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Path of Exile
Talent Competition Highlights
Last week we announced the beginning of The Forbidden Sanctum Talent Competition. There have already been some amazing submissions, and today we'd like to share some of them with you!
There's still plenty of time to show off your talent in this competition! If you'd like to submit an entry, you can do so by posting in this thread.
Core Supporter Packs Concept Art - Hellfire
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.
Dragonfire Portal Effect
Eternal Flame Wings
Hellfire Armour Set
Weekend Weapons and Shields Sale
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!
Build of the Week Season 11 - Episode 1 - Palsteron's Static Strike Slayer
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!
3.20.1b Patch Notes Preview
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.
Divination Card Stories - The Wedding Gift
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!
Core Supporter Packs Concept Art - Tormentor
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.
Poltergeist Portal Effect
Poltergeist Shield
Tormented Back Attachment
Tormentor Armour Set
The Forbidden Sanctum Talent Competition
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.
Prizes
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)
How to Enter
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
Conditions
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!
Microtransaction Prize Pool
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
Weekend Stash Tab Sale
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!
Community Showcase
We have more amazing artworks to share from our community today. Check them out below!
