POE 3.2 Bestiary Challenge Rewards & Ascendancy Changes

Dianna Menefe
5 min readFeb 26, 2018

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Hey guys, we all know that Path of Exile 3.2 will come to us on March 2nd, I think many of players have got some information about the Bestiary League, but do you guys have any ideas about Bestiary Challenge Rewards and the Ascendancy Class changes? They are both important to a Path of Exile fan, which will have a giant effect on playstyle.

Within the Bestiary League, you’ve got the choice to complete 40 new challenges and produce exclusive microtransaction rewards! At 12, 24 and 36 challenges you’ll generate the Bestiary Helmet, Bestiary Wings and Bestiary Portal correspondingly. Finishing challenges also grant you bits of the Bestiary Totem Pole Hideout decoration.

Typically, GGG publishes the difficulties plus the rewards. This always puts us in an awkward situation because we do not change stuff once it has been announced, however the final week before release is really a critical period for fine-tuning and testing. GGG has made the decision to not announce the difficulties prior to the league starts, so the team has the freedom to help keep modifying the difficulties as final testing continues. This league’s challenges consume a similar format towards the ones you are acquainted with, so there shouldn’t be unpredicted surprises there.

You can try them out whenever you jump into Bestiary League on March second!

Since their release in 2016, Ascendancy Classes happen to be a well known and effective facet of Path of Exile. Basically, GGG makes small balance adjustments with time, it’s been a long time concerning would be a substantial balance pass to make certain that they are all in the same electricity, and also to address the style of ones which have proven to become less versatile than the others.

GGG love them in regards to a consistent electricity for Ascendancy Classes. GGG would like there to become 19 healthy choices, instead of people feeling like every seem to be “noob traps”.

GGG love them about class identity. GGG would like each Ascendancy Class to feel totally different from others, to ensure that players can interact with the identity of every class, and feel enticed to test others out.

When analyzing the classes according to both of these metrics, GGG realized that a couple of these were fine (effective coupled with strong identity), but the majority of the others needed some serious reworking. GGG dedicated to carrying this out in 3.2.0, and GGG is ready to inform you a few of the results.

The Assassin

The Assassin was always seen as a squishy “glass cannon” critical strike character. With time, balance adjustments dropped it of significant consideration. These alterations in 3.2.0 restore it to the initial glory, passing on some very strong choices for assassinating opponents.

The Guardian

This really is one particular class where a lot of it continues to be the same, but certain skills have obtained substantial buffs to higher achieve their set goals. Three of the five branches from the Guardian’s Ascendancy tree remain completely unchanged simply because they were extremely popular choices and achieved their purposes. Another two happen to be altered to advertise a far more active playstyle for support figures, yet still be strong selections for solo Guardian players.

The Hierophant

Another class with extensive changes, the Hierophant presently has very strong tri/quad-totem abilities without drawbacks and the opportunity to permanently sustain Arcane Surge with new bonuses. Its other branches are also buffed. This is actually the to begin several Ascendancy Classes we’re showing that presently has seven notable passives in the tree.

Ongoing Rebalance and Potential Nerfs

You’ll most likely have observed there aren’t really any direct nerfs to the above changes. This really is intentional for the time being, but will probably be addressed at later releases once GGG keeps iterating around the balance. A good example may be the Slayer, where his leech abilities are extremely strong in accordance with regular leech within the core game. GGG are discussing options for improving regular leech, later on, to ensure that his leech isn’t so effective compared.

For a few of the classes, we’ve suggestions for further directions to consider them that can lead to bigger revamps than you’ve seen here. It is really an iterative procedure that will occur over several releases.

The extensive changes produced in 3.2.0 will hopefully provide many strong new build possibilities that you should explore.

Remaining Class Reveals

GGG is planning to reveal all 19 Ascendancy Classes by mid-next-week once the 3.2. 0 Patch Notes are published. We’ll update their email list in the following paragraphs because they are proven.

The Champion

The Pathfinder

The Raider

The Chieftain

The Berserker

The Elementalist

The Deadeye

The Slayer

The Occultist

There are all I want to talk about POE 3.2 Bestiary League, really hope you guys can adapt these Ascendancy changes and get the rewards smoothly, and please remember that R4PG will keep offering POE Currency and Orbs for all you guys on the Path of Exile 3.2 version.

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Dianna Menefe

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