Path of Exile 2 features over 1,900 unique skills and a Dual Specialisation system, letting players invest in multiple skill types—like fire and archery—without penalty, enabling both focused and flexible builds.
With Diablo IV releasing just a year and a half ago, it’s probably not too surprising to discover that a good number of players are already becoming somewhat tired of what Blizzard’s latest stab at the dungeon crawler genre has been offering up. Thankfully then, the long-awaited Path of Exile 2 from Grinding Gear Games has arrived at just the right time, providing Diablo players with the sort of alternative that hasn’t been around in a long time. If you’re sick of Diablo IV here’s why you should give Path of Exile 2 a shot.
Endless Customisation And Speccing Possibilities Ck444 App Sports
Though Diablo IV isn’t particularly lacking in the customisation and speccing stakes – it has had three prior games and an avalanche of patches to get it right, after all – it arguably falls some way short of what Grinding Gear Games has achieved with Path of Exile 2. Certainly, just a glance at Path of Exile 2’s trademark passive skill tree which has been inherited from the first game, reveals an abyssal depth of character customisation that far outstrips any other entry in the dungeon crawler genre.
Reaching past the framework of its sprawling skills matrix, Path of Exile 2 widens its commitment to near limitless customisation and build-speccing possibilities further still thanks to its Skill Gem system. With nearly 450 Gems in total, split between Skill Gems and Support Gems, players can use Skill Gems to enable powerful active skills that can be used in combat, while socketing Support Gems into those same Skill Gems modifies their behaviour, providing yet more creative latitude still for players to customise their build.
If all of that wasn’t enough, there’s also the concept of Ascendancy Class progression. With twelve character classes as of this writing, each of these classes has three separate Ascendancy specialisations that can be activated depending on your playstyle, providing unique skills, abilities and more that in turn provide a veritable bounty of choice for character customisation.
An Overwhelming Cast Of Varied Enemies And Bosses Ck444 App Sports
With an absolute smorgasbord of character customisation and speccing possibilities at your disposal, it makes sense – for the notion of balance at least – that your opposition is equally formidable and boy, does Path of Exile 2 deliver on this front too. With well over 600 unique monsters and over 100 bosses at the time of writing that each have their own strengths, weaknesses, abilities and attack patterns to learn, Path of Exile 2 is filled with hordes of challenging enemies for you to test your mettle against. Further to that point, combat with Path of Exile 2’s many bosses feels much more akin to something like Dark Souls, rather than another dungeon crawler, as there is a real emphasis on developing strategies for each boss and generally staying out of their way whilst you (and maybe some friends) chip away at their gargantuan health bars.
A Much More Worthwhile, Content-Packed Endgame
Once you’ve carved a bloody path through Path of Exile 2’s six-act campaign you’ll find yourself in its endgame and certainly when compared to Diablo IV, developer Grinding Gear Games has gone the extra mile here. Boasting well over 100 endgame maps that each include their own boss battles and unique modifiers, Path of Exile 2’s endgame not only reaches back into the past leagues of the previous Path of Exile but also fashions entirely new challenges for veteran players to tangle with as well.
Acting as a hub of sorts for Path of Exile 2’s monstrous endgame, the Atlas entices players to unlock these new endgame maps to defeat the rare and very dangerous enemies that lurk within them. Much more than just a typical monster hunt, these specially curated endgame maps also include magical strongboxes filled with rare loot that when opened can trigger a deadly encounter, while special NPCs can also be discovered that can aid you in your monster-mashing endeavours.
Path of Exile 2’s endgame spans seven systems—Breach, Delirium, Expedition, Ritual, Pinnacle Bosses, Trials of Chaos, and Sekhemas. Each offers unique challenges and progression trees on the Atlas, rewarding players with points and loot to unlock tougher content and greater rewards.
Path of Exile 2’s endgame shines with Pinnacle Bosses—tough fortress fights requiring keys from faction bosses. These intense battles reward top players with Atlas points and elite loot, offering a far deeper experience than Diablo IV’s endgame.
Reactive And Transparent Developer Support That Shapes Everything Going Forward
Even before Path of Exile 2 dropped into early access this year, one key area where the game has sought to separate itself from Diablo IV is in how its creators interact with the community. Put simply, developer Grinding Gear Games has been responding to queries, issues and suggestions from the community on an almost daily basis. Whether it’s questions about the Path of Exile 2 roadmap, updates on server bandwidth or responding to low-level queries about balancing, loot drops and more, Grinding Gear Games always appears present, transparent and ready to help in a timely fashion as Path of Exile 2 barrels its way through early access.