During today’s Path of Exile livestream, “GGG Live,” developer Grinding Gear
Games unveiled details for Path of
Exile’s 3.25 update, Settlers of
Kalguur. The July expansion introduces the Settlers of Kalguur Challenge League, balance improvements
including two Ascendancy Class changes, Endgame improvements, further additions
to the Campaign and a variety of quality of life (QoL) features for both PC and
console players. Path of Exile:
Settlers of Kalguur will launch on July 27th at 4 AM (GMT+8).
In the Settlers
of Kalguur Challenge League, players will help Kalguuran pioneers build the
town of Kingsmarch and establish trade between Wraeclast and their homeland.
Players will focus on mining exotic resources, hiring and protecting skilled
workers to construct and defend the town, and build out a harbor to establish
and manage trading. Once the town is constructed and trade is underway, players
will be able to buy and sell currency and other stackable items in the Currency
Trade Market, and craft and recombine powerful weapons and items on the
Runesmithing Table.
Ascendancy classes will be refreshed with
the addition of the new Warden class, as well as a rework of the Gladiator. The
Warden will replace the Raider class, focusing on elemental attacks, damage
mitigation and a specialization in Tinctures, which can now be found throughout
the land. The Gladiator class maintains powerful skills for Bleeding and Block,
along with receiving newly designed skills including the opportunity to invest
in Retaliation Skills, a new type of skill that allows you to unleash
devastating damage upon meeting certain conditions in combat.
Settlers of Kalguur will add a long
list of balance work including drastic alterations to Melee Skills, Block,
Rage, Warcries, Banners, Bleed, Impale, adding new Base Types to Endgame,
buffed Modifiers on Endgame Items, buffed Critical Strike Chances on Weapons,
and much more. Endgame content has been addressed with changes to many Scarabs,
a 6th Map Device Slot, new encounters in Tier 16 and Tier 17 Maps, updates to
Blight and Ritual and more. There will also be a set of new Chisel types and a
massive increase in the drop rate of Valdo's Puzzle Boxes.
Path
of Exile players on consoles will be delighted to
find that the game now takes full advantage of PS5 and Xbox Series hardware,
with a huge reduction in load times and texture pop-in. Overall visual fidelity
has been improved with the highest available resolution textures and water
effects, and a new upscaling algorithm that improves the crispness of dynamic
resolution, as well as an additional anti-aliasing pass.
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