PoE 3.16 Patch Notes New League
The Expedition League ends on PC on Monday October 18th at 2PM PDT. On consoles, the Expedition League will end when the 3.16 expansion goes live for consoles on October 27th PDT.
PoE 3.16 Release Date & Expansion Timeline
Path of Exile 3.16 expansion name: Scourge. You'll be able to play the new Path of Exile expansion for free on October 22nd (PDT) on PC and on October 27th (PDT) on console.
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| October 22, 2021 |
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| October 27 |
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New Skill Gems
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 Poisonous Concoction |
Level 12 | Throws an explosive bottle that deals unarmed attack damage in an area and has a chance to poison. Can consume charges from a Life flask to add further damage. Requires an empty main hand, and no off-hand weapon. | Unarmed skill. Scales its damage based on how much life the consumed flasks recover. |
 Energy Blade |
Level 24 | Grants a buff which significantly lowers your maximum Energy Shield to transform your equipped weapons into Swords formed from that energy. Casting the spell again removes the buff. Requires a Non-Bow weapon. | Stack as much energy shield as possible. |
 Temporal Rift |
Level 34 | Reserves mana to apply a buff and leave afterimages of your recent past. Cast the spell again to return to the oldest afterimage, teleporting to that location as well as resetting your Life, Mana and Energy Shield to the values they had then. | It is incredibly useful in hardcore mode, or while exploring maps efficiently. |
 Tornado |
Level 34 | Creates a Tornado that repeatedly damages enemies around it. It will move forward for a duration, during which your projectiles can collide with it to deal damage as though it was an enemy. Then it will chase down enemies for a secondary duration, and reflect a portion of the damage it took from your projectiles to them in addition to its own damage. | |
 Soul Link |
Level 34 | Targets an allied player to apply a buff which links you to them for a duration. While linked, your Energy Shield will intercept some of the damage they would take. If the target dies while linked, you will also die. This skill cannot be used by Totems, Traps, or Mines. | For party play. you must build a tanky character with a lot of energy shield. |
 Protective Link |
Level 34 | targets an allied player to apply a buff which links you to them for a duration. While linked, they copy your block chance and recover life when they block. If the target dies while linked, you will also die. This skill cannot be used by Totems, Traps, or Mines. | For party play. you must specialise in Block. Glancing Blows keystone passive doubles your block chance. |
 Intuitive Link |
Level 34 | Targets an allied player to apply a buff which links you to them for a duration. While linked, their hits can trigger your supported spells. If the target dies while linked, you will also die. This skill cannot be used by Totems, Traps, or Mines. | For party play. |
 Vampiric Link |
Level 34 | For party play. | |
 Flame Link |
Level 34 | For party play. | |
 Destructive Link |
Level 34 | For party play. |
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PoE 3.16 New League Changes
In Path of Exile: Scourge (October 3.16 expansion), GGG is making a number of changes to improve how characters mitigate ailments, use flasks, and build the defence of their characters. GGG is also addressing the extreme power of Auras and Curses in parties, while improving the strength of these mechanics for builds with a smaller investment. Finally, GGG is changing Elemental Overload and Elemental Equilibrium and massively buffing elemental damage over time to be less dependent on them.
(1) Reduce the Atlas to four regions rather than eight.
- Halve the number of regions to four and the number of watchstones to sixteen.
- Removed the following regions: Tirn's End, Lex Proxima, Lex Ejoris and New Vastir. Any quest Watchstones that have come from these regions will be deleted. Any sextants that are applied to these quest Watchstones will also be deleted.
- Convert region-specific Watchstones to new region: Tirn's End --> Haewark Hamlet, Lex Proxima --> Glennach Cairns, Lex Ejoris --> Valdo's Rest, New Vastir --> Lira Arthain.
- Any Watchstones socketed in the regions of New Vastir, Glennach Cairns, Valdo's Rest and Lira Arthain will be moved into remove-only Stash tabs.
- Map completion statuses: nique maps will stay marked as 'completed' but the other maps in your Atlas will be marked as incomplete.
- Completing a legacy map, your Atlas will automatically complete all the tiers below the tier of the map you completed.
- Maven Witness progress will be reset as the maps in a given region are changing.
- Favourite maps will also be reset.
- Conquerors Influences and progress towards spawning a Conqueror in regions will be reset.
- Atlas Passives in each region will be unallocated due to the large changes coming to each region's Atlas Trees.
Note that this will affect existing Atlases for players in permanent leagues as well.
(2) Core Character Defences and Recovery
GGG is doing a major balance pass to improve defences and recovery for all characters. The goal is to put more power into the core defences (Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield) to make them the best way to mitigate the kind of damage they are best at preventing, while taking some of that power away from the one-off mechanics that provide a significant defence for too low a cost. While some individual mechanics have been nerfed, this is overall a massive buff to defenses across the board.
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| Remove Dodge entirely and review certain powerful mechanics like Blind (and Fortify for non-melee characters). Improve almost every other scalable defence type significantly to make them more powerful. This includes Armour, Evasion, Energy Shield Recovery and Spell Block. |
| Improve the Armour formula so that Armour is more powerful, providing better mitigation across the board, and increase the strength of modifiers on items that add base local Armour. Previously, if you had 10,000 Armour and you took a hit that dealt 2,000 physical damage, you'd reduce that hit by 33%. Now you'll reduce that hit by 50%. |
| Remove Attack Dodge entirely. Substantially buff Evasion so that it is a good option and make sure it is easily available on items. |
| Introduce "Spell Suppression" on Evasion items as well the Dexterity section of the Passive Skill Tree, which gives a chance to halve spell damage taken. The chance can be stacked up to 100%. Convert existing sources of Dodge and Spell Dodge to Spell Suppression or replace them with other bonuses. |
| Review all mechanics that scale off Armour/Evasion, and all mechanics that grant large values or increases to Armour and Evasion. |
| Add more Maximum Elemental Resistances to areas of the passive tree that have Armour in them. |
| Replace the Veiled modifier and lower the power on the Energy from Naught Notable. Compensate all characters for the loss of maximum energy shield by increasing the strength of all Energy Shield base types. Add more Energy Shield to the passive skill tree. |
| Base Types are now generated with a random 0-10% higher base defence, as an inbuilt currently-non-modifiable property. This means that all base types can be better than they currently are, and armour base types are not homogeneous any more. Energy Shield values on base types instead vary from 0-20%. |
| Increase the base recovery rate of Energy Shield recharge. Rework the downside of the Wicked Ward Keystone. Move improvements to Energy Shield Recharge to the core modifier pool for Energy Shield gear, away from specialised item mechanics. |
| Give everyone access to Ghost Dance as a Keystone Passive. |
| Add a new Keystone Passive Skill(Divine Shield), and add more hybrid Armour/Energy Shield Passives to the Templar section of the Passive Skill Tree. |
| Improve Life Regeneration modifiers on gear, and add a new Keystone(Lethe Shade) between the Witch and Shadow area on the Passive Skill Tree to heavily dampen the initial impact of Damage over Time. |
| Remove various sources of Life Regeneration per Endurance Charge or lower their values, review effects that give Life Recovery Rate and high values of Life Regeneration. Add new passives in the Strength area of the tree that grant Life Regeneration and one source of increased Life Regeneration Rate. |
| Add new passive skill clusters to the Shadow area of the Passive Skill Tree, allowing investment in a combination of Life on Hit, Life on Kill and Life Leech. This also includes a source of Maximum total Life Recovery per Second from Life Leech in the Shadow area of the passive tree. |
| Add new passive skill clusters to the area of the Passive Skill Tree between Shadow and Witch, allowing investment in Life on Kill and recouping a portion of damage taken as Life. |
| Give everyone access to a weaker form of Versatile Combatant as a Keystone Passive, and replace the Gladiator Ascendancy skill. Also improve how much Block chance and Spell Block chance you can get from other sources. |
| Remove irrelevant modifiers from Shields and add some really powerful ones. |
| Make Blind synergise with Evasion so that it's more powerful only if you have built a very evasive character. The power level of the new Blind is significantly lower than before, but has more opportunities for further investment if you want to specialise in it. |
| Reduce the cost of Flesh and Stone and change Tempest Shield so that it is a similarly powerful defensive reservation effect (alongside Arctic Armour and Flesh and Stone). The intent is that there are three competing defensive reservation effects that you are able to pick between, or use together. |
| Change the Fortify mechanic so its effect is based on your melee damage. |
(3) Flask Changes
- Added new modifiers to Life and Mana Flasks that are impactful but brief, and have a Duration rather than applying during Flask Effect.
