The full patch notes for Path of Exile: Ultimatum are now available!



In order to help you prepare your builds and item filters we've also gathered the Passive Tree and Item Filter information.

We've listed the changes to the passive tree in the Patch Notes but if you're a community tool creator, you can find the JSON data here. If you're not sure what to do with this information, don't worry too much! We'll update Path of Exile's built-in item filter in the game and the Passive Skill Tree on the website alongside the launch of the Ultimatum expansion.

• Added the rest of the new Atlas base types to existing filters
  
• Changed Convoking Wand to be included in the Atlas base type filtering
  
• New unique Abyss jewels should now be filtered as unique items
  
• Abyss jewels should now be filtered by rarity

Item Class: Active Skill Gem

• Exsanguinate
  
• Corrupting Fever
  
• Reap
  
• Petrified Blood

Item Class: Support Skill Gem

• Arrogance Support
  
• Bloodthirst Support
  
• Cruelty Support
  
• Lifetap Support

Item Class: Divination Cards

• Winter's Embrace
  
• Sambodhi's Wisdom
  
• The Enthusiasts
  
• Broken Promises
  
• Brush, Paint and Palette
  
• Deadly Joy
  
• The Adventuring Spirit
  
• The Eternal War
  
• Prejudice
  
• The Shortcut
  
• The Card Sharp
  
• A Modest Request
  
• Luminous Trove
  
• The Hook

Item Class: Stackable Currency

• Veiled Chaos Orb
  
• Noxious Catalyst
  
• Accelerating Catalyst
  
• Unstable Catalyst
  
• Tainted Oil

Item Class: Incubator

• Blighted Incubator
  
• Morphing Incubator
  
• Maddening Incubator

Item Class: Map Fragment

• Rusted Blight Scarab
  
• Polished Blight Scarab
  
• Gilded Blight Scarab
  
• Winged Blight Scarab
  
• Rusted Abyss Scarab
  
• Polished Abyss Scarab
  
• Gilded Abyss Scarab
  
• Winged Abyss Scarab
  
• Sacred Blossom

Item Class: Misc Map Item

• Vaal Reliquary Key
  
• Chronicle of Atzoatl
  
• Inscribed Ultimatum

Item Class: Amulet

• Seaglass Amulet

Item Class: Body Armour

• Grasping Mail

Item Class: Boots

• Blessed Boots

Item Class: Gloves

• Apothecary's Gloves

Item Class: Quiver

• Artillery Quiver

Item Class: Ring

• Iolite Ring

• Blood Magic Support has been split into Arrogance and Lifetap Support. Existing Blood Magic Support Gems will be converted to Arrogance Support Gems.

Note that there has not been a shuffle of the Atlas for Ultimatum. Map tiers are unchanged from Ritual.

