What changed in Path of Exile in 2021

New Core Supporter Packs were released last week, available for purchase.

Delirium has spread throughout every area of Wraeclast. The event starts at Noon December 31st PST and will run for 10 days.

Players can claim a free holiday Mystery Box by pressing 'M' in game.

New event type for 10 days starting December 31.

The Scourge mechanic will not be enabled during the Delirium Everywhere event.

A sale on Stash Tabs will be running all weekend.

Receive the Divine Demon King Portal Effect after 2 hours of accumulated watch time on any channel streaming Path of Exile on Twitch.

New Core Supporter Packs have been released, accessible by pressing 'M' in game.

Royale featuring Brutus for 1 day on December 29.

Players can redeem a free Atlantis Mystery Box by accessing the in-game shop.

Sale on a huge assortment of popular Path of Exile microtransactions including Celestial, Twilight, and more.

Every area in Path of Exile will be invaded by 5 endgame map bosses for 10 days.

New event type for 10 days starting December 24.

Receive the Malachai Portal Effect after 2 hours of accumulated watch time on Twitch during the first day of the event.

Scourge is not enabled for the Atlas Invasion and Delirium Everywhere events.

New Core Supporter Packs released earlier this week.

Players can upgrade from one Supporter Pack to another in the same series.

Royale featuring Brutus for 1 day on December 22.

Five new Supporter Packs with exclusive cosmetic microtransactions and physical items.

Details on the contents of each Supporter Pack, including points, armour packs, wings, and more.

A small update requiring a realm restart is planned for December 21st at 4pm PST during the Endless Heist event.

Addressed an issue that failed the conversion of the entire map stash tab when converting an old map without enough room.

Offering a refund option for players who bought a single map stash solely for collecting legacy maps.

Convert Maps no longer converts the current map stash in-place and instead converts as many maps as possible into the non-remove-only current series map stash.

Convert Maps now includes a progress bar and can be cancelled/resumed.

You can only change the map series if you have at least one non-remove-only map stash set to the current series.

Your first purchased map stash will always be set to the current map series and will become remove-only if the series changes and it is not empty.

Twitch Drops will be available for the first day of the Endless Heist, allowing players to earn the Temple Portal Effect.

New event type for 10 days starting December 17.

The Endless Heist Event starts at Noon December 17 (PST) and lasts for 10 days.

Zizaran's Gauntlet event for 10 days starting December 10.

Royale featuring Brutus for 1 day on December 8.

Endless Delve returns for 10 days starting December 3.

10-day Endless Delve event begins on December 3rd (PST). Registration opens 30 minutes before the event.

Cursed Supporter Pack introduced on Nexus, costs 60 USD and includes various cosmetic items.

Atziri’s Reflection will no longer be a Fated Unique and will be moved to a rare drop from Uber Atziri.

Fated Unique items will be disabled, and base Unique items will be modified to be similar to the old Fated versions.

Unique items previously exclusive to Prophecy chains or the Pale Council fight will be added to the core drop pool.

Items that grant Prophecy rewards will be updated to grant a different reward type.

Divination Cards that grant itemised prophecies will be redesigned in collaboration with their creators.

Lilly Roth will be added as a new hideout NPC, taking over divination card turn-ins and providing a gem shop.

Fated Unique Items not mentioned will have a chance to drop from any endgame map boss temporarily.

Prophecy will be removed from Path of Exile in the upcoming 3.17.0 expansion.

Silver coins, itemised Prophecies, and Pale Council fragments will be deleted from inventory and stash upon logging in after 3.17.0 launch.

Certain Fated Unique items will no longer be obtainable outside of trading in permanent leagues.

Introduction of six types of events, including three new ones never run before.

Massive discounts on most store items, ranging from 10-90% off, excluding new cosmetics from the Scourge expansion.

The 'Specials' section of the shop has been temporarily disabled due to the large number of microtransactions on sale.

Receive one free Atlantis Mystery Box when spending any amount of points in the store during the sale.

The Midnight Pact Stash Bundle can be equipped to your Stash and Guild Stash via the Hideout Cosmetics UI.

Microtransactions from the Midnight Pact Mystery Box are now available in the store.

The accompanying Midnight Pact Character Effect has been released.

Fixed a bug where Elemental Overload was not working with Totems, Traps, Mines, or the secondary projectiles of some skills such as Cremation or Molten Strike.

Fixed a bug where some modifiers were missing the Attribute tag.

Fixed a bug where Temporal Rift would have to be reactivated after logging out.

Fixed a bug where Belts with some Energy Shield and Armour modifiers could not be reforged with random modifiers, including a Defence modifier, through Harvest crafting.

Fixed a bug where, after dying, Necromantic Aegis was not applying bonuses from an Equipped Shield to your Minions instead of you.

Fixed a visual bug where '20% chance to Impale on Hit' granted by the Physical Mastery was not displayed in the Character Panel.

The Maximum Life of Non-Reaper Minions displayed in Skill tooltips is now affected by the less Maximum Life modifier from a Summoned Reaper.

Fixed a bug where The Lord's Labyrinth quest implied you were still required to complete multiple Trials of Ascendancy in Maps before being able to access the Eternal Labyrinth.

Characters that were previously able to equip a Wand and Melee Weapon at the same time have had their Wand disabled.

Fixed a bug where some Synthesis hideout decorations were not being exported to hideout template files.

Fixed a bug where the Viscera Cauldron quest item description was incorrect.

Fixed a bug where Delirium encounters in Scourged Maps with the 'Rare Scourged Monsters drop 1 additional stack of Simulacrum Splinters' modifier would cause splinters to drop at the end of the Delirium encounter.

Fixed a bug where the chance to Suppress Spell Damage per Frenzy Charge modifier on Legacy Darkray Vectors was not functioning correctly.

Fixed a bug where the Laboratory Map boss could become inaccessible if the final lever was used during a Scourge encounter.

Fixed a bug where, after dying, the Survival Secrets Unique and the Profane Chemistry Notable Passive were not causing Flasks to gain Charges.

Fixed a bug where Brands could be hidden under the floor in some areas.

Fixed 3 instance crashes.

Fixed a bug where the 'Link Skills can target Damageable Minions' Minion Defence Mastery allowed Link Skills to target Totems.

Fixed a bug where some Veiled modifiers on the Cane of Kulemak Unique were not having their magnitudes increased.

Added a 10 second Grace Period when visiting the Mine Encampment from within the Azurite Mine.

Fixed a bug where some effects on the Oblivion Toxic Rain Effect Microtransaction were ending prematurely.

Fixed a bug where Tempest Shield would have to be reactivated after logging out.

Fixed a bug where the Flask modifier which grants Immunity to Maim or Hinder for a duration if used while Maimed or Hindered was not functioning correctly.

Fixed a bug where the Blackflame Unique Ring was not granting kill credit for enemies killed by the Ignite.

Scourged items are no longer be able to generate downsides that would directly counteract their upside.

Fixed a bug where party members were sometimes unable to see the party leader's map portals in a Guild Hideout.

The damage of the exploding pods in the Stagnation Map boss fight has been reduced.

The Rank 1 Defences Crafting Bench options now have a cost of 4 Orbs of Transmutation (previously 6 Orbs of Alteration).

Scourged Maps that shift into Nightmare on reaching maximum Blood can no longer teleport you into an Incursion upon shifting out of Nightmare.

Fixed a bug where Delve darkness damage over time was slightly higher than intended at depths shallower than 1000.

Fixed a bug where the Suffix modifier that provides reduced Flask Charges gained and Flasks applied to you have increased Effect was categorised as Prefix modifier in the Crafting Bench.

Fixed a bug where the effects of the Wind Dancer Keystone Passive could be triggered from being hit by a spell.

The description of the Scourged Map modifier that shifts into Nightmare on killing a Rare or Unique Enemy has been updated to more accurately reflect its functionality.

Fixed two instance crashes.

Fixed a bug where Plague Bearer displayed the incorrect Maximum Plague Value on the Skill Bar tooltip if you had allocated the Passive Mastery that increases this Value.

Fixed a bug where Jaesyn and Maker of Mires were unable to create clones in the Hallowed Ground Unique Map.

Fixed a bug where opening a Chronicle of Atzoatl did not grant credit toward the Assist the Forsaken Masters Challenge.

Fixed a bug where Raise Spectre could sometimes raise the wrong minion.

