Path of Exile News

Looking for some best buddies to join your travels through Wraeclast? Or maybe you want somewhere new to relax along the way? Now is the perfect time to find your new favourites because this weekend we are running a sale on Hideouts and Pets! You can view the full range of discounted microtransactions by pressing M in game!

If you need some inspiration, check out these awesome pets chilling out in some of the hideouts that are included in the sale!

Featured below: Glimmerwood Hideout, Labrador Pet, Pomeranian Dog Pet, Cinnamon Cat Pet and Mallard Duck Pet



Featured below: Tavern Hideout, Tranquil Ethercraft Pet, Sunrise Wolf Pet, Celestial Baby Elephant Pet and Sunprism Cat Pet



Featured below: Morbid Hideout, Grasping Hands Pet, Demonic Spider Pet, Demonic Cat Pet and Scavenger Bat Pet



Don't forget, we love to see the incredible hideouts you come up with, so be sure to post your creations over in our Hideout Showcase forum! For some more inspiration, check out the recently featured hideouts from the forum in our December 2021 Showcase video below.

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The results are in from our recent community designed microtransaction poll! Today, we are inviting you to vote between the top two design ideas and decide the specific concept for the Epic and Dark Wings!

This poll will be open for one week. Once the design has been decided, we will refine the idea further and prepare concept art for the final stages of this process. We look forward to seeing what you pick!

[h2]CLICK HERE TO VOTE[/h2]

Most of our team has returned from the end-of-year holiday break. We're excited to return and officially wish you a Happy New Year! We're eager to continue the development of Path of Exile's 3.17 expansion and Path of Exile 2 and can't wait to show you what we have in the pipeline.

We're very excited about our plans for 2022 and while our 3.17 expansion reveal is just around the corner, over the course of this year we expect to reveal a lot more of Path of Exile 2. We will confirm the dates for our 3.17 expansion launch as soon as we can, to ensure you have as much notice as possible to plan accordingly.

Thanks for your patience in letting our team take some time off to recharge for the year ahead. We really appreciate it. We'd love to hear how your New Years went and see photos of you enjoying yourselves!

Today we have another batch of wonderful concept art from our team for microtransactions that entered the store after the launch of the Scourge expansion. If you're interested in taking a sneak peak at how these concepts come to life, be sure to check out today's post!

[h2]Scourgelord Weapon Skin[/h2]


[h2]Cursed Armour Set[/h2]

[h2]Cursed Monkey Pet[/h2]

[h2]Verdant Weapon Skin[/h2]


[h2]Wild Shield Skin[/h2]


[h2]Zenith Portal Effect[/h2]

It's hard to believe that we've already made it to the end of 2021! As we start to welcome in the new year, we wanted to take a moment to look back on the year that was.

In 2021:

• We launched four expansions: Echoes of the Atlas, Ultimatum, Expedition and Scourge!
  
• Despite New Zealand borders still being closed due to COVID, we expanded from 149 to 165 in-house staff members. In fact, we have so many people now that we are renovating a third floor of our office building! Photos coming in a few months when the space is ready.
  
• We've been continuing to work on Path of Exile 2 and have released another trailer and gameplay preview.
  
• We deployed more than 100 updates/patches to our realm.
  
• We posted 442 news articles - an average of 8.5 posts per week.
  
• We set a record number of players online (265,250 on our server alone - up by 11% from our previous record of 237,160).
  
• Around 5.3 million different players played Path of Exile on our international realm.
  
• 2021 had the second-highest overall playtime per year, with over 483 million hours played on our international realm
  
• We reintroduced Path of Exile: Royale.
  
• We ran two Twitch Rivals Tournaments.
  
• We hosted another Halloween meeting.
  
• We improved clicking.
  
• We celebrated the 15th anniversary of Grinding Gear Games.
  
• We introduced the best bug of all time.
  

Thank you so much for joining us for another year in Wraeclast. We couldn't do this without you! We have lots of exciting things planned for the year ahead, beginning with our 3.17.0 expansion, which we'll be revealing in the coming weeks. Happy New Year, Exiles!