As the official release date of Path of Exile 2 Early Access approaches, players are increasingly eager to experience this new game and compare it to its original. Although there is no essential difference in the operation of the basic gameplay, the quality of the change is huge.
For example, POE 2 has added a lot of quality of life changes that are helpful for new players to get started with this new game, as well as some new content. Most of these new features are generated by the developers based on the feedback and suggestions of the player community for the original, and some even improve various aspects of the game.
However, during this waiting process, we will summarize for you several new features of POE 2 that are better than the original based on the trailers and information we have learned so far. If you are a player who is still hesitating, I hope that after reading this guide, you will be more determined to explore POE 2.
New Mechanism – Dodge Roll
For players who have tried POE, there are some new ways to play in POE 2 – you can perform Dodge Roll to dodge enemy attacks. Although this does not seem to be a substantial improvement, for this large-scale MMO game, this achieves the goal of keeping players moving during the dodge process, which is a very big improvement.
Mobile Attack
Like most of the sequels released by GGG before, POE 2 has added the detail of mobile attack in addition to improving Dodge Roll. In the original game, you have to cast skills or attack while standing, but in POE 2, you will be able to attack while moving, which will greatly guarantee your chances of survival.
Most importantly, if you combine it with Dodge Roll cleverly, you will complete the battle faster in some maps suitable for farming low-level enemies, and farm POE 2 Currency a lot and experience points.
Battle Upgrade
It is worth noting that in POE 2, most of the bosses and enemies have been reworked, and their difficulty will be higher than in the original game. But don’t worry, you are not fighting alone. In each battle, there will be an intelligent AI that will let you know which attacks are currently threatening you through a lot of prompts, and can help you better defeat them.
But it should be noted that when you face a giant monster whose name is displayed in red font, the intelligent AI will not be available. But I believe that in the previous battles, you will definitely summarize a set of methods to deal with these monsters by yourself. This is your real battle. The previous intelligent AI is like helping you train.
The addition of intelligent AI makes the early battles in POE 2 easier, but the most important thing is that you can better analyze the game with its help and formulate corresponding combat strategies to better fight the final giant boss. This will also make it easier for you to get the final POE 2 Currency reward from those difficult bosses.
Couch Co-op Added
After the release of the original game, players have always wanted Couch Co-op to join. The developers also heard this demand, so they added it in POE 2. This means that everyone can explore the vast world of Wraeclast using two characters from the same account, rather than creating a separate account.
In addition to this, this new feature also allows you and your friends or family to achieve cooperative exploration goals by simply connecting two controllers. This major change will not only increase the player’s sense of experience for the game, but more importantly, it will bring the most important social function of the game to the fullest – the bond between you and your friends or family will gradually increase because you can work side by side.
By the way, this permanent new content not only makes POE 2 surpass its original work but also leaves its long-time rival Diablo 4 far behind. In Diablo 4, when you and your allies are exploring together, because you are not using the same set of equipment, there will even be a delay between you, which is very disadvantageous for some events with very strict time requirements.
Cross-Platform Play
In addition to Couch Co-op, POE 2 became a Cross-platform game in order to enhance the player’s gaming experience. Simply put, as long as you log in to the same game account on different gaming devices, you will face the same game progress.
This greatly facilitates some players who have multiple controllers, so that they don’t have to create new accounts on multiple devices and explore the game content they have experienced before from scratch, nor do they have to go through those very difficult grinding or boss encounters.
Although players have been waiting for a very long time for POE 2, please believe that POE 2 early access that will appear next week will make you feel that all the waiting is very worthwhile. In addition, the improved user interface and end game will also make you shine. I hope this brand new game will not disappoint you, and I wish you a happy game!
