Continuing on with sharing concept art pieces for the recently released Core Supporter Packs, this week we wanted to showcase the Hellfire Supporter Pack! We shared concept art of the Tormentor Supporter Pack last week, so if you missed it you can check that out here.

This weekend we are running a Weapon and Shields Sale! You can view the full selection of discounted items by pressing M to open the store in-game. The Weapon and Shields sale ends at 4pm on January 16th PST.

Short on points for the sale? Don't forget about the Cursed Supporter Pack! Purchasing this supporter pack helps support the development of Path of Exile as well as your favourite streamer or content creator!

The Cursed Supporter Pack costs 60 USD and contains 200 points, an Armour Set, an alternate helmet, footprints and a pet. Watch the video below:



Please note that the Cursed Boots look like a peg leg only when equipped with the Cursed Body Armour, they'll look like regular boots with all other body armours.

To purchase the Cursed Supporter Pack, follow your favourite streamer/creator's link to their Nexus store. Please note that this Supporter Pack is available only on Nexus and won't appear in the Path of Exile store. For more information about Nexus, check out this news post.

Finally, don't forget about Kirac's Vault Pass! The pass contains unique item skin rewards that are exclusive to this league! One of the items you can get is the Stormweaver Nebulis, which gains power as you deal more cold and lightning damage. Check out the amazingly detailed close-ups of the Stormweaver Nebulis below!







All the rewards from the Vault Pass visually interact with gameplay in some way and will leave the store forever when the Sanctum League ends. You can also get up to five mystery boxes from the pass! After purchasing the pass, you can earn its rewards in the Atlas endgame by completing map objectives. Check out the Kirac's Vault Pass page here for more information!

Thanks for your support!

The first episode of Season 11's Build of the Week is here, featuring a wonderfully crafted build created by Palsteron! This build blitzes through maps, causing sizable Shockwaves as you run past your foes. Check out the showcase below!



For more information about Palsteron's build, you can find their detailed video guide here.

If you're keen to get your build featured in Build of the Week, make sure you post your build in our Classes/Builds sub-forum, which you can find on our forum homepage, or post a video build guide on Youtube!

We are currently working on an update with a number of bug fixes for Sanctum content. We're planning to release the 3.20.1b patch on PC later today. Check out its patch notes below.

Please note that these are still subject to change prior to the patch's deployment. The 3.20.1b update on consoles will be deployed as soon as possible after its release on PC.

3.20.1b Patch Notes

The patch introduces the Voidborn Reliquary Key, and contains a few Sanctum changes, alongside a number of other improvements and bug fixes.

Sanctum changes

• The Death Toll Major Affliction no longer causes monsters to drop no Aureus Coins. Instead, it now causes you to Lose 250 Resolve after completing 8 rooms. This change does not affect existing Sanctum runs.
  
• Herald of the Scourge's lightning waves skill now spawns more lightning bolts with each wave, though the lightning bolts are now smaller. The delay between each wave has been slightly increased, and the damage of the skill has been lowered by 20%.
  
• Improved the visibility of the ground degen effect when fighting Lycia, Unholy Heretic.
  
• Added an error message for attempting to change your Relics while you have an active Sanctum.

Improvements and other changes

• Introduced the Voidborn Reliquary Key. The Voidborn Reliquary currently has 1231 options for foiled Unique items that it can yield. We are still working through the list of submissions from Voidborn Supporters to get the others in as soon as possible.
  
• Improved the description of the Sandstorm Visage Unique stat to clarify it only modifies spell critical strike chance of spells, and will not affect spells dealing non-spell damage (such as heralds).
  
• Updated various descriptions to clarify which stats only apply to Summon Skeletons, and which apply also to Vaal Summon Skeletons (such as the modifier on Alberon's Warpath). Melee Skeletons from the Vaal Summon Skeletons are now referred to as "Soldiers" rather than "Warriors" in descriptions.
  
• The visual effect applied to monsters with modifiers that cause Minions to Fire, Cold, or Lightning Explode on Death has been removed as it caused visual issues in some circumstances.
  
• Betrayal crafts that reroll socket numbers, links or colours a certain number of times can no longer be used on items with fixed socket numbers, links or colours respectively.
  