Tier 1

• Pen Map
  
• Arcade Map
  
• Jungle Valley Map
  
• Coves Map

Tier 2

• Peninsula Map
  
• Grotto Map
  
• Volcano Map
  
• Frozen Cabins Map
  
• Fields Map
  
• Wharf Map
  
• Underground Sea Map
  
• Crater Map
  
• Underground River Map
  
• Gardens Map
  
• Infested Valley Map
  
• Tropical Island Map
  
• Moon Temple Map
  
• Tower Map
  
• Arena Map
  
• Promenade Map
  
• Lair Map
  
• Spider Forest Map
  
• Defiled Cathedral Map
  
• Sunken City Map

Tier 3

• Graveyard Map
  
• Arid Lake Map
  
• Strand Map
  
• Glacier Map
  
• Canyon Map
  
• Forking River Map
  
• Sulphur Vents Map
  
• Toxic Sewer Map
  
• Ancient City Map
  
• Ashen Wood Map
  
• Cemetery Map
  
• Lava Chamber Map
  
• Laboratory Map
  
• Overgrown Ruin Map
  
• Vaal Pyramid Map
  
• Geode Map
  
• Courtyard Map
  
• Mud Geyser Map
  
• Shore Map
  
• Temple Map
  
• Belfry Map
  
• Pier Map
  
• Orchard Map
  
• Factory Map
  
• Primordial Blocks Map
  
• Plaza Map
  
• Basilica Map
  
• Reef Map

Tier 4

• Lookout Map
  
• Desert Map
  
• Marshes Map
  
• Iceberg Map
  
• Cage Map
  
• Leyline Map
  
• Courthouse Map
  
• Channel Map
  
• Academy Map
  
• Ramparts Map
  
• Dunes Map
  
• Bone Crypt Map
  
• Museum Map
  
• Wasteland Map
  
• Precinct Map
  
• Primordial Pool Map
  
• Crystal Ore Map
  
• Arsenal Map
  
• Crimson Temple Map

Tier 5

• Cells Map
  
• Chateau Map
  
• Lighthouse Map
  
• Haunted Mansion Map
  
• Atoll Map
  
• Armoury Map
  
• Waste Pool Map
  
• Shrine Map
  
• Desert Spring Map
  
• Palace Map
  
• Carcass Map
  
• The Beachhead Map

Tier 6

• Malformation Map
  
• Silo Map

Tier 7

• Waterways Map
  
• Dark Forest Map

Tier 8

• Alleyways Map
  
• Dry Sea Map
  
• Racecourse Map

Tier 9

• Dungeon Map
  
• Relic Chambers Map
  
• Spider Lair Map
  
• Mausoleum Map
  
• Mineral Pools Map
  
• Overgrown Shrine Map
  
• Stagnation Map

Tier 10

• Forbidden Woods Map
  
• Phantasmagoria Map
  
• Scriptorium Map
  
• Ghetto Map
  
• The Beachhead Map

Tier 11

• Flooded Mine Map
  
• Fungal Hollow Map
  
• Port Map
  
• Grave Trough Map
  
• Cold River Map
  
• Conservatory Map
  
• Ivory Temple Map

Tier 12

• Crimson Township Map
  
• Coral Ruins Map
  
• Siege Map
  
• Shipyard Map
  
• Dig Map

Tier 13

• Maze Map
  
• Plateau Map
  
• Cursed Crypt Map
  
• Park Map

Tier 14

• Beach Map
  
• Excavation Map
  
• City Square Map
  
• Barrows Map
  
• Thicket Map
  
• Residence Map
  
• Sepulchre Map
  
• Mesa Map
  
• Caldera Map
  
• Core Map
  
• Colosseum Map
  
• Acid Caverns Map
  
• Bramble Valley Map

Tier 15

• Foundry Map
  
• Bazaar Map
  
• Estuary Map
  
• Vault Map
  
• Arachnid Tomb Map
  
• Bog Map
  
• Colonnade Map
  
• Summit Map
  
• Castle Ruins Map
  
• Villa Map
  
• Terrace Map
  
• Lava Lake Map
  
• The Beachhead Map

Tier 16

• Burial Chambers Map
  
• Arachnid Nest Map
  
• Pit Map
  
• Necropolis Map
  
• Pit of the Chimera Map
  
• Lair of the Hydra Map
  
• Maze of the Minotaur Map
  
• Forge of the Phoenix Map
  
• Vaal Temple Map
  
• The Beachhead Map

Alongside every new league, we aim to make balance changes to a wide variety of character systems to improve build and playstyle diversity. This league, we've focused on rebalancing a few specific game mechanics related to new blood-themed skills and Vaal skills, while lowering the power of specific mechanics that were dominating the metagame and were too far above the level of power we aim for.

We've also made changes to the Atlas Passive trees after reviewing their balance and as a result of both Ritual becoming a core mechanic alongside the upcoming league reward changes.

We haven't included the changes to league rewards described in our announcement here.

Low life, Low Mana and Low Energy Shield now all count as being on 50% or below. This new threshold is both a bit more obvious at a glance, and is large enough a value that a player could survive for a long time on Low Life with the help of the new Petrified Blood skill. As a result, certain skills, passives and items have been rebalanced to compensate. For example, the Punishment curse's effect that causes enemies to take more damage while on low life has been reduced in power as it now takes effect for a larger portion of the monster's life. We've made similar changes to the Assassin's "Ambush and Assassinate" passive, Infernal Mantle, and Replica Last Resort.

The Blood Magic Support gem has been split into two gems, as the lack of a damage multiplier made it a poor choice for primary skills. Now each of these new supports is balanced for the appropriate use case.

