Path of Exile: Settlers of Calgar Expansion

Path of Exile: Settlers of Calgar introduces real-time town building, resource gathering, hiring workers, trading, and endgame challenges.

### Path of Exile: Settlers of Calgar - A Comprehensive Overview
* 🏗️  The new challenge league introduces **city-building mechanics**, **real-time resource management**, and **asynchronous trading** through a "**town**" system.
* 🔨  Players hire workers, mine resources, and send shipments for trade, with **various risks and rewards**.
* 🛡️  Significant balance changes, including **melee skill buffs**, **new Ascendancy classes**, and **reworked defensive mechanics**.
* 🌐  Quality of life improvements, such as **auto-unlocking waypoints** and **static boss life bars**.
* 🎨  New endgame content, including **special encounters** and **reworked league mechanics**.
* 🎮  Console improvements, with **native ports for Xbox Series consoles** and upcoming support for **PS5**.
* 💰  Introduction of new supporter packs, including **exclusive cosmetics and hideout decorations**.
* 🔮  Announcement of a closed beta for Path of Exile 2, with **sign-ups available on the game's website**.

[Music] Mark Roberts from G. Hi, I'm Chris Wilson from Grinding Gear Games. Welcome to GGG Live. Today, we're going to show you an exclusive reveal of Path of Exile: Settlers of Calgar, which launches next week on July 26th. Twitch drops are enabled on today's live stream, so make sure you follow the instructions below in order to claim your people for Bo league. In today's stream, we will take you on a deep dive into the new Settlers of Calgar Challenge League. We'll cover the league mechanics, its new and revised crafting systems, a new trade market system for currency, some sweeping balance improvements including two ascendancy class changes, endgame improvements, some further additions to the campaign, and some quality of life features. We'll then talk about our console native port releases and the features that come alongside them. Finally, what is the currency trade market with a live Q&A session where Ziggy D will ask Path of Exile's game director Mark your questions from Twitch chat. After the live stream, we'll drop

the full patch notes. I'll hand over to Mark now to introduce the new league. All right, let's see. We've really innovated with the content in this league, and I'm really excited to see what everyone thinks. So let's just get right into it with the trailer for Path of Exile: Settlers of Calgar of Cown. All right, give me something good dude. Kill monsters in a circle. It's all we want. Rayclast is a cursed land. You'd have to be mad to settle here, and yet, welcome to King's March. It's not much yet, but with your help, we can erect the greatest city Rayclast has ever seen. We'll need resources and say planning. Soon, we'll attract settlers. What am I watching? Fortune Seekers and of course Pirates, but if we prevail, our ships will be heavy with gold. [Music] What we hope to achieve. Is this going to be like a city build-up simulator? We hope to build a [Music] home. Gladiator rework. Here it is.

going to be worse than before meelee rebalance there it is the melee buff maybe buff man I I [Music] just I don't know boys I'm not positive about this this is weird can I order Curren Exile Settlers of calgar you will encounter some familiar faces from the Expedition League danig Rog tujan and gwon are curan people who are trying to establish trade between Ray clast and their Homeland they have recruited many curious characters from Ray clust including some you may recognize but are also seeking help of a powerful Exile like yourself you will first encounter Johan the king's hand in Lion's watch he's there recruiting workers Traders and Exiles Johan under the command of the King of Calgary has been sent here to build a new city called Kings March which intends to become the Hub of commerce between rast and Kar soon he will bring you to the planned site for Kings March which you'll notice has humble beginnings as

just a Tavern in a field, but with your help, it won't stay like this for long. It takes a lot to build a town. The Calgurans will ask you to seek out resources that can be used to begin construction. On your adventures, you might find minerals such as Crimson iron, which are veins of iron that have been overrun with corruption, spawning dangerous foes when you approach. Or perhaps orichalcum, which you will have to liberate from the demons worshiping it. Petrified Amber attracts mindless blighted enemies, while bismuth has a strong affinity to the elements and causes the area to become unstable. If you're lucky, you might find vissum, a material as valuable as it is dangerous and guarded by very powerful foes. Once you defeat these monsters, the deposit will automatically be tagged for mining. But first, we need to get someone to do the hard labor. Dude, I'm confused. This is, of course, a trade expedition and nothing is free. Miners, along with other workers that the Calgurans have hired, must be paid.

