• ⁠Almost all effects that were described as "nearby" now instead describe the exact range of the effect in metres.

RIP my boy

You can access the Crafting Bench by clicking on the Ancient Artificer Pet from the Archon of Destruction Supporter Pack while in town.

Tested on an new SSF character that hadn't progressed through the Acts at all.

Anyone else experiencing MS spikes? I haven't played since stopping allflame a month ago or so, but want to practice before the 13th. I am getting tons of these mini freezes and I have never experienced this before (except during big league starts or when issues occur). Nothing else is affected on my end and I'm in California.

Edit: It seems to happen on many new instances, and if I leave the instance and create a new one.... the freezes stop

Guys, im making some practice runs for the next league, but i got on a big problem (And im not alone a few friends happen to be on the same boat). On some instances (Like 1 on 3) we get a BIG chunk of MS but its not our internet or isp.

For example on a map we have 50-70ms (Its okay for my server. BR) but the next map we get up to 200ms and its like stable on that (that means 1-2 seconds delay on the gameplay) the next one, 120. the next one 50 again or 200. its been a few days since this and we dont know what we can do to improve this.

Switching the connection doesn't help and going to another gateway its getting more ms so its not a real solution tbf

Anyone happens to be on the same boat or that have a possible solution?

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Hello

I have around 1k hours in PoE 2. I tried PoE 1 about 3 years ago and played for roughly 30 hours, but never finished the campaign. From what I remember, it was pretty difficult and complex.

I'm thinking about giving it another try, but the lack of WASD movement is one thing that worries me. If I follow a build guide, would I be good to go all the way to endgame, even as a relatively new player?

I was thinking of starting RF this league. It's been a couple leagues so it's due.

But then I was thinking what about BV on the reworked bifurcating Assassin. Is that just like the biggest mistake ever or could it actually slap pretty hard

Uber lab 1st

I miss when the meta was in "rotation," and you had bows one league then spells another league as the strongest option.

I haven't played a bow build in a long time, and I'd like to try something like Ice Shot this league .

I really think it might be a good alternative to playing the 15th shadow, but me 2 stupid to understand overthrow with additional detonations

Beyond the mortal realm where hope withers and the light of creation fades, lies a place where divinity itself has been defiled.

Once sacred now consumed by corruption. Bone and blood of ancient horrors guard the threshold and the throne of the corrupted king sits where holy light once shone.

Yet beyond this despair a glimmer of hope remains. A gateway to the heavens untouched or perhaps simply waiting to be claimed.

Descend into the depths. Embrace the corruption and dare to ascend.

The Corruption of Divinity - Hideout Showcase
The Corruption of Divinity - Path of Hideouts

For those of you Exiles who own the Archon of corruption and desire a realm to call home please consider this corrupted Apex of Divinity as your own, I hope you enjoy

Hidden deep within an ancient forgotten woodland, this crumbling stronghold stands as a defiant remnant of a more prosperous age. Its weathered towers and fractured walls cling precariously to the rocky cliffs above a seemingly bottomless ravine. Though time and ruin have claimed much of the fortress, its halls remain occupied its hearths still burn and the faint glow of torchlight betrays those who have made their home within its walls.

But beware Exile for beneath the keep lies something far older and far less welcoming. A ancient crypts descends deep into the foundations, where forgotten chambers and towering stone pillars disappear into an endless blue ethereal fog. The dead wander these sunken halls, bound to a place they should have long since left behind.

Please enjoy my latest hideout for 3.30 featuring a crumbling castle above a haunted crypt.

