Next week we're planning to deploy the 3.13.1e update with a fair amount of improvements and bug fixes. Today we're prepared a preview of its patch notes to give you an idea of what to expect. Check them out below!

Please note that the patch notes listed below might be changed prior to the release of the 3.13.1e patch.

General Improvements

• Sirus, Awakener of Worlds and The Shaper can no longer appear in The Sacred Grove, Temporal Incursions, Syndicate Laboratories and Conqueror arenas.
  
• Added a Void Ground Hideout Decoration. This can be purchased from Zana at Decoration Level 2, for 330 Favour.
  
• Added an Expand/Collapse All button to the Hideout Decorations tab.
  
• Guild microtransactions can now be added to your Watchlist.
  
• The Additional Modifiers sidebar on the Map Device has been visually updated to make it easier to see how many Sextant uses remain.
  
• Clarified that Hexes applied as Auras with Blasphemy Support do not gain Doom.
  
• Clarified that players must be Petrified by The Gorgon in Sulphur Vents Map for the Complete Encounters III challenge.
  
• Fixed a bug where certain map bosses could sometimes fail to transition to their next phase if they were frozen.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Maven: Uncharted Realms quest could be shown earlier than intended.
  
• Fixed a bug where certain monsters could be immune to damage during Ritual encounters.
  
• Fixed a bug where certain monsters could re-emerge after being revived during a Ritual encounter.
  
• Fixed a bug where the portal to the Map could disappear while inside The Sacred Grove in certain maps.
  
• Fixed a bug where Talismans could drop without an anointment in the Distant Memories unique maps.
  
• Fixed a bug where the "Strongbox Monsters have 600% increased Item Quantity" Elevated Sextant modifier was only applying 500% increased Item Quantity.
  
• Fixed a bug where the "Trigger level x Warlord's Mark when you Hit a Rare or Unique Enemy" modifier was granting less Rage than intended.
  
• Fixed a bug with Righteous Fire where swapping socketed Support gems during the grace period could cause the skill to deal no damage.
  
• Fixed a bug where Hydrospheres couldn't be Shocked or Frozen when using Elemental Hit as a Ranged skill.
  
• Fixed a bug with Orb skills where damage would be reflected to the player if these skills were supported with Traps or Mines.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Alternate Quality effect on the Anomalous Mana Leech Support gem wasn't working correctly.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Alternate Quality effect on the Divergent Decoy Totem skill was incorrectly regenerating 20% of life per minute instead of per second.
  
• Fixed a bug where Desecrate could fail to summon corpses against certain bosses when triggered by Arcanist Brand.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Demonic Herald Effect microtransaction could cause Sentinels summoned by Herald of Purity to not use their Crusade Slam skill.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Do Not Disturb mode wouldn't display announcements such as the Realm restarting.
  
• Fixed a bug in the Silo map where items could drop in an inaccessible area.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Oba's Cursed Trove unique map wasn't playing the gong sound effect upon reaching certain map thresholds.
  
• Fixed a bug where the camera zoom speed was much slower during the Sirus, Awakener of Worlds encounter.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Skill Bar User Interface Panel could sometimes fail to visually update.
  
• Fixed a visual bug where the "Socketed Skills apply Fire, Cold and Lightning Exposure on Hit" modifier was only displaying the Cold Exposure modifier on the skill description.
  
• Fixed a visual bug where the Alternate Quality effects on the Phantasmal Spark and Anomalous Crackling Lance gems were missing description text.
  
• Fixed a visual bug where the Metamorph Stash Tab could display the incorrect number of stored organs.
  
• Fixed a visual bug where the random variation portal options could temporarily disappear after equipping certain microtransactions.

Mac Improvements

• Fixed a bug where you couldn't rotate while using Channelling skills if the skill was assigned to the right or middle mouse button.
  
• Fixed a bug where Hideouts couldn't be imported or exported.
  
• Fixed a bug where the client window buttons would no longer function after attempting to import or export a Hideout.
  
• Fixed a client crash that could occur when resizing the client window.

PvP Improvements

• Scorching Ray now has an attack time override of 3 seconds.
  
• Fixed a bug where premade Templar characters wouldn't be able to equip the Firestorm gem.
  
• Fixed a bug where premade Duelist characters wouldn't have a fully allocated Passive Tree.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Duelist's premade character build was incorrectly named "Whirling Blade" (now Double Strike).