Fixed a bug where Monsters in Nightmare could prevent discovered Hideouts from being fully cleared.

Fixed a bug where Mirage Archer Support could support Power Siphon, causing the Skill to become unusable.

The amount of Blood obtained from killing enemies in Maps with this modifier has also been increased.

Fixed a bug where party members could not interact with Zana mission portals after leaving the mission area.

Fixed a bug where Sentinels of Absolution summoned through Intuitive Link would not attack.

Fixed a bug where the Lethality Notable Passive was not affecting rain skills.

The damage of the Delve Spider Flicker Strike skill has been reduced.

Fixed a bug where the Reef Map boss could continue to spawn minions after dying.

Fixed a bug where the Stagnation Map boss could sometimes summon vines at their location, rather than their target's location.

The amount of Blood lost on Killing a Scourge Monster has been reduced to 0.4% (previously 0.5%).

The Scourged Map modifier that causes you to shift into Nightmare on reaching maximum Blood now has a slight drain of Blood over time.

Fixed a bug where the Veiled Suffix modifier on Bows which grants a percentage to Fire Damage over Time Multiplier was using two-handed values.

Fixed a bug with Energy Blade where it could delete the player's weapon if they logged out in town after activating it.

Acknowledging missed patch notes related to armour-based shields and bow craft.

We are aware of a crash with Explosive Arrow Triggering Summon Phantasms and will fix it in an upcoming patch.

Fixed a bug where the '20% chance to Avoid being Stunned' Resistance and Ailment Protection Mastery was not granting Stun Avoidance.

Fixed a common client crash occurring with Scorching Ray.

Looking at updating two Scourge Map modifiers for clarity and gameplay balance.

Fixed a client crash that occur when using Spectral Shield Throw with Vanishing Dye applied to an equipped Shield.

Fixed a bug where Watchstones could sometimes fail to drop from a Conqueror's Citadel.

Reduced the armour provided by the top end shields, but raised the average defence of other shields.

The damage of Ravenous Bloodshaper's Blood Orb and Spike Barrage skills has been decreased.

Fixed a client crash that could occur with the Automaton Divine Ire Skill Effect Microtransaction.

Quivers now have additional tiers of Damage Over Time Multiplier, and bows now use one-hand Damage Over Time Multiplier values.

Fixed a bug where the Duskdawn unique staff granted 'Critical Strikes deal no damage' instead of '120-150% increased Spell damage if you've dealt a Critical Strike recently'.

Path of Exile: Scourge will launch on consoles on October 27, 2021.

Reduced the number of Monsters with Proximity Shield that can spawn in some Scourge encounters.

Fixed a bug where players were sometimes unable to return from side areas or missions within maps.

Fixed the Scholar's Mod on Flasks from being able to incorrectly roll % Increased Charges per use instead of Reduced.

Fixed a bug where Item Filters would incorrectly assign Weapons and Jewellery a BaseDefencePercentile value of 0 rather than 100.

Fixed a bug where some Redeemer Influence Amulet Modifiers were providing reduced Mana Reservation Efficiency instead of increased.

The Tainted Mythic Orb can now unpredictably upgrade Corrupted items to Unique items even if their item level is lower than when it would normally be able to drop.

There is a bug where Ballistas used via Totem Support only have -45% damage taken instead of -80%. This will be fixed in an upcoming patch.

Fixed a client crash that could occur when entering Vaal Side Areas.

Fixed a bug where the Guardian's Challenge Divination Card sold by Zana did not have a price.

Monitoring feedback related to Scourge and discussing potential improvements.

Fixed a common client crash.

Making the sound effect and visual effect more obvious when the Blood Crucible is full.

Fixed a bug in Scourge League where the Blood Crucible could mistakenly upgrade an explicit mod on unique items.

Upon encountering a Boss in Nightmare, the drain of blood from the Crucible is now paused for 5 seconds.

The Corruption Absorbed progress bar now displays underneath items stored in the Blood Crucible.

Fixed a bug where the colour of sockets on the Skin of the Loyal Unique could be modified.

Addressing issues with Elemental Overload not working with Traps, Mines, and Totems.

Fixed a bug where Merveil, the Siren was not spawning Golden Statues.

The damage of Demon Herder's Vomit and Beam skill has been decreased.

Fixed a crash that could occur when loading hideout templates containing pets.

Fixed two instance crashes.

Fixed a bug with Nightgrip unique gloves causing the player to take more damage than intended.

Fixed a bug where remaining portals for Zana missions were closing earlier than they should.

Fixed a bug where it was not possible to open portals to a Betrayal Safehouse or the Temple of Atzoatl from within a Guild Hideout.

Fixed a bug where Zana's Fortune Favours the Brave Map Device option would fail to open a Map.

The damage of Baranite Thaumaturge's ground explosions has been decreased.

Improving the system for Standard Map conversion to handle overflowed maps better.

Fixed a bug where Mansion Contracts sold by Whakano did not have a price.

Item linking functionality will be restored and partial-realm crashes addressed in the next patch.

Path of Exile: Scourge launched with a peak player concurrency of 254,570.

Noted reports of missed balance changes related to bows and armour-based shields.

Plans to make the transformation progress bar on Scourged items visible on the Crucibles Panel.

New ocean-themed microtransactions available in the Atlantis Mystery Box.

Path of Exile: Scourge will launch on Xbox and PlayStation on October 27, 2021.

Reviewing the visibility of the Blood Crucible's resource bar when full.

Twitch Rivals tournament on October 28th with a unique boss fight twist.

Temporarily disabled chat to mitigate crashes caused by linked item packets.

The new Atlantis Mystery Box contains 38 new cosmetic effects for character customization.

Path of Exile: Scourge League launches on October 23, 2021.

The new Path of Exile expansion will be available for free on October 22nd (PDT) for PC and on October 27th (PDT) for console.

A torrent for the update is available, which is around 27GB and includes all existing client content.

Sale on extra character slots for the launch of Scourge.

The patch size for the update will be around 5.6GB on the standalone client and Steam.

Last chance to get Midnight Pact Mystery Boxes before the next Mystery Box becomes available.

Get one free Midnight Pact Mystery Box when spending any amount of points in the store, limited to one per account.

Several items including Perandus Leaguestone and various Scarabs have been removed.

First ever Path of Exile: Royale live tournament featuring content creators competing for prizes.

New divination cards added including Desperate Crusade, A Stone Perfected, and others.

Added a new base item type: Unset Amulet.

$30,000 in prizes including various cosmetic effects and microtransactions.

Added item filter support for Scourged Items and Blight Ravaged Maps.

New map tiers have been added, expanding the variety of maps available.

Added new active skill gems including Poisonous Concoction, Temporal Rift, Tornado, and others.

Introduced new stackable currency items such as Sacred Orb, Tainted Blessing, and others.

Viewers can earn Two-Legged Goat Pet and Divine Arcane Portal Effect by watching the event.

Clarified that Tornados are only affected by projectiles that can collide with enemies.

New map fragments including Xoph's Flawless Breachstone and others have been added.

A variety of changes have been made to existing Skill and Support Gems.

A range of new skills has been introduced in Path of Exile: Scourge.

Several Pantheon Souls have been renamed for clarity.

Surviving players may encounter a brutal but rewarding boss fight towards the end of the match.

Halved the number of regions in the Atlas and made each Atlas Passive Tree slightly larger.

A variety of cosmetic effects available for only 50 points or less.

Get a free Midnight Pact Mystery Box when you spend any amount of points in the store until the launch of Path of Exile: Scourge.

Path of Exile: Scourge will launch on October 22nd at noon PDT.

A livestream on October 14th (PDT) will reveal new content and features of the upcoming expansion.

Earn Dragonfly Wings by watching the livestream for 45 minutes during the event on October 14th.

It is no longer mandatory to complete any Trials of Ascendancy in maps prior to entering the Eternal Labyrinth.

The level requirement to access the Eternal Labyrinth has been raised from level 60 to level 68.

Players no longer need to complete all Trials of Ascendancy to access the Eternal Labyrinth; only one Offering to the Goddess is required.

The Offering to the Goddess can still be obtained from Trials of Ascendancy, trades, or other rewards, but has no function in the map device.

Trials of Ascendancy will now only spawn in yellow maps and higher, addressing the rarity in white maps.

Watchstones socketed in removed regions will be moved to remove-only Stash tabs.

