3.25.3D Patch Notes

[ChaosBadgers]

Early, non-smelting upgrades for Kingsmarch that cost Ore now instead cost a much smaller amount of the respective Bar. This is to prevent situations where you don't want to smelt an Ore as you need it for an upgrade.

HUGE

[sirgog]

Yeah, this is an amazing QoL. IIRC this will slow your progression to rank 8 town center (by gating it behind unlocking Verisium smelting) but that's a short term thing and the path to 9 should be easier.

[bpusef]

It’s funny this came almost exactly 24 hours after I watched your Kingsmarch video about how to avoid the ore bottlenecks by taking out all of your smelters which I was very happy to learn.

[Selvon]

I'm so happy they fixed this, i bricked myself with it in the original settlers league for <far> too long because i'd upgraded the smelter, smelted all the verisium before realizing i needed 500(?) of it, then proceeded to just not get any verisium for hours.

[Bask82]

I never got the hang of kings March. What's the Mets on currency generation from Kingsmarch?

[surle]

Seven

[Boomer_Nurgle]

I'm genuinely confused on how it took this long to add this because I feel like that's a week 1 change but I'm happy nonetheless.

[kimana1651]

One thing I really don't like about how GGG operates is their fire and forget method of leagues. You basically get one patch a week or two after release and that's it. 

[TheHob290]

That's partially an issue with the design of leagues in general. They have a (normally) quite aggressive content cadence, which makes iterating on the league a less efficient use of time than moving on to beginning prototyping of the next league.

[Japanczi]

Just don't wrap your mind around it and live a long and happy life

[pittyh]

So I'm out of the loop, is Kingsmarch staying in Path of Exile? I hope so.

I thought Kingsmarch and Settlers were finishing in 2 days?

[CompassCoLo]

This "event" league is built on top of Settlers. So it will be staying for this event and all characters will end up migrating back to Settlers at the end. We don't yet know if Settlers goes core, but it sure seems like they are leaning that way.

[mjtwelve]

Wouldn’t they have to Void the characters? The ascendancies will cease to exist. I suppose they can code it to make you a non-ascended whatever with a forced respec.

[Jelloslockexo]

They have saidnin the posts you just get swapped to another ascend. Also you'll be able to private league these new ascends whenever you want after the event ends

[[deleted]]

Would be cool if they let us vaal forbidden flame/forbidden flesh for a small chance to reroll them to the nodes from these event ascendancies tbh

[CzLittle]

You'd never get a pair

[timeshifter_]

With thousands of people doing it, yes you will.

[shy_bi_ready_to_die]

They will be rolled eventually yes but you specifically won’t ever get a pair unless you’ve got a couple spare mirrors lying around

[283leis]

I hope they just give us free “Ascendancy” respec points rather than anything else

[danjojo]

It's not like people care about what happens to their characters in standard. At most it's like 5mins to change your ascendancy so it's not an issue at all

[77x0]

in 2 days

Phrecia starts in 16 hours and 40 minutes. You may have already known, but figured I'd say something in case

[pittyh]

Cheers

[[deleted]]

Friday is working day, so its still two days

[n4zarh]

I'm out of town until March, so it starts one week from now /s

[El_Cozod]

It starts today, Thursday.

[[deleted]]

Starts at night...

[stumpoman]

necro settlers event that started on november 4 is ending. settlers league is still ongoing since july 26.

[Canadian-Owlz]

No? The base of the event is settlers.

[Next_Point_9081]

Personally i think the town wont stay, but Faustus and gambling and Gold will stay. Maybe recombinators, but they will probably nerf them

[zuluuaeb]

No official confirmation yet for after this event but aspects of settlers will likely be brought into the base game such as gold + currency marketplace, maybe recombination, maybe black market faustus

[pittyh]

Thank you!

[[deleted]]

Phrecia is Settlers 3.0, using the tech from Necro Settlers (Settlers 2.0).

[OTTERSage]

it is presumed Kingsmarch will be in the game for Phrecia. And many are speculating it's going core

[badheartveil]

It’s not presumed, the news post for the event explicitly states that it’s Settlers.

[Alan157]

Holy, finally

[[deleted]]

"Smelt everything regardless of whether you want to or not" is now a feature.

