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Community Showcase

We're always happy to see fan art submissions created by our talented community. For this news post we've gathered several pieces of recent artwork, inspired by the Heist league content. Enjoy!

Tibbs by Kardalak

Just Chilling Before Heist Comes by boldoser

Zana's Ultimate Form by QueenNie

Heist Fan Art by yy6242

Hana by Ailuart

While we have your attention, we wanted to mention that we're still assessing reports and working on fixes and will share more information as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!

Week One of Path of Exile: Heist

This weekend we launched Path of Exile: Heist! The launch day went quite well with just a few small hotfixes to address minor problems, you can view their patch notes here. Later today, we're planning to deploy a restart patch that includes various other fixes from the weekend. Today's news also outlines a few other details about the weekend and what to expect this week.

Later this week, on September 23 (PDT), we'll be launching Heist on our console platforms. We also hope to formally release our experimental macOS version within the next week as well. Thanks to everyone who has been testing it so far and giving us feedback.

The restart patch which is scheduled for later today includes quite a few more fixes for things like stash blocking in the Rogue Harbour. Later this week we'll prepare a post about what we're working on so that you have a better idea of what to expect from upcoming patches. In the meantime, check out the Patch Notes for 3.12.1 below.

[h3]Heist Improvements[/h3]
Players no longer block other players in The Rogue Harbour.
Reward Chests in Unique Contracts no longer become locked when Lockdown occurs.
Reduced the damage that Clockwork Sentries deal with their on-death explosions.
Reduced the damage of Automaton Lightning Beam's impact area of effect hit.
Increased the damage of Automaton Lightning Beam's beam as well as its on-death explosion.
Escape Route minimap icons are now always visible to players in the same Wing.
Fixed a bug where Replica Quill Rain's "Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 1 Arrow Nova" did not work.
Fixed a bug where an Agility Laser hazard could generate with the disabling mechanism in an unreachable location.
Fixed a bug in Grand Heists where multiple Rogues with the same Job could attempt to do a single job, resulting in multiple job progress bars being visible.
Fixed a bug where various Heist Unique Items did not have a slot in the Unique Collection Tab.

[h3]Skill Improvements[/h3]
Fixed a bug where Flame Wall required more experience than intended to level up.
Fixed a bug where Splitting Steel and Blazing Salvo weren't counted as projectiles for the sake of projectile-specific modifiers.
Fixed a bug where Splitting Steel and Blazing Salvo weren't affected by Area modifiers.
Fixed a bug where Cobra Lash didn't chain as many times as it should have.
Fixed a bug where the tooltip of Enduring Cry incorrectly displayed a higher value of "Regenerate x% of Life over 1 second" than it actually granted.
Fixed a bug where multiple copies of Shattering Steel were offered by a vendor.

[h3]Miscellaneous Improvements[/h3]
Fixed a bug introduced in 3.12.0 which prevented players from changing their God Powers in their hideouts.
Fixed a bug introduced in 3.12.0 where Coward's Legacy unique belt didn't count you as being on Low Life when you were cursed with Vulnerability.

[h3]Crash Fixes[/h3]
Fixed an instance crash that could occur after leaving a Heist area.

If you've encountered any bugs, please report them in the bug reports forum. Our QA team monitors this forum closely and while they can't reply to everything, they do read everything and process it. We also recommend keeping an eye on our known issues list which we update frequently.

We also released the Twilight Mystery Box which contains 38 new microtransactions, some of which can be combined to create the epic Twilight Set. Check out the trailer below or read more about the mystery box here.

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Don't forget that we're in the middle of Zizaran's Awakener Kill Event! Congratulations to Darkee for being the first on to kill The Awakener in Hardcore Heist SSF and for winning the $11,000USD cash prize. Follow Zizaran to keep up to date on the latest.

We've also seen a lot of people enjoying the new voice acting and dialogue. Here are the acting credits for the new characters.

Nenet - Georgie Oulton
Gianna and Adiyah - Elle Wooton
Kurai - Miriama Smith
Isla - Juliet Prew
Faustus - Peter Baker
Karst - Aaron Ward
Tibbs - Andy Grainger
Vinderi - Paul Glover
Huck - Blair Annison Chisholm

The Twilight Mystery Box

Do you burn with the desire to look spectacular? Well thank your lucky stars! The Twilight Mystery Box contains 38 brand new Lunaris- and Solaris-themed cosmetic effects. It's clear as day that these stellar outfits are the perfect addition to your cosmetic collection.

Each Mystery Box costs 30 points and guarantees one microtransaction with value equal to or greater than that of the box. Many of these mystery box cosmetics can be combined to create a blended version of the two designs for even deeper character customisation. The possible outcomes from your mystery box range in value from 30 points all the way up to 320 points!

The average reward is worth 110 points, which is more than three times the cost of the box. Check out the full trailer to see what's available!

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Click here to read the full announcement

macOS Official Release Delayed, Experimental Client Available

Our intention was to release an experimental copy of the macOS Path of Exile client around a week ago, so that community members could test it before its official release tomorrow alongside Heist. A series of last-minute unexpected technical problems meant that we only had this client distributable today. Our new plan is to release this experimental client immediately for feedback from adventurous macOS users, and to officially release on Mac in around a week.

We have put together a macOS version of 3.11.2 (which does not include any Heist content) we have released an installer .dmg file here for Mac users to test. This version will update to and work with Heist tomorrow.

To install it, download and open the .dmg file. Drag the Path of Exile folder into your Applications folder, then launch Path of Exile from within there. It will patch in a full download of the game. Note that you can't copy your Content.ggpk file from a PC to speed it up, and you shouldn't try to use the Content.ggpk from the PC torrent that we'll be releasing today.

This version may be buggy and still has a few things we want to fix, so we recommend not playing it with your hardcore characters!

The macOS version plays on the same servers as the PC version and uses the same accounts/characters/microtransactions/etc. There's no problem switching back and forth between mac and PC as you wish. This experimental 3.11.2 version will patch itself to Heist tomorrow.

We are maintaining a Known Issues list for the macOS version here.

Please post any issues you encounter in the bug reports forum (preferably with "Mac" in the subject).

Path of Exile: Heist Gem Information

The Heist expansion launches in just two days! To help you plan your builds even further, we've prepared gem data at level 20 with 20% quality for all the new and changed gems in 3.12.0.

Check them out in this news post!