Last checked: 2025-06-22
| Fixed a bug where the Crafting Bench option "Reroll the rarity of a non-Unique item" could be used on Synthesised items. | Jun 20, 2025 | 3.26.0c Hotfix 5 | Source |
| Mercenaries now have the same Damage Reduction as with release when at Level 83 and 84, and higher Damage Reduction at the vast majority of levels. | Jun 19, 2025 | 3.26.0c Hotfix 4 | Source |
| Overall we've put Mercenaries back to the position where they have equal, or better Damage Reduction at almost all levels, notably in Early-game where they are significantly more durable, especially from level 40+. | Jun 19, 2025 | 3.26.0c Hotfix 4 | Source |
| Allied Mercenaries now take 80% less damage from Damage over Time effects. | Jun 19, 2025 | 3.26.0c Hotfix 3 | Source |
| Fixed a bug introduced in 3.26.0c where the Mistress of Sacrifice Ascendancy Notable was causing existing Offering buffs on you to be removed when re-casting Offering Skills. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Hotfix 2 | Source |
| Fixed a client crash introduced in 3.26.0c that could occur during the tutorial. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Hotfix | Source |
| Adjusted the inherent Damage Reduction on allied Mercenaries, so they take less damage at lower levels and more damage at higher levels. Enemy Mercenaries do not have hidden Damage Reduction with the exception of the Damage Reduction fall-off applied to unique monsters. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Mitigation Ignore Support (and greater and lesser variants) can no longer appear on Mercenaries. Those on existing Mercenaries will be retained. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed Rain of Arrows of Saturation on Mercenaries firing far fewer arrows than intended. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
The following changes only apply to Enemy Mercenaries:
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Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| [tag:only apply to Enemy Mercenaries]: Critical Strike Multiplier Modifiers on Mercenary Equipment now apply at 50% of their value. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| [tag:only apply to Enemy Mercenaries]: Power/Endurance/Frenzy charges on Mercenaries now use player values instead of monster values. (E.g. 50% increased Critical Strike Chance per Power Charge instead of 200%) | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| [tag:only apply to Enemy Mercenaries]: Reduced the damage of the following skills for Enemy Mercenaries: Absolution, Arc, Ball Lightning of Static, Bane, Blast Rain of Trarthus, Blight, Corrupted Blade Vortex of the Scythe, Creeping Frost Trap, Essence Drain of Wickedness, Exsanguinate, Flame Dash, Greater Flame Dash, Greater Shock Nova, Greater Soulrend, Greater Stormcall, Greater Vortex Trap, Holy Mortar, Molten Well, Reap, Shield Charge, Sigil of Power, Storm Call of Trarthus, Stormcall, Toxic Rain, Vaal Caustic Arrow, Vaal Flameblast, Vaal Molten Strike, Vaal Reap, Viper Strike, Vortex, Wrath. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| The Cardinal of Fear, The Neglected Flame, and The Deceitful God have had their life reduced by 20%. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Raulf's reroll with high quality recruits button now costs 20,000 gold (from 24,000), to ensure it is more gold efficient for finding rank 5 workers. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| The Map Device Rucksack is now also shown on the map device used for accessing The Maven's Invitations and Memory Lines. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Repeating the same map in a Memory Thread now penalises Item Quantity more, and cannot have Eldritch Influence. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Disabled the following monsters as spectres as they are currently visually broken: Despair Remnant, Pain Remnant, Twisted Recollection, Eternal Regret, Feral Memory, Screaming Loneliness, Vicious Memory. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Moved Johan in the Karui Shores to be next to Faustus near the waypoint and updated the quest description. This should make the Exploring Kingsmarch quest harder to accidentally miss. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Unique items added to the core game in 3.26.0 (including those returning from Settlers of Kalguur) can now be selected for Voidborn Reliquary and Valdo's Puzzle Box submissions. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed a bug where the Incarnation of Dread boss fight could not be completable in certain cases during the collect roses phase. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed a bug where Incarnation of Dread's large beam could deal damage to players from behind the boss. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed a bug there the "Amount Offered" and "Total in Inventory" labels were not showing on currency item popups when holding Alt. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed the Kalandra's Touch Unique Ring not removing buffs granted by reflected modifiers when removing your other ring. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed the Refiner's Bargain Atlas Keystone not correctly applying the chance to convert items to Thaumaturgic Dust per item. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed the damage bonus from the Focused Channelling Support not applying correctly to the Storm Burst, Stormbind, and Winter Orb Skills. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed a bug where offerings from Queen's Hunger would persist after unequipping. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed bug where Toxic Tidings could not be put into the Divination Card Stash Tab. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed bug where Unset Rings could appear as a generated item for the Guff Crafting Spree. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed bug where Unique Talismans and Tinctures could appear as a generated items for the Leo Crafting Spree. