Developers Grinding Gear Games will be adding two new difficulty settings, or “leagues,” to its action-RPG Path of Exile. The Anarchy and Onslaught leagues will be made available for four months, in addition to the already existing Normal and Hardcore modes.
Anarchy features corrupted NPCs that share all the same abilities and items that player-controlled characters have access to. As players walk around the world, the new foes will attack them with many of the same skills they’ve come to use themselves. Once killed, the enemy exiles will drop high-quality gear.
Onslaught is essentially a more difficult Hardcore mode, with more powerful creatures and permanent death. It does not include the enemy exiles from Anarchy.
Both modes feature a new set of gear that is not available in Normal or Hardcore modes, but can be transferred over once the two leagues’ time is up.
Along with the pair of new leagues, there will also be a slew of new items added, a “substantial” reworking of the game’s balance, and a free respec for all characters to respond to those tweaks.
Read the full list of changes on the official Path of Exile forum.
The post Path of Exile update adds two new “leagues” appeared first on Edge Online.
via Edge Online http://www.edge-online.com/news/path-of-exile-update-0-11-0-adds-two-new-leagues/