If you've still got a design you want to share, there's about a week left until submissions close! Find out more information about the competition here! Good luck!
Build of the Week S10 E4 - omnompanda's Saqawal's Twister Inquisior
This week's build will blow you away! Omnompanda's Twister Inquisitor makes use of the Saqawal armour pieces to create an infinite storm of twisters to eviscerate its foes! Check out the showcase below!
For more information about omnompanda's build, you can find their forum post here.
If you're keen to get featured in next week's video, make sure you post your build in our Classes/Builds sub-forum, which you can find on our forum homepage!
Photos of GGG's Upstairs Office
Grinding Gear Games has been growing and we've expanded into more of our office building. We're finally settled into our new space and wanted to share some photos with you. The new office space is on the top floor of the building and is home to our Audio team, UI team, and all of our Live Operations (System Administrators, Web Developers, Producers, QA and Community Team).
We are still occupying the same office space a floor down and a floor below that, so we're slowly taking over the majority of the building we're in. If you're interested in taking a peek into a part of our studio, check out the photos below! (Note that these photos were taken first thing in the morning before many people had arrived for the day)
The right side of the floor is occupied by the QA team - Good morning!
Here's another view of QA's space. The audio team's room is situated behind the camera in this photo!
Here's the audio team's space with Michael's desk on the right! (Michael is our new composer)
Here is another angle of the audio team's room
Here is some miscellaneous audio equipment with a view back out to QA
Kamil's new office where he's working steadfastly on Path of Exile 2's soundtrack
This is one of the most exciting parts of our new upstairs office - the recording studio! This allows us to bring voice actors to the studio to record them onsite. This is also where we do other in-house recordings - like when Eben records the new Build of the Week videos!
The recording booth where we get our voice actors to work their magic!
Past QA is the rec room, where our team takes breaks and hangs out
Here is the view from the rec room!
Development fuel
Our flask tab in the guild stash
More snacks - bananas for scale
The kitchen - where coffee is made and people microwave fish to display their dominance
When you travel through the rec room, you reach the left side of the floor with more working space
The meeting room is tucked to the right and is equipped with TV for pitching ideas and a whiteboard for outlining future plans. This one has plans for our 3.20 league laid out so naturally we've redacted that from this photo.
One of the Kitava statues that competitive racers won years back
One of the Malachai statues
Malachai and Kitava alongside Solaris and Lunaris
The producers' corner!
Here's where our sysadmins sit - aka the home of 'have you tried restarting your computer?'.
A shot of the whole left side of the floor, featuring some game designer's desks
This desk belongs to Dane, one of our 3D artists. The UI team are situated behind him!
This block of desks belong to our UI programmers and 2D artists!
Finally, this is where our community team sits! You can see Matt working on Build of the Week!
The Path of Exile: Boss vs. Boss Series
A while back, we shared a series of videos showcasing hypothetical fights between various Wraeclast figures. We wanted to take a trip down memory lane and check out some of our favourite fights in today's news post!
Check out our favourite battles in the videos below, or check out the full playlist on YouTube here!
Daresso vs. Kaom
Alva vs. Einhar vs. Jun vs. Zana Free For All
Kitava vs. Seven Rogue Exiles
Want to know who would win in a one on one between the bosses of Path of Exile? Let us know who you'd like to see duke it out!
Design a T-Shirt Competition Highlights
Our Design a T-Shirt Competition started a couple of weeks ago and today we're highlighting some awesome ideas from the community. Check them out below!
Tukohama's Toaster plugged into a totem in the background, with the Witch in the foreground using her wand (in one hand) to apply a generous amount of butter to her toast (in the other hand). Text at the bottom reads "Too. Much. Butter."
There's still around a couple weeks to go until the competition ends! Make sure you post your ideas and designs in the competition thread here! Good luck!
Weekend Weapons and Shields Sale
This weekend, we're hosting a sale on a huge selection of Weapon and Shield Effects and Skins! If you're looking to fill in missing cosmetic set pieces or just want a new look, be sure to check out the specials in-game by pressing the 'M' key to open the shop and navigating to the Specials tab. The sale ends at 5pm on October 3rd PDT.
Not sure what to get? Check out the Overlord Weapon and Misery Weapon Effect in the screenshot below, which are part of the sale! We've paired them with the Despair Armour Set and the Despair Cloak.
If you're short on points, check out our supporter packs, which you can find by pressing 'M' to open the store in-game.
Thanks for your support!
Build of the Week S10 E3 - Frost666's Relic of the Pact Inquisitor
This week's build is by Frost666, and makes use of the returning Relic of the Pact wand to freeze fearsome bosses in their steps! Check out the showcase below!
For more information about Frost666's build, you can find their video here and their forum post here.
If you're keen to get featured in next week's video, make sure you post your build in our Classes/Builds sub-forum, which you can find on our forum homepage!
Build of the Week Season 10 - Episode 2 - Mathil's Rolling Magma Deadeye
Ready for the next Build of the Week? Created by Mathil, this week's build uses Rolling Magma and takes advantage of weapon swapping to switch between huge AoE for clearing and focussed explosions for single target damage! Check out the showcase below!
For more information about Mathil's build, you can find their video here and their forum post here.
If you're keen to get featured in next week's video, make sure you post your build in our Classes/Builds sub-forum, which you can find on our forum homepage!
Community Showcase
For today's news post, we've gathered a few pieces of Path of Exile related art to show off the amazing talent of our community. Check them out below!