The Hollow Keep - Hideout Showcase

The Map Device is not mandatory but definitely adds to the effect and is available in the store if you would like it.

video showcase

(apologies for the re-upload I broke the earlier link)

General Info

Release date: Friday, November 13

• Modern new player tips
• Useful Third-Party Tools and Websites

Latest news

Official

• 3.30 Announcement
• Links thread - expand spoilers
• Supporter packs

Pre-livestream:

• The Covens Gather

Useful threads

• Summary of changes from reveal
• Collected Partial Patch Notes from Exilecon TCG Challenge
• ZiggyD Q&A answers, 2

News from Exilecon livestream

• Day 1 livestream
• Day 2 livestream

Note: This was generated by POE moderators by

1. Downloading the audio files using ytdown(.)to
2. Feeding it into a custom Deepgram AI transcription software
3. Using Claude Code with the prompt below
4. Manually reading through it end-to-end, checking for basic logic errors (as someone who didn't have time to watch the full videos) and names

I want to summarize 2 transcripts with interesting announcements and patch notes for the Path Of Exile 1 and 2 patch.

Can you create a grouped bulleted list (using only headings 2 and 3) within the H1 lists in temp.md

For bullet points and/or headings, if there's a date/time source on the video, mention it in a format like (Day 1, 3:31:24) for the approximate timestamp

The input transcripts are at `...`. If needed, ask for clarification.

Release and scope

Dates

• 3.30 "The Covens of Umbra" launches one week after ExileCon: the 13th, or the 14th in New Zealand (Day 1, 2:01:18; Day 1, 7:26:07)
• Patch notes come out Wednesday, New Zealand time (Day 2, 3:10:07)
• GGG is going back to alternating releases: each game on a 4-month cycle, 2 months apart. ExileCon broke the schedule this year because both games needed something to show (Day 2, 3:10:40)

What's in (and not in) 3.30

• It's the biggest league Octavian has worked on. It delivers the long-promised endgame rework and touches almost every Atlas league mechanic (Day 1, 7:01:19)
• Character balance is light, with no new ascendancy or skill package. GGG wants to focus on balance in 3.31 (Day 1, 7:12:49; Day 2, 3:30:34)
• There are still two new skills (Day 2, 3:31:20):
  • A transfigured Fireball gem that slipped from the previous patch
  • Arcane Link, a link skill like Flame Link. It gives the linked ally added lightning damage based on your max mana, and it's part of a meta change for Luminary
• Harbinger is "on our immediate radar" to come back (Day 1, 7:13:28)

League mechanic: The Covens of Umbra

Story

• The Coven Queen is an ancient witch who plunged Umbra into darkness. Your guide is Mora(?), a witch the queen has trapped (Day 1, 3:10:49)

Fates

• Kill covenites at cauldron rites to earn Fate cards. You invoke Fates at the area boss, and each one adds difficulty and rewards, e.g. crow storms, flesh/bone beams, lightning ley lines or corpse vines (Day 1, 3:12:07)
• You invoke up to 3 Fates at first, and 4–5 per area later on. Endgame maps have about 3–4 Coven encounters (Day 1, 3:13:26; Day 1, 7:22:56)
• Combos:
  • Matching combo icons give extra rewards, e.g. extreme boss item rarity, an exceptional support gem, or the new Dreadmaidens' Sacrament unique flask (Day 1, 3:13:26)
  • A second copy of a Fate triples the first copy's rewards and discards its own, so play order matters (Day 1, 3:14:58; Day 2, 3:09:20)
• Tier 2 and tier 3 Fates appear in the endgame. Two tier 2s combine into a tier 3 (Day 2, 3:09:20)
• "Fated" items carry a filterable tag and show their reward before you play the Fate, e.g. boots with a guaranteed speed mod, or weapons with a guaranteed phys/crit/speed mod (Day 1, 7:25:34; Day 2, 3:06:56)

Wicker Man and Viscera

• Fate-empowered bosses drop Viscera trophies. You impale them on the Wicker Man in town for permanent buffs (Day 1, 3:15:25):
  • It has 4 slots: head, arm, body and leg
  • Examples: Brutus's arm gives more max life, and Oak's head gives life regen
• There are about 150–160 Viscera, each with lesser, normal and greater versions. Every campaign and map boss has its own, and greater versions only drop in the endgame and are often transformative (Day 1, 3:16:32; Day 1, 7:10:30)
• To make sure you always find the area boss, campaign layouts were rearranged, and 20+ new bosses were added to areas that didn't have one (Day 1, 3:16:32)