Magic and Unique Watchstones from removed regions will be converted to other regions.

Regions Tirn's End, Lex Proxima, Lex Ejoris, and New Vastir will be removed.

Quest Watchstones from removed regions will be deleted, including applied sextants.

Atlas Passives in each region will be unallocated due to changes in Atlas Trees.

Unique maps remain completed; other maps will be marked incomplete as per league-launch rules.

Halving the number of regions to four and watchstones to sixteen for faster Atlas setup.

Maven Witness progress, favorite maps, and Conquerors’ Influences will be reset.

Completing legacy maps will complete all lower tiers but won't provide Atlas progress.

A new set of supporter packs will be revealed during the livestream to replace the Ultimatum supporter packs.

A livestream announcement for the Path of Exile: Scourge expansion will take place on October 14th.

Twitch Drops will be enabled for the livestream, allowing players to earn a set of Dragonfly Wings.

The Expedition League ends on PC on October 18th and on consoles when the 3.16 expansion goes live on October 27th.

Players need to relink their Twitch and Path of Exile accounts to be eligible for Twitch Drops due to recent issues.

Private leagues for the 3.16 expansion will become available shortly after the Expedition League ends.

The exclusive Expedition Brimmed Hat will leave the store forever when the Expedition League ends.

New mechanic allowing Evasion builds to mitigate spell damage, enhancing defense diversity.

Energy Shield provided by base types increased by up to 20%.

Major balance pass to improve core defenses, making them more effective and accessible to all characters.

Power of the Energy from Naught notable passive reduced to balance Energy Shield scaling.

Buff to Vaal Molten Shell's Armour grant and damage mitigation mechanics.

Review and adjustments to mechanics that scale off Armour and Evasion for better balance.

Determination now grants a flat bonus to Armour in addition to its existing multiplier.

Evasion is significantly buffed, and Attack Dodge is removed to enhance Evasion's effectiveness.

Armour now provides better mitigation against physical damage, reducing required values for effective defense.

New passive skills added to protect against various ailments.

Many Pantheon powers updated to better mitigate ailments.

New modifiers grant immunity to ailments during flask effect with reduced duration.

Several unique items have been updated to improve their effectiveness against ailments.

Crafting modifiers for avoiding ailments have been updated for better effectiveness.

New modifiers for various items to enhance ailment mitigation.

Aura now grants immunity to all elemental ailments and increases elemental resistances.

Buff now grants immunity to bleeding during effect.

Removed many flask effect modifiers and added impactful new ones for Life and Mana flasks.

Now grants immunity to shock.

Now grants increased effect of aura instead of chance to avoid elemental ailments.

Players can access the game for free starting October 22nd (PDT).

Exclusive livestream to reveal the Path of Exile: Scourge expansion on October 14th.

The prize pool is funded by the community and Zizaran's Event Partner, with a total of up to $25,000.

Players will earn points by leveling characters, killing bosses, and delving.

Players leveling characters to certain thresholds will be eligible for randomly-drawn prizes.

Streamers can create bounties for players achieving specific goals during the event.

Community streamer Zizaran is organizing a 10-day Class Gauntlet Event starting on Sept 11th PDT.

Live casting will occur daily on Zizaran's Twitch Channel with a detailed schedule.

The event will feature Increased Monster Damage, Monster Life, Monster Speed, and Reduced Player Resistances.

X new avatars featuring various NPCs from Wraeclast have been added to the forums.

Armour provided Physical Damage reduction even if the Transcendence Keystone was allocated.

Portals could open around the player instead of Jun in Map areas.

The 3D Art had lost some of its glow.

Filtering with a quoted search term was not working properly.

Zana would not offer another mission if portals to the previous mission failed to open.

Catarina could become stuck and fail to perform any actions.

Some sound effects, such as the gong in Oba’s Cursed Trove, were not playing.

The outer ring of the storm skill is now more discernible.

Adding an Itemised Beast to the Bestiary would not unlock relevant Beast Recipes.

The Flask Enchantment could reuse a Flask multiple times incorrectly.

Some modifier value ranges would sometimes not show on Unique Flasks.

The description now accurately reflects its functionality.

Notches have been added to gem sockets to indicate their color, corresponding to the layout of the passive skill tree.

Plans to merge splinter drops and reduce the frequency of less valuable items to improve player experience.

Feedback from players regarding defensive options for self-cast characters will be addressed.

Potential improvements to players' sources of Ailment mitigation are being considered.

Plans to declutter item drops to enhance player experience and item upgrades.

Fortify will be further nerfed to align with its intended use as a defensive tool for melee characters.

New crafting options for ailments like Shock, Chill, Ignite, Poison, and Bleed are being considered.

Working towards adding controller support to PC and mouse support for consoles.

Plans for better colourblind support and making sockets visually differentiable are in progress.

The Atlas will be reduced to four regions, requiring players to defeat 16 Conquerors instead of 32.

Plans to revisit all mods on flasks and create two mod pools for proactive and reactive use.

Ideas for new challenging content, including Uber versions of existing encounters, are being explored.

A new Hideout Competition has started, with entries closing on September 12th.

The community podcast with Chris Wilson has been rescheduled to September 2nd.

Disconnecting from an in-progress match now grants experience from your death to the players who attacked you within the last 5 seconds.

The size of the Royale Island has been increased by 50%.

The out-of-bounds debuff now stacks for every 10 seconds you stay outside of the play area.

Community streamer ThisIsBadger is hosting a team vs team private league with a cap of 600 players per team.

A JSON file has been released for tool creators to work with the Royale exclusive passive skill tree.

Fixed a bug where Divergent Boneshatter was not displaying all of its Additional Effects From Quality.

Updated the description for Blight chests to accurately reflect its functionality regarding item duplication.

Fixed a bug where the Reflected Damage from Divergent Molten Shell was not penetrating Enemy Fire Resistance.

Updated the description to clarify that it does not affect Life Recovery from Instant Leech.

Fixed a bug where Heist Trinkets causing Orbs of Transmutation to drop as Regal Orbs could also drop them as Orbs of Alchemy or Chaos Orbs.

Unwalkable terrain is no longer automatically revealed on the minimap in Expedition Logbook areas.

Updated the description on Blight Scarabs to clarify Areas contain a single Blight Encounter.

Fixed a bug where Modifiers for Breach Splinters to drop as Breachstones were not working correctly.

Fixed a bug where some Heist Rogues could get stuck in doors.

Updated the description to clarify it does not provide Intelligence for the current Encounter’s Safehouse.

Fixed two client crashes.

Fixed a visual bug where non-damaging Ailments could show the wrong effective value on players.

Fixed a bug where Heist Trinkets causing Orbs of Transmutation to drop as Orbs of Alchemy or Chaos Orbs had no effect.

Fixed a bug where some Heist Rogues were not affected by increased Job speed Modifiers.

Fixed an instance crash.

Fixed a bug where the beams in The Purifier’s arena during the second phase of the fight were not working correctly.

Fixed a bug where the beam skill used by a Maven-created clone of the Plaza Map boss would not cancel when a player entered a Conqueror arena.

Fixed a bug where Modifiers proposed to be removed by Rog were not being highlighted if Advanced Mod Descriptions Option was off.

Fixed a bug where killing Sevet Tetherein would deafen audio as if the player died.

Fixed a bug where Olroth could briefly stop using skills if taunted by a minion in the first phase of his fight.

Fixed a bug where the Passive Skill Points available button would disappear in areas where you previously died.

Opening a Map with a 'Area contains a Blight Encounter' Enchantment will no longer consume a charge of the Watchstones Modifier.

An option to stop items on the ground from rendering if they're hidden by your item filter has been added to improve performance.

Fixed a bug where you were unable to confirm a haggle with Tujen if you had clicked in the Vendor window search bar.

Added an option for propagating Supporter Pack Weapon Effects to your off-hand in the Cosmetics Panel.

Fixed a bug where Modifiers for Legion Splinters to drop as Legion Emblems could cause only a single Legion Emblem to drop.

Fixed a bug where multiple increased Quantity of Items found in this Area Zana Modifiers could be seen when viewing the Map Device.

Fixed a bug where the Soul of the Brine King Pantheon Power was not working correctly.

Community streamer ThisIsBadger organizes a team-based event with three teams competing for points.

The Expedition expansion introduces new skills and bosses to the game.

The Act 1 Brutus fight has been reimagined as part of the Expedition expansion.

