Path of Exile's next update might prevent your cursor from killing you, and it has a bunch of QoL changes that even PoE 2 doesn't have yet

A screenshot of an NPC from Path of Exile 1. A bearded man wearing a white cape with red insignias. He's also holding a rapier.

Path of Exile 2 spoiled me with all the things about it that feel like a modern videogame. Even though it's extremely similar in a lot of ways, Path of Exile 1 had me fighting against all the fussy parts of it that have gathered dust over the years.

Part of the reason developer Grinding Gear Games built PoE 2 was to update PoE 1's systems for newer players and to take some of them—like character animations—back to the original game. Both games share the same language and have been trading features back and forth, like PoE 2's asynchronous trading being ported back to PoE 1 in the last expansion.