- Replace the Ailment Removal Modifier on Utility flasks with one that grants Ailment Immunity but lessens flask duration. Note that base durations on Utility flasks have been increased to compensate.
- Add new modifiers and improve existing modifiers on Flasks that affect their duration or charge gain. Add some new Passive Skills to help sustain Flasks. Extend the base duration of Utility Flasks to reduce how often they need to be used.
- Add multiple tiers to most Flask modifiers. At higher levels, Flasks now have much more powerful effects available. Flask modifiers that increase Armour or Evasion are now weaker at their first tier as the changes to Armour and Evasion below make them more powerful. These changes allow us to restore some of the power that was removed from Flasks in 3.15 without affecting the early-mid game so much.
- Buff some Enkindling Orb effects, most notably the increased Flask Effect modifier.
- Add more tiers to Flask modifiers on Belts, and move the Flask Effect modifier out of the Influence modifier pool into the base modifier pool for Belts.
- Keep the total Life Recovery from all Life Flasks the same, but halve the amount of time for this to occur, which doubles their healing per second. This is a huge improvement to how effective non-instant Life Flasks are at keeping you alive in tough situations.
- Rework the "Survival" Jewels available from the "Through Sacred Ground" quest to let you gain charges another way, while reducing the charges gained from kills. These designs are still in progress.
- Add new and improve existing passive skills specialising in the recovery of charges for life and mana Flasks as well as life recovery from Flasks in the Ranger section of the Passive Skill Tree.
(4) Ailments changes
Introduce a large number of options and improve existing options for characters to deal with Ailments. Characters should now be able to pick between reservation skills that mitigate ailments, remove effects reactively with life or mana flasks, gain immunity at a cost through Utility Flasks, or use improved modifiers on items and the passive skill tree to mitigate ailments and curses.
(5) Auras and other Reservation Effects
- Replace "Reservation Reduction" with "Reservation Efficiency". When stacked, Reservation Efficiency does not allow for infinite Auras. This can be given out much more liberally as a result, letting characters run additional Reservation Effects with only a couple of sources of Reservation Efficiency. The average character benefits, but the top end of extreme reservation has been made significantly weaker.
- Remove sources of Aura Effect from Cluster Jewels and move the Aura Cluster Jewels type to Small Cluster Jewels, so it is no longer possible to continuously stack Aura Effect for your party. Introduce a new Cluster Jewel Notable to increase the "Effect of your Auras on You" for builds that are building Auras for their own power.
(6) Curses
- Make Curse Cluster Jewels a Small Cluster Jewel, with many of the Notables reworked to benefit specific Curses significantly, greatly improving a regular character wanting to maximise their Curse of choice. Make significant changes to Doedre's Skin as it applies many Curses at almost no cost.
(7) Elemental Damage over Time
- Greatly improve the base strength of Ignite, Burning and Cold Damage over Time, while making Elemental Overload and Elemental Equilibrium less powerful or require more investment with Damage over Time skills. Rebalance skills that could apply Ignite effects around the new base damage of Ignite and remove the Ignite Damage multipliers.
- Redesign the Burning Arrow skill without a secondary stacking burning effect, but with high added fire damage against Ignited enemies.
- Change Flame Surge and introduce a new attack-based mechanic to be able to deal much more Burning damage to a targeted enemy.
(8) Crafting improvements. For example, taking obscure mastercrafting recipes out of places like Delve and the Pale Council and making them attainable in Path of Exile's core content. GGG is also planning to improve Veiled Modifiers so that they unlock all tiers immediately upon discovery, rather than needing to level them. However, note that the more advanced Veiled Modifiers may still require multiple unveils.
(9) Hard Mode
Chris talked about an internal gameplay mode that he and the other founders were toying with, focussed around extreme item scarcity. It's worth noting that the discussion of this "Hard Mode" was to provide context for how GGG is investigating potential changes to the item system in a relatively clean sandbox. GGG will post more about "Hard Mode'' in its own post in the coming weeks if GGG decides it's something they want to release publicly.
(10) Aspirational Content
GGG does have some ideas for Aspirational Content they have been working on (essentially "Uber" versions of existing end-game encounters). Here are some of the ones PoE has been considering for 3.16 as examples:
- Increasing the drop rate of Delirium Orbs and making 5x Delirium Orb encounters more rewarding. Additionally, we would likely make the 4x, 3x, 2x, and 1x Orb encounters more rewarding but to a lesser extent than the 5x Delirium Orb encounter.
- Considering adding an additional 5-10 waves to the end of the Simulacrum.
- Making Delve a lot more rewarding at a much shallower depth so that around depth 1,000-1,500 it becomes much more rewarding but also much more difficult than it currently is, in a more meaningful way. The downside to this is that it changes the parameters for what players should expect in terms of ladder achievement compared to the past. Most likely, players wouldn't reach the depths they were once able to. The upside is that it should become more interesting to a larger group of players and generally more rewarding for players who engage with it. We would also improve Delve's catch-up mechanic so that if you make it to Tier 16 maps without Delving, you'll be able to start at a deeper depth than you would have before.
- Considering the Uber Domain of Timeless Conflict.
- Considering what Uber Blighted Maps could be.
- When it eventually returns to the core game, allowing for more than ten waves in an Ultimatum so that people can push further if they can but against insane difficulty. This would come alongside an entire Ultimatum monster rebalance alongside redoing all of its modifiers.
- Adding a new tier of Breachstones.
GGG will aim to do a few of these alongside 3.16 but some of these ideas may be implemented later or redesigned before they make it into the game.
(11) Splinters
Don't plan to drop trivial splinters in future leagues. They would have to be valuable and represent an exciting drop that is worth the click.
In the meantime, have some splinter improvements planned. Where possible, GGG will merge splinter drops like Legion splinters and Breach splinters. When there is an instance of delayed loot drops like in Ultimatum or Incursion, GGG will merge all stackable items and split stacks between party members.
