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Secrets of the Atlas Boss Kill Event

To celebrate the launch of Secrets of the Atlas, we’re hosting a Boss Kill Event where Path of Exile players can compete to kill the new Pinnacle Bosses in the Mercenaries HC SSF League. We have put together a prize pool that gives the winners the opportunity to collaborate with our design team to create new Unique Items and Divination cards that will be added to Path of Exile.

Prizes will be awarded to the first ten players who kill all three of the new pinnacle bosses, called "The Incarnations" in their non-quest variations (Area level 84).

Prizes for Top Placings - PC:

1st: Design a Unique for new Pinnacle Boss: Incarnation of Dread or the future-released Uber variant of this Boss Fight & Collaborate on the design of a Divination Card + Godslayer's Pride Microtransaction.

The first place winner will also get some additional design space with their item if they want to do something a little different. For example, if you would like to design a Unique Map or if you would like to design a Unique Item that requires a unique-piece from each of the three Bosses, then needs to be combined to create something more epic, this is something we will allow, so feel free to stray from the norm! This is something our team will help provide more details on during collaboration.
2nd: Design a Unique for new Pinnacle Boss: Incarnation of Neglect or the future-released Uber variant of this Boss Fight & Collaborate on the design of a Divination Card + Godslayer's Pride Microtransaction.
3rd: Design a Unique for new Pinnacle Boss: Incarnation of Fear or the future-released Uber variant of this Boss Fight & Collaborate on the design of a Divination Card + Godslayer's Pride Microtransaction.
4th-10th place: Collaborate on the design of a Divination Card + Godslayer's Pride Microtransaction.

To celebrate Zana's return, there will also be a set of prizes for defeating bosses that were historically significant to her. Bonus prizes will be awarded to the first players to defeat Uber Sirus, Uber Elder, Uber Shaper or Uber Cortex. To celebrate Betrayal's rework, there is also a bonus prize for defeating Catarina.

Bonus Prizes - PC:

First Catarina Kill: Collaborate on the design of a Unique Item that will drop from Catarina, you can even input on the custom Veiled Modifiers that will be able to be unveiled on this Unique.
First Uber Elder Kill: Collaborate on the design of a Unique Item that will drop from the Elder or Uber Elder.
First Uber Shaper Kill: Collaborate on the design of a Unique Item that will drop from the Shaper or Uber Shaper.
First Uber Sirus Kill: Collaborate on the design of a Unique Item that will drop from Sirus or Uber Sirus, The Awakener.
First Uber Cortex Kill: Collaborate on the design of a Unique Item that will drop from Cortex or Uber Cortex.

Console players can also participate in this event with separate prize pools from PC. The Console Boss Kill Event will take place in the SSF Mercenaries League.

Prizes for Top Placings - (both Xbox and Playstation have separate prize pools):

1st-3rd place: Collaborate on the design of a Divination Card + Godslayer's Pride Microtransaction.
4th-10th place: A Godslayer's Pride Microtransaction.

Additional Rules:

A player can win both a Placing prize and one or more Bonus Prizes.
If there are operational problems with the event (like significant realm stability issues at launch), Grinding Gear Games may restart the event at any point. The way we will do this is to create a new event league and indicate that players who wish to compete in the new event must make new characters there.
Players who migrate from a private league to Mercenaries HC SSF during the event are ineligible for prizes.
Placings and prize eligibility are entirely at the discretion of Grinding Gear Games.
The prizes that consist of collaborating on the design of a Divination Card or Unique Item do not guarantee that the item will turn out exactly how you want. The design team will try to accommodate your suggestions as best as they can, but the final design is at their discretion. Because these Unique Items are likely to become chase content, it's critical that they fit the overall design vision of Path of Exile. The balance and drop chances of these items after their release is entirely at the discretion of Grinding Gear Games.
While the event being SSF reduces a lot of scope for outside help, any form of account sharing (or other breaches of the Terms of Use) will disqualify a player from receiving prizes.
Grinding Gear Games Employees (past or present) are not eligible for prizes.
Players who have played on the Alpha realm since June 6th, 2025 (when the expansion was first deployed) are not eligible for prizes.
Dying or migrating your character out of the league doesn't remove prize eligibility as long as the kill occurred while in the league.
Prizes cannot be transferred. Only the person who completed the achievements in the event can collaborate on the Unique Item and Divination Card designs. It's fine for these people to seek advice and help from other community members with their design.
Upon winning, if you take too long to engage in the collaborative design such that the content may have changed context or been removed from the game then you will lose your design opportunity or it will be moved to another Pinnacle Boss or equivalent at Grinding Gear Games' discretion. We will notify you in advance where possible of course!

