Path of Exile News

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!

We can't believe how quickly time has flown by but here we are, getting ready to announce our third expansion of this year! The press tour has just begun and this means the announcement is only a week away. We'll reveal the details next Tuesday, September 1st at 2pm (PDT).

We're still aiming to launch this expansion on September 18th (PDT), although this date may still be changed. We'll confirm the launch date with the announcement.

As usual, we're planning to release a new set of league supporter packs for PC alongside the announcement. This time, however, the Supporter Packs launched alongside Harvest will stay in the store for the duration of 3.12 league, so you'll have more time to decide whichever supporter pack you prefer - the old one or the new one. Console players will be able to purchase new supporter packs after the new expansion goes live on consoles.

We're really excited to show you the results of our work and we hope you'll like this expansion as much as we do!

We're happy to introduce a community event organized by Brittleknee, AFK Creators and SoftGiving. The first charity relay race starts on September 5th at 8pm UTC (check out the countdown here). This event will be open participation, and support a host of charities, like our very own community-created GDQ! There’s also a prize pool for the racers and a multitude of giveaways to celebrate the event.

Each relay team of four players will choose a charity to represent, and by participating, ensures a certain allocation of this pool goes to the charity of their choice. The higher they place, the more the charity receives. The race will take place in a Harvest Standard Private League with a 2 Minute Death Penalty, there won't be additional mods. Each member of the relay will have to defeat Dominus before the next member can start their run.

Casting will be done by ZiggyD and Octavian0.

Prize Information (supplied by SoftGiving):

• 1st Place Team: $800 USD
  
• 2nd Place Team: $600 USD
  
• 3rd Place Team: $400 USD
  

Viewers of the race will also be eligible for MTX prizes (provided by SoftGiving, AFK Creators and Grinding Gear Games), the giveaways will take place during the cast.

To learn more about the event, including how to support the cause, sign up for the relay, and more, please refer to this announcement.