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This could have been Beta 1.8 and no one would have been able to tell.

Director of the game, Jonathan Rogers (who isn't in this video), has outright cited Elden Ring as inspiration for the design of combat for Path of Exile 2, and this video reiterates that.

For devoted exiles, this promo doesn't reveal anything new, but it is happening in front of a larger audience. I'm looking forward to more class reveals.

Path of Exile has used its own early access system multiple times before. If it's anything like the 3.0 closed beta, the most recent time this happened, they'll send waves of invitations to signed-up site users.

Biggest points from this interview

• Portals are no longer allowed in boss fights
• Default attack is an intended part of combat now. It's free, auto-scales, and can have support gems.
• If you use a skill while out of mana, you do nothing instead of doing a default attack
• Monster health bars show if your attack missed
• Monster skills aren't divided between attacks and spells anymore because the distinction isn't visually obvious. Mechanics that used to distinguish between the two don't anymore, but have still changed in other ways.
• Every change to help melee also caused redesigns of every boss and additions of new systems

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