Overview Of The Path Of Exile Skill System
Path of Exile is an old school RPG in which there are absolutely all the attributes of the genre, including crowds of monsters, isometrics and a great goal. Nearly all action RPGs had linear skill systems, so dOES Path of Exile. The skill system is broken into two different sections; passive and active. Every time you level up, you can choose a passive skill from the rather elaborate skill tree. These consist of things like increasing magical damage or your dexterity, or increasing the number of skeletons you can have summoned at a time and other passive boosts along the same lines. In Path of Exile, active skills are itemized onto "Skill Gems". These gems confer an active skill to the player when they are socketed into equipment and gain experience as the player slays enemies. Active skills, which are skills and spell that you use in combat, come in the form of gems that you can either find as normal loot or be given as a quest reward. You slot this gem into a mat...