This week's 0.11.0 patch heralds the second phase of Path of Exile's Open Beta. Join us on June 7 to compete in new four-month leagues with exclusive prizes!

The Second Phase of Path of Exile's Open Beta: New four-month leagues starting this weekend!

This week's 0.11.0 patch completely rebalances Path of Exile. It adds loot allocation, mini health bars and two new four-month leagues with difficult challenges. It's a great opportunity to start a new character and compete in a fresh economy! To learn more, please view the full announcement here.

New Leagues

Everyone loves a new economy to play in, so we've added two. The Anarchy league contains hostile rogue exiles that roam Wraeclast and ambush players. The Onslaught league is a Hardcore league with increased monster movement, attack and cast speeds. Both new leagues contain exclusive new item types, Unique items and vendor recipes. These leagues last for four months, leading up to the full release of Path of Exile in October.

Challenges

One of the most common requests we receive is for an achievement system. As an experiment, we're running a series of eight difficult challenges in the new leagues. We'll ship an exclusive T-shirt to players who complete these challenges before October 8!

Complete Rebalance

Based on vast amounts of feedback and data, we've rebalanced many of the core game systems and have granted all characters a one-use full passive reset. Life passive skills are less necessary now and other defensive options such as Armour have been improved.

Path of Exile entered Open Beta in January and quickly reached 2.5 million users. We have been blown away by the quality of your feedback and generous support! We are hard at work on the full release of Path of Exile later this year.

A full article about the changes in 0.11.0 can be found here. See you this weekend!

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Loot allocation is here at last

In Path of Exile 0.11.0, party leaders can choose from three loot allocation options. They can set valuable item drops to be allocated permanently, for a short duration or completely free-for-all.

In addition, we've changed the rules for end-game Map drops so that all white Maps that drop are allocated to the person who spent a Map opening the area. This makes it a lot safer to play in public parties!

Mini Life Bars

Many characters benefit from seeing which enemies are close to death. Summoners love to know which of their minions need attention. Optional life bars give both types of characters the information they need to make tactical decisions in the heat of battle.