We've already teased a couple of sneak peaks, and today we're revealing the rest of the 15 new Divination Cards that you'll be able to find once Path of Exile: Lake of Kalandra launches. Check them out!
Around a year ago, a group of Path of Exile community members started a new player-run Wiki. We now host this on our servers, so that they don't have to incur the hosting costs. We wanted to take a moment to let you know what this means and what to expect in the future.
Because it was created to provide reliable, up-to-date information rather than to make a profit, its hosting costs have been a burden on its creators. We're very happy with its quality, and when we were approached about the idea of hosting it on GGG servers, we liked the idea. This means that the community wiki can have all the hosting resources it needs without having to worry about raising money.
There are two ways that you can help with the success of this wiki. Firstly, help keep it up to date by adding information that you uncover during your gameplay. Secondly, make sure to link this new wiki when sharing information with others.
At the moment, the old wiki ranks higher in google's search results. It's a concern because the old wiki has out-of-date information and some players may navigate to it not knowing that there is a more up-to-date wiki out there. The more that people use this new one, the less of a problem this will be. To help with this, we'll also be linking the new one on our site for easier navigation.
Currently, the wiki is still entirely maintained by the community. We haven't yet committed any resources towards making the information more accurate or potentially exporting data directly from the game. But this is an area that we are interested in investigating in the future. For now, we're just covering the hosting so that the wiki can continue to exist without monetary issues.
We want to offer a huge thank you to the people who have been diligently setting this up.
Our next Divination Card Story is from Pepetuch, who worked with us to design their card Bijoux. Find out more about their card in today's post!
Delirium was my first full league that I played from launch day to finish. I had played Path of Exile semi-casually starting at the end of Metamorph, but became completely enamored with the gameplay loop of this game. I started playing ARPG's with the launch of Diablo 3 (back when there was real money auction house, no adventure mode only campaign, and when you would see mayyyyyyybe 1 Legendary item the whole campaign - My wizard that dropped a Barbarian belt after killing Diablo was not happy).
Aside from how cool Delirium was aesthetically (yeah I unironically liked the gray on gray palette *chef's kiss*) the introduction of cluster jewels was what really stood out to me about that league. It was the first time I really appreciated the scope of what GGG is trying to do with the genre in regards to trying new things beyond adding more monsters and changing tilesets. Delirium is still a special memory for me as I was able to play the objectively strongest build ever with Herald stacking which was much better than Aura stackers current iteration.
With all that in mind, I knew I wanted my card to be related to my favorite League in some way. I had a couple ideas related to Simulacrums or Kosis/Omniphobia but nothing that I would have enjoyed getting if the card dropped in game. Around this time I also had done my first SSF run of the game and found a deeper appreciation for Divination cards and how important they are to SSF. Needless to say, I really...really needed some specific cluster jewels that would not drop for me. Thus, a cluster jewel card was born.
The design team and I only really went through 2 iterations, the one being the current card in game, and the other being a reward of a cluster jewel at the lowest passive point count with respect to size (2 small/ 4 medium / 8 large) at iLvL 84. Due to technical restrictions of how divination card turn in works we couldn't do that unfortunately. However, the current iteration in game turned out to be much better as there are some pretty sought after max passive cluster jewels usable in both trade league and SSF.
As far as the name I couldn't think of anything creative or not bland so I turned to the power of French. I do not know French and have never been to France, but Bijoux (which means Jewelry) sounded pretty cool. Tangmazu providing the flavor text meant a lot to me too because he is cool as hell, and fit into the theme of finding the divination card you desperately needed to help finish a build.
