This article explores the author's initial anxiety and eventual triumph over the daunting passive skill tree in Path of Exile 2.
I admit it: I'm a coward. The first time I fired up Path of Exile 1, accidentally tabbing over to its sprawling passive skill tree filled me with an instinctual dread, like I was coming face to face with some ancestral human enemy. How could my frail, mortal mind ever hope to make sense of it? Dejected, scared, defeated, I slinked off back to more understandable videogames. I was determined not to do the same thing when I got into Path of Exile 2. I failed. Mostly.
I have to be honest, seeing the approximately 8 billion winding nodes in PoE2's passive tree was no less intimidating than seeing them in the first game. It just fits badly into my brain: What if I make a mistake? What if I embark down a road that completely stunts my character, dooming me in the long run? There are a thousand different commitments to make and they all seem vital and irreversible—the skill tree looks like a maze, and I feared that taking a wrong turn could lead me to some inescapable dead end.But I stuck at it, and I've finally overcome my hesitation. In fact, my Witch is bristling with passives, chosen gaily and without fear. Why? Because I've convinced myself that PoE2's passive skill tree isn't a maze, it's an open world.I think so, anyway. As you can probably tell, I'm a total neophyte when it comes to PoE, and it could well be the case that I actually am totally hamstringing myself with my free and easy attitude to its skill system. But by treating the level up process as one of free-ranging exploration rather than meticulous build-crafting, I've managed to finally deactivate the mental brakes that had previously stopped me from getting into the series.So I'm treating the whole thing as a process of exploration. A jaunt into the Ranger's skill tree here, a sojourn over to Sorceress there—it's all just a number-crunchy version of taking a detour into an appetising-looking cave in Skyrim on the way to a main objective, at least in my min
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