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On the morning of Saturday November 16th (New Zealand time), we're kicking off our ExileCon convention with a livestreamed keynote presentation that will announce several large expansions such as 3.9.0 (December 2019) and 4.0.0 (approximately December 2020). This livestream will be a must-watch event for Path of Exile fans, regardless of whether they're attending the convention or not. We'll update this news post with additional information as it becomes available.

When is the Livestream?
The presentation officially starts at 10am New Zealand time on Saturday November 16th. This is early afternoon in America on Friday November 15th, and late in the evening in Europe that day. We're likely to start a pre-show with streamer speculation around an hour before the presentation officially begins.

How long will it run for?
The main keynote presentation is around an hour in length, and will be followed with other content throughout the two days (see belo... Read more

Last week we started a competition that is open to Path of Exile themed artwork, and have already seen several excellent submissions. As usual, we'll be showcasing the highlights of every week of the competition until its end. We're starting today by showing off some of the submissions we've received over the first competition week.





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Since the launch of the Blight expansion we've introduced three new microtransaction themes to the store: Miracle, Havenwood and Void Emperor. Each of these themes were created by different artists, and today we'd like to share their work on these cosmetic effects by showcasing several pieces of concept art.






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It's been four weeks since the Blight League launched and today we want to take a look at how / which Blight Oils are being used. What are the most popular Notables and Ring Enchantments? Let's take a look at statistics from the past week.

Top 20 Notable Anointments

• Alacrity
  
• Ravenous Horde
  
• Diamond Skin
  
• Beef
  
• Thief's Craft
  
• Freedom of Movement
  
• Expertise
  
• Utmost Might
  
• Aligned Spirits
  
• Death Attunement
  
• Grave Intentions
  
• Wisdom of the Glade
  
• Agility
  
• Weathered Hunter
  
• Path of the Savant
  
• Gravepact
  
• Spirit Void
  
• Depth Perception
  
• Divine Judgement
  
• Prodigal Perfection

First, let's look at what the most popular Notables are, based on what has been anoint... Read more

In Path of Exile: Blight we introduced a new NPC, Sister Cassia, whose hummings and divine power have quickly found their admirers among our community. Our narrative designer Nick has written an article about the process behind creating Cassia, which we'd like to share with you today. We hope you enjoy reading it!
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Whenever we introduce a new NPC alongside a league, I am filled with a confusing blend of excitement and dread. Sister Cassia, the NPC introduced alongside Blight, was no exception.

NPCs like Cassia have to do a lot of heavy lifting. They are often your first point of contact with the league, and are thus responsible for helping teach the league's mechanics and intricacies. But on top of that, they also have to provide a lot of context for the mechanic. It's one thing to add tower defence into Path of Exile. It's another to make it fit within the world, and to give the player a purpose to interact with it beyond t... Read more

Our players have always been surprising us with their artistic skills, and after receiving a lot of great artwork inspired by the recent Path of Exile content, we decided it's time for another fan art competition! As always, we're prepared a prize pool that includes microtransactions, T-shirts, art books and more!

Prizes Top Three Winners

• A custom forum avatar made from your submitted art
  
• A special forum badge
  
• Your choice of two Path of Exile T-shirts - (Chaos Orb, Shaper or Untainted Paradise)
  
• Signed Path of Exile Art Book
  
• Chaos Orb Keychain
  
• Brutus Art Print
  
• Your choice of Weapon Effect from the list below
  
• Your choice of Helmet Effect from the list below
  
• Your choice of Armour Set from the list below

4th and 5th Place

• Your choice of one Path of Exile T-shirt - (Chaos Orb,...

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We're now in the fourth week of the Blight League! To keep you in the loop of what the team has been working on recently, we wanted to share a preview of the upcoming 3.8.1d update that is scheduled for this week.

Please note that the patch notes listed below may not be final and are still subject to change before the patch.

Blight Improvements

• Improved the visibility of Blight Boss icons on the minimap.
  
• Progress towards the "Spend Blight Resources" challenge is now granted to all players in the area when any player builds or upgrades a Tower.
  
• You can now use the Anoint Items option when talking to Cassia without having completed the Blight Tutorial encounter. This allows players in Standard league to anoint items by talking to Cassia in a Blighted Map.
  
• Fixed a bug where you would be unable to build Towers if you had right-clicked on a Tower while holding left-click on it as well.
  
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