Path of Exile News

A good companion is a great thing to have when you're strolling the wretched lands of Wraeclast but nothing beats the best companion of all - a loyal Labrador! Your new best friend is waiting for you in the shop. Check out the video or press "M" in game to get yours!

In continuation of our Developer Interview news series, we took a moment to chat with Eben from our community team about his work with Grinding Gear Games. Many of you will already be familiar with Eben's work on trailers, skill demonstrations, microtransaction videos and more! If you're interested to get to know more about the guy behind the camera, check out this interview.

The Angels and Demons Mystery Box has been one of our most successful Mystery Boxes to date. Our art team did an amazing job creating such glorious cosmetic effects. If you're interested to know what outcome they strived for when making this Mystery Box, have a look at pieces of artwork of the Angels and Demons effects we've gathered in this news post.

This weekend, GGG Co-Founder and Managing Director, Chris Wilson will appear as a guest on the community-run podcast Baeclast with TarkeCat! You'll also see all the usual Baeclast crew, ZiggyD, RaizQT, Octavian0 and Nugiyen. Chris and the Baeclast gang will be taking a deep dive into item design philosophy in Path of Exile.

The episode starts at 7pm on Saturday 18th (NZT). You can find a countdown here. Tarke's pre-show segment starts one hour before the episode goes live.

If you've got some time to kill and you can't wait to get stuck in, check out some of the past Baeclast episodes here. We're looking forward to the discussion and hope to see you there!

Later this week we plan to deploy Patch 3.11.1c which includes the improvements to Storage Tanks and crafting descriptions we mentioned yesterday. It also includes several other fixes and a few improvements. While you wait, we've prepared its patch notes for you to preview!

As always, please note that this only a preview and the patch notes are subject to change prior to the patch's deployment.

Harvest Improvements

• Storage Tanks can now hold up to 1,000 Condensed Lifeforce.
  
• Added a larger Storage Tank which can be created through Harvest Crafting.
  
• Improved the visual clarity of Harvest Crafting descriptions.
  
• Added slots to the Seed Stockpile which can hold Buds, Flowers and Blossoms.
  
• You can now auto-plant while Harvest Crafting is still available.
  
• Clarified the descriptions of how to grow (and regrow) the Heart of the Grove.
  
• Fixed a bug where the "Sacrifice a Corrupted Gem to gain x% of the gem's quality as Gemcutter's Prisms" could return a stack of Gemcutter's Prisms with a stack size of 0.
  
• Fixed a bug preventing enchanting of a Map (using Harvest crafting) if it already had Delirium applied to it.
  

General Improvements

• Added a "Camera Rotation Effects" Option. This can be disabled to prevent effects similar to that found in the Veritania, The Redeemer encounter room.
  
• All Vault doors are now automatically opened in a Blighted Vault Map.
  
• The exit from Vaal Oversoul's arena now unlocks significantly sooner.
  
• Updated the audio of the Miracle Map Device.
  
• Improved the default volume of audio effects in the Elder encounter.
  
• Fixed a bug where blocking a Hit did not always count as having been Hit for the sake of some "have been hit Recently" modifiers.
  
• Fixed a bug where Sirus, Awakener of Worlds could dismount his throne if there was a dead player underneath it.
  
• Fixed a bug where Metamorphs could fail to take any actions if they were stunned before having taken an action.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Mineshaft that Niko drills could intersect with other Azurite Mine encounter nodes.
  
• Fixed a bug where Betrayal Fortification encounters were unable to spawn in the Desert Map.
  
• Fixed a bug where Entity of the Void's Flameblast was much smaller than intended.
  
• Fixed a bug where skeletons summoned by the Bringer of Bones nemesis modifier were always level 4.
  
• Fixed a bug where monsters could spawn in an inaccessible location in the Chateau Map.
  
• Fixed a bug where the exit from the Lava Chamber boss arena didn't lock during combat with Fire and Fury.
  
• Fixed a bug where Elusive would cause some microtransactions to lose their textures briefly when the buff expired.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Insatiable Malice Weapon Effect was not attached to the correct part of the Demonic Weapon cosmetic.
  
• Fixed a bug where Labyrinth rotating traps didn't have shadows.
  

Skills & Passives Fixes

• The first shockwave from Sunder is now slightly closer to the player to fix a case where very close targets weren't being hit.
  
• Mirage Saviours, Mirage Warriors and Mirage Chieftains spawned by The Saviour unique legion sword, General's Cry and Tawhoa's Chosen respectively can no longer be stunned.
  
• Added a larger visual to the aura granted by The Torrent's Reclamation unique belt.
  
• Added effects to Gore Earthquake Effect and Crystal Earthquake Effect when supported by Fist of War Support.
  
• Updated the audio of Crystal Earthquake Effect and Demonic Earthquake Effect.
  
• Added audio to Brands when they attach to monsters.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Master of Metal ascendancy passive would not always grant added Physical Damage.
  
• Fixed a bug where, while you had the Supreme Ego keystone allocated, activating a temporary aura (through the use of March of the Legion) would turn off Malevolence or Zealotry.
  
• Fixed a bug where Glimmerwood Sunder didn't play audio for shockwaves beyond the first when supported by Fist of War Support.
  

Bloom Improvements

• Reduced the brightness of the Demonic Weapon cosmetic while it had Blood Guard Weapon Effect applied to it.
  
• Reduced the brightness of the following effects: Celestial Herald Effect, Crystal Earthquake Effect, Dragon Fireball Effect, Huntsman Aura Effect, Pandemonium Portal Effect, Ringmaster Weapon Effect, Sentinel Portal Effect and Thaumaturgy Wings.
  

Crash Fixes

• Fixed three instance crashes.