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I wasn't going to get into *Path of Exile* this league. I had a brief look on release-day, thought the new Expedition mechanics were simple yet still enjoyable, but I wasn't overly interested in actually playing.

Then my partner started playing. He was interested in trying out a new summoner build, and loved it so much that he poked and prodded me for ages, "Play this. Be a summoner. We can annihilate maps with our minions!"

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So, I sighed. And opened up the game again. And didn't really feel it until about level 60 where suddenly I really liked my minions and I was desperate to get the stupid story over and done with so I could focus on end-game.

This is a giant pet peeve I have with *Path of Exile*, I mean, apart from the tiny inventory. (Would still, totally, throw a  bunch of actual money at the microtransaction store if they gave me more inventory space.)

I want an adventure mode!

I'm sick of doing the story over and over and over and over and over. I'm sure others are too.

## **Adventure mode!!!!!!!!!!!**

Hell, the maps, heists, everything, would be perfect. Find random passive skill points/respec points whilst killing things to make up for the quest rewards. It'll be fine.

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At the moment I've just finished Act 10 and the tiny 'epilogue.' FINALLY. I can finally do the proper, actually enjoyable things in the game. And this is what I want to be running, when I find the correct socketed gear.
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#### In my future 6-socket weapon and 6-socket chestpiece there shall be:
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**Summon Raging Spirits**: *spell echo, multistrike, melee splash, melee physical damage, empower.*

**Raise Skeletons**: *feeding frenzy, melee splash, brutality, minion damage, melee physical damage.*
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#### And in my future 4-socket everything-else there shall be:
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**Raise Spectre**: *(I'm  not too sure just yet. My current spectres are the bare-breasted zombie ladies who shoot their nipples. I have meat shield on them so they're more defensive, but not sure about the other 2 gems just yet.)*

**Raise Zombies**: *Melee physical damage, melee splash, multistrike.*

**Stone Golem**: *Life leech, fortify* -- -- -- **Dash**: *that's it. Just for escapability.*

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I haven't really looked at the minion related uniques and gem possibilities yet, but I just found this unique helm that makes my minions a bit beefier. So I played with the sockets and got 1 blue and 3 red and that's now where my stone golem lives.

I'm currently level 75 and I've caught up to my partner at his level of 77, and now we can do maps and all that stuff together! Hooray!

It's time to annihilate all the things with our army of minions.

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We were going to get right into this (and *No Man's Sky*) in our wait for *New World* to be released... but, apparently it's been delayed, again.

I'm all for developers taking feedback into account and polishing their game based on the view of their players. But it's an MMO. A genre of game that gets updated, that has things change, **all the time!**

And I'm impatient. 😅

So, for the time being, I guess I'll try to keep my attention on other things instead of the wait.

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<CENTER><h4>Until next time,</h4></CENTER>
<CENTER><h2>Thanks for stopping by. 😊</h2></CENTER>

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<CENTER><sub>All screenshots in this post are courtesy of me, @kaelci, and are from the game: <em>Path of Exile.</em></sub></CENTER>