Abyss has buffed Guardian and Shaper farming allowing them to drop a shaped 85ilvl (or 86 within the situation of shaper) base. I’d estimate this opportunity to be with 1:6 or around 16% chance. A few of the bases are super valuable and price literally several exalts such as the scepter bases that can be used for stat sticks, any rings or amulets, certain armor and weapon bases. There’s also a way for you to definitely win a lottery, like obtaining a shaped poe items for trade ring base from Chimera.
As always, these expansions are free and included in the Path of Exile actually free-to-play base game. PoE has been wholly supported by cosmetic add-ons (outside of stash stabs which I’d argue are a little gameplay related — something I can easily deal with) for the past four years. It also just recently launched on Xbox One.
It took me several years to get into Path of the Exile in earnest, but thanks to the efforts of Destructoid community member Stormworm, I was brought up to speed very quickly. As it turns out I know a lot of Path of Exile diehards, they just all think that no one plays it, and don’t bring it up in casual conversation.
People should be talking about it more though, as it’s one of the best examples of how to do a free-to-play game right at the moment, and it’s a great tribute to dungeon crawlers of old like Diablo II. You also don’t have to pay for poe currency purchase like The Fall of Oriath, which I had the ability to test this past week.
