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These changes should make combat a lot more dynamic, since we'll be able to use more than just one or two skills at full or close to full capacity.
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Meta gems will further let you customize your kit. These gems allow you to socket multiple skill gems inside them, letting you reserve Spirit to automatically cast skills when certain triggers are met or tying multiple skills to a single button press. You can even link multiple skills to intelligently cast in order, such as a spell totem gem that first casts a curse, then casts an attack skill. Spirit is a new resource used to reserve things like buffs and trigger skills, which opens up mana to be more than the 15 points I have left behind after reserving grace, hatred POE currency trade , and skitterbots.
Opening up this design space makes mana costs more relevant, and allows for some nutty skills that cost lots of mana but hit like a truck. Like ice comets. I love ice comets.
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One thing I always tell people about Path of Exile, provided they allow me the time to clamber onto my soapbox, is that one of the most brilliant things it did was not include a generic currency like gold in its economy. Every currency orb does something, like reroll an affix or redo the gem links on an item. This gives them an intrinsic value that naturally anchors the player-driven economy. So it was with some trepidation that I heard Rogers tell us that they were implementing gold in Path of Exile 2 POE orbs for sale .
