News Archive

Clear the day, get your snacks, throw the cat outside - Ascendancy launches tomorrow! At 9am Pacific time the realm will go down for three hours. At this time you'll be able to start patching the expansion. At noon Pacific time the realm will come back and Path of Exile: Ascendancy and the Perandus Challenge leagues will be live! Read More.

We've gathered the relevant information you'll need to update your item filter in time for Ascendancy. If you're following someone else's loot filter it's likely that they'll update it and you'll need to download it again. If you're writing your own filter, here's some information you might need! Read More.

The Perandus Challenge Leagues launch on March 4th alongside Path of Exile: Ascendancy. In the midst of taking on the Lord's Labyrinth and hunting for Perandus' treasure, there are also forty challenges to test yourself against for exclusive rewards. Completing thresholds of these challenges can earn you the Perandus Footprints, Perandus Weapon Effect and Perandus Portal Effect. Interested? Check out a video of these effects! Read More.

A very hot topic in the Path of Exile community is the upcoming improvements to trade. I'm happy to announce that the first wave of these improvements is complete. The first is removing the need to use third party tools to index your items by adding public stash tabs, and the second is adding support for third-party indexing websites to be able to find out if users are online reliably. We expect these to be deployed tomorrow alongside the updates to the third-party websites that we have been working with. Read More.

Alongside the Ascendancy expansion on March 4th, we're introducing a selection of new skills for Melee characters. Sunder is one of them, a mid-level skill that excels at destroying large groups of monsters. Read More.

When Ascendancy launches in less than two weeks, we're introducing many new Unique items. Today's news post showcases five of them. Read More.

Humble Bundle and Gamepedia recently invited us to participate in a bundle of online multiplayer games. We've created a new microtransaction, the Arctic Crown, and combined it with the popular Cobra Pet. These are available as top-tier rewards in this bundle. Humble Bundle allows you to pay whatever amount you'd like for the bundle, with a portion of each sale going to various charities and the developers of the games. Opting to contribute more unlocks even larger bundles for an even better deal! Read More.

In the last few months we've revealed many aspects of the upcoming Ascendancy expansion. However, there are still a few more things to tease. Read More.