Grinding Gear Games has found out the following growth for Path of Exile, dubbed Siege of the Atlas. We’ve visible numerous Atlas-centered expansions withinside the past, and they all have dramatically modified Path of Exile‘s endgame content material. This one isn’t anyt any different, as Siege of the Atlas will another time alternate the manner gamers development via endgame content material while it releases subsequent month.
New Eldrich Horrors invade the Atlas
Following the demise of Sirus and the departure of Zana, Siege of the Atlas may have gamers running with Kirac to discover maps withinside the endgame. The growth introduces new Eldritch Horrors in order to try and invade the Atlas along The Maven and Uber Elder: The Searing Exarch and The Eater of Worlds.
It seems like gamers may also be running with The Maven to a few extent, as she’ll deliver us the cappotential to adjust maps with have an impact on from those new Eldritch Horrors. Influenced monsters will seem in extra numbers as you development via low-tier stimulated maps, and when you get to mid-tier maps, you’ll come across the sub-bosses for every of those Eldritch Horrors: The Black Star or The Infinite Hunger. These bosses must be defeated earlier than you may come across The Searing Exarch or The Eater of Worlds, who will ultimately display up in high-tier stimulated maps.
Each of the bosses drops a slate of latest precise gadgets and Eldritch forex gadgets, and after defeating them for the primary time, you’ll be capable of farm key drops through grinding stimulated maps in tier 14 or better to combat them again. Grinding Gear Games says those key drops may be tradeable, so in case you don’t sense like grinding drops, you’ll have the ability to shop for them from different gamers.
Goodbye Watchstones, hiya Voidstones
These new bosses aren’t the simplest modifications to Path of Exile‘s Atlas on this new growth. Grinding Gear Games has additionally carried out away with Atlas areas entirely, so no extra accumulating Watchstones to growth map stages on a vicinity-through-vicinity basis. In area of these sixteen Watchstones are 4 new Voidstones that growth your map stages at some stage in the whole Atlas while slotted into their new tower.
Players will earn those Voidstones through defeating Uber Elder, The Maven, The Searing Exarch, and The Eater of Worlds, so it’s going to take a number of paintings to gather them all. Slotting all 4 Voidstones into the Atlas will boost all maps to tier sixteen, so accumulating all of those Voidstones will permit gamers to make sweeping modifications that effect the whole Atlas at once.
With Atlas areas going away, Grinding Gear Games has additionally eliminated the ones nearby Atlas passive bushes. In their area is a single, huge Atlas passive tree that has extra than six hundred nodes, and from what we noticed withinside the presentation, it seems like a particularly smaller model of Path of Exile‘s important man or woman passive tree.
GGG says that it has introduced a few passives from the antique nearby bushes over to this new unified tree and that gamers will earn one passive factor every time they whole a map’s bonus objective. This, in turn, will permit gamers to speedy amass a gaggle of passives to customise their bushes, thereby permitting them to awareness on enhancing the content material they prefer to play withinside the endgame. The complete tree may be found out someday subsequent week, giving gamers a threat to plan out builds earlier than the growth launches (aleven though you may see a zoomed-out shot of it above).
Eldritch Implicit Mods, new currencies, and new uniques
With the advent of those new bosses comes new Eldritch Implicit Mods that may be used to create effective endgame equipment. The advent of those new Eldritch Implicits implies Grinding Gear is attempting to revise the Influenced Items device through making it simpler to use new mods to already proper equipment.
Grinding Gear says that Eldritch Implicits update current Implicit Modifiers on equipment, so that you can begin with a chunk of equipment that’s already proper after which refine it from there. The Eldritch forex gadgets we noted withinside the first segment may be used to use Eldritch Implicts to gadgets, and gamers may be capable of have one Implicit from every boss on any given item.
There are six stages of Eldritch Implicits, and the primary 4 stages may be implemented through the use of Eldritch Ember and Eldritch Ichor currencies. From there, gamers can use Orbs of Conflict to decrease one implicit and lift the different. By the use of a mixture of Eldritch Ichor, Eldritch Ember, and Orbs of Conflict, gamers can doubtlessly craft device with one tier six Eldritch Implicit and one tier 4 mod.
Grinding Gear Games additionally introduced numerous new precise gadgets in order to be delivered to the sport with the Siege of the Atlas growth, which may be visible withinside the photograph above. For extra information on those past what their tooltips reveal, take a look at out the VOD of today’s stay stream.
Archnemesis Challenge League
Launching along the Siege of the Atlas growth is the brand new Archnemesis Challenge League. In this one, you’ll be capable of find, adjust, and combat as much as 4 boss monsters consistent with vicinity as you figure your manner via the sport and via maps. The monsters you come across will start out as petrified, providing you with a threat to adjust them earlier than the combat the use of itemized modifiers which have a threat to drop from the uncommon and magic monsters you come across via ordinary play.
Mods you follow to the primary monster follow to the second one monster and so on, so by the point you combat the fourth monster in an vicinity, it’ll have pretty some modifiers. Boss monsters may even drop gadgets that integrate modifications, permitting you to create boss monsters which can be remarkable risky however drop a ton of forex and gadgets while defeated.
Overall, it sounds just like the Archnemesis Challenge League may be a pleasing addition to the already sizeable Siege of the Atlas growth. The content material may be to be had in Path of Exile while the Siege of the Atlas growth launches on February 4th, 2022, for PC and February 9th, 2022, for Xbox One and PlayStation 4.