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Path of Exile 3.8 Blight expansion announcement is finally here, which contains the Blight challenge league, three revamped balance archetypes with new skills and support gems, plenty of new POE items, two old leagues, tower defense and more. Check goldkk.com Path of Exile 3.8 Blight League update guide you can find out all details and contents of POE Blight League expansion.
Path Of Exile 3.8 Blight Update - Release Date, Features, Items & Rewards, Archetypes, Mechanic For POE Blight
In the POE 3.8 Blight League, we will be seeing a new tower defence mechanic, we'll join forces with Sister Cassia to destroy fungal growths that are mind-controlling the monsters of Wraeclast, and we'll do it through the power of towers. Outside the league, we will be getting access to Legion content in core, more choice in managing our masters, and Synthesis boss fights! Several ascendancies and playstyles will be getting some buffs, and plenty of unique items will be getting added to the game.
POE 3.8.0 Expansion Timeline - POE Blight Release Date, Legion End Time
POE 3.7 Legion League End Date for PC: September 3, 2019, PDT
POE 3.7 Legion League End Date for Console: September 6, 2019, PDT
POE 3.8.0 Expansion Release Date for Console (Xbox One, PS4): September 9, 2019, PDT
POE 3.8.0 Expansion Release Date for PC: September 6, 2019, PDT
POE 3.8 Blight League Start Date for PC: September 6, 2019, PDT
POE 3.8 Blight League Start Date for Console (Xbox One, PS4): September 9, 2019, PDT
Path Of Exile 3.8 Blight Mechanic, Build Your Defense
Path of Exile is getting tower-defense, Sister Cassia has a device that can purge the blight but she needs our help in defending it waves of mind controlled slaves will travel along tendril paths and we must stop them before they destroy Casias device. The infected are imbued with unnatural toughness but will be able to employ a variety of different towers to halt their progress (Sister Cassia's arsenal contains towers that Chill, Shock, Stun, Burn, Summon, Empower, Petrify and Debilitate), we can make towers to slow distract and damage monsters exploiting their specific weaknesses with different elements, and this is still part of Exile. So we'll also be joining in on the combat ourselves, tower placement choices of upgrades and cross tower synergies will be important strategic decisions and a successful defense will reveal a variety of rewards amongst the drain tube light tendrils.
POE Blight Oils, Enchant Your Items, Cleanse Blighted Maps
In addition to the different varieties of lutein currency, we'll also be able to drain special Oils from the Blight that can be combined together to anoint Rings and Amulets with new enchantments. Anointing rings will add enchantments that aid in future Blight encounters making our towers cheaper or more powerful, anointing amulets however will add enchantments that allocate a notable passive from the skill tree without needing to spend passive points or even path to it, with these anointed amulets it'll be possible to add a notable passive to your build from anywhere on the skill tree, the anointing process with oils is deterministic with each combination of three oils producing a different set outcome and you'll be able to see which enchantment you'll get before you consume the oils, this means that it will be far easier to discover and use this system than previously crafting mechanics.
Once a 10-game players will be able to find blighted maps which contain one gigantic blight encounter these tower defense maps have a much higher degree of difficulty than the regular and blight encounters, but also much greater rewards blighted maps can be crafted like regular maps and they can also be anointed with oils to add additional special modifiers successful completion of these blighted tower defense, maps will potentially yield higher level blighted maps and special blight unique items.
Anointable Unique Items For POE 3.8
In 3.8.0, there's going to be a set of four special blight uniques with some of them having variants, these can be anointed with notable passive skills just like the amulets, the wearer of this set can have up to five bonus Notable Passives active at once, unlocking countless new build possibilities.
POE 3.8 Blight Archetypes
New build archetype improvements for Necromancer Summoners, Poison Assassins and Mine Saboteurs in the form of skill tree changes, new skills, new supports and mechanics changes.
- The Necromancer Archetype: Blight will also see major changes to three build archetypes. The first is the long-awaited a summoner overhaul 3.8 aims to fix many problems with the summoner playstyle and revamp the necromancer to be more powerful, overall you'll now be able to control the behavior of your minions using three new support gems. Any skill supported by these new support gems will cause your minions to act aggressively defensively or even focus fire on a specific target. In addition to this skeletons zombies inspectors have been reworked to be much more powerful based on gem levels specifically, this makes them much less reliant on items and ascendance ease to gain the bulk of their power. The goal here is to make your choices of build matter more for specialization and play style over,
- The Poison Assassin Archetype: The next build Archetype being revamped is the Poison Assassin. In the past, this play style was a prominent build choice and very powerful in its day, but it has since fallen out of favor in quite a large way, in order to bring this playstyle back into the spotlight, 3.8 will add 5 new skills and 1 new support gem themed around the poison critical strike assassin playstyle. One of these new skills is Cobra lash which throws a copy of your weapon to chain multiple times between enemies, it has a built-in 100% chance to poison on a critical strike and to better balanced the offense and defense of these play styles. There will also be a new buff available from the assassin ascendancy called Elusive which gives defense and mobility bonuses. This buff is also the first that is designed to get weaker as it expires rather than simply switching off. So it'll be at its strongest when it's first activated getting weaker over time. This will come alongside assassin tweaks that will give it new options for building around critical strikes and poison.
- The Mine Saboteur Archetype: The third build archetype revamp 3.8 Blight is the mine saboteur play style. Mines are now thrown at range instead of placed at your feet and when detonated they will now detonate in sequence with boosted power, the longer the chain of detonations is to further differentiate minds from traps. Activated mines will now reserve some manner while armed and many mines will have auras which will apply to nearby enemies. On top of this there will be 3 new mine skills and 1 new utility skill that will work with both traps.
Manage Your POE Master Missions
Endgame master missions are being reworked to allow players better control over when they do Master Missions. That you're no longer forced to run every Master Mission as soon as you encounter it, or required to run arbitrary maps to complete your dailies. Significantly more of your Missions are now earned through map completion and they can be run later by talking to the Master in your hideout. Missions accumulate indefinitely, and you can run them whenever you have time, on whatever POE maps you choose. We have also improved Betrayal's rewards, made deeper depths easier to access in Delve, and integrated Legion and the boss fights from Synthesis into the core game.
Powerful New Items For POE 3.8 Blight
Alongside the Oils, Blighted Maps and new Jewellery Enchantments, Path of Exile: Blight contains 18 new Divination Cards, 16 new Skill and Support Gems, and 16 new Unique Items for you to discover. In addition, GGG has rebalanced 24 existing Unique Items, of which 6 have received substantial overhauls.
POE 3.8 Blight Support Packs
GGG is also launching two sets of Supporter Packs alongside Blight - the Lich and Sentinel Packs. There are two price points available for each and they feature masses of points alongside new Armour Sets and other exclusive cosmetic microtransactions!
More Path of Exile 3.8 Blight details to be revealed in the coming weeks, keep an eye on Goldkk POE news page!