Rog's offers to apply a random Quality type now apply 10-20% Quality instead of 1-20%.

Tweaked based on community feedback.

More accurately reflects the preview video.

New recipes for adding and removing specific Enchantments to Flasks.

Debuff now stacks for every 10 seconds outside the play area.

Prevents multiple of the same monster from repeatedly cursing players.

Experience from your death is granted to players who attacked you within the last 5 seconds.

Expedition bosses now drop more loot per Remnant affecting them and more currency based on area level.

Resolved for real this time.

Four entirely new types of merchants introduced in the Expedition League.

Extensive dialogue recorded for NPCs, with specific lines tailored for trading interactions.

Introduction of new bosses integrated into the Kalguuran expedition lore.

A new group of hardy adventurers from a distant continent introduced in Expedition League.

New defense type called Ward introduced for Kalguuran gear and monsters.

New trading UI for interacting with NPC merchants, designed to convey personality through dialogue.

Special factioned monsters called 'Runic' introduced, emphasizing runes in Kalguuran culture.

Damage dealt by monsters adjusted to be more consistent and less lethal.

Did not warn when full on a particular item with Affinity applied.

Number of projectiles created reduced to 3 from 4.

Could stop moving and attacking.

Could not purchase items with Control-Click.

Base attack speed multiplier increased to 80% from 70%.

Applied Malediction at incorrect curse duration percentage.

Base attack speed multiplier reduced to 90% from 100%.

Could sometimes be removed when killing monsters.

Quality now grants 0-60% reduced wave frequency instead of reduced Cast Speed.

Minibosses would be affected by Remnant modifiers incorrectly.

Quality now grants 0-20% increased Trap Throwing Speed instead of Cast Speed.

Could not be applied to Thrusting One Hand Swords.

Could not complete 'Slay the Invasion boss' mission in the Dry Sea Map.

Medved, Feller of Heroes was incorrectly classified as a Runic monster.

A random level 1 Skill Gem now drops next to each player at the start of the round.

Made Stygian, Celestial, and Automaton Necrolord Boots and Gloves more distinguishable.

Could be used with a disabled main-hand weapon.

Shown for friendly monsters on full health.

Completing the Heart of the Grove Harvest encounter for the first time now unlocks 5 extra crafting slots for all players in the area.

Not triggering the 'Used when you Use a Travel Skill' effect.

Could fail to deal damage if back was against a wall.

Added support for combining Scavenger and Overseer effects into the Midnight Pact effect.

Description was incorrect.

Would remain in the area they were summoned.

Two consume skills shared a cooldown.

Using incorrect animations when applied to Ballista Totems supporting Storm Rain.

Base attack speed multiplier reduced to 200% from 240%.

Stated it interacted with Frostbolt projectiles, but it does not.

Number of ramps has been approximately doubled, though they are slightly narrower.

The game will not restart upon re-entering the area if you died and left during it.

Both skills were too effective against other players.

Logbooks with the implicit modifier could sometimes fail to spawn Vorana.

Some monsters were not actually frozen when encased in an Essence Crystal.

Could not use Shield Crush with certain Microtransaction effects equipped.

Missing some visual effects.

Damage reduced by approximately 20% at all levels.

Could extend past the Flask User Interface.

Players can now discover recipes to convert Instilling Orbs to Enkindling Orbs and vice versa.

Could not destroy pots with some attacks.

Chance to cause bleeding in Blood Stance increased to 50% from 25%.

Final wave now deals 800% more damage with hits and ailments, previously 500%.

Reused every 2 seconds instead of correctly.

Not functioning properly when stashing items.

No longer used Leap Slam.

Base attack speed multiplier increased to 90% from 75%.

Base damage reduced by approximately 30% at all levels.

Missing the 'Trigger' gem tag.

Could only be affected by the Less Duration Support.

Upgraded power is now obtained by capturing Glace instead of Otesha.

Base attack speed multiplier increased to 85% from 70%.

Failed to spawn the correct number of Red Beasts.

Matches are now pooled per large geographic region for faster filling.

Blight's base damage over time has been reduced by 30% at all gem levels.

Ball Lightning now deals approximately 35% more damage to players.

Rain of Arrows now deals 70% of base weapon damage at level 1.

Fixed two instance crashes.

The Cloak of Defiance unique body armour no longer grants 1% of mana regenerated per second.

Firestorm's base damage has been increased by approximately 29% at all levels.

Fixed a client crash.

Monsters now drop significantly higher numbers of Skill and Support Gems.

Whirling Blades now has +1.5 seconds to attack time.

Fixed a bug where you were unable to complete the 'Defeat these Unique Monsters' challenge if you killed Innocence before The Matriarch in Act 5.

Players who disconnect from a Royale match will now leave behind a corpse, allowing their items to be looted.

The Accelerated Volley notable passive now also causes projectiles to pierce an additional time.

Cobra Lash now chains an additional time at gem level 1.

The Fated End and Doedre's Damning unique rings can no longer drop.

Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support now causes supported skills to deal 30-25% less damage.

Fixed a bug where Divine Ire was unable to hit players while channelling.

The Path to Power, Frenetic Fighter and Endless Endurance notable passives now grant 300% increased power/frenzy/endurance charge duration respectively.

Night Adders and Serpentine Constructs no longer flee from players, and grant approximately 20% more experience when killed.

Fireball's base radius has been increased by 3.

Leap Slam now has +1.2 seconds to attack time.

Fixed a bug where Medved, Feller of Heroes was not affected by Remnant modifiers.

Burning Arrow now proliferates ignites inflicted, with a radius of 15.

The amount of melee strike range granted by the Reigning Champion notable passive has been reduced from 5 to 3.

Items spawned on the ground are more likely to be Skill and Support Gems.

Fixed a bug where Logbook explicit modifiers were not applying to Expedition areas.

Fixed a visual bug where the 'Damage with Hits is Lucky' stat on the Cruel Voltage notable passive was not being displayed.

The penalty applied to experience gain for killing a lower level player has been increased.

The Veinslicer notable passive now grants 4 life for each enemy hit by your attacks.

The Spellmaster notable passive now grants 10% increased cast speed.

Fixed a bug where unusable Quicksilver Flasks could occasionally drop.

The Dance of the Offered unique boots no longer grant +50–60 to maximum mana.

Equipment drops from monsters and chests are less likely to be magic.

Killing another player now grants 500 experience plus 20% of the player's total experience (previously 200 experience plus 20%).

Ice Spear's base damage has been increased by 100% at all levels.

The mana cost of Divine Ire has been increased to 3.

The Royale-exclusive version of the 'of Ease' local attack speed modifier on weapons now has a range of 15-25%.

The flat damage component of Explosive Arrow's explosions has been reduced by 20% at all levels.

Heavy Strike now adds 4-6 melee strike range at gem levels 1-10.

Fixed a bug where the Usurper’s Penance unique helmet could not drop.

Path of Exile: Royale available to play from July 30th to August 2nd.

Announcement of the Path of Exile: Royale event featuring Twitch Rivals, with streamers competing for prizes.

$30,000 in prizes and various cosmetic effects available during the event.

Path of Exile: Expedition will launch on consoles on July 28th, 5:00PM (PDT).

Viewers can earn the Chicken Pet and Heartseeker Weapon skin by watching the event.

Added the missing affix name for the 'Chance to avoid being Stunned during Flask Effect' mod.

Fixed a bug where gaining or losing modifiers that change the effect of Freeze on you would not immediately update the effect of pre-existing freezes.

Allowed Expedition Vendor Reroll currency items to drop from Excavated Chests as well as Runic Monsters.

The Midnight Pact Mystery Box contains 38 new cosmetic effects for character customization.

Fixed a bug where the audio for player footsteps was too loud.

Fixed a bug where Unearthed Zombies could be revived by Necromancers into a broken state.

We're nerfing Goatman Leap Slams and Molten Shells in the late game.

The Reaper created by the new Summon Reaper skill gem now has better survivability at all levels.

Fixed a bug where the labels for Delve Chests and Azurite were not displaying.

Fixed a bug where Boneshatter's self hit didn't trigger when-hit events.

Fixed a bug where the art for Alternate-art Flasks was not displaying.

Fixed a bug where you could not sell items to Tane in Tane’s Laboratory.

Fixed a bug where the bleeding damage modifier on Summon Reaper wasn't applying.