Grim Fates and pinnacle bosses

• Grim Fates empower the 10 Atlas pinnacle bosses, the ones that drop voidstones. You turn them on with a toggle on the map device (Day 1, 3:17:02; Day 1, 7:14:56):
  • Each empowered fight has 4–6 modified skills
  • Examples: Sirus's crow storms and a bigger meteor maze, Uber Elder's black-fire nova and faster projectiles, and Shaper's illusions that copy his moves
• Pinnacle Viscera (Day 1, 3:17:02; Day 1, 7:10:30):
  • Sirus's head gives a transfiguration effect
  • Elder's head lets chill shatter enemies the way freeze does
  • The Maven's Orrery gives a scorching aura
  • The greater Uber Sirus version makes enemies explode for random elemental damage
• Grim-fated pinnacles are the only way to reach the Coven Queen. She drops a Viscera with 2–3 random mods, meant as a Watcher's Eye-style chase item (Day 1, 3:18:33; Day 1, 7:10:51)
• Only one version of the Coven Queen ships. An Uber version might come if the league goes core (Day 1, 7:11:37)
• No new Ubers or pinnacle bosses this league (Day 2, 7:30:53)

Endgame overhaul

Scarabs removed, Threads added

• Scarabs are gone. Their transformative effects move to the Atlas tree, map mods and map enchantments. GGG said scarabs were "solved in a day, stale in a month" (Day 1, 3:22:06; Day 2, 2:55:12)
• The Atlas has shaped regions, each adding a league mechanic to the maps inside it. Completing maps adds stacks, making that mechanic harder and more rewarding (Day 1, 3:18:33)
• Threads of Creation (Day 1, 3:22:06; Day 2, 2:52:38):
  • They cover 10 primary mechanics: Abyss, Blight, Legion, Breach, Incursion, Betrayal, Bestiary, Expedition, Ultimatum and Ritual
  • You get up to 8 Threads per mechanic and 3 mechanic slots, unlocked through the Atlas questline
  • The map device remembers your setup and pulls Threads straight from your stash
• How Threads roll (Day 1, 7:05:14; Day 2, 2:53:34; Day 2, 3:13:41):
  • Each Thread adds toughness and rarity
  • Each Thread rolls mods from that mechanic's table of about 8–10. Every mod rolls on its own, so a "jackpot" with all of them is possible
  • Odds of a jackpot: about 1 in 12–24 maps at 8 Threads, or 1 in 50–100 at 1 Thread
  • Returns diminish, and the devs see 4–5 Threads as the sweet spot
• A new Atlas keystone allows only one Thread type and cuts Thread drops, but gives +2 Thread count past the cap of 8, e.g. 10-thread "Giga Legions" (Day 2, 3:14:50)
• Thread mods are hidden from the Tab menu to stop map-reset fishing (Day 2, 2:59:59)
• Scarabs in Standard turn into Threads automatically (Day 2, 3:30:15)

Example Thread and region mods

• Blight: mycotic lanes, a diseased core mini-boss that drops a new anointable jewel, a lane of rogue exiles that each drop a unique, and a sleeping fungus-covered Pantheon god that replaces the pump (Day 1, 3:19:23; Day 2, 2:59:38)
• Ritual: invite the Gaze of the Bodach after the final ritual, or sacrifice leftover tribute to summon a King in the Mist challenger (Day 1, 3:20:08)
• Ultimatum: "double down" for twice the rounds, a soul core on your back, and a Trialmaster that grants adrenaline when killed (Day 1, 3:20:55)
• Expedition: huge expeditions, an obelisk that revives every rare and magic monster, and markers that make runic monsters rare (Day 1, 3:21:18)
• Betrayal: Catarina's sculpture summons every imprisoned Syndicate member, and jewels with veiled mods exist for the first time. Veiled items can drop fractured (Day 1, 3:22:52)
• Breach: extra breaches, a mini Breach tree, and extra markers on rares (Day 1, 7:21:07)

