Just a couple of months ago, we received new content updates for Path of Exile 2, and another one is scheduled for release soon. This time, with a new playable class!
Path of Exile 2: The Last of the Druids is coming this December, and it’s got new content, QoL fixes, and interesting activities.
Path of Exile 2: The Last of the Druids New Playable Class
With his homeland destroyed by the King in the Mists, the Druid shed the last fragments of his humanity, wandering around the forests of Ogham. Now reawakened, he seeks what remains of his past and is embarking on a journey to find his lost wife and regain his humanity.
A spellcaster in human form, Path of Exile 2‘s Druid wields a new type of weapon, the Talisman. This gives him the power to transform into three different animals – a wolf, bear, or wyvern.
- Wolf – Channel lunar energy into a relentless assault, augmenting your attacks with cold damage to freeze your enemies. As a true alpha, the wolf form is able to summon a pack of minions to fight alongside it.
- Bear – Raw devastation personified, build up Rage to crush enemies, with each roar amplifying its destructive capacity.
- Wyvern – Soar above the battlefield and feed upon freshly slain foes to empower its abilities. It is also able to unleash lightning, fire, and sweeping aerial destruction upon its foes.
When human, the Druid can utilize the new Spell Totem skill, which creates a totem to automatically cast any chosen spell for a time. Creating a totem requires endurance or power charges, which you can generate by consuming rage as a Bear or by eating corpses as a Wyvern.
Two Druid Ascendency Classes
The Druid will have two Ascendancy classes – the Shaman and the Oracle.
- Shaman – Consumes Rage to amplify catastrophic spell effects – meteors, elemental storms, and relentless magical force. Utilizing Runes and Idols to gain exclusive Shaman-only modifiers, builds can be customized to do incredible amounts of elemental damage.
- Oracle – Utilizes the Foresight skill to predict movements. When these visions are followed, it allows for increased damage. The Ascendancy class skills focus on unique abilities such as Self-Sacrificing, which reduces minion Spirit Costs to increase total summons at the expense of higher reservation costs, or Corruption Endures, granting a rare chance to avoid death.
Fate of the Vaal – New Path of Exile 2 League
Return to the height of Vaal civilization. Queen Atziri, driven by the impossible pursuit of eternal youth, prepares to sacrifice her empire. Subdue the Royal Architect and Atziri’s loyal followers to resist a past that could yet be rewritten.
With corruption resurfacing across Wraeclast, defeat the malignant energy from Vaal beacons rising from the ground, and redirect their essence back. By energizing the beacons, a gateway to Lira Vaal, an ancient temple will open.
The new PoE 2 Fate of the Vaal league has the following features:
- Temple Crawl – Beacon encounters unlock access to temple rooms, with six being able to be assembled to form a layout of one’s choosing. With each run, some chambers endure while others are consumed by ruin. Continued beacon clearing offers new rooms, greater complexity, and escalating reward potential. More than a dozen room types are available, each offering different unique enemies, mechanics, and reward pools.
- Vaal Crafting Mechanisms – Take control of the power of Corruption through special crafting mechanisms found in the Temple:
- Juatalotli’s Triumph: Alters a corrupted Vaal Unique Item, substituting its modifiers with Vaal-specific variants.
- Precursor Machine: Corrupts Tablets using ancient energy
- Jiquani’s Triumph: Distorts Soul Cores
- Kishara’s Acquisition: Attempts to salvage socketables from equipment, with varying results of success
- New Bosses The Royal Architect Xipocado and Queen Atziri – First face off with Xipocado, who stands between you and the queen. Defeating Atziri rewards players with Atziri’s Rule, a powerful new staff that elevates all corrupted gems and enables players to exchange life for increased damage output.
Endgame Additions, Plus QoL and Gameplay Changes
Here are some of the endgame additions, quality-of-life, and gameplay changes being implemented in Path of Exile 2: The Last of the Druids content update:
- The Abyssals – This feature will remain as a permanent endgame mechanic, complete with Atlas passives and new endgame tablets. Abyssal crafting and Instilling on Waystones has been removed, to reduce unnecessary friction and visual clutter. To account for this, modifiers on Tablets have been substantially buffed. Following the defeat of the Arbiter of Ash, players will also gain the ability to upgrade Tablets to Rare quality with four modifiers using standard currency.
- Monster Density and Increased Difficulty – To improve combat clarity, monster density will no longer increase in higher-tier maps. Instead, difficulty and rewards will scale proportionally: rather than 40% more monsters, enemies will now provide 40% more item drops, 40% more experience, and have 40% increased life – excluding bosses. Monster speed modifiers have also been reduced to help prevent them swarming players.
- Performance Optimization – Fixes on CPU load and multithreading. Players can expect at least a 25% increase in frame rates and far fewer frame spikes – particularly noticeable on consoles. Additional performance improvements are actively in development and will continue to roll out over the coming months.
- Added over 30 new Support Gems and 11 new Unique Items
- Reworked 21 Lineage Supports
- Rebalanced 90 Active Skills
DLC Launch Timings & Free Login Weekend
Path of Exile 2: The Last of the Druids launches December 12 PST across all platforms. For us in the Philippines, that’s December 13!
To celebrate, a free login weekend will be available from December 12 11AM to December 15 11AM PST if you want to try it out. You can know more via the official website.
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