• The "Geared Up" achievement no longer requires a Rare or Unique item in the Relic slot.

Ruthless-specific changes

• The Imagined Pursuits Atlas Passive in Ruthless now causes Cluster Jewels from Delirium Rewards to have a 10% chance to be Rare and Corrupted, instead of "800% increased Rarity of Cluster Jewels from Delirium Encounters in your Maps".
  
• Fixed a bug where Vaal Venom Gyre was able to be obtained in Ruthless.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a display bug with the last remaining item not being removed from the list when purchased from the Merchant.
  
• Fixed a bug where Sanctified Relics were incorrectly treated as equipped items, which could stop mods on some items (like Voll's Vision) from working.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Deathly Archmage Guard's Ice Cascade skill was dealing Lightning Damage instead of Cold Damage.
  
• Fixed the Flameblast marker from the Crimson Archmage Sanctum Guard not displaying correctly across different terrain elevations.
  
• Fixed a bug where the hideout decorations panel could sometimes fail to load.
  
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to snapshot Curses applied to yourself from Ylfeban's Trickery.
  
• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to dismiss NPCs from your Hideout.
  
• Fixed a bug where at least one Anointed Blighted Map was not offered by Kirac after using a Blighted Scouting Report.
  
• Fixed a bug where monsters with both Periodically Enrages and Cycling Damage Reduction modifiers could become immune to damage.
  
• Fixed a bug where Ghorr, the Grasping Maw could displace Blight Towers with their grasp skill.
  
• Fixed a visual bug where Ruthless' "Map Drop Chance" was displayed on unidentified Maps with Quality in non-Ruthless Leagues.
  
• Fixed a bug where Vaal Cyclone did not roll for critical strikes for each hit, instead only rolling when first used.
  
• Fixed a bug where clones of Lokan, The Deceiver were being revived by Rituals.
  
• Fixed a bug where Support Gems at their maximum gem level could not be sacrificed for the Facetor's Lens Harvest crafting option.
  
• Fixed a bug where socket icons for Resonators on the ground were black, they are now orange.
  
• Fixed a bug where modifiers that add Fire, Cold or Lightning attack damage per Strength, Dexterity or Intelligence were not applying to attacks made using off-hand weapons.
  
• Fixed a bug which could make a Simulacrum wave incompletable if a monster which spawned on death was stuck inside terrain.
  
• Fixed a bug with the interaction of Cursed Ground Support and Hexblast totems, traps or mines which allowed you to have multiple areas of Cursed Ground.
  
• Fixed a bug where Elemental Weakness applied by the Font of Elements in the Labyrinth was increasing player Resistances rather than decreasing them.
  
• Fixed a bug with the knockback from Kinetic Blast not going in the correct direction away from blasts.
  
• Fixed an issue where Pack Size modifiers from the Atlas Passive Tree were not displayed in the Map Overlay Mods unless you had another Pack Size modifier source.
  
• Fixed a bug where notifications for completing Achievements were not displayed when playing in controller input mode.
  
• Fixed a bug with Merchant options sometimes not displaying correctly when selected in controller input mode.
  
• Fixed a bug with the transition effect from Scourge Hideout Decoration inadvertently displaying sometimes when multiple players were in the hideout.
  
• Fixed a bug with the Illusionist Blade Vortex microtransaction effect that could cause lingering Blade Vortex projectiles in your hideout.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Haemomancer Pet microtransaction would not behave correctly if you had two of them equipped.
  
• Fixed a bug where a Scion wearing the Victorious Body Armour microtransaction could appear bald.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Tinker's Waypoint microtransactions were not playing their animations when a player joined of left the area.
  
• Fixed a bug with the Chronomancer Portal microtransaction not playing its effects when used by multiple players at the same time.
  
• Fixed three client crashes.
  
• Fixed an instance crash.

In the Forbidden Sanctum Expansion, we introduced ten new Divination Cards designed by our Supporters. For today's news post, we asked Suzu520 to share their story with us about their card "The Wedding Gift". Check out their story below!



Hello Exiles, I’m Suzu520.