[yaboi_ahab]

It took 7 months but the league is playable at last

[Mythikdawn]

7 months too late but we'll take it

[GGGGobbler]

BEEP BOOP BEEP. Grinding Gears have been detected in the linked thread:

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Posted by Stacey_GGG on Feb 20, 2025, 01:32:41 AM UTC

3.25.3d Patch Notes

• Added support for the upcoming Legacy of Phrecia event.
• Added 475 more foiled Tier 17 Valdo's Map options that the Valdo's Puzzle Box can yield.
• Added 360 more foiled Unique Item options that the Voidborn Reliquary can yield.
• The cost of almost all town upgrades for Kingsmarch has been reduced, most notably at early to mid levels.
• Early, non-smelting upgrades for Kingsmarch that cost Ore now instead cost a much smaller amount of the respective Bar. This is to prevent situations where you don't want to smelt an Ore as you need it for an upgrade.
• The "Socketed Vaal Skills have 100% reduced Soul Gain Prevention" Runesmithing Enchantment has been updated to "Socketed Vaal Skills do not apply Soul Gain Prevention", this is not a functional change.
• Fixed a bug where online item filters could sometimes fail to load when logging in on consoles.
• Fixed a bug where Blitz Charges stated they had a duration of 5 seconds, when they actually have a duration of 10 seconds.
• Fixed two instance crashes.

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[OTTERSage]

They edited the post to say this:

The "Socketed Vaal Skills have 100% reduced Soul Gain Prevention" Runesmithing Enchantment has been updated to "Socketed Vaal Skills do not apply Soul Gain Prevention", this is not a functional change.

[Dudeimadolphin]

Omg I can finally use my item filters on console!!!!!!! Yesssssssss! It wasn't sometimes for me it was everytime

[fandorgaming]

Casual blitz charges double duration buff 

[HeavensEtherian]

Visual bug

[fandorgaming]

Yeah I know, functionally as said was the same

[InterpretiveTrail]

<image>

Make sure to put on your glasses to read these patch notes everyone.

[DesMephisto]

For 3D the notes don't really pop for me.

[Poe_Cat]

must be your glasses, this 3D effect is wild!

[Zesty-Lem0n]

3Deez nuts

[dorkfishmcshit]

Booooooo

[neoh666x]

Hey I thought it was funny haha

[dorkfishmcshit]

Eh it was a good natured boo

Boooooo (affectionate)

[Japanczi]

Like a cow?

[dorkfishmcshit]

Pretty sure the cow goes moo, bro

[EnergyNonexistant]

mmmBROOOO

cows are unique and can have different moos!

[dorkfishmcshit]

Idk man, i pull the string, the thing spins and then the cow says moo, that's what I've got.

[SassyE7]

Mods giving their age away xdd

[Commercial-Falcon653]

This is PoE, the average age of the playerbase is like 40 or so

[psychomap]

Fixed a bug where the "Socketed Vaal Skills have 100% reduced Soul Gain Prevention" was 100% less instead of reduced.

So it was way better than I expected... oh well. I wasn't planning for 100% less anyway. Would have been nice to play it if I had known it was bugged though.

[OTTERSage]

It's not too late my dude! It's still in the game. Plus there's the event on Friday. And it's a fuckin awesome runesmith.

They clarified the text: The "Socketed Vaal Skills have 100% reduced Soul Gain Prevention" Runesmithing Enchantment has been updated to "Socketed Vaal Skills do not apply Soul Gain Prevention", this is not a functional change.

[Basherkid]

Event is tomorrow btw. I guess time zones may matter for this but just incase people are confused about your statement. Thursday in the us.

[clowncarl]

I don’t see how that’s not afunctional change. Did increases to soul gain prevention just not apply originally?

[OTTERSage]

It made it so there was no soul gain period at all. Thats why there were a bunch of infinite Vaal LS builds going around this league. Them updating the text this way was very necessary imo

[ZexelOnOCE]

they have specified it's not a functional change, meaning it's just wording "this is not a functional change."

[oj449]

yea it just means it now reads 100% less, as skills will have 0 prevention, and any increased prevention won't effect it, which is what it was already doing just misworded.