Additionally, GGG will review less valuable single-square items like Wisdom Scrolls or Orbs of Transmutation and make it so that they drop less frequently but in higher stacks. For example, in maps you might see Wisdom Scrolls five times less often but they'll drop in average stack sizes of five or so. It could also mean for example, that in a Breach, that instead of several splinters you're getting a larger stack of them every few Breaches. Ultimately, you'd be getting the same amount of these overall, but will have fewer clicks overall to pick them up.
Additionally, when Expedition eventually becomes part of the core game, GGG will be very careful with how its Artifacts are handled, being mindful of the clicks involved.
(12) UI and Controls
It was noted that Path of Exile has a different UI on console platforms (as they are played with a game controller rather than mouse/keyboard) and the question was asked about whether it could also be made available to PC users. GGG is working towards adding controller support to PC as well as eventually mouse support for consoles. GGG will update you as these are ready.
Have a better colourblind support. Since the podcast, GGG has worked out a plan for making sockets visually differentiable and will be revealing it soon. GGG has also engaged with many colourblind users and accessibility experts who have written in, and have appreciated their feedback.
New League Screenshots
PoE 3.16 News
- Eternal Labyrinth Improvements in Path of Exile: Scourge
- Communication and the Sacred Orb
- What Happens to Your Standard Atlas in 3.16
- Expedition Ends Soon
- Path of Exile 3.16 Balance - Part 3 - Auras, Curses and Elemental Damage Over Time
- Path of Exile 3.16 Balance - Part 2 - Core Character Defences and Recovery
- Path of Exile 3.16 Balance - Part 1 - Flasks and Ailment Mitigation
- Path of Exile 3.16 Expansion Dates
- Path of Exile 3.16 Expansion Dates Reveal(Youtube)
- Our 3.16 Expansion Timeline
- Recent Topics from Community Podcasts
PoE Expedition End Date
The currenct league is Path of Exile: Expedition(PoE 3.15). It launches on June 23 (PDT) on PC and Mac, and on July 28 on Xbox and PlayStation. The end date of PoE Expedition 3.15 is October 18, 2021.
| Server | End Time |
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| PC | October 18, 2021 |
| Console | October 27, 2021 |
The next seaon is 3.16. The release date of PoE 3.16 is October 22, 2021 on PC, and October 27, 2021 on Xbox and PlayStation.
PoE 3.17 Release Date & Changes
The release date of PoE 3.17 is January, 2021.
PoE 3.17 expansion will include a full rework of the Atlas of Worlds and Path of Exile's end-game mechanics. GGG is taking player feedback into account while designing our new Atlas systems and end-game pinnacle boss encounters.
Path of Exile Release Date & Next League 2021
Path of Exile always has a thirteen weeks cycle for every league. The release date of PoE 3.15 season is July 23, 2021. Therefore, the release date of PoE 3.16 league is October 22, 2021. Before this date, the end date of PoE Expedition 3.15 is October 18, 2021.
| Release Season Version | Release Date(Timezone is UTC) | League End Date | Season |
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| PoE 3.16 | 2021-10-22(Friday) | Scourge league | |
| PoE 3.15 | 2021-07-23 | 2021-10-18 | Expedition league |
| PoE 3.14 | 2021-04-16 | 2021-07-19 | Ultimatum league |
| PoE 3.13 | 2021-01-15 8:00:00 PM | 2021-04-12 | Ritual league |
| PoE 3.12 | 2020-09-18 8:00:00 PM | 2021-01-11 9:00:00 PM | Heist league |
| PoE 3.11 | 2020-06-19 8:00:00 PM | 2020-09-14 10:00:00 PM | Harvest league |
| PoE 3.10 | 2020-03-13 | 2020-06-15 | Delirium league |
| PoE 3.9 | 2019-12-13 8:00:00 PM | 2020-03-09 9:00:00 PM | Metamorph league |
| PoE 3.8 | 2019-09-06 | 2019-12-09 9:00:00 PM | Blight league |
| PoE 3.7 | 2019-06-07 | 2019-09-03 | Legion league |
| PoE 3.6 | 2019-03-08 | 2019-06-03 10:00:00 PM | Synthesis league |
| PoE 3.5 | 2018-12-07 | 2019-03-04 9:00:00 PM | Betrayal league |
| PoE 3.4 | 2018-08-31 | 2018-12-03 9:00:00 PM | Delve league |
| PoE 3.3 | 2018-06-01 | 2018-08-27 10:00:00 PM | Incursion league |
| PoE 3.2 | 2018-03-02 8:00:00 PM | 2018-05-28 10:00:00 PM | Bestiary league |
| PoE 3.1 | 2017-12-08 8:00:00 PM | 2018-02-26 9:00:00 PM | Abyss league |
| PoE 3.0 | 2017-08-04 8:00:00 PM | 2017-12-04 9:00:00 PM | Harbinger league |
| PoE 2.6 | 2017-03-03 | 2017-07-31 10:00:00 PM | Legacy league |
| PoE 2.5 | 2016-12-02 8:00:00 PM | 2017-02-27 9:00:00 PM | Breach league |
| PoE 2.4 | 2016-09-02 | 2016-11-28 | Essence league |
| PoE 2.3 | 2016-06-03 | 2016-08-29 | Prophecy league |
| PoE 2.2 | 2016-03-04 | 2016-05-30 | Perandus league |
| PoE 2.1 | 2015-12-11 | 2016-03-04 | Talisman league |
| PoE 2.0 | 2015-07-10 | 2015-10-02 | Warbands league |
| PoE 2.0 | 2015-07-10 | 2015-10-02 | Tempest league |
| PoE 1.3 | 2014-12-13 | 2015-03-24 | Torment league |
| PoE 1.3 | 2014-12-13 | 2015-03-24 | Bloodlines league |
| PoE 1.2 | 2014-08-20 | 2014-11-20 | Beyond league |
| PoE 1.2 | 2014-08-20 | 2014-11-20 | Rampage league |
| PoE 1.1 | 2014-03-05 | 2014-07-05 | Invasion league |
| PoE 1.1 | 2014-03-05 | 2014-07-05 | Ambush league |
| PoE 1.0 | 2013-10-23 | 2014-02-23 | Domination league |
| PoE 1.0 | 2013-10-23 | 2014-02-23 | Nemesis league |
| PoE 0.11 | 2013-06-07 | 2013-10-07 | Anarchy league |
| PoE 0.11 | 2013-06-07 | 2013-10-07 | Onslaught league |
1. Expedition 3.15 Patch Notes: New Skills & Items
Expedition Rewards: valuable equipment, currency items, Kalguuran artifacts, and Expedition Logbooks.
1.1 New Items
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1.2 Nineteen New Skills
Path of Exile: Expedition new season created 19 new skill and support gems that are designed around the themes of each Ascendancy Class.
