News Archive

We're teaming up with community streamer Zizaran once again to host the Echoes of the Atlas Boss Kill Event, where Path of Exile players can compete to kill our newest endgame boss, The Maven, while playing in Ritual HC SSF mode. Zizaran has arranged $40,000 for the event's prize pool. On top of cash prizes for players, there are also microtransaction prizes provided by us. Find out more in this news post. Read More.

As you know from our Echoes of the Atlas announcement, in this expansion we have rebalanced all Ascendancy classes. Three of them (Inquisitor, Deadeye and Elementalist) have been reworked while the remaining classes received some numerical changes. To help you plan your builds for the launch, we've compiled all of the changes to Ascendancy classes in this news post. Read More.

As with every new League and expansion release, we're making a variety of balance changes to broaden the number of builds that are competitive in the end-game while lowering the power of specific mechanics that outclass the rest. You'll be able to view these changes in greater detail in the patch notes tomorrow but in the meantime, this manifesto outlines what you can expect. Read More.

We recently announced the Echoes of the Atlas expansion which launches next week! After our livestream reveal, community streamer ZiggyD hosted a live Q&A with Chris Wilson to answer the community's burning questions. In this news post, we've summarised their discussion and rounded up other questions that have been asked by the community in the last 48 hours. Read More.

The Heist League on PC ends at 1pm on January 11th (PST), so this is your final weekend to complete the remaining challenges in this league. We're also running a 50 Point Sale with a huge variety of cosmetic effects available for only 50 points or less. Check out the sale here. Until the launch of the Echoes of the Atlas expansion we're offering one free Twilight Mystery Box when you spend points! Find out more in this news post. Read More.

This is the final announcement of the announcement before the official announcement goes live in less than a day during our livestream on Twitch at 11am on January 7th (PST). Tune in at www.twitch.tv/pathofexile to watch the reveal live and to earn the Magma Wings with Twitch Drops! We'll also release a set of new league's Supporter Packs which will replace the Harvest Supporter Packs, so if you've been considering purchasing those or setting up a payment plan, you only have one day left to do so. Read More.

Later this week, we're announcing our 3.13.0 expansion during an exclusive livestream and you'll be able to play it yourself on January 15. Because we usually have more time between an expansion's announcement and launch, you may be wondering what the news period between these two dates looks like! We've got you covered. Check out the full but slightly-redacted schedule in today's news. Read More.

We can't believe it, but we made it through 2020! Happy New Year, Exiles! As is tradition, we're taking a moment to look back on the year that has just concluded. Read More.

With our announcement of the 3.13.0 endgame expansion on the horizon, today we thought we'd take a look at past endgame expansions, and give you a narrative developer's reflections on the lore of each Atlas-focused expansion. Read More.

A few days before every major release, there's Patch Notes Day. The patch notes are a culmination of the previous months of work across GGG's many employees, distilled into a few hundred sentences, belying the amount of labour and love that has gone into each update. For this news post we asked Nick, our senior Narrative Designer, to explain a complex process of writing patch notes for Path of Exile's updates. Read More.