Along with three new skill gems from taoaxue's blog

To demonstrate, Wilson showed me the new Ascendancy tree for the Berserker, a Marauder Ascendancy Class. Berserkers rely on taking damage to deal more damage in turn, but the abilities offered by their old tree could easily be achieved using other skills and systems. The new tree, however, uses a special buff called Rage that is developed solely with the Berserker in mind. Now, when Berserkers kill enemies, they'll gain stacks of Rage that increases their damage, attack speed, and movement speed but also applies a constant damage-over-time effect that they'll need to counter with health potions or a leech effect. "We're not reusing Rage anywhere else in the game, so it's for the Berserker and the Berserker alone. And, where possible, the 19 other ascendancy classes have other similar systems that make them feel unique that isn't possible elsewhere in POE," Wilson says POE currency trade .

Along with three new skill gems and the usual tweaks and fixes, Bestiary is shaping up to be another massive—and exciting—update. As a dedicated player, it's wonderful and surprising to see how adeptly Grinding Gear Games has managed to pump out sizeable update after sizeable update four times a year. While Bestiary doesn't add a ton of new story content or a completely redesigned endgame like the past two updates, the league itself easily looks to be one of the most original and exciting. I mean, who doesn't love the idea of adding a little Pokémon to their action RPGs?

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Path of Exile, which just launched its Betrayal update to a massive reception, remains one of the best free-to-play games around. Steven covered the update in detail back in November—it was described as "one of the biggest changes to Path of Exile since The Fall of Oriath added six new story chapters POE currency ".

We've got a little treat for PC Gamer Club members this week. Anyone signed up to the Legendary tier gets a key for the Purple Skull Helmet while stocks last—existing members got theirs yesterday. We'll send out to new members, too, while we have them spare. The helmet is a skin that turns any piece of equipped headware into a fetching magical skull that burns purple eternally. Enjoy.