2024-12-17 17:27:18

‘Path of Exile 2’ Teases New Updates That Radically Change Its Brutal Endgame Difficulty

There’s no denying it: Path of Exile 2‘s endgame scaling is in a rough spot. The Trial of the Sekhemas difficulty exponentially increases between floors, and higher-tiered waystones seem no different. Chaos damage and critical strikes from monsters blast away entire health pools at the slightest touch. On-death effects seem entirely too abundant. Some of […] The post ‘Path of Exile 2’ Teases New Updates That Radically Change Its Brutal Endgame Difficulty appeared first on VICE.
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