In this set of new Path of Exile Forum Avatars, we're featuring a few NPCs and Bosses you would have encountered in your journey across Wraeclast. Check them out below!



To change your forum avatar on the Path of Exile website, go to your User Profile located in the top left corner by clicking your username, then click "Change avatar" in the panel on the right.

This weekend we are running a Wings and Back Attachment Sale! You can view the full selection by pressing M to open the store in-game. The sale runs all weekend and ends at 5pm May 1st (PDT).

Need some inspiration? Check out the screenshot below which features the discounted Gold-plated Dovecaller Wings, paired with the Mercurial Armour Set! While they're not microtransactions, the weapons used in the screenshot are the new Redblade Unique Swords from the Crucible League!



In case you need points for this sale, we'd recommend checking out the Core or Crucible Supporter Packs!

Thank you so much for your support!

The last small wave of ExileCon tickets are now available for purchase! These are regular and balcony ExileCon tickets, as the VIP and Ultra VIP tickets are completely sold out. These tickets will go fast, so if you want to attend ExileCon in person, head over to http://www.pathofexile.com/exilecon to get your tickets!

There will be approximately 77 balcony tickets and 179 regular tickets available to purchase. These will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please also note that the name on your ticket needs to match your photo ID, so when purchasing a second ticket for your friend or a family member, make sure that the name on that ticket matches their photo ID.

Good luck, Exiles! We can't wait to see you in New Zealand for ExileCon!

In today's news post, we're showcasing some concept art of the Chaosborn Armour Set that you can get for free from completing challenges in the Crucible League, the Igneous Emperor Armour Set which you can get from the new Kirac's Vault Pass that you can now buy with points and the new Arachnamagus Armour Set! Check them out below!

In today's news post, we've collected some hideouts to highlight creations that our community members have shared in the Hideout Showcase forum! If you're looking for a new Hideout or need some inspiration for your next one, check them out in the video below!



Here's a list of the hideouts featured in the video (.hideout files are available for download in corresponding forum threads):

• 
  Healer's Hut by LuLu242
  
  
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  Green Castle by Morinmeth
  
  
• 
  The Forge by Revan_Bane
  
  
• 
  Cathedral of Creation by VeritasInvictus
  
  
• 
  Tiny's For the Science by Deathtiny2266

We'd also like to highlight Arthur_von_Schreyer's hideout, Vergiliae, who they made for one of their supporters. Check out their video here!

Today, we're launching a fan art competition themed around the Crucible Expansion! We can't wait to see what you create as you pick up your hammer (or paint brush) and head to the Forge of the Titans! As usual, we have prepared an awesome prize pool that includes Path of Exile merchandise and in-game microtransactions.

• Forum avatar based on the winning submission
  
• Path of Exile Art Book
  
• Signed Atlas Passive Tree Art Print
  
• Your choice of one Path of Exile T-shirts - (Kitava, Vaal Orb or Exalted Orb)
  
• 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)

• 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)

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

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

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

Create still art that is inspired by anything introduced in the Crucible expansion. This excludes video submissions but does include any painting, drawing or model creation. Then just submit your work in this thread.

Multiple submissions are welcome and encouraged. Please note that the submission needs to be your own work and needs to have been created after the launch of the competition.

Be sure to enter your submission on the Path of Exile forums here.

• The competition starts at the time of this post and will end on Tuesday the 23rd of May at 5PM NZT. 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.
  
• AI generated art will not be accepted. We reserve the right to disqualify your entry if we believe that it is AI generated.
  
• Multiple submissions are welcome.

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

We now have a good grasp on final capacity numbers for our ExileCon event in July, so we're able to make the last small wave of ExileCon tickets available for purchase at the end of this week. These are regular and balcony ExileCon tickets, as the VIP and Ultra VIP tickets are completely sold out.

The remaining regular tickets will be available for purchase at 2pm on Thursday 27th of April. (You will need to be logged in to view the local time).

There will be approximately 77 balcony tickets and 179 regular tickets available to purchase. These will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. To get yours, go to http://pathofexile.com/exilecon at the time the sale starts.

Please also note that the name on your ticket needs to match your photo ID, so when purchasing a second ticket for your friend or a family member, make sure that the name on that ticket matches their photo ID.

This is likely to be the final wave of tickets, so if you are planning to attend ExileCon in person, don't miss out on them! We can't reserve tickets for you, so the only way to get one from this last batch is to be online at exactly the time they go on sale. Good luck!

