Patch 3.8 and the new Blight season are now live
Path of Exile‘s 3.8 content patch goes live today, and brings with it the Blight Challenge League, introducing a surprisingly refreshing league mechanic (for an ARPG, at least): tower defense.
Throughout the league, players will be fightingThe Blight, the spread of which will need to be stopped in a tower defense-style minigame present in each zone. In the end-game, some maps will be entirely ridden with Blight!
Like mostPath of Exileleagues of recent times, Blight brings with it Softcore (the regular game type where dying is not punished too heavily) and Hardcore (where each character only lives once and death means you need to start over from scratch) leagues, including a Solo Self-Found (where trading and party-play are disabled, so effectively a full single-player experience) version of each, and is expected to last roughly 3 months.
Aside from the fresh start that comes with each challenge league, Blight 3.8 brings with it a large number of changes and additions (the full list of which can be found in the3.8 Patch Notes). Here are some notable aspects:
PoE Vault has updated nearly all oftheir buildsfor Blight 3.8, and here are a few that stand out to us as most interesting to try out in this new league. All of them are great league starters, so you can safely begin Blight with them.
Regardless of the build you choose to play, we wish you the best of luck in the new league, and we hope that the tower defense mechanics will be as enjoyable as they appear!
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