Path of Exile News

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.

In the Keepers League, you’ll be able to earn a set of exclusive microtransactions themed around the Keepers of the Flame expansion by completing 40 new challenges. At 12, 20, 28, and 36 challenges you’ll receive the Keeper of the Flame Boots, Gloves, Body Armour and Helmet respectively.

Completing challenges also grants you pieces of the Keepers Challenger Trophy Hideout

In Ruthless you’ll receive these microtransactions at 2, 4, 6, and 8 challenges completed.

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