Only 2 days left until the Path of Exile Extension The Fall of Oriath appears and the game is completely restructured. The developers are converting the game from 4 acts and 3 levels of difficulty to 10 acts with a continuously increasing level of difficulty. This eliminates the genre Typical X times - playing through the same content and levels on the way through the story.
In preparation for the update, the GGG developers published the patch notes today. But be careful, you can say it's half a book - 14344 words. With such a comprehensive change and restructuring, of course, hundreds of details change and since the incision was also used for long-term balance changes, there were many, many more.
The following are the highlights of Path of Exile Patch 3.0.0
New content and features
- Acts 5 to 10 added.
- The Cruel and Merciless difficulty levels removed.
- New character selection screen.
- Pantheon System: Defeat the old gods in Wraeclast to gain splinters of their power and add them to your character.
- The Help System with extensive tutorials on all aspects of Path of Exile.
- The game HUD has been updated to the Eclipse version used in The Fall of Oriath.
- 8 more Vaal side areas added, including new bosses.
- A planning tool for the passive skills added.
- New rendering technology implemented.
New skills gems
- Dark Pact: Intelligence Skill Gem - Sacrifice part of the life points of your servants to cause chaos damage in the area. If you have no servants, you sacrifice your own life points.
- Storm Burst: Intelligence Skill Gem - Channels a beam of lightning projectiles that fly through enemies. When you stop channeling, the projectiles explode and cause damage.
- Charged Dash: Dexterity Skill Gem - Channels the spell to create a copy in the direction you are facing. When you finish the channeling you teleport to the position of the copy and cause damage at the destination and on the way. The size of the damage effect scales with the distance and the number of explosions on the way with a faster attack rate.
New support gems
- Ignite Proliferation Support: Supported skills that generate Ignite also affect nearby targets.
- Chance to Bleed Support: Makes supported skills cause bleeding.
- Lesser Poison Support: Poison supported skills.
- Deadly Ailments Support: Ailments (status effects) of supported skills cause more damage, the skill itself less.
- Decay Support: Skills now cause chaos damage over time.
- Efficacy Support: Supported skills last longer and cause more damage.
- Vile Toxins Support: Your damage against poisoned targets is increased and your poison damage is increased.
- Maim Support: Your attacks mutilate and slow down your opponents
- Immolate Support: Your damage against burning targets is increased.
- Unbound Ailments Support: Strengthens and extends the ailment effects of supported skills.
- Brutality Support: Increases the physical damage you cause.
- Ruthless Support: Every third hit of a skill causes significantly more damage and stunned for longer.
- Onslaught Support: Gives you a chance to get the Onslaught effect with every kill, which gives faster movement, attack rate and spells.
- Arcane Surge Support: Supported skills grant you a buff with which you do more spell damage and regenerate mana.
New Uniques / Unique Items
- 24 new uniques
- 9 designed by GGG
- 5 from supporters
- 6 for the Harbinger Challenge League
- 4 for the Pale Council fight
The Harbinger Challenge League starts with the release of the expansion and offers a fresh start for all participants. Details of the You can find conditions and rewards in our report.
The complete patch notes for patch 3.0.0 can be found on the official homepage of developer GGG. These include details on the rebuilt labyrinths, updated Izaro fights, character balance, changed uniques, detailed explanations of the necessary changes due to the omitted difficulty levels, changed passive voice etc.
Path of Exile - The Fall of Oriath on August 4th
So a whole lot of details for veterans. Newbies shouldn't feel intimidated by this, but just start in the Harbinger League and start playing. The new tutorials and help pages provide all the information in the game and at first nobody who doesn't want to have to study patch notes that are long pages.
Path of Exile is FreetoPlay, so there is no need to purchase or monthly fees. The ingame shop offers purely cosmetic effects for weapons, armor or spells and has no influence on the strength of your character. If you are interested, you can simply go to the Register official site for free, there is also the countdown for the last few days until the expansion is finally released on August 4th.