There are a small number of new passive clusters on the Passive Skill Tree for generic physical damage, as well as Physical Damage over Time Multiplier to better support the new skills. Certain sources of Bleeding Damage and Damage over time Multiplier for Bleeding have been changed to Physical Damage over Time to let them apply to Corrupted Blood and the new Reap and Exsanguinate skills. These include The Gladiator's Gratuitous Violence passive and the Ascendant's Gladiator notable. Not all bleed related passives and modifiers on items have been changed, so a full Bleed invested build and a build using both Bleeding and Corrupted Blood won't always look the same.

Corrupted Blood now never counts as Bleeding damage, so reductions to bleeding damage taken no longer affect it. The Staunching flask modifier and Pathfinder's Master Surgeon notable now state that they apply to both Bleeding and Corrupted Blood. Corrupted Blood's damage has been rebalanced so it is more consistent between sources, so specific monsters that had very high Corrupted Blood damage will no longer be as strong, while others that dealt almost no damage will be dealing a more noticeable amount.

Bladestorm now has a multiplier to Bleeding damage while in Blood Stance, similar to the multiplier on Lacerate, to enable Bleeding builds on the blood themed skill.The Elder-influenced Weapon modifiers that grant a chance for Poisons or Bleeds inflicted with this Weapon to deal 100% more Damage have been removed. In their place, Elder-influenced Weapons can now roll a new Local Poison or Bleed Damage over Time Multiplier modifier. The double damage chance modifiers were too multiplicatively powerful for these builds, providing power that only the modifier granted, so they've been changed to an effect that is additive with other Bleed/Poison damage multipliers.

The way skills specify costs has been refactored. Skills now specify what resource they use. Consequently, stats can specify whether they affect all costs/reservations, or some combination. For example, the Righteous Decree notable on the Templar now reduces Mana Costs of Skills, while the Tireless notable affects all skill costs. Some existing passive skills and items have been updated to affect all costs or reservations, but many effects are now resource specific where appropriate, like the Inspiration support. These changes also open up new possibilities for alternate costs. For example, the Chainbreaker keystone no longer removes rage on Hit, instead adding a small Rage cost to all skills (which would then be affected by skill cost modifiers). This has allowed us to keep Chainbreaker functional with spells while still losing rage when used alongside skills that don't hit like Damage over Time spells.

As a major benefit of these changes, reservation skills no longer have an associated cost by default, so you don't need the current mana available to reserve a skill. Even when your mana is completely depleted, you can still enable an aura, making it much easier to swap out auras or turn one on again if you accidentally disabled it.

Because of this, Mine skills now have both a mana cost and mana reservation. This means that both modifiers to costs and reservation both affect their appropriate parts of mine costs, so Indigon no longer provides spell damage without affecting mine costs at all.

We've made a series of changes to Atlas Passives for a variety of reasons:

• Certain modifiers provided more rewards than the average rewards granted by Atlas passives, so have had their chance or rewards lowered. Some are obvious ones like High Value Targets or Diplomatic Escort, while others are more subtle like Seance, which effectively added so much item quantity to areas that it was subtly boosting core drops like maps more than a single Atlas mechanic should.
  
• Certain modifiers provided fewer rewards than the standard reward increase per point invested, so have had their chance or rewards increased. For example, the rewards from the Invasion Exotic Goods notable have been improved.
  
• Certain effects made more sense grouped together, like the Incursion passive saying "All monsters in Incursions are at least magic" has been moved off Glennach Cairns on to the existing Time Dilation modifier on Lex Ejoris, so Lex Ejoris is now completely focused on having more rewarding individual Incursion runs and Glennach Cairns focuses on creating the best possible Temple.
  
• Ritual has been added to Haewark Hamlet, with two notables available. It replaces Beyond there. Power Hungry no longer exists, and the Per Diemon notable has been moved to Glennach Cairns at a slightly lowered value, as the pun was too good not to keep.

We've made a balance pass on damaging Vaal skills, making them a more interesting choice relative to the Vaal skills that provide ongoing buffs. We want damaging Vaal skills in particular to have more reasons to be used by a larger variety of builds.

• The uptime for Vaal skills has been improved via various means. Soul generation on Unique monsters has been increased to 6 souls per 2% life lost, with a 1 second cooldown. This is twice as many souls as before.
  
• Damaging Vaal skills have had their Soul Gain Prevention times lowered relative to the duration of the Vaal skill. For Vaal skills that don't have a duration or ongoing effect the Soul Gain Prevention time is usually just 1 second.
  