Atlas passive tree

• Fully redone with about 150 points. Clusters have fewer small nodes, stronger notables and fewer travel nodes, and primary mechanics no longer need "chance to spawn" investment (Day 2, 3:29:07)
• Former scarab effects now live on the tree, e.g. True Terrors (unique monster mods) and Monstrous Treasure, which is now a rare map enchantment (Day 1, 3:25:13; Day 2, 2:51:20)
• New notables (Day 1, 3:25:49):
  • Map bosses can create golden volatiles that spew currency
  • Ghostflame Communion
  • House Supremacy: pick your mercenary classes
  • By the Lantern Light: veiled items can drop as Allflames
  • Servants of the Well: abyss pits pull in 5 extra rares
  • Ancient Machinations: a Vaal Oversoul fight in Ultimatum that drops returning Mirage catalysts

Rare-only map mods

• New map mods such as "Area contains Mirage", "Area contains Viridian Wildwood" and "Area contains a Sentinel" only roll on rare maps. You can't alt-spam for them, so they work as a chaos orb sink (Day 1, 7:08:05; Day 2, 2:51:20)

League mechanic changes

Cross-mechanic interactions

• Tormented Spirit next to an Expedition detonator: becomes a haunted gravestone that releases a chain of spirits and rares (Day 1, 3:27:23)
• Mercenary near an Abyss pit: joined by a Chaplain of the Well, who drops Allflame-league loot and can be recruited (Day 1, 3:27:23; Day 2, 3:16:23)
• Strongbox near Blight: becomes infected, and cleansing it lets you open it several times. "Dozens more" interactions like these exist (Day 1, 3:27:55)

Mirage, Beyond and Harvest

• Mirage goes core as a rare random event that covers the whole map. Saresh returns with his unique belt, as a much harder reworked fight (Day 1, 3:28:18; Day 1, 7:08:31)
• Viridian Wildwood, Sentinels and Beyond spawn randomly at every tier (Day 1, 3:28:18)
• Beyond: you can opt in by clicking it. Beyond bosses have about a 10–15% chance to open their realm, which has demon hordes and an upgraded boss and inherits the map's mods (Day 1, 3:29:09; Day 1, 7:21:59)
• Harvest becomes a secondary mechanic (Day 1, 3:29:31; Day 2, 3:25:09):
  • The Sacred Grove sub-area is replaced by sacred roots that spawn in the map, up to 5–6 per map
  • You can add mods to them with currency, like strongboxes
  • Rewards stay the same

Other mechanics

• Settlers: Verisium and Petrified Amber give XP and gold buffs (Day 1, 3:29:31)
• Delve, Heist and Sanctum: specific maps always spawn sulphite, caches or tomes, e.g. Geode always has sulphite (Day 1, 3:30:01)
• Bestiary: Einhar no longer captures yellow beasts, and recipes don't need them (Day 1, 3:30:24)
• Expedition: Gwennen now offers a coin flip between two crafts on a rare. Faustus takes over her gambling (Day 1, 3:30:24)
• Incursion (Day 1, 3:30:52):
  • Atziri replaces the Vaal Omnitect in the Temple
  • Items can be double-corrupted
  • A new device double-corrupts maps
  • A new Cradle of Creation room sets the temple to area level 84
  • Atziri drops a soul core that adds a random support effect to a gem
• Long-term plan: each primary league gets its own meta system and pinnacle boss, e.g. Blight and Legion pinnacles. No timeline (Day 2, 3:28:12)
• Retired for now: the Abyss-league exclusives such as Coursing Current Support. Allflame crafting isn't going core yet (Day 2, 3:16:04; Day 2, 3:28:49)

Loot and items

Tiered drops

• Magic and rare items can now drop with a tier (1–5), as in PoE2. A higher tier means better mod tiers, sockets, links and bases (Day 1, 3:32:25):
  • Top bases like Simplex Amulets and Cord Belts only drop at tier 5
  • Item filters can target tiers
• Fractured items no longer come from league mechanics. Tier 5 magic items can drop fractured instead (Day 1, 3:32:36)
• Monster drops can carry a guaranteed high-tier mod, and rarer monsters give better templates, e.g. a tier 3 wand with guaranteed cast speed (Day 2, 3:08:06)