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| 12 |  Manabond |
Creates a rune that explodes, dealing more damage or having more area of effect, based on the current state of your mana pool. | Spell, AoE, Lightning, Arcane | Hierophant |
| 8 |  Earthbreaker Support |
Summons an Ancestral Totem that uses any supported Slam Skill. | Attack, Melee, Slam, AoE, Support, Totem | Chieftain |
| 28 |  Rage Vortex |
Consumes your Rage to unleash a whirling vortex that rapidly hits enemies within its range. | Attack, AoE, Duration, Melee | Berserker |
| 28 |  Boneshatter |
Strikes enemies with a forceful blow. If this attack stuns an enemy, it releases a powerful shockwave with area based on the stun’s duration. As you use Boneshatter more, it deals more and more damage to enemies and to yourself. | Attack, Melee, Strike, AoE, Duration, Physical | Juggernaut |
| 16 |  Defiance Banner |
Can be used to increase your armour and evasion while reducing the critical strike chance of nearby enemies. | AoE, Spell, Duration, Aura, Physical | Champion |
| 1 |  Shield Crush |
Swipes your shield towards your enemies and sends out forceful waves of damage based on the stats of your shield. | Attack, AoE, Melee | Gladiator |
| 38 |  Behead Support |
Can only support Strike skills and is basically like a mini- Headhunter. When your supported Strike slays a rare enemy, you’ll steal one of its modifiers at random for 20 seconds. | Support, Melee, Attack, Strike | Slayer |
| 28 |  Storm Rain |
Fires arrows that stick into the ground. These arrows periodically pulse with lightning damage that arcs to nearby arrows. | Attack, AoE, Lightning, Projectile, Bow | Raider |
| 31 |  Focused Ballista Support |
Causes your Ballistas to focus fire on your target and only fire when you do. | Support, Totem | Deadeye |
| 28 |  Explosive Concoction |
Must be used unarmed and throws an explosive projectile at your target. You can enhance this explosion by consuming charges from Ruby, Sapphire or Topaz flasks. | Attack, AoE, Fire, Cold, Lightning, Projectile | Pathfinder |
| 34 |  Ambush |
It is a new Blink skill which teleports you to an enemy, blinds them and exerts your next one-handed melee attack. | Spell, Movement, Duration, Travel | Assassin |
| 12 |  Voltaxic Burst |
Grants a buff which counts down to zero, at which point it detonates, sending out a damaging lightning and chaos explosion. Enemies slain by this explosion will also explode dealing lightning and chaos damage based on a portion of their life. | Spell, AoE, Chaos, Lightning, Nova, Duration | Trickster |
| 12 |  Blade Trap |
You throw out a mechanical device with two copies of your weapon attached. These blades spin rapidly in a circle a set number of times, dealing damage to anything they pass through. | Trap, Attack, AoE | Saboteur |
| 28 |  Summon Reaper |
It is a new minion that feeds off your other minions (literally). It inflicts bleed on enemies and can be commanded to attack specific locations. | Physical, Minion, Spell | Necromancer |
| 16 |  Forbidden Rite |
Fires a barrage of exploding chaos projectiles at nearby enemies while also inflicting damage on you. | Spell, AoE, Chaos, Projectile | Occultist |
| 28 |  Eye of Winter |
It is a large projectile that fires out a torrent of cold projectiles in a spiral formation as it travels. | Spell, Projectile, Cold | Elementalist |
| 24 |  Battlemage’s Cry |
Taunts nearby enemies and exerts subsequent attacks, causing them to trigger a linked spell on your next melee hit. | Warcry, AoE, Duration | Inquisitor |
| 12 |  Absolution |
When Absolution’s damaging shockwave kills an enemy, it creates a Sentinel of Absolution which also casts its own shockwaves. | Spell, Minion, Duration, AoE, Physical, Lightning | Hierophant |
| 12 |  Spectral Helix |
Throws out a spectral copy of your weapon which spirals outwards from you. | Attack, Projectile | Ascendant |
1.3 Skill Gem Changes
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| Artillery Ballista |
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| Bane |
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| Bladestorm |
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| Blood Rage |
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| Bodyswap |
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| Chain Hook |
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| Charged Dash |
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| Cleave |
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| Consecrated Path |
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| Cyclone |
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| Dash |
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| Dominating Blow |
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| Double Strike |
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| Dread Banner |
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| Dual Strike |
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| Earthquake |
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| Earthshatter |
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| Explosive Arrow |
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| Fire Burst |
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| Firestorm |
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| Flame Dash |
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| Flame Wall |
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| Flameblast |
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| Flamethrower Trap |
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| Flicker Strike |
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| Focus |
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| Frost Blades |
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| General's Cry |
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| Glacial Hammer |
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| Ground Slam |
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| Heavy Strike |
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| Hexblast |
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| Ice Crash |
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| Icestorm |
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| Infernal Blow |
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| Lacerate |
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| Lancing Steel |
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| Leap Slam |
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| Lightning Arrow |
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| Lightning Spire Trap |
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| Lightning Strike |
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| Lightning Tendrils |
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| Molten Strike |
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| Perforate |
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| Reap |
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| Reave |
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| Rolling Magma |
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| Seismic Cry |
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| Seismic Trap |
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| Shattering Steel |
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| Shield Charge |
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| Shock Nova |
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| Sigil of Power |
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| Soulrend |
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| Smite |
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| Smoke Mine |
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| Spark |
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| Spectral Shield Throw |
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| Spectral Throw |
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| Split Arrow |
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| Splitting Steel |
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| Static Strike |
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| Storm Burst |
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| Storm Call |
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| Summon Chaos Golem |
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| Summon Flame Golem |
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| Summon Greater Harbinger of Time |
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| Summon Harbinger of Time |
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| Summon Ice Golem |
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| Summon Lightning Golem |
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| Summon Stone Golem |
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| Sunder |
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| Sweep |
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| Tectonic Slam |
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| Vigilant Strike |
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| Whirling Blades |
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| Wild Strike |
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1.4 Vaal Skill Changes
| Vaal Skill Gem | Changes |
|---|---|
| Vaal Ancestral Warchief |
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| Vaal Cyclone |
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| Vaal Double Strike |
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| Vaal Earthquake |
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| Vaal Flameblast |
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| Vaal Glacial Hammer |
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| Vaal Ground Slam |
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| Vaal Lightning Strike |
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| Vaal Reave |
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| Vaal Spectral Throw |
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1.5 Support Gem Changes
| Support Gem | Changes |
|---|---|
| Added Cold Damage Support |
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| Added Fire Damage Support |
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| Awakened Added Fire Damage Support |
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| Additional Accuracy Support |
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| Advanced Traps Support |
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| Ancestral Call Support |
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| Awakened Ancestral Call Support |
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| Arcane Surge Support |
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| Archmage Support |
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| Area of Effect Support |
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| Arrow Nova Support |
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| Awakened Arrow Nova Support |
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| Ballista Totem Support |
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| Barrage Support |
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| Awakened Blasphemy Support |
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| Blastchain Mine Support |
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| Blind Support |
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| Bloodlust Support |
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| Bloodthirst Support |
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| Bonechill Support |
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| Brutality Support |
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| Awakened Brutality Support |
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| Burning Damage Support |
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| Awakened Burning Damage Support |
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| Cast on Critical Strike Support |
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| Awakened Cast on Critical Strike Support |
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| Cast on Death Support |
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| Cast when Damage Taken Support |
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| Cast while Channelling Support |
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| Awakened Cast while Channelling Support |
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| Chain Support |
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| Awakened Chain Support |
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| Chance to Bleed Support |
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| Close Combat Support |
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| Cold Penetration Support |
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| Awakened Cold Penetration Support |
