Path of Exile News

On February 27th and 28th, veteran community member, streamer and racer, Havoc616, will be hosting the first ever group-found race in this style! Players will compete in teams of 2-6 to earn points for specific objectives in a Private Ritual League.

This event will take place over four six hour sessions to give teams time to rest and strategise. If you’ve always wanted to try racing, then this is the perfect opportunity for you. The winners will share in a crowdfunded cash prize pool as well as microtransactions provided by us.

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Schedule Day 1 Start: February 27th at 8AM EST (1 PM GMT) Day 2 Start: February 28th at 8AM EST (1 PM GMT)

Prize Pool:

• 1st: 35%
  
• 2nd: 20%
  
• 3rd: 10%
  
• 4th: 8%
  
• 5th: 7%
  
• 6th: 6% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  
• 7th: 5% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  
• 8th: 4% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  
• 9th: 3% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  
• 10th: 2% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  
• 11th - 15th: Chaos Orb Helmet & Radiant Sword Skin
  

If you want to tune into the action, you can watch live on Havoc’s Twitch channel where a full cast and crew will be working together to provide maximum coverage and entertainment.

Click here to learn more about the event, how to join the event, the rules in place, point system, prizes, or to contribute to the event's prize pool. You can also join the POE Racing Discord here.

Shout out to community members Faderon, Brittleknee, SK_Gunoo, Somayd, Muqve and DadBodGamingGod for their work behind the scenes to help make this event a reality.

Good luck to everyone who’s participating!

We're excited to announce that community member lowkeyripper has purchased a Divination Card design to share with the community. We'll host a series of polls so that the community can decide on each aspect of the card before it's finalised and released into the game! Today's poll will decide the item type the card will redeem for. You can vote here.

The poll will run for one week. Once the item category has been decided from this poll, another will be placed to determine which item within that category will be selected. After that, we'll use polls to determine the general theme, then provide suggestions for names, suggestions for flavour text and then some art concepts. Each stage will involve the community placing their vote for their preferred outcome.

We can't wait to see what the community designs and the legacy it contributes to Path of Exile. Thanks again to lowkeyripper for setting this up!

We're continuing to share some of the entries from our recent Talent Competition. In case you've missed last week's highlights, check them out here!

[h2] The Tireless Quest for Exalted Orbs by nowand [/h2]



[h2] Escape by Lumonium [/h2]

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[h2] Karui Chest by MuchiderKech [/h2]



[h2] Tukohama by barbatrebbio [/h2]



[h2] Chaos Orb Tattoo by Paintboxed [/h2]



[h2] Fan Art by Kardalak_IX [/h2]



[h2] The Maven by xuantung [/h2]



[h2] The Maven by SimoneIF [/h2]



[h2] The Maven by BlooD1SworD [/h2]



If you've been inspired by seeing the talents of our players and would like to participate in this competition, you have more than two weeks to submit your entry! We can't wait to see what you'll come up with!

Today, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at some Ritual Statistics to see how everyone is faring and what kinds of rewards players are taking away from Rituals!

• Rituals Started: 624,332,098
  
• Rituals Completed: 600,943,858
  
• Rituals Failed: 23,371,627
  

As you can see, players have been extremely busy with Rituals. This comes out to 20,139,745 Rituals run per day since Ritual began (at the time of writing), or just over 23 Rituals every second!

Completion rate of Rituals is actually quite high, at just over 96%.

So, lots of Rituals have been completed, but let's take a look at what players are running Rituals for in the first place: rewards!



As noted above, these are the times that a given Favour was bought from a Ritual, but doesn't factor in stack sizes (where applicable). It's worth keeping in mind that the numbers above reflect how often a reward was taken, rather than how often it was offered. So while Scarabs appear to be almost as common as Orbs of Fusing, since players have full control over what they purchase, the items that players value will see higher than usual representation.

If you're wondering how many maps you'd need to run on average before you'll be offered a Mirror of Kalandra, wonder no more. Just over 500,000! So what are you still reading for?

That wraps up part one of our Ritual Statistics. Are there any other specific items you'd like to know the frequency of? Let us know and we'll do our best to include some of them in part two, coming next week!

The Maven Kill event, organised with the support of Zizaran and his sponsor, concluded earlier this week which means it’s time to announce the full list of winners.

[h2]Winners of the Maven Kill Event, PC Ritual HC SSF (cash prizes provided by Zizaran and his sponsor)[/h2]

• 1st Place ($10,000) - Darkee
  
• 2nd Place ($5,000) - AlkaizerX
  
• 3rd Place ($2,500) - Towerbrah
  
• 4th Place ($1,250) - xSayByeBye
  
• 5th Place ($750) - bigdummydan125
  
• 6th - 10th Place ($500) - TheFriendly, CBYHEP, dslily, CARNDARAK, MOSTPOSITIVEMAN
  
• 11th - 15th Place ($350) - Fightgarr, orionbip, Karvarousku, Havoc6, guardianj11
  
• 16th - 25th Place ($250) - flame_blast, nickexile11, kavson1993, FusionXY, supercell, weilingz, sss111, AhhCrying, z4kur, KuschelKatze
  
• First Atziri Kill ($500) - Paak_HC
  
• First Uber Atziri Kill ($2,000) - powershot615
  
• First Shaper Kill ($1,250) - Mosh47
  
• First Elder Kill ($750) - Mosh47
  
• First Uber Elder Kill ($2,000) - Darkee
  
• First Awakener Kill (8 Awakening Level) ($2,000) - AlkaizerX
  
• Deepest Delve (1310 depth, $3000) - OskamIn
  
• 2nd Deepest Delve (1211 depth, $1,500) - Darkee
  
• 3rd Deepest Delve (1154 depth, $750) - shadowpye
  

[h2]Randomly-drawn Microtransaction Prizes (weighted by the amount of Maven kills) [/h2]

We have randomly selected 25 winners to receive their choice of microtransaction bundle from the list found here. Congratulations to the winners below. We’ll contact you soon to arrange your prizes.

• SymDonB, Oskarmln, AlkaizerX, Rihzel, Zareuther, ShadowLord127, wedeln, snatat, alex97ander, Stynka, MeShaMaaN, Darkee, Towerbrah, z4kur, Kortzon, shadowpye, PoEDan79, bigdummydan125, CARNDARAK, xprenz, Trollgenji, Procis, LordRbn, bittytittys, Triveman
  

We are also in the process of distributing 500 Warlord Mystery Boxes to randomly selected accounts. We will send a confirmation via private message on the forum.

Congratulations to all the winners! Thank you to everyone who embraced the challenge and participated in this event!