Path of Exile News

Introducing the Sentinel Mystery Box

We've just released the Sentinel Mystery Box, a brand new take on Path of Exile's classic mystery boxes but without duplicate microtransactions! Each of the microtransactions in this new mystery box has visual behaviour that interacts with your gameplay.

There are 14 microtransactions that you can find in the Sentinel Mystery Box. Each of these microtransactions has a varying number of thematic variations, and you'll never receive a duplicate copy of a variation that you have already opened. For example, if you open the Vulcan variant of the Stormstrider Boots, you may later receive the Radiant variant, but you'll never get a duplicate Vulcan one. Check out the full details at pathofexile.com/mysterybox

Path of Exile: Sentinel expansion adds monster-buffing drones

Path of Exile's latest expansion, Sentinel, is out now on PC and macOS. The expansion kicks off a new Challenge League in the free PC game, in which the central mechanic is customisable sentinel orbs that follow you around firing magic beams at your enemies. But sentinels aren't here to make your life easier - just the opposite, in fact. Their beams empower monsters and create tougher fights for you to take on.

In the Sentinels Challenge League, you'll find three classes of sentinel scattered around Wraeclast. Stalker sentinels will repeatedly fire monster-empowering beams once you enter combat. Pandemonium sentinels fire one big blast, empowering monsters in a large area. Then there's apex sentinels, which will only charge up rare or unique enemies.

Sentinels only work for a limited time and eventually run out of charge, but you don't want to throw away your empties. Depleted sentinels can be combined with a power core to create a new, fully charged sentinel that takes on traits from each sentinel husk used in its construction. You can further tweak the behaviour of your sentinels with the Sentinel Controller, which Grinding Gear Games says is "like a runic circuit board."

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Path of Exile: Sentinel Launches Soon

Path of Exile: Sentinel launches soon! In this news post, we've gathered all the information you need to know about what happens on launch day and how to start downloading early.

The realm goes down and patching begins at: May 13, 2022 10:00 AM (PDT)
The servers go live at: May 13, 2022 1:00 PM (PDT)

You can also refer to the countdown on the Path of Exile website front page. Three hours before the end of the countdown, the realm will go down and patching will begin shortly after. When the countdown ends, the servers will be live and you'll be able to join the Sentinel League!

The patch size for the update will be around 4.9GB on Steam.

Path of Exile: Sentinel will launch on consoles at May 18, 2022 5:00 PM (PDT). Downtime will begin for deployment at approximately May 18, 2022 2:00 PM (PDT).

If you're looking for some extra character slots for the launch, we're running a sale on these right now! This is also your last chance to get Harmony Mystery Boxes! It will leave the store when our next Mystery Box becomes available! Keep in mind that if you haven't taken advantage of it yet, it's still possible to get one free Harmony Mystery Box when you spend any amount of points in the store. NOTE: this is only possible once per account. Additional purchases do not grant additional mystery boxes. If you need some extra points, we recommend checking out the Sentinel and Core Supporter Packs.

In case you still haven't decided which build to play with, check out the Class subsections on the forum for suggestions from the community. Many of our community streamers are also providing build guides on YouTube!

For those of you wanting to compete in the upcoming expansion, we are holding a Boss Kill Event where players will race to be the first to kill the brand new Uber pinnacle bosses available by allocating their respective Atlas keystones! We have exciting prizes lined up for the winners. Find out more in this news post.

If you want a new look to match your build, check out the Nexus stores of your favourite creators for their curated selection of Armour Sets to support them as well as the development of Path of Exile!

We can't wait to see your latest adventures through Wraeclast. We'll see you at launch!

Sentinel Boss Kill Event

To celebrate the launch of Sentinel, we're hosting a Boss Kill Event where Path of Exile players can compete to kill the new Uber Pinnacle Bosses in Sentinel HC SSF mode. We have put together a prize pool that gives the winners the opportunity to collaborate with our design team to create new Unique Items and Divination cards that will be added to Path of Exile.

Prizes are awarded to the first seven players who complete all seven Uber Pinnacle Boss Encounters:

The Uber Eater of Worlds
The Uber Searing Exarch
The Uber Maven
Uber Sirus
Uber Venarius
Uber Uber Elder
Uber Shaper

This event runs during the Sentinel HC SSF league, starting on May 13 (PDT), until each prize has been won.

[h2]Prizes for Top Placings - PC:[/h2]

1st-7th Place: Collaborate on the design of a Unique Item that will drop from one of the Uber Pinnacle Encounters of your choice, and collaborate on the design of a Divination Card.

The winners will pick which encounter their Unique drops from in the order of their placing (so first place gets first pick, etc). Each encounter will receive one Unique item as a result of this competition.

All of the above prize winners will also receive the Godslayer's Pride microtransaction amulet.

[h2]Prizes - Console (both Xbox and Playstation have separate prize pools):[/h2]

1st Place: Collaborate on the design of a Divination Card, and receive a Godslayer's Pride microtransaction.
2nd-5th Place: Receive a Godslayer's Pride microtransaction.

Due to HC SSF player populations on Console realms, the competition will run in the equivalent SC SSF (non-HC) Sentinel league for Console players.

[h2]Additional Rules:[/h2]

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.
Players who migrate from a private league to the event league during the event are ineligible for prizes.
Placings and prize eligibility are entirely at the discretion of Grinding Gear Games.
The prizes that consist of collaborating on the design of a Divination Card or Unique Item do not guarantee that the item will turn out exactly how you want. The design team will try to accommodate your suggestions as best as they can, but the final design is at their discretion. Because these Unique Items are likely to become chase content, it's critical that they fit the overall design vision of Path of Exile.
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 since May 5, 2022 (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.
Prizes cannot be transferred. Only the person who completed the achievements in the event can collaborate on Unique Item and Divination Card designs. It's fine for these people to seek advice and help from other community members with their design.

Good luck in the event!

The Atlas Passive Tree in Path of Exile: Sentinel

With the addition of 20 new keystones and a variety of other updates to the Atlas Passive Tree in Path of Exile: Sentinel, we wanted to share the full details of the tree so that you can prepare for launch. Check it out in our forum post here or view the full tree in your browser here.