While not quite as expansive as last season's
The Path of Exile: Ultimatum league launches as a free update on April 16th.
The new support gems lean into this theme as well. Arrogance lets you empower passive Aura buffs by reserving part of your health bar instead of mana. Lifetap lets you power any skill through health instead of magic, applying a buff to damage done if you invest enough HP. Bloodthirst provides damage buffs to skills used while on 50 percent or lower health. The last new support gem, Cruelty, stands out by being just a straight buff to damage done, but I suppose not everything can be fun, games, and blood sacrifice.
The last round of buffs that Ultimatum brings to the table is another wave of upgrades for Vaal skill gems. These double-function skills let you cast them normally, but also let you harvest souls from enemies to charge powerful smartbomb-like supercharged attacks. They've made some tweaks so your Vaal skills will recharge much faster just by hurting bosses, making players less reliant on filler enemies between phases. They've also run yet another balance pass on Vaal skills in general. While the exact changes won't be announced until closer to launch, I'd expect some more buffs.
While not quite as expansive as last season's bafflingly complex endgame overhaul, the Ultimatum league looks to bring a fun new way to ragequit Path of Exile, as well as a mountain of smaller tweaks and improvements to older content to the table. Where I expect the most fun to come is watching Path of Exile's many streamers losing big as they gamble their loot POE currency trade .
The Path of Exile: Ultimatum league launches as a free update on April 16th.
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