We've prepared pieces of concept art from the Ultimatum Supporter Packs to share with you. Check out the concept art below, or purchase your pack here.

















The Ultimatum Supporter Packs will be available until the announcement of our 3.16 expansion.

The concept art has been finalised so now it's time for you to decide the ultimate community-made cyclone effect! Check out the novelty-inspired art below and vote for your favourite in the poll by clicking here. This poll will be open for one week.

Once the winning concept has been determined, we can begin the process of developing the microtransaction before releasing into the store at some point in the future! Thank you to everyone who participated in this process. We can't wait for you to cyclone your way through Wraeclast with even more flair.

With development of 3.15 underway, we wanted to give the community an idea of what to expect for the timing of Path of Exile's next expansion. We're expecting to release the 3.15 expansion in mid-July, with the Ultimatum League ending roughly five days before its release. We expect to announce precise dates on approximately the 24th of June.

Once again, we're planning to announce this expansion's content via a livestream on http://www.twitch.tv/pathofexile like we did for 3.14. Our last livestream was a lot of fun to host, and was our best yet in terms of overall viewer numbers. We're keen to exceed that again with our next announcement. We've got a lot to show off and would love for everyone to join us!

Like any Path of Exile expansion, 3.15 contains a new challenge league, new rewards, game-wide balance changes and more. The scope of the 3.15 league is a bit larger than Ultimatum.

We're really excited about both the league we have created for 3.15 and the other content the expansion contains, and we can't wait to share it with you.

Our Fan Art competition ends in just a few hours and we cannot wait to see what you've come up with! In the meantime, we wanted to showcase some more of the wonderful entries we've seen so far. Check them out below!





































Entries close at 5PM NZST (which is June 6th at 10PM PDT) so once you have finished putting the final touches on your artworks, be sure to post them on the competition thread by clicking here. The winners will be announced within the next week.

Good luck to everyone that entered!

On June 4th PDT, community streamers Lighty and Slipperyjim8 are organising an exciting charity private league! The goal of the league is for players to band together to complete a Unique Stash Tab, all while raising money for AbleGamers, a charity that helps people with disabilities play video games! Check out their announcement video below:



Anyone can donate via the link here, which can also be found on both Lighty and Jim's Twitch channels during the event.

The charity league will be a Private Ultimatum League lasting one week with no extra mods and 5000 player slots! If you would like to join, you can do so here.

Start time: Friday, 4th June 6:00AM (PDT). The event will last for one week. A countdown is available here.

There will be a league-wide community effort to 100% fill a Unique Stash Tab, with live tracking of missing uniques for the league's collection. Discoverers of the rarest uniques for ten different categories will be immortalized in a "Hall o' Fame" wallpaper created by Lighty's artist to commemorate the event. The categories give players of the league a goal to find specific Unique items within the private league's duration. Placement is determined by those who hand in their Uniques first to either Lighty, Jim or their respective moderators and multiple of the same uniques will be accepted.

The categories are as follows:

• Unique Abyss Jewel
  
• Curio Case Replacement Unique
  
• Metamorph Unique
  
• Blighted Unique
  
• Infused Harbinger Unique
  
• Unique Small Cluster Jewel
  
• Upgraded Incursion Unique
  
• Labyrinth Unique
  
• Oni-Goroshi
  
• Precursor's Emblem

Finally, there will be a raffle of 100 Apollyon Mystery Boxes supplied by GGG. All characters that reach level 40 or above are eligible to win a box and only one box can be won per account.

If you have any questions about the event or want more information, you can join Lighty's Discord channel here.

Where to Watch

The event will be livestreamed daily on both Lighty and Jim's Twitch channels:

• Lighty's Twitch Channel
  
• Jim's Twitch Channel

A post league highlight video will also be uploaded to their YouTube channels:

• Lighty's YouTube Channel
  
• Jim's YouTube Channel

We wish the best of luck to both Lighty and Jim, as well as everyone participating in the event!

As mentioned last week in our Ultimatum Statistics post, we promised to show off a batch of Atlas Passive statistics from the current Ultimatum leagues, so let's get to it, shall we?

It's important to note that the following statistics are pulled from a dataset which includes all accounts that have at least 1 Atlas Passive allocated and are presented on an atlas-wide basis. For the sake of sorting and ordering, we're using the Standard Ultimatum league as the standard.



In what may be a surprise to some people, Breach holds the number one spot in Lex Proxima, while also holding the number three and five spots, a popular choice indeed! Harvest and Delve are rounding out the top five. If we compare the current allocation to the allocation during Ritual League, we can see that Heart of the Grove and Bountiful Harvest have fallen out of the top five, both being replaced by Breach passives. Seance has taken a small dip, though still sees a reasonable level of use. In general, Hardcore and SSF players tend to shy away from Breach while Hardcore players are opting to steer clear of Seance.