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| Cold to Fire Support |
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| Combustion Support |
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| Concentrated Effect Support |
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| Controlled Destruction Support |
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| Awakened Controlled Destruction Support |
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| Cruelty Support |
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| Culling Strike Support |
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| Damage on Full Life Support |
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| Deadly Ailments Support |
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| Awakened Deadly Ailments Support |
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| Efficacy Support |
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| Elemental Army Support |
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| Elemental Damage with Attacks Support |
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| Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks Support |
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| Elemental Focus Support |
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| Awakened Elemental Focus Support |
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| Elemental Penetration Support |
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| Elemental Proliferation Support |
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| Empower Support |
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| Endurance Charge on Melee Stun Support |
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| Energy Leech Support |
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| Enhance Support |
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| Faster Attacks Support |
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| Faster Projectiles Support |
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| Fire Penetration Support |
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| Awakened Fire Penetration Support |
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| Fist of War Support |
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| Fork Support |
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| Awakened Fork Support |
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| Fortify Support |
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| Awakened Generosity Support |
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| Greater Multiple Projectiles Support |
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| Awakened Greater Multiple Projectiles Support |
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| Greater Spell Echo Support |
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| Greater Volley Support |
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| Hextouch Support |
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| Awakened Hextouch Support |
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| High-Impact Mine Support |
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| Hypothermia Support |
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| Ignite Proliferation Support |
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| Immolate Support |
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| Impale Support |
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| Increased Critical Damage Support |
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| Increased Critical Strikes Support |
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| Infused Channelling Support |
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| Inspiration Support |
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| Intensify Support |
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| Iron Grip Support |
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| Iron Will Support |
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| Less Duration Support |
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| Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support |
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| Lesser Poison Support |
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| Lightning Penetration Support |
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| Awakened Lightning Penetration Support |
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| Life Gain on Hit Support |
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| Life Leech Support |
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| Lifetap Support |
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| Maim Support |
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| Melee Physical Damage Support |
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| Awakened Melee Physical Damage Support |
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| Awakened Melee Splash Support |
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| Minefield Support |
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| Minion Damage Support |
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| Awakened Minion Damage Support |
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| Minion Life Support |
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| Minion Speed Support |
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| Multiple Traps Support |
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| Multistrike Support |
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| Awakened Multistrike Support |
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| Nightblade Support |
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| Onslaught Support |
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| Physical to Lightning Support |
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| Pierce Support |
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| Pinpoint Support |
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| Poison Support |
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| Power Charge on Critical Support |
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| Predator Support |
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| Pulverise Support |
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| Rage Support |
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| Ruthless Support |
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| Second Wind Support |
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| Shockwave Support |
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| Slower Projectiles Support |
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| Spell Cascade Support |
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| Awakened Spell Cascade Support |
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| Spell Echo Support |
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| Awakened Spell Echo Support |
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| Spell Totem Support |
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| Summon Phantasm Support |
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| Swift Affliction Support |
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| Awakened Swift Affliction Support |
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| Swiftbrand Support |
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| Trap Support |
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| Trap and Mine Damage Support |
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| Trinity Support |
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| Unbound Ailments Support |
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| Awakened Unbound Ailments Support |
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| Unleash Support |
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| Awakened Unleash Support |
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| Urgent Orders Support |
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| Vicious Projectiles Support |
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| Awakened Vicious Projectiles Support |
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| Vile Toxins Support |
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| Void Manipulation Support |
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| Awakened Void Manipulation Support |
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2. Expedition League Starter Guide
2.1 PoE 3.15 Release Date
PoE 3.15 expansion name: Path of Exile: Expedition. The release date of PoE 3.15 is July 23rd (PDT), 2021 on PC, and July 28th (PDT), 2021 on Xbox and PlayStation. In Path of Exile: Expedition, you will join the Kalguuran expedition, excavate their lost relics and undead using chains of explosives, then barter, deal and gamble these relics with their merchants.
| Expansion Timeline | Description |
|---|---|
| July 22 |
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| July 23 |
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| July 24 |
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| July 28 |
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Path of Exile 3.15 season contains the Expedition challenge league, four new NPC traders, 19 new skill and support gems, new base item types and unique items. Also made massive balance changes to make Path of Exile more challenging, including a full rework of the flask system.
2.2 Official News & Leaks
- Launch Day Information and Torrent Link.
- New and Changed Skill Gems in Path of Exile
- New and Changed Support Gems
- 3.15 Patch Notes
- Item Filter and Passive Tree Information
- Expedition Development Manifesto
- Expedition Challenge Rewards
- Path of Exile: Royale Beginner Guide
- Path of Exile: Expedition Offical
- Path of Exile: Expedition Content Reveal(Youtube)
2.3 Expedition League Guide
In the Expedition Challenge League, you'll meet a group of Kalguuran traders and assist them with recovering their ancestors' runed artifacts. At marked Expedition sites, you must strategically place a series of explosives and detonate them. These explosions unearth a horde of undead Kalguur that must be slain in order to gather the equipment and artifacts buried among them. These artifacts may be turned into one of the Kalguuran traders who each offer a different style of trade themed around bartering, gambling, dealing and exchanging.
You may also discover Logbooks which chronicle the locations of sprawling Expedition sites. These can be crafted and traded with other players. Take them to Dannig, the leader of the Kalguur, and he'll grant you passage to one of the locations outlined in the Logbook. In these exotic locations, you'll find a large Expedition that must be excavated with an even longer chain of explosives.
During your Expeditions, you must be careful to manage your levels of risk and return. Signs located at the Expedition sites clearly mark out the most dangerous areas to excavate. Special monsters and remnants of past Kalguuran settlements are clearly marked and detonating them can make your Expeditions much more challenging.
3. Expedition Balance Changes
Increased the monster damage in Act 1. Reduced the damage bonuses on the support gems that are clearly just all about huge damage boosts and trying to give them impactful and appropriate downsides. Reworked the flash system. There are a lot of nerfs.
The reduction of overall player power combined with all the opportunities from the new skills and flask system changes should create entirely new sets of builds that haven’t previously seen.
3.1 Making Path of Exile More Challenging
Rebalancd the campaign to be challenging. In 3.15 new league, it mostly focused on act one, but with each coming expansion it will be extending this further. Within a year or so, it wi’ll have reviewed or touched every single monster in the game. While this additional challenge probably won’t stop our most skilled players easily dominating the campaign or running through it to get to maps quickly, it will mean that players who engage with the content will find a consistent difficulty level between league content and regular content. It’s worth noting that these behavioural and balance changes to monsters will definitely affect their map versions.
The following is the Act 1 Changes:
- Rebalanced various monsters found throughout Act One to make them more dangerous. Note, the balance changes made to Act One Bosses and monsters also apply to their Endgame Map versions.
- Monster life has been increased by roughly 46% at level 1, tapering down to the same amount of life at level 84. Some bosses and monsters in Act 1, such as Hillock and Oozeback have had their life reduced to partially counteract this change.
- Monster pack size has been buffed in the later areas of Act One and slightly reduced in the Coast.
- A new monster type named ‘Cell Crawlers’ have been added to the Lower and Upper Prison.
