Overview
- Grinding Gear Games bills this as the first sequel league, continuing 2016’s Breach with stabilized rifts, Breach Hives, and a Vruun boss encounter.
- Players tap the Genesis Tree to grow targeted gear and currencies, feed it Graftblood from kills, and equip Grafts that embed new skills or defenses.
- Foulborn variants of uniques and currency‑like items emerge from the tree, offering mutated modifiers and higher‑tier crafting outcomes.
- Ten Bloodline Ascendancies unlock from specific endgame bosses, persist as permanent options, and can be allocated alongside a character’s main Ascendancy.
- Path of Exile 1 adopts PoE 2’s merchant‑tab system for asynchronous trading, with QoL upgrades including mass identify in towns, Atlas respecs for gold, town disenchanting, and max‑level Heist rogues.