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PoE 3.12 release date: everything we know about the Path of Exile Heist expansion

Path of Exile: Heist isn't far off and for dug in fans there's plenty on the way in PoE 3.12. Introducing the Heist League, 13 new NPCs, Trinkets, Alternate Quality Gems, Replica Unique Items, Experimented Base Types, New Unique Items, New Spells, New Curses, New Steel Skills, and reworks to each of these game areas.

The Heist expansion involves a new location and a band of thieves who help you plan and execute heists, assisting you with tasks such as lockpicking, transportation, and disarming traps. These merry rogues aid you in your robbery of artifacts and the more you steal, the closer you get to taking on Grand Heists by selling them at The Rogue Harbour. Eventually you can collate all your know how and assemble the best rogues to infiltrate a large facility for greater rewards.

The heist itself involves robbing a guarded facility while remaining unseen to secure a vault of goodies at the end. Heist is an ambitious expansion, as you can see from the extensive list of content and changes arriving, but the Path of Exile Heist release date isn't far off, so here's everything that's coming to the next expansion.

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Path of Exile gets a heist league because its producer saw Ocean's 11 on Netflix

Grinding Gear Games borrows from a variety of sources of inspiration for Path of Exile's various leagues. The previous Harvest update takes some cues from Stardew Valley, whereas Pokemon and old flash games have influenced others in the past. The idea behind the most recent PoE league, heist, though, comes from Steven Soderbergh film Ocean's 11.

GGG co-founder Chris Wilson tells us that he and the studio's technical director Jonathan Rogers were mulling over the theme of the upcoming expansion back in February. Stumped, they turned to Netflix. "We get to a car racing movie and think, can we do a league about this?" Wilson recalls. "We seriously talked about what it means to have a vehicle that you're building, Path of Exile, and how that would work - but that didn't pan out. Eventually, we got to Ocean's 11, or some other heist movie on the list, and thought, well, that would be cool.

"Instantly, you know exactly what that league is going to be. You're going to rob some places, it's going to be exciting, and there's going to be guards. There's going to be bypassing security and planning around a big table with maps pulled out over it with other people pouring over it."

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Announcing Path of Exile: Heist

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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The Press Tour Is Complete

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.

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Preview of Upcoming Supporter Packs

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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