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The concept art has been finalised so now it's time for you to decide the ultimate community-made cyclone effect! Check out the novelty-inspired art below and vote for your favourite in the poll by clicking {LINK REMOVED}here. This poll will be open for one week.

Once the winning concept has been determined, we can begin the process of developing the microtransaction before releasing into the store at some point in the future! Thank you to everyone who participated in this process. We can't wait for you to cyclone your way through Wraeclast with even more flair.

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With development of 3.15 underway, we wanted to give the community an idea of what to expect for the timing of Path of Exile's next expansion. We're expecting to release the 3.15 expansion in mid-July, with the Ultimatum League ending roughly five days before its release. We expect to announce precise dates on approximately the 24th of June.

Once again, we're planning to announce this expansion's content via a livestream on {LINK REMOVED}http://www.twitch.tv/pathofexile like we did for 3.14. Our last livestream was a lot of fun to host, and was our best yet in terms of overall viewer numbers. We're keen to exceed that again with our next announcement. We've got a lot to show off and would love for everyone to join us!

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Our Fan Art competition ends in just a few hours and we cannot wait to see what you've come up with! In the meantime, we wanted to showcase some more of the wonderful entries we've seen so far. Check them out below!

Reply of the Atlas by {LINK REMOVED}Desadaptado2


Necromancer by {LINK REMOVED}Corvus007
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On June 4th PDT, community streamers {LINK REMOVED}Lighty and {LINK REMOVED}Slipperyjim8 are organising an exciting charity private league! The goal of the league is for players to band together to complete a Unique Stash Tab, all while raising money for {LINK REMOVED}AbleGamers, a charity that helps people with disabilities ... Read more

As mentioned last week in our {LINK REMOVED}Ultimatum Statistics post, we promised to show off a batch of Atlas Passive statistics from the current Ultimatum leagues, so let's get to it, shall we?

It's important to note that the following statistics are pulled from a dataset which includes all accounts that have at least 1 Atlas Passive allocated and are presented on an atlas-wide basis. For the sake of sorting and ordering, we're using the Standard Ultimatum league as the standard.



In what may be a surprise to some people, Breach holds the number one spot in Lex Proxima, while also holding the number thre... Read more

Our Path of Exile-themed {LINK REMOVED}Fan Art Competition is concluding in just under a week, so we just wanted to share some of the awesome entries we've received so far! Check them out below!

Torched Courts School by {LINK REMOVED}nylcostello

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On June 12th PDT, community streamer {LINK REMOVED}Zizaran is organising a 10-day Class Gauntlet Event. Racers will compete and earn points by leveling characters and killing bosses to see how all of the classes fare in some of Path of Exile's most difficult encounters. The event will take place as an Event League provided by us with the new Monster Area of Effect Mod as well as other damage mods and Monster Life. The prize pool is funded by the community and Zizaran's Event Partner.


Start Time and Information on How to Join The event will have Increased Monster Area of Effect, Monster Damage, Monster Spe... Read more

Last week we answered some of the community's Game Mechanics questions and since we couldn't cover them all we decided to answer some more! Check them out in today's news post, which you can find on our forum {LINK REMOVED}here.

Today we've gathered a variety of Ultimatum Statistics that we're excited to show you. How many Mirrors of Kalandra were generated as rewards but missed out on? We'll answer this question and more in {LINK REMOVED}today's news post!

Later on this week, we plan on deploying Patch 3.14.2 which includes a variety of fixes. To give you an idea of what to expect, we have prepared a preview of the patch notes for you!

Please note that the patch notes may be changed prior to their deployment.

• Added Increased Monster Area of Effect modifiers that can be used in Private Leagues.
• Changed the Hateforge unique gloves to allow them to affect Vaal attacks used by traps and mines again. While these mechanics bypass the intended restrictions of Vaal skills in a similar way to totems, those cases are less abusable now so we've temporarily restored the interaction between Traps, Mines, and Hateforge. This stat will return to preventing use with traps and mines again in 3.15.
• Fixed some calculation and snapshotting bugs that occurred when two instances of the same Vaal skill that had different soul requirements, which is currently possible when one is in the Triumvirate Aut...

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Following the exciting showcase of Path of Exile racing that was featured on Games Done Quick last month, community streamer Brittleknee has organised a Path of Exile Speedrunning Season that is open for anyone!

While the Speedrun Season already began on the 14th of May, it's not too late to sign up and get racing. The best part is you can sign up and join whenever you want to run, which means you can work around any commitments and choose the best time that suits you to begin!

