Path of Exile News

At the end of this month Zizaran as well as other community members and streamers you all know are organizing an 8-day Racing Gauntlet Event. Players will compete and earn points in a Private HCSSF Harvest League by levelling their characters and killing bosses. The winners will share a community-crowdfunded prize pool and microtransaction bundles provided by us.

Start Time: August 22nd: 3:00PM (GMT+1) (countdown available here)
End Time: August 30th 3:00PM (GMT+1) (countdown available here)

The event will have ALL Damage Mods enabled via the Private League System. Players will receive points based on levels and specific boss kills. The event has a crowdfunded prize pool by Community Streamers like Zizaran, RaizQT, Steelmage, Nugiyen, Datmodz, Tytykiller and more!

Prize Pool:

• 1st: 30%
  
• 2nd: 20%
  
• 3rd: 10%
  
• 4th: 8%
  
• 5th: 7%
  
• 6th: 6%
  
• 7th: 5%
  
• 8th: 4%
  
• 9th: 3%
  
• 10th: 2%
  
• 11th-15th: Arcane Seraph Wings + Dusk Weapon Effect
  
• 16th-20th: Hydra Wings + Kraken Portal
  
• Development Cost: 5% - To be distributed amongst Community Developers who help the event.

Players will be able to join the event on August 20th (PDT), first come first serve until the Private League is full! Make sure you race to grab your spot as they are limited!

If you’d like to keep an eye on the progress of the event as a whole, be sure to check out ZiggyD’s Youtube channel, where he and Brittleknee will be working together to bring you news-like coverage of the event. You can also view Standings here after the event starts.

Click here to learn how to join the event and find out more information about rules, point system and prizes, or if you'd like to contribute to the event.
You can also join the POE Racing Discord here.

Special thank you to community members Faderon, Pertinax and MrMadakey for their contributions for the event as well as Viyro for organizing.

Good luck to everyone who's participating!

As a follow-up to the Harvest statistics posted last week, today we'll have a look at the most popular crafting options as well as distribution of lifeforce and Avatar of the Grove encounters.

First, let's take a detailed look at which crafting options players are using the most.

Click here to view detailed crafting statistics.

That is a lot of data. We felt that it was interesting and important to expose as many numbers and percentages as possible, so there can be transparent discussion regarding Harvest crafting. Let's highlight a few interesting tidbits from all of the above statistics!

• 41,299 sockets became White sockets
  
• 37,770 items have been 6-socketed
  
• 22,309 items have been 6-linked
  
• 5,115,354 modifiers have been augmented onto items
  
• 697,181 stacks of Divination Cards have been sacrificed in an effort to receive more
  
• 171,806 items have been sacrificed for Perandus Coins
  
• 71,820 Beachhead Maps have been created
  
• 49,001 Bestiary Lures have been created
  
• 2,643 Exalted Orbs have been traded for through the 'Exchange 10 Chaos Orbs' craft
  
• 88,643 Infused Engineer's Orbs have been created
  
• 32,310 Level 20 Support Gems have been sacrificed, resulting in ~1,600 Awakened Gems being created (and more than 30,000 ruthlessly destroyed!)
  
• 251,301 Offerings to the Goddess have been changed into Gifts, Tributes or Dedications to the Goddess
  
• 1,196,592 maps have been created through the 'Sacrifice a Map for multiple Maps one tier lower' craft
  
• 1,446,301 Infused Zana Modifiers have been added to Map Devices
  
• 2,290,014 Atlas Missions have been gained
  
• 9,774 Unique Synthesis Maps have been created
  
• 386,219 Maps have been enchanted
  
• 87,580 items have gained Synthesis implicit modifiers
  
• 71,939 items have been Fractured
  

Whew. Hopefully that's interesting to pick apart! Next, let's look at how much Lifeforce was condensed and how much was spent on irrigating planted seeds.

Condensed:

• Wild: 16,832,930,560
  
• Vivid: 15,854,662,703
  
• Primal: 15,605,500,428
  

Irrigated:

• Wild: 14,467,969,923
  
• Vivid: 13,282,599,309
  
• Primal: 12,359,037,995
  

And that means there's...

• Wild: 2,364,990,637
  
• Vivid: 2,572,063,394
  
• Primal: 3,246,462,433
  

...Lifeforce still in storage, or lost to the void.

