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Path of Exile 2 has received its first major content expansion titled “Dawn of the Hunt” featuring many latest additions and enhancements. Path of Exile 2 was released in December 2024 bringing latest and old players back for an additional round where player counts reached just over a half million but had dropped, essentially off a cliff, in recent months however the highly anticipated expansion has seen a major uptick. The free-to-play, as much as six-player co-op has seen over 238,000 return since Dawn of the Hunt made its debut today.
Details for Path of Exile 2: Dawn of the Hunt (per official site):
- Latest Classes
- The Huntress, a spear-wielding warrior specialized in melee and ranged combat featuring twenty latest skills.
- Ascendancy: The Ritualist is an Azmeri who has embraced a distinct, darker path including ritual sacrifices.
- Ascendancy: The Amazon is an Azmeri Elder elite guard featuring specialized fighting techniques
- Latest Ascendancy Classes
- Warrior: The Smith of Kitava are master blacksmiths who can forge their very own weapons.
- Mercenary: The Tactician is a soldier specializing in combat with the power to help other members
- Witch: The Lich uses her Phylactery to bring powers of the dark arts into play
- Latest Skills
- Raise Spectre skill gem which may trap most monsters allowing the user to summon to help in combat
- Summon Rhoa to help in combat or mount in an effort to traverse at full speed while using ranged attacks
- Over 100 latest support gems
- Over 100 latest unique items
- Latest Encounters – Azmerian Wisps: “The Azmeri Spirit has made itself present in Wraeclast. When approached, these wisps will flee, and monsters it comes into contact with might be infused by it, making them more powerful. Wisps may even find and possess Rare or Unique monsters, granting them powerful latest abilities, and powerful latest rewards. There are twelve distinct varieties of wisp, each with their very own mechanics and rewards.”
- Latest Endgame Maps
- The Fractured Lake is positioned in waterscape featuring rare monsters who’re mirrored giving twice the challenge to defeat. A broken mirror containing either an amulet or ring which may be used for crafting special items is the reward for individuals who survive this map.
- The Ezomyte Megaliths is a fortress where players can hunt down rune-carved stones to summon as much as ten waves of boss enemies.
- The Silent Cave is a crystalline cavern containing a map Boss protected by rare monsters who’ve been imprisoned in essence crystals.
- As much as 5 more maps may be discovered
- Latest Encounters
- Rogue Exiles: “In your travels you’ll sometimes encounter Rogue Exiles – others such as you who’ve been exiled and are openly hostile. They may challenge you – a fight to the death.”
- Unique Strongboxes: “In Dawn of the Hunt, in addition to improving on strongboxes generally, we’re adding 4 latest Unique strongbox encounters as well.”
- Latest Endgame Mechanic: Cleanse the Corruption, “Corruption has continued to spread throughout Wraeclast and has formed into larger and bigger zones. Within the centre of every one lies a Corrupted Nexus, the house of three latest terrifying bosses, amalgamations of Corruption itself.”
- Endgame System Improvements include balance adjustments featuring a reduced variety of towers while increasing how powerful they’re.
- Latest Mechanic: Corrupted Essences, “Along with other improvements to Essences, use a Vaal orb to deprave an Essences encounter with a spread of unpredictable outcomes. It could increase the variety of essences, reroll all of the essences to the identical type and even upgrade the essences to Greater Essences.”
In order that’s the majority of the information regarding the brand new expansion. Gather your folks and embark on latest quests to find an entire range of recent enemies, allies, items, maps, bosses, and more in Path of Exile 2: Dawn of the Hunt!
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