Crash Fixes

• Fixed a client crash that could occur during Legion encounters.
  
• Fixed two instance crashes.

Our Talent Competition is in a full swing! If you haven't submitted your entry already, you have until March 8th (NZT) to do so. For more information about the rules and how to enter the competition, read this announcement. In the meantime, have a look at some of the submissions we've received so far:

We're back for part two of Ritual Statistics! Today, we're going to look at Ritual Vessels, Blood-filled Vessels, Tribute Gains and more.

First, let's take a look at the total Tribute gained from Ritual encounters, remembering from part one that 624,332,098 Rituals were started (and thus Tribute could be earned). In total, 1,313,156,248,242 Tribute has been earned by players running Rituals. This comes out to just over 2,100 Tribute per Ritual, giving an average area a total of 6,300 Tribute when completing 3 Rituals.

With all of that Tribute, Ritual Splinters have been purchased 26,184,083 times. This is the total number of purchases made, rather than the total count of Ritual Splinters purchased. An average area has ~3 Rituals, giving us 208,110,699 areas run. With this, we can see that players purchased Ritual Splinters every ~8 areas. Of the Ritual Vessels created from these splinters, 1,658,608 were used on Ritual Altars. That means that, on average, a Ritual Vessel was used on a Ritual Altar once for every 125 areas run. Furthermore, 926,764 Blood-filled Vessels were used in the Map Device, or once for every 224 areas run. This is fairly infrequent and may be something that we would want to revisit in the future should Ritual make its way into the core game.

Finally, we'll wrap up with a few miscellaneous Ritual statistics.

• In total, 3,051,171,137 Ritual Splinters were offered as rewards (an average of 14.66 every area).
  
• In total, Ritual Splinters were offered as rewards 198,587,563 times (an average of 1 every 1.05 areas).
  
• In total, 29,547,874 Ritual Base Types were offered as rewards (an average of 1 every 7.04 areas).
  
• In total, 1,636,846 Ritual Unique Items were offered as rewards (an average of 1 every 127.14 areas).

We hope you've enjoyed taking a closer look at these Ritual statistics with us. We've got another stats news post coming next week where we'll be taking a close look at which Atlas Passives players are taking in each Atlas Region (including The Uncharted Realms), so stay tuned!

We've prepared pieces of concept art from the Ethercraft and Rapture microtransaction series to share with the community. If you're interested in taking a sneak peek into our microtransaction development process or if you've liked our recent cosmetic effects releases, then check them out below!

On February 27th and 28th, veteran community member, streamer and racer, Havoc616, will be hosting the first ever group-found race in this style! Players will compete in teams of 2-6 to earn points for specific objectives in a Private Ritual League.

This event will take place over four six hour sessions to give teams time to rest and strategise. If you’ve always wanted to try racing, then this is the perfect opportunity for you. The winners will share in a crowdfunded cash prize pool as well as microtransactions provided by us.



Schedule
Day 1 Start: February 27th at 8AM EST (1 PM GMT)
Day 2 Start: February 28th at 8AM EST (1 PM GMT)

Prize Pool:

• 1st: 35%
  
• 2nd: 20%
  
• 3rd: 10%
  
• 4th: 8%
  
• 5th: 7%
  
• 6th: 6% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  
• 7th: 5% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  
• 8th: 4% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  
• 9th: 3% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  
• 10th: 2% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  
• 11th - 15th: Chaos Orb Helmet & Radiant Sword Skin

If you want to tune into the action, you can watch live on Havoc’s Twitch channel where a full cast and crew will be working together to provide maximum coverage and entertainment.

Click here to learn more about the event, how to join the event, the rules in place, point system, prizes, or to contribute to the event's prize pool. You can also join the POE Racing Discord here.

Shout out to community members Faderon, Brittleknee, SK_Gunoo, Somayd, Muqve and DadBodGamingGod for their work behind the scenes to help make this event a reality.

Good luck to everyone who’s participating!

We're excited to announce that community member lowkeyripper has purchased a Divination Card design to share with the community. We'll host a series of polls so that the community can decide on each aspect of the card before it's finalised and released into the game! Today's poll will decide the item type the card will redeem for. You can vote here.