in cold hard gold, which you'll notice is now dropping throughout Ray class. That was out of pickup. You will have control about who gets hired into your Enterprise. Once you have accumulated some gold, head to the town and talk to the recruiter, Ralph. He's been busy tracking down Hardy folk across Ray class who are looking for work. You'll notice each person has their Specialties and a wage cost. It'll be up to you to hire and fire as you please. Over the course of the league, you'll be searching for your perfect employees for each job. Once you have them, you have to keep them paid, safe, and Alive, which we'll get into later. Here we have a prospect who has a specialty in mining. We'll start with that so we can begin to retrieve some of those resources we were talking about earlier. Promising pick. Let's go find some more and put our Miner to use. Oh, we found a vein of orac calcum. Oh, nice. Started by dangerous demons worshiping a strange Shrine. The shrine Buffs the demons.

giving them power. But once you defeat them, you can seize that power for yourself. After that, we can tag the ore, and our mining specialist will get to work. Soon, we encounter a few more deposits, each with a different dangerous encounter. After you have tagged the mineral veins, your miners will get to work collecting resources in real time. They might take a while but will continue whether you are logged in or not. The work can be sped up by hiring more or better miners, and by upgrading the mining station back in Kings Mar to equip them with advanced pickaxes. All right, like the browser games, and our miners have been able to get the resources before log off. You just send all your workers in. Also managed to collect some more gold too. We can now upgrade the town and build new structures. There's plenty of options, we just need to decide where to start. I think we'll start with the tavern, the B of King Mar. It can be upgraded instantly to improve the recruiter's prospects, and you can find various important NPCs.

relaxing here. Next, we'll upgrade our mining station. You can upgrade this to improve the efficiency of your Miners and allocate our newly hired workers to mining. You will eventually need a smelter where you can send your ore to turn into more valuable bars. Then we have the disenchanter where you can bring your magic rare or unique items to be added to a queue to be disenchanted over time. Let's some D the items will. Oh, it looks so complicated. D a new resource used for a simple man dude. We'll get more into that later. And of course, a town needs food. You could invest in farming where you can select crops to grow and harvest. But don't worry, you won't be manually watering anything. Ah, the wonders of Delegation. By with all these resources piling up, there will be excess that we can spend. Let's talk about rewards and settlers of Calgar. Eventually, you can build a harbor and establish shipping routes between a number of different curin and cardui ports for trade. You'll be able to pile your

required resources onto these ships and send them to a port of your choosing. Where your Traders will haggle for the best deals. Each Port will return specific rewards based on what you send them. They accept all types of resources but will have a preferred type that they'll currently pay more for. And you'll want to get on to this because eventually you could be bringing in shipments like this. The [ __ ] dude even this oh what is this dude. We're going to trade with calgar. You'll notice that as we send more resources this risk meter creeps up much like the dangers on the shores of rare clast. There are dangers out at sea monsters Pirates environmental hazards. You want to try keep your shipment safe. You can do this by hiring workers that specialize in shipping. The more of them you add to the ship the less risk there will be. Like this gentleman who's famous for fending off even the most most dangerous of pirates. Now let's get that shipment going and we'll continue exploring Ray.

class while we wait for it return. This is the first path of xile League that experiments with true real-time mechanics. You can send out shipments, go and have lunch, and come back to your rewards. Many mechanics in the league work this way, so you'll always have some ongoing project or outcome to look forward to. When your shipment has returned or made its demise, you'll get notified, and at your leisure, you can return to the town to collect your rewards. Our shipment returns safely, so let's go see what we got. Oh, they've sent us a unique item alongside our rewards, perhaps hoping to secure us as a loyal customer for the future. Aside from shipping, the Calgarians are big on their technology. They have hired Isa, a familiar face from The Heist League. She is an engineer who the Calgar have employed for a very exciting purpose. You're not the only one who understands how profitable running Maps can be. Once in-game, ISA can help you build a series of Corrupted Map devices. You can then put a queue of maps

into them. If you've hired a few skilled Atlas Runners, they will put themselves to work running those maps for you one after another. Look more delegation what the [__] dude be notified when the rewards are ready to be collected. What you can put lots of maps in the queue so don't feel obliged to go back there all the time. Be careful though, the difficulty of the map impacts the risk of your workers perishing. Try to pick your best workers or perhaps just ones you don't like. Consider the difficulty too, sometimes it's better to just run it yourself. You'll see there are many benefits to having a whole-ass town at your fingertips. This is so overload dude, let's talk about crafting services. You should definitely consider building a run smithing table. This is operated by Danic himself using powerful calgar and blacksmithing arts. He can engrave runic magic onto your weapons using runes. There are many Rune types and combinations to choose from, and you can unlock new crafts that can be applied to.

