The free to play online-only action RPG, Path of Exile, in development by Grinding Gear Games announced its newest content update. Scheduled for March 2nd on PC with the Xbox One version coming the following week, update version 3.2.0 Path of Exile: Bestiary, features the Bestiary Challenge League. In it, players compete to hunt and capture close to 300 of the most dangerous animals roaming Wraeclast, offering their pelts as sacrifices for the creation and augmentation of items.
Path of Exile: Bestiary highlights the following features:
- Bestiary Challenge League – Consists of about 250 regular beasts and 40 legendary
- Beastcrafting – Performing the Sacrifice by Combat at the Blood Altar allows new potent items to be augmented and created. The dozens of available recipes require different combinations of collected beasts
- New end-game foes – Depending on what sets of beasts were captured and crafted, access to difficult spirit bosses with unique item rewards may be delegated to the player
- Bestiary sets – Four new sets of items based on the spirit beasts
- Ascendancy class revamp – Newly added build options along with extensively rebalanced Ascendancy classes
- New unique items – 29 new unique items and 30 new fated unique items.
- New gems
- And more – A new quest has been added to Act Ten in addition to ongoing performance improvements
Path of Exile‘s community has more than doubled since August 2017 with over 3.5 million players having played the Path of Exile: The Fall of Oriath expansion. Game Informer Magazine named The Fall of Oriath as one of the Top 50 games of 2017. Game Informer also awarded it the top “Games as Service” title. Path of Exile launched in October 2013. Since then, the community has grown to over 13 million players. It was Gamespot’s 2013 PC Game of The Year. Just like every significant expansion, Path of Exile: Bestiary is free of charge.