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Our community is full of so much creativity that we wanted to share some great Hideout designs that we've spotted in our {LINK REMOVED}Hideout Showcase forum! Check out the video below!

If you're looking for a new Hideout or want to share your creation with the community, be sure to check out the {LINK REMOVED}Hideout Showcase Forum!



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For today's news post we've prepared pieces of concept art of some of the microtransactions released since the launch of the Scourge expansion. If you enjoy seeing the artwork of our team, make sure you take a look!

Arctic Crystal Portal Effect

Demonic Map Device

Demonic Waypoint

Direblade Armour Pack

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In the upcoming Atlas Invasion event every area in Path of Exile will be invaded by 5 endgame map bosses! The event starts at Noon December 24th PST and will be running for 10 days. For more information about the prizing check out {LINK REMOVED}this announcement or have a look at our {LINK REMOVED}event calendar.

We've seen a few people asking whether or not Scourge is an included mechanic in the Atlas Invasion and Delirium Everywhere events. We just wanted to take a moment to clarify that it isn't enabled for those events but you can co... Read more

We're continuing our latest community designed microtransaction series today by opening up a poll for you to pick which {LINK REMOVED}Epic and Dark Wing design you'd like to see. The options available in this poll are based on your {LINK REMOVED}suggestions from our most recent post in the series.

This poll will be open for one week. After this, we'll get you to decide between the top two ideas. Finally, we refine the top choice for the last few stages of this process. We can't wait to see what you decide!

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The new Core Supporter Packs are now available! Press M in game to purchase yours. These five Supporter Packs contain a lot of exclusive cosmetic microtransactions as well as tons of points to spend. In addition, the higher-tier ones include physical items, such as a choice of t-shirts, hoodies and a pack of signed Path of Exile-themed Tarot cards!

• 600 Points
• Armour Pack
• Wings
• Apparition Portal Effect
• Weapon Effect
• Supporter Forum Title
• Portrait Frame
• Extended Digital Soundtrack

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Get ready to spend the next 10 days in the company of skilled rogues as the Endless Heist Event starts at Noon December 17 (PST)! If you're interested in participating, you can find more information about this event and prizing {LINK REMOVED}here.

While we have your attention, we'd like to mention that during the Endless Heist event next week (likely on Tuesday, December 21st at 4pm PST) we'll deploy a small update which requires a realm restart.

Twitch Drops will be running for the first day of the Endless Heist, so if you're unable to play from the start, be sure to watch the action on {LINK REMOVED}... Read more

Enhance the look of your Chaos skills using the Oriath's technology with new Scientist Wither, Contagion, Blight and Bane Skill Effects! These new cosmetics replace the standard visual effects of corresponding Skill Gems with gold and red ones. All four Skill Effects are available for purchase individually and in a bundle which also includes the {LINK REMOVED}Scientist Essence Drain Effect. Check out the videos of new Scientist Skill Effects below or get yours by pressing M in game.



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The Endless Delve Event We're beginning the series of Path of Exile events with a 10-day Endless Delve on PC at noon December 3rd (PST)! Registration opens 30 minutes before the event begins.

Check out the {LINK REMOVED}full announcement to find out more about the event and its prizepool.

Cursed Supporter Pack is Available on Nexus We're happy to introduce the Cursed Supporter Pack on Nexus! This means you can support your favourite streamer and get awesome new pirate-themed cosmetic effects. If you're not familiar with how Nexus works, check out this {LINK REMOVED}... Read more

This holiday season is packed with action! Over the next five weeks, our players will challenge themselves in six types of Path of Exile events, including three new ones which we've never run before. Find out more in {LINK REMOVED}this news post and check out our trailer!

15 Years of Gears 15 years ago today, Chris, Jonathan and Erik filed the paperwork to incorporate Grinding Gear Games Limited, a studio formed entirely to create the next generation of Action RPGs: Path of Exile. We're very proud of what we have accomplished so far and as we work on defining yet another new generation of Action RPG, we wanted to thank you for being with us over the last one-and-a-half decades. It has been an amazing journey and we couldn't have done it without your support.

Massive Sale on Most of the Store This Weekend As part of celebration, this weekend we're putting most of our store's collection on sale! From Stash Tabs and Armour Sets to Skill Effects and Hideout Decorations - there is a massive assortment of cosmetic effects discounted by 10-90%! Please note that the sale excludes new cosmetics which have been released since the launch of the Scourge expansion.

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Microtransactions from the Midnight Pact Mystery Box are now available in the store! It's also still possible to combine some of the individual Scavenger and Overseer cosmetic effects into the Midnight Pact ones.