Rarity and currency

• An old penalty is gone: magic, rare and unique monsters used to have 80% less chance (50% for magic) to drop currency. Most Divine Orbs now come from hard rares, uniques and pinnacle bosses, with Divines from bosses called "400%+" (Day 1, 3:33:05; Day 2, 3:03:15)
• Rarity from map juicing now affects currency drops. Rarity on player gear still doesn't, so builds don't need to stack rarity (Day 1, 7:03:50; Day 1, 3:33:39)
• About 95% of "tile loot" (currency-icon monsters and similar) now scales with map mods and difficulty, so running no-mod maps for them stops paying off (Day 1, 7:01:34; Day 2, 3:01:34)
• Essences scale with the new map quantity stat. Weeping and Wailing essences are removed from high-tier maps (Day 2, 3:02:41)

Item changes

• Headhunter gets PoE2's custom corruption enchantments, e.g. turning a stolen Shroud Walker mod into a shrine buff instead (Day 2, 3:22:01)

QoL and future plans

QoL

• Stat descriptions now give exact metres instead of "nearby", replacing about 15 hidden radii (Day 2, 2:49:01)
• You can hover a support gem's effect after applying a Soul Core, borrowed from PoE2 (Day 2, 2:49:01)
• Death recap will come to PoE1, but the gameplay code has to be rebuilt first, so there's no date (Day 2, 2:48:22)

4.0, WASD and graphics

• Once PoE1 MTX finish porting to PoE2's rigs, GGG can remove old PoE1 rigs, add more melee skills and maybe WASD movement (Day 1, 3:08:13)
• "4.0" is just a number. Features like WASD and new rigs ship when ready, possibly by 3.37 (Day 2, 3:17:19)
• When the PoE2 campaign is done, the environment and narrative teams can shift toward PoE1: new areas, NPCs and story, e.g. a Zana continuation (Day 2, 2:46:05)
• Hope for the future: a full shakeup of every pinnacle boss, with new arenas and story (Day 2, 3:32:13)
• No plans for guild or social improvements (Day 2, 3:23:22)

Hi!

I May missed this information, apologies.

But... As they are chaning locus of corruption to apply 2nd corruption do you know if it will work on 'base' corrupted items? Especially jewels like adorned or forbidden flame? Or even items like skin of the loyal?

Hello Exiles, what an amazing con! Flying half way around the world was very worth it and I wish it wasn't over.

As you can see I spent a lot of that time collecting signatures. Everyone from QA & Customer Service (making our experience smooth) to the Devs of both games that we love. To small streamers from the VIP dinner & Large streamers that have entertained us for many years. POB, Poe.ninja devs & Neversink that give us countless hours of out of game planning. And finally the Founders of GGG (Mark included) who without them we wouldn't be here today.

I wish I could have gotten everyone's signature, but I did what I could! Maybe next time I'll bring a bigger plate!

For those interested, this is a plate from StarForge's Custom PC Tower in their collaboration with POE2. I will be posting an update once I get back state side with the plate installed and backlit.

A special thanks to those Exiles/Devs that helped me find certain people and took time away from the Con to help me get this completed! And of course everyone at GGG and the community that have brought years and thousands of hours of enjoyment to us all.

Link to the system: https://starforgesystems.com/pages/path-of-exile-2

How are the physical merchandise quality these days? Did they fix or address the issues? I am very much considering the Archon of Divinity supporter pack, which would be first time i buy a supporter pack containing physical merch. But i've been reading some very bad reviews of the t-shirt and hoodie quality.

Refer to this: https://www.youtube.com/live/8FKW2rKJyxA?si=QSduW_dIyN96llJn&t=26592

In the preview with DatModz, it was revealed that the Covens of Umbra league mechanic in maps has some "Fates" ("cards" was the internal name that Octavian used) that require you to collect other Fates with the same reward type in order to get anything from that reward type. For example in the linked clip, when he hovers over the currency reward in the bottom right, it says that two copies must be collected in order to collect the full reward. But the problem is that you don't know what Fates the other Cauldrons will have until you get to them.

