Give people the ability to transform into a bear and they will do anything in their power to avoid reverting back to their flimsy human form. This is the core fantasy of playing a druid in any RPG, and it's something the Path of Exile 2 developers learned at the least opportune time when polishing up its version of the archetype for its next major update .

"So funny story about that," Path of Exile 2's co-creative director Jonathan Rogers said when I asked if the druid's animal forms—bear, wolf, and wyvern—could dodge roll and sprint like everyone else. Originally, they couldn't, he said. When you press the button, you'd always swap back to a human.

During alpha testing, however, nobody was a fan of that. "We had so much negativity around the fact that you couldn't dodge roll as an anima

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