• Reduced the Vaal Soul Cost and/or increased the Number of Uses on Vaal Skills that had relatively lower impact per use compared to other Vaal skills.
  
• A balance pass has been made on all Damaging Vaal Skills. Note in all cases these have been buffs, except for Vaal Righteous Fire, which now provides less damage to Spells while active and now sacrifices a larger amount of your total Energy Shield and Life. We felt it was too easy for any Spellcaster to use this skill to get significantly more Spell damage for a long duration, with very little downside. Note the Fire Damage over Time aspect of the skill has been increased, keeping this an attractive option for builds focussing on Burning damage.
  
• We have introduced several new unique items and made adjustments to existing ones to either give higher uptime of Vaal skills at some cost or allow you to utilise Vaal skills more easily on builds that struggle to fit them in.

We've made balance passes on a large variety of skills that are performing above acceptable power levels, either through damage, speed of clearing content, or defensive benefits.

These include Blade Vortex, Blade Blast, Toxic Rain, General's Cry with Channelled skills, Seismic Cry, Carrion Golem, and Vitality.

Frost Bomb and Wave of Conviction have had their Exposure values lowered, as these skills provided too large an elemental resistance reduction compared to other mechanics that have higher investment or penalties against bosses.

Flesh and Stone now has a 35% mana reservation (from 25%). The defensive power of the skill in Sand Stance and the offensive power in Blood Stance was too high relative to other reservation effects. We've added a small reduction to Stance skill reservation cost on the Blood and Sand specialization cluster near the Duelist to bring the cost down slightly for appropriate builds.

Vigilant Strike and its threshold jewel, The Vigil, have changed how they handle Fortify Duration and the durations granted, so that The Vigil doesn't result in a very long duration Fortify effect, instead granting a shorter Fortify duration than a high level Vigilant Strike. Vigilant Strike's base Fortify duration now scales with gem level, rather than through an increased fortify duration stat. Previously, players could gain 30 seconds of fortify from two sockets and a single jewel, which was far too cheap for the defensive power offered.

Divergent Berserk alternate quality now grants the Berserk buff 0.25% more Spell Damage per quality (from 1%). The effect was providing too much damage to Spellcasters when paired with effects that increase gem quality, such as the Enhance support.

Quivers as Caster Offhands

Critical Strike Chance, Critical Strike Multiplier, Damage over Time Multiplier and Chain modifiers on quivers now only apply to Attacks or Bow Skills. The Signal Fire and Rigwald's Quills unique quivers have also had their Physical Damage Added as Fire and Projectiles Fork modifiers changed to be with Attacks only.

Bows with a quiver could outclass many caster weapons for a variety of builds, so this change brings total offensive power to a more reasonable balance without removing the option entirely, and also makes a lot more thematic sense.

Physical Explosion Body Armours

Influence and Synthesis modifiers that caused enemies killed to explode dealing physical damage will no longer have a 100% chance to apply. Their replacement modifiers grant "Enemies you Kill have a chance to Explode, Dealing a tenth of their Life as Physical Damage", with a new lower tier Influence mod being introduced that has a lower chance. This keeps the mechanic and opens up the possibility of stacking explode chance with high investment, but it will no longer reliably wipe out packs of monsters through a chain reaction of explosions.

Harvest Monster Life

The base life of all Harvest monsters has been reduced by 30-50%, but Harvest machinery gives monsters around 100% extra increased life on average. The intention is no difficulty change in Harvest fights, but Harvest monsters created with the Desecrate skill have life values more in line with other Desecratable monsters in the game. This is to address corpse explosion builds getting a significant damage boost from having spectres of specific Harvest monsters. This strategy will still work, but the difference in monsters used won't be so significant.

Hexproof

Modifiers that allow your Hexes to affect Hexproof Enemies (such as the Cospri's Will unique Body Armour) no longer allow your Hexes to affect yourself while you have Hexproof (as you are not your own Enemy).

Poison Sextant

The Sextant modifier which granted players increased Damage and Movement Speed for each Poison on them has been removed. Savvy players could run every map with this Sextant effect applied - usually through Fracturing specific maps and the Harvest map enchantment that didn't consume Sextant uses. With certain items that allowed them to apply large numbers of Poison buffs to themselves, they could achieve extreme Damage and Movement Speed with little investment.

Note to partially compensate as we believe self-Poison is an interesting playstyle, we have added a new Unique item that retains the Damage and Movement Speed per Poison stats. However these stats will now be capped at specific value.