your weapons as enchantments. Our design intention here is to take powerful effects you would usually only find on unique items, like this modifier which you might recognize from Doom Fletcher's prism. Dan EG can apply it to your two-hand mes. There are over 100 different actual crafting outcomes, ranging from ones very easily applied to very difficult. The Rune types can be acquired through trade with calgar or defeating powerful bosses. The Cur and Tech benefits don't end there. We're also bringing back a for overpowered crowd favorite Rec combinator. Oh no Isa is trying to master this. She just needs you to help her with getting resources. The system isn't as strong as it used to be, but it still allows you to combine two items together, hoping to get the best modifiers of each onto a single item. I like this one more because the mods were so absur running Town shipping and exploring you'll be collecting a lot of extra gold. It is now the primary resource for two huge new quality of life features that we are putting to

test. Firstly, you can use gold to respect passive points. This is a feature from Path of Exile 2 that we've decided just makes sense to port back. The higher level you are, the more expensive it gets. And the next one is absolutely massive: a currency trade market. The calgarians have recruited Fers, another NPC from The Heist League. He allows you to asynchronously buy and sell currency and most other stackable items with other players without the nuisance of price fixes and people who never respond. All you need to do is select what currency you want, say what you have, and your ideal ratio. It works kind of like a real-life stock market. Fers will make the trade happen for you so long as there is someone selling on the other end for the same rate or less. No, this is not the auction house. Go back to blasting monsters while trusty Fers does the dirty work, notifying you when your currency is ready for collection. All you need to do is: is this the auction house that we have been asking for so long? Cards on the table.

this is an experiment to see if this type of asynchronous trading has a place in Future Path of Exile releases. We are very excited to see how it goes. Oh, dude, given that Fus is an expert in Black Market trade and shady deals, he also provides another service, ginging items for gold. The items will generate with random rarity, and on average, the modifiers on them are better than normal. This can be a very nice way to get some targeted items during the campaign. For serious crafters, it can be a great starting point for making those elusive specific in-game items, which perhaps you could take to the runesmith afterwards. It's worth noting that you can invite where he will always be available for respeccing, currency exchange, and black market items. As your town grows, it will attract more attention, good and bad. Sailors of calgar features three endgame bosses that will close in on your operations, wanting a piece of the pie. They might capture and ransom your workers, even your entire ships. You'll have to make

some tough decisions. Will you take them on or pay them off? One example of a boss is Sassan the Best and it Lord. You won't stumble across this boss by accident. Instead, this unsavory character can come into your town at night and take your Atlas Runners hostage, holding them for ransom. What happens next is up to you. Perhaps you'll refuse to negotiate with bandits, leading to a fight to defeat Sassan and rescue your workers. If you're not up for the heroics, you might simply pay the ransom in gold. Or perhaps these workers were a special disappointing, and you'll just leave them for dead. In true Ray class fashion, they knew what they were signing up for, right? Of course, the heroics might be worth it for other reasons. These bosses can drop new unique items. In some Settlers of Calgar is a very experimental league with new mechanics that will completely change how you play the core game. We've been sitting on a lot of these ideas for a

while and can't wait to share them with you. But there's a lot more to this expansion. Let's talk about balance, bro. I'm so confused. Finally, rebalance the Gladiator. It's been a long time coming. Like before, there are passive skills that allow you to invest in bleeding and block. We've designed new skills, replacing some of the old ones, like this war of attrition, which is very handy for long sustained boss fights. Further, alongside the Gladiator theme, this new passive allows you to combine different weapon types while dual wielding to get a variety of powerful bonuses. For example, holding a dagger will give you more Critical Strike chance, while holding a mace gives you more area of effect. Of course, you could just use Varon Asra for all weapon type bonuses. And finally, we have a new notable, which allows you to invest in the newly added retaliation skills. These are active skills which require you to meet a certain condition in order to use them. Once you meet that condition, you can unleash devastation on your foes.

