Diablo is child’s play compared to this! This league (session) is about capturing beats and at some point sacrificing them. I’ve not read much about up and coming league but it’s just even more crazy then last one! https://www.pathofexile.com/bestiary.There still 10 days to go and I’m sure a lot more information to come out.

They have been moving further and further away from Diablo style of things. While they still have acts they removed difficulties content changes enough as you are leveling up. On top of that there a little smaller things like major and minor gods.

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Some of maps i have in standard they are consumed on use.

Instead of doing rifts where you just control how hard they are here you do maps. You have to loot diffrent maps and there over hundred i want say these days. The higher the tier the harder it is the better chance at better drops. You can modify maps a bit to remove things you don't like about them. Combine lower ones to make higher tier one. It is a much more diverse system. Then there elder and shape effects which i never got into learning about that change things up even more. On top of that you can even trigger different things in them and leagues often change how maps work as well.

You still kill massive amounts of creatures looking for drops. In game currency you use to try and rolls stats, socket number, socket colors, socket links. There is not going up to vender like you do in D3 and just buying items with bloodshards or the likes.

Unlike D3 you are not lock into needing to have unique(legendary) in every slot. A good yellow item with right stats goes much further than a really bad legendary. There are no set bonus granted there are sets that are made to work well with other pieces from it.

Game knowable which I really lack goes forever and a day here. People every league create new and amazing builds to play. New gems get added, different ways of thinking how things interact or play off each other happen.

The contest itself is for hardcore only. So once you die that toon is dead and no longer in hardcore. You get to start over with whatever was left in your bank.