Path of Exile 2’s Duelist Knight Gets a Squire You Gear Yourself, War Banners, and a Chariot Charge

Grinding Gear Games has just revealed The Knight, a Duelist ascendancy coming with the class in Path of Exile 2’s Version 1.0. The showcase was a large part of this year’s ExileCon, and was highlighted with the rest of the new content coming to 1.0

You can find the full keynote presentation here:

A Knight of Wraeclast

As GGG described it on their website: “The Knight leads his followers to glory from the front lines. Charge through your enemies, inspire your allies, claim the battleground and uphold your honour.”

Alongside this, GGG also revealed several of The Knight’s skills, including how they interact with the Duelist Stances that were shown earlier in the year. As a reminder, here are the stances and how they work:

• Ready Stance – Entered by holding the button after using certain sword skills, Ready Stance amplifies various skills when its released.
• Sand Stance – Entered by stunning enemies, Sand Stance fires out damaging sand disks from the player.
• Blood Stance – Entered by using “Bloodied Blade” on parried enemies, Blood Stance causes enemies to bleed on hit.

The Skills Shown in the Presentation

Esteemed Mentor
This grants the skill: “Summon Squire”, which allows The Knight to summon a squire to his aid. The player is responsible for equipping the Squire with weapons and armor, as well as allocating which skills the Squire uses. Additionally, the Squire can use any melee weapon, so in the presentation GGG give the Squire a spear with “Bloodhunt” to enhance their Blood Stance bleeding build.

Bannerlord
This grants additional effects to your warbanners by adopting a standard from the different empires of Wraeclast. The different banners shown were:

• Maraketh Standard
• Karui Standard
• Vaal Standard
• Ezomyte Standard
• Kalguuran Standard

GGG allocated the “Vaal Standard”, which allows the warbanner to create blood-ground, but GGG explained that all the standards will have different effects.

Honourbound
This grants the skill: “Honourbound Blade”, as well as causing all the Glory you spend to generate Valor. When The Knight has collected enough Valor, they become honour-bound, causing every strike to send out “waves of justice” as GGG described it.

Glorious Entrance
This grants the skill: “Liberator’s Chariot”, which allows The Knight to charge into battle on a chariot when they have enough Glory. This chariot acts as a moving warbanner, and will place a warbanner at its location when the charge ends. Additionally, any enemy hit by the chariot will be pushed out of its way and stunned. This includes large monsters like Rares and Uniques.

The Master-At-Arms

There is much less information about the second Duelist ascendancy, The Master-At-Arms. It wasn’t showcased at ExileCon, and the only details about it is the description on Path of Exile 2‘s website:

“The Master-at-Arms has dedicated his life to his craft, becoming an expert in a thousand forms of combat. Whatever the fight, he has the skills and the weaponry to prevail.”

All together The Knight looks like an exciting new ascendancy for Path of Exile 2, with many ways to build into the Duelist’s Stances.

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