You can never have too much of a good thing, at least where character upgrades in Path of Exile 2 are concerned. The latest update for the action RPG brings another skill tree into the mix, granting you even more ways to build out your characters in Wraeclast.
This Path of Exile 2 update adds the Atlas Passive Tree as part of the Runes of Aldur, the current season's league. The tree contains 24 nodes for you to earn and then tinker with and try out as you see fit, and many of them lean toward the Expeditions that are central to the Runes of Aldur.
What you get from each node varies. Some provide a buff, others a mechanical shift or choice for how you'd like to be rewarded. An example given in a developer overview from Jonathan Rogers, Path of Exile's 2 game director, contains the possibility of either increasing how many Expedition Encounters you trigger, or finding additional Remnants.
It all comes down to what you need or value, and whether you want more passive changes or active ones. In a follow-up example, Farrow starts selling a brand spanking new currency, just to demonstrate the variability here. As is typical of Grinding Gear Games, the level of choice is almost comical, since the game's existing skill trees are vast as is.
In more anarchic changes, there are several new Orbs of Sacrifice you can earn, that trade a modifier chosen at random from an attached item for a stacked corruption. You get them by beating Atrizi, and, frankly, good luck with all that because it's a little too chaotic for my tastes.
Uniques are being scaled to your character's level, too. Ones that grant new skills will be toned down if you're at a level lower than the expected threshold, because the devs considered it a "real shame" they were gatekept by late-game requirements. "This should open up a whole bunch of builds available to play much earlier," Rogers says.
The Path of Exile 2 0.5.4 update has been rolled out. Rogers mentions it'll be the last major patch "for a while," as the next will bring further alterations. And maybe another skill tree, who knows.