As a helpful tip, the top of the Atlas Passive Skill Tree comes with three notable skills that allow you to influence which of the Incarnations will appear; these will be very useful to ensure you don't get too unlucky.

Good luck in the event!

What Will Happen When The Settlers League Ends

The Settlers Challenge League will end soon and you may be wondering what will happen when it does.

Kingsmarch will be going core in 3.26. You can find out the specifics in our content reveal, which you can find here. The league will end on Monday 9th June, 3PM PDT.

Here's what you can expect once the league ends:

Gold in both your inventory and in your Kingsmarch Treasury will be preserved, but will not be visible or usable until the launch of 3.26.
All Kingsmarch resources, such as crops and ore, will be deleted.
All of your Kingsmarch workers will be deleted.
Any unclaimed rewards from Mapping or Shipping will be deleted.
Maps in Kingsmarch Map Devices that haven't been ran, or items in the Disenchanting inventory that haven't been disenchanted will be moved to Remove Only Stash Tabs.
All existing Runes will be deleted. Runecrafts on existing items will remain.

Thanks to everyone for playing Settlers of Kalguur. While it's been a long time, we hope you're excited as we are for our next expansion, The Secrets of the Atlas!

Path of Exile 3.26 brings a big endgame upgrade and mercenaries to the free ARPG

After nearly a year of waiting, Path of Exile 3.26 marks the grand return of the still-undisputed ARPG champion. While PoE 2, Diablo 4, and Last Epoch are all making great strides, Grinding Gear Games' original free Steam game is still tough to top, with more than a decade of honing under its belt. It's been on the back burner of late, but with Path of Exile 2 early access now in a stable spot, GGG is ready to deliver Secrets of the Atlas, a major endgame overhaul featuring additional crafting options, map chains, and fresh pinnacle bosses, accompanied by new challenge league Mercenaries of Trarthus.

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Announcing Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas

In Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas, tears have begun to appear in the Atlas leading to different realities. The Originator of these realities has entangled themselves within the very fabric of the Atlas and they’re now trapped! Track down the source of the tears and uncover the secrets within.

Our new expansion introduces an additive endgame storyline, a new type of endgame item influence, three new endgame bosses, a new challenge league, dozens of new unique items and much more!
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Twitch Drops - Skull of Undeath Helmet Skin

Watch the Secrets of the Atlas live reveal on Thursday June 5th (PDT) and you’ll be able to earn the Skull of Undeath Helmet Skin with Twitch Drops!

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[h2]How to Participate[/h2]
Simply link your Path of Exile account to Twitch (see below) and tune into GGG Live at www.twitch.tv/pathofexile, or any channel in the Path of Exile Directory for 45 minutes. Drops will be enabled from 1PM PDT until 10PM PDT.

You will get the Skull of Undeath Helmet Skin after 45 minutes of accumulated watch time on any channel with drops enabled streaming Path of Exile during the event. This means that the drop is guaranteed for everyone who has watched any Path of Exile stream for this amount of time. This promotion is available for all accounts.

If you’re planning to stream Path of Exile during our livestream and want to enable Twitch Drops for your viewers, you can do it via your Twitch Creator Dashboard here.

[h2]Linking your Path of Exile Account to Twitch[/h2]
Visit your Twitch Settings page while logged in. If your account isn't connected, click the "Connect" button for Twitch under "Other Connections". Complete the process on Twitch and you will be redirected back to your Twitch Settings page. If your account is already connected, this page should say "Your Path of Exile account is currently linked to your Twitch account."

After you've accumulated enough watch time to earn your Skull of Undeath Helmet Skin, you must redeem them from your Twitch Inventory before the promotional period ends. Then they will be immediately available in your microtransactions list in Path of Exile 1, and will also be available for use in Path of Exile 2 later. The Skull of Undeath Helmet Skin will be available for purchase from the store at a later date.

We can’t wait to share all the secrets of the Atlas with you! To stay up to date in the lead up to the livestream be sure to check out our Twitter, Facebook and Forums. We'll see you at GGG Live at www.twitch.tv/pathofexile!