retaliation ignite element. Here we have eviscerate, which requires you to have a shield, or for those who like to dual wield, sword storm, which is great for obliterating bosses. Here we have the divine retribution skill. This one has the condition requiring you to block. You can then unleash a devastating spell causing lightning bolts to strike the ground in an X shape around your target location, doing huge amounts of damage. And of course, in true Path of Exile fashion, there are many avenues to invest in these mechanics further on the passive tree and a new support gem. You are able to increase the leeway duration after meeting the condition, reduce the cooldowns, or just increase their damage. The world is your oyster. The Gladiator wasn't the only Ascendancy class we've changed. As we develop Path of Exile systems, we often find ourselves reusing mechanics, increasing their depth, and allowing more avenues to invest into them. As such, the Raider Ascendancy class found itself lacking, with many of its passives commonly available elsewhere.

dude, we want our ascendency classes to always feel like they're pushing the boundaries, allowing you to change your character in ways that are meaningful, and ideally unique. As a result, we've straight up removed the Raider (rest in peace) and we've added a new class in its place: the Warden. This class is largely inspired by its predecessor from the Affliction league, with a few changes. Okay, the Warden now focuses on Elemental attacks, changing the behavior of shock, enhancing freeze, ignite, and replacing ignite with Scorch. There's also a skill that allows you to go ballistic with your Elemental damage periodically. The class also grants bark skin, which is a skill that can be used to mitigate physical damage from hits. After taking a number of hits, it increases your evasion, making it a great defensive choice. Yeah, people in hardcore used to play that. Finally, the last thing the Warden can specialize in is tenetures. These are an alternative to flasks from the Affliction League. We're bringing them back with adjusted mechanics.

tentures can be placed in your belt, replacing flasks. You can inherently only have one tenture active at a time, and it requires a melee weapon to use. While activated, they grant a powerful buff. They can drop as magic items or be modified with currency to grant extra bonuses. Damn, here is a prismatic tincture. This one increases Elemental damage by 100% while active. Okay, you'll notice it has two extra effects. One is that it applies mana burn every second. Mana burn is a debuff that builds up while tentures are active, that causes you to lose Mana, losing more Mana for each stack. Tentures also have a cool down, so once you have disabled one, no other tenture can be enabled for a time. These changes make tenture use a more active and interesting choice than it was in affliction. Both mana burn and the cool down can be modified through modifiers on the tentures or on the passive skill tree. Players will want to maximize their tenture up time for sure. Here we have a couple other

tentures. The poison tenture is excellent for poison builds. The rose Thorn tinure is the choice for those wanting to deal critical strikes. You might be wondering, with the removal of the radar, where has the freny charge investment gone? We've added a frenzy charge passive skill to the Dead Eye, replacing the rupture passive skill, something that nobody ever used. In not get on top of classes, we have revisited a number of core mechanics, this time taking pains to ensure easy access through the passive tree, skill gems, and simple items. We don't want all the powerful mechanics to be hidden behind layers of complexity. Let's just rapid fire through the key points. If you want more detail later, you can read the patch notes, which will be dropped after the live stream. Be sure to let us know what you think. There's a lot of changes prepar for bit of a shock to the system. I expect it will take several days for the dust to settle on this one. Firstly, we've made some drastic alterations to melee.

skills. Let me just rip this Band-Aid off. Melee totem skill gems have been removed. Dude, I'm so good. We're trying to adopt a philosophy with melee going forward that, unlike other builds, it will be far less oriented around set and forget gameplay. Melee to's gone rad. Dude, I'm so. You should be rewarded for doing so. To compensate, we have buffed the damage on almost every single melee skill. As the majority of this damage growth comes from gem levels, we have also made them cost more Mana as they level, but it's nothing like the Mana costs on spells. Here are some examples of the damage and costs before and after. Heavy strike has gone from dealing 33% attack damage at gem level 20 to a massive 552 attack damage. It's also worth noting it no longer knocks enemies back. And sweep has gone from dealing 281 attack damage to now dealing 664 damage level, which sucks for leveling. These are just two examples, but the majority of melee skills are now

dealing approximately 75% more damage at level 20. Of course, with melee comes close proximity combat, so you need some good defensive options. New base types with higher defensive values will now drop throughout the end game. As you reach yellow, red, and purple maps, you can expect to find higher-tier base types in each. For example, Val Regalia and Hubris Circlet are no longer the best in slot items for energy shield. There are new base types that surpass them. Combined with some quality changes, which we'll talk about soon, you can now get better items than ever before in these slots. To compensate, we have reduced the amount of flat evasion and armor from the Grace and Determination Auras. But overall, you're getting more defenses than before. On top of this, we have buffed life modifiers on magic and rare equipment. You can now get as high as 189 additional maximum life from a single modifier on body armors, and more on other slots too. Kaom's Heart has also returned to its former glory and once again grants plus

