Path of Exile News

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Path of Exile 3.21 Expansion Livestream

The details of our 3.21 expansion will be revealed on March 30th at 12PM (PDT) at twitch.tv/pathofexile!

In the livestream you'll learn all about the new challenge league and other content of the expansion. 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 be able to play the Crucible expansion for free on April 7th (PDT) on PC and Mac and on April 12th (PDT) on Xbox and PlayStation.

We are very excited to show you what we've been working on!

Tomorrow, we'll reveal the name of our 3.21 expansion. As the first glimpse of an upcoming expansion, these reveals are always incredibly exciting for us. Here are some of our favourite name reveals of the past!

[h2]Sentinel[/h2]
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[h2]The Forbidden Sanctum[/h2]
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[h2]Scourge[/h2]
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[h2]Siege of the Atlas[/h2]
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[h2]Lake of Kalandra[/h2]
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We can't wait to share tomorrow's reveal with you!

The second of our March 2023 events and our first ever Asynchronous Group SSF event is now live! Join your fellow exiles in the Friendly Fire Group SSF event, just make sure you're careful where (and who) you attack! This event is only available on PC. If you're curious about the rest of March's events, you can find the events thread here.

[h2]Friendly Fire Group SSF Event[/h2]

• League Completion Criteria: Kill Act Ten Kitava
  
• Based on: Standard (Sanctum/Ruthless/Hardcore all disabled)
  
• Accounts Allowed in League: 5
  
• Start date: 2pm March 14th PDT
  
• End date: 2pm March 21st PDT
  
• Platforms: PC only
  

Friendly Fire is enabled. Players can only deal damage when near two other players.

This event requires you to team up with two-four other players and try to complete the campaign without killing each other too much. Note that with full friendly fire on, even your minions will attack your teammates. Be careful what skills you pick!

The league account limit is set to 5 so that you can't have two teams of three progressing in parallel in the league to help each other out indirectly.

To join the event, click the banner for Friendly Fire Group SSF Event in the bottom right of the Character Select screen once you've logged into the game. This will take you to the Private League creation page of the Path of Exile website, where you can create your own Friendly Fire Group SSF Private League for free! Once you've created your Friendly Fire Group SSF Private League, don't forget to invite some friends!

In the Friendly Fire Group SSF Event,

• Players can only deal damage when near two other players.
  
• Other players are classified as enemies.
  
• After dying you cannot move for 1 minute.
  
• Players have no access to the guild stash.
  

[h3]Prizes[/h3]
The prizes for this event are exclusive trophy statues that can be displayed in your hideouts.

• Legend's Hideout Statue for Group Rank #1
  
• Champion's Hideout Statue for Group Rank #2
  
• Victor's Hideout Statue for Group Rank #3
  
• Challenger's Hideout Statue for Group Ranks #4-10
  

The prizes will be awarded based on the time taken to kill Act 10 Kitava. The time is counted from when you make the league, not from when the event starts. Your group can have as many shots as you want while the event is live, and don't have to be playing at exactly the same time as the people you're competing against. At the end of the event, whichever group has the best time is the winner. The prizes will be distributed after all the events have ended (in April).

You can find the ladder for the Friendly Fire Group SSF Event here.

You can also find all the ladders for March's events here.

Best of luck to everyone participating!

In today's news post, we're highlighting some clips from our community on Twitch of the Ruthless with Gold event! Check them out on the Path of Exile forums here!

Very soon, we'll begin revealing the upcoming content in our 3.21 expansion. This time around, we won't be posting balance manifestos detailing the expansion's balance changes.

Balance manifestos are great at communicating certain types of content. Whenever we want to do deep work on a particular game system, they provide a good opportunity to clearly explain the changes in a self-contained way outside of the hubbub of livestream day. They also give us longer to gather feedback about whether those systems changes are in the right direction.

Over the years, though, we've learned that there are certain types of changes that balance manifestos are less appropriate for. Often, changes require greater context that the livestream explains, or benefit from video as a form of communication. Sometimes there's just so much numerical detail that the balance manifesto ends up reading like a set of patch notes, weirdly detached from the rest of the actual patch notes that you need to understand the context and plan your builds.

3.21's balance changes are mostly of the latter type. We'll explain them on the livestream and post the full details in the patch notes on balance day. Don't worry though, there aren't scary systems reworks that we need to solicit feedback on ages in advance. Our balance goals with 3.21 are to provide more options and more fun for as many builds as possible, rather than reworking game systems in potentially disruptive ways. While there are of course some small nerfs, 3.21 is most definitely not a nerf-fest.

We can't wait to unveil the changes in the upcoming livestream and check out what builds you create in 3.21!