Dawn of the Hunt

Content

• New Mechanics
  • Azmerian Wisps: The Azmeri Spirit has made itself present in Wraeclast. When approached, these wisps will flee, and monsters it comes into contact with will be infused by it, making them more powerful. Wisps will also find and possess Rare or Unique monsters, granting them powerful new abilities, and powerful new rewards. There are twelve distinct types of wisp, each with their own mechanics and rewards.
  • 4 New Corrupted Essence: Essence of Insanity, Essence of Horror
  • 12 Rogue Exiles : On your travels you will sometimes encounter Rogue Exiles - others like you who have been exiled and are openly hostile. They will challenge you - a fight to the death. These Exiles have capabilities to Dodge Roll, avoid your abilities with smart pathfinding, smart-targeting, and much more action-packed gameplay. Rogue Exiles use the same skills available to players, and even the same items. They aren't just dressed up in those items, they know how to take advantage of the Uniques they are using. Of course, if you are able to slay these Exiles, those items will all drop on the ground!
  • 4 Unique Strongbox: Ogham's Legacy, Ixchel's Torment
  • Recombinator:
• 8 New Maps, 4 of them are Unique Maps
  • The Fractured Lake: Located in a surreal waterscape, this area contains fractured mirror-like objects. In the Fractured Lake all the Rare monsters are mirrored so you're always fighting two of the same Rare at the same time. If you manage to overcome that challenge and make it to the end of the Map you'll be presented with a broken Mirror that contains either an Amulet or a Ring that can be crafted to have additional prefixes, or suffixes, at the cost of the other. Gloam Amulet, Dusk Ring, Tenebrous Amulet]]
  • The Phaaryl Megalith: ten taotal waves of boss fights, Greater Rune of Alacrity, Greater Rune of Nobility, Greater Rune of Tithing, Greater Rune of Leadership
  • The Silent Cave: Enter a crystalline cavern to find a powerful map Boss, surrounded by Rare monsters imprisoned in essence crystals. By freeing and defeating the Rare Monsters, the essence they held will be upgraded to a Greater essence and be added to the imprisoned Map Boss.
  • The Viridian Wildwood
• New Endgame Mechanics
  • Corrupted Nexus : Corruption has continued to spread throughout Wraeclast and has formed into larger and larger zones. In the centre of each one lies a Corrupted Nexus, the home of three new terrifying bosses, amalgamations of Corruption itself. Upon defeating these bosses, any remaining areas within the zone of Corruption will become cleansed. Cleansed Maps have additional new monsters, a new boss and their own set of Modifiers and rewards. Fracturing Orb.
  • The number of towers has been drastically reduced but they have been made much more powerful. Tablets now affect twice as many areas and running higher tier Maps in Towers increases this number further still. In addition, each Tower will be able to consume up to three Tablets at once. These changes significantly reduce the amount of busy work required in endgame while improving on your ability to use them. On top of that, Towers can now spawn with all mechanics, and have their own new Bosses!
• 25 New Skills (22 are Huntress' Skills)
• 100+ New Support Gems
• 100+ New Uniques
• 1 New Classes: Huntress
• 1 New Weapon Base: Spears
• 5 New Ascendancy
  • Huntress Ascendancy: Ritualist, Amazon
  • Mercenary Ascendancy: Tactician
  • Warrior Ascendancy: Smith of Kitava
  • Witch Ascendancy: Lich

New League: Dawn of the Hunt

• Before 0.2.0 Updated, all of your progress will migrate to the respective parent league of your characters
  • Standard League will migrate to Early Access Standard League
  • Hardcore League will migrate to Early Access Hardcore League
• With 0.2.0, there are Dawn of the Hunt League, Hardcore, Solo Self-Found league available. They are new beginnings and economic resets.

Reference

• Teasers Thread: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3726160
• FAQ https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3587981