Moving on to Glennach Cairns, Legion and Incursion passives are the clear favourites here. Legion was a clear favourite during Ritual league as well, where Monumental was taken 60% of the time. One newcomer to the top five is Contested Development, which in part may be due to the fact that Cultural Advancement was moved to a different Atlas Tree. Torn Veil and the newly-moved Per Diemon aren't seeing much use overall, with Torn Veil seeing a noticeable decrease in use. As with previously, we see that Legion passives in general are less desireable in Hardcore leagues, again due to their inherent deadliness.



In Tirn's End, we can see that Delirium is the clear front-runner, with Bestiary and Invasion making a showing in the top five. Delirium seems to have lost a little bit of representation compared to 3.13.0. We can see slightly more interest in the Abyss passives, though Lightless Legion and Buried Riches remain the least popular choices across all leagues. Invasion sees noticeable increases, likely thanks to the buffed Exotic Goods rewards, particularly in SSF leagues.



Looking at Haewark Hamlet, we see the biggest shakeup so far. The top five is quite diverse, with Ritual, Harvest, Betrayal and Essence all taking their places. Ritual ever so slightly edges out Harvest for the top spot. A noticeable change from 3.13.0 is how much of the dominance once asserted by Harvest has been lost. Much of this can likely be attributed to the Harvest changes in 3.14.0, though even with those changes, Harvest does still see considerable representation. Controlled Corruption and Amplified (Essence) have taken massive jumps in popularity in all leagues, potentially in part due to the Essence buffs, though also may be related to the Harvest nerfs.



New Vastir is dominated once again by Legion passives. Anarchy and Delve round out the top five. We do see small decreases in how often these Legion passives are taken, particularly where Protracted Battle was brought over in place of High Value Targets. Anarchy passives are seeing more use in general, though players generally stay away from these options in Hardcore leagues. Delve passives have declined in popularity across the board as have Abyss passives.



In Lira Arthain, Blight, Breach and Heist make up the top five atlas passives. For Blight passives, Spores on the Wind has become even more popular, even though it received a nerf in 3.14.0. Epidemiology and Immune Response have become slightly more popular as well. Breach passives have both become more popular (which we also saw in Lex Proxima). Flash Breach had its opening and closing speed reduced to 50% faster (from 100% faster), which doesn't seem to have had a negative impact on popularity. When we look at Bestiary, we can see that Animal Companion and Natural Selection have taken a noticeable drop, potentially due to the nerf to Natural Selection in 3.14.0. Finally, we see essentially no difference when we check in on Heist passives.



Valdo's Rest sees another reasonable assortment of passives making up the top five, with Harbinger, Blight, Betrayal and Metamorph taking their spots. Looking first at Harbinger passives, we see that Ominous Arrival and Diplomatic Escort are just as popular as before. When we look at Blight passives, we can see a slight increase in popularity, though nothing significant. For Betrayal, we see an increase in both passives, likely in part due to the Betrayal rewards rework in 3.14.0. Metamorph has seen the most significant dropoff, with each passive seeing roughly half the use that it previously did.



In Lex Ejoris, we have Delirium and Perandus taking up the entire top five spots. With Delirium, Pathological sees almost the same use as before, even though it was nerfed by 50%! Perandus has stayed quite similar to 3.13.0 values, while Metamorph has seen a small decrease, with Escaped Experiment seeing less use after being nerfed in 3.14.0. Metamorph continues to be fairly unpopular in Hardcore leagues and for good reason, they're dangerous! Incursion continues to see fairly low engagement in Lex Ejoris, though Time Dilation has become slightly more popular after being changed to cause Incursion monsters to be at least Magic Rarity.



Finally, we'll take a look at the Uncharted Realms. Adept Tracker continues to be the most popular choice here, giving quicker progress towards Conqueror encounters. A notable difference from 3.13.0 is how much of a gap there is between the most popular option and the second most popular option. Previously, Master of the Atlas and Paths Not Taken were somewhat close to Adept Tracker, but they've taken a significant hit in popularity across all leagues. Enduring Influence has become slightly more popular, perhaps in thanks to the emergent Harbinger-focussed strategy being used in Valdo's Rest.

There certainly has been a noticeable shift in some regions, with Harvest becoming less favourable to some, Breach becoming much more popular and the introduction of Ritual Atlas Passives seeing fairly high usage. What other patterns are you seeing with this data? What still doesn't feel good enough to you to be worth taking? Let us know what has been driving your decisions in this league and what you'd like to see more of going forward. We're looking forward to seeing how things change in 3.15.0 and beyond!

Our Path of Exile-themed Fan Art Competition is concluding in just under a week, so we just wanted to share some of the awesome entries we've received so far! Check them out below!
















The competition concludes on Monday the 7th of June at 5PM NZST (6th of June at 10PM PDT) so if you've been inspired to submit a piece, be sure to post in the thread by clicking here.

