Content Update 3.18.0 -- Path of Exile: Sentinel

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Recombinators are a rare form of currency that allow you to apply the Sentinel Assembly process to your actual items.

How much rare compared to an awakener orb, and dropping from where?

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The new challenge league includes a set of 40 new challenges. These are much harder than normal, so we have significantly increased the rewards.

What does hardening actually means here, any examples as teasers?
Are we getting again lots of absurd RNG on RNG ones happening once in 300h? Are we getting again tons of annoying boss conditionals, 4 per each boss, preferably for the newest überest ones?

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Magic monsters will be found with one Archnemesis modifier by default.

Rares are written above to go from 2 up to 4, what about magic ones? 1 up to how many?

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Archnemesis modifiers are able to be gained by characters through sources such as Headhunter and Inspired Learning, though you are only able to have one instance of each modifier at any given time.

Does it mean an end of an era then? At least those 5-way AFK levelers are done for good then.

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Bloodlines and Nemesis have been removed from the core game. Some of their modifiers have been incorporated into the new monster modifier system:

Oh, I liked both of them, will see, how their splitting turns to be.

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Atlas Passive Skill Tree Changes

Are we getting the new atlas passive tree beforehand with their positioning for planning?

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Added 7 new uber versions of Pinnacle Boss fights, accessible through Atlas Keystone Passives. These fights are extremely difficult, so only attempt them if you have a very powerful character.

They have new fragments, right? If not, then it just made the gap way wider between the normal players and the optimized supportbotters who already 1-shotted each pinnacle bosses and will do the same with these überest ones, using the exact same normal fragments for way more rewards then.

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The Eldritch Altar option that causes Scarabs dropped by slain Enemies to have a chance to be Duplicated has been replaced with a new option that causes Divination Cards dropped by slain Enemies to have a chance to be Duplicated.

This duplication option was already pretty rare, now it is just removed; okay.

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Shaper or Elder Influence can now be applied to Maps alongside Eater of Worlds or The Searing Exarch Influence, and Conqueror Influence.

Good, it was at least a missing warning before, as the map device just ate the other influence.

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Shaper, Elder or Conqueror Influence and Influenced Items will now be first encountered in Level 81 Areas.

Anything about their drop rate? Full cleared 80-100% T16s dropped most of the time zero of them.

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Operative's Strongboxes can no longer drop Polished Scarabs in White Maps, or Gilded and Winged Scarabs in White or Yellow Maps.

Well, they already dropped close to nothing 3-6 per box, might be a good time to ditch boxes too.

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Shaper Guardian and Vaal Temple Maps are now affected by Sextant Modifiers on socketed Voidstones.

Good, was a usual oversight in the last patch, even with the mid-league atlas passive fix for them.

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Expedition Remnants that provide a chance for Runic Monsters and Excavated chests to drop or contain an additional Influenced Item now have a chance of 20% (previously 35%) as they provided a higher number of Influenced Items relative to other sources.

Wonderful.. got ~80% of my influenced bases from here, and instead of buffing their original source from their own maps, even nerfed their availability from here instead.

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Harvest (costs 12 Chaos Orbs): Area contains The Sacred Grove.
Delirium (costs 16 Chaos Orbs): Area contains a Mirror of Delirium.

Well, great league incoming for those TFTers and zoomers at least I guess.

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When selecting a Map for a Favoured Map Slot, you are now able to click on one of your existing Favoured Map Slots to select that same Map.

Nice, was very inpractical before one bye one.

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If you don't have Flask or Map Stash Tab Affinity, or tabs with those affinities are full, Unique Maps will now fall back on the Unique Stash Tab Affinity.

I still do not think this is the logical fallback order, but okay then.

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The Unique Stash Tab search filter can now be used to search the modifiers on stored Unique Items.

Finally, wanted this for a long time.