14 DAY TRIAL // Every few months the folks at Grinding Gear Games release new content for their long-running free-to-play action RPG, Path of Exile. Although February is full packed with big releases, if you find the time, we can’t recommend the new league enough.
Starting today, Siege of Atlas, the new Path of Exile expansion, is available on PC and Mac, while PlayStation 4 and Xbox One players will be able to get it on February 9. What makes Siege of Atlas so important is that it’s the largest expansion for Path of Exile in the past year. On top of that, it promises to bring the Archnemesis challenge league, a revamp to the entire endgame including new story quests, new unique and currency items, four more pinnacle bosses, and game balance improvements.
For starters, the end-game Atlas of Worlds has been simultaneously simplified and also made deeper. The region system has been removed, and individual Atlas Passive Trees have been replaced by one massive Atlas-wide passive tree which creates a more flexible way for players to engage in the content they like best while also increasing its challenge and reward.
The new storyline added in the expansion is capped with four new Pinnacle Bosses, ultimate boss fights for players seeking additional challenges. These bosses can potentially drop a selection of extremely valuable new unique items, so do be dismissive, just try them out.
Furthermore, players can now use the Eldritch Implicit Modifier system to improve their best items. New currency items allow them to craft powerful new implicit modifiers onto items that enable new build opportunities.
Also, thanks to the new Archnemesis League, players can collect modifiers to use on Petrified Monsters that are encountered throughout the universe to create their own mini-boss fights. Each modifier provides a reward and a monster behavior and will stack in subsequent fights to create progressively more dangerous and rewarding encounters. These modifiers can be combined to create recipes for even more challenge and reward.
As far as the game balance improvements go, spellcasters and archers have received a massive selection of balance buffs, so that they are even more competitive with the game’s best builds.
