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If you play action-RPGs as a cathartic power trip, to slam into monstrous hordes and watch their bloody bodies ragdoll across the scenery, then Path of Exile will seem dry. It's not a game about instant gratification, it's about slowly forging an inventive character over three acts and three difficulty tiers. Once it has its claws in, Path of Exile is as compulsive as any other in the genre. After a few hours the combat becomes automatic. The objectives are moot, the quests, characters and creatures incidental. Every stab and slash is in service of the real journey across that vast levelling board. Every 500 to 1,000 clicks lights up another node, and the little warrior mannequin takes another step away from being a template and toward something that's uniquely yours.
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An exceptionally generous free-to-play action RPG. What it lacks in punch it makes up for in depth and value for money.
Path of Exile: The Fall of Oriath expansion add six acts and a whole lot of deicide
Have a little bullet hell in your action-RPG.
Ten minutes into Path of Exile and I'm throwing ice magic at a god. He seems unimpressed, tossing back orbs and bolts of crackling energy that can kill me in one or two hits. Then he brings towering statues to life and they lumber after me, swinging giant swords that I dodge in a half panic POE currency trade .
Luckily I have an ace in the hole: a totem I can place that aggros the boss and his mobs, giving me a few seconds to glance at my health, pop some healing and mana flasks, and lay on the damage. Ice flies from my hands as fast as I can clickclickclickclick. When the boss goes into full-on bullet hell mode, I can hide behind one of the immobilized statues for a couple key seconds of safety. I finally land the killing blow… to his first form. Avarius becomes Innocence, and my hands start sweating buy POE currency .
