Path of Exile has announced a new update to their Online Action RPG, Path of Exile: Bestiary will challenge players to hunt and capture nearly 300 animals in the game's world of Wreaclast and then sacrifice them to create and augment new powerful items. If you haven't yet picked up this game now may be a good time to pick it up and check it out. This will be coming off an already successful expansion "The Fall of Oriath" which had over 3.5 million players play it, and was named one of the top games of 2017 by Game Informer.
Here are a few of the details from the update:
Path of Exile: Bestiary Features:
The Bestiary Challenge League: With a fresh economy and brand-new mechanics, the Bestiary Challenge League is ideal for existing, returning, and brand new players to experience the award-winning gameplay Path of Exile has to offer.
Capture Dangerous Beasts: Track Wraeclast's most dangerous animals, weaken them, and capture them to make them your own. There are around 250 regular beasts and 40 legendary beasts to capture.
Complete your Bestiary: As you capture beasts from across Wraeclast, they are marked in your Bestiary, a permanent record of your progress through this league.
Populate your Menagerie: Visit and observe the beasts you've captured whenever you want, then use them to fuel your Beastcrafting.
Beastcrafting: Perform the ritual of Sacrifice by Combat at the Blood Altar to create and augment potent items. There are dozens of powerful recipes that require the sacrifice of different combinations of beasts that you have collected.
New End-Game Foes: Capturing and crafting with the right set of beasts may grant you entrance to difficult spirit boss encounters with powerful unique item rewards.
Bestiary Sets: The Bestiary League contains four new sets of items based on the powerful spirit beasts. Mix and match them with other items and discover potent new builds.
The Story Continues: High-level players will be able to challenge The Elder and The Shaper simultaneously, deep in the center of the Atlas of Worlds - the toughest boss encounter in Path of Exile yet!
New Unique Items: Harness the power of 29 new Unique Items and completing new Prophecies to transform your items to one of 30 new Fated Unique Items.
New Gems: Discover and build around three new gems including the new skill Spectral Shield Throw and the new support gem Summon Phantasm on Kill.
Ascendancy Class Revamp: Explore countless new build options with each of our extensively rebalanced Ascendancy Classes.
And much more: We've also added a new quest to Act Ten and have made many other small changes including ongoing performance improvements.
Available on Xbox One and PC: Path of Exile: Bestiary is coming to PC and Xbox One. They are both, of course, 100% free to play.
The update seems to add a lot of complexity to an already rich and diverse game. As an avid Diablo 3 player, I am interested in picking this game up and trying it for the first time. Interested in checking out what the new update has to offer? Here is the trailer for the Bestiary Challenge:
