CommunityTeam_GGG

Yesterday, we released our final {LINK REMOVED}3.20 balance manifesto that covered topics related to Curses. Today's post answers some of your questions about this manifesto.


Are you changing Bane? Bane will also have a curse penalty similar to Hextouch and Blasphemy.



Will you make Vixen's Entrapment work with Bane? No.



Will Delve keep its depth-scaling curse effect reduction? Yes.



Will the ''Less Curse Effect on Players'' modifier be removed from Temporal Chains? No.



Can you change Hexblast so that the Hex it removes isn't random? Yes, instead of removing a random Hex, Hexblast will remove the Hex with the lowest remaining duration. (i.e. whichever one would naturally ex... Read more

Our last three manifestos covered {LINK REMOVED}Jewels and Ailment Mitigation, {LINK REMOVED}the replacement of Archnemesis modifiers and {LINK REMOVED}Eldritch Altars. In today's final 3.20 manifesto, we're discussing changes to Curses (specifically, Hexes) and our goal of making their effectiveness against different rarities... Read more

This weekend, we're having a huge sale on classic microtransactions in our store! All items that are part of the sale are discounted by 50%, so make sure you look through the store for some great deals! Check out the sale by pressing the 'M' key to open the store in-game!

Not sure what to get? Check out the set below, which includes the Desert Helmet, Victorious Wings, Carnage Body Armour, Warlock Gloves and Boots, Crypt Sword, Radiant Weapon Effect and Seraph Shield, which are all part of the sale!



Short on points? Be sure to check out the Kalandra Supporter Packs, which will leave the store once the Kalandra League ends!



Our Core Supporter Packs also offe... Read more

From zany antics to hardcore racing, community streamer ds_lily's stream has it all to keep you entertained! We sat down with Lily to find out what their life is like outside of gaming, check it out!

Hi ds_lily, thank you for taking part in the interview! Please introduce yourself. Hi I'm Lily. You can find me streaming at {LINK REMOVED}https://twitch.tv/ds_lily. I usually participate in races in HCSSF, typically placing in the top 10.

When did you first get into Path of Exile? I first got into Path of Exile a little bit after its release in late 2013. Youtube recommended a video from Kripparrian, and I thought that it looked like a more modern version of games I played growing up that I enjoyed.

What one thing caught your attention in ... Read more

Yesterday, we shared a balance manifesto that outlined the upcoming changes to Eldritch Altars. Today, we're sharing a short and sweet FAQ to provide more information.

Can we get the Altar mods on the Map Mod UI? Yes, we've added this in 3.20.

Can you make Altars more readable in the heat of combat? We've discussed community feedback around this, specifically to consider options around instance-pausing, colour indicators or reward symbols. Each of these options has their own drawbacks so we won't be making any changes on this front for now. The best thing to do is to finish killing the surrounding monsters before reading the Altar.

How common are Awakened Gems from the Maven? When you kill the Maven herself, the chance of getting an Awakened Gem is quite common. The drop chance from Maven-witnessed map bosses is a lot lower than this because these fights occur more often. The goal is that they're common enough that it feels worthwhile running Maven-witne... Read more

In the Forbidden Sanctum expansion, we're making a number of changes to Eldritch Altars, specifically to their rewards, the monster packs they spawn and the incentives for rushing to map bosses before completing the rest of the map. In addition, we are adding a chance for Maven-witnessed Map Bosses to drop an Awakened Gem (inclusive of the Awakened Gems that are typically exclusive to Maven herself). The overarching aim of these changes is to try to reach a point where the choice between running Maven-witnessed Maps or Eldritch Influence Maps is closer in value while still retaining the gameplay feeling you've come to expect from Eldritch Altars.

TLDR:

• Altars no longer offer some reward types like gems, influenced items, unique items or maps.
  
• The "Basic Currency" reward has been split up into specific currency rewards. For example, they now have "Map Boss Drops Three Vaal Orbs" instead of "Map Boss Drops Three Basic Currency Items".
  ...

Read more

Can you hear it, Exile? Madness approaches in the Delirium Everywhere event, where a dense fog has taken over almost every zone!

