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New Skill Effects and Super Stash Sale

Dazzle your enemies with a Warcry imbued with cosmic powers or smash them with bloody red ice crystals! The new Celestial Warcry and Automaton Ice Crash replace the standard visual effects of Warcry and Ice Crash Skill Gems. Watch the videos below or press M in game check out these effects in the store.

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It is also a Stash Sale weekend, where we're discounting every type of Stash Tab available, including the recently released Blight, Metamorph and Delirium Stash Tabs.

Press M in game to view the full selection. The sale ends at Aug 10, 2020 8:00 PM (PDT)

Thank you for your support! Have a nice weekend everyone!

Community Showcase

We're finishing this week by showcasing artistic talents of the community once again. By the way, this weekend is the last for our ongoing Harvest Fan Art competition, so if you haven't submitted your art yet, you have only a few days left to do so. In the meantime, check out the recent pieces of fan art made by our players over the past month.

The Strange Voice by Natilo

Age of Exile by NatsataAble

Lunaris by calljtoday

Headhunter 3D Model by zensei

Path of Exile Bosses and NPCs by lehmannthiago

Occultist 3D Model by Joweet

Community Organized Event - 8 Day Racing Gauntlet Starts on August 22nd!

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!

Harvest Statistics: Crafts, Lifeforce and the Avatar of the Grove

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.

Harvest Fan Art Competition Highlights

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