Before talking about “The Wedding Gift” card design, I want to share my journey in Path of Exile. I started playing Path of Exile from the Sacrifice of the Vaal expansion. I still remember the time when I was in the Garena TW server, and people in Global chat were all asking, “Where do we find the Fetid Pool?” Such fun. There was a time where my friends and I could not beat Merciless Dominus, and a random player joined our party through the Noticeboard and cleared it with us. That was a vivid memory of Path of Exile having a very wholesome community. I have played every single league and have enjoyed the game ever since the Forsaken Masters expansion when I finally moved to the Global server from the Garena TW server.

During the closed beta of the “Fall of Oriath” expansion, the playtest was up to the end of Act 7 and that expansion of the main quest storyline shocked me to my core, especially Act 6 & 7: Nessa and Silk’s death. I love the game even more than before, I knew I wanted to design a card and give back to the community.

I am a big fan of Summoner playstyle, from Undying Evangelist Raise Spectre, 50x Summon Raging Spirits, 50x Animate Weapon, all the way up to Solar Guard Raise Spectre. One day my friend told me about the sword “The Dancing Dervish” and the respective upgrade “The Dancing Duo” back then. I had been curious about Minions that came from items instead of skill gems, so I tried it out and absolutely loved them. That was my initial idea for the card design. I wanted a card that allows SSF players to farm specific bosses for, so my original idea was a 6 White-Socketed Dancing Duo, but due to the item not being able to drop, the idea was scrapped.

During Sentinel league, I successfully reached level 100 for the first time with an Arakaali’s Fang build. The build has such a unique summoning style that I fell in love with it, and it was the first time ever I did not reroll a new character 5 days into league starting. Meanwhile, I discovered KittenCatNoodle’s Lore Series and had been listening to all her videos in the background while I was levelling to 100. That was the moment where my brain goes “Eureka!” What if I designed a card that was lore-accurate and gives my favourite summoner weapon? Coincidentally the weapon came from Arakaali, where the end of Close beta during 3.0 was, and it left a strong impression on my mind.

After finally deciding on the reward, I had to think about the art and card description. That was easy, since Silk wanted a wedding gift as we attended their fateful day. The art had to be Silk’s final moment where we and Yeena witness his union with Arakaali. Since we cannot do anything to save Silk, we could kill Arakaali as a revenge kill for Silk. As for the flavour text, people that worshipped Arakaali would be very happy about the goddess getting more human essence, hence the line “The Acolytes congratulated the lucky groom for becoming one with the Goddess.”

When the card finally got released, a few friends talked to me and said that they had always wanted to play the build but never got enough currency to do so. I’m very happy that they get to share the experience of playing Arakaali’s Fang.

That’s the end of my story, hope you all have a great New Year and may RNGesus be with you!

Today, we wanted to showcase some concept art pieces created by our art team for the recently released Core Supporter Packs. This news post features the Tormentor Supporter Pack concept art. We'll share the remaining concepts over the next few weeks.

To start off the new year, we're launching a Talent Competition themed around The Forbidden Sanctum! Your talent could be fan art, videos, cosplay, baking, crafts and anything you excel in! As usual, we have prepared an awesome prize pool that includes Path of Exile merchandise and in-game microtransactions.

For this year's talent competition, we will not be accepting written/text based submissions such as poems or short stories.


Top Three Winners

• Path of Exile Art Book
  
• Signed Atlas Passive Tree Art Print
  
• Cloth Map of Wraeclast
  
• Your choice of two Path of Exile T-shirts - (Kitava, Vaal Orb or Exalted Orb)
  
• Foam Exalted Orb
  
• Celestial Cat Socks
  
• Your choice of an Armour Set (an Armour Set from the list below)
  
• Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)
  
• Your choice of Footprints Effect (any Footprints Effect from the store)

4-5th Place

• Your choice of an Armour Set (an Armour Set from the list below)
  
• Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)
  
• Your choice of Footprints Effect (any Footprints Effect from the store)

6-10th Place

• Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)
  
• Your choice of Footprints Effect (any Footprints Effect from the store)

11-20th Place

• Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)

Runners-Up

• Your choice of a Helmet Effect (a Helmet Effect from the list below)

Just post your submission to this thread to be entered into the competition. It's ideal if your content is easy to consume. A general guide for this is that your submission should take no longer than three minutes to listen to or view. It's permitted to post content that is longer than three minutes but in some cases it may put your submission at a disadvantage if it's significantly difficult to engage with your content.