Fixed a bug where some instilled flask mods could remove grace period when entering new areas.

Fixed an exploit where PvP-only characters could try to buy items from the Expedition vendors.

Fixed a bug where The Reaper would sometimes try to consume non-minions.

Fixed a bug where Divergent Eye of Winter did not have a description for its alternate quality effect.

Ailment Immunity granted by flasks is being increased from 1 second to 4 seconds.

Aquamarine Flask is being buffed from 40% to 60% freeze reduction.

Added display for quantities of Expedition Currency in vendor windows.

Fixed a bug where Skin of the Loyal was unable to roll blue sockets.

Fixed a bug where mini life bars were not shown for allies on full health.

The new Path of Exile expansion will be available for free on July 23rd (PDT) for PC and on July 28th (PDT) for console.

The Expedition League will launch on July 23rd, 1:00PM (PDT).

Last chance to get Apollyon Mystery Boxes before the next mystery box becomes available.

Promotion for Expedition Supporter Packs to gain extra points.

A torrent for the update will be available, approximately 25GB in size.

The patch size for the update will be around 8GB on the standalone client and Steam.

A sale on extra character slots is currently running for the launch.

A total of 19 new skill and support gems have been added in the Expedition update.

A variety of changes have been made to existing gems in the Expedition update.

Expedition Logbook.

Changes to item class names including 'Thrusting One Hand Sword' to 'One Hand Sword', 'Blessed Boots' to 'Fugitive Boots', and others.

Various Pantheon Souls have been renamed for clarity.

Enkindling Orb, Instilling Orb, Exotic Coinage, Scrap Metal, Burial Medallion, and various artifacts.

Earthbreaker Support, Focused Ballista Support, Behead Support.

Defiance Banner, Voltaxic Burst, Rage Vortex, Spectral Helix, Battlemage's Cry, Absolution, Ambush, Forbidden Rite, Manabond, Blade Trap, Shield Crush, Boneshatter, Summon Reaper, Explosive Concoction, Eye of Winter, Storm Rain.

The Last Supper, The Emptiness, A Sea of Blue, The Offspring, The Price of Prescience, The Mind's Eyes, Terrible Secret of Space, The Blessing of Moosh, Costly Curio, Lachrymal Necrosis, Dementophobia, Ambitious Obsession.

Runic Helm, Runic Crest, Runic Crown, Runic Greaves, Runic Sollerets, Runic Sabatons, Runic Gloves, Runic Gages, Runic Gauntlets, Gold Flask, Corundum Flask, Iron Flask.

Introduction of new maps across various tiers including Beach Map, Channel Map, Mesa Map, and many more.

Earn the Expedition Portal Effect by completing 36 challenges.

Completing challenges grants pieces of the Expedition Totem Pole Hideout decoration.

Earn the Expedition Footprints by completing 12 challenges.

Earn exclusive microtransactions by completing 40 new challenges in the Expedition League.

Earn the Expedition Weapon Effect by completing 24 challenges.

A livestream on July 15th (PDT) will reveal new content and include a live Q&A.

New supporter packs will be revealed during the 3.15 expansion announcement livestream.

Private leagues for the 3.15 expansion will become available shortly after the Ultimatum League ends.

Livestream announcement for the 3.15 expansion will take place on July 15th at 1PM PDT.

The exclusive Ultimatum Brimmed Hat will leave the store forever when the league ends.

The Ultimatum League ends on PC on July 19th and on consoles when the 3.15 expansion goes live on July 28th.

The event will feature more Meme Races for participants.

Microtransaction rewards added to the Overall Rank based Prize Pool for the new Class Ladder.

Additional points in Boss Races for characters that have died or could not finish the race objective.

Veteran community member Havoc616 will host the Havoc Blitz Event on July 10th and 11th.

Players can join the event by clicking on a Private League invite link without any qualification process.

Fixed a bug where tutorial notifications were not showing on macOS.

Added a Gameplay tab to the Options panel and tidied up the Options.

Removed the button to clear local cache to prevent accidental cache clearing, which affects performance.

Removed the 32-bit Path of Exile client due to low usage.

Fixed an instance crash.

Replaced old Performance Metrics graphs with new ones that show more information and relative load on different systems.

Fixed a visual bug that caused flickering white boxes with Celestial Toxic Rain.

Vulkan users with less than 2600mb of VRAM can no longer select High texture quality.

Added option to change the drive where the shader cache is stored for improved performance.

Added a new Gameplay tab to the Options panel and tidied up the Options.

Users can set the shader cache directory to a faster drive for improved performance.

Removed the 32-bit Path of Exile client due to low usage.

Fixed a visual bug that caused flickering white boxes with Celestial Toxic Rain.

Fixed a crash that occurred in instances.

Replaced old Performance Metrics graphs with new ones that show more information and relative load on different systems.

Vulkan users with less than 2600mb of VRAM can no longer select High texture quality.

Removed the button to clear local cache to prevent accidental cache clearing, which affects performance.

Fixed a bug where tutorial notifications were not showing on macOS.

Community streamer Zizaran is organizing a 10-day Class Gauntlet Event where players compete by leveling characters and killing bosses.

Streamers and their communities can create bounties to award players for achieving specific goals during the event.

Players will earn points based on character levels and specific boss kills, with a requirement to submit kills in the Community Racing Discord.

The event will feature a new Monster Area of Effect Mod along with other damage mods and Monster Life.

The prize pool is funded by the community and Zizaran's Event Partner, with contributions matched up to $25,000.

Leveling characters to certain thresholds will make players eligible for randomly-drawn prizes, including merchandise and microtransactions.

Community streamers Lighty and Slipperyjim8 are organizing a charity private league to raise money for AbleGamers.

Players can find specific Unique items categorized for the league's duration.

A raffle will be held for 100 Apollyon Mystery Boxes for characters that reach level 40 or above.

Players will work together to complete a Unique Stash Tab during the charity league.

Legion and Incursion passives are the clear favorites, with Contested Development entering the top five.

Harbinger, Blight, Betrayal, and Metamorph are the top five, with notable changes in usage.

Adept Tracker is the most popular choice, with significant shifts in passive popularity.

Legion passives dominate again, though there are small decreases in their overall usage.

Ritual, Harvest, Betrayal, and Essence are among the top five passives, with Harvest's popularity declining.

Blight, Breach, and Heist make up the top five passives, with some changes in popularity.

Breach holds the number one spot in Lex Proxima, with significant increases in usage compared to previous leagues.

Delirium and Perandus take the top five spots, with some passives seeing decreased usage.

Delirium is the clear front-runner, with Bestiary and Invasion also making the top five.

A community event hosted by Havoc616 featuring a Private Ultimatum League with a cash prize pool and microtransactions.

Fixed a bug where foil maps retained their foil art in certain corruption outcomes.

Fixed a bug where some skills would not move your character to be in range of a target on certain angles.

Fixed bugs that occurred when two instances of the same Vaal skill had different soul requirements.

Fixed a bug where the vendor recipe for three of the same maps could result in a legacy variant.

Fixed a bug where players were sometimes unable to use non-English characters in chat.

Fixed a common client crash.

Standardised the default cursor size between Retina and non-Retina MacOS displays.

Fixed a bug with life regeneration on the 'Inspirational' Champion Ascendancy passive skill not working.

Fixed a bug where Increased Attack and Cast Speed modifiers could not be unveiled on Quivers and Amulets.

Fixed two instance crashes.

Map boss clones created by The Maven no longer persist after the map boss dies.

Changed the Hateforge unique gloves to allow them to affect Vaal attacks used by traps and mines again.

A new 'Clear Cache' button has been added to help manage temporary storage locations.

Players still experiencing crashes after changing texture quality are recommended to switch to DX11.

Clearing cached shaders will temporarily degrade client performance as shaders are regenerated.

Community streamer, ThisIsBadger, has organised a team vs team event with points awarded for various achievements.

A crash issue when returning to hideouts is being investigated and will be addressed.

Players experiencing crashes while using Vulkan are advised to switch to 'Medium' texture quality.

Added 'Wipe Cache' button in Options to troubleshoot issues related to invalid files or large cache size.

The Path of Exile client now utilises your system's video memory more efficiently, resulting in fewer assets being visibly loaded during gameplay.

Community streamer Brittleknee has organized a Speedrunning Season open for all players, focusing on different bosses each week.

