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Five years after its initial announcement, Path of Exile 2 is finally just weeks away from its Early Access launch. Developer Grinding Gear Games released four hours of information yesterday on a streamincluding which classes you can play, the length of the campaign, and what you can do at max level in its meaty finale.

Unless you’ve invested hundreds of dollars into Path of Exile 1, you need to buy a new one. Early Access Supporter Packs to play it in early access. The base pack costs just $30 and includes store currency to purchase additional storage space, but you can also spend $460 for the “Wraeclast Supporter Liberator” pack which includes a bunch of cosmetics, a t-shirt, a hoodie and physical art. book. GGG says you can upgrade at any time and these packs will only be available for the six months it takes to complete development.

The version of the game launching on December 6 (with a preload available a few days earlier) is heavy, with three of its six campaign acts and six of the 12 classes available. The truncated story will take around 25 hours to complete, and you’ll need to do it twice to max out at level 65 for early access. You won’t repeat the same acts in the completed game (where the level cap will increase to 100), but it will roughly mimic what the journey to the end of the PoE 2 game will look like once completed.

Witch and Ranger are the two classes returning from PoE 1, and Warrior, Monk, Mercenary, and Witch are the new bloods from PoE 2. Each of them will start in a different place in the skill tree of PoE 2, which is just as gargantuan as the first. the game. And they will each have two of their three subclasses, or “ancestry,” available. People are already picking them apart on Reddit and trying to identify potential versions. I don’t need to bother with analysis; I see that the witch can become a blood mage who casts deadly spells that drain her life, and my starting class is already locked.

The late game is where things get pretty tricky if you’re not a dedicated PoE player. PoE 2 will expand on many systems in the first game, and GGG plans to bring back seasonal or league mechanics over time. A returning system is similar to “mapping” in PoE 1, but allows you to jump into a wider variety of random dungeons and boss encounters to earn permanent upgrades for your character. All of this is designed to keep you playing for hundreds of hours, even in this first version.