The interesting part about this is that individual gems controlled each component of the spell: one gem amped the fire spread, another increased its ability to penetrate enemies. Assembling the actual mechanics of your spells and abilities in this way is damn appealing. Torchlight's socketing system also let us drop gems of varied power into our weapons, but mostly to boost the damage output.


The trimmings we expect from an action-RPG will be present: Exile will have PvP, item trading, tiers of randomly-generated unique minibosses and randomly-generated indoor and outdoor terrain. Mainly I'm hoping that the game's next showing before it releases in early 2011 will reveal a more nuanced layer of "visceral combat," as Grinding Gear likes to refer to it; one ever-fresh, ever-amusing aspect of Titan Quest was the way angry centaurs would ragdoll and crumble to the ground after you bashed them (or better yet, off a cliff)--right now, Exile doesn't have that same feeling of pinballing enemies around the environment with your weapons.

Exile's stark art design is another source of joy and mild concern: I love the grim detail of the character models--my character wielded his first weapon (a long axe) more like a gardening tool than a military-made blade. That feeling of using non-pristine equipment could lend a sense of brutality to combat. I'm less confident in the way the aesthetic influenced level art: the sections we mashed through were floored with repetitive, murky floor textures. This may mean that it'll allow characters and ability effects to contrast that much more during combat, but I'm hoping Exile will work in at least one or two tonal shifts in level design. Remember the feeling of advancement you got when you transitioned from Diablo's early catacombs to its later, lava levels in hell. More of that, please.


In Wilson's own words, the specific things that Grinding Gear feel sets Path of Exile apart from its upcoming competition are that the game is played entirely online on its servers ("because of that there's a proper economy where people's items are valuable," says Wilson) and that "the gameplay is quite dark--we've tried to get a lot of horror elements in there. When [our art director] was designing the world, he put a lot of effort into making it foreboding. It's not a cartoon game for children.” If you want to buy MMoexp POE currency trade please visit https://www.mmoexp.com/Path-of-exile/Currency.html .