Gaming: Update: Path of Exile 2's 'biggest expansion ever' reworks its entire post-campaign grind for new and returning players alike

Gaming: Update: Path of Exile 2's 'biggest expansion ever' reworks its entire post-campaign grind for new and returning players alike

Several new quests will walk you through its endless endgame experience. Path of Exile 2 has one of the best action RPG campaigns out there, and it's not even finished yet. It wastes no time pushing you through each act as you gear up and watch the world of Wraeclast unravel. But when it's over, you're handed a gigantic world map filled with dozens of locations and no advice on where to start your endgame grind. That wasn't good enough for developer Grinding Gear Games, which is why it spent the last several months tearing everything out and rebuilding it so that PoE 2's endgame won't be as obtuse. All of it will be reworked in its "biggest expansion ever", Return of the Ancients, on May 29. In Return of the Ancients, you'll start at the center of a set location on the Atlas, surrounded by patches of land warped by each of the game's unique "league mechanics," or side activities. It will be up to you to decide whether you want to stitch together the section of earth split open by the eerie green Abyss chasms, or to work on cleansing the area desecrated by twitching Breach hands. Each section has a series of quests that will walk you through what's going on and end with a climactic boss fight. As you complete each step, you'll earn points to drop into the entirely remade Atlas passive tree, modifying how each activity works and increasing the difficulty and rewards. "We wanted to really make sure that the new endgame stuff that we're designing really did feel like you had a sense of completion of the Atlas," game director Jonathan Rogers said during a recent press event. "And so that's something we really wanted to add here by explicitly saying, okay, if you do all these questlines, then sure, there is the infinite farm you can do and you can keep on playing, but you're sort of finished, right? All the progress bars are full. You are done. You can stop now and you can come back next league." On top of the new quests, each league mechanic has been polished up to

Source: PC Gamer