It’s already 2020 in New Zealand! We want to wish our community a Happy New Year and also to take a moment to look back on the year that has just concluded. As is tradition, today we’re posting our annual retrospective.
In 2019:
- We launched four expansions: Synthesis, Legion, Blight and Conquerors of the Atlas (with the Metamorph challenge league).
- We hosted ExileCon, our very first Path of Exile convention with more than 1400 attendees from around the world, including special guests from Blizzard North, community streamers and content creators, and very real Eihnar Frey and Zana.
- We announced Path of Exile 2 and the Path of Exile Mobile project!
- We partnered with Kakao to launch Path of Exile in South Korea.
- We released Path of Exile on PlayStation 4.
- We set a record number of players online (224,000 on our server alone).
- There were 30% more hours played of Path of Exile on our international realm in 2019 than 2018.
- Around 8.7 million players played Path of Exile on our international realm this year.
- We expanded from 122 to 147 in-house staff members.
- We deployed more than 45 updates/patches to our realm.
- We posted 382 news articles - an average of 7.3 posts per week.
- We remastered the existing Path of Exile soundtrack and updated it with new music.
- We hit a new record in viewer numbers on Twitch.
- We introduced a new system that allows you to manage your Master missions.
- We praised amazing talents of our players by hosting four community competitions.
- We revamped spellcasters, melee combat, Necromancers and dozens of skills.
- We reworked the entire Atlas system.
- We updated the look of the Lioneye’s Watch.
Thank you to everyone who has joined us in 2019, who has returned and who has been with us throughout the year. Thank you to all of you who has travelled all the way to New Zealand to attend ExileCon in November. Path of Exile wouldn’t evolve that significantly without your generous support and continued feedback. We love you all! Here’s to another big year in Wraeclast!
Do you guys port back to town every time your inventory is full to sell stuff and then port back? I have just been dumping stuff when I get something better and continuing to play until I finish a quest before porting back. Am I wasting a lot of important crafting mats by leaving stuff laying around?
Generally you’re fine with dumping stuff rather than vendoring. But there are some exceptions: three linked sockets red-blue-green is worth a chromatic orb, and anything with 6 sockets is worth 6 jewelers orbs. Until you have a ton of each of those, it’s worth taking them back to town to sell.
OK, thanks. Will watch for those drops.
Do you use a loot filter? They are used to screen out the 99% of items that drop that you’re not interested in, and to highlight the 1% of items you really want. I highly recommend using one.
I have Neversink’s set to Regular. Hopefully I’m not missing anything important with that.
That sounds good, and that’s what I use all the time. I don’t think you need to change from that unless you have some specialized needs.
Yes, be aware of the key vendor recipes above.
Also note that a full kit of rare gear above ilvl 60 (helm, body, boots, gloves, belt, 2 rings, ammy, weapon/s) can be vendored for a Chaos orb. This is a very important recipe as it is pretty much the staple currency to farm, so you want to be mindful of building a stash of rares for this recipe.
Same recipe above, but ilvl 75 and up will net you a Regal.
Also always pick up quality flasks and quality gems. They can be vendored for glassblower’s orbs and gemcutter’s prisms, respectively.
OK guys, thanks for the help. So much to learn, so little time… :)
I agree with what at @sharaleo said but if you vendor a complete set of unidentified yellows of the level he mentions, you will get two chaos orbs in return. If any of the pieces you vendor is identified you just get one. So store those unidentified items!
For the weapons you can use a single two handed weapon or two one handers. Shields work also so you could vendor two Shields!
I dedicate two stash tabs for storing these things. Each stash tab can hold three complete “outfits “. At the bottom of each tab I usually stick extra belts, amulets and rings.
OK, thanks. I’m only up to about level 55 so far this league and I’ll have to get some more stash tabs soon for all the gear. As mentioned above, I’m trying to hold out for a sale.
Wow, this is crazy. I wonder how a person first figured this one out. “I’m going to sell one of every item on this character to the vendor, that I somehow haven’t identified yet”.
But…but…but…how are you going to find something mirror-worthy if you don’t IDENTIFY EVERYTHING!
So what do you guys do with all the gems you aren’t using? I’m leveling some in empty slots that might be useful to another character at some point, but the rest (about 75 of them) are just clogging up my stash. Happy to donate some to the guild but are they worth anything other than selling to a vendor for some crafting mats? Thanks.
Since you can purchase any gem starting when you hit Act 6 (from Lily), it’s not worthwhile to keep any germs around unless they have quality on them.
If the gems are +quality, you can vendor recipe them for quality gems (40% total quality for each GCP).
Otherwise, there are very few normal gems worth keeping. Enlightenment and Empower, mainly.
There is so much about this game that I keep learning. I was looking at someone’s video about farming Blighted Maps, and he said it’s profitable to farm Tier 1 Blighted Maps (because the cost to purchase them is “low,” rewards are pretty good and the success rate is close to 100% if your character is decent). I don’t think I’m ever going to farm them (because T1 maps sell for 20 chaos orbs each and the only way you make money is by selling the stuff you get, which I never do).
But… one thing I did learn is that you should anoint your Blighted Maps with 3 Teal Oils, because that makes 6 of the Blight Chests “lucky,” which means you get better rewards from them (it transforms chests that drop things like armor or weapons into chests that drop things like oils and fragments and the like).
I did happen to have a Tier 1 Blighted Map and I did the anointing thing and the explosion of loot at the end was pretty impressive. I made a profit on the run, but not exactly sure how to quantify how much profit I made… I paid around 3.5 Chaos for the Teal Oils and I made 5 Chaos orbs (and 1 or 2 Exalts, one Blessed, maybe a Chisel or two, plus a dozen low-level oils, 5 or 10 fragments, assorted armor, etc). If you don’t run a shop I’m not sure it would be worth it to buy the blighted maps though.
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Wow, both teals and the maps are a lot cheaper than I remembered. I guess metamorph bosses must offer them often enough to impact the economy, or people just don’t want to bother farming them this league.
