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Path of Exile 2's huge passive skill tree used to scare me, but now I've started treating it as 'open-world character creation' I've fallen in love with the whole thing




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...
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