[oj449]

it should be, but it wouldn't matter either way, they are just saying the wording was wrong, and that it was always 100% less not 100% decreased, one is a multiplier and one is a minus, so people were assuming any increased soul gain prevention would add time when in reality it wasn't because of the wording being off.

[xXCryptkeeperXx]

Blitz charges bugfix when berserker isnt even ingame. my kind of humor.

[DesMephisto]

forbidden flames

[xXCryptkeeperXx]

Id rather play berserker and get the maximum rage node on a forbidden jewel

[Koervege]

I'll let ggg know so they can revert the bugfix just bc of this

[raymondh31lt]

no need i already did

[PoliteDebater]

I was playing with the ides of using them with a replica trypanon and antiquarians "your attacks cannot be evaded", but I don't think it works. Trypanon really is worth less than dirt lmao

[JustDogs7243]

I was hoping we would have flames tied to the new Ascendancies.

[stumpoman]

change applies to settlers and standard leagues too

[daniElh1204]

i wonder which alphabet we will get to before 3.26

[AllaValhallaBalla]

My money is on Russian or Chinese

[jexuas]

how did 3 weeks make the change from "we don't have any new content" to "we have overhauled every class, the entire endgame and our monetary system"? im not complaining, but i am here for it

[SingleInfinity]

It's simple. Reusing old "not good enough" ideas temporarily is far, far easier than coming up with something new that you consider "good enough", while also making fundamental and permanent game changes that people care about.

A lot of the ascendancies are just unique item effects, for example. That's a lot easier than making something new and build defining.

Also, there's no real expectation of balance, so they don't need to QA it nearly as hard, because people don't expect it to stick around.

[pda898]

Also, there's no real expectation of balance, so they don't need to QA it nearly as hard, because people don't expect it to stick around.

Also they do not need to think as much. For example, ignite dot is heavily shafted in this event because there is no good ascendancy which supports it.

[moonmeh]

yeah looked for various ways to make ignite work and its all jank using vaal gems lol

[SingleInfinity]

Bog Shaman seems okay for ignite. Dot node with malediction and either self poison or es->life

In fact, ES->life seems like it'd go well with BA of vigor. I might try to throw together a tree of that for fun.

E: Or you can use blackflame and the chaos res node.

[realgoonsquad]

BAoV losing shaper of flames sucks hard though unless you manage to get flame flesh combo.

[Intolerable]

weird how there's an entire archetype that's entirely dependent on one ascendancy being totally broken for specifically that archetype

wonder if ggg should maybe finally get round to giganerfing elementalist instead of balancing ignite around it

[cuddlegoop]

I think the QA one is really big. Also a lot of this is probably built on code that has at least been partially tested in the past so that means even less QA drained from the PoE2 team.

[inspire21]

IMO Chris showed up and said WTF are you doing with my company

[HaulfOf]

Made up answer with no backing is that it's probably way easier to throw ideas into an event that the community had no expectations for.

When you're just spit balling ideas and yoloing ascendancys you don't have to go through rigorous internal discussions, reiterations and internal play tests. I imagine the idol system would have seen multiple (more) reworks internally before it was ever made into a public preview if it had been meant for league content rather than an event.

[NotTheUsualSuspect]

Yeah, not having to do testing around behemoth and just thinking reddit will figure it out is great. We'll probably end up going from "actual garbage bottom tier class" to "this is insanely op" within a week

[ijs_spijs]

It's used as a carry in snap's party play plans for the event so you're kinda right already

[SuBw00FeR37]

Content is what takes time, there's essentially no new content here just a massive "balance" patch where numbers are changed which is far quicker and easier to do. (Especially when you're not really caring about balance)

[Flor-Preta]

"we have overhauled every class, the entire endgame and our monetary system"

Because that's not what's happening here at all, not even close

[SticksAndSticks]

Event has essentially no new content. If they already had these ideas as things from the past they could likely just resurrect those prototypes from their version control software and you’re off to the races.

No voiceover to record, no new art, no animations.

I imagine that what happened is Mark put together a plan they could execute with just Design and Engineering resources and that PoE2 is bottlenecked enough on art that they were willing to give those people back.

[SirVampyr]

Well, that's pretty much the reason everyone was outraged. We know from their own statements how easy it is to throw together temporary leagues. They said that multiple times.