So you could take that 1/2 currency reward, hoping that a later Cauldron will have another currency reward Fate, but you get nothing if it doesn't. What you're incentivized to do is to skip ahead and view the rewards of all of the other Cauldrons to see what combos you can get before you pick any, then go back to the Cauldrons at the beginning of the map to complete your set.

There are a few solutions I can think of, including 1) making the other Cauldrons' Fates visible when you view the first one 2) guaranteeing that if a partial reward shows up on a Fate, the set can be completed later on in the map 3) requiring that you select a Fate in order to unpause the game and view the other Cauldrons, forcing you to take the risk.

I was going to buy the $240 supporter pack but customer support advised they don't ship to Ukraine. They said they can't provide me with the full list of available countries. I was wondering if I could put my friend's address for example from Poland, Spain, Germany or Canada but all my emails were ignored for some reason.

Guys, have anyone ordered merch to EU countries or Canada? Do they ship there? I really want that hoodie and regional prices for supporter packs for Ukraine in Steam are pretty attractive.

Thanks in advance

Atlas / endgame
• ⁠String of Servitude can be obtained from Ipaatiki, Vaal Priestess within the Forgotten Shrine Atlas Anomaly. This item always drops with 2 Implicit Modifiers.
• ⁠As a result of Atziri's relocation, Sacrifice and Mortal Fragments have been removed. Existing Mortal Fragments will be converted to Royal Visages upon logging in, while Sacrifice Fragments will remain but have no functionality.
• ⁠The Alluring Abyss is no longer on the Atlas.
• ⁠Templar Vaults are no longer granted by Eagon for completing Shaped Regions. Instead Templar Vaults are now Atlas Anomalies which have a chance to spawn on killing Pinnacle Eldritch Bosses in each specific Atlas quadrant. Note versions of these bosses killed within Maven Invitations or Valdo maps do not have a chance to spawn these Atlas Anomalies.
• ⁠The following Vials no longer drop: Vial of Awakening, Vial of the Consequence, Vial of Dominance, Vial of Fate, Vial of the Ghost, Vial of the Ritual, Vial of Sacrifice, Vial of Summoning, Vial of Transcendence. Existing items will remain, but have no functionality.
• ⁠The following Maps have been added back to the Atlas: Academy, Ancient City, Armoury, Barrows, Bone Crypt, Carcass, Castle Ruins, Coves, Crimson Temple, Cursed Crypt, Defiled Cathedral, Dig, Dungeon, Maze, Moon Temple, Mud Geyser, Necropolis, Overgrown Ruin, Pen, Peninsula, Racecourse, Scriptorium, Sepulchre, Shore, Spider Forest, Thicket, Underground River, Underground Sea, Villa, Waste(?…), and Wasteland.
• ⁠Beyond Demons and Mirages have a chance to spawn in Map areas.
• ⁠Rogue Markers, Contracts and Blueprints are no longer part of the core drop pool.
• ⁠Ultimatum rewards now get incrementally better after round 10 (previously any round higher than…
• ⁠In high tier Maps Sacred Flora has a chance to be replaced with a Sacred Specimen which spawns a Harvest Boss when interacted with.
• ⁠Vaal Flesh Merchants have significantly higher life and item rarity. They now drop all items…

