Bend fate and defy the shifting sands of time in Path of Exile: Mirage, arriving March 7 at 3AM Singapore Time. Face an all-new League mechanic centered around ancient Djinn encounters, where Mirages duplicate and empower areas in your Maps. The content expansion also introduces a huge update to the endgame with a reworked Atlas structure, a new Scion Ascendancy, Holy Skills, a number of quality-of-life and campaign progression improvements, and over 40 new Exceptional Support Gems.
Path of Exile: New Mirage League
Confront the Afarud, a desert-dwelling sect of necromancers who have stolen and imprisoned Djinn across Wraeclast. Their mysterious rituals drain Djinn of their energy for unknown purposes, threatening ancient forces tied to the history of the Maraketh.
Players will encounter imprisoned Djinn guarded by Afarud Warlocks. After defeating these enemies, Varashta, an ancient Maraketh sorceress, will uncover the Astral Realm through a Mirage to break the tether trapping the captive Djinn.
These Mirages aren’t just fractured illusions – they replicate much of the content and enhancement players have applied to the map, creating a powerful new way to double up on enhanced encounters and rewards.
Shape the Mirage through Wishes
Before entering a Mirage, Varashta will offer the following choices of one of three Wishes, powerful modifiers that drastically reshape the Mirage experience, but not limited to:
- 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.
Each Wish is tied to one of three Djinn’s powerful sigils: Sand, Fire, or Water. Depending on the chosen sigil, monsters within the Mirage will have a small chance to drop one of the new currencies:
- Coin of Knowledge
- Coin of Power
- Coin of Skill
These Coins can be used on a max-level skill gem to corrupt it and grant a random support gem effect matching the coin’s colour.
Rewind Fate for Amplified Rewards
Mirages are an “imperfect” copy of an area that a Djinn occupies, with the feature to copy almost anything as long as it is within the domain of the Djinn. This very imperfection enables enterprising exiles to “replay” the contents of an Endgame Map, such as Strongboxes, Blights, or Legions twice, but with side effects. For instance:
- Factions of a Legion may appear differently from the original copy.
- 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.
Restore Relics and Face New Endgame Boss: Saresh, of the Weeping Black in Path of Exile
The Afarud have also stolen and twisted ancient Maraketh artifacts into corrupted new Unique items. Players can obtain a Coin of Restoration within Mirages, allowing certain Afarud Uniques to be transformed into their original Maraketh forms through Varashta’s assistance.
Acquiring the Fleshrender allows it to be restored into Skysunder, a radiant Maraketh weapon that reflects ignite back onto the bearer, proliferating fire damage to nearby monsters in massive areas.
Thwarting the affairs of the Afarud may draw the attention of Saresh, of the Weeping Black, a new Endgame Boss. Defeating him will reward those strong enough to prevail with a set of exclusive, powerful Unique items.
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