News Archive

Last week we posted a Beta FAQ where we mentioned that we were planning to run some events between the end of the Legacy League and the full release of The Fall of Oriath. These events would be concurrent to its Beta and some would grant Beta keys. There has been overwhelming feedback that the community would like us to extend the Legacy Leagues during the Beta so that continuing to play Legacy characters and find Relics would be an additional option. We have decided to do so. Read More.

Over the last couple of weeks we've discussed upcoming changes to our Damage Over Time systems in three posts: Development Manifesto Part 1, Part 2 and a follow up that answered some of your questions. We've assembled a fourth post that addresses more of your questions about these changes. Read More.

Our upcoming expansion, The Fall of Oriath, contains a wide variety of new boss fights. One of the Minor Gods you encounter in Act Six is Abberath (God of the Goatmen). Today's news post is a sneak peek video of the fight with Abberath. Read More.

Path of Exile: The Fall of Oriath brings six new acts and many new areas! In addition to these significant changes, we're also making smaller improvements to existing environments. We've created a sneak preview video of some of these environmental updates. Read More.

Last week we released Part One of our Damage Over Time Changes manifesto that discussed the new core Poison, Bleed and Ignite system that we'll be introducing in Beta of The Fall of Oriath. Part Two of this manifesto discusses how these changes will interact with various game mechanics and talk about some of the new mechanics we're introducing to improve damage growth and give investment options for characters. Read More.

In Path of Exile: The Fall of Oriath, we've taken the opportunity to improve some of our NPC character models. While the development team continues to work on the expansion, we've managed to get an early look at two of these updated NPC models! Read More.

For the last several leagues, abilities that use damage over time mechanics such as Poison and Ignite have been present in a large majority of end game builds. The team has written a Development Manifesto that outlines some of the changes that are coming to this aspect of gameplay in 3.0.0. Read More.

The development team is currently hard at work finishing our upcoming expansion: The Fall of Oriath! In the next couple of weeks we'll be announcing the start date of our beta for this expansion that will allow players to test the new content themselves! In the meantime, we're excited to share a teaser of three new types of monsters that you'll encounter in this expansion! Read More.

The Legacy Challenge Leagues are in full swing, and to make them more enjoyable for you, we're sharing their main musical theme today. We also deployed Patch 2.6.0i today and have just kicked off a Super Stash Sale for the weekend where we're discounting every type of stash tab. Check out the deals here. Read More.

Today we have deployed patch 2.6.0h, which is an update with several bugfixes. You can check out the full patch notes here. Read More.