News Archive

The team has almost finished testing the new 3.2.2b Patch, which includes two new Unique Items, one new Fated Item, 3D art for the Farrul's Armour Set from the Bestiary League and many bug fixes. We're planning to deploy this by tomorrow morning. In the meantime, we've prepared the full patch notes and a preview of a new Fated Item for you to check out. Read More.

For our April Fool's day joke this year, we created a 100 player free-for-all battleground game mode called PATH OF EXILE: ROYALE. While many community members initially assumed the news was a fake announcement (as is typical with April Fool's jokes), the real joke was that we actually made a real game mode and ran it until the end of April 1. This news post describes how we created it, how it went and what the future may hold for Royale. Read More.

Last week we announced our plans to revamp many skill gems and initiated an ongoing news series where we will continue to discuss what we're working on in this area. Our first skill revamp post included a few examples of skills that we're working on and discussed the overall direction we plan to take in this process. Today's skill revamp post discusses some changes to Fire Trap, Bear Trap and Lightning Trap that we're currently experimenting with. Read More.

Based on community feedback, we are announcing that we have abandoned the Action RPG genre to focus on what players really want. Path of Exile is being replaced by PATH OF EXILE: ROYALE, a 100-person free-for-all battle royale game. Check out the trailer for PATH OF EXILE: ROYALE here! Read More.

Since Content Updates 3.1.0 and 3.2.0 introduced new skills with the latter including a full Ascendancy Class rework, we're excited to announce the first episode of Season Eight of Build of the Week! This episode showcases an Assassin that takes advantage of its Ascendancy changes and uses Molten Strike to hit the same target multiple times and rapidly deal a lot of poison damage. Check out the episode here. Read More.

Normally we'd wait significantly longer before discussing what's coming up in the next large content update, but there's one specific area that we want to start discussing early: revamps of existing skills. Our plan is that each content update going forwards includes a batch of revamped skills, starting with June's 3.3.0 release. We're still in the early code prototyping stage for these changes but we'd like to make this an ongoing series of articles detailing our thoughts and progress on the skills we're changing. Read More.

We're launching a competition to design the best Path of Exile T-shirt! At the end of the competition, we will select one or two designs to be turned into a Path of Exile T-shirt and make it available to the community. We will also be awarding prizes to the most compelling entries! Read More.

One of our goals with Content Update 3.2.0 was to take a holistic view of the Ascendancy classes and rebalance (in some cases, entirely rework) them. The goal was to bring them to a similar level of power, as well as to create stronger class identities and provide mechanisms for both existing and future content to hook into. Read More.

We've just released a collection of sea creature-themed microtransactions, including the Kraken Shield and Weapon Effect, the Seawitch Armour Set and the Coconut Crab Pet. Press the Menu button in-game to check all of them in the store. Read More.

We've just released the Seawitch Armour Set that draws inspiration from the shoaly waters of Wraeclast. It also fits well with the other sea-creature themed microtransactions we've released this week! Check out the video or get yours here. Read More.