Introducing the Suffering Mirage Archer Effect for a new look for mirage archers.

Enhancements to how the game utilizes video memory to improve performance and reduce crashes.

A free Apollyon Mystery Box will be offered alongside the weekend sale when spending any amount of points in the store.

Warlord Stash Skin Bundle available to personalize your hideout.

The gloomy microtransactions from the previous Warlord Mystery Box are now available in the store.

Engine retooling to allow asynchronous loading of assets, reducing stuttering during gameplay.

Introduction of texture streaming to display low-detail versions of textures while loading.

New implementation to utilize more VRAM, reducing unnecessary unloading of assets.

Fixed a bug where Herald of Agony being supported by Arrogance could cause the summoned Agony Crawler to fail to attack.

Fixed a bug where the challenge didn't always complete when the conditions were met.

Fixed a visual bug where an incorrect amount of Voltaxic Sulphite could be shown as a reward upon completing a map.

Fixed a clipping problem with the Merchant Cloak microtransaction.

Fixed a bug where Primal Aegis wouldn't be reapplied if you died in an area.

Fixed a flickering issue with some of Sirus, Awakener of Worlds' skills.

Fixed a bug where the small 'Additional Sample Rewards' nodes could sometimes provide fewer additional samples with rewards than intended.

Fixed a bug where the Gluttony of Elements skill granted by the Blood of Corruption unique amulet wasn't healing you and nearby allies when taking elemental damage.

Fixed a bug where the Innocence Character Effect microtransaction could sometimes produce an unintended trail.

Fixed a bug where items with quality in your stash couldn't be filtered using the '+' character.

Fixed a bug where the Lightbringer Weapon Effect microtransaction wasn't applying correctly to two handed axes and maces.

Clarified that the Harvest craft which changes a unique item into a random unique weapon can also change the item into a random unique quiver.

Fixed a bug where the Ethercraft Weapon Effect microtransactions weren't correctly applying to the Steam-powered Weapon microtransaction.

Increased the size of the in-game cursor.

Fixed a bug where the Nightfall Weapon Effect microtransaction could lose its effect temporarily when used alongside the Nightfall Flame Dash microtransaction.

Fixed a bug where Tormented Spirits could possess Conquerors during their portal animation.

Fixed a visual bug where Delirium mist wasn't covering water areas in The Syndrome Encampment.

Fixed an instance crash.

Fixed a visual bug where minion life bars were slightly misaligned.

Fixed a bug where the Invisible Buff Effect microtransaction wasn't working correctly with Petrified Blood.

Fixed a bug where the Icestorm skill granted by The Whispering Ice unique staff couldn't be supported by Arcanist Brand.

Fixed a bug where the Squandered Prosperity divination card wasn't counting towards the 'Unique Map' reward criteria.

Fixed a bug where Everlasting Sacrifice could sometimes fail to trigger when reaching full energy shield.

Fixed a bug where the Vanguard Apparition Effect microtransaction was producing an unintended distortion effect.

Fixed a visual bug that could occur if you gained Fanaticism while wearing the Black Body Armour microtransaction.

Fixed a visual bug that could occur when using Crackling Lance with the Stormcaller Gloves microtransaction.

Fixed a bug where the Bleached Skull Helmet microtransaction was producing an unintended glowing eyes effect.

Fixed a bug where Tormented Spirits could possess Alva in the Temple of Atzoatl.

Developed key audio cues for the time stop mechanics in the Ultimatum league.

Designed unique sounds using slime, liquids, and various audio processing techniques.

Combined audio from the Maven boss encounter with mechanical sounds for the map device.

Created audio using real gun recordings layered with metallic impacts and explosions.

Designed varying explosion sounds based on life reserved while channeling the skill.

Implemented clear audio cues for memory game effects during the Maven fight.

Worked on around 3,800 dialogue files to enhance NPC and monster interactions.

Blended metallic swinging sounds with gore to match the visuals of the skill.

Created sounds to signal danger and urgency when stepping out of the Ultimatum ring.

The Trialmaster is voiced by David de Lautour, adding depth to the character's personality.

The Trialmaster remembers players' past records even when they switch characters, creating a personal relationship with players.

The Trialmaster, a new NPC in the Ultimatum League, challenges players on behalf of the Vaal entity known as Chaos.

These cards reward corrupted items.

Track re-added to Hideout Music Player.

Fanaticism grants reduction of all costs, not only mana costs.

Snow Cloak buff doesn't cause you to take less damage.

Working on a solution for channeling abilities being released or stopped in-between Ultimatum waves.

The description for the Inquisitor's Fanaticism ascendancy passive will be updated to specify all costs.

The Razor Dance Ultimatum Modifier is not currently enabled due to last-minute issues.

Fixed a bug where items could sometimes drop in unreachable locations in Caldera Map.

Fixed a bug where items could sometimes drop in unreachable locations in Siege Map.

Fixed a bug where Divergent Phase Run's quality stat succeeded less often than intended.

Fixed a bug where The Vaal Omnitect in Temple of Atzoatl could sometimes be unkillable.

Fixed a bug where Flameblast microtransactions could be applied to Blood Sacrament skill.

Fixed a bug where Elemental Aegis buff would not re-apply in the same area if you died.

Looking into a bug where Quivers are dropping from some sources more often than intended.

Fixed a bug where Arc would still be out of range when walking to a target to cast it.

Fixed a bug where Tormented Spirits would use their skills when inside a defeated Betrayal target.

Graphical issues fixed as of 3.14.0c; resetting the Betrayal board will fix remaining cases.

Keeping a close eye on the experience of Ultimatum encounters and their balance.

Fixed a bug where Cruelty was not being offered for purchase from Yeena for the Duelist.

Added 'Immunity to Chaos Damage' to the character sheet if Chaos Inoculation keystone is allocated.

Blood Altar no longer filters the level of beasts for the first slot; a fix is being worked on.

Working on a fix for a rare issue where some Ultimatum waves give no reward.

The Apollyon Mystery Box is now available, containing 38 new ethereal cosmetic effects for character customization.

Path of Exile: Ultimatum launches with new content and features.

Players can get one free Warlord Mystery Box when spending any amount of points in the store, limited to once per account.

A sale on extra character slots is available for the launch.

Path of Exile: Ultimatum will be available for free on April 16th (PDT) for PC and April 21 (PDT) for console.

This is the last chance to get Warlord Mystery Boxes before the next mystery box becomes available.

The realm goes down for patching at 10AM April 16 PDT.

Servers will be live at 1PM April 16 PDT.

The patch size for the update will be around 4.8GB on Steam.

Four new skill and support gems have been added to the game.

A variety of changes have been made to existing gems.

Winter's Embrace, Sambodhi's Wisdom, The Enthusiasts, and more added.

Seaglass Amulet, Grasping Mail, Blessed Boots, and more introduced.

Arrogance Support, Bloodthirst Support, Cruelty Support, and Lifetap Support introduced.

Rusted Blight Scarab, Polished Blight Scarab, and more introduced.

Exsanguinate, Corrupting Fever, Reap, and Petrified Blood introduced.

Blighted Incubator, Morphing Incubator, and Maddening Incubator introduced.

New Atlas base types added to existing filters and unique Abyss jewels filtered by rarity.

Veiled Chaos Orb, Noxious Catalyst, Accelerating Catalyst, and more introduced.

Blood Magic Support has been split into Arrogance and Lifetap Support.

Modifiers on quivers now only apply to Attacks or Bow Skills.

Skills now specify what resource they use, allowing for more specific modifiers.

The Blood Magic Support gem has been split into two separate gems for better balance.

Improved uptime and adjustments made to damaging Vaal skills.

Certain sources of Bleeding Damage have been changed to Physical Damage over Time to support new skills.

Low life, Low Mana and Low Energy Shield now count as being on 50% or below, affecting various skills and items.

Explosion chance modifiers changed to provide a chance instead of a guarantee.

Corrupted Blood now never counts as Bleeding damage, with adjusted damage consistency.

Removed bonus mission chance from Awakening objective bonuses.

Bladestorm now has a multiplier to Bleeding damage while in Blood Stance.

Sextant modifier granting increased Damage and Movement Speed per Poison removed.

Pain Reaver replaced with a new passive skill providing defensive benefits.

Hexproof modifiers no longer allow Hexes to affect the player.

Lowered and standardized the amount of Item Quantity and Rarity granted by Delirium fog.

