scaled, which leads to the two games being inconsistent in the difficulty of farming loot, because the range probability will make you face more challenges.

Different Player Groups

In addition to the differences in the games themselves, D4 and POE 2 also have very different player groups. As just mentioned, D4 has attracted many novice players of action role-playing video games with very simple game content from the beginning, and steadily upgrades and explores in it.

And suddenly increasing the difficulty they have to face will cause players to not adapt. The most important thing is that many of the rewards worth looking forward to are hidden in tasks that can only be accessed by reaching a certain world level, and these high-difficulty game contents cannot allow these low- and medium-level Diablo 4 players to enjoy real fun.

As for POE 2, since the announcement of the sequel, GGG has publicly stated that the game difficulty of this sequel will be greater than the original, and it will be more suitable for the challenge of high-level players in the original. This makes the choice of a completely different player group from Diablo 4 at the beginning.

Although it is still uncertain whether Blizzard will try to solve the difficulty problem currently facing Diablo 4, one thing we can be sure of is that before they do so, Path of Exile 2 will be the first choice for more players.

Trial of Chaos will be unlocked for the first time in the third act. Similar to Trial of the Sekhemas, Trial of Chaos also requires a series of challenges to be completed without dying, including some time challenges, kill count challenges, and completing specific goals. However, Trial of Chaos is very difficult. In each room, you need to choose one of the three negative terms, and the effect of the term will be effective throughout the trial. That is to say, as the trial progresses, there will be more and more negative terms, and the difficulty of completing the challenge will become higher and higher.

Challenge Test

Before entering the next room, new rewards will be provided, and new negative terms will be obtained. Please choose carefully. Terms that restrict movement and combat areas may make it impossible to bypass the enemy; or stacking terms that strengthen the enemy and weaken yourself will make it impossible to defeat the elite monster and cause the trial to fail. In the early stage, you need to pass 4 rooms in a row to complete the sublimation, and in the later stage, you can complete more rooms. The types of gameplay encountered in Trial of Chaos include: killing all monsters, surviving in timed challenges, escorting targets, etc.

Trial Of Chaos Random Bosses

Trial of Chaos also includes several random bosses, the order and difficulty of which depend on the time of encounter and the selected attributes. Random bosses are very difficult even without negative attributes, so be sure to choose negative attributes carefully. If you think the risk is too great, you can return to Trial NPC to claim your reward.

Soul Cores And Sockets

Various items can be obtained through Trial of Chaos, some of which may have Soul Cores, sockets, which can be slotted to gain additional buffs. Soul Cores can also be obtained in Trial of Chaos.

If you want to add Soul Cores sockets to existing items, you need to use a Jeweler’s Orb. Using Vaal Orb on an item corrupts it and makes it unchangeable by any currency. Adding a socket is one of the corruption effects that exceeds the normal limit, but there is a risk of rendering the item useless. Finding equipment with sockets and filling them with suitable Soul Cores is a good way to increase combat effectiveness during the endgame period, but don’t worry about this during the campaign for the time being.

Trial of Chaos has two sides, just like the map. For example, after completing the trial, you can sacrifice currency to get double rewards or zero rewards. But there is a chance to get some powerful unique items by passing the more difficult Trial of Chaos.