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PoE 2 Last of the Druids: Skill Balance Changes

Written by

Vegard Haglund

Published

Dec 05, 2025

Category

PathOfExile


Passive Skill Tree Updates

  • Druid Expansion: Over 250 new Passive Skills added specifically for the Druid class.
  • Elemental Archon Unification: All nodes granting specific Flame, Ice, or Lightning Archons now grant generic Elemental Archon, making multi-element builds significantly easier to sustain.
  • Hollow Palm Rework: Now grants 1% more Attack Speed per 75 Evasion on Armour (previously 25) and sets Unarmed base attack time to 1.65s (buffed from 1.4s).
  • Remnant Buffs: "Remnant Attraction" cluster added. Principal Infusion and various small nodes now allow collecting Remnants from significantly further away.
  • Keystone Shifts:
    • Walker of the Wilds removed (moved to a Lineage Support).
    • Elemental Equilibrium now rotates Remnant types (e.g., Cold creates Fire remnants).
    • Crimson Assault now grants 50% more Bleeding Magnitude.

Support Gem Overhaul

  • Disabled Gems: Font of Rage and Ricochet III have been disabled.
  • Lineage Support Buffs: Xoph, Esh, Tul, and Uul-Netol supports now grant 40% of Damage as Extra Chaos (doubled from 20%).
  • New Support: Nova Projectiles II added (6 additional projectiles, 50% less damage, 8s cooldown).
  • Chain Changes: Chain I, II, and III rebalanced. Chain II now chains +2 times but deals 50% less damage.
  • Impact Shockwave: Now creates actual Aftershocks (benefiting from aftershock modifiers) and supports non-strike Wind attacks.

Skill Gem Balance & Mechanical Changes

  • New [Wind] Tag: Added to roughly 8 skills (including Tornado Shot, Twister, and Whirling Slash), enabling new synergies.
  • Physical Conversion Buffs: Many skills (Electrocuting Arrow, Glacial Cascade, Ice Shot, Lightning Arrow, etc.) now convert 80% of Physical Damage to their element (up from 50-60%).
  • Rhoa Mount QoL: Now grants 100% reduced Movement Speed penalty while using skills (you no longer slow down while attacking on the mount).
  • Summoner Updates:
    • Spectres: Base variants and endgame variants of monsters have been buffed.
    • Raise Zombie: Empowered Zombie deals significantly more damage (up to 253%).
  • Major Skill Buffs:
    • Arctic Armour: Massive damage scaling buff and 100% more Freeze Buildup.
    • Ball Lightning: Shock chance increased to 375% (was 750% "more," calculation adjusted) and damage scaling increased.
    • Lightning Warp: New behavior—if used on an enemy not yet cullable, it applies a debuff to auto-warp when they reach the cull threshold.
    • Glacial Cascade: Final burst now converts 100% Physical to Cold.

See the full patch notes from grinding gear games pathofexile.com


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