1,000 to maximum life. Dude Legacy CES is B. I mentioned Quality quality on weapons and armors is being changed to apply multiplicatively. In other words, weapons with full quality will give 20% more physical damage, and armor with full quality will have 20% more local defenses. For melee, this will mean a damage increase for almost all builds using physical damage attacks, and it will mean more evasion, armor, energy shield, and Ward for all builds. Endurance charges no longer grant Elemental resistances but instead grant additional Elemental damage reduction, making it multiplicative with resistances. You can now get 4% per charge alongside the existing 4% physical damage reduction. Dude, this is so insane comp. We have made some changes to the Juggernaut and various unique items like Eternal damnation. You can get more maximum resistances from the tree, specifically around the Marauder class start. These, of course, can stack with the new Elemental mitigation from endurance charges. On top of this, JS can now roll maximum Elemental resistances as

modifiers what Ador since we're making Elemental medication more accessible. We've heavily reduced accessibility to physical damage taken as chaos or Elemental damage. Oh no, those stats are still around, but you should not expect to be getting full conversion anymore. No, all block passives have been buffed so you can now more easily achieve block cap from just the passive tree. The Keystone versatile combatant has been improved to have less of a penalty to maximum block. A number of Life Le passives have been buffed to generally allow for more acquisition of Maximum leech rate. For Life v p has been reinstated to its former glory for instant life Lee but only for melee. We've reworked flesh and stone. Previously this buff skill granted Mame and blind depending on the stance of our character. Now while in sand stance, the skill simply provides damage mitigation becoming more effective the closer you are to enemies while in blood STS enemies will take more physical damage the closer you are to them. This skill will now greatly

favor melee or close-range gameplay. Given we're doing a Calgarian League, Ward has also received a bit of attention. There are new uniques that grant Ward, and the base restoration of Ward is now faster to compensate. Oro's Resolve has been nerfed, but Ward Loop builds will still be possible. Anyway, that was most of the purely defensive changes. Now let's look at some of the offensive and utility-based ones. There are more and better ways to deal with Mana as an attacker on the southern hemisphere of the passive tree. Wands, daggers, scepters, claws, and staves now have higher Critical Strike chance values than ever. Wands can go as high as 10% without modifiers. Sandstorm V has been made rarer to compensate. Instead of reducing its power for you wand attackers, wands now have higher attack speed than ever to compensate for their low damage. Wand-exclusive skills such as Power Siphon, Kinetic Bolt, and Kinetic Blast now have faster attack times. The Impale passives have been

revised and in general buffed. It's actually going to be a melee leak. The buffs granted by war cries are now simp but more significant and more universal to builds. They also now apply to allies by default. Banners have been reworked. Instead of having a reservation cost, they are now free. However, they don't grant a permanent bu. Banners now need to be placed for the effect to be active. No banners banners removed from the game. They are far more powerful than before. Additionally, there are new ways to prolong the effects and more ways to invest in them than ever before. Rage has been made more fundamental and discoverable. Rage is now multiplicative attack damage but no longer inherently grants attack speed or movement speed. It has a new cap, and you can find many new passive clusters that allow you to invest in the mechanic. The goal is to make rage more powerful as a baseline and less gated behind the use of specific unique items and ascendancy classes. Berserk has been nerfed just so you're.

aware we have changed how bleed works too. Okay, you can now find aggravated bleed on the passive tree. When applied, all bleeds on the enemy will deal damage as if the enemy is moving for the remainder of their duration. The skill and sneering Arrow no longer interacts with bleed, so no more will you have to apply bleeds and swap to a bow. You can now achieve the same result using aggravated bleed passives without the annoyance. Rupture from the dead eye has been turned into a support gem. Okay, we've added the new overexertion support gem, which highly favors slam builds. Now it's time to look at a Hot Topic: magic find in the settlers of calgar expansion. We are going to be removing item quantity bonuses from all character items. This will not affect existing items, and standard Leakes magic find is intended to be another excess on your gear. You can scale mag my bingo will be complete with item quantity being only available on unique items. This meant if you wanted to get the most out of it, you had to be playing

