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Will There Be Three New Weapon Types In Path Of Exile 2?

Jul 06, 2023

We’re going to be discussing Path of Exile 2 and more specifically the weapon types in Path of Exile 2. And I think this is one of the features and possibly one of the huge overhauls that is a kind of flying under the radar at the moment.

There’s a lot of discussion around the 19 new ascendancy classes and all the new gem socket system. But weapon types in Path of Exile 2 might end up playing a huge role in future Build Craft far more so than they do in the current game. Why is this?

Will There Be Three New Weapon Types In Path Of Exile 2?

New Weapon Abilities

We know that Path of Exile 2 will bring two brand new weapon types to the game: the crossbow and the spear. These have already been shown off within the gameplay walkthrough of Act 2 in the Vastiri Desert.

Also, we know that these new weapon types will each come with their own new skills attached to the weapon base itself. Crossbows will grant an attack skill. The one shown off in the walkthrough was Power Shot, which Chris described as a high damage single target ability.

Path Of Exile 2 Power Shot Crossbow

But it’s likely that there will be different variations of crossbows with other skill options too. Because the crossbow base itself in this walkthrough was called Power Shot Crossbow. The crossbow itself can be loaded with bolt skill gems, which will augment the attack ability. We know of three bolt types: Permafrost, Incendiary, and Armor Piercing.

Meanwhile, for the other confirmed weapon type - the spear, Chris Wilson mentioned that this new weapon class favored mobility with both melee and ranged attack options. And each spear will grant at least one mobility skill.

The spear shown off in the gameplay walkthrough granted both an engage and a disengage ability. The engage ability moves the character a short distance and grants a melee damage bonus for a short duration thereafter, while the disengage ability makes the character move backwards whilst throwing spear projectiles in the direction that they came from.

Also Read: New Skills Will Hit Path Of Exile 2 - Definite Info & Some Speculation

Full System Overhaul?

These new weapon types with the potential of augmented abilities are likely to play a huge role in Build Craft. And it seems that the choice of weapon in every build will become a lot more important.

It doesn’t stop with the new weapon types. Because in the same gameplay walkthrough, Chris went on to say that “we’re ensuring that each weapon type has unique and different mechanics, each weapon class feels different to play”. This would suggest that all the existing weapon types are being overhauled too, or perhaps some weapon types will be going away permanently in favor of others.

War sorts of mechanics could we see on other weapon classes. It’s an interesting prospect that some of the more bland Implicit Modifiers that we currently have on some of the weapon types, like chance, domain, or generic stats might be replaced with brand new abilities.

Imagine new guard skill options attached to Shields or throwing knife abilities on Daggers. And these may not even be limited to abilities, either. We could even see interesting stats like some of the new masteries have, which won’t appear anywhere else in the game, to help them feel unique and special.

What about the sheer amount of weapon types in the game? Are there too many to allow a new system like this to flourish without the unique appeal of each weapon class being diminished by a similar option on another weapon type?

Third New Weapon Type?

There are a lot of weapon types in Path of Exile. And it’s definitely possible that some older weapon types will be gone from the game when Path of Exile 2 finally rolls around. Of course, if you are interested in new weapons, you’d better prepare sufficient POE Currency. Only in this way can you easily acquire and upgrade them.

But I think it’s actually quite likely that the crossbow and the spear won’t be the only new weapon types coming to the game. You see, the brand new Path of Exile 2 logo, which was unveiled for the first time during the teaser shown at the Summer Games Fest last month, has some very interesting symbols on it.

Can I just say that this logo is absolutely incredible, specially the animation of this seed of corruption creature in the middle and the detail of the logo itself? This is a work of art all on its own.

Path Of Exile 2 Logo

On the left of this logo, we have the Innocent Symbol with Solaris, Eternal Sun just above it and Innocence just below it. And on the right of this logo, we have the Sin Symbol with Lunaris, Eternal Moon above it. And then, at the bottom of this logo, we have the Goddess of Justice along with some bone piles.

But I think the interesting symbols are actually the three, which appear at the top of the logo. Because I think these are representations of weapons. In particular, I think these are the three new weapon types that are coming to the game in Path of Exile 2. We have two which we already know about: on the left, there is a crossbow symbol; in the middle, there is a symbol, which looks a lot like a spearhead.

However, what’s the one on the right? Is this the third new weapon type? What sort of weapon type might this represent? Could this be a Warblade like the ones used by Demon Hunters or something similar to a Moonglaive, like the ones used by Night Elves in the WarCraft universe?

Or, perhaps, this could be a focus of a new offhand weapon type with distinct mechanics to set itself apart from Shields and other offhand weapons? Or, is this symbol a representation of another new pole arm weapon? This could be just the end of the weapon shown in the symbol, like the spearhead next to it.

There are a lot of possibilities. But I do think we’re looking at a third new weapon type here.

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