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How to Use Crucible Forges, New skills, and Unique Items in POE 3.21?

Apr 18, 2023

Path of Exile is a popular action role-playing game with regular content updates called "leagues". The Crucible league update introduces new skills, unique items, and mechanics, including upgrades through forges and changes to the skill tree.

What is the Crucible League?

POE Crucible League

Path of Exile Crucible league introduces forges in every area where players can fight for powerful passive abilities and bonuses to upgrade their weapons for more reward and POE Currency.

Upgrade Weapons

To engage with the Crucible mechanic in POE 3.21, players can simply approach a Crucible Forge and hover over it to see available weapons for an upgrade. Clicking on a weapon will bring up a skill tree for specific Crucible skills that can be unlocked.

It's important to consider which skill branches will best suit your character before committing to a path.

In POE3.21, each weapon players find or trade for will have a unique Crucible skill tree. Visiting a nearby Crucible Forge will show available skills for the selected weapon.

Players should keep an eye out for great weapons that can be further upgraded with the stacked Crucible skill tree, making them incredibly powerful and capable of dealing more damage.

In POE 3.21, selecting a passive skill node for a weapon and holding it down increases the path progress, but with the caveat of spawning more enemies that become increasingly difficult to defeat the longer the button is held.

To progress towards the chosen Crucible weapon passive node, the majority of the spawned enemies must be defeated. Players can unlock a node across multiple encounters to manage the number and toughness of enemies while still upgrading their weapon.

New Skills and Unique Items

As part of the POE 3.21, players gain access to nine new Vaal skills. These skills, previously existing in the game, now have an additional Vaal skill component that can be unleashed after collecting enough souls from monster kills.

The newly added Vaal skills include Vaal Absolution, Vaal Arctic Armour, Vaal Lightning Arrow, Vaal Reap, Vaal Animate Weapon, Vaal Domination, Vaal Ice Shot, Vaal Rejuvenation Totem, and Vaal Firestorm.

Ten new unique items have been added to the game in Path of Exile's recent update. Unique items are similar to legendary items in Diablo games, but with a key difference: they often have a mix of powerful and useful stats as well as hindering stats. In Path of Exile, these items typically come with a trade-off, making them both desirable but also requiring strategic consideration when deciding to use them.

Skill Tree Changes, Updates, and Reworks

The Crucible update for Path of Exile brings significant changes to the character tree, including a complete rework of half the existing nodes, introducing new passive skills and stats to enhance build diversity. Other improvements include Link Skills, Stun Mitigation, and Marks. These updates greatly expand and flesh out the character tree.

Both the Saboteur and Pathfinder Ascendancy classes in Path of Exile have undergone significant reworks to their Ascendancy skills in the latest update.

Related: POE 3.21: What Are Skill Gems And Links? - Beginner’s Guide

The Saboteur can now specialize in Triggered Skills and Cooldown Recovery, in addition to being able to increase the cooldown time on enemy skills. Pathfinder has also received substantial updates with skills in their Ascendancy tree that allow them to turn skills into Concoction-like abilities and consume flask charges for additional effects.

Path of Exile not only introduces new features but also keeps most of its past league mechanics in the game which players can randomly encounter or even specialize in using the Atlas skill tree.

And with the introduction of Atlas Gateways, it is even easier to navigate from one side of the Atlas skill tree to the other, allowing players to spend their skill points on precisely the type of content they want to specialize in without wasting any precious points.

While activating a gateway costs an Atlas point, it can ultimately save players a significant number of points that would have been necessary to reach it if they had invested heavily in one side of the Atlas skill tree over the other. This is a highly beneficial quality-of-life improvement for players during their endgame grind.

Old League Mechanics

In addition to introducing new features, Path of Exile has also given fresh updates to several older league mechanics, which is particularly thrilling for players who have enjoyed these leagues and their mechanics.

One of such leagues that has received an overhaul in the latest update is Breach. This reworked Breach league mechanic allows players to enter a fiery purple ring that summons Breach creatures for them to fight. As players defeat these creatures, the Breach circle gradually expands, eventually leading to more challenging enemies and desirable loot drops.

The latest update in Path of Exile has seen a revamp of the Breachstones, a key item in the existing Breach league. As players defeat enemies in a Breach, they'll collect Breachstone Splinters. These splinters can be combined into a Breachstone that can be put into the map device, allowing players to fight through Breach-specific maps and bosses.

These Breachstones have been updated with Blessings obtained from the Atlas skill tree, resulting in higher-level Breach content and better-quality loot. Additionally, the Breach encounters themselves have been improved to provide better pacing, higher monster density, and more rewards to players.

In POE 3.21, Abyss encounters have been updated to potentially drop the highly venerated Stygian Vise belts that have a socket for an Abyss Jewel, providing even stronger stats.

In the latest update of Path of Exile, completing an Abyss to receive an Abyssal depths encounter as a reward guarantees that players will always receive the more rewarding four-hole version, rather than the less-common single-hole version.

Additionally, the Atlas skill tree has been updated with improved Abyss passives to make the mechanic even more rewarding for players who specialize in it.

In POE 3.21, there are plenty of exciting changes to explore and engage with. For instance, with all these changes, players can expect an engaging and fun experience in the Crucible league, complete with the potential of unlocking powerful new passives for their weapons.

So why not try it out and see for yourself what new adventures and rewards await you in Path of Exile!

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