- A new monster type named ‘Ghouls’ have been added to the Lower and Upper Prison.
- Tar Zombies have been added to The Ship Graveyard and The Ship Graveyard Cave.
- Kelp, Nimble, Coconut, Spider Crabs and Squids have been added to The Cavern of Wrath.
- Parasitic Squid have been added to The Cavern of Anger.
- Brutus has taken the time to renovate his arena.
- Various effects improvements have been made to monsters and bosses throughout Act One.
- Various audio improvements have been made to monsters and bosses throughout Act One.
3.2 Flask System Reworked
Most utility flasks and unique flasks have been rebalanced. Expect a lot less permanent power from flasks. Flasks that provide raw defense or raw power are the ones with the biggest nerfs. Some flasks have been selectively buffed a bit if they were underpowered or less popular. Introduced new Corundum, Iron and Gold Flasks. Also made balance changes relating to Flasks for Passive Skills, Ascendancy Passive Skills, and Items.
In the Expedition expansion, there are now three ways that you can use flasks. You can either continue to use the rebalanced ones the traditional way or you can apply one of two new types of currency item to your flasks. The 
Instilling Orb will cause a flask to be used automatically upon a specific condition being met. The 
Enkindling Orb prevents Utility Flasks from gaining charges while active but provides a big boost to their effect, duration, or various ways they interact with their charges. There are various different types of boosts, so you can use more Orbs to reroll for the one you want.
When a flask removes a curse, it no longer applies a period of immunity to curses. Flasks that remove ailments now only provide a period of immunity to that ailment if they actually removed it. So if you get ignited, use a dousing flask to remove the ignite and to gain immunity for a while. You now can’t just spam the flask before you’re ignited to be permanently immune. If you want permanent mitigation of ailments, there are other options for your build. Note that GGG has rebalanced ailment mitigation in general so that there aren’t a few options that completely outclass the rest.
Monsters in Acts 6 through 10 now generate fewer flask charges and monsters in maps generate even fewer still.
So now there’s a lot more strategy involved with flask use. Flasks don’t gain as many charges, so are a little harder to constantly spam and aren’t designed to provide such a powerful slew of permanent buffs. But you can control which provide larger than normal effects and which are triggered automatically as part of your build.
3.3 Support Gem Changes
Reduced the damage bonuses on the support gems that are clearly just all about huge damage boosts and trying to give them impactful and appropriate downsides. For example, the Controlled Destruction support gem now penalises critical strikes multiplicatively.
Overall, this works out to a total of somewhere around 20%, potentially as high as 40% damage reduction for a character using a fully six-linked skill with entirely damage support gems. There’s much less impact for characters that used utility support gems or who didn’t have a six-link setup.
This achieves two goals. Firstly, the gap between the “good” and “bad” support gems has been narrowed, creating more interesting build opportunities. Secondly, player damage output in the end-game is reduced, which is a goal for this balance pass. It’s worth clarifying that it hasn’t buffed unused utility support gems as part of this balance pass. It’s fully intentional that it’s a reduction of power for the most damaging ones.
3.4 Triggered Skills
In 3.15, triggering skills through support gems will require paying their mana cost.
Certain support gems that were originally disabled from supporting triggered skills, like Arcane Surge, now can be used to support them.
Builds that use triggered skills are some of the most interesting characters in Path of Exile, and are often the best representation of the craziness that character customisation system allows. These skills are still just as powerful as before but it will have more interesting design space to explore with future skills.
3.5 Movement Skills
As you know, most interaction with monster behaviour is essentially bypassed if you’re using an extremely effective movement skill. This is okay if you have specialised deeply into customising that skill, but it’s currently the default state for any character if you use 
Flame Dash, 
Smoke Mine or 
Dash without any further investment. These skills have been rebalanced in new league to be more in-line with other movement skills. These are not huge numeric nerfs, but do mean that there is scope for improving the performance of these skills by specialising around them.
3.6 Character Balance
- Base Character Evasion Rating has been lowered to 15 (previously 53). Characters no longer gain Evasion Rating per level.
- Gamewide Poison now does 50% more damage (taking 30% of the combined Physical and Chaos Damage, up from 20%).
- The Consecrated Ground effect no longer grants 100% increased critical strike chance for Hits against enemies on Consecrated Ground.
3.7 Pantheon Balance
- Upgraded Soul of Yugul Pantheon power no longer grants 5% reduced Cold Damage taken if you’ve been Hit Recently, now grants 20% reduced Effect of Curses on you.
- Upgraded Soul of Ralakesh Pantheon power no longer grants Cannot be Blinded and You cannot be Maimed, now grants Corrupted Blood cannot be inflicted on you if you have at least 5 Corrupted Blood Debuffs on you.
- Upgradged Soul of Garukhan Pantheon power no longer grants 6% increased Movement Speed if you haven’t been Hit Recently, now grants Cannot be Blinded and You cannot be Maimed.
3.8 Monster Changes
- Act Bosses throughout the campaign now drop fewer but significantly better items.
- Rebalanced the Ailment Threshold for monsters, reducing this for particularly tough endgame Bosses.
- Gamewide Poison now does 50% more damage (taking 30% of the combined Physical and Chaos Damage, up from 20%).
- Al-Hezmin and his snakes deal less Poison Damage with their Skills that Poison, to counteract the gamewide buff to Poison.
Puncture Base Damage has been buffed by approximately 20%, and Bleeding Damage by approximately 25% for all monsters that use a puncture skill.- Improved audio and added dialogue for various Delve Boss fights.
3.9 Atlas and Map Changes
- Map tiers and locations have been shuffled (though the ‘pin’ locations for maps have not changed). Most maps are now initially found at a different tier.
- The “Area is inhabited by Abominations” modifier can no longer be rolled on Maven’s Invitations (as it didn’t actually do anything).
3.10 Atlas Passive Changes
- The Harbinger Bosses from the Diplomatic Escort Atlas Passive now spawn far fewer monsters. They now have more threatening skills to compensate for this.
3.11 User Interface Changes
- Non-damaging Elemental Ailments applied to you or Enemies now display their effect.
- The tooltip in the Skill bar and Character Panel for
Righteous Fire now displays Damage per Second. - Added support for Stash Tab Affinities to the Heist Locker and the new Expedition Locker. Once an affinity has been set up at a locker, ctrl+clicking an applicable item from your inventory into your stash will always send it directly to the appropriate Locker, regardless of whether you have the locker open.
- Added 4 new free Coloured Mouse Cursor variations.
- Added Default Mouse Cursor and Cursor Size settings under the UI Options category. Your Default Mouse Cursor will be used in Character select and in-game (if you have a Cursor Microtransaction equipped, this will be used in-game).
- All free Cursor variations are now equipped through the UI Options, instead of the Cosmetics Panel.
- Added a “Show Bars” toggle setting for Performance Metric Graph Details, under the Graphics Options category.
- The “Advanced Mod Descriptions” setting has been moved from the Chat category to the UI category in Options.
- Added a warning for when you try to replace an existing enchantment with another through specific Harvest crafting options.
- The Rage Indicator Bar now updates more quickly.
- The “/recheck_achievements” Chat command will now grant missing Microtransaction Challenge Rewards if you are missing any.