Fractured Fossils and Beast-Splitting

Splitting an item through Beast-crafting now applies a split tag to both items (similar to “Mirrored”). Items that have Fractured Fossils used on them also gain the split tag. Split items cannot be split/mirrored again, and cannot have Imprints made of them or applied to them.

Atlas Mission Sustain

We've removed the bonus mission chance from Awakening objective bonuses, as Atlas passives combined with this bonus and other mechanics were resulting in an almost endless supply of missions. We've decided to keep the Atlas passives at full strength and remove the Awakening objective bonus so the player has the choice to invest in more Atlas missions if they desire.

Delirium Item Quantity and Rarity

We've lowered and standardised the amount of Item Quantity and Rarity granted by Delirium fog, so they now give up to double the inbuilt item Rarity of monsters, and up to 50% the item quantity of monsters. This now caps out at maximum depth, rather than at 50% depth as was previously the case.

We are wary about how accessible normally scarce stats, such as Area of Effect, Skill Effect Duration, Aura Effect and Projectile Speed are on Cluster Jewel notables, given you can stack multiple of the same notable on the passive tree. As a result we have made small numerical nerfs to several Cluster Jewel notables that grant the above stats.

As a relatively minor ascendancy change, Pain Reaver has been replaced with a new passive skill on the Berserker, providing defensive benefits once you lose life from an enemy hit. It is designed as a high risk defensive/recovery mechanic, granting the faster leech rate from Pain Reaver more easily but with an associated risk. The effects of the Berserker's Flawless Savagery notable are no longer limited to Attacks, and the small passives apply 10% increased physical damage instead of the old 12% increased Physical Damage with Attacks.

Immortal Ambition Keystone's ‘Life Leech effects Recover Energy Shield instead while on Full Life' stat is now limited by ‘Maximum total Energy Shield Recovery from Leech' instead of by ‘Maximum total Life Recovery from Leech'. Combined with the Corrupted Soul Keystone and the powerful recovery source of life leech, it provided too great an increase to a character's combined recovery. This change preserves the desirable Life Effects not being removed at Full Life aspect of the Keystone, but limits how easy it is to recover your Energy Shield pool.

Corrupted Soul Keystone now causes you to Gain 15% of Maximum Life as Extra Maximum Energy Shield (from 20%). The Keystone allowed life base characters to get large amounts of Energy Shield very easily, while the Non-Chaos Damage taken bypasses Energy Shield stat didn't prove to be a significant downside for most builds taking the Keystone.

As mentioned above, the Chainbreaker Keystone no longer causes you to lose 5 Rage when you Hit an Enemy, but now instead has skills cost +3 Rage. The Keystone allowed certain skills that either didn't hit such as Bane, or skills that didn't count as you such as Totems and Mines to completely bypass the downside.

Hardened Scars no longer grants Fortify during the Effect of any Life Flask. Instead now grants Fortify while Recovering Life from a Life Flask. The Notable was granting Fortify too easily to any character that could maintain uptime on a Hallowed Hybrid Flask with the Enduring Prefix.

The Necromancer's Essence Glutton notable has had the amount of Mana regenerated when you Consume a Corpse lowered from 8% to 4%. It was providing more base Mana Regeneration than any other source.

Primal Aegis from the Elementalist's Bastion of Elements skill now takes 75 Damage per Allocated Notable Passive Skill (from 100). The Aegis effect went out too strong in the Elementalist rework.

In the Ultimatum League, you'll have the option to complete 40 new challenges and earn exclusive microtransaction rewards. At 12, 24 and 36 challenges, you'll earn the Ultimatum Helmet, Ultimatum Pet and the Ultimatum Portal respectively. Completing challenges also grants you pieces of the Ultimatum Totem Pole Hideout decoration. Check them out below!


When Path of Exile: Ultimatum launches on PC on April 16th, you'll be able to check out the full list of challenges you need to complete for these rewards!

We are excited to share with you the announcements from our exclusive Path of Exile: Ultimatum livestream! In this news post, we've put together the links to everything that is being announced live. We'll update this post for your reference as the announcement progresses.









