Announcing the Emberwake Race Season!

We felt that "Season 12" would have been a very unapproachable name for a race season. It implies that you have to be aware of the previous 11 seasons to enjoy this one, which isn't the case. Races are easy for new players to get into, so we wanted to rebrand them alongside The Awakening. They each have a theme (in this case, fire) and are named after their 1000-point Unique item reward.

To celebrate the announcement of the Emberwake Race Season, we'll be running a special Ember Mystery Box sale this weekend. More information will be in the news tomorrow!

In other news, I played some Path of Exile today with Hunter Pence!

We have also deployed patch 2.0.0e.

We are aware of various stability issues with stuttering in towns, map disconnections and so on. We have several people working on these issues and I'll keep you updated as we resolve them!

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Aziraphale wrote:

Why on earth would you restrict such an awesome build-enabling unique like emberwake to race only???? Shame that more people won't be able to use it.

It's not race-only. Like the other race rewards it drops in the regular game. It's just introduced at the same time as a race season with alternate art, which is something we've done for items before (Taste of Hate, etc)