The fog ranges randomly from 10% to 100% Delirium with the minimum and maximum level of Delirium scaling with the level of the zone. This way, some lower level encounters won't be impossibly difficult and higher level encounters won't be incredibly easy. This has all the usual effects — monsters getting buffed, new monsters spawning, reward bars filling with kills, and Simulacrum splinters dropping. To avoid spam-refreshing areas being the best strategy, each area always has the same Delirium percentage, and Delirium reward types are randomised each time they drop.

Delirium Everywhere starts on all platforms at 12pm November 21st (PST). It will end at 12pm November 28th (PST).

In comparison to the last time we ran a Delirium Everywhere event, we've reduced the amount of Delirium that can be applied to zones earlier in the campaign a... Read more

There have been a lot of questions about the upcoming new system for monster mods that was announced in {LINK REMOVED}yesterday's balance manifesto. In today's post, we're providing answers to some of the most frequently asked questions.

Since the mods are simplified and separated, does that mean rare monsters will now have more mods on average to compensate? How many mods can a rare monster have now? We're currently playtesting the new monster mod system to determine this. At the moment it's 2-4, but this may change as we continue to iterate.

Will the modifiers' effects be made more intense to compensate for their simplification? These are new mods that have similar themes to old ones, but have new balance values. In many cases these are the sam... Read more

Path of Exile 3.20 Expansion Livestream

The details of our fourth expansion of this year will be revealed at 11AM December 1st (PST) at {LINK REMOVED}http://twitch.tv/pathofexile!

In the livestream you'll learn all about the new challenge league and other content of the expansion. As usual, after the livestream, Chris Wilson will answer your burning questions live in a Q&A session with ZiggyD.

Twitch Drops will be enabled for the livestream. We'll announce the reward in a few days. Co-streaming is welcomed!

Path of Exile's Expansion Launch Date

You'll ... Read more

In our upcoming 3.20 expansion, Archnemesis will be replaced with a system that is more similar to the way monster mods worked in the past.

The issues that players often had with Archnemesis were:

• The keyworded mod names were not fully descriptive of what they did
  
• The mods often had multiple effects bundled which made them harder to understand
  
• Due to how many effects were included in a single mod, it made too many encounters too complex
  
• The way Archnemesis rewards were set up meant that many players felt like they couldn't just kill a monster, they had to consider if they wanted to bring a magic find character in to maximise rewards

The goals of the new system are:

• Mods do one specific thing
  
• Mods say what they do rather than having a thematic name you must learn and remember
  
• Encounters are simplified on average while retaining interesting f...

Read more

Yesterday, we shared our plans regarding {LINK REMOVED}upcoming changes to Jewels which prompted some questions. In today's post, we've collected some of these questions and their answers.

Can you give us some examples of the numbers on the ailment mitigation modifiers on Jewels? Regular Jewels can roll up to 35% Reduced Duration or Reduced Effect. Abyss Jewels can roll up to 50% Ailment Avoidance.

Will the new Jewel modifiers or existing Jewel modifiers have modifier tiers? No, regular Jewel modifiers do not have tiers. Abyss Jewel modifiers already had tiers, we've just buffed the modifier values on them that benefit ailment mitigation.

Are you removing any corrupted implicit modifiers on Jewels? No

Is the corrupted mod po... Read more

In our upcoming 3.20 expansion, we're making a number of balance changes that we'll present over several balance manifestos that each cover an individual topic. In today's manifesto, we're discussing changes to Jewels, most notably increasing their potential for ailment mitigation.

Problem:
Jewels have modifiers that provide various forms of ailment avoidance or protection. However, because their current values are moderately low, you often need to stack several Jewels in order to have adequate levels of protection. We feel that this is an excessive amount of investment for how necessary ailment mitigation is to a character's build. This issue has been exacerbated by some of these mods being gated behind corruption, making them more expensive and difficult to acquire.

