Path of Exile: 2.3.0/Prophecy Launches Tomorrow!

As was foretold, Content Update 2.3.0 and the Prophecy Challenge Leagues launch tomorrow! At 10am pacific time, the realm will go down for three hours. At this time you'll be able to start patching the content update. At 1pm pacific time, the realm will come back and the Prophecy Challenge leagues will start!

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The realm goes down and patching begins at: Jun 03, 2016 7:00 PM (CEST)
The servers go live at: Jun 03, 2016 10:00 PM (CEST) (if these automatically converted times seem wrong due to timezones or something, just disregard and use the actual countdown on www.pathofexile.com)

The patch is estimated to be around 2.5gb, because our memory improvements require downloading new versions of many assets. Our fast CDN should make it easy for most people to download this within the three-hour patching window, but if you really want to start earlier, we have made a torrent available. This torrent only includes the GGPK file, so you'll need to copy it into your actual install once the patching server is up three hours before 2.3.0 launches. Note that it's the full GGPK file, so it's around 4.8gb compressed.

Don't try to use this GGPK before the servers go down. It'll just patch backwards into 2.2.2! This torrented version is around 800mb away from the final version that we'll be releasing tomorrow, so it only helps if you really want to save 1.5 gigabytes of downloading tomorrow. We recommend only doing this if you're already familiar with the torrenting process.

Twitch has offered Path of Exile community members a spotlight on Twitch's landing page during the Prophecy launch! Here is a breakdown of which streamers will be featured. Timezones are in pacific time.

• June 3:
• 1pm PDT: Raiz
• 3pm PDT: Mathil
• 7pm PDT: Havoc
• 10pm PDT: Etup
• June 4:
• 12am PDT: Pohx
• 2pm PDT: Zenocidegenius
• TBD: ZiggyD

Our customer support department is looking for a few extra (possibly temporary) staff members to help with our upcoming release! If you live in Auckland (New Zealand), are very familiar with Path of Exile and would like to work with us, please email contact@grindinggear.com!

Also, the Extra Character Slot sale today has been really popular so we're extending it for another day in case you need more character slots for Prophecy!