The poll will run for one week. Once the item category has been decided from this poll, another will be placed to determine which item within that category will be selected. After that, we'll use polls to determine the general theme, then provide suggestions for names, suggestions for flavour text and then some art concepts. Each stage will involve the community placing their vote for their preferred outcome.

We can't wait to see what the community designs and the legacy it contributes to Path of Exile. Thanks again to lowkeyripper for setting this up!

We're continuing to share some of the entries from our recent Talent Competition. In case you've missed last week's highlights, check them out here!





























If you've been inspired by seeing the talents of our players and would like to participate in this competition, you have more than two weeks to submit your entry! We can't wait to see what you'll come up with!

Today, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at some Ritual Statistics to see how everyone is faring and what kinds of rewards players are taking away from Rituals!

• Rituals Started: 624,332,098
  
• Rituals Completed: 600,943,858
  
• Rituals Failed: 23,371,627

As you can see, players have been extremely busy with Rituals. This comes out to 20,139,745 Rituals run per day since Ritual began (at the time of writing), or just over 23 Rituals every second!

Completion rate of Rituals is actually quite high, at just over 96%.

So, lots of Rituals have been completed, but let's take a look at what players are running Rituals for in the first place: rewards!


As noted above, these are the times that a given Favour was bought from a Ritual, but doesn't factor in stack sizes (where applicable). It's worth keeping in mind that the numbers above reflect how often a reward was taken, rather than how often it was offered. So while Scarabs appear to be almost as common as Orbs of Fusing, since players have full control over what they purchase, the items that players value will see higher than usual representation.

If you're wondering how many maps you'd need to run on average before you'll be offered a Mirror of Kalandra, wonder no more. Just over 500,000! So what are you still reading for?

That wraps up part one of our Ritual Statistics. Are there any other specific items you'd like to know the frequency of? Let us know and we'll do our best to include some of them in part two, coming next week!

The Maven Kill event, organised with the support of Zizaran and his sponsor, concluded earlier this week which means it’s time to announce the full list of winners.

• 1st Place ($10,000) - Darkee
  
• 2nd Place ($5,000) - AlkaizerX
  
• 3rd Place ($2,500) - Towerbrah
  
• 4th Place ($1,250) - xSayByeBye
  
• 5th Place ($750) - bigdummydan125
  
• 6th - 10th Place ($500) - TheFriendly, CBYHEP, dslily, CARNDARAK, MOSTPOSITIVEMAN
  
• 11th - 15th Place ($350) - Fightgarr, orionbip, Karvarousku, Havoc6, guardianj11
  
• 16th - 25th Place ($250) - flame_blast, nickexile11, kavson1993, FusionXY, supercell, weilingz, sss111, AhhCrying, z4kur, KuschelKatze
  
• First Atziri Kill ($500) - Paak_HC
  
• First Uber Atziri Kill ($2,000) - powershot615
  
• First Shaper Kill ($1,250) - Mosh47
  
• First Elder Kill ($750) - Mosh47
  
• First Uber Elder Kill ($2,000) - Darkee
  
• First Awakener Kill (8 Awakening Level) ($2,000) - AlkaizerX
  
• Deepest Delve (1310 depth, $3000) - OskamIn
  
• 2nd Deepest Delve (1211 depth, $1,500) - Darkee
  
• 3rd Deepest Delve (1154 depth, $750) - shadowpye

We have randomly selected 25 winners to receive their choice of microtransaction bundle from the list found here. Congratulations to the winners below. We’ll contact you soon to arrange your prizes.

• SymDonB, Oskarmln, AlkaizerX, Rihzel, Zareuther, ShadowLord127, wedeln, snatat, alex97ander, Stynka, MeShaMaaN, Darkee, Towerbrah, z4kur, Kortzon, shadowpye, PoEDan79, bigdummydan125, CARNDARAK, xprenz, Trollgenji, Procis, LordRbn, bittytittys, Triveman

We are also in the process of distributing 500 Warlord Mystery Boxes to randomly selected accounts. We will send a confirmation via private message on the forum.

Congratulations to all the winners! Thank you to everyone who embraced the challenge and participated in this event!

The Ritual league is well and truly underway and today we wanted to share some of the concept art from the Ritual Supporter Packs! Check out the concept art below or purchase yours here.











The Ritual Supporter Packs will be available until the announcement of our 3.15 expansion.
If you are wondering how our extended Heist league has impacted our release schedule, we wrote about our expected timeline for 2021 here.