Path of Exile - Movie "Crafting Items in the Bestiary". New stones like Vaal
The Bestiary league in the action/RPG Path of Exile is scheduled to launch on March 2, so the developers have recorded a video with an overview of new recipes for crafting items that you can use very soon.
People will catch dangerous animals and then fight them to craft valuable items. Craft rare items by fighting three rare animals at the Altar of Blood. If you want to get equipment with a specific property, you will need to capture a rare animal with one of the new Bestiary properties, and fight it and three rare monsters.
Catch unique monsters to create powerful items to level up in the main storyline. Once you capture a rare legendary monster, you will have the option to sacrifice it (to craft a random unique item). From the rarest legendary creatures, you can create portals to the Spirit World. And from the animal spirits living there, parts of sets of powerful unique items fall out.
The spirits themselves can be captured and sacrificed to enhance your armor. You will also come across recipes that require specific monsters to obtain very powerful item modifiers not previously seen in Path of Exile. Besides, developers noted that in this league, there will be no Rifts in the properties of Zana. Finding Oni-Goroshi will become much more difficult. Bisco's collar will be loosened.
For more information on upcoming changes, see
The Bestiary league in the action/RPG Path of Exile is scheduled to launch on March 2, so the developers have recorded a video with an overview of new recipes for crafting items that you can use very soon.
People will catch dangerous animals and then fight them to craft valuable items. Craft rare items by fighting three rare animals at the Altar of Blood. If you want to get equipment with a specific property, you will need to capture a rare animal with one of the new Bestiary properties, and fight it and three rare monsters.
Catch unique monsters to create powerful items to level up in the main storyline. Once you capture a rare legendary monster, you will have the option to sacrifice it (to craft a random unique item). From the rarest legendary creatures, you can create portals to the Spirit World. And from the animal spirits living there, parts of sets of powerful unique items fall out.
The spirits themselves can be captured and sacrificed to enhance your armor. You will also come across recipes that require specific monsters to obtain very powerful item modifiers not previously seen in Path of Exile. Besides, developers noted that in this league, there will be no Rifts in the properties of Zana. Finding Oni-Goroshi will become much more difficult. Bisco's collar will be loosened.
For more information on upcoming changes, see
March 6 at 9 am (Moscow time) will be released the first mini-addition Sacrifice of the Vaal. In it, players will have to face the selfish Queen Atziri (whose beauty overshadows the triple beauty of one sweet lady from the movie Total Recall) and her curse, which will affect the entire continent of Wraeclast.
With the release of the expansion, two new leagues with challenges will also be launched: Ambush and Invasion, which will also last 4 months until the release of the next expansion.
Official Quote (link)
During the release of Path of Exile in October, we promised major content updates (mini expansions) every four months. Sacrifice of the Vaal is our first update of its kind, coming March 5th.Atziri, Queen of the Vaal
The selfish Queen Atziri plunged the entire Vaal civilization into a dark age of sacrifice and terror nearly two thousand years ago. Millions died because of her pursuit of eternal youth, which eventually led to a cataclysm that ended the entire civilization of Vaal overnight. But Atziri herself is still a prisoner in the realm of nightmare, which begins to penetrate back into the lands of Wraeclast "a. Now the queen is returning, and her curse is spreading throughout the continent. The queen must fall!While most of the expansion's content is found throughout the game, the final encounter with Queen Atziri and her minions is designed for high-level characters and requires great skill to win. To gain access to the Atziri hideout, you must collect fragments from Wraeclast "a locations that have fallen under the influence of Vaal. Then you combine them and create them in the Map Device in 6 Apex of Sacrifice portals. We do not want to talk about what this one looks like fight, but you will encounter a group of dangerous bosses before you come face to face with the Queen herself.
Secret Cursed Locations
While exploring Wraeclast, you can come across secret locations that have fallen under the influence of Vaal. You will immediately recognize the entrance to them by a hanging beating heart and blood clots swirling around. These are cursed zones with their own set magical properties, similar to end-game maps, which significantly increase their complexity. In the center of each such location is a new boss guarding a chest, from which a Vaal stone or Vaal fragment is guaranteed to drop. Cursed locations require a lot of some effort to go through, so you'd better team up with friends in groups to clear them.
New stones like Vaal
The Vaal civilization had their own skill stones, even though they existed thousands of years ago. Fiercely powerful, powered by victims, these skills are the ultimate versions of most of Path of Exile's current skills.Vaal skill gems are charged by enemies you kill and can be used to a devastating effect. For example, Vaal Detonate Dead causes a chain of explosions on all corpses in an area in quick succession. Vaal Power Siphon launches a magical projectile at all enemies, killing them and granting you Power charges. Vaal skills can be used multiple times in combat if they are fully charged.
Vaal Orb: Cursed Items
As the influence of Atziri's return spreads, exiles will increasingly be tempted to use the Vaal orb. A cursed item can gain unpredictable and powerful properties, while a cursed item will not allow you to do anything else with the item (change the number of sockets for example). The effect of the curse depends on what type of item was affected by it.Curse is the only way to get white sockets, some modifiers, gems with a quality or level over 20, cards with 8 mods, or an item with exotic stats.
New leagues with challenges
Every four months we introduce a couple of new Challenge Leagues. They have their own economy and provide an ideal opportunity for players to start from scratch, competing against others on a fresh leaderboard. Although they are completely optional (characters in the Standard and Hardcore leagues still exist), they provide an opportunity for players to show off their game prowess. Will you fight for the first place in defeating the selfish Queen Atziri, reach level 90 or find one of the new unique items?The mini expansion introduces the Abmush league and the Invasion league (permanent death). They include a set of 8 challenges that can only be completed in those leagues. Players who pass all the challenges receive exclusive T-shirts at the end of the leagues!
League:Ambush
Like the previous Anarchy and Domination leagues, the Ambush league is about risk and reward. Various new types of chests called Strongboxes can be found throughout Wraeclast. These chests are guarded by monsters waiting in ambush until the player opens the chest. The guards must be killed before you can get the contents of the chest.Occasionally you will encounter magical, rare, and unique Strongboxes that have the same properties as items. Prefixes affect the difficulty of an ambush by adding more monsters, activating traps, or affecting your character. Suffixes affect the reward from Strongbox. You can use your currency items (orbs) to reroll these properties.
League:Invasion
Like the Onslaught and Nemesis leagues that came before, the Invasion league is designed to kill players. In the Invasion League of Wraeclast, the variety of monsters is significantly diverse, so players will meet new dangerous monsters all their way across the continent. In each location, you will also encounter a unique boss with powerful combinations of dangerous abilities to catch players off guard (or in other words, kill before he realizes what happened). With each difficulty, the variety of monsters will be even more diverse, and the bosses will receive additional abilities.
New monster bosses
We've added 60 new bosses to Path of Exile. For every cursed location and almost every type of monster from the Invasion league, we have created a unique-rare monster. These bosses have skill combinations with assists that we've never used before. Since these bosses are only found in cursed locations or in the Invasion league, we made them especially dangerous.
New PvP modes - Cut-throat and Sarn Arena
Players have been asking for a long-term cut-throat race where exiles cut the throats of other exiles to gain their items and experience. In addition to this, players can invade other players' locations. And we decided to increase the number and duration of such cut-throat races.The Sarn Arena opens its gates to bloodshed! The arena is located next to the Sarn Encampment, representing a PvP zone in which everyone is on their own. 
