Path of Exile News

We're over half way through the Legion league and we're incredibly happy with how much the community have been enjoying it. As you continue to complete your personal league goals, we wanted to give you a heads up about our upcoming timelines.

As we mentioned, on August 17th PDT, we'll be hosting the last of our ExileCon Race Event Qualifiers! This race will dictate who our fourth and final challenger will be in the ultimate showdown at ExileCon later this year.

Around August 20th PDT, we're planning to announce our 3.8.0 expansion! The broad scope of this release is a new challenge league (whose name is not on the list, but should be), various improvements to older master content (things like making Sulphite and Betrayal state shared between all your characters in the league), some systems changes we're not yet ready to hint at (which should improve some areas that the community have given us vocal feedback on (not trade)) and all the usual new items, archetypes, gems and so on that you expect from a Path of Exile expansion.

We expect the Legion league to end on PC at 3pm September 2nd PDT. For console players, the league will end when 3.8.0 goes live.

Our tentative release date for the new expansion is September 6th PDT. Keep in mind all these dates may change as we get closer to release but things are looking good so far. We will keep you posted as these dates approach to let you know if anything changes.

Over the weekend, we ran the third of our ExileCon qualifier events where players competed to be the first to kill Atziri. Congratulations to the winners of this event! We look forward to seeing you at the ExileCon finale in New Zealand!

We're pleased to announce the fourth and final qualifier event for the ExileCon race finale. On August 17th at 2 PM (PDT) we'll be hosting a race event with a VIP ExileCon package as the grand prize. This means the winner will be flown to New Zealand, invited to the VIP dinner, have their accommodation and convention tickets paid for as well as participate against the other three finalists in the ExileCon race finale.

Players will compete in a Standard Solo-Self Found environment to be the first to kill Kitava in Act Five. There will be a death penalty - if you die, you'll not be able to move or do anything with your character for 60 seconds. This penalty was added because we want to create the feeling of a hardcore event (where deaths basically eliminate you from contention for first place), while not running the risk of accidentally eliminating most of the finalists if they are unlucky at the final event. 60 seconds is a large penalty, so play as carefully as you need to in order to avoid dying!

The event will open for four hours although it's likely that first place will be taken within two hours.

The event is open to all who would like to participate and takes place in a separate event league so that there are no limits to the number of participants who may join. You'll be able to join the event under the character selection screen when it becomes available.

Prizes 1st Place

• VIP ExileCon Ticket (Access to the convention and VIP dinner).
  
• Flights to New Zealand.
  
• Accommodation for the convention weekend.
  
• Entrance into the ExileCon race event finale.
  

In addition, the top five kill times will be awarded with a microtransaction package. We'll announce the contents of this package later.

As per other community events, we'll have shoutcasters and a place where you can view the event! More information will be published in the coming weeks, so keep an eye on the news!

Zizaran's ExileCon qualifier event starts this Saturday (PDT). Registration is open for everyone, so be sure to join if you'd like to test your skills against other Path of Exile racers in order to win an ExileCon prize package! It's also the Stash Sale weekend, where we discount all the types of Stash Tabs. In addition, there is a new microtransaction in the store, the Sulphite Portal Effect, and we're bringing back the Sin and Innocence Mystery Box for a limited time.

As you know, this weekend, popular community streamer Zizaran is hosting the ExileCon qualifier event. The winner will receive a VIP ExileCon prize package and entry into our ExileCon race finale! Zizaran's sponsor, Method, will be providing an additional ExileCon prize package to the second place winner.

The event will start on July 27th at 1pm (PDT) and will be open for 12 hours. Players will compete in a Hardcore Solo-Self Found environment to be the first to kill Atziri, Queen of the Vaal in The Apex of Sacrifice. You can register for the event by clicking the 'Join' button under the character selection screen.

This weekend we're holding the Super Stash Sale where we're discounting each type of Stash Tab! Everything has been discounted, including the Unique Collection Tab, Fragment Tab, Map Tab, Premium Stash Tab Bundles, Premium Quad Stash Tab, Essence Tab, Divination Tab, Currency Tab and Guild Stash Tabs! Press M in game to view the full selection of discounted stash tabs.

The sale runs all weekend and ends on July 29th at 9pm (PDT).

We've just released the Sulphite Portal Effect! Simple but stylish, this yellow-coloured portal has a lightning effect and pieces of voltaxic sulphite swirling around. Check it out by watching the video below or press M in game to get yours.
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This weekend we're also bringing back the community popular Sin and Innocence Mystery Box! This gives you another chance to get the Sin and Innocence microtransactions for only 30 points! The Sin and Innocence Mystery Box will be available until July 29th (PDT). Find out what's inside this Mystery Box by watching its trailer below!
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Thank you so much for your continued support! Have a great weekend and good luck to everyone who's participating in the Atziri Kill event!

We're continuing to look through the submissions for our ongoing video-making competition and want to share more highlights with you. We're very happy that some of the submitted videos have already become popular among the community! Check out this week's highlights below.


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The competition ends on the 5th of August (NZT), so you still have plenty of time left to record or finish your video. Good luck!

As we announced earlier, this week we'll deploy the 3.7.4 update that includes the stackable Fossils feature, various improvements and bug fixes. Today we've prepared a preview of its patch notes for you to check out.

Please note that these patch notes may not be final and are still subject to change before the patch.

Features

• Common Delve Fossils can now be stacked up to 20. Rare Delve Fossils can now be stacked up to 10. All Delve Fossils can be stacked up to 5,000 in the wildcard slots of a Currency Stash Tab.
  
• The amount of Rage that you have is now displayed as a numerical value above your Mana Globe.
  
• Exclamation marks above NPCs can now also be seen on the minimap.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug introduced in patch 3.7.0 where the "+x% to Fire Resistance while on Low Life" modifier found on Rise of the Phoenix was not working.
  
• Fixed a bug where Cyclone and Righteous Fire's area of effect was visibly scaling with Character Size. This has no functional effect on its area of effect.
  
• Fixed a bug where the visual indicators in the Vaal Oversoul encounters did not always match where damage would be dealt.
  
• Fixed a bug where, if two Legion Historic Jewels were altering a Keystone passive and one of them would result in the Keystone being Dance with Death, while the other jewel was actually the one altering the Keystone (to something other than Dance with Death), you would be unable to equip a helmet.
  
• Fixed a bug where Shaper dialogue would play when a Shaper Guardian fragment dropped from Legion sources.
  
• Fixed a bug where channelled skills could sometimes fail to deal damage while on Predictive networking mode.
  
• Fixed a bug where using a skill that shared a cooldown with other skills (such as Molten Shell and Steelskin) then quickly disabling that skill (such as by reducing your attributes) would cause the cooldown to pause until you re-enabled the skill that was used.
  

Crash Fixes

• Fixed a client crash that could occur during the Elder encounter.
  
• Fixed three instance crashes.