If there is one thing that can be said of Grinding Gear Games, it’s that this team is dedicated to keeping its signature title, Path of Exile, fresh and challenging. In a recent live stream event, GGG announced the Lake of Kalandra expansion along with its new features and challenges. The team released a trailer to showcase some of the new content that players can expect when Lake of Kalandra launches for PC on August 19th (consoles on August 24th).
The expansion will explore a new location that includes the Kalandra challenge league, new content for Atlas endgame, four new gems, 14 new unique items, 100+ buffed existing unique, revamps to Harvest, Beyond, and Archnemesis, balance changes, and much more.
Here’s a feature list from the dev team:
- The Kalandra Challenge League – Travel to the mirrored lake that granted Kalandra her powers of duplication to fight reflections of Wraeclast in order to uncover Kalandra’s mysteries and unlock true power.
- Mirrored Tablet – While journeying through Wraeclast, players will occasionally discover Mirrored Tablets that allow them to place reflections of dangerous encounters in the Mirror and open a portal to the Lake of Kalandra. Within the Lake, players will experience the reflections of Wraeclast, with the encounters increasing in difficulty and rewards the farther away from the entrance they are. As players progress through the league, they’ll unlock special abilities to skip, reroll and exile choices that are offered, letting the player refine Tablets more efficiently. In the endgame, completed Tablets will be able to be itemized to save them for later or trade them away.
- Endgame Improvements – Atlas Memories – Atlas Memories offer a way to explore endgame content and earn very valuable rewards without having to specialize the Atlas Tree for it. In high-level maps, you can find a rare Memory item representing memories from Alva, Niko, Einhar or Kirac. These highly challenging and rewarding Memories can either be applied to your Atlas or traded to other players.
- New Balance Changes – Many changes have been made to Path of Exile’s balance, including an overhaul of the Trickster Ascendancy Class and Minion Itemisation. The Trickster Ascendancy has been reworked, with a focus on establishing thematically-appropriate defenses and ways to manipulate speed.
- New Skill and Support Gems – This expansion introduces three new skill gems and one new support gem. Three of these focus on lightning and shock.
- Revamped Content – rare and magic monsters throughout Path of Exile have been overhauled, difficulty and rewards of Archnemesis mods have been revisited, Beyond has been revamped and large changes have been made to Harvest.
The team also announced ExileCon 2023 for July 2023, taking place in Auckland, New Zealand.
Check out the full live stream on Twitch.
More information can be found by visiting the Path of Exile official site.