Check out the press coverage below:

• CBR - Path of Exile 2
  
• IGN - Path of Exile 2
  
• Gamespot - Path of Exile 2 and Ultimatum
  
• Polygon - Path of Exile 2 and Ultimatum
  
• Inverse - Path of Exile 2
  
• PC Gamer - Path of Exile 2 and Ultimatum
  
• TheGamer - Path of Exile 2
  
• PCGamesN - Path of Exile 2 and Ultimatum
  
• Fextralife - Path of Exile 2
  
• Shacknews - Ultimatum
  
• Game Informer - Path of Exile 2 and Ultimatum
  
• Wccftech - Path of Exile 2 and Ultimatum
  
• VentureBeat - Path of Exile 2
  
• Fanbyte - Path of Exile 2 and Ultimatum
  
• Destructoid - Path of Exile 2
  
• MMORPG - Path of Exile 2 and Ultimatum
  
• MassivelyOP - Path of Exile 2 and Ultimatum
  
• MMOBomb - Ultimatum
  
• RPGamer - Path of Exile 2 and Ultimatum

We've recently partnered with Nexus, a platform which allows creators to curate stores with their favourite games and content. What this means is that you can now purchase your favourite Armour Sets while supporting both your favourite creator and the development of Path of Exile!

Follow your favourite streamer/creator's link to their Nexus store. They'll feature the Armour Sets they like the most and if one takes your interest, you can purchase it from the Nexus store which will send a portion of the proceeds to the streamer. Purchases made through this method still substantially support the development of Path of Exile.

When your purchase is complete, you'll receive a code for your microtransaction that can be redeemed on your Path of Exile account here and used as normal.

(Note: This only works for PC accounts)

Nexus is an off-shoot of chrono.gg that provides discounted game deals which are typically distributed via creators with affiliate links. Nexus allows creators to curate their own personalised store filled with games they like and in our case, their favourite Armour Sets! We've worked with Chrono in the past and found that from both a consumer and set-up perspective, they were easy and friendly to work with. Due to this history, we feel really comfortable that our players and creators are in good hands with the Nexus team.

This programme is available to most creators who apply. If you're a creator, feel free to sign up here. At the moment, these are some of the content creators that have Path of Exile microtransactions in their Nexus store.

• Baker
  
• BigDucks
  
• Brittleknee
  
• chistor_
  
• DonTheCrown
  
• ds_lily
  
• Empyriangaming
  
• GhazzyTV
  
• Hanarashi
  
• Havoc616
  
• ItsYoji
  
• KittenCatNoodle
  
• Kripparian
  
• Nervyr
  
• NeverSink
  
• Nizmat
  
• Nugiyen
  
• octavian0
  
• OMGItsJousis
  
• piebypie
  
• Pohx
  
• quin69
  
• RaizQT
  
• Tarkecat
  
• ThisIsBadger
  
• Velyna
  
• Waggle
  
• ZiggyDLive

Path of Exile currently has over 1,000 microtransactions available through its regular store. We wanted to make sure the setup process was as smooth as possible for everyone involved by initially limiting the number of microtransactions available for purchase. We chose armour sets because they are one of the most popular categories, they provide better profit-per-purchase for creators and are an easy category to communicate. Over time, we'll look into adding other microtransaction types to this.

We'd love to see your feedback about what you'd like to see there!

Thanks so much for your support! We're really excited to have an additional way to support creators for all of their contributions to the community.

The Ritual League ends on PC on Monday April 12th at 2PM PDT, so this is your last week to complete any unfinished challenges. On consoles, the Ritual League will end when the Ultimatum expansion goes live on April 21st PDT.

When the league ends, the exclusive Ritual Brimmed Hat will also leave the store forever! Be sure to check it out if you want to show your support for the league.



Don't forget to tune into the livestream announcement for our 3.14 expansion on Thursday April 8th at 1PM PDT over at http://twitch.tv/pathofexile to find out about all of the exciting updates coming to Path of Exile. You will also get your first look at Path of Exile 2 since ExileCon so make sure you don't miss it! In case you need a reminder on what we've revealed so far, check out this post.

We'll see you at the announcement!

Community streamer, Brittleknee, has arranged for a showcase of Path of Exile racing strategies to be featured on Games Done Quick, a channel which focuses on demonstrating high level gameplay alongside efforts to raise money for charity. This showcase shares strategies for racing in Path of Exile, starting with the basics and progressing on to veteran strategies and secrets. You'll find the action on http://twitch.tv/gamesdonequick at 4pm April 5th (PDT).