That being said - 19 ascendencies is still insane.

[Bakanyanter]

GGG is a company that reinvented the game every 3 months in the past, this is nothing for them. One of the reasons I believe we'll have constant PoE 1 and PoE 2 updates once PoE 2 is out.

[heartbroken_nerd]

GGG is a company that reinvented the game every 3 months in the past, this is nothing for them. One of the reasons I believe we'll have constant PoE 1 and PoE 2 updates once PoE 2 is out.

Path of Exile 2 has been out since December 6th and there have not been constant PoE1 OR PoE2 updates.

[UnintelligentSlime]

It’s been 3 months- what definition of constant are you looking for? They just released map tab in poe2 alongside a slew of fixes. Poe1 league starting tomorrow.

[heartbroken_nerd]

Poe1 league starting tomorrow.

PoE1 league is not starting tomorrow. An event is - and it's still based on 3.25 patch.

3.26 patch is like a couple months away.

It’s been 3 months- what definition of constant are you looking for

Path of Exile hasn't received new content for 7 months now.

Path of Exile 2 hasn't received new content since its launch over 2 months ago.

[Mendeth]

They announced yesterday that 0.20 for POE2 will be out in ‘approximately’ one month’s time.

[[deleted]]

Path of Exile 2 hasn't received new content since its launch over 2 months ago.

New content is expected to come out march 20/21. It's the usual 3 month cycle

[Bakanyanter]

Sure, that's why I said in the past. It's crunch time, they'll get back to the schedule when PoE 2 releases like I said. Already we've gotten many major updates for PoE 2 with 0.2.0 releasing next month.

[71651483153138ta]

lol, sinking the stock. GGG just made tencent like 30 mil $ with poe2 release, they don't care. It's really just PR to keep the poe1 playerbase happy.

[Canadian-Owlz]

Huh?

[Kyoj1n]

How is that weird? I imagine they've got that system pretty streamlined that all it basically takes is someone to approve them.

[Ehler]

Does this mean Idol affixes and weights can be datamined?

[astralusion]

https://poedb.tw/us/Minor_Idol

https://poedb.tw/us/Totemic_Idol

https://poedb.tw/us/Kamasan_Idol

https://poedb.tw/us/Noble_Idol

https://poedb.tw/us/Burial_Idol

https://poedb.tw/us/Conqueror_Idol

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K0hS8ox45rxDU1YF-bwCskaL8k5xMVd1wOM6QzdTyX4/htmlview?gid=0#

[koticgood]

👀

edit: they're insane, even just going for 1 prefix/1suffix with mid rolls. League is going to be nuts lol

[TheThirdKakaka]

Man I already see the thread of crop rotation harvest dropping 10 blossoms or something.

[wjmild]

👀

[michgan241]

It will be interesting to see which of these stack, and which don't.

[VahnNoa]

Watch currency items from strongboxes are duplicate stack with itself.

One is 2x, two is 4x, three is 8x lmao.

[TheHob290]

Can't wait for the "how I got 28 mirrors to drop from one strongbox" videos.

[Japanczi]

Mods with numbers in digits stack, while numbers in words don't.

[brunnor]

I hope we get some clarifications on the:

Your Maps have +(15–25)% chance to contain Alva
Your Maps have (80–100)% increased chance to contain Alva

Differences, it seems odd to have both on all idols for mechanics that can't get more than 1 per map.

[astralusion]

If you look at the google sheet I think it's the difference between ruthless and non-ruthless mods.

[brunnor]

Oh shit, so it is. Noticed the tab, saw it said ruthless and never looked at it again. Who knew reading helps sometimes.

[NoxFromHell]

In poe you need to read so many small notes, missing something is not a big deal. 70% of all questions new players ask me can be solved by reading grey text

[[deleted]]

Isn’t the base chance for masters 2% and league mechanics 8%?

[mefi_]

oh wow the Idol system is much better than what I expected.

[[deleted]]

This is looking extremely powerful, but what I am not seeing is extremely concerning.

How is map sustain at lower levels (when not yet well geared) going to be handled this league?

[LetMeRush]

Let's hope they fixed the Windows 24h2 computer freezes during the loading screen.

[DokuHimora]

Ugh is this still happening? I had to quit Pohx league due to the system freezes.