a very specific build. We still want people to be able to invest in magic bind, but now only through item rarity. This can be obtained on a number of rare item slots and by a much larger number of builds. What about Ventor's Gamble, you might ask? Here it is. Now, this is one of the biggest balance patches we've ever done. I can't promise that existing builds will all be safe. Even we aren't able to predict all the outcomes here, nor have we even gone into every single change, just the major ones. I don't know, man. Balance is hard, but the sheer number of new viable options is exciting, especially melee, and we're determined to drag the game in a better direction. Be sure to read the patch notes after this. It's going to be a ruckus. In 3.2.4, we overhauled the in-game experience by introducing a new tier of maps and reworking scarabs. Holy [ __ ]. We want to continue to improve these systems and introduce more exciting in-game content every league. 3.2.5 is no

exception let's check out the myriad of changes coming in Settlers of Cur. First up, we are changing many scarabs. We won't go into too much detail here to avoid getting lost in the weeds, but here's a few new ones. Be sure to check out the patch notes after this for more detail. We've also added an additional map device slot, which will be unlocked upon completing your first 10-way Maven encounter. This simply allows for more combinations of scarabs in maps, resulting in more difficulty and more rewards. This is on top of the existing additional slot that can be unlocked by completing your first tier 17 map. There are now six map device slots in total. You might have seen our teaser where we revealed we'll be adding new special encounters to the end game. One such encounter is the nameless sear lurking in tier 16 and 17 maps. This NPC will give you a selection of unique items, and you can pick one for free in tier 16 Maps. He now has an additional

feature where you can scry a map. This allows you to swap the Divination card drops of the current map with another map on your Atlas. Just one caveat: you cannot have the same map be in multiple swaps at the same time. If you want to undo your choice, you can use a scouring orb on either map on your Atlas. So we've also made some updates to a couple of leagues. Apep's Cairn, a map or light, has been updated with some Atlas passive skill changes, and double anointed amulets can now drop in Blight Ravage Maps. We've also introduced a new type of oil that can only drop from Blighted and Blight Ravage Maps. Ritual has also been updated. You can now find one new and many reworked base types, new unique items, corpses you can use to raise the specters, and occasionally a fragment granting access to the King in The Mists boss fight from the Affliction League. He will drop a number of unique items that were familiar from the league, but not that which was taken as

it is now that which was taken away. However, he now drops a different modular Jewel that you might recognize from the Necropolis League. Oh, I remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In tier 16 and tier 17 maps, you can now encounter the Wildwood also from the Affliction League. In case you missed it, the Wildwood is a mysterious Forest fraught with danger. In the darkness, you will find magical wisps yearning for freedom. Upon releasing them, they will empower the monsters in your map, promising more danger but more rewards. You may also find random Sentinels on the ground near the start of your maps from The Sentinel League. They work in a similar way to before. They aren't items, but you can click on them, and then they can be activated in that area at any time of your choosing. That is good. Upon activation, they will buff monsters around you, increasing their difficulty and rewards. Oh man, this Le what is this. And here's one for those who like to live dangerously. You may occasionally find a

reflective mist from the kandra league. It has two outcomes: it could drop a jewelry item with randomly enhanced or inverted modifier values, or it can give a reflecting Mist item which can be used on an existing piece of jewelry to perform the same action at a time of your choosing. Good luck! Oh no, many other small changes to League content. We're removing the first 15 most boring waves of the simulacrum and rebalancing its rewards to improve the chances of finding unique Jewels. We're also adding some of the beasts from Einhar's memory of harvest beasts to the core pool. This includes the black Morgan. In other news, we've added a set of new chisel types which can be applied to your maps to get different bonuses. While the cartographer's Chisel still increases item quantity, there are new ones that now increase Rarity, pack size, increased chance for currency items, divination cards, and scarabs. It's also worth mentioning that chisels now apply 20% quality per chisel.

to White Maps 10%, to Yellow maps, and 5% to Red maps, and higher unique Maps still require the full 20 chisels. Also, only one type of chisel can be applied to a map at a time. During 324, we made a change to tier 17 maps that allowed them to be rerolled with chaos orbs. We are now expanding the currency types that can be used on them to also include currencies like chisels and ORS. Ultimately, the only restriction T 17 maps now have is that explicit modifiers cannot be removed from them. We have also revised the difficulty of these Maps as they didn't quite hit the mark. The monsters in them now have substantially less life and deal less damage, meaning tier 17 maps now better fit into the progression between Pinnacle and Uber Pinnacle content cards. Lastly, we've adjusted the drop rate of Valdo's boxes. Previously, we were adapting a rate based on the possible outcomes selected by supporters. So many supporters really wanted Mage Bloods, so the box was hardly

