Suddenly you're a crazed potion-hurling alchemist.

It can only be cast when you're not holding any weapons, and it lets you throw exploding bottles with extra properties based on any elemental flasks you may have on your potion belt. Probably the most interesting new skill is Explosive Concoction, which is designed for the Pathfinder. It launches your equipped melee weapon (multiplicatively, if you use multiple projectile support gems) in a spiral outwards, bouncing off walls-a fun way to turn swords into spinning projectiles. A single large angry red circle of hurt that slows down if it doesn't instantly kill a target, letting it deal extra hits for focused DPS, or just flying through squishier packs.ДЄimed at Ascendants, the Spectral Helix skill is a quirky ability inspired by the Vaal Spectral Throw skill. Rage Vortex is a projectile built for Berserkers. The only downside is that it'll reap any other minions you have to heal itself. Stylish, fast and aggressive, it almost looks like playing alongside a bot. My personal favorite (as I tend to gravitate towards lazy pet classes) is the new Reaper summon, designed for Necromancers. There's one new attack skill designed around each of the nineteen ascendancy classes, and each one looks extremely cool. There's also a new suite of skills and spells intentionally designed to shake up Path of Exile's meta, potentially leaving popular character builds in the dust. This seems like it'd pair well with high-evasion builds, so that when you're unlucky and do catch that one big hit, it'll be greatly reduced or even nullified entirely. Working independently of armor and energy shields, wards outright negate a fixed amount of damage from one hit every few moments. Expeditions can also reward you with items with an all-new kind of defensive item: wards.

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