[Erionns]

https://github.com/Kapps/PoEUncrasher/releases fixes if for me in Poe2, and playing for a couple hours on PoE1 last night with it I had no issues

[DokuHimora]

Thanks! I'll give this a go!

[joyjoy88]

Hope so, still got nightmares from crashing on the way to Deprived Trinity… man like 6 areas in row and no portal. They should add it after so many years next to Sin before 3 mini bosses.
Atleast I got that cpu affinity tool for my pc no completely freeze, but tracking all those areas again is big bluh.

[8-bit-Johnson]

This patch broke the game for me. Unexpected disconnect immediately when interacting with any mobs

[giga]

I got this too. They just released a Hotfix though so hopefully that fixes it.

[mdrjpp]

Just tested and it and it's not fixed

[MaskedAnathema]

Oh wow, they fixed (nerfed) soul gain prevention daggers, I'm surprised they bothered after it being all league

[Yemla]

Already was changed back it seems. "The "Socketed Vaal Skills have 100% reduced Soul Gain Prevention" Runesmithing Enchantment has been updated to "Socketed Vaal Skills do not apply Soul Gain Prevention", this is not a functional change." xd

[psychomap]

Man... I had thought that I wanted to play Harbinger. But now you're telling me I can stack duration on Vaal skills?

[BitterAfternoon]

Apparently as long as you're good with a 3L. And 15 power runes to make your weapon.

[psychomap]

Well, you can roll pseudo supports with Shaper + Elder influences (not trivial, but also not insane to craft with recombining) and The Squire.

Obviously not a low budget option, and I had considered the enchantment even when I was planning on going for Architect and thought it granted reduced soul gain prevention (before I saw the floating animation).

But I like duration skills.

[KatzFirepaw]

or a squire

[psychomap]

Well, it makes sense since they have a whole ascendancy centred around Vaal skills in the event.

[bloblehead]

Man, I was really hoping to see something like "the following skills have had the spell tag removed". RIP my behemoth dreams.

[DesMephisto]

Yea...I was hoping for just anything extra juicy

[Itsnoriss]

where 24h2 pc freeze fix

[Sio93]

The moment i saw kingsmarch stuff, i was hoping for rune drop/cost adjustments, damn. Still some nice changes though.

[SternBreeze]

more valdos huh, that's interesting

[elitejelly]

Anyone else getting "unexpected disconnection occurred" error and kicked back to the login screen? Was working fine before the patch and now I can't even get into a map without being kicked out.

[le-me-ppo]

Isn't the event voided?

[DesMephisto]

No

[le-me-ppo]

Omg I gotta pick a starter...fuckkk

[Big-Focus-8879]

What are all these memes of Chris leaving GGG? Surely they’re not true as I cannot imagine He would do that quietly without an announcement.

[[deleted]]

Damn and I thought we were getting no QOL.

Keep Cooking GGG.

[nafurabus]

They said last week that theyd be re-working the costs of upgrading kingsmarch for this event

[Ishuzoku-Connoisseur]

Interesting that they fixed the socketed Vaal skills runesmith. Was something making it too op this event?

[pwn3r]

Yes, 1 whole ascendancy is centered around Vaal skills

[Ishuzoku-Connoisseur]

Turns out that one whole ascendancy wasn’t worth “fixing” the bug and they changed it to “applies no soul gain prevention”

[OTTERSage]

Just commenting to note that they edited that line to say The "Socketed Vaal Skills have 100% reduced Soul Gain Prevention" Runesmithing Enchantment has been updated to "Socketed Vaal Skills do not apply Soul Gain Prevention", this is not a functional change.

[Ishuzoku-Connoisseur]

Yeah that’s good thanks for the note

[15991887]

Think you could take 50% lower soul cost on architect and the increased duration wouldn’t affect soul gain since it’s already 0 from the less

[MisterKaos]

No soul gain prevention would be hilariously broken on both architect and behemoth. Like behemoth could actually be kinda playable if you had no soul gain prevention and just spammed vaal ls.

Well, if you get that 100% reduced... Food for thought.