Base life of all Harvest monsters reduced by 30-50%.

Numerical nerfs to several Cluster Jewel notables for scarce stats.

Balance passes on skills like Blade Vortex, Toxic Rain, and others.

Various changes made to Atlas Passives for better reward balance.

Completing challenges grants pieces of the Ultimatum Totem Pole Hideout decoration.

Complete 40 new challenges to earn exclusive microtransaction rewards including the Ultimatum Helmet, Pet, and Portal.

An exclusive livestream on April 8th at 1pm (PDT) will reveal new content for the upcoming expansion.

Twitch Drops will be enabled from the start of the livestream until 9pm April 8th (PDT) for all channels streaming Path of Exile.

Twitch Drops will be enabled from the start of the livestream until 9pm April 8th.

Path of Exile: Ultimatum will be available for free on April 16th for PC and April 21st for console.

New expansion Path of Exile: Ultimatum will be revealed on April 8th.

This process occurs during the Grinding Gear Games logo video upon launch and may take some time.

Owners of M1 Macs can now play Path of Exile with minimal impact on performance.

Various renderer systems have been made roughly 15-20% faster.

The ggpk file won't grow so large, so quickly, in the future.

Loading should now be quicker and you should see fewer low-resolution textures.

A competitive racing event hosted by Havoc616 with prizes for top racers over two weekends.

Community streamer Zizaran is organizing a 10-day Class Gauntlet Event starting on March 13th.

The prize pool is crowdfunded and includes various prizes for top placements and leveling achievements.

Leveling characters to certain thresholds will make players eligible for randomly-drawn prizes.

Players can join the event from March 11th on a first come, first serve basis up to 10,000 slots.

The chance of encountering a portal to the Sacred Grove in a map has been increased by 60%.

Crafts that add mods of specific types can now only be applied to non-influenced items.

Only some seeds in a patch will grant an instance of that seed's craft, reducing the overwhelming quantity of crafts.

All annulment mods and type-specific divine mods with overly-deterministic behavior have been removed.

The Heart of the Grove encounter is now a map fragment dropped from Tier 4 Harvest bosses, allowing for trading.

Selection of past mystery boxes available for purchase during the sale.

Introducing golden and shiny Sphinx Wings for Exiles, compatible with various armour sets.

Community event starting on February 27th with teams competing for prizes.

Sale on a selection of Weapon and Shield Microtransactions with discounts available.

Fixed a bug where the portal to the Map could disappear while inside The Sacred Grove in certain maps.

Fixed a bug where premade Duelist characters wouldn't have a fully allocated Passive Tree.

Fixed a visual bug where the Alternate Quality effects on the Phantasmal Spark and Anomalous Crackling Lance gems were missing description text.

Fixed a bug where the Duelist's premade character build was incorrectly named 'Whirling Blade' (now Double Strike).

Fixed a visual bug where the random variation portal options could temporarily disappear after equipping certain microtransactions.

Fixed a bug where the 'Trigger level x Warlord's Mark when you Hit a Rare or Unique Enemy' modifier was granting less Rage than intended.

Fixed a bug where Desecrate could fail to summon corpses against certain bosses when triggered by Arcanist Brand.

Fixed a bug where the Demonic Herald Effect microtransaction could cause Sentinels summoned by Herald of Purity to not use their Crusade Slam skill.

Fixed a bug where the Alternate Quality effect on the Divergent Decoy Totem skill was incorrectly regenerating 20% of life per minute instead of per second.

Fixed two instance crashes.

Clarified that Hexes applied as Auras with Blasphemy Support do not gain Doom.

Fixed a bug where the 'Strongbox Monsters have 600% increased Item Quantity' Elevated Sextant modifier was only applying 500% increased Item Quantity.

Fixed a bug where the Skill Bar User Interface Panel could sometimes fail to visually update.

Fixed a client crash that could occur when resizing the client window.

Fixed a bug with Righteous Fire where swapping socketed Support gems during the grace period could cause the skill to deal no damage.

Fixed a bug where the Oba's Cursed Trove unique map wasn't playing the gong sound effect upon reaching certain map thresholds.

Fixed a bug where certain map bosses could sometimes fail to transition to their next phase if they were frozen.

Fixed a bug where Talismans could drop without an anointment in the Distant Memories unique maps.

Sirus, Awakener of Worlds and The Shaper can no longer appear in The Sacred Grove, Temporal Incursions, Syndicate Laboratories and Conqueror arenas.

Fixed a bug in the Silo map where items could drop in an inaccessible area.

Scorching Ray now has an attack time override of 3 seconds.

Fixed a bug where you couldn't rotate while using Channelling skills if the skill was assigned to the right or middle mouse button.

Clarified that players must be Petrified by The Gorgon in Sulphur Vents Map for the Complete Encounters III challenge.

The Additional Modifiers sidebar on the Map Device has been visually updated to make it easier to see how many Sextant uses remain.

Fixed a bug where the Do Not Disturb mode wouldn't display announcements such as the Realm restarting.

Fixed a bug where the Alternate Quality effect on the Anomalous Mana Leech Support gem wasn't working correctly.

Fixed a bug where the Maven: Uncharted Realms quest could be shown earlier than intended.

Fixed a bug where Hydrospheres couldn't be Shocked or Frozen when using Elemental Hit as a Ranged skill.

Fixed a bug where the client window buttons would no longer function after attempting to import or export a Hideout.

Fixed a bug where certain monsters could be immune to damage during Ritual encounters.

Fixed a bug with Orb skills where damage would be reflected to the player if these skills were supported with Traps or Mines.

Fixed a visual bug where the 'Socketed Skills apply Fire, Cold and Lightning Exposure on Hit' modifier was only displaying the Cold Exposure modifier on the skill description.

Fixed a visual bug where the Metamorph Stash Tab could display the incorrect number of stored organs.

Added a Void Ground Hideout Decoration that can be purchased from Zana at Decoration Level 2 for 330 Favour.

Fixed a bug where premade Templar characters wouldn't be able to equip the Firestorm gem.

Fixed a bug where the camera zoom speed was much slower during the Sirus, Awakener of Worlds encounter.

Fixed a bug where Hideouts couldn't be imported or exported.

Fixed a client crash that could occur during Legion encounters.

Fixed a bug where certain monsters could re-emerge after being revived during a Ritual encounter.

A group-found race event taking place on February 27th and 28th with teams competing for points in a Private Ritual League.

Fixed a visual bug where the Conqueror tracker on the Atlas could sometimes show the incorrect amount of maps required to open portals to fight the Conqueror.

The Teleport skill used by the Forking River Map boss no longer deals damage.

Fixed a bug with the Fortify buff where the strongest source of the buff was not always prioritised.

Fixed a bug where the Spider Lair Map boss could sometimes disappear if a Ritual encounter was completed near the boss.

Fixed a visual bug where the Maven Map Device button could appear on the Map Device without being unlocked.

Fixed a bug with the Arcane Surge buff where the strongest source of the buff was not always prioritised.

Fixed a visual bug with the Doomcrow Weapon Effect's feathers being the wrong colour.

Fixed a visual bug where the passive skill information from hovering over an anointed amulet could sometimes appear larger than intended.

Fixed a bug with the Slayer's Impact ascendancy passive where the modifier wasn't working correctly.

The Stone Golem's Attack Range has been increased, and will now use its Slab Slam and Rolling Stone skills more often.

Fixed a bug with the Wave of Conviction skill where repeating the skill could result in monsters only being hit by one of the waves.

Foul Ritual encounters will now only apply Toxic Vines if you stop moving during the Ritual encounter.

Fixed a bug where the Estuary Map boss could become invisible after being revived during a Ritual encounter.

Fixed a bug where certain map bosses could sometimes fail to transition to their next phase if they were frozen.

Fixed a bug where Ballista Totems and Spell Totems were incorrectly calculating their life based on the level of the supported Skill Gem, rather than the level of their Support Gem.

Fixed a bug where the Graveyard Map bosses could become invulnerable when using Explosive Arrow.

Maps Influenced by The Shaper or The Elder can no longer be obtained as a reward for completing tiers 1-4 of The Maven's Challenge for an Atlas region.

Fixed a bug where the incorrect faction's Splinters and Emblems could be obtained from a Legion encounter.

The Repeated Water Lance skill used by the Forking River Map boss now requires the player to be within a closer radius to the boss. The boss also turns at a lower speed while using this skill.