Solution:
We're expanding the pool of mods available on magic and rare Jewels and are making their modifier values more generous so that players have better access to sources of a... Read more

Get your flares and dynamite ready, it's almost time to go down into the darkness in our upcoming Endless Delve event! In Endless Delve, you will begin the event in the Mine Encampment and cannot leave the Mine. All you can do is Delve. All sulphite costs have been removed, and the Mine scales from level 1 instead of its usual scaling.

Endless Delve starts on all platforms at 12pm November 14th (PST). It will end at 12pm November 21st (PST).

In this iteration of the Endless Delve event, winners will be based on players that reach depth 600 first, rather than the deepest depth at the end of the event. Tons of prizes are up for grabs, including a guaranteed Kalandra Mystery Box for reaching level 50!
Please note: You are limited to two guaranteed Kalandra Mystery Boxes across all events, i.e. if you've already gotten your Mystery Box in Mayhem, you can only get one more Mystery Box between Endless Delve or Delirium Everywhere. Also, if this is your second Kalandr... Read more

Continuing on with our streamer interview series, we took a moment to get to know more about Subtractem! His streams are insightful and entertaining and he also creates great Path of Exile content on his YouTube channel. Check out the interview in today's post!

Hi Subtractem, thank you for taking part in the interview! Please introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Adam and I primarily stream Path of Exile at {LINK REMOVED}http://twitch.tv/subtractem. I worked in the game industry for over two decades and have competed in different genres of games across the spectrum. I had an offer to go pro in Warcraft 3 many years ago but got a real job instead, regrettably.

I do lots of educational focused content and grind ranked in some games once in a while when the co... Read more

News about our upcoming 3.20 expansion is imminent! In the next couple of weeks, we'll be revealing the expansion's name, launch date, announcement date and we'll post five balance manifestos, each of which cover various topics.

Starting early next week, we'll be starting to post each balance manifesto one by one, usually with at least a day between each manifesto to make time for processing the information that's shared. Each manifesto will cover one topic in depth to provide insight into our thoughts and reasoning behind each change.

To give you an idea of what to expect, we're planning to cover these topics:

• Jewels and Ailment Mitigation
  
• Curses
  
• Eldritch Altar Revamp
  
• Archnemesis
  
• Plus potentially a fifth post about other changes if needed at the time

This list isn't a fully comprehensive list of all topics that are being reviewed in our development, just those we pl... Read more

Our community continues to impress us with their creativity, so today we'd like to share some of their amazing work! Check it out in today's news post!

Great Maven by yyunona via Reddit


Pixel Exalted Orb by ... Read more

Our Mayhem event started over the weekend and it has been absolute chaos! We've gathered a few clips from Twitch to give you a taste of what's going on. Check them out on our forum {LINK REMOVED}here!

Mayhem ends at 12pm November 14th (PST). This means you still have a week to join the event! For more information about Mayhem or our other upcoming events, check out the events thread {LINK REMOVED}here.

Best of luck to those participating!

As soon as the Kalandra League ends, both the Lake of Kalandra Supporter Packs and the current Kirac's Vault Pass will permanently leave the store. Be sure to pick them up before they make way for their next series!

When the Kalandra League ends in a few weeks, the current items available in Kirac's Vault Pass will be sealed away forever and replaced with new, exclusive cosmetic effects alongside the launch of our next expansion. The cosmetics in the pass for consoles will be replaced alongside our next expansion's console launch. Check out the unique item skins in the video below or get your Pass in-game by pressing M to open the store.



We'll be announcing the new Supporter Packs that will be replacing the Lake of Kalandra Supporter Packs in our next livestream announcement. We'll be posting information about t... Read more

This weekend, the first of our November events begins! Mayhem pits players against a classic Path of Exile league modifier in each zone, along with a couple extra randomised difficulty modifiers. Tons of prizes are up for grabs, including a guaranteed Kalandra Mystery Box for reaching level 50!

For more information about Mayhem or our other Events for November, check out {LINK REMOVED}this thread. To join the event, log into the game and in the bottom right of the character select screen, click "Join" next to the version of the event you want to participate in.

Want to keep track of who's on top? The ladders for each version of the Mayhem event can be found below:

• {LINK REMOVED}...

Read more