It's hard to believe that we've already made it to the end of 2022! As we start to welcome in the new year, we wanted to take a moment to look back on the year that was.
In 2022:
- We launched four expansions: Siege of the Atlas, Sentinel, Lake of Kalandra and The Forbidden Sanctum.
- We broke our concurrent player record this year with 270,260 players playing simultaneously on the main realm!
- Zana disappeared, just in time for four Eldritch Horrors to attack.
- We overhauled the Atlas, transforming it from four separate regions to one and by doing so, added yet another huge passive tree to Path of Exile.
- We added the Gem and Flask Stash Tabs to the store, which introduced stash affinities for Gems and Flasks.
- We added Archnemesis to the game.
- We removed Archnemesis from the game.
- We introduced the Kirac Vault Pass, a Battle Pass-like system that awards exclusive unique item skins.
- We hosted a thrilling Boss Kill Event for Siege of the Atlas, with the top prize being claimed by none other than Ben.
- We hosted another Boss Kill Event in Sentinel, with the top prize being claimed again by Ben.
- We hosted a third Boss Kill Event in Lake of Kalandra. You can probably guess who claimed the top prize. (Spoiler: It was Ben)
- We introduced Uber versions of new and old bosses, including the infamous Uber Uber Elder.
- We made it so you could have multiple influences on a map.
- We updated our Challenge Rewards system to give cooler rewards that upgrade when you complete more challenges.
- We expanded our office onto two more floors of the building we're in.
- We fixed the mangled text bug, which had been in the game since 2016!
- We added official controller support for PC.
- We announced Exilecon 2023, which will be held from July 29-30 in Auckland, New Zealand! We're so excited for this, as we get to show off more of what we've been working on for Path of Exile 2 and Mobile!
- We revealed Kalandra, the mysterious entity behind the Mirror of Kalandra.
- We introduced Atlas Memories, a new type of endgame item that lets you explore parts of the Atlas with juiced up encounters and rewards.
- We brought back the Trialmaster fight, letting you challenge him for his Unique rewards.
- We added foil versions of pinnacle boss Unique Items.
- We rebalanced and overhauled over 100 Unique Items.
- We buffed Cleave's radius by +2.
- We banished the bandit Beyond demons and replaced them with the demonic horrors from Scourge.
- We introduced lifeforce to Harvest, making its crafts tradable.
- We caused chaos in the Standard economy by subtly changing what Divine Orbs and Exalted Orbs are valued at.
- We overhauled the Trickster Ascendancy, giving it a bunch of new toys.
- We introduced 8 new Skill and Support gems and 8 new Vaal Skills, including Vaal Cleave. Did we mention that Cleave's radius was buffed by +2? This was very important.
- We introduced the Forbidden Sanctum, our take on a roguelike game mode within Path of Exile.
- We overhauled a plethora of Endgame Unique Weapons, including fan-favourites like Starforge and Atziri's Disfavour.
- We officially released Ruthless, a new game mode in Path of Exile that makes the game more difficult by limiting player power through extreme item scarcity.
- We revived our Build of the Week series.
- We added 49 Unique Items to the game, 13 of them designed by winners of our Boss Kill Competitions (and 5 of them designed by Ben…)
- The uniques the winners designed are:
- The Burden of Truth (Ben)
- Echoes of Creation (Ben)
- Call of the Void (Ben)
- Progenesis (Ben)
- Dawnstrider (Ben)
- The Eternal Struggle (Waggle)
- Impossible Escape (Steelmage)
- Oriath's End (Steelmage)
- Soul Ascension (Zizaran)
- Rational Doctrine (rawlnx)
- Nimis (Jungroan)
- Entropic Devastation (GucciPradas)
- Annihilation's Approach (imexile)
- We introduced 18 new currency items, including the coveted Recombinators that were introduced in the Sentinel Expansion. A lot of these are still floating around on Standard!
- We posted roughly 2128 lines of patch notes for PC and 1861 lines of patch notes for Console.
- We sold 212587 wetas this year!
Thank you so much for your support in 2022. We look forward to another amazing year for Path of Exile!
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Posted by Community_Teamon Jan 1, 2023, 3:00:00 PMGrinding Gear Games |
happy new year!!
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Posted byLyutsifer665on Jan 1, 2023, 3:02:18 PM
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Happy new year GGG!
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Posted byBlackS2wanon Jan 1, 2023, 3:03:06 PM
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Happy new year !
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Posted byUmadzon Jan 1, 2023, 3:03:12 PM
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Happy New Year!
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“There are only two great tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want and the other is getting it.” ―Oscar Wilde
In Memoriam – John C. Hemphill, Sr. (November 21, 1951 – October 10, 2024)
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Posted byExhumer1on Jan 1, 2023, 3:04:08 PM
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Happy New Year GGG
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Posted byvuchkovon Jan 1, 2023, 3:05:11 PM
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Happy new year!
Her beauty did not fade
her humanity did not survive.
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Posted byaLamewon Jan 1, 2023, 3:07:15 PM
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Happy new year!
"We added Archnemesis to the game.
We removed Archnemesis from the game."
LOL, nice one!
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Posted bygerindoomon Jan 1, 2023, 3:11:42 PM
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cool, thanks for another great year.....heres to many more.
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Posted byDeedledoon Jan 1, 2023, 3:14:39 PM
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Happy new year! Oh and cleave was buffed? Neat!
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Posted byTherieron Jan 1, 2023, 3:14:42 PM
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