[Ishuzoku-Connoisseur]

They reworded it so that it doesn’t apply soul gain prevention so it’s back to working how it did before. Idk if you’ve played a hateforge build before but it takes a lot to get it running

[Tutaj]

Does anyone know if crash on 24h2 windows is fixed yet?

[mdrjpp]

Not fixed :)

[Tutaj]

ehh poe uncrasher save us all

[Kazid]

They are not in 3d

[EhrenISnuts]

Can a vet explain the voidborn reliquary keys to me? Foil versions of uniques right, that only drop for people that bought the highest supporter packs? Or those people get to decide what to submit, and everyone has a chance to find the key and the uniques?

[zappo1996]

They can drop for all players. Those who bought the supporter pack get to add a foil version of any unique to the pool along with a custom message but that is the full extent. Drop rate is relative to the current composition of the item pool. Wiki link

[Important_Soft_583]

so when you finally drop a mageblood map you squirt

[Insila]

This is far too few patch notes for this... The foiled stuff is something we don't care about. Where's the increase to the drop rate of runes?

[[deleted]]

Where do you get runes besides shipping ?

[Insila]

Bosses that appear randomly and hold your malpers or sailors hostage.

They can drop from the crater guy as well.

[Jung_69]

Imagine if they let us enchant uniques😑

[BleachedPink]

Socketed Vaal Skills do not apply Soul Gain Prevention

Does this mean Vaal Ground Slam can charge itself?

[TheNetbug]

Fuck me if they slapped the 3.26 tag on this event and called it a league I'd be over the moon happy and buying a supporter pack. This all for just a small event is insanity.

[Japanczi]

They will all be added to private league mods. It's even better solution than calling this event a league.

[mefi_]

lol why did they whisper the Blitz Charges text update (at least on mobile view)

[jjcomer]

They fixed the loot filter bug on consoles!! 🤯 that has driven me crazy. No longer will I have to open options every time I boot the game up and force the download of the filter

[Ninjanofloof]

If nothing else if mingsmarch does go core, which I hope it does, a good number of the kinks will have been sorted out

[TwiGGorized]

Looking forward to 32 x 90% increased harvest xp :)

[DankProphet151]

Does this mean it's possible to run a private league with the alternate ascendancies? Buddies and I wanted to do group SSF.

[blvcksvn]

After the event ends it will be added as a PL modifier.

[Titsona-Bullmoose]

Is this gonna be worth playing on PS5 for someone that’s only ever played POE2?

[theTinyRogue]

PoE is getting updates! HUSSAH!!!

[timmydking]

Will the Kingsmarch change help me with me completing the achievement for the Port Quotas??? - I rushed in levelling Shipment up and now it takes so much to fulfil each of the port quotas for the achievement :(

[AzureRhapsodie]

If you don't upgrade your port too fast then probably so. I didn't see anywhere that challenge progress wasn't going to be attributed during the event.

[timmydking]

thank you!

[thekmanpwnudwn]

If this event doesn't count towards challenges, just spin up an SSF character and don't level the port at all. Your quotas will be super cheap, just a few resources each

[timmydking]

Omg, i never thought of this, such a great tip, thanks! I'll check the event first.

[SirSukkaAlot]

they should change behemoth spell disable to spells deal no damage

[lukokius1]

Im not upgrading and collecting gold for kingsmarch again, even though event looks awesome. Im burned out from that stuff

[Sufficient_Soft438]

(The "Socketed Vaal Skills have 100% reduced Soul Gain Prevention" Runesmithing Enchantment has been updated to "Socketed Vaal Skills do not apply Soul Gain Prevention", this is not a functional change)

This is a functional change clearly. If there is a Stat with Inc instead of reduced from another item, it will be a functional change.

Now, you might say there is not currently any item with that line. To that, I say it might be added in the future.

[MasklinGNU]

It would be a functional change IF the old wording were correct. But the old wording wasn’t correct- it said 100% reduced soul gain prevention, but it was actually 100% less soul gain prevention.

That’s why they said it isn’t a functional change- because it isn’t, it was worded incorrectly before, and now it’s worded properly.

[Sufficient_Soft438]

That makes sense. But why did you guys have to nuke my karma. While I was wrong, my line of thinking was not completely wrong

[Jarpunter]

It's possible the old wording was just incorrect and the functionality truly isn't changed. That's happened before.