Path of Exile: The Awakening Expansion Released, Patch Notes Revealed

Grinding Gear Games has revealed the changelog for the The Awakening expansion for Path of Exile. The changelog is rather large and tin be viewed over at the official website. A pocket-size summary of the new content offered can be viewed below every bit well as som important notes from the studio further down.

The Awakening offers lots of new content including:

Act Four Is Here! Human action 4 continues Path of Exile'southward storyline. The time has finally come to venture into the center of abuse itself and bulldoze a bract through its black eye.
Explore Beyond Highgate: For the first time since launch, The Awakening introduces completely new areas, monsters and terminate-game maps to expand the globe of Wraeclast.
Defeat Legendary Bosses: Feel climactic boss encounters with characters from Wraeclast'south past such equally Shavronne, Doedre, Malachai and many more.
Powerful New Skill Gems: With new classes of skills such as elemental Golems that fight by your side, warcries and several new support gems, players are able to create new clever and intricate builds.
Socketable Passive Tree: Collect and arts and crafts Jewels that can be socketed into the Passive Tree to drastically change the tree itself.
Masses of New Gear: Find more 110 new Unique Items and discover an entirely new set up of equipment, the Maraketh Weapons.
User Experience Improvements: Extensive user interface improvements, added more customization options and implemented many community-suggested changes.

Important Notes:

Due to substantial balance changes, every existing character has been granted an optional full passive reset. To use this, click the "Reset all Passives" button on the passive skill screen. Note that you must utilize this before allocating or refunding whatsoever other points otherwise the option will go away.
Many inactive graphic symbol names have been made available. If you lot have the name of an existing character, and so that user will exist prompted to rename their character when they afterward try to log in to it. If you have logged onto any character on your business relationship in the last year, then their names cannot be taken. Characters whose names are taken are not lost - their progress and items are still intact. They just need to option a new name when they log in.
We recommend you create your kickoff new grapheme in the Warbands (or Tempest) challenge league to experience The Awakening. The unabridged game experience has changed from the kickoff level onwards.