Path of Exile News

Game Balance in Path of Exile: Expedition

With every league release, we review and rebalance many aspects of Path of Exile to update and reinvigorate old mechanics while trimming some power from strategies that stand too far above the rest. This time around, our changes are far more thorough. You can read the full Expedition Balance Manifesto here.

Path of Exile: Expedition Challenge Rewards

In the Expedition League, you'll be able to earn exclusive microtransactions by completing 40 new challenges. At 12, 24 and 36 challenges, you'll earn the Expedition Footprints, Expedition Weapon Effect and Expedition Portal Effect respectively. Completing challenges also grants you pieces of the Expedition Totem Pole Hideout decoration. You can have a look at them below!

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You'll be able to check out the full list of challenges you need to complete for these rewards when Path of Exile: Expedition launches for PC on July 23rd and for console on July 28th.

Path Of Exile's battle royale mode is back as a weekendly treat

As game developers have done for several years now, Grinding Gear Games made a silly battle royale mode for Path Of Exile as an April Fool's joke back in 2018. GGG say it was a "quick and dirty job" with no custom game balance of its own, but it was well-liked enough that they decided to bring it back as more than a one-off gags day event. Path Of Exile: Royale is live right now through Sunday and will be making weekendly appearances throughout the upcoming expansion cycle. Winner winner Rhoa dinner!

50 Point Sale and Get a Free Mystery Box When You Spend Points

We are running a 50 Point Sale with a massive variety of cosmetic effects available for only 50 points or less; including Skill Effects, Pets, Hideout Decorations and many more! Check out the full list of specials here.

The 50 Point Sale will run from the time of this post until July 20 at 4pm NZT.

In case you need points for this sale, we recommend checking out our new Expedition Supporter Packs!

[h2]Get a Free Apollyon Mystery Box When You Spend Points[/h2]
Until the launch of Path of Exile: Expedition, we're offering one free Apollyon Mystery Box when you spend any amount of points in the store. This means you can purchase a discounted cosmetic effect or any other microtransaction from the store and receive one Apollyon Mystery Box as a gift from us. The offer is available on both PC and Consoles.

Please note: it's only possible to get one free Apollyon Mystery Box from this promotion. Making additional microtransaction purchases will not grant additional mystery boxes. Purchasing a supporter pack will not grant a free Mystery Box but spending points from a supporter pack can grant a free Mystery Box.

This offer will end when the Expedition League launches.

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[h2]Path of Exile: Expedition Content Reveal[/h2]
If you missed the content reveal for the Expedition league, you can check it out below.

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Thank you so much for your support! See you all next week!

Path of Exile's next expansion shakes up the meta with "lots and lots of new gems"

Path of Exile's next big expansion has just been unveiled in a livestream with Grinding Gear Games' co-founder Chris Wilson. Called the 3.15 update - or Expedition, if you're all fancy-like - it's a massive new content drop themed around a "group of Kalguurans who have set out on an expedition to investigate the fate of their ancestors and recover special ruined artifacts they left behind". Alongside new characters to meet and things to do, it'll add a new challenge league, make the game trickier overall, and shake up the game's meta by adding gems - "lots and lots of new gems".

As the action-RPG game's fans know well, gems are essentially what give PoE's characters their active skills and then allow players to augment these further. There are already hundreds in the game, across both the active and support gem types, but Grinding Gear Games is adding a ton more with the Expedition expansion.

"For quite a while now, the way we have approached new skills in Path of Exile expansions is to make a bunch of gems themed around an entirely new build or [by] dramatically augmenting a few existing builds," Wilson says in the reveal of the new content. He cites the Blood skills from the previous Ultimatum expansion as a good example of this, and notes that, while this approach helps create intriguing new build options, it doesn't necessarily have a wider-reaching effect across all characters.

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