Some new support gems are also welcome additions

Posted on 2 December, 2023 by taoaxue

Getting these items will be a challenge, because each time you complete a zone looking for them to drop POE currency trade , you're also effectively shrinking that god's taint. There's no way to eliminate it entirely, but Wilson says players will want to "responsibly farm" zones to keep each taint a healthy—but not too big—size.

Skills to pay the bills
War for the Atlas also introduces four new skill gems and six new support gems that players can mess around with. Of the four new skills, all of them are themed around corpse manipulation. How morbid. Unearth, for example, fires a projectile that causes a body to rise out of the earth. Wilson then paired this with another new skill, Cremation, which turns corpses into exploding geysers of fire. Obviously the two work together extremely well.

Another skill is Volatile Dead, which consumes a corpse and creates an exploding orb that chases down enemies. Wilson paired this with a Cyclone melee character and gave Volatile Debt a support gem that made it cast automatically after killing an enemy. This essentially turned his character into a spinning-axe madman that launches a steady stream of orange orbs that track down monsters and explode.

Some new support gems are also welcome additions. I love Spell Cascade, which causes any area-of-effect spell to cast three times beside the area where you cast it. It's kind of hard to explain, but the idea is that if you cast something like Frost Wall, Spell Cascade will create another wall in front and behind, a massive chunk of ice you can use to wall off enemies.

Into the Abyss
As is typical with expansions, War for the Atlas also introduces a new challenge league for players to start new characters in. This one is called the Abyss and works similar to last year's community favorite, Breach. In the Abyss league, you'll have a random chance to happen upon cracks in the earth teeming with nasty enemies. By following these cracks as they spread and killing the monsters that crawl out, you'll eventually find a gaping hole with hordes of baddies to kill. Slay them fast enough, and new cracks will form leading you to a new hole. Each Abyss hole that you clear consecutively will make the next one more challenging and reduce the time limit you have to kill everything.

Wilson says there's a lot more to unpack about the Abyss and how it works, but he's leaving that for the community to figure out. Still, the rapid pace of chasing cracks and clearing holes sounds like a fun challenge. Since most of the expansion is focused purely on the endgame, the Abyss league is the only major change that new players will feel directly POE orbs for sale .