As another reminder, we will not be accepting written submissions for this year's competition.

The winning submissions will be selected based the following criteria:

• How skillfully your talent has been executed
  
• How true it remains to the Sanctum theme of Path of Exile
  
• How compelling or entertaining the submission is

• The competition will run from the time of this post until Monday the 6th of February at 6pm NZT (5th of February at 9pm PST). Submissions made after this time will not be counted. We'll post the winners sometime in the following days.
  
• Any work that is submitted must be your own and must be created after the launch of this competition.
  
• Multiple submissions are welcome.
  
• If you want to create a montage or mash-up of other artists' work or videos, this is permitted as long as it follows all legal guidelines of fair use standards.

Best of luck to everyone who is participating in the competition!

List of Armour Sets

• Arcane Armour Set
  
• Arctic Armour Set
  
• Arctic Crystal Armour Set
  
• Automaton Armour Set
  
• Balefire Armour Set
  
• Blood Guard Armour Set
  
• Carnage Armour Set
  
• Coliseum Armour Set
  
• Darkprism Armour Pack
  
• Demon King Armour Set
  
• Desert Armour Set
  
• Dragon Armour Set
  
• Elite Armour Set
  
• Extinction Armour Set
  
• Executioner Armour Set
  
• Fallen Angel Armour Set
  
• Faith Guard Armour Set
  
• Ghostflame Armour Set
  
• Gloom Armour Set
  
• Gorgon Armour Set
  
• Gore Armour Set
  
• Gothic Armour Set
  
• Gryffon Armour Set
  
• Harlequin Armour Set
  
• Harpyon Armour Set
  
• Huntsman Armour Set
  
• Ice Armour Set
  
• Ivory Chaos Armour Set
  
• Lightning Armour Set
  
• Lunaris Armour Set
  
• Mageguard Armour Set
  
• Malachai Armour Set
  
• Madcap Armour Set
  
• Merchant Armour Pack
  
• Miracle Armour Set
  
• Mystic Armour Set
  
• Necrotic Armour Set
  
• Pitch Black Armour Set
  
• Polar Armour Set
  
• Pure Light Armour Set
  
• Purple Necrotic Armour Set
  
• Purple Crystal Armour Set
  
• Radiant Armour Set
  
• Raven Armour Set
  
• Rapture Armour Set
  
• Ringmaster Armour Set
  
• Seawitch Armour Set
  
• Seraph Armour Set
  
• Sphinx Armour Set
  
• Steam-Powered Armour Set
  
• Stormcaller Armour Set
  
• Temple Armour Pack
  
• Vampiric Armour Set
  
• Verdant Armour Set
  
• Warlock Armour Set
  
• Wasteland Warrior Armour Set
  
• Wild Armour Set
  
• Water Elemental Armour Set
  
• Wrangler Armour Set

List of Portal Effects

• Arcane Demon King Portal
  
• Arcane Portal
  
• Arcane Voidgate Portal Effect
  
• Arctic Crystal Portal Effect
  
• Arctic Portal Effect
  
• Automaton Portal Effect
  
• Balefire Portal Effect
  
• Daresso Portal
  
• Darkprism Portal Effect
  
• Demon King Portal
  
• Divine Arcane Portal Effect
  
• Divine Demon King Portal
  
• Divine Stygian Portal Effect
  
• Dreadspire Portal Effect
  
• Faith Guard Portal Effect
  
• Infernal Demon King Portal Effect
  
• Golden Angel Portal Effect
  
• Gore Portal
  
• Gorgon Portal Effect
  
• Havenwood Portal Effect
  
• Huntsman Portal Effect
  
• Kaom Portal
  
• Kraken Portal Effect
  
• Madcap Portal Effect
  
• Malachai Portal
  
• Maraketh Portal Effect
  
• Miracle Portal Effect
  
• Mystic Portal
  
• Necrotic Demon King Portal
  
• Necrotic Portal Effect
  
• Orange Portal Effect
  
• Project Portal Effect
  
• Pure Light Portal
  
• Resonator Portal Effect
  
• Ringmaster Portal Effect
  
• Scientist Portal Effect
  
• Sentinel Portal Effect
  
• Seraph Portal Effect
  
• Spirit Portal Effect
  
• Steam-Powered Portal
  
• Stygian Ghostflame Portal Effect
  
• Sulphite Portal Effect
  
• Temple Portal Effect
  
