00:04Hey everyone, Margaret here. Path of Exile just announced a ton of major changes coming to their new expansion, The
00:09Awakening.
00:10I'm going to quickly run you through the key features, but feel free to click our Gamepedia link in the
00:15description for further details on all the things.
00:18First off, this expansion takes us to Highgate, where we begin our Act 4 adventure and fight through a range
00:24of new monsters.
00:24From corrupted miners in the mines to a pit bull of enemies in Duresso's fighting pits, we'll defend ourselves against
00:31the dreaded beast at the heart of Reklaas' corruption.
00:34And speaking of Duresso, he along with 9 new boss encounters, including Calm and Vol, will surely bring on some
00:41epic boss fights.
00:42With that being said, we'll need a way to fend off the evil.
00:45We'll be gaining access to 13 new gems, 11 of which are active skill gems.
00:50We'll get to summon Chaos, Fire, and Ice Golems that will each have their own AI.
00:54Along with two new support gems, Vigilante Strike and Fortify, which will give melee players a survivability boost, providing them
01:01with a way to generate a temporary 25% damage reduction.
01:05New Warcries are being added to the game, including Abyssal and Inspiring Cry.
01:09These will either provide powerful bonuses or debuff the enemies.
01:13Note this will share a cooldown timer with all Warcries, even Enduring Cry.
01:17We'll also get two new unique items that grant access to unique skills, including the recently teased the Whispering Ice,
01:24which grants the unique Ice Storm spell.
01:27Next up, their passive system is getting some intense changes.
01:30We'll gain access to 20 to 24 jewel sockets, which means we're getting a variety of jewels, ranging from magic,
01:37rare, unique, and possibly crafted versions in the future.
01:40Each providing a variety of buffs that allow increasingly complex levels of customization, as if the web isn't complicated enough.
01:48But, for those of you who love creating builds like me, this is going to be a fun addition.
01:52With gems that can affect a radius around their location, convert one stat to another, provide more stats based on
01:58a stat within a radius, allowing you to spawn more minions or affect the minions that you already have spawned,
02:04and more, you can imagine the possibilities.
02:06Also, the major thing for me was that some jewels allowed you to gain access to stats that you didn't
02:11have the prerequisites to, as long as you put enough points into the area to get yourself to the socket,
02:16location near that.
02:18The Awakening also brings us 70 new unique items, 20 of which are unique jewels.
02:22This means we're going to have a lot of fun customizing our gear.
02:25We got to take a look at the Consuming Dark, which converts a percentage of fire damage to chaos damage
02:30and allows your chaos damage to poison,
02:32as well as a new unique bow, which casts socketed minion gems on kill, allowing for a completely new playstyle
02:38for summoners.
02:39We're also getting a completely new item type, the Mariketh Weapons, featuring new 2D and 3D art and powerful mods,
02:47such as Global Critical Strike Multipliers or an increased AoE radius.
02:51The new 3D art should allow for more customizability for players who don't want to purchase new item skins from
02:57the shop.
02:57But for those of you who love to get your shop on, we'll still see new microtransactions like the Infernal
03:03and Necrotic armor sets.
03:04Along with all of these changes, they're also making some quality of life UI tweaks,
03:08revamping the three difficulties for Act 1 through 3 to have a more coherent experience as we move into Act
03:134,
03:13and netcode changes that we're hoping will resolve the desync issues.
03:18With all that and more, this expansion is going to be making some major waves in the realm of Rayclasp,
03:22and Grinding Gear realizes that, so they aren't going to roll this expansion out like their others.
03:27They're going to have a closed beta phase that will start around April 20th.
03:31We'll have a link in the description below for signups.
03:34So what do you guys think about all of this?
03:36Are you excited for the expansion?
03:37How do you feel the balance is going to be?
03:39Let me know in the comments section below, and I'll see you guys later.
03:42Margaret signing off. Enjoy the game.
03:44Thank you.
03:45Thank you.
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