The Community Speedrun Season is split into 6 weeks, each week focusing on a different boss or endpoint. Each event's endpoint is further from the last, allowing you to refine and develop your strategies from the weeks prior. The event is currently in Week 2 which has its focus on defeating the Vaal Oversoul, the final boss of Act 2, in the fastest time possible and ends {LINK REMOVED}... Read more

Our {LINK REMOVED}Path of Exile-themed Fan Art Competition is well underway and we have already received so many wonderful and diverse submissions that we wanted to share some with you today! Check them out below!

Jun Profile by {LINK REMOVED}Hoonium

Kitava, the Insatiable by {LINK REMOVED}... Read more

Earlier today we released {LINK REMOVED}Patch 3.14.1d which introduced a 'Clear Cache' button. We want to provide extra information about how this is best used along with an early report on the results of the patch.

The 'Clear Cache' button will clear out several temporary storage locations that Path of Exile uses for things like downloaded images and graphics shaders. After clearing cached shaders your client performance will be temporarily degraded while the client regenerates the shaders it needs. For this reason we recommend only using 'Clear Cache' as a last resort when troubleshooting a crash or other graphical problem, or if the size of the caches has become a problem.

We are monitoring the results of this patch closely and while it seems to... Read more

On May 29th and 30th, veteran community member, streamer and racer, Havoc616, will be hosting the Havoc Blast Event! Across four sessions over the two days, teams will compete for points in a Private Ultimatum League. The winners will share in a crowdfunded cash prize pool as well as microtransactions provided by us.


Schedule
Day 1 Start: May 29, 2021 04:00 AM (PDT) (Countdown is available {LINK REMOVED}here)
Day 2 Start: May 30, 2021 04:00 AM (PDT) (Countdown is available {LINK REMOVED}... Read more

We love seeing the creativity within our community and wanted to take a moment to showcase some of the incredible pieces you've shared with us recently. Check them out below!

Solaris and Lunaris by rain8owghost

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About a week ago, we asked for your questions about game mechanics to help the community understand some of the intricacies of Path of Exile! We've collected a variety of questions and have answered them on our forum {LINK REMOVED}here!

Within the next few days (possibly as early as tomorrow), we're planning to deploy Patch 3.14.1d which includes the video memory utilisation improvements that we {LINK REMOVED}discussed last week.

3.14.1d Patch Notes

• The Path of Exile client now utilises your system's video memory more efficiently, which means that assets will stay loaded for longer. For systems with sufficient video memory, this will result in significantly fewer assets being visibly loaded during gameplay.
  
• Added 'Wipe Cache' button in Options. While we clear Path of Exile's cache periodically, this button can be used on demand to attempt to troubleshoot issues that may be due to invalid files, or if the cache grows too large.

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Community streamer, ThisIsBadger, has organised an exciting team vs team event which takes place this coming weekend! Participants will be randomly split into three teams to compete for points which are awarded for cumulative team level, Boss bounties, Delve depth, Heist collections and more! Teams will be assigned 72 hours prior to the event start.



League Starts: May 21, 2021 1:00 PM PST
League Ends: May 25, 2021 1:00 PM PST

This event is open to everyone although there is a cap of 700 players per team (2100 spots in total). If you'd like to get involved, make sure you register {LINK REMOVED}... Read more

The gloomy microtransactions from the previous Warlord Mystery Box are now available in the store! It's also still possible to combine some of the individual Suffering and Misery pieces into the 'Despair' cosmetic effects.

So that you don't miss out, we wanted to let you know early that later today at 9pm (PDT) we will also be offering a free Apollyon Mystery Box alongside our weekend sale when you spend any amount of points in the store! This sale will follow the normal free mystery box rules of one box per account. More information to come in our sales news later today.

Alongside the cosmetics from the original mystery box, we are also introducing the Suffering Mirage Archer Effect, which gives your mirage archers a menacing new look; and the Warlord Stash Skin Bundle, which gives you a further way to personalise your hideout.

Please note that the Warlord Stash Skin Bundle can be equipped to your Stash and Guild Stash via the Hideout Cosmetics UI and are... Read more

In the near future, we'll be making some improvements to how Path of Exile utilises your video memory. This post explains what impact that will have on your gameplay and when to expect the patch.

Graphics cards have a certain amount of Video RAM (VRAM), which is used to hold the various assets that we are rendering for the current game scene. If you run out of VRAM while playing under DirectX 11, our default renderer, the game will still work but your frame rate will drop as it has to render assets that reside in system memory. The graphics driver would also move assets back and forth between main memory and VRAM, further slowing things down. For users without enough VRAM, performance under DirectX11 is pretty terrible.

While the Vulkan rendering API has all sorts of performance benefits, it doesn't have the default-to-system-memory fallback that was present under DirectX 11, and its default behaviour is to just crash when out of memory. When we initially released the... Read more