That's a lot of Lifeforce! Finally, let's take a look at how many Avatar of the Grove encounters were started and how many were successfully completed.

Avatar of the Grove encounters started: 94,000
Avatar of the Grove encounters completed: 84,379

As you can see, just shy of 90% of encounters that were started were successfully completed; a fairly high success rate for a new boss. There's no question that this boss was considered to be on the easier side among endgame bosses, and the statistics seem to agree with that sentiment.

That's it for today! We hope you found this round-up interesting. We'll continue to reveal more statistics over the next few weeks.

The Harvest Fan Art Competition concludes next Monday (August 10th at 5pm PDT), so you have less than a week left to submit your Harvest-inspired entry in order to have a chance to win cool prizes. The winners will be announced by the end of the next week. In the meantime, have a look at this week's competition highlights!

Delirious Betrayal by Johnway

Fan Art by Dzeycon

Fan Art by Ilion75

Oshabi by SMOKOwita

The Heart of the Grove by sakrai

Fan Art by Monte69

'Overgrown' by Shiro_Onna

'The Land Demand a Sacrifice' by BellenaS

Oshabi by FrenkHorrigan

'Oshabi's Transformation' Figurine by lordmanitu

Shortly after the launch of Harvest, we indicated what you should expect from our ongoing development this year. We now have dates scheduled for our next expansion announcement/launch and want to keep you in the loop about what to expect and when.

We normally operate on a 13 week schedule, allowing us to release four expansions a year in March, June, September and December. It took 14 weeks to develop Harvest due to the limitations of working from home and as we indicated in the post linked above, this meant we would need one of our expansions to be developed in just 12 weeks to make up for that lost time.

Our intention was to develop our 3.12 expansion on this 12 week timeline but due to the ambitious scope of the league, we feel it is a lot safer to consume a 13th week. So while this isn't technically a deviation from our normal timeline, it's slightly later than we originally indicated.

With this in mind, our current plan is to announce 3.12 on September 1 with its launch happening on September 18 for PC and September 23 for console (PDT). Please note that these dates are still subject to some change and we advise against booking time off until our expansion announcement confirms the launch date. We are aware that many employers require more notice than this but we are very hesitant to encourage booking time off until things are more firmly in place.

This means that Harvest will end on September 14 at 3pm (PDT). We don't have any end-of-league events planned between now and the launch of 3.12 as we want to keep all of our resources focused on 3.12 and Path of Exile 2 but you may see some community-run events pop up.

We plan to start development of 3.13 before 3.12 is finished so that we can comfortably meet our Christmas deadline for that one.

We are particularly excited about our 3.12 expansion. There is a fair amount of internal buzz about the ways in which it differs to existing core content. That's all we can say for now without revealing all of our plans and schemes.

If you're looking for an impressive pet, the new Stygian Steed is your choice! This weekend we're also discounting a huge selection of weapon skins, weapon effects and shields. For the duration of this sale, we're offering one free Angels and Demons Mystery Box when you spend points!

[h2]The Stygian Steed Pet[/h2]
If you're looking for an impressive pet, the new Stygian Steed is your choice! This undead horse with a flaming blue mane will happily join your Exile on their journey or become a great hideout dweller. Match the look of this pet with an outfit composed of the Stygian Armour Set, Wings, Character Effect, Weapon and Weapon Effect. Check out the video of the Stygian Steed below or press M in game to get yours!

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

[h2]Huge Sale on Weapons and Shields[/h2]
This weekend we're running a sale on a huge selection of weapon skins, weapon effects and shields with more than 150 cosmetic effects available at discounted prices, including the Dark Magic Weapon Effect, Infernal Celestial Shield, Dreadspire Weapon and more. Please note that this sale excludes some of the weapon microtransactions introduced since the launch of the Harvest expansion.

The sale will run from the time of this post until Aug 03, 2020 9:00 PM (PDT). Check out the full list of specials by pressing M in game.

[h2]Get a Free Angels and Demons Mystery Box When You Spend Points[/h2]
In addition, we're offering one free Angels and Demons Mystery Box when you spend any amount of points in the store. To receive the Mystery Box just make any purchase in the store - a discounted cosmetic effect on sale, the Stygian Steed or any other microtransaction. This offer is available on both PC and Consoles.

Please note: it's only possible to get one free Angels and Demons 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 at Aug 03, 2020 9:00 PM (PDT).

Thank you for your continued support! Have a great weekend!