• Ultimate Chaos Portal
  
• Vampiric Portal Effect
  
• Wasteland Portal Effect
  
• Wild Portal Effect
  
• Wrangler Portal Effect

List of Helmet Effects

• Abyss Eyes
  
• Antlers
  
• Apocalypse Helmet Attachment
  
• Aquila Crest Helmet Attachment
  
• Arcane Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
  
• Arcane Halo
  
• Arcane Mark of the Phoenix
  
• Arcane Visage
  
• Arctic Crown
  
• Arctic Skull
  
• Assassin Halo Helmet Attachment
  
• Assassin Seer Helmet Attachment
  
• Aureate Halo
  
• Automaton Halo
  
• Bent Horns
  
• Black Headband
  
• Black Pirate Bandana
  
• Bleached Skull Helmet
  
• Blood Guard Helmet Attachment
  
• Brilliant Crown
  
• Brilliant Feathers
  
• Chaos Orb Helmet
  
• Coliseum Helmet Attachment
  
• Corrupted Skull
  
• Cow Skull
  
• Curved Horns
  
• Darkprism Helmet Attachment
  
• Demon King Horns
  
• Despair Helmet Attachment
  
• Divine Ice Crown
  
• Divine Sign
  
• Divine Skull
  
• Dragon Mask
  
• Eye Patch
  
• Faith Guard Helmet Attachment
  
• Fiery Eyes
  
• Fiery Visage
  
• Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
  
• Frost Viking Alternate Helmet
  
• Frost Viking Helmet Attachment
  
• Ghostflame Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
  
• Ghostflame Skull
  
• Glowing Red Eyes
  
• Gore Skull
  
• Gorgon Snakes Helmet Attachment
  
• Guardian Mask
  
• Harmonious Helmet Attachment
  
• Harmonious Hood
  
• Holy Eyes
  
• Ice Crown
  
• Ice Horns
  
• Incursion Hood
  
• Infernal Skull
  
• Innocence Laurel Helmet Attachment
  
• Iron Brand
  
• Iron Maiden
  
• Lightning Eyes
  
• Lightning Skull
  
• Mark of the Phoenix
  
• Medusa Snakes
  
• Misery Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
  
• Misery Helmet Attachment
  
• Nightfall Helmet Attachment
  
• Oriath Helmet Attachment
  
• Plague Doctor Helmet
  
• Purple Divine Sign
  
• Purple Eyes
  
• Purple Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
  
• Purple Skull Helmet
  
• Purple Smoking Hood
  
• Rapture Helmet Attachment
  
• Red Headband
  
• Red Pirate Bandana
  
• Rose Skull
  
• Serrated Mohawk
  
• Sin and Innocence Helmet Attachment
  
• Sin Talon Helmet Attachment
  
• Skull Hood
  
• Smoking Hood
  
• Spirit Charm
  
• Steam-powered Skull
  
• Suffering Helmet Attachment
  
• Sunrise Helmet Attachment
  
• Swan Crest Helmet Attachment
  
• Thorned Skull
  
• Twilight Helmet Attachment
  
• Twisted Bone Horns
  
• Twisted Horns
  
• Undead Outcast Helmet
  
• Vaal Orb Helmet
  
• Wasteland Horns

This weekend we are running a Stash Tab Sale! You can view the full selection of discounted tabs by pressing M to open the store in-game. The Stash Tab sale ends at 4pm on January 9th PST.

If you're missing points for the sale, be sure to check out the new Forbidden Sanctum and Core Supporter Packs!

Thanks for your support!

We have more amazing artworks to share from our community today. Check them out below!


































If you've been inspired and would like to share your creations with us, make sure to post them in our Community Showcase Forum!

Microtransactions from the Kalandra Mystery Box are now available in the store! We've individually priced each set of items based on its type and rarity.

The Kalandra Stash Bundle is also being released today! This microtransaction applies a skin to your Stash and Guild Stash in your hideout to make them look like the Kalandra Box! Check it out in the video below.



Check out all the other Kalandra microtransactions by watching the video below. You can also view the full range by pressing M to open the store in-game.



Thanks for your support!