Developer Questions and Answers

Will there ever be South African servers?

Can we do something that most countries have not achieved and close the gap between the rich and the poor?

Let me restate this : In the past few leagues, and most prominently in Synthesis league, we have been seeing a large gap between normal players, and the gods amongst players that make up the mirror service group. While an average player (using me as an example so don't judge) can probably pull about 10ex a league if they play regularly, which is good, and is enough to fund a decent, uber-elder-killing build, but 10ex is nowhere near enough the amount needed to craft the abysmally high and powerful gear available, be it +5 level bow or 500+ es shields, unless you are extremely lucky. Gone are the days where anyone could find something decent and work off it. Now, you either exhaust yourself farming maps over and over again hoping for some miracle, or you place your bet on an heavy rng mechanic, be it double corruption, chaos spamming, or divination cards. It's really hard to play using Inpulsa when you have to farm 5.5 ex just to get an unlinked version, and linking the thing is another escapade not even worth mentioning. And that's just the chestpiece. What I don't like is that for something to be barred from me unless I waste my days farming to get it. And believe it or not, many of us do not have time for that. So we're kinda stuck playing cheap builds cause there's more or less no other option.

So, GGG, listen to the poor ones. Help us become what we wish, without permanent brain damage.

Will red maps forever be "endgame" or do you have plans to implement more difficult/different ways of "grinding"? I'd like to see a league where you can do league content exclusively without touching maps. Delve could've been perfect for that.

What's the deal with the lore about Hillock?

The original lore said he was a villager on Oriath who went on a drunk rampage and then became a mass murderer, until he was killed by other villagers and thrown into the ocean. His body reached Wraeclast, and then he was raised as our good old friend, met on Twilight Strand.

Now, whoever, we have letters of exile saying he was exiled to Wraeclast for multiple crimes, hinting that he was actually an exile, not someone who reached Wraeclast after death. At the same time, the letters of exile accuse him of some rather nasty stuff; we do know, however, that those letters are often not the most impartial source of information.

Is the "true" lore about Hillock that he was an exile sent (alive) to Wraeclast for multiple crimes? Did he really commit the stuff described on his letter of exile?

Will you end requiring everyone work at the New Zealand Office any time soon?

Can we get some sort of in-game offline messaging system? So we can communicate with our friends when they haven't been online in awhile? Make it require mutual friendship and cost one chaos to avoid abuse.

As more masters enter the game, the likelyhood of coming accross any specific master in a random map dwindles. The popularity and unpopularity of certain masters (niko vs jun for example) can make players feel cornered into participating in certain content, while also feeling locked out of other content. While rng is an important aspect of the game, player agency is also important as well.

Would GGG consider making certain masters into zana mods the way harbingers & nemisis mods can be purchased as map mods? If yes, which masters would be considered?

1) When can we obtain (buy/challenge reward) the harbinger portal?


2) What is the rarest/most expensive/best item in PoE that you have? (chris/bex/any1 on the dev team that wanna share)


3) What is something that no one has asked but you wanted to share with the community?


4) If you can remove a unique from the game permanently, which would you remove?


5) How many times was the "cavas" recipe used this league/ how many players figured it out?

Hey, I watched the GDC talk that Chris did and was curious how you want to balance scarabs in the long run, ie.) the tool used to give players more agency in which content they desire to play more.

Currently scarabs are just a minor boost that gives you a bit of access to more content but they're already so rare that it seems like the average player can't target farm scarabs to focus on a particular aspect of the game such as Delve.

How do you plan to make scarabs more accessible?

If not, do you have other plans to try and make accessing other league content more frequently outside the realm of mapping?

Can we have permanent skin transfer?