This weekend, we're hosting a sale on a huge selection of Skill Effects! This sale includes every Skill Effect in the store except the new ones which were released since the launch of Crucible, which brings the count to over 400 discounted effects! You can find the full range of discounted microtransactions in-game by pressing M to open the store. The sale ends at 5pm April 24th (PDT).

If slaying monsters sets your heart aflutter, the Fluttering Eye of Winter Effect could be for you! Pair it with the Enchanted Armour Pack from the Enchanter Series Supporter Packs to maximise your butterfly coverage!



If you need points for the sale, check out our Crucible and Core Supporter Packs!

Thanks for your support!

At ExileCon in July, we will be hosting a competitive Path of Exile event live on the main stage. This event will be the culmination of a series of four qualifier events where Path of Exile's best racers will compete for a spot in the finale.

In each of these events, players will compete to be the first to kill Kitava in Act 5 in a Standard Solo Self-Found fixed seed environment. While this is not a Hardcore Event, players will incur a penalty upon death where they will not be able to move until a one-minute period has lapsed.

• Qualifier One - May 4: 2pm PDT
  
• Qualifier Two - May 11: 2pm PDT
  
• Qualifier Three - May 18: 2pm PDT
  
• Qualifier Four - May 25: 2pm PDT

The first player to kill Kitava in each event will receive the following:

• Flights to Auckland, New Zealand for the weekend of ExileCon
  
• Accommodation in Auckland for the weekend of ExileCon
  
• Entrance into the ExileCon Race Finale
  
• An Ultra VIP ExileCon ticket
  
• Their choice of one of the below microtransaction bundles

The Celestial bundle includes:

• Nightfall Armour Set
  
• Nightfall Helmet Attachment
  
• Nightfall Wings
  
• Divergence Weapon
  
• Astral Weapon Effect
  
• Nightfall Character Effect
  
• Twilight Footprints Effect
  
• Astral Portal Effect
  
• Nightfall Dragon Pet

The Fire bundle includes:

• Dragon Hunter Armour Set
  
• Flaming Head Helmet attachment
  
• Dragon Hunter Wings
  
• Vulcan Weapon
  
• Pyromaniac Weapon Effect
  
• Brimstone Character Effect
  
• Dragon Hunter Footprints
  
• Vulcan Portal Effect
  
• Fire Lion Pet

The Stygian/Blue bundle includes:

• Revenant Armour Set
  
• Arcane Flaming Head
  
• Stygian Wings
  
• Necrolord Weapon
  
• Stygian Weapon Effect
  
• Stygian Character Effect
  
• Stygian Footprints
  
• Stygian Portal
  
• Stygian Steed Pet

The Glimmerwood bundle includes:

• Glimmerwood Armour Pack
  
• Misery Flaming Head
  
• Glimmerwood Wings
  
• Siren Weapon
  
• Madcap Weapon Effect
  
• Madcap Character Effect
  
• Transcendence Footprints
  
• Madcap Portal
  
• Chaotic Ethercraft Pet

The Demonic bundle includes:

• Demonic Armour Set
  
• Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
  
• Demon Wings
  
• Vulcan Weapon
  
• Demonic Weapon Effect
  
• Demonic Character Effect
  
• Pandemonium Footprints
  
• Demonic Portal
  
• Hell Horse Pet

The Red bundle includes:

• Automaton Necrolord Pack
  
• Automaton Halo
  
• Automaton Wings
  
• Vulcan Weapon
  
• Automaton Weapon Effect
  
• Automaton Character Effect
  
• Apocalypse Footprints
  
• Automaton Portal Effect
  
• Thaumaturgy Dachshund Pet

• You must connect your Path of Exile account to Twitch and stream your participation (on the linked account) for the whole event. If we can't watch any portion of your streamed entry, you are not eligible to win.
  
• If you win one of the qualifier events, you are not eligible to win another.
  
• If for some reason one of the event winners is not able to come to New Zealand, their ExileCon tickets, accommodation and flights will transfer to the person who achieves the next fastest time in any event. They will still receive their microtransactions but the other prizes will be transferred to the next eligible person.
  
• You must abide by Path of Exile's Terms of Service and Twitch's Terms of Service
  
• Unsportsmanlike conduct at any time in the leadup to ExileCon may result in you being disqualified from the event
  
• Past and present Grinding Gear Games employees are not eligible to win prizes in these events.

Each of these events will be hosted live on twitch.tv/pathofexile with shoutcasting by ZiggyD and RaizQT. Co-streaming is welcome!

We look forward to seeing the results! Good luck to everyone who is planning to participate.

We've found some more great art from our talented community that we wanted to share in today's news post. 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!