A new league is coming to OG Path of Exile, and you’ve got Djinn encounters, a new Scion Ascendancy, Holy Skills, QoL updates, and more Exceptional Support Gems. This is Path of Exile: Mirage. 🙂
Path of Exile’s New Mirage League
In the new league, players will encounter the Afarud and imprisoned Djinn, which are guarded by these desert-dwelling necromancers. When defeated, an ancient Maraketh sorceress named Varashta will uncover the Astral Realm through a Mirage to break the tether trapping the captive Djinn.
Make Three Wishes
Now, before players enter a Mirage, they get to choose one of three Wishes, which modifies the experience. These include:
- Wish for Glyphs: Converting Portal and Wisdom Scroll drops into other currencies.
- Wish for Avarice: Replacing the number of packs in an area with Gilded enemies that convert equipment into Gold.
- Wish for Godhood: Granting extreme power such as invulnerability within the Mirage.
These Wishes are tied to powerful Djinn sigils – Sand, Fire, or Water. And when monsters are defeated in the Mirage, players can get new currency drops – Coin of Knowledge, Coin of Power, and Coin of Skill. These can be used to corrupt a max-level skill gem to grant a random support gem effect in the coin’s color.
“Replay” Endgame Maps and Face Off with New Endgame Boss Saresh
In the new league, players who enter Mirages can essentially “replay” the contents of an Endgame Map. This includes Strongboxes, Blights, or Legions twice, but with side effects. For example:
- Factions of a Legion may appear differently from the original copy.
- A variety of strongboxes may change.
- Empowered mechanics with new threats or rewards customised to each mechanic within the Mirage itself:
- Mirage Ultimatums are gaining dangerous modifiers like Restless Ground or Quicksand, but in reward can offer new Sinistral and Dextral Catalysts, improving jewellery by boosting the effectiveness of a prefix or suffix modifier.
- Mirage Kalguuran Ore potentially transforming into a Thaumaturgic Hourglass, producing large amounts of Thaumaturgic Dust.
- Mirage Blights featuring Afarud-infested lanes that can reward a new base type: the Cord Belt, which can be anointed to grant a Passive Tree notable.
In Mirages, players can obtain a Coin of Restoration, which allows them to transform corrupted Afarud Uniques into their original Maraketh forms.
Doing all these activities and meddling with the affairs of the Afarud may draw the attention of Saresh, of the Weeping Black. Emerging victorious in the fight will reward players with more Unique Items.
New Path of Exile Holy Skills & Scion Ascendancy
In the new update, a slew of Holy skills will be introduced to make gameplay more dynamic. These include:
- Holy Hammer – A cascading slam skill that calls down a hammer of justice from the sky. Spending power charges adds additional hammers, increasing devastation in large packs.
- Holy Sweep – A full rework of the classic Sweep skill, converting physical damage to lightning and summoning hammer strikes on enemies hit by the sweep, obliterating clustered foes with repeated impacts.
- Holy Strike – Summons floating holy armaments that copy the player’s main-hand weapon stats and dish out Holy Strike attacks alongside the player.
- Shield of Light – A retaliation skill that unleashes a cone of holy light after blocking. Allies can also emit additional cones, allowing coordinated bursts of purging damage.
- Divine Blast – Fires a beam from your shield that forms an orb, detonating moments later into an explosive wave of divine power.
Some of the new Supports in Path of Exile: Mirage include:
- Nimbus Support: Creating rings of holy judgment that collapse during a Warcry, creating rapid cascades of explosive energy.
- Blessed Call Support: Empowering Warcries into holy consecration engines.
- Hallow Support: Hallow now supports melee attacks, which inflict a new debuff – the Hallowing Flame that’s designed for cooperative/support playstyles and synergizing with allies and minions. The debuff will also appear through other sources, such as unique items, cluster jewels, and the Guardian ascendancy.
And in terms of Transfigured Gems, some examples are:
- Shockwave Totem of Authority, casting its nova at the player’s location.
- Orb of Storms of Squalls warps directly to targets when using lightning skills.
Balance adjustments have been made to Bloodline Classes, alongside expanded Templar passives on the Passive Tree. Existing holy-themed skills such as Static Strike, Holy Flame Totem, and Dominating Blow have been improved, and underplayed Ascendancy Classes, particularly Guardian and Warden, have been reworked to further expand the “Templar” archetype.
For those familiar with the Legacy of Phrecia events, the Reliquarian is a scholar from the Oriath Academy, drawing power from relics scattered throughout Wraeclast. Players can select the character’s Unique-based passive powers from three categories, each with many options:
- Unique Armour
- Victario’s Influence increases the level of all your Auras and gives them a much larger area of effect, or instead take Kiloava’s Bluster, giving one a chance to have extreme Elemental Resistance against incoming hits.
- Unique Weapon
- Widowhail greatly increases the bonuses gained from your Quiver, or Maata’s Teaching, causing one’s Minon’s Critical Strike Chance with attacks to be equal to your Main Hand Weapon’s.
- Unique Jewellery
- Astral Projector causes Nova spells to cast from enemies rather than from the character, or take Astramentis, simply giving you a huge boost to all attributes.
The Reliquarian has great flexibility in how one builds – in contrast to any other Ascendancy class in-game. Its Unique powers will change between each expansion and will not remain static.
Path of Exile Reworked Atlas and QoL Updates
Quality-of-Life updates are being implemented in the update, particularly in the Atlas content from Path of Exile: War of the Atlas. Changes can be seen with the maps, shaped regions, Arcane Astrolabes, and an overhauled endgame experience.
A new system for replacing Awakened Gems will be added, as well as “The Keepers of the Flame” feature going core for this update.
You can actually learn more at the official PoE website. Until then, enjoy your time at Wraeclast! 🙂
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