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Correct, this is about what we would expect.

Wednesday NZT

I ran the patch notes so far for Synthesis through a Markov Chain text generator and wanted to share its results with you.

• Skills which involve destroying corpses now cause the new leagues.
  
• Challenge leagues are a great opportunity for a second, longer duration.
  
• The Synthesis Challenge League, you will receive the Synthesis Crown and Synthesis Crown and Synthesis Crown and Synthesis Crown and Synthesis Crown Attachment.
  
• From the 19th challenge onwards and for every third challenge after that, you will receive pieces of the ...

Most of the Development Manifesto about Synthesis balance changes is not related to Area of Effect. There is one paragraph about it though, "Some skills that had lower areas of effect than other skills without a good reason have either had their area increased, or now gain additional radius as their gems level. Combined with new options for increasing spell area of effect, this should help these skills be more enjoyable to use. You'll find new sources of increased area of effect on the passive tree for casters. (Note that we'll be giving similar bonuses to Attack skills in the future, just not in 3.6.0.)"

He's quite busy so not recently but he used to in the past. Last I heard, he's still a big fan of the game though.

Normally I'd take the opportunity to jab at Tarke but Chris on a podcast usually means "A lot more information today."

It's part of the expansion but technically it's happening now on our testing servers... (Sorry for the confusing wording!)

That's the only teaser for today but that's because Chris Wilson is going to be on Baeclast later today to discuss Path of Exile: Synthesis. If you want to check it out, tune in at twitch.tv/tarkecat - Here is a count down.

https://i.imgur.com/F55Ksmb.mp4

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