As a follow up, we've also released the accompanying Midnight Pact Character Effect and the Midnight Pact Stash Bundle. Please note that the Midnight Pact Stash Bundle can be equipped to your Stash and Guild Stash via the Hideout Cosmetics UI and are only available in your hideout which means that they will not be displayed in town instances.

Check out the Midnight Pact microtransactions by watching the videos below. You can also view the full range in the store by pressing M in game.



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We're ending 2021 with an action-packed series of Path of Exile events in December! We'll share the full announcement in just over a week but in the meantime we wanted to let you know what to expect.

We have six event types planned which begin in early December and run through to the first week of January. While you wait for the full announcement, we can confirm the event dates, duration and that Endless Delve is making a return! We'll also have several days of Path of Exile: Royale featuring Brutus, a version of Royale which made its debut during our recent Twitch Rivals tournament. Zizaran is also hosting another Gauntlet event which will be supported by us in the schedule and with bonus prizes.

Check out the schedule below. These events will all start at Noon Pacific Time.

• December 3 - Endless Delve (10 Days)
• December 8 - Royale + Brutus (1 day)
• December 10 - Zizaran's Gauntlet (10 days)
• December 17 - TBA...

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As a follow up to the {LINK REMOVED}Deepwater Concept Art we published last week, today we'd like to share pieces of the Siren concept art. Check them out if you enjoy seeing our artists' work.

The following artworks were created by Seung Gue Lee, Ryan McQuarters and Timothy Albano.







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For today's news post, our Tech Art Lead Saveun has written about using the Subsurface Refraction technology in Path of Exile. Check out the examples and find out more {LINK REMOVED}here.

From his "ACTUAL" Path of Exile trailers to his awesome Path of Exile content on Youtube, you're sure to have come across some of the many types of content produced by ItsYoji! Continuing our series of interviews with community streamers, we took a moment to chat with him about his life inside and outside of streaming.

Hi ItsYoji, thank you for taking part in the interview! For those who may not be familiar with you, can you please introduce yourself? I'm Yoji, a 34 year old gamer, dad, RPG nerd and chemist from Germany who also happens to be a legacy content creator based around Path of Exile.

When did you first get into Path of Exile? Shortly before Path of Exile released the 1.0 version a friend back during uni started bugging me to try this weird, deep, crazy difficult, complex Action RPG he recently started playing. He was relentless about it and insisted it was a game I would enjoy. Eventually I got around to try it. I started out in Hardcore, which was the p... Read more

We are in the second week of Path of Exile: Scourge and we are preparing to deploy Patch 3.16.0d which includes a variety of changes and bug fixes including a fix that will address the counteracting modifiers on Scourge Items. We will be releasing this patch tomorrow. In the meantime, we've prepared a preview of the patch notes for you.

Please note that this is a preview only and some patch notes may be added or removed before it is deployed.

3.16.0d Patch Notes

This patch contains improvements to Scourged items and maps, and fixes a variety of small- and medium-importance bugs.

Scourge Improvements

• Scourged items are no longer be able to generate downsides that would directly counteract their upside. For example, an item with "Added Physical Damage" will not be able to generate "Deal no Physical Damage" as a downside.
• The description of the Scourged Map modifier that shifts into Nightmare on ...

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The Scourge League is well and truly underway so we wanted to give you a behind the scenes look at the expansion's development! Check out some of the demonic concept art below.











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It's that spooky time of year and our Community Director, Bex, managed to drop in on a zoom meeting with Path of Exile's senior team members in the middle of brainstorming future plans for Path of Exile. She managed to get a screenshot to leak to the community before the ghosts in her internet disconnected her.

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We're just under one week from the launch of Path of Exile: Scourge and have been closely monitoring feedback ever since. We've deployed a number of hotfixes including the most recent {LINK REMOVED}3.16.0b patch and wanted to let you know what else was on our radar.

Here are the patches so far:

3.16.0 Hotfix 1

• Fixed a bug with Energy Blade where it could delete the player's weapon if they logged out in town after activating it.
• Fixed a bug with Nightgrip unique gloves causing the player to take more damage than intended.
• Fixed a bug introduced in 3.16.0 where the Duskdawn unique staff granted "Critical Strikes deal no damage" instead of "120-150% increased Spell damage if you've dealt a Critical Stri...

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We still have a limited number of {LINK REMOVED}ExileCon Mystery Bags available! We held the first {LINK REMOVED}ExileCon convention back in 2019, which gave us a great opportunity to experiment with new merchandise for Path of Exile. With the stock remaining from the event, we put together these Mystery Bags! We still have some left, so this may be your last chance to purchase merchandise from ExileCon if you were unable to attend in person!

The bags are priced at $100 USD + shipping (and sales tax if you're in New Zealand). If you want... Read more