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed a bug where Lost Shipments could give identical rewards. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed the Caster Mastery, for opening chests when you Cast a Spell, causing chests from Lost Shipments to be empty. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed a bug where Blight Ravaged maps were counting twice for Unreal Undertakings. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed a bug where Itemised Temples dropped when using Incursion Scarab of Timelines did not match the level of your current temple. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed a bug that could prevent players using Controllers from exiting a Heist. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed various cases where audio could play when the game was muted. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed an issue where players could be disconnected while their client is recovering from a GPU device crash. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed 3 client crashes. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed 4 instance crashes. | Jun 18, 2025 | 3.26.0c Patch Notes | Source |
| Fixed a client crash when failing to fall back to DirectX11 if DirectX12 is not supported. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Hotfix | Source |
| Reduced the damage of the Memory Influence Monsters. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| The Refiner's Bargain Atlas Keystone now has Lifeforce found in your Maps is granted as a random Crop instead at 150% of the value (from 300%). The client will display the old value until updated in a later patch. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Vastly reduced the gold cost of extremely rare Unique items from Cadiro in Betrayal. The rarest unique will cost at a maximum ~135000 gold. This is to alleviate an issue where you'd have to keep a huge amount of gold on your character at all times just in case the right unique item was offered. This is approximately twenty-five times cheaper now for the most expensive unique items. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed a bug where the Cannot have Minions other than Animated Weapons Modifier on the Dark Monarch Unique was not removing Animated Guardian. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed a bug where some Mercenaries would be unable to take actions while taunted by non-players. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed several cases of Mercenaries attempting to target players that had not opted into duels. They couldn't damage them, just try to. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed Veiled Chaos Orbs not being listable on the Currency Exchange. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed Syndicate Medallion, Echo of Loneliness, Echo of Trauma and Echo of Reverence not being in the Fragments tab of the Currency Exchange. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed Blessed Orbs not being usable on Expedition Logbooks. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed Kingsmarch resources not being collected if you hadn't visited Kingsmarch yet. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed a bug with Memory Lines sometimes not generating when talking to Eagon in your hideout. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed a bug where the Quisitive Quandaries The Dweller of the Deep Challenge was being completed when clearing the Fetid Pool instead. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Added a tooltip for disabled Currency Exchange orders to clarify they can manually be migrated from Character Selection. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Changed the Controller button for opening the Bestiary book and Heist inventory to avoid clashing with Mercenaries. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed a bug when using Controller where the dropdown selection in the Farm Plot UI was not working. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed a bug when using Controller where the Expedition Explosives placement not responding to right stick movement. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed a bug when using Controller where the Atlas Passive Tree selector on was not functioning correctly. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed a client crash when using Controller that could occur when talking to Sin about the Pantheon. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed a client crash when using Controller that could occur in the Challenges panel. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed a crash when using Controller that could occur when entering the socket management mode UI. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed 2 instance crashes. | Jun 16, 2025 | 3.26.0b Patch Notes (restartless) | Source |
| Fixed a bug that could stop the Incarnation of Dread fight from being completed during the collect roses phase. | Jun 14, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 6 | Source |
| Re-enabled progression in Kirac's Vault Pass. | Jun 14, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 5 | Source |
| Fixed a "GetAdapterInfo" client crash that could occur when launching the game. | Jun 14, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 5 | Source |
| Added Opt-In Party Member UI to Mercenary Encounters. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 4 | Source |
| Prevented the Fallen Reverend Mercenary from summoning far too many spectres when encountered. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 4 | Source |
| Lowered damage significantly on Greater Shock Nova and Vaal Flameblast Mercenary Skills. Greater Shock Nova reduction will only apply to enemy Mercenaries. Vaal Flameblast reduction will apply both when allied and when an enemy. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 4 | Source |