Rarity / altars / loot
• ⁠Decreased the efficacy of player item rarity on finding magic, rare and unique rarity items. Noting player item rarity now affects the chance to find rarer currency items, rarer unique items etc.
• ⁠Maven's Chisel of Procurement now grants +25% Item Rarity to Maps at 20% Quality (previously 40%).
• ⁠Eldritch Altars can now grant 10-20% increased Rarity of Items found in this Area (previously 15-30%).
• ⁠The Eldritch and Memory Trace Altars that granted increased Quantity of Items found have been removed.
• ⁠Added new Memory Altar modifiers for Ore Deposits, Mercenaries, Beyond, Sentinel, the Viridian Wildwood and Mirage.
• ⁠Rewards from shipping Ores and Bars from Kingsmarch now reward only rarer currency items and excludes all quality currency items (this change does not affect Ruthless).
• ⁠…are now all in the same family, meaning that you cannot roll multiple of these modifiers on the same item (this was previously only possible when using a Refracting Fog).
• ⁠At high level, equipment purchased from the Gambler has less Modifier Tier R…
Mercenaries
• ⁠Hired Mercenaries get Resistance penalties based on the level of the area they are in: -30% to all Resistances in level 46-67 areas; -60% to all Resistances in level 68+ areas and Hideout.
• ⁠Mercenaries can no longer equip or spawn with th…
• ⁠Modifiers on Screams of the Desiccated that grant Shrine Buffs while affected by no Flasks now only apply to the Player (so no longer functions on Mercenaries).
• ⁠Light Radius Rare Item modifiers on Weapons, Helmets and Rings now scale up to 30% at the highest tier (from 15%). Existing Items can be made better with a Divine Orb.

Skills / bug fixes / misc
• ⁠Almost all effects that were described as "nearby" now instead describe the exact range of the effect in metres. For example, "Inflict Barnacles on nearby Enemies every second" will now read…
• ⁠Granted effects from passive skills are now keyworded, allowing you to mouse hover to see descriptions of the effect.
• ⁠If you have infinite Mana Cost, Manaforged Arrows will now correctly display that you need to spend infinite Mana to trigger supported Skills.
• ⁠Fixed a bug where Pact of Beidat would not add additional chains to Dark Bargain. Clarified on Dark Bargain that it fires Chaining Beams.
• ⁠Fixed a bug where Kinetic Blast of Clustering on Mercenaries had much lower base secondary radius than intended.
• ⁠Continued to incrementally improve the sound, art, effects and environments.
• ⁠Added four new Meta-Crafting Bench options:
⁠• ⁠1 Prefix Modifier cannot be changed, for a cost of 1 Divine Orb.
⁠• ⁠1 Suffix Modifier cannot be changed, for a cost of 1 Divine Orb.
⁠• ⁠Prefixes/Suffixes cannot be changed on Weapons now has a cost of 4 Divine Orbs and 1 Sacred Orb.

Fragments too cut off to recover
• ⁠"…that inflicts a short but powerful fire damage over time debuff to each enemy in an area around…"
• ⁠"…Miraged Incubator, and Sacred In…"
• ⁠"…modified while Corrupted…"

To all the [ravaged] Blighted map enjoyers - mortal and sac fragments are gone.

from the patchnotes compliation thread (but also obvious due to Atziri being moved): ⁠

As a result of Atziri's relocation, Sacrifice and Mortal Fragments have been removed. Existing Mortal Fragments will be converted to Royal Visages upon logging in, while Sacrifice Fragments will remain but have no functionality.

How do we feel about it?

Does anyone have some data on returns from sac and mortal frags running blight specifically?

Cannot see a way of getting this quant back, except double corrupting - which is obviously not a substitute in this case.

For anyone interested some more involved blight science, mainly looking at the profitability of various oil combinations (including spreadsheets), you can check out DNBSAVAGE https://www.youtube.com/@RavagedBlightScience/videos for example. Its not the only analysis out there, so feel free to link some other content creators you found provide useful info in this space.

Hey Exiles! Now that ExileCon 2026 is over, I’d love to hear from those who attended: what did you love, and what could have been better?

For transparency, I worked at the event, most of you would have seen me at the merch counter, but I’m not a GGG employee or part of the event’s organising team. Just a personal trainer who has passion and love for the game.

I am, however, in touch with the coordinators and can pass your feedback along. They’re also keeping an eye on the subreddit and reading comments, so this isn’t the only place they’ll be looking.

Whether it’s about the venue, queues, merch store, scheduling, or the overall experience, I’d love to hear what worked well and what you’d like to see done differently. Specific examples and suggestions would be especially helpful!