Path of Exile News

We're proud to announce Path of Exile: Heist! Hire skilled thieves to help you pull off risky Heists. Steal valuable artifacts to fund and train your crew as you plan towards the execution of a Grand Heist. Our September expansion contains the Heist challenge league, nine new Skills and Support Gems, revamps of Curses, Steel Skills, and various Spells. Grand Heists offer exclusive new rewards such as Weapon and Body Armour Enchantments, Heist Trinkets, Alternate-quality Gems, Replica Unique Items and Experimented Base Types. Please check out the announcement page, watch the trailer and check out the new supporter packs!


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September 1st marks ten years since Path of Exile was first announced! If you're interested to see how the game looked exactly 10 years ago, check out the announcement trailer below!

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Coincidentally, we'll be announcing our next expansion just the next day. We have finished our press tour, having shown our next expansion to 19 news outlets. As usual, the journalist embargo lifts at 2pm PDT (9am NZ time) tomorrow, so you can expect the detailed information and interviews being posted on various news sites alongside the announcement and trailer on our site. In addition, be sure to tune into ZiggyD's stream when the announcement goes live to learn more about the expansion and watch a live Q&A with Chris Wilson.

See you at the announcement!

In just a couple of days we'll be announcing our September expansion! Alongside the announcement we'll also introduce a new set of league supporter packs. In addition to their usual content, these supporter packs will contain a new type of Character Effect which we've wanted to try out for a long time.

These character effects start with a minimal visual effect which charges up as you slay monsters. There are six visual phases until it's at its full glorious effect. After a short time without killing monsters, it will phase back down to its original look.

We've prepared a preview of one of them today. Watch the video below!

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If you've ever wanted to design a microtransaction for Path of Exile, now is your chance! In this series of news, we invite the Path of Exile community to cast their vote on a selection of options to design a new microtransaction, these options range from its type, theme, colour scheme, effects etc. Our team will create the final result and make it available at a later date.

We're starting this process with today's poll which will determine which type of microtransaction we design. You get to choose from the following types of cosmetic effects: Helmet, Character Effect, Weapon Effect, Weapon Skin, Skill Effect, Shield, Portal. The poll is available from the time of this post until Tuesday September 1st (PDT) next week. Note that there will be several versions of this poll across the other language news and we'll tally the results together before determining the outcome.

We're very curious to see what will come out of this!

CLICK HERE TO VOTE

In 2018, we introduced a Private League system which allowed our players to create their own Path of Exile leagues with different mods. The community have frequently requested that we increase the player limit of Private Leagues so they can run larger leagues. We're happy to announce that we're increasing the size of Private Leagues today!

As of the time we posted this, we've already increased the Private League member limit by 1,000. This means you can purchase more player slots now and increase your Private League up to a maximum capacity of 3,000 players. We'll continue to incrementally increase the limit every day until we reach a cap of 10,000 players or if we hit any issues with size limits. The reason for doing this slowly is to ensure that there aren't any technical issues that occur by having too many players in a Private League.

We look forward to seeing how the community incorporates these larger limits into their group play!