| Fixed a bug where a legacy chance to Suppress Spell Damage modifier could roll on Veiled Body Armours and a legacy increased Critical Strike Chance during Flask Effect modifier could roll on Cinderswallow Urn. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 4 | Source |
| Fixed a deserialise packet packet crash that could occur on the login screen. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 4 | Source |
| Fixed a client crash related to the Phrecian Magistrate Character Effect. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 4 | Source |
| Fixed two instance crashes. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 4 | Source |
| Changed DirectX12 to be the default Renderer, which also helps players who were experiencing device errors under DirectX11. Clients on DirectX11 will automatically switch to this if supported but can change back if needed. The "(default)" text next to this will be updated in a later patch. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 3 | Source |
| Fixed an bug where vendor windows would not save the search filter after clearing the textbox. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 3 | Source |
| Fixed a client crash on the Steam login screen. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 3 | Source |
| Fixed disconnections affecting players when trying to login. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix | Source |
| Fixed a bug where Smoulderstrike Mercenaries failed to spawn with Unique Weapons equipped correctly. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 2 | Source |
| Fixed a client crash related to the King of the Faridun Armour Set. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 2 | Source |
| Fixed the DLSS option not being available on Steam. | Jun 13, 2025 | 3.26.0 Hotfix 2 | Source |
| This is the end of the Settlers League. Your characters and their progress will be migrated over the next few hours following the patch, or you can use the migration options in the character selection menu. Thanks for playing! | Jun 9, 2025 | 3.25.3g Patch Notes | Source |
| You can now create Private Leagues for the Mercenaries League, ahead of the league's launch on June 13. These leagues will not begin until the Mercenaries League launches. | Jun 9, 2025 | 3.25.3g Patch Notes | Source |
| Runes will be deleted upon logging in. | Jun 9, 2025 | 3.25.3g Patch Notes | Source |
| Tears into different realities within the Atlas have begun to appear. The Originator of these realities has entangled themselves within the very fabric of the Atlas, and they're now trapped! Track down the source of the tears and uncover the secrets within. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| You will meet Eagon, a man of mysterious heritage trying to discover his origins. In his quest, Eagon has been investigating these distortions of reality, occasionally catching glimpses of a young girl through the rifts — Zana. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| In the Atlas you will encounter Threads of Consciousness, a strange thread-like substance that appears near the tears. By using a powerful gauntlet of his own making, Eagon is able to create a link to these memory threads and open portals to them. Working with Eagon, you must step through and find Zana, or whatever remains of her. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The areas you are asked to investigate are not your typical Maps, they’re influenced by the Memories of Zana herself and have manifested dangerous threats. Influenced monsters are imbued with Memory Petals, defeat them and absorb their power to unleash it for yourself as a special ability during combat. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| As you defeat the boss of each Map along the Thread you are presented with an Altar that applies a modifier to the remaining Maps in the Thread. These modifiers accumulate as you dive deeper into a memory. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The final Map in each Thread is a true challenge, affected by all of the previous modifiers selected at each Altar, and guarded by a powerful boss. Each of these bosses are familiar, but dreamlike, drawn from Zana's memories and warped by the Atlas into something very different, and terrifying. Defeat these warped memory bosses, and dive deeper into the memory rifts to encounter the most significant of Zana's memories, manifested into three new Pinnacle bosses. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| For more information about this expansion, check out pathofexile.com/secrets | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Challenge leagues are a great opportunity for a fresh start in a new economy. All of your old characters and items are still present in the Standard and Hardcore leagues, but you're encouraged to join the new leagues, complete challenges and demonstrate your mastery of Path of Exile! | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Veterans have journeyed to Wraeclast from the lawless cities of Trarthus. They're ready to offer their sinister services, but not for free. A Mercenary can be found in each area, each with their own personalities, as well as individual builds, skills, and items. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Upon meeting a Mercenary, as per Trarthan tradition, they will challenge you to a duel to test your strength. Inspect these Mercenaries before the duel to make an informed choice. If you decide to duel them you may choose a reward for your victory: Hire them, take one of their items, or exile them. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Sometimes you may meet particularly Infamous Trarthan Mercenaries bearing the name of their house. These Mercenaries descend from the four major death-trade families in Trarthus, and are the sole source of items with the new Infamous modifiers. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Only one Mercenary can accompany you at a time, but you can have up to three total in your service. Having varied options is useful, as there may be situations where you need specific backup, like a difficult boss fight! | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| You can replace the items equipped to active Mercenaries, or those in reserve, with ones of your choosing. Mercenaries don't level up like Exile's do, so you should keep an eye out for more powerful Mercenaries as you progress through the Campaign and Endgame. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| With 3.26.0, there are Standard, Hardcore and Solo Self-Found variations of the Mercenaries challenge league available. They have the same core mechanics and items. You can create private league versions of these leagues, with mods that make the game harder. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The new Mercenaries challenge league includes a set of 40 new challenges, and 8 new challenges in Ruthless Mercenaries. Earn pieces of the Watcher's Wrath Armour Set when you complete 12, 20, 28 and 36 challenges in Mercenaries, or 2, 4, 6 and 8 challenges in Ruthless Mercenaries. These challenge rewards are only obtainable in this league. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| From the 19th challenge onwards and for every third challenge after that, you will receive pieces of the Mercenaries Totem Pole decoration to display in your hideout. The Totem Pole permanently showcases how many of the Mercenaries challenges you completed during the league. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Added a new Intelligence/Dexterity Support Gem, Focused Channelling: Supports channelling spells you cast yourself, significantly empowering the damage of supported skills the longer they are cast, while also increasing their cost the longer they are cast. Cannot modify the skills of minions. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Introduced the Shaper's Exalted Orb, which adds Shaper influence and a new Shaper modifier to a Rare item. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Introduced the Elder's Exalted Orb, which adds Elder influence and a new Elder modifier to a Rare item. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Introduced the Orb of Remembrance, which randomises the number of Memory Strands on a normal equipment item. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Introduced the Orb of Unravelling, which consumes all Memory Strands on an item to attempt to upgrade the tier of explicit modifiers based on the number Memory Strands consumed. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Introduced the Orb of Intention, which modifies a Memory Influenced Map, causing items found to have more Memory Strands, but fewer items drop. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Added over 20 new Uniques, some of which can only be obtained by dueling Mercenaries. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Added 5 new Divination Cards. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| You can now pause the game by opening the menu or any fullscreen interface like the Passive Skill Tree. You will also be paused if any lag is detected, or if you disconnect. Some content, mainly Pinnacle Boss fights, will apply the "Temporal Interference" debuff to you, which prevents the game from being paused. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The Rogue Harbour can now be accessed through a pin on the World Map after you have travelled there once. Alternatively, you can use the /heist chat command in town and hideout areas. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The maximum number of Players in a single instance of The Rogue Harbour has been halved. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| A message is now output to chat whenever the Nameless Seer or a Reflecting Mist spawns randomly in a map. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Guild Officers may now cancel unaccepted invitations to their Guild. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Added 73 more foiled Unique Item options that the Voidborn Reliquary can yield. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Added 78 more foiled Tier 17 Valdo's Map options that the Valdo's Puzzle Box can yield. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Continued to incrementally improve the sound, art, effects and environments. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Players can no longer gain or lose experience in the following areas: Absence of Mercy and Empathy, Absence of Patience and Wisdom, Absence of Symmetry and Harmony, Absence of Value and Meaning, Crux of Nothingness, Eye of the Storm, Polaric Void, Seething Chyme, The Sacred Grove, The Shaper's Realm, and The Maven's Crucible. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Atlas Memories have been removed. Existing items will be deleted upon logging in, and existing Memories on your Atlas have been removed. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Introduced some new Red-tier Kirac Missions that you might recognise from previous Atlas Memories. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Breach Splinters that drop during an encounter are now automatically collected and dropped at your location when the Breach concludes. If you're in a party it will drop multiple stacks that are randomly allocated. You can see a small notification above your character whenever a Breach Splinter is collected, similar to Gold. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Commonly-found Scarabs now drop at higher stack sizes in higher-tier Maps, but are found less often, similar to how common basic Currency stack sizes increase with area level. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Using an Orb of Horizons on an Elder Guardian of Conqueror Map will now also reroll the Guardian or Conqueror to a different one. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Completing a non-Unique Map at a tier lower than it is naturally found no longer grants Map Bonus Objective completion. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Further improved level generation of Blighted Maps so that they fail to open less often (again). | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The following Maps have been added back to the Atlas: Acid Caverns, Arid Lake, Arsenal, Bazaar, Canyon, Conservatory, Core, Frozen Cabins, Ghetto, Grave Trough, Iceberg, Ivory Temple, Laboratory, Mineral Pools, Park, Peninsula, Phantasmagoria, Precinct, Shipyard, Sunken City, Primordial Blocks, Tower, Villa, Wasteland, Waste Pool, Waterways, and Wharf. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The following Maps have been removed from the Atlas: Academy, Burial Chambers, Cage, Caldera, Carcass, Cells, Crater, Courthouse, Coves, Desert, Dry Sea, Fields, Fungal Hollow, Gardens, Graveyard, Haunted Mansion, Infested Valley, Lair, Lookout, Marshes, Pit, Port, Relic Chambers, Residence, Spider Lair, Sulphur Vents, and Summit. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Map tiers and locations have been shuffled (though the 'pin' locations for maps have not changed). Most maps are now initially found at a different tier. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Some of the Map Bosses you are required to defeat to upgrade your Pantheon have changed as a result of these Atlas changes. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Crafting Recipes have been shuffled and ones that were previously unlocked in Maps that have been removed from the Atlas are now found within other Maps currently on the Atlas. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Maps on the Atlas screen now show uncollected crafting recipes. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The Antagonist's modifier on Tier 17 maps now grants Rare Monsters an additional Modifier (from 2 additional). This does not affect existing items | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Reduced the amount of increased Pack Size granted by Tier 17 Map Modifiers that specifically augment Pack Size. Values have been lowered from 25% to 15%. This does not affect existing items with these modifiers. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Abyss Scarab of Multitudes now grants Abysses in Area spawn 50% increased Monsters (from 75%). | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Horned Scarab of Glittering now has Players in Area gain increased Item Rarity for each Monster slain, up to 400%, decaying over time (from up to 200%. No longer grants Item Quantity. Note the decay rate is no longer described as recently, as it was never over 4 seconds but was 20 seconds from the maximum value) | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Resplendent Tempests from the Scarab of Radiant Storms no longer grants Item Quantity bonuses and has had an increase to the Item Rarity bonus on players. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Corrupted Growths in Crimson Iron Ore Encounters are now Normal rarity monsters (previously Unique rarity). These were always just intended to be a monster spawner as opposed to an actual reward source. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
Split the existing Modifier that granted increased Quantity and Rarity of Items found in Area from Cleansing and Tangle Influence Altars into two separate ones:
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| 10-20% increased Quantity of Items found in this Area | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| 15-30% increased Rarity of Items found in this Area | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Atlas Passive Skills that provide additional chance for your Maps to contain a Master or Extra Content that can be turned off through Atlas Passives now also cause Scarabs in your Maps to have an increased chance to be Scarabs of that type of Extra Content. The Ruthless Atlas Passive Tree is not affected by this change. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The Intelligence Gathering Notable Atlas Passive has been replaced with the new Lethal Extraction Notable, which causes Executing Immortal Syndicate Members in your Maps to grant intelligence to their current division equal to 2 times their Rank. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The Straight and Narrow Notable Atlas Passive has been replaced with the new Miner's Strike Notable, which prevents Ore Deposits and Kalguuran Scarabs from appearing in your Maps. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Added 2 Atlas Memory clusters to the Atlas Passive Tree, including the following Notable Passive Skills: | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Traumatic Experience: 80% reduced chance for Memory Threads to lead towards the Incarnation of Dread. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Remembered Kindness: 80% reduced chance for Memory Threads to lead towards the Incarnation of Neglect. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Educated Upbringing: 80% reduced chance for Memory Threads to lead towards the Incarnation of Fear. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Grasp the Past: The number of Memory Strands on Equipment Items found in your Maps has a 50% chance to be Lucky. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| After almost a year of building, Johan is finally satisfied with the upgrades made to Kingsmarch, and now its services can be used to their full effect. Settlers of Kalguur has been added to the core game, but there will be no more town-building. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Gold can drop from slain monsters which will be used for paying workers' wages, as well as Passive Skill Tree Respecialisation and purchasing items from the Black Market at a number of NPCs throughout Wraeclast. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The Currency Exchange will also be returning; you'll first encounter Faustus in Lioneye's Watch in Act 6 who can help facilitate trades. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Upon reaching the Endgame, Johan will invite you to Kingsmarch. In Maps you'll start to find different ore veins, which Kalguuran workers can mine for you. Send this ore, or crops grown in the town, to Karui and Kalguuran ports in return for rewards. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| By shipping items to Karui ports you can receive Tattoos, which can be used on your Passive Skill Tree to change what they provide you. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| By shipping items to Kalguuran ports you can receive Runegrafts, a new Passive Skill Tree mechanic that replaces the Runesmithing service previously provided in the town. These are similar to Tattoos, but instead of applying to a Passive Skill they apply to an allocated Passive Mastery Skill. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Isla has continued to make modifications on the Recombinator. You are able to decide which modifiers on the two items you input into the Recombinator you would like to try to merge together (with a chance of success displayed to you). This new method of Recombinating can result in the items being destroyed. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Isla's previous method of Recombinating is still available if you'd prefer to leave it up to fate, combining two items randomly (with no risk of destroying your items), though this is the less predictable method. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Introduced the Kalguuran Scarab of Abundance, which causes an area to contain an additional Ore Deposit. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Introduced the Kalguuran Scarab of Guarded Riches, which causes Monsters guarding Ore Deposits in an area to be at least Magic. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Introduced the Kalguuran Scarab of Refinement, which causes Ore Deposits in Area to grant Smelted Bars instead of Marking Ore. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Added 4 Settlers of Kalguur clusters to the Atlas Passive Tree, including the following Notable Passive Skills: | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Prospector's Luck: Your Maps have +20% chance to contain Ore Deposits. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Yield Upon Yield: Your Maps with Ore Deposits have 50% increased chance to contain two Ore Deposits. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Fortune's Favour: Ore Deposits in your Maps are more likely to be rarer varieties. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Lost in Transit: 10% chance for Ore Deposits in your Maps to be replaced by Lost Shipments. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Crimson Infusion: Crimson Iron Ore Deposits in your Maps are guarded by 2 additional Corrupted Growths. 100% increased chance for Ore Deposits found in your Maps to be Crimson Iron. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Amber Infusion: Petrified Amber Ore Deposits in your Maps take 25% reduced Damage. 100% increased chance for Ore Deposits found in your Maps to be Petrified Amber. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Verisium Infusion: Verisium Ore Deposits in your Maps can be channelled on for 30% longer. 100% increased chance for Ore Deposits found in your Maps to be Verisium. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Orichalcum Infusion: Buffs granted by Orichalcum Ore Deposits in your Maps have 100% increased Duration. 100% increased chance for Ore Deposits found in your Maps to be Orichalcum. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Bismuth Infusion: Bismuth Ore Deposits in your Maps have 30% chance to add an additional Modifier to Monsters they affect. 100% increased chance for Ore Deposits found in your Maps to be Bismuth. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Added a new Atlas Passive Keystone - Refiner's Bargain: Equipment Items with Rarity dropped by Possessed Monsters in your Maps have 25% chance to be converted to Thaumaturgic Dust. Sulphite found in your Maps is granted as a random Ore instead at 25% of the value. Lifeforce found in your Maps is granted as a random Crop instead at 300% of the value. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Some other Atlas Passive Skills have moved location to make space for the new Clusters and Keystone added. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| There are now 5 job rankings for Kingsmarch workers (previously 10). | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Adjusted Banana to more closely match the size of the Kalguuran version. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Moved a lamppost in Kingsmarch. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The Mastermind boss fight is now separate from the Betrayal Safehouse mechanic, and defeating the boss no longer resets the state of the Immortal Syndicate. We've added a new Syndicate Medallion Fragment which can be used to travel to The Mastermind's Lair. This fragment has a chance to drop from Safehouse Leaders at high levels. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The Mastermind Boss fight has been improved, now with significantly fewer immunity phases and new rewards. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The Mastermind's Lair cannot be accessed if you have not unlocked the endgame. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The Veiled Modifiers on the The Mastermind's Unique Items are now able to unveil some new modifiers that are exclusive to these Uniques. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Catarina, Master of Undeath can now drop Allflame Embers. These new Map Fragments can add packs of monsters in Maps with different types of special monsters. These special monster packs have unusual properties, compositions, or rewards. Allflame Embers can be placed in your Map Device like Scarabs, and used in conjunction with Scarabs to further customise your Maps. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Catarina, Master of Undeath, no longer drops Rare Veiled items with exclusive Modifiers, these are now exclusive to the Unique items she can drop. She instead now drops rare double Veiled items. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The amount of Safehouse Intelligence obtained from choices made after defeating Immortal Syndicate Members has been lowered. The time taken to reach a Safehouse is overall longer than before. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Once you get your hands on a Safehouse Leader, your only option now is to Execute them. Welp, no love lost there, let me tell ya. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Veiled Orbs have been renamed to Veiled Exalted Orbs, their functionality is unchanged. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Reintroduced Veiled Chaos Orbs, which reforges a Rare item with new random modifiers including a random Veiled modifier. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Safehouse leaders now have a chance to drop Veiled Chaos Orbs. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The Safehouse rewards have also been completely rebalanced. Happy interrogating! | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The Betrayal Scarab of Intelligence has been renamed to Betrayal Scarab of the Allflame. It now provides 75% Increased number of Monster Packs Substituted by Allflame Embers in Area. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| All of the Crafting Bench Recipes normally granted by unveiling items are instead now unlocked through Maps on the Atlas. Similar to normal Crafting Bench Modifiers, these Modifiers must now be unlocked by interacting with one of the Recipe Objects that can be found near Bosses in Map Areas. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| There are 41 new Recipe Objects which unlock Veiled Modifier Crafting Recipes on your Crafting Bench. Some Veiled Modifier Crafting Recipes have been combined with pre-existing Recipe Objects that unlock normal Crafting Bench modifiers. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| You are no longer required to speak with Jun to Unveil your items. You can now Right-click (or use Circle/B on Controller) on a Veiled item and simply select the Modifier you wish to Unveil. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Removing all rivalries in the Immortal Syndicate is no longer an option offered when deciding what to do with defeated Syndicate members, though there is a new option to remove all rivalries in the current division. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Bargaining with Immortal Syndicate members can now give multiple Scarabs and Veiled Items, but fewer Currency items. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The Sanctum room rewards which allow you to defer currency to the end of the Floor or End of the Sanctum now have a lower chance to contain high tier currency (like Divine Orbs) and on floor three those currency items no longer appear with stack sizes greater than one. The ease of completing Sanctum relative to the rewards is mismatched and this puts it more in line. We are intending to do a grander pass to the rewards and content of Sanctum in a future expansion where we will also be adding an exclusive reward to Sanctum to give it more identity instead of exclusively producing raw currency. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Added the Gilded Font to the end of each Sanctum floor. This allows players to convert 50% of their current Aureus to gold. The ratio of this conversion is greater at higher levels. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Intensity Stacks are now lost every 0.5 seconds while Moving (previously every 0.25 seconds). | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| The Arcane Surge Buff now provides 20% increased Cast Speed (previously 10%). | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Changed how additional party members scale the quantity and rarity of items the player finds. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| We now drop +100% more of certain Item classes like Currency and Gold as they are valuable for all players, whereas items like Armour and Weapons scale at much lower amounts. The result of this is that when in larger parties you see less non-unique equipment, and more things you actually want. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| We no longer increase Rarity per player in a party but we increase the number of Uniques specifically, this will result in the same number of Unique Items per party member as before. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Animate Guardian: Animated Guardians now retain their items when they die. However, if your Animated Guardian dies you cannot summon an Animated Guardian again in that area (unless that area is a hideout). | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Bane of Condemnation: Now has a Base Cast time of 0.8 seconds (previously 0.6), with a Mana cost of 14 at gem level 1 (previously 10), scaling up to 27 at gem level 20 (previously 20). It now Deals 70.8-1341.7 Base Chaos Damage per second at gem levels 1-20 (previously 59.3-1075.5). | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Blade Blast of Unloading: Now has 5% more Damage per Blade Vortex Blade at all gem levels. | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Blade Blast of Dagger Detonation: If two Daggers are Equipped, each contributes 60% as much Added Damage at all gem levels (previously 50%). | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |
| Blade Flurry of Incision: Now has 180% base Attack Speed (previously 160%), and 61-111% Effectiveness of Base and Added Damage at gem levels 1-20 (previously 58-99%). Now has 40% more Critical Strike Chance for each Stage (previously 35%). Quality now provides +0-40% to Critical Strike Multiplier while at max Stages (previously 0-5% more Critical Strike Chance for each stage). | Jun 5, 2025 | Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas | Source |