On June 12th PDT, community streamer Zizaran is organising a 10-day Class Gauntlet Event. Racers will compete and earn points by leveling characters and killing bosses to see how all of the classes fare in some of Path of Exile's most difficult encounters. The event will take place as an Event League provided by us with the new Monster Area of Effect Mod as well as other damage mods and Monster Life. The prize pool is funded by the community and Zizaran's Event Partner.


The event will have Increased Monster Area of Effect, Monster Damage, Monster Speed, Monster Elemental Damage, Reduced Player Resistances as well as Increased Monster Life. We have created this as an Event League this time around! Simply log in the day of the event and click "Join" in the bottom right of the character select screen. Players will receive points based on levels and specific boss kills. Don't forget, to get boss kill points you must submit kills in the Path of Exile Community Racing Discord which you can join by clicking here.

Start time: 12th June, 7:00AM PDT. The event will last for 10 days. A countdown is available here.

The prize pool is crowdfunded by Zizaran's Event Partner, the community, and community streamers such as RaizQT, Nugiyen, Alkaizerx, Baker, DS_Lily, Zizaran, Badger, Terence_, Lightee7, Steelmage and more! In addition, streamers and their communities will be able to create a bounty with the money they fundraise for the event. Bounties are a custom prize that can be awarded to players for achieving a specific goal in the event. Keep an eye out on their social media for announcements regarding when their fundraisers are taking place and what they will be!

Zizaran's Event Partner will be matching all contributions to the prize pool (Up to $25,000). The total prize pool will be split as follows:

• Operational Costs: 5% of Overall Prize Pool - To be distributed amongst Community Developers, and League Moderators
  
• The bounties placed by streamers and their communities during the fundraisers
  
• The prize pool minus bounties and operations cost will be awarded as follows:
  
• Rank 1 Overall: Gauntlet Trophy + 2% Bonus

Witches

• Top Witch: 8%
  
• Second Witch: 4%
  
• Third Witch: 2%
  
• Fourth Witch: Frost Viking Armour Pack, Frost Viking Cloak, Dragon Hunter Armour Pack and Dragon Hunter Wings Supplied by GGG

Shadows

• Top Shadow: 8%
  
• Second Shadow: 4%
  
• Third Shadow: 2%
  
• Fourth Shadow: Frost Viking Armour Pack, Frost Viking Cloak, Dragon Hunter Armour Pack and Dragon Hunter Wings Supplied by GGG

Rangers

• Top Ranger: 8%
  
• Second Ranger: 4%
  
• Third Ranger: 2%
  
• Fourth Ranger: Frost Viking Armour Pack, Frost Viking Cloak, Dragon Hunter Armour Pack and Dragon Hunter Wings Supplied by GGG

Duelists

• Top Duelist: 8%
  
• Second Duelist: 4%
  
• Third Duelist: 2%
  
• Fourth Duelist: Frost Viking Armour Pack, Frost Viking Cloak, Dragon Hunter Armour Pack and Dragon Hunter Wings Supplied by GGG

Marauders

• Top Marauder: 8%
  
• Second Marauder: 4%
  
• Third Marauder: 2%
  
• Fourth Marauder: Frost Viking Armour Pack, Frost Viking Cloak, Dragon Hunter Armour Pack and Dragon Hunter Wings Supplied by GGG

Templars

• Top Templar: 8%
  
• Second Templar: 4%
  
• Third Templar: 2%
  
• Fourth Templar: Frost Viking Armour Pack, Frost Viking Cloak, Dragon Hunter Armour Pack and Dragon Hunter Wings Supplied by GGG

Scions

• Top Scion: 8%
  
• Second Scion: 4%
  
• Third Scion: 2%
  
• Fourth Scion: Frost Viking Armour Pack, Frost Viking Cloak, Dragon Hunter Armour Pack and Dragon Hunter Wings Supplied by GGG

Leveling your characters to certain thresholds will also make you eligible for the randomly-drawn prizes made up of both merchandise and microtransactions provided by Zizaran's Event Partner as well as 1000 Apollyon Mystery Boxes supplied by us! The general prizes listed below will be randomly drawn from all appropriately-leveled characters except for the Level 90+ Armour Pack prizes, which will be drawn per class. You can gain more than 1 ticket per account for the microtransaction/physical prizes, however you cannot win more than one prize per category below:



You can catch exciting moments from the event by checking out Zizaran's Youtube Channel where Skryah and OMGitsJousis are teaming up to deliver some epic highlights!


Special thanks to community members Faderon, MrMadakey, ManWithHat, Skryah, OMGItsJousis and Viyro for their contributions to this event.

Good luck to all those participating!

Last week we answered some of the community's Game Mechanics questions and since we couldn't cover them all we decided to answer some more! Check them out in today's news post, which you can find on our forum here.

Today we've gathered a variety of Ultimatum Statistics that we're excited to show you. How many Mirrors of Kalandra were generated as rewards but missed out on? We'll answer this question and more in today's news post!