New Skills Coming to Path of Exile in The Bestiary Update

Posted by Richard Betts on February 24th, 2018

The Bestiary league and Hardcore Bestiary league are the upcoming challenge leagues.They will be released on March 2, 2018.

All characters and stashes will be moved to Standard league and Hardcore league respectively when the leagues end. Characters that die in the Hardcore Bestiary league are immediately moved to the permanent Standard league.

Many are referring to it as the Pokemon league, which is fairly accurate, except that you don’t battle with your beasts. Instead, you brutally sacrifice them to craft better items. Yeah, you heard that right. Now, let’s take a look at what we know so far about the upcoming Bestiary League.

New Skills
This league will be introducing three new skill gems. So far two of them have been revealed. The first of the revealed gems is Spectral Shield Throw: instead of throwing your weapon, you throw your shield. It sounds like a cool skill to use with highly defensive builds, since the damage scales off of the defenses on the shield. The big problem with it is that it never pierces, but rather shatters on impact, sending shards into nearby enemies.

The other new gem is Summon Phantasm on Kill Support. We know very little about this one so far. All we know is what the gem reads: it will cause supported skills to summon Phantasms. The Phantasms don’t last very long, but they use projectile spells. This could synergize extremely well with other minion builds depending on the damage output. It also becomes more powerful when taking into account the new Shaper helmets that allow for six link helmets. Time will tell on both of these gems.

New Items
As usual the league will come out with a bunch of new unique items. There are some related to the beast mechanic, attained from defeating ‘spirit beasts.’ They give new skills, such as the featured ‘Crab Skill.’ There are also new Fated uniques being added. What’s a Fated unique? Sometimes you get a prophecy that allows you to upgrade a specific item, and it says something like “go defeat X while having this unique in your inventory.” Once you do it, the unique upgrades. That is called a Fated unique. In this way they are updating a ton of old uniques without actually changing their base form.

Hopefully all the new ascendancies are as interesting as Berserker, because this is the thing that will truly shake up the game the most. I’m not even sure what I’m going to play yet, and I have barely a week to figure it out! More Path of Exile news please keep eyes on U4gm.com which would devote to offer amounts of cheap poe items online.