Our Friendly Fire event has been quite chaotic, so in today's news post we're highlighting a few antics from it as well as some clips from the on-going Ruthless with Gold event! The Krangled Passive Tree event starts soon too, so don't miss out! Check out the clips in today's news post on the Path of Exile forums here!

Very soon, the current series of Supporter Packs and Vault Pass will leave the store forever! Be sure to get yours before they make way for the next series.

When the Sanctum League ends in a few weeks, the current items available in Kirac's Vault Pass will be sealed away forever and replaced with new, exclusive cosmetic effects alongside the launch of the Crucible expansion. The cosmetics in the pass for consoles will be replaced alongside the Crucible expansion's console launch. Check out the unique item skins in the video below or get your Pass in-game by pressing M to open the store.



We'll be announcing the new Crucible Supporter Packs that will be replacing the Sanctum Supporter Packs in our upcoming livestream announcement. Tune in to http://twitch.tv/pathofexile on March 30th at 12PM (PDT) to see!

In the meantime, be sure to grab your Forge and Gemling packs before they are gone forever.





Thanks for your support!

Path of Exile 3.21 Expansion Livestream

The details of our 3.21 expansion will be revealed on March 30th at 12PM (PDT) at http://twitch.tv/pathofexile!

In the livestream you'll learn all about the new challenge league and other content of the expansion. After the livestream, Chris Wilson will answer your burning questions live in a Q&A session with ZiggyD.

Twitch Drops will be enabled for the livestream. We'll announce the reward in a few days. Co-streaming is welcomed!

Path of Exile's Expansion Launch Date

You'll be able to play the Crucible expansion for free on April 7th (PDT) on PC and Mac and on April 12th (PDT) on Xbox and PlayStation.

We are very excited to show you what we've been working on!

Tomorrow, we'll reveal the name of our 3.21 expansion. As the first glimpse of an upcoming expansion, these reveals are always incredibly exciting for us. Here are some of our favourite name reveals of the past!











We can't wait to share tomorrow's reveal with you!

The second of our March 2023 events and our first ever Asynchronous Group SSF event is now live! Join your fellow exiles in the Friendly Fire Group SSF event, just make sure you're careful where (and who) you attack! This event is only available on PC. If you're curious about the rest of March's events, you can find the events thread here.

• League Completion Criteria: Kill Act Ten Kitava
  
• Based on: Standard (Sanctum/Ruthless/Hardcore all disabled)
  
• Accounts Allowed in League: 5
  
• Start date: 2pm March 14th PDT
  
• End date: 2pm March 21st PDT
  
• Platforms: PC only

Friendly Fire is enabled. Players can only deal damage when near two other players.

This event requires you to team up with two-four other players and try to complete the campaign without killing each other too much. Note that with full friendly fire on, even your minions will attack your teammates. Be careful what skills you pick!

The league account limit is set to 5 so that you can't have two teams of three progressing in parallel in the league to help each other out indirectly.

To join the event, click the banner for Friendly Fire Group SSF Event in the bottom right of the Character Select screen once you've logged into the game. This will take you to the Private League creation page of the Path of Exile website, where you can create your own Friendly Fire Group SSF Private League for free! Once you've created your Friendly Fire Group SSF Private League, don't forget to invite some friends!

In the Friendly Fire Group SSF Event,

• Players can only deal damage when near two other players.
  
• Other players are classified as enemies.
  
• After dying you cannot move for 1 minute.
  
• Players have no access to the guild stash.

The prizes for this event are exclusive trophy statues that can be displayed in your hideouts.

• Legend's Hideout Statue for Group Rank #1
  
• Champion's Hideout Statue for Group Rank #2
  
• Victor's Hideout Statue for Group Rank #3
  
• Challenger's Hideout Statue for Group Ranks #4-10

The prizes will be awarded based on the time taken to kill Act 10 Kitava. The time is counted from when you make the league, not from when the event starts. Your group can have as many shots as you want while the event is live, and don't have to be playing at exactly the same time as the people you're competing against. At the end of the event, whichever group has the best time is the winner. The prizes will be distributed after all the events have ended (in April).

You can find the ladder for the Friendly Fire Group SSF Event here.