dropping. Thus, we have drastically increased the drop rate of the box but reduced the probability of getting Chase unique items from it, like Mage blood. Overall, we have taken care not to reduce the number of Mage Bloods total in the economy. We figured it was better to have more tickets for fun rather than barely seeing any boxes in a league. We've been hard at work improving The Path of Exile experience on consoles with Native ports for the Xbox series consoles already being released, and PS5 on the near Horizon. The game now takes full advantage of the console Hardware. Loading times have been reduced even further. Poppin has been reduced, and textures won't start unloading in heavy scenes. You know what I'm currently thinking. Overall visual Fidel has think doing a p after I think just go out for a drink now uses the highest resolution and water effects. We've installed a new upscaling algorithm that improves the crispness of dynamic resolution with an additional anti-aliasing pass on top of that. With these upgrades, we also support

variable refresh rate TVs and monitors on PlayStation 5 and on all Xbox consoles. In the options, players can now choose which aspect of visual Fidelity they want to focus on: resolution, image quality, or Target frame rate. In 324, we added some new encounters and secrets to the campaign. In sers of calgar, we're adding even more. We're not going to spoil them all here, but keep an eye out for anything unfamiliar on your adventures. Who knows what you'll find? I mean, I know, but still. There's an underground bunker underneath the refinery guarded by powerful robots. I wonder what's been hidden away here. How do I unlock this mysterious door? What riches must lay inside? Blighted growths have appeared in the gardens and sewers of sun. A vault containing riches can be found in the reliquary. As you might have seen in Al teasers, there's a slew of quality of life features we've been working on here. A quick, you'll no longer need to interact with waypoints to unlock them. You can just walk by and they'll

activate automatically when using keyboard and mouse. You'll be able to pick up items from further away. We're adding static life bars to some bosses. Not all bosses will have them just yet, but we'll be adding more over time. You can now see which divination cards drop in each map by hovering over them on your Atlas. When you die, you can now resurrect without having to reactivate all your reservation effects like auras and Heralds. You can start Harvest encounters with just a single action. The amount of quality provided by currency items like wet Stones is now based on the item level rather than item Rarity. Those currencies now apply a 20% quality to very low-level items, with that amount reducing as the item level increases. Next up, we're going to be talking about our new league supporter packs. It's crazy, man. Today we're launching two new series of supporter packs, the Paladin and penants packs. Each tier contains the pack's full face value and points alongside several exclusive microtransactions. These packs are only

available for the duration of the settlers of calgar league and will leave the store forever when it ends. As always, the microtransactions in these packs are purely cosmetic and do not affect your character's power or progression in any way. The Paladin series of supporter packs contains six exclusive microtransactions. Adorn your weapon or shield with the Paladin weapon effect. Make a show of leveling up with the harpy flyover level up effect. Equipping the Divine Paladin armor set will periodically cause slain enemies to be consecrated and laid to rest. The set also comes with a matching back attachment. Both the helmet and back attachment have options to display the radiant glow or not. You pick the Divine judgment finisher effect, which locks onto unique enemies before obliterating them with a laser. From the end day, may your Critical Hits resonate across Ray clust with the cleric Bell back attachment. Invite your friends to spend a day at the races in the vaser race course Hideout. Add rowers to the track.

to race them against each other, or you can just spectate from the sidelines. Dude, what the [__] is all of this? The Penants Pack series also has six exclusive microtransactions. With the Penants back attachment equipped, a repentant soul is chained to your back and lashed with lightning. Ouch! Place none other than the Trial Master in your hideout and have him comment on your chaos, a classic but far now than in ancient times. And Val crafting attempts, your luck is over, fool. He even keeps a record of how many chaos and Vobs you've used in your hideout during the league or across all leagues. Blood stains your armor the more life you lose when wearing the Acolytes Penants armor set. The Zealot Madness portal effect fragments as you near it. The Cauldron map device boils maps, fragments, and scarabs placed into it, keeping a tally of how many have been thrown into the pot in the current league or across all leagues. The exiled Squire pits following

your footsteps hyping you up for battles no sweat for you boss providing pessimistic commentary repats for voicing their disdain for you to bring you down a pig time you kick the bucket these packs are now available for purchase on both PC and console and will remain so during Path of Exile Settlers of calgar meanwhile the soul and Aldrich packs leave the store Forever at the launch of settlers of calgo league so now's your last chance to purchase them thank you so much for your ongoing support now we have one more thing to announce before getting into the Q&A we are soon going to be running a small closed beta test for path of xr2 we have been taking signups for the path of xr2 beta tests over at path of XR 2.com we will only be selecting a very limited number of people for this first test but if you want to make sure that you are considered then head over to the website and register your email address now we're just about to start the Q&A

