Path of Exile News

To celebrate the launch of Keepers of the Flame, we’re hosting an Uber Boss Kill Event where Path of Exile players can compete to slay the Uber Incarnation of Dread in the Keepers HC SSF League.

[h3]Event Times and Dates[/h3]
Start: Nov 13, 2025 01:00 PM PST
End: Nov 20, 2025 01:00 PM PST

[h3]Prizes[/h3]
PC:
The first player who kills the Uber Incarnation of Dread will receive an Alienware 16X Aurora gaming laptop.

Alienware 16X Aurora Gaming Laptop

• Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 275HX, 24 cores
  
• Windows 11 Home
  
• NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5070
  
• 64 GB DDR5
  
• 2 TB SSD
  
• 16" Non-Touch QHD+
  

The top 5 players who kill the Uber Incarnation of Dread will receive a microtransaction bundle:

• Celestial Warlord Armour Pack
• Celestial Warlord Back Attachment
• Divergence Weapon Effect
• Celestial Emperor Finisher Effect
• Breach Hedron Portal
• Midnight Pact Character Effect
• Harmony Footprints Effect
• Tumbling Exalted Orb Pet

Everyone who reaches level 50 in the event will receive one guaranteed Third Edict Mystery Box.

[h3]How to Join[/h3]
At the character selection screen, there's a panel below your characters which will list the events available. You can join the event by clicking 'join'. This option becomes available 30 minutes before the event is set to begin. Your character won't be able to move until the event starts.

[h3]Rules[/h3]

• If there are operational problems with the event (like significant realm stability issues at launch), Grinding Gear Games may restart the event at any point. The way we will do this is to create a new event league and indicate that players who wish to compete in the new event must make new characters there.
  
• Placings and prize eligibility are entirely at the discretion of Grinding Gear Games.
  
• While the event being SSF reduces a lot of scope for outside help, any form of account sharing (or other breaches of the Terms of Use) will disqualify a player from receiving prizes.
  
• Grinding Gear Games Employees (past or present) are not eligible for prizes.
  
• Players who have played on the Alpha realm (when the expansion was first deployed) are not eligible for prizes.
  
• Dying or migrating your character out of the league doesn't remove prize eligibility as long as the kill occurred while in the league.
  

Good luck in the event!

It’s been almost a week since the launch of Keepers of the Flame, and our team continues to monitor community feedback. Over the past few days, we’ve deployed several hotfixes and a patch to address some of the issues players have been experiencing. In this news post, we’d like to outline what we’re currently working on.

• We are re-assessing the rewards from Breach monsters in map areas with an eye towards making the league mechanic encounters more rewarding directly, and thus more worth the time to engage with.
  
• We’re aware of the feedback regarding Hive encounters, with players frustrated by having to spend too much time destroying walls before the encounter. We’re investigating an option to allow a large number of walls to be destroyed at the start of the encounter.
  
• We have another batch of Foulborn uniques which didn’t quite make it into launch and will be going in with the next restart patch.
  
• Outside of Breach-specific changes, we are aware of feedback from players that late endgame farming strategies are currently lacking in diversity and progression. We are putting together a list of adjustments to address this, with an emphasis on making currently underperforming strategies more competitive. We are targeting next week for the release of these changes. A larger amount of changes to this area are planned for 3.28.
  

We plan to deploy some of these changes, along with additional fixes and improvements, next week. Keep an eye out on the news for the full list of changes. Thank you for your continued feedback!

Since its launch, Path of Exile: Keepers of the Flame has had a lot of exciting moments caught on camera, and we've gathered up some of the recent highlights to share with you. Check them out in today's news post on the Path of Exile website here!

The Dawn of the Hunt Mystery Box microtransactions are now available for purchase in both Path of Exile 1 and 2. If you missed getting anything from opening the Mystery Boxes, now's your chance to get it!

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Kirac's Vault Pass for the Keepers of the Flame League is also available for purchase!

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If you need more points to finish off your Dawn of the Hunt collection, check out the new Keepers of the Flame Supporter Packs. Thank you for your support!

The launch of Path of Exile: Keepers of the Flame over the weekend was one of our smoothest launches ever. Thanks to everyone who logged in to try it out!

Since the initial 3.27.0 patch, we've made seven hotfixes which addressed a variety of bug fixes, crashes, and balance changes to the new Breach mechanic. There are additional hotfixes already in the pipeline to address bugs such as the old Breach mechanic still being available in the Temple of Atzoatl, and further balance changes to the new Breach mechanic.

Hive Fortress encounters will soon be receiving some changes to make them easier to complete and less punishing if you fail.

• Ailith will create skills more frequently during Hive Fortress encounters. Note there is a maximum of 6 skill objects active at a time.
  
• Increased the internal cooldown for which Ailith can be damaged. This cooldown becomes longer the more damage she takes from an individual hit. This should help mitigate Ailith being bursted down in a few seconds.
  
• Failing a Hive or Hive Fortress encounter will now drop all the loot of the monsters you had killed up to that point. However, you will not gain any Graftblood or Wombgifts.
  
• Ranged monsters now have to be closer to Ailith in order to attack her.
  

As a reminder, week one Twitch Drops are now active, so remember to link your Twitch account to your Path of Exile account and claim your Exile's Treasurer Hideout Decoration and Breachlord's Claw Character Effect! Information on the Twitch Drops and how to link your account can be found in this news post.