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In the Affliction League, you'll be able to earn pieces of the exclusive Night Lotus Armour Set by completing 40 new challenges. At 4, 8, 12 and 16 challenges, you'll receive the Night Lotus Boots, Gloves, Body Armour, and Helmet respectively.

Additional tiers of this armour set are unlocked as you complete more challenges in the Affliction League. Completing challenges also grants you pieces of the Affliction Totem Pole Hideout decoration!

In Ruthless, you will receive the full Night Lotus Armour Set at 2 challenges, and each challenge completed after that will upgrade pieces of the set with the entire set fully upgraded once 8 challenges are completed.

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Here's the fifth and final batch of Transfigured Gems coming in Path of Exile: Affliction. Check them out on our forum here!

That concludes our Transfigured Gem previews for Path of Exile: Affliction! If you haven't seen a preview of your favourite Skill Gem, that means it won't make it in for launch. We're sorry if we didn't get to your gem!

You can find the first batch of Transfigured Gems here, the second batch here, the third batch here and the fourth batch here. Changes to existing gems can be found here.

We can't wait to see what builds you all come up with using these new Gems! See you all tomorrow at launch!

Path of Exile: Affliction launches soon! In this news post, we've gathered all the information you need to know about what happens on launch day and how to start downloading early.

The realm goes down and patching begins at: Friday 8th December, 8:00AM PST
The servers go live at: Friday 8th December, 11:00AM PST

If the timezone is displaying incorrectly for you, please disregard the above timer and refer to the countdown on our website's front page. Three hours before the end of the countdown, the realm will go down and patching will begin shortly after. When the countdown ends, the servers will be live and you'll be able to join the Affliction League!

The patch size for the update will be around 8-9GB on Steam.

Don't forget, Twitch Drops are enabled for the launch of Path of Exile: Affliction! Watch for 4 hours of accumulated watch time on any channel streaming Path of Exile during the event and you'll be granted the Ice Tiger Pet! More information about Twitch Drops can be found here.

Keep in mind that if you haven't taken advantage of it yet, it's still possible to get one free Ancestor Mystery Box when you spend any amount of points in the store. NOTE: this is only possible once per account. Additional purchases do not grant additional mystery boxes.

In case you still haven't decided which build to play with, check out the Class subsections on the forum for suggestions from the community. Many of our community streamers are also providing build guides on YouTube!

If you want a new look to match your build, check out the Nexus stores of your favourite creators for their curated selection of Armour Sets to support them as well as the development of Path of Exile!

We can't wait to see your latest adventures through Wraeclast and the Viridian Wildwood. We'll see you at launch!

Surprise! Here's another batch of Transfigured Gems coming in Path of Exile: Affliction. Check them out on our forum here!

You can find the first batch of Transfigured Gems here, the second batch here and the third batch here. Changes to existing gems can be found here.

Here's the third batch of Transfigured Gems coming in Path of Exile: Affliction. Check them out on our forum here!

Note: We've shown Ice Golem of Hordes in this batch, but all Summon Golem gems will also have this variant to make up for the Anima Stone Unique Jewel no longer having the "+1 to maximum number of summoned Golems" stat, as mentioned in the patch notes.

You can find the first batch of Transfigured Gems here, the second batch here and the changes to existing gems here.