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Mercenaries of Trarthus Statistics

The Mercenaries of Trarthus have joined us for a few weeks now, and they've been a blast in more ways than one! In today's news post, we go over some fun and interesting stats related to the loot they've been hauling from Trarthus or looting from Wraeclast. These stats were collected on Day 12 of the league. Check them out below!

Tabula Rasa has spawned on 128,311 Mercenaries in the campaign.
  • 61,547 of them were skipped.

Wanderlust has spawned on 97,173 Mercenaries in the campaign.
  • 50,120 of them were skipped.

The Squire has spawned on 2 Mercenaries.
  • One player didn't interact with the Mercenary.
  • The other decided to instead receive 2 Chaos Orbs.

Rakiata's Dance has spawned on Mercenaries 4 times.
  • The Mercenary was not interacted with for 2 of them.
  • One player chose to receive the sword.
  • The other player preferred 8 Chaos Orbs and 4 Vaal Orbs.

Defiance of Destiny has spawned on Mercenaries 8 times.
  • On 3 of them, the Mercenary was not interacted with.
  • 3 players could not defy destiny and lost their duels
  • The remaining 2 were successfully claimed.

Soul Taker has spawned on Mercenaries 9 times.
  • On 6 of them, the Mercenary was not interacted with.
  • 1 player lost the duel and had their soul taken away instead.
  • 1 player chose assorted low-value currency.
  • 1 player successfully took the Soul Taker.

Kalandra's Touch has spawned on Mercenaries 356 times.
  • On 88 of them, the Mercenary was not interacted with.
  • 268 players interacted with the Mercenary.
  • 34 players lost their touch, and lost their duels.
  • 47 duel winners chose assorted low-value currency instead.
  • 1 player hired the Mercenary.
  • 7 players sent their Mercenaries to Exile.

Headhunter has spawned on Mercenaries 211 times.
  • On 42 of them, the Mercenary was not interacted with.
  • 149 players won their duels against their Mercenaries.
  • 11 of those players chose to receive an assortment of low value currency from the rucksack instead of picking the Headhunter as their reward.
  • 2 duel winners chose to banish the Mercenary.
  • Of the remaining Headhunters, 20 players had their skulls added to the belt of Mercenary, including one player chose to hire the Mercenary, but failed to defeat it.

Mageblood has spawned on Mercenaries 157 times.
  • On 34 of them, the Mercenary was not interacted with.
  • 11 players lost their duels.
  • 112 players won their duels.
  • 14 of these duel winners chose to receive an assortment of low value currency from the rucksack.
  • 2 duel winners sent their Mercenary, and thus also their Mageblood, to Exile.

Mirror of Kalandra has spawned on 14 Mercenaries.
  • Of these, 7 were skipped, so a year of bad luck for each one results in seven years of bad luck!
  • 5 players successfully claimed their Mirror(s).
  • 2 players lost their duels, losing 2 Mirrors each.
  • One of these players didn't even die to the Mercenary, but got third partied by a Vendigo they had neglected to kill before beginning their duel.


Infamous Warpriest of the Ruckus has spawned a single time, but was not interacted with. Sad! Hopefully another one will be found, the number of maps required to find him is approximately equivalent to the number of years since the dinosaurs became extinct, so no guarantees.

There's still plenty of time to interact with the Mercenaries of Trarthus to get your challenges done. Be sure to keep an eye on your Mercenary's inventory, and best of luck with your duels!

Update on Server Issues, Compromised Accounts and Visual Flickering

We'd like to provide an update on a few important things that have been happening in Path of Exile.

[h3]Server Issues[/h3]
We've been very focused on improving DDoS protection for our servers. Unfortunately, some of the protective measures have blocked legitimate traffic, causing instances to unexpectedly close. We're working closely with our server providers to finish setting up protection and resolve these issues as soon as possible.

[h3]Compromised Accounts[/h3]
There have recently been an increased amount of reports regarding players having their accounts compromised. We've looked into as many reports as we could, and will continue to do so, however we have found no evidence of any kind of security breach on our end. If you're not already, we strongly recommend using secure and unique passwords. If you login through Steam but previously used the Standalone client, your email and password is still a valid login method and you should ensure this password is secure and unique.

[h3]Visual Flickering[/h3]
We're aware that gameplay elements and the game's UI will start to flicker in and out when gameplay gets a bit hectic. The engine team is urgently looking into this and we're hoping to have an update on this issue next week.

Thank you all for your patience as we work through these issues.

Secrets of the Atlas Original Soundtrack

No expansion is complete without a soundtrack to set the tone, and the score for Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas certainly doesn't neglect this. Check out the tracks for the Secrets of the Atlas Original Soundtrack by Kamil Orman-Janowski and Michael James Collier in today's news post!

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These tracks, along with the rest of the Path of Exile Extended Digital Soundtrack, are available for download with the purchase of any Supporter Pack here.

Boss Kill Event Winners

The Secrets of the Atlas Boss Kill Event for PC has now concluded! The race for the top 10 was close, and all bonus boss kills have been claimed!

Top 3 Placings - PC:
Congratulations to the top 3 racers, who will each get a Godslayer's Pride Amulet, a Divination Card design, and a Unique Item design for the newest bosses: The Incarnation of Dread, The Incarnation of Neglect and The Incarnation of Fear!
  • Ben_#4007
  • allexpleblord#4962
  • nickexile11#5507
Top 10 Placings - PC:
Congratulations to the rest of the top 10, who will also get a Godslayer's Pride Amulet as well as a Divination Card design!
  • Sarge2#0184
  • Dsfarblarwaggle#7862
  • Wyrm_GG#3008
  • akuryo#0061
  • Kunagi_JP#6612
  • CARNDARAK#3163
  • 김겨울#7178
Bonus Prizes - PC:
The following players were the first to slay the bosses listed below, allowing them to design a Unique Item for that boss:
  • First Catarina Kill: allexpleblord#4962
  • First Uber Uber Elder Kill: Ben_#4007
  • First Uber Shaper Kill: Ben_#4007
  • First Uber Sirus Kill: Ben_#4007
  • First Uber Cortex Kill: CARNDARAK#3163


As we stated during launch weekend, we will be running an additional Boss Kill Event for PC where the prize structure will be exactly the same as the first event. The postponed Console Boss Kill Event will also be run at the same time.

More info on when this will start will be provided soon, so keep your eye on the news.

Congratulations again to all winners of the first Secrets of the Atlas Boss Kill Event!

CardiaDarkhill, Jousis & Balormage interview Octavian

[p]Yesterday, Game Designer Octavian joined CardiaDarkhill, Jousis and Balormage to talk about Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas. If you missed seeing it live, you can check it out in the video below. [/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][p]We hope you enjoyed Octavian's unique insights.[/p][p]
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