Path of Exile News

While you're counting the days until our upcoming 3.10 announcement and building theories about its theme, why not let your mind rest a bit by watching our next ExileCon video? The Grinding Gear Games founders, Chris, Jonathan and Erik gathered together on ExileCon's stage to remember the old days and answer questions from the audience and our game designer Nick. Enjoy!

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Last week we announced the winners of our recent Talent Competition. Due to a huge amount of excellent entries, we're happy to reward more runners up with a helmet effect of their choice.

Nytemairqt
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KungFuPanda2

stephor

Doranex

Check out more entries here!

We've just begun the press tour for our March expansion. Astute Path of Exile fans know that this means our official announcement is just around the corner! In fact, the announcement is currently planned for noon February 25 PST (9am February 26, NZ time) so just over one week away.

At this time, we're planning to release a new set of league supporter packs for PC users which means our current league supporter packs should end then too. For console players this changeover will happen alongside league launch as per usual.

This also means that we are aiming to launch this expansion on March 13 PST (March 14 NZ time) although this is not completely locked in. We will confirm its launch date with our announcement next week.

With the above schedule, Path of Exile: Metamorph will be ending on March 9 PST for PC players and about a week later for console players. If you're eager to hear what's happening with Metamorph in the future, we have a Development Manifesto planned for late next week to explain our thoughts.

We can't wait to share what we've been working on with you!

Within the next few days we're planning to deploy the 3.9.2f update that includes changes to Item Filters that we talked about recently as well as some small performance improvements and various bug fixes. We're aiming to deploy this patch on console as soon as possible after its release on PC. In the meantime, we've prepared its patch notes for you to check out.

Please note that the patch notes listed below may be changed prior to the release of this update.

• Added new functionality and made improvements to Item Filters. You can read more about them here.
  
• Improved performance related to monster and minion pathfinding.
  
• The following items now allocate to the Map Maker when they drop: Timeless Jewels, Ivory Watchstones, Awakened Gems, Awakener's Orbs, Conquerors Exalted Orbs and Uniques from Legion, Blight, Metamorph and Conquerors of the Atlas bosses.
  
• Reduced the damage of the Storm Call skill that Baran-influence monsters used. They will now only use the skill if they have line of sight to you.
  
• You can now use /hideout to return to your Hideout while in Tane's Laboratory.
  
• Improved the performance of Acid Magma Orb Effect and Harbinger Magma Orb Effect.
  
• Improved the visibility of various weapon effect microtransactions when applied to the Colossus Sword.
  
• Restored the skull to the top of the Syndicate Flag Hideout Decoration.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Power Siphon on-death effect could be played multiple times on a single monster. This fix also improves the performance of Power Siphon in general.
  
• Fixed a rare bug where Malachai in The Harvest and Core Map could sometimes fail to transition to his second arena.
  
• Fixed a client crash that could occur when using Leap Slam while it had the Harlequin Leap Slam Effect applied to it.
  

This Monday we concluded our comprehensive Talent Competition where we encouraged our community to show off their talents by making Path of Exile-inspired submissions. Needless to say, we were completely blown away by the entries made by our players, yet again! Today we're excited to announce the winners!

We'd like to thank our community for all the submissions created for this competition. You never cease to impress us with your talents! Congratulations to all the winners! We'll be contacting you soon to arrange your prizes. We'll also award more Runner Ups in a follow-up post at the beginning of next week.

Path of Exile - The Fall of Oriath Cello by Deosain
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'The Path of the Exiled' by Drakartwow

Path of Exile in Minecraft | 2 by xevoken
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Path of Exile - Blight Theme Guitar Cover by caladriel
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Check out more winners in this thread!