Path of Exile News

We've just begun our second month of teaming up with Twitch Prime to bring you the Purple Smoking Hood and Purple Eyes free when you sign up to Twitch Prime. Until the 6th of February you'll be able to redeem these free cosmetic effects by starting a free one-month trial with Twitch Prime and linking your Path of Exile account to Twitch.
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What are the benefits of Twitch Prime?

• Claim monthly free games and in-game loot
  
• Exclusive in-game loot for some of your favorite games
  
• Free games included with Twitch Prime
  
• Limited time promotions you won’t want to miss
  

Get special Twitch perks

• Free Twitch channel subscription ($5 value) every month
  
• Reign supreme with a Prime members-only chat badge
  
• Exclusive Twitch chat colors and emotes
  

Twitch Prime is part of Amazon Prime

• Shopping on Amazon.com is fast and convenient with free two-day shipping.
  
• Watch your favorite movies and TV shows including award-winning Amazon Originals.
  
• Listen to over 2+ million songs, ad-free on any device.
  

How do I redeem these microtransactions?
Once you have an Amazon Prime or Prime Video account, you link it to your Twitch account and start taking advantage of all the amazing perks Twitch Prime offers. To get started with Twitch Prime sign up for a free trial at twitchprime.com.

In most countries, you get Twitch Prime by being an Amazon Prime member and then linking your Amazon and Twitch Prime account. You can do all of this at twitchprime.com.

• Step 1 Sign up for a free trial of Twitch Prime.
  
• Step 2 Create or log in to your Path of Exile account.
  
• Step 3 Visit this page to link your account to Twitch or update your permissions if you've linked your account in the past.
  
• Step 4 Sign in to your Twitch account on twitch.tv and click the crown in the top right corner then claim the offer.
  
• Step 5 That's it! Fulfilling this process should automatically grant the microtransactions to your account.
  

Who can Redeem this Offer?
This promotion is available to Path of Exile account holders only on our main international server and only in countries where Amazon Prime is available.

Path of Exile on Twitch
Path of Exile has an active base of community streamers. With your Twitch Prime subscription you'll be granted a free subscription to your favourite streamer! Be sure to check out our community streamers over on Twitch.

We're now in the fourth week of the Metamorph league! Most of our devs are back from their holidays, well-rested and ready for another busy year of development. This week we're planning to deploy a big 3.9.2 patch. Its patch notes will likely be released tomorrow. In the meantime, we have prepared a small list of additional issues which have been resolved and will be fixed live in a hotfix very soon (before the main patch).

• Specific Atlas Regions can end up in an incorrect state after migrating from SSF.
  
• Releasing Legion Generals during Legion encounters can cause a client crash.
  
• Instance crash in Mao Kun unique map.
  
• Instance crashes when interacting with the Betrayal content.
  

We'll continue to monitor your feedback and develop patches with fixes and improvements. Thank you for your feedback!

The colourful Carnival microtransactions from our previous Mystery Box are now available for purchase! It's also still possible to combine some of the individual Ringmaster and Harlequin pieces into the corresponding alternate colour version of these designs. Please note that the Jovial Ringmaster and Dismal Harlequin cosmetic effects are only available by combining the original sets and can't be purchased directly.

Watch the Carnival Mystery Box trailer below to see everything that's available or check them out in the store by pressing M in game.

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In case you're looking for something more gloomy, we have also brought back the Gore Fireworks for a limited time until January 15th (NZT). The Gore Fireworks come in stacks of 10 and cost 15 points per stack. These are only available around the New Year holiday period and don't necessarily come every year!

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Thank you for your support!

We're continuing to publish developer presentations from ExileCon with a very interesting talk about storytelling in Path of Exile, given by Matt Dymerski, one of our narrative designers. If you're interested in lore and our approach to storytelling in Path of Exile, this video is a must-watch for you. Enjoy!

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It's already 2020 in New Zealand! We want to wish our community a Happy New Year and also to take a moment to look back on the year that has just concluded. As is tradition, today we're posting our annual retrospective.

In 2019:

• We launched four expansions: Synthesis, Legion, Blight and Conquerors of the Atlas (with the Metamorph challenge league).
  
• We hosted ExileCon, our very first Path of Exile convention with more than 1400 attendees from around the world, including special guests from Blizzard North, community streamers and content creators, and very real Eihnar Frey and Zana.
  
• We announced Path of Exile 2 and the Path of Exile Mobile project!
  
• We partnered with Kakao to launch Path of Exile in South Korea.
  
• We released Path of Exile on PlayStation 4.
  
• We set a record number of players online (224,000 on our server alone).
  
• There were 30% more hours played of Path of Exile on our international realm in 2019 than 2018.
  
• Around 8.7 million players played Path of Exile on our international realm this year.
  
• We expanded from 122 to 147 in-house staff members.
  
• We deployed more than 45 updates/patches to our realm.
  
• We posted 382 news articles - an average of 7.3 posts per week.
  
• We remastered the existing Path of Exile soundtrack and updated it with new music.
  
• We hit a new record in viewer numbers on Twitch.
  
• We introduced a new system that allows you to manage your Master missions.
  
• We praised amazing talents of our players by hosting four community competitions.
  
• We revamped spellcasters, melee combat, Necromancers and dozens of skills.
  
• We reworked the entire Atlas system.
  
• We updated the look of the Lioneye's Watch.
  

Thank you to everyone who has joined us in 2019, who has returned and who has been with us throughout the year. Thank you to all of you who has travelled all the way to New Zealand to attend ExileCon in November. Path of Exile wouldn't evolve that significantly without your generous support and continued feedback. We love you all! Here's to another big year in Wraeclast!