- Added new options for controlling item drop sounds in Item Filters: CustomAlertSoundOptional, DisableDropSoundIfAlertSound, and EnableDropSoundIfAlertSound.
3.12 PvP Changes
- Focused Ballista Support,
Blastchain Mine Support, 
High-Impact Mine Support, and 
Trap Support now apply a 60% damage penalty against players to skills it supports.
3.13 macOS Changes
- Added a Fullscreen Mode for macOS users. This can be changed under the Graphics Options category.
- The macOS menu bar and dock are now hidden when playing Path of Exile in Fullscreen Mode.
3.14 Passive Tree Changes
| Passive Changes |
|---|
| A new Asylum cluster has been added to the northwest of the Templar's starting location. Asylum grants 10% reduced Effect of Curses on You, 10% increased Effect of Consecrated Ground you create, and 20% reduced Effect of Curses on you while on Consecrated Ground. |
| A new Careful Conservationist cluster has been added to the northeast of the Ranger’s starting location. Careful Conservationist grants 10% reduced Flask Charges used, Flasks applied to you have 5% increased Effect, and 20% increased Flask Charges gained if you’ve dealt a Critical Strike Recently. |
| A new Natural Remedies cluster has been added to the southeast of the Ranger’s starting location. Natural Remedies grants 20% increased Flask Effect Duration, Flasks applied to you have 10% increased Effect, and Remove Maim and Hinder when you use a Flask. |
| The Attack and Minion Damage small passives near the Templar starting location no longer grant 10% increased Attack Damage. They now grant 10% increased Physical Damage. |
| The Adamant Notable no longer grants "Regenerate 1.5% of Life per second while affected by a Guard Skill Buff". Now grants "Remove Bleeding when you use a Guard Skill" and "Remove Corrupted Blood when you use a Guard Skill". |
| The Divine Fervour Notable no longer grants “Damage with Weapons Penetrates 3% Elemental Resistances”. It now grants “Attack Damage Penetrates 3% of Enemy Elemental Resistances”. |
| The Forces of Nature Notable no longer grants “Damage with Weapons Penetrates 6% Elemental Resistances”. It now grants “Attack Damage Penetrates 6% of Enemy Elemental Resistances”. |
| The Primeval Force Notable no longer grants “Damage with Weapons Penetrates 5% Elemental Resistances”. It now grants “Attack Damage Penetrates 5% of Enemy Elemental Resistances”. |
| The Command of the Elements Notable no longer grants “Damage with Weapons Penetrates 4% Elemental Resistances”. It now grants “Attack Damage Penetrates 4% of Enemy Elemental Resistances”. |
| The Vitality Extraction Notable has been renamed Cannibalistic Rite. No longer grants “Life Flasks gain 1 Charge every 3 seconds”. The small passives prior no longer grants 15% increased Life Recovery from Flasks, now grants 16% increased Damage with Skills that Cost Life (previously 12%). |
| Updated the Strength of Blood Keystone description to be more accurate. Now states “Life Recovery from Leech is not applied” instead of “Recovery from Life Leech is not applied”. This is purely a description change. |
| The Primal Spirit Notable no longer grants “20% increased Mana Regeneration Rate”. It now grants “Flasks applied to you have 10% increased Effect”. The small passives surrounding it no longer grant “Flasks applied to you have 5% increased Effect”. |
| The Essence Extraction Notable no longer grants “Mana Flasks gain 1 Charge every 3 seconds”. It now grants “20% increased Flask Charges gained” (previously 15%). |
| The Profane Chemistry Notable no longer grants “Flasks applied to you have 8% increased Effect”. It now grants “Life Flasks gain 1 Charge every 3 seconds”. |
| The Arcane Chemistry Notable no longer grants “10% reduced Flask Charges used” or “Flasks applied to you have 8% increased Effect”. It now grants “Mana Flasks gain 1 Charge every 3 seconds” and “30% increased Mana Recovery from Flasks” (previously 25%). |
| The Command of Steel Notable no longer grants “1% increased Damage per 1% Chance to Block Attack Damage”. It now grants “5% increased Attack Damage per 5% Chance to Block Attack Damage”. |
| The Forceful Skewering Notable now has “Impale Damage dealt to Enemies Impaled by you Overwhelms 25% of Physical Damage Reduction" (previously 10%). The minor passive prior no longer has Impale Damage dealt to Enemies Impaled by you Overwhelm 5% of Physical Damage Reduction. |
| The Swift Skewering Notable now has “Impale Damage dealt to Enemies Impaled by you Overwhelms 15% of Physical Damage Reduction” (previously 10%). |
| The Dynamo Notable now grants “Recover 10% of Mana over 1 second when you use a Guard Skill” (previously 20%). |
| The second small passive in the Rampart cluster no longer grants 10% increased Fortify Duration. It now grants 12% increased Attack Damage while you have Fortify. |
| The small passives in the Steadfast cluster that granted 5% increased Effect of Fortify on you no longer do so. |
| The small passive in the Steadfast cluster that granted 10% increased Effect of Fortify on you no longer does so. It now grants 20% increased Armour while you have Fortify (previously 15%). |
3.15 Ascendancy Changes
| Ascendancy Changes | Class |
|---|---|
| Illuminated Devotion: No longer has Immunity to Elemental Ailments while you have Arcane Surge. Now has 50% reduced Effect of non-Damaging Ailments on You while you have Arcane Surge. | Hierophant |
| Pious Path: No longer causes Consecrated Ground you create to grant Immunity to Elemental Ailments to you and allies. | Inquisitor |
| Headsman: Now called Bane of Legends. | Slayer |
| Bane of Legends: Now called Headsman. | Slayer |
| The small passives prior to and after Unstoppable Hero no longer have 5% increased Effect on Fortify on you. They now have 10% increased Attack Damage while you have Fortify. | Champion |
| Master Alchemist: No longer grants immunity to Elemental Ailments during Flask Effect. No longer has 40% increased Elemental Damage during Flask Effect. Now grants “Removes Elemental Ailments when you use a Flask”. | Pathfinder |
| Master Toxicist: Now has “Poisons you inflict during any Flask Effect have 20% chance to deal 100% more Damage” (previously 30%). | Pathfinder |
| Avatar of the Veil: No longer grants Immunity to Elemental Ailments while Phasing. Now grants a 50% chance to Avoid Elemental Ailments while Phasing. | Raider |
| Rapid Assault: No longer grants 50% increased Onslaught Effect. | Raider |
| The small passives prior to and after Quartz Infusion no longer grant 4% increased Movement Speed, now grant 10% increased Elemental Damage. | Raider |
| Noxious Strike: No longer has +30% to Damage over Time Multiplier for Poison. Increased Poison Duration for each Poison you have inflicted Recently is now capped, up to a maximum of 100% (previously uncapped). | Assassin |
| Toxic Delivery: Now has Poison you inflict with Critical Strikes deals 25% more Damage” (previously 50%). | Assassin |
| Liege of the Primordial: No longer has 25% increased Effect of Buffs granted by Golems, or 25% increased Effect of Buffs granted by your Golems per Summoned Golem. It now has 100% increased Effect of Buffs granted by your Golems. | Elementalist |
| Elemancer: No longer has 35% chance to Avoid Elemental Ailments per Summoned Golem. | Elementalist |
| Inquisitor: No longer has Immunity to Elemental Ailments while on Consecrated Ground. Now has “Effects of Consecrated Ground you create Linger for 4 seconds”. | Ascendant |