You can also find all the ladders for March's events here.

Best of luck to everyone participating!

In today's news post, we're highlighting some clips from our community on Twitch of the Ruthless with Gold event! Check them out on the Path of Exile forums here!

Very soon, we'll begin revealing the upcoming content in our 3.21 expansion. This time around, we won't be posting balance manifestos detailing the expansion's balance changes.

Balance manifestos are great at communicating certain types of content. Whenever we want to do deep work on a particular game system, they provide a good opportunity to clearly explain the changes in a self-contained way outside of the hubbub of livestream day. They also give us longer to gather feedback about whether those systems changes are in the right direction.

Over the years, though, we've learned that there are certain types of changes that balance manifestos are less appropriate for. Often, changes require greater context that the livestream explains, or benefit from video as a form of communication. Sometimes there's just so much numerical detail that the balance manifesto ends up reading like a set of patch notes, weirdly detached from the rest of the actual patch notes that you need to understand the context and plan your builds.

3.21's balance changes are mostly of the latter type. We'll explain them on the livestream and post the full details in the patch notes on balance day. Don't worry though, there aren't scary systems reworks that we need to solicit feedback on ages in advance. Our balance goals with 3.21 are to provide more options and more fun for as many builds as possible, rather than reworking game systems in potentially disruptive ways. While there are of course some small nerfs, 3.21 is most definitely not a nerf-fest.

We can't wait to unveil the changes in the upcoming livestream and check out what builds you create in 3.21!

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 and clicking the Specials tab. The Stash Tab sale ends at 5pm on March 13th (PDT).

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

Thanks for your support!

While winding down after Build of the Week's 11th Season, we've put together a reel of bloopers and outtakes from Season 10 for a bit of fun! Check it out below!



If you're keen for more, you can find the last bloopers episode here.

See you next time!

Our events for March 2023 have now started and the first in line is Ruthless with Gold which is available for both PC and Consoles! If you're curious about the rest of March's events, you can find the events thread here.

Ruthless with Gold is a four-week, trade-enabled, non-hardcore event that is both an opportunity to experience what Path of Exile would have been like with gold, while also letting you try out a slightly easier version of Ruthless. Players who have been keen to give Ruthless a shot but haven't wanted to do that at a major league start can use this event as a chance to try it out.

To join the event, simply click the "Join" button for Ruthless with Gold in the bottom right of the Character Select screen once you've logged into the game.

If you're in need of a few extra character slots, they're currently on sale in the store!

In Ruthless with Gold,

• Monsters and chests drop Gold Coins, which can be used to buy items from vendors.
  
• All vendor prices throughout the game have been replaced by prices in Gold Coins.
  
• When you sell items to vendors, you receive Gold Coins rather than currency shards. Other Ruthless vendor recipes are unmodified.
  
• Due to how many Gold Coins you find, they auto-pickup as you approach them.
  
• Gold Coins are itemised like Perandus Coins, and stack up to 5000 per inventory/stash space (50k in Currency Stash Wildcard Spaces).
  
• In a party, Gold Coins you pick up are shared between nearby party members.
  
• You can still find currency items, at regular Ruthless drop rates (i.e. not often). Gold Coins are dropped in addition to regular currency, meaning that in Ruthless with Gold, there is somewhat less item scarcity than full Ruthless.
  
• Sanctum is not enabled.
  
• Otherwise, base Ruthless rules apply

You’ll be able to earn one guaranteed Sanctum Mystery Box per account for reaching Level 45 in Ruthless with Gold. Please note that having multiple characters in this event will not grant you more Mystery Boxes.

The event also has a pool of microtransaction prizes that are randomly drawn for characters that reach certain level thresholds. The pool of available prizes is shared between PC and Console players. Having multiple characters will increase your chances of winning a randomly drawn prize. More details on all the prizes can be found below.



Ruthless with Gold ends at 3pm April 4th PDT.

This event is available on PC and Console. You can find the ladders for each platform's event below:

• Ruthless with Gold (PC)
  
• Ruthless with Gold (PS)
  
• Ruthless with Gold (Xbox)

You can also find all the ladders for March's events here.

Best of luck to everyone participating!