Path of Exile’s Echoes of the Atlas expansion has been revealed

Path of Exile's 3.13 update is advent call at reasonable over a week, and developer Grinding Gear Games has like a sho revealed the major expansion. It's named Echoes of the Atlas, and information technology introduces a host of new content heavily atilt toward Path of Exile's endgame.

Echoes of the Atlas adds 11 new map types to the RPG game, as well as immodest new characters who suffer newfangled challenges to acquire. You'll take on a new NPC known as the Envoy, who has newsworthiness of visitors arriving in the Atlas. Once you've traveled to the new area, you'll meet The Star, who wish ask to notic while you fight a boss. When the Maven observes a fight, she'll go far more difficult, and later the first time she watches, you'll be able to yell her to observe subsequent boss encounters.

Eventually, you'll receive an invitation to the Maven's celestial body realm, where you'll be up against an increasingly difficult boss rush. The Maven wish pit you against multiple bosses simultaneously – 1st three, merely increasing each prison term to a maximum of 10.

Eventually, you'll have to take aim on the Champion herself.

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Additive the Champion's challenges will earn you a new sort of skill points that you'll be able to spend in the new Atlas unresisting trees, and each unused region has its own tree diagram with its ain new bonuses. You'll constitute able to earn 10 points to role in each tree – but you'll be able to respec those as your character's needs change by using a new case of orb.

As with past expansions for Path of Exile, Echoes of the Book of maps introduces a new challenge league. This ane is the Ritual Conference, and the challenge here bequeath be to defeat increasingly difficult waves of monsters that engender in when you activate Lord's table sites on each maps. You'll be sealed into the summoning circle inscribed around the altar, and each fourth dimension you activate a new altar, you'll have to defeat all the monsters you've slain in previous rituals.

You'll earn testimonial for each successfully cleared usage, and this can Be accustomed buy ritual items. Some of these are pretty big-ticket, and you'll have the option to spend a portion of an item's cost in order to have IT postponed and offered later – potentially when you send away better afford IT.

There are course brand new end game rewards coming with Echoes of the Telamon, including 10 refreshing specific items. These include the Legacy of Eumenides Wyrmscale Boots that leave fire in your footsteps and the Blackflame Amethyst Ring that adds bedlam damage to any catch fire personal effects you grounds.

The uncover rain cats and dogs was densely packed with information, and that included some details along some of the heavily reworked ascendancies – namely, the Elementalist, the Inquisitor, and the Deadeye. While those classes have seen the biggest changes, every ascendancy has seen some significant tweaks and alterations in this expanding upon.

You can read more about Echoes of the Atlas at the functionary site. The expansion arrives January 15.