with Ziggy D. Afterwards, we'll post Path of Exile: Settlers of Calgar full patch notes with release at the end of next week. Our community team will be posting crucial information you'll need for Settlers of Calgar release. Keep an eye on the news on release weekend. We expect to launch the new mystery box and this season's Carax Vault pass. Thanks for joining us today and checking out our latest developments. We're looking forward to building our towns alongside you, trying new builds, slaying monsters, and exploring new in-game strategies. Next week, we'll begin the Q&A shortly, so please get your questions ready. Okay, um, how do we summarize that? Dude, I don't even know where to start. Dude, this is just absolutely ridiculous. [Music]

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Exclusive Reveal of Path of Exile: Settlers of Calgar

The new challenge league, Settlers of Calgar, will feature a city build-up simulator and a trade expedition with new mechanics and crafting systems.

Players will encounter familiar characters from the Expedition League and will be responsible for hiring and paying workers to gather resources, with a focus on hiring the perfect employees for each job.

The league will also involve retrieving valuable materials, facing dangerous foes, and managing the safety and payment of hired workers.

Managing Resources and Shipping in the Path of Exile: Calgar

Players can seize power from dangerous encounters and then tag mineral veins for their miners to collect resources in real time.

By upgrading the mining station, players can improve the efficiency of their miners and establish shipping routes to trade resources for specific rewards.

Hiring workers specialized in shipping can help reduce the risk of dangers at sea and players can also delegate the running of maps to skilled workers.

Building a runic smithing table allows players to engrave runic magic onto weapons using different rune types and combinations.

New Features in Path of Exile: Settlers of Calgar Expansion

A new weapon enchantment system allows for over 100 crafting outcomes, obtained through rune types and powerful bosses.

The expansion also introduces a currency trade market and asynchronous trading, providing a new way for players to buy and sell items.

The update includes a town management aspect, where players will need to make tough decisions when endgame bosses come to disrupt their operations.

Path of Exile: Changes to Retaliation and the Introduction of the Warden Class

Retaliation skills like Eviscerate and Sword Storm have specific conditions for use and can be further enhanced through the passive tree and a new support gem.

The Raider Ascendancy class has been replaced by the new Warden class, which focuses on elemental attacks, introduces new defensive skills, and offers alternative to flasks called tenures.

Melee totem skill gems have been removed to shift the focus of melee gameplay from "set and forget" to a more interactive style, with buffed damage for almost every melee skill.

Changes in the Path of Exile: Scourge Expansion

- Melee characters will now deal significantly more damage at level 20 and have access to higher defensive base types in the end game.

- There are quality changes for weapons and armors, with a focus on providing more physical damage for melee builds and increased defenses for all builds.

- The expansion also includes adjustments to endurance charges, maximum resistances, block passives, and life leech, as well as reworks for various skills and buffs for ward mechanics.

Changes and Additions in the Settlers of Cur Expansion

Passives for aggravated bleed have been added to the passive tree, eliminating the need to switch to a bow for the skill.

Item quantity bonuses have been removed from character items, now only available on unique items.

The expansion introduces new special encounters in tier 16 and 17 maps, such as the Nameless Seer and the Wildwood, offering unique rewards and increased difficulty.

The game is undergoing several changes, including the addition of new items and beasts, as well as adjustments to map rerolling and Valdo's box drop rates.

Additionally, there are significant improvements to the console experience, with native ports for Xbox series and PS5, reduced loading times, and enhanced visual effects.

The update also introduces new encounters, quality of life features, and adjustments to in-game mechanics, such as item pick-up and boss life bars.

Exclusive Microtransactions and Beta Test Announcement for Path of Exile: Settlers of Calgar

The Paladin and Penants series offer six exclusive microtransactions each, with unique effects for weapons, armor, and hideouts.

The Soul and Aldrich packs will no longer be available after the launch of the Settlers of Calgar league.

Path of Exile: XR2 will be running a small closed beta test, with limited slots available for signup on their website.

The Paladin and Penants series offer exclusive microtransactions with unique effects for weapons, armor, and hideouts, available during the Settlers of Calgar league.

The Soul and Aldrich packs will no longer be available after the league's launch.

Path of Exile: XR2 will have a small closed beta test, and limited sign-up slots are open on their website.