The Monstrous Treasure prophecy can no longer activate in maps where Blood-filled Vessels are used.

Fixed a bug where the Uncharted Realms atlas passive tree wouldn't unlock correctly after defeating The Maven.

Reduced the life on Tier 4 Harvest bosses.

Fixed a bug where totems were not being counted as Allies.

Fixed a rare client crash that could occur during the Tul, Creeping Avalanche encounter.

The Whirlpool skill used by the Forking River Map boss now requires the player to be further away from the boss and persists for a shorter duration.

The Bramble Valley Map can no longer roll the Twinned modifier.

Fixed a bug where Ritual Altars couldn't be interacted with if all of the monsters that spawned inside the Ritual Circle were killed outside of it.

Fixed a client crash that could occur when using the Roc Sentinel Legion monster as a Spectre.

The Obtain Ritual Base Types challenge now requires you to exchange Tribute for 9 out of 27 Ritual Base Types.

A short grace period has been added between Elder Guardian phases.

Water Volatiles spawned in the Forking River Map boss encounter now spawn less often, deal less damage and explode with a greater delay after being touched.

Fixed a bug where certain monsters could remain stationary during Ritual encounters.

Fixed a bug where anointed amulets wouldn't hide their passive skill information when viewing their Advanced Mod Descriptions.

Fixed a common instance crash.

Fixed a bug where certain Elder-influenced monsters could be immune to damage for a short period of time after being revived during a Ritual encounter.

Fixed a bug where the chance to Dodge Spell Damage would only be calculated once for all three of the Forking River Map boss's Repeated Water Lance hits.

Fixed a bug where Blight encounters sometimes couldn't be started if they were too close to a Ritual Altar.

Fixed a bug where the Hydrosphere skill could sometimes fail to deal damage if a monster lost the Drenched debuff after a new Hydrosphere was created.

Fixed a bug where certain Conqueror-influenced monsters could be invisible during Ritual encounters.

Fixed a bug with Channelling skills not working as intended while being affected by an Echoing Shrine.

Two new hideouts, Nocturnal Hideout and Primeval Hideout, can be obtained from the Moon Temple Map and Primordial Blocks Map respectively.

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We are aware of this and are working on a fix.

We're investigating a few reports like this but don't have any updates to provide just yet.

If you have already captured 10 bosses and haven't yet received an invitation, you should receive a guaranteed invitation drop upon your next boss kill within that region.

We have a fix for this internally and will deploy it as soon as we can.

If you find a Sacred Grove that appears empty, it's most likely that you've spawned the Heart of the Grove fight. We're also working on better signalling that this is the case by adding an icon to the minimap.

We have a fix on the way.

We don't have a fix for this just yet but are working on the issue.

We have resolved many of the common causes of crashes and continue to monitor and investigate reports as they arise.

We're aware of an issue that prevents influenced monsters from displaying when they're revived in a Ritual. This is fixed internally and should be deployed in one of our next patches.

We've made some improvements to the difficulty of this fight which will be included in a future patch.

Fixed a bug where Syndicate Operatives would incorrectly run into melee range before throwing their daggers.

The Ritual Tribute counter will now be displayed at a greater radius around Ritual Altars.

Fixed a source of desync when using Chain Hook.

Fixed a bug where certain Aura microtransactions were not using the correct surge.

Fixed a bug where the Manticore Shield was missing visual effects.

Fixed a bug where The Maven would sometimes fail to use her skills correctly when witnessing a map boss encounter.

Fixed a bug where the boss arena in Lookout Map would not re-open after completing a Ritual encounter in the arena.

Fixed a bug where Vaal Arc was not chaining correctly.

Fixed a common client crash.

The High texture quality option has been re-enabled for players on the Vulkan client with 3000mb of Video RAM or less (this is not recommended, however).

Fixed a bug which required nearby Legion encounters to be completed before a Ritual encounter could be interacted with.

Animate Weapon microtransactions can now be applied to weapons animated via the Chains of Command unique body armour.

Monsters that spawn from Bitter and Glacial Rituals will now be further spread out.

Fixed a bug where the 'Attack Skills deal x% increased Damage while Dual Wielding' modifier was not working correctly.

Fixed a visual bug where Ritual candles would sometimes appear to be floating.

Fixed a bug where the quality effect on Divergent Withering Touch Support didn't work correctly.

Fixed a visual bug in Peninsula Map where certain tiles could become invisible.

Improved readability when hovering over a map on the Atlas which has a large amount of modifiers.

Fixed a bug where the Primeval Hideout could sometimes not be fully cleared.

Fixed a bug where Sirus' beam skills were not being oriented correctly.

Fixed a bug where the boss arena in Cold River Map would remain closed after completing a Conqueror encounter.

Fixed a bug where Silver Coins were not dropping as Contraband in Heists.

Fixed a bug where an incorrect amount of Rituals remaining would be displayed if re-entering an instance.

Texture streaming has been updated to lessen CPU usage and improve overall performance on weaker systems.

Fixed a bug where monsters could become inaccessible behind terrain during Ritual encounters.

Fixed a bug where The Maven's Quick Guard skill was not working as intended in areas which were level 84 or higher.

Fixed a bug where Maven's Beacon could be obtained earlier than intended when playing in a party.

Fixed a bug where the fourth Ritual in a zone would sometimes provide less Tribute than intended.

Fixed a bug where a minion that died to Minion Instability would sometimes count as two deaths.

Fixed a bug where the Ritual Tribute screen could not be opened via the 'V' shortcut key if Alva was present in the instance.

Fixed a bug where the Silo Map boss could become invulnerable while the player is being witnessed by The Maven.

Re-entering the Crimson Township Map boss arena after leaving or dying is now less punishing.

Maven's Invitations are now a guaranteed drop upon capturing the 10th boss in an Atlas region for the first time.

Legion monsters are no longer revived in Ritual encounters.

Aura microtransactions can now be applied to Aura effects granted by unique items that do not have a skill gem.

The Ritual Favours screen now displays a more appropriate message if a party member who is not the instance owner attempts to purchase Favours.

Items with anointed notable passive skills now show their passive skill information when hovered.

Improved performance during The Maven boss encounter.

Fixed a bug where certain doors in Heists could not be walked through after the doors were opened.

Fixed two instance crashes.

The Envoy's voice is delivered at a consistent volume regardless of player distance, setting him apart from other NPCs.

A new character called the Envoy has been introduced, serving as a cryptic messenger in the Echoes of the Atlas expansion.

The Envoy foreshadows the arrival of the Maven and warns players of upcoming boss encounters.

The Envoy speaks random dialogue based on player proximity, enhancing the unpredictability of his appearances.

The Envoy's lore is divided into five tiers, with new dialogue added based on the number of Atlas passives unlocked.

This occurred unless they had hit an enemy.

Increased from 1 to 10.

It now takes five minutes for a player's online status to change on the trade site API.

This was in the Map Device.

This occurred if a Ritual spawned in a pit fight.

Issue with opening the screen when Alva is in the instance.

Most problems are almost entirely fixed, still investigating some disconnection cases.

Players with 3000mb of Video RAM or less are now capped at Medium texture quality with the Vulkan client to prevent crashes.

This occurred after being healed by the Maven.

Now contains less valuable rewards.

A fix is in testing.

Different portal than expected appears.

This occurred if your Awakening Level was between 1 and 7.

The special Vaal Rituals used to offer items with a high variance of Tribute costs, now capped to never be higher than other rituals.

The Warlord Mystery Box contains 38 new brutal-looking cosmetic effects for character customization.

Players can compete to kill The Maven in the Ritual HC SSF mode for cash and microtransaction prizes.

The Maven is introduced as the newest endgame boss in the game.

A sale on extra character slots is available for launch.

The 3.13.0 expansion, Echoes of the Atlas, launches on January 15.

Cash prizes ranging from $10,000 for 1st place to $250 for 25th place, along with special prizes for first kills.

A competition event organized by Zizaran with a prize pool of $40,000USD.

Players can complete Rituals for rewards and face challenging encounters with The Maven.

Compete in the new Ritual League and earn rewards.

Last chance to purchase Twilight Mystery Boxes before the next box becomes available.

The patch size for the update will be around 13GB on the Steam client.

Full list of Atlas passives including small nodes has been added for reference.

Players can win various microtransaction bundles by killing The Maven within the first month.