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Path Of Exile 2 Keystones Leaked Could Be A Game Changer

Nov 01, 2024

During the recent Tokyo Games Show, a number of players discovered that some of the Keystones in POE 2 may have been leaked through press interviews with developers. Some of these Keystones are returning from POE 1, but have been changed considerably, while many are brand new Keystones. Here, we will talk about these potential new and returning Keystones based on this interesting information. Let’s get straight into it!

Acrobatics

Currently, Acrobatics in Path of Exile 1 are Keystones that convert your Spell Suppression into Spell Dodge. But Spell Suppression will be completely gone in POE 2 because they no longer distinguish between the types of damage dealt by monsters, which means that this Keystone will either disappear completely or become something else. However, it looks like the developers will keep it and turn it into something completely different.

A recent leak indicates that Acrobatics in Path of Exile 2 can evade all hits, and the evasion rating is reduced by 50%. But we’re not sure if the translation here is accurate, is it 50% reduced evasion rating or 50% less, which is a very important distinction.

Path Of Exile 2 Keystones Leaked Could Be A Game Changer

Currently in Path of Exile 1, being able to offset 50% reduced is pretty trivial, because it’s added to any increase you have. But if it’s 50% less evasion rating, then it will be very bad as a disadvantage, and much harder to overcome.

So what does it mean when it was mentioned earlier that all hits can be evaded? Since in POE 2, the distinction between monster spells and monster attacks will be completely removed from the game, and there will only be monster hits, any monster hit that is considered a projectile or a blow can be evaded or blocked. So this will make it easier for players to visually see what they can or can’t block or evade when they are actually playing the game. This means you can react in advance and avoid unnecessary waste of POE2 Currency.

If it’s a huge AOE falling on top of your character or rising from the ground below you, you may not dodge or block the ability, but this Keystone will do the trick. This will allow you to dodge all hits, including those AOE skills that you couldn’t dodge before. This is actually a pretty powerful keystone, but as mentioned before, it depends on whether the translation is correct.

Of course, we don’t know at this time how easy it will actually be to increase evasion rating in POE 2. In the case of Path of Exile 1, if the evasion rating is reduced like the translation says, then it’s a lot easier to calculate this disadvantage, and if it’s less, then it’s a completely different story. But it’s still an interesting keystone, and being able to dodge all hits is a cool idea.

Mind Over Matter

Next up we have Mind Over Matter. The current Mind Over Matter in POE 1 will make 40% of damage affected by mana before life. In POE 2, it looks like it will make 100% of damage affected by mana before life, and it will also reduce the Mana Regeneration rate by 50%.

Now, everyone is excited about this changed keystone in POE 2. This is because right now in Path of Exile 1, it’s basically impossible to 100% take all damage from mana before life without legacy items, while there are ways to scale different types of damage to 100%. For example, you can make lightning damage taken 100% from mana before life, but no matter what you do with non-legacy items in the current game, you can’t make all types of damage 100% from mana before life.

A lot of players are excited about this new Keystone in Path of Exile 2 in conjunction with Chaos Inoculation. Chaos Inoculation makes you immune to chaos damage and you have only one life. If you use up all your energy shield, you will only have one life. Of course, all damage is redirected to mana, so you can use these two Keystones together.

If this combination of mechanics existed in POE 1, it would be very powerful because you could do a lot of ridiculous scaling. For example, you could get a lot of extra energy shield from stacking mana, which is very powerful.

But we haven’t seen Chaos Inoculation in POE 2 yet, so they may have changed this keystone a little or a lot. So it remains to be seen whether Chaos Inoculation will make it to POE 2 in its previous state.

Also, let’s focus again on the downside, which is a 50% reduction in Mana Regeneration rate. This is actually a pretty significant downside. What’s more, in POE 2, standard non-flask-based recovery resources will have slightly lower recovery. And we don’t know yet how mana flasks will work, what kind of modifications you can make to them, and how easy they will be to obtain and maintain. So the downside of reducing the Mana Regeneration rate by 50% will actually be quite significant.

Vaal Pact

Next we have the Vaal Pact. This keystone in Path of Exile 2 will provide 100% Life Leech. This is instant, and can’t be used with life flasks, so again, back to the discussion about flasks.

Flasks are going to be very important in POE 2, no doubt, but they were very different in POE 1. Since a lot of builds, even ones that don’t stack mana, will be using flasks to restore life or mana very regularly, this keystone banning life flasks is a big deal. But at the same time it grants 100% of Life Leech to be instant, which is going to be an extremely rare start, very powerful.

Avatar Of Fire

Finally, let’s talk about Avatar of Fire, which converts 75% of non-fire damage to fire damage, and does not deal non-fire damage.

Damage Conversion in POE 2 is going to be a little different, they’re kind of going back to the original Path of Exile concept of damage conversion, where you can convert damage from one type to another, but the damage you deal only scales based on the damage type.

For example, if you convert physical damage to fire damage in POE 1, you can scale that damage with any modifiers for physical damage or fire damage. But in POE 2, that damage will only scale with modifiers for fire damage, and since it’s no longer physical damage, the damage will no longer remember its source type.

So this Keystone becomes really interesting, because it will allow you to convert any damage type you want to fire. Of course, you’ll have to be able to find the rest of the conversions somewhere else. But the idea of ​​being able to convert chaos damage to fire is really cool, since we can’t do that in POE 1 right now.

Finally, we have to emphasize that this is just a quick reminder that everything is subject to change before POE 2 is officially released. Maybe now they may not be completely correct in terms of numbers, but it’s interesting to see the concept of these Keystones. What do you think of these leaked POE 2 Keystones? Looking forward to seeing you in the game!

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