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The Path of Exile site has been updated with the full patch notes for the Incursion League that will be launching on June 1st. The notes include all of the information about the Passive Tree updates and the major new content / features additions. If you’re just waiting with bated breath for Friday’s release, this should just stoke the flames of desire even more.
With Incursion coming on June 1st, the Path of Exile team has lots of things to reveal to players, starting today with the end of the Bestiary League. In addition, the final Incursion Skill Revamps have been revealed as well as the Incursion Challenge Rewards.
The New Zealand Herald is reporting that Chinese megacorporation Tencent Holdings has bought up a controlling stake in Grinding Gear Games, developers of Path of Exile. The purchase was made after GGG sold up to 80% of its shares to Tencent. Chris Wilson told the newspaper that “the deal meant the company could expand and hire more people for its Auckland-based studio”.
In a new post on the Path of Exile site, Grinding Gear lets fans and players know that they are considering hosting EXILECON in Auckland, New Zealand in November 2019. The team is looking for feedback from the community regarding the convention and the impact that travel costs could have on most fans. GGG is also exploring options for discounted rooms to help mitigate costs as well as competitions with flight / accommodations at the event awarded to winners.
Grinding Gear has published a handy FAQ for players wanting to know more details about the forthcoming Incursion League. The questions were culled from across social media and the game’s forums and the team presents succinct answers.
When Path of Exile 3.3.0 arrives in a bit less than a month, Grinding Gear wants players to know what to expect. In a new post to kick off more specific details, developers have provided some general answers to questions on whether or not 3.3.0 is an expansion, what the timeline for release is, whether or not there will be an alpha and more.
The Path of Exile site has been updated with a new article explaining how the game’s April Fool’s “joke”, Path of Exile: Royale, was created from concept to finished, playable product. While only playable on April 1st, Grinding Gear has received a lot of positive feedback and is debating the mode’s future, either as a recurring event or possibly even a standalone version of PoE.
In a new developer post on the Path of Exile site, players are informed about a second set of skill revamps coming in the next major update to the game. The goal of the skill retooling process is to “breathe new life into underused older skills with additional mechanics or significan mechanical reworks to make them feel like brand new skills”. Today’s post details changes coming to Fire Trap, Bear Trap and Lightning Trap along with general changes to the trap system.
Grinding Gear Games has a new developer diary on the Path of Exile site to being revealing skill revamps coming in June with the 3.3.0 update. The June patch will be the first of several, with each subsequent update targeting another batch of skills for overhaul.
Grinding Gear Games has announced the release of its latest Path of Exile content expansion, Bestiary. The new content is available for both PC and XBox One users and brings a host of new activities to the game. Most notably, players will be able to hunt and capture almost 300 creatures throughout Wraeclast and use them sacrificially to “create and augment potent items”.