Brittleknee and Games Done Quick showrunner Raelcun will be providing commentary as community streamers Tytykiller, Imexile and Balaar
demonstrate racing strategies in Act One, Act Three and Act Five.

This is an exciting opportunity to learn from experienced Path of Exile racers, particularly if you are wanting to get involved in the racing community or are looking to improve your leveling times in preparation for our upcoming expansion. If you can't watch the stream live but are still interested in finding out more about racing, the broadcast will be uploaded to the Games Done Quick YouTube channel at a later date.

The Path of Exile racing community have also recently made improvements to the Path of Exile Community Racing Discord; making it easier than ever to get involved! You can join the Discord by clicking here.

We hope to see you there!

The Havoc Blitz event organised by veteran community member Havoc616 begins this weekend! There are a number of exciting races taking place such as XP, Piety, Kitava and Dominus Blitzes. You can check out the full race schedule here. Watch the main cast on April 3rd from 8AM PDT live on RaizQT’s Twitch channel. Don’t forget that this is a two weekend event so if you are eager for more, be sure to check out the main cast from 8AM PDT on April 10th as well!



Throughout the weekend, Transcendence Helmets and 2x Warlord Mystery Box microtransaction packs will be given away on Twitter and during the live cast.

Good luck to all those participating! If you are interested in getting involved with the Path of Exile racing community, be sure to join the POE Racing Discord here.


This weekend we are also running a sale on over 200 of our most popular portal, character and footprint effects! Keep an eye on your wishlist to see if you can grab any of your favourites at a discounted price. You can view the full selection of effects on sale here.

The sale runs all weekend and ends on April 5th at 9PM PDT. Don’t forget to check out the Ritual and Core Supporter Packs if you are in need of points for the sale.

Thank you for your support!

Tune in at 1pm on April 8th (PDT) to find out all about our next expansion, Path of Exile: Ultimatum and get your first look at Path of Exile 2 since its debut at ExileCon.

The livestream will consist of new content reveals, followed by a live Q&A with ZiggyD and Chris Wilson, closing out with the Baeclast podcast featuring Lead Game Designer, Rory Rackham.

You'll catch everything you need to know at http://twitch.tv/pathofexile - We welcome co-streaming so be sure to encourage your favourite streamer to watch along with us. And yes, Twitch Drops will be enabled from the start of the livestream until 9pm April 8th (PDT) and for all channels streaming Path of Exile during that time.

You'll be able to play Path of Exile: Ultimatum for free on April 16th (PDT) on PC and on April 21 (PDT) on console.

We can't wait to see you then!

During our livestream announcement for our 3.14 expansion next week, we'll share the first look at Path of Exile 2 since it was announced at ExileCon! If you are interested in checking out what we've revealed so far, we have compiled everything you need below.

At ExileCon in November 2019, we announced the development of Path of Exile 2; a new seven-act storyline set 20 years after the death of Kitava in Path of Exile 1. You can watch the first trailer below.



The gameplay preview shown at ExileCon demonstrated some of the mechanical and graphical changes that you can expect to see in Path of Exile 2 such as a revamped skill gem system. If you would like to see more, you can check out the full preview below.



In this panel from ExileCon; Jonathan Rogers, Rory Rackham and Neon provided a glimpse at the 19 new Ascendancy Classes in Path of Exile 2. They also offered their insights into the reworked skill gem system.

Erik Olofsson, Creative Director of Path of Exile, discussed the visual improvements being made to Path of Exile 2 at ExileCon and also offered a closer look at some of the updated character, item and environment models. You can learn more about the art below.



Our composer, Kamil Orman-Janowski, discussed his inspirations behind the music of Path of Exile 2's first act in this interview from April 2020. You can hear his insights and catch a sneak peek of some of the new music below.



Path of Exile 2 will launch from the same game client as the original game and will be available alongside the current campaign, allowing you to choose what storyline you want to play through to reach the shared Atlas of Worlds endgame. All your microtransaction purchases from Path of Exile 1 will be available in Path of Exile 2.

We are unlikely to start a Beta for Path of Exile 2 until 2022 at the earliest. In the meantime, we are continuing to release Path of Exile expansions on our regular three-month cycle.

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We'll see you at our 3.14 announcement over on April 8th PDT over on our Twitch channel but in the meantime, stay sane Exiles.