3.16 Quest Rewards
| Quest Rewards |
|---|
| Shield Crush can be purchased from Nessa for the Marauder, Templar, Duelist, and Scion after completing Enemy at the Gate. |
| Earthbreaker Support can be purchased from Nessa by the Marauder, Templar, Duelist, and Scion after completing The Caged Brute. |
| Storm Burst, Storm Brand, and Wintertide Brand are no longer offered to the Witch for completing The Siren’s Cadence. |
| Ice Nova is no longer offered to the Shadow for completing The Siren’s Cadence. |
| Spectral Shield Throw is no longer offered to the Marauder or Duelist for completing The Siren’s Cadence, and can no longer be purchased from Nessa by the Templar, Ranger, Shadow, or Scion. |
| Absolution is now offered to the Templar for completing The Siren’s Cadence, and can be purchased from Nessa by the Marauder, Witch, and Scion. |
| Blade Trap can be purchased from Nessa by the Ranger, Shadow, and Scion after completing The Siren’s Cadence. |
| Voltaxic Burst is now offered to the Shadow for completing The Siren’s Cadence, and can be purchased from Nessa by the Witch and Scion. |
| Manabond is now offered to the Witch and Templar for completing The Siren’s Cadence, and can be purchased from Nessa by the Shadow and Scion. |
| Spectral Helix is now offered to the Scion for completing The Siren’s Cadence, and can be purchased from Nessa by the Marauder, Templar, Duelist, Ranger, and Shadow. |
| Brand Recall is no longer offered to the Witch for completing Intruders in Black. |
| Defiance Banner is now offered to the Duelist for completing Intruders in Black, and can be purchased from Yeena by the Marauder, Templar, and Scion. |
| Forbidden Rite can be purchased from Yeena by the Witch, Shadow, and Scion after completing Intruders in Black. |
| Dark Pact, Winter Orb, Penance Brand, and Armageddon Brand are no longer offered to the Witch for completing Sever the Right Hand. |
| Rage Vortex and Boneshatter are now offered to the Marauder for completing Sever the Right Hand, and can be purchased from Clarissa by the Templar, Duelist and Scion. |
| Battlemage's Cry is now offered to the Templar for completing Sever the Right Hand, and can be purchased from Clarissa by the Marauder, Duelist, and Scion. |
| Spectral Shield Throw is now offered to the Duelist for completing Sever the Right Hand, and can be purchased from Clarissa by the Marauder, Templar, Ranger, and Scion. |
| Storm Rain and Explosive Concoction are now offered to the Ranger for completing Sever the Right Hand, and can be purchased from Clarissa by the Duelist, Shadow, and Scion. |
| Summon Reaper is now offered to the Witch for completing Sever the Right Hand, and can be purchased from Clarissa by the Templar and Scion. |
| Eye of Winter is now offered to the Witch for completing Sever the Right Hand, and can be purchased from Clarissa by the Templar, Shadow, and Scion. |
| Swiftbrand Support is no longer offered to the Witch for completing A Fixture of Fate. |
| Focused Ballista Support is now offered to the Ranger for completing A Fixture of Fate, and can be purchased from Clarissa by the Duelist, Shadow, and Scion. |
| Arcanist Brand is no longer offered to the Witch for completing The Eternal Nightmare. |
| Behead Support is now offered to the Marauder and Duelist for completing The Eternal Nightmare, and can be purchased from Petarus and Vanja by the Templar and Scion. |
| Ambush is now offered to the Shadow for completing Breaking the Seal, and can be purchased from Petarus and Vanja by the Duelist, Ranger, and Scion. |
| Upon completing The Great White Beast, you are now also offered the choice of a Magic Bismuth Flask as a reward. |
| Upon completing The Key to Freedom, you are now offered a choice of the following rewards: Ruby Flask, Sapphire Flask, Topaz Flask, Amethyst Flask, Diamond Flask, Granite Flask, or Jade Flask. |
| Upon completing The Silver Locket, you are now offered a choice of the following rewards: Diamond Flask, Granite Flask, Jade Flask, Sulphur Flask, Quartz Flask, Aquamarine Flask, or Corundum Flask. |
| Upon completing Safe Passage, you are now offered a choice of the following rewards: Divine Life Flask, Divine Mana Flask, Silver Flask, Sulphur Flask, Basalt Flask, Stibnite Flask, Quartz Flask, Aquamarine Flask, or Corundum Flask. |
4. PoE Ultimatum End Date & Future Improvements
Path of Exile Ultimatum league will end roughly four days before the release of PoE 3.15. The end date of the Ultimatum league is July 19, 2021. On consoles, the Ultimatum League will end when the new expansion goes live on July 28 PDT.
| Server | End Date |
|---|---|
| PC | Monday July 19th at 2PM PDT |
| Xbox and PlayStation | July 28, 2021 |
Path of Exile 3.15 league will not add Ultimatum as a core mechanic. The Ultimatum content needs a few improvements and will be added in the future season.
Path of Exile will Improve the combat of Ultimatum encounters so that the experience is less overwhelming and more tactical. While GGG does like things to be challenging, currently there are too many monsters spawning within the tight space of the circle and too many things going on at once.
Path of Exile will also rebalance the rewards. The intent of Ultimatum's reward system was to make the Trialmaster's offers the main reward for the challenge. This currently isn't the case with far too many items spawning at the end of the trial. For Ultimatum to return, GGG will shift the balance back so that the Trialmaster's offers are the main reward for doing the encounter while also compensating for the item fountain being turned off.
Engine improvements for the launch of 3.15 expansion
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| New performance metrics graphs | New performance metrics graph shows CPU, GPU, System Memory, VRAM, Drive, Shader Compilation, Latency and the Instance Server:
If one of these bars is maxing out, then that's the current bottleneck that you should consider upgrading. If critical issues such as insufficient VRAM are noticed, then the display will alert you to this. If the Shaders bar alerts you about shader loading/saving being critically slow, consider changing what the drive that shader cache is stored on to a faster one. In the [GENERAL] section of the settings file, you can set cache_directory=x:\path\to\preferred\location to a folder on a faster drive. You can cycle through the three Performance Metrics states (hidden, FPS/performance, latency-only) by pressing F1. In the settings file's [UI] section you can set performance_metrics_state=fps (or =latency or =hidden) to set the default state. Added a Gameplay tab to the Options panel and tidied up the Options. |
| Removed the Clear Cache button | This can still be done manually by advanced users that have a specific reason to. The button was causing players to clear their cache, which removes the significant performance benefits of having a cache. The cache is automatically cleared once every league launch. |
| Removed the 32-bit Path of Exile client | Basically no one is running 32-bit versions of Windows anymore. |
| High texture quality for Vulkan and DirectX users | Vulkan users with less than 2600mb of VRAM are now unable to select High texture quality, as there isn't enough video memory for the high-quality textures. DirectX users can continue to select it, but like before, performance will suffer on low memory systems as DirectX swaps assets into and out of system memory to try to cope. |
