Path Of Exile 3.26 Endgame New Content And Changes: How To Farm Loot In This Expansion?

As the official launch date approaches and the June 5th press conference is over, more information about Path of Exile 3.26 leagues has been revealed to you, and the most important and eye-catching ones are undoubtedly those related to the endgame.

Perhaps because the arrival of 3.26 patch Secrets of the Atlas was more than half a year later than the expected normal time. In order to compensate players, this patch brought rich, interesting and challenging updates.

Among them, the changes related to the endgame cover all aspects, but the most important ones are those related to the battles and quests you get loot. Based on this, we will introduce you to the relevant content.

Mercenaries Of Trarthus Challenge League

In order to make the game more hardcore, among the new mechanisms added to Path of Exile 3.26, the first one worth mentioning is the new mercenary challenge. These mercenaries are veterans from Trarthus, and each of them has a full set of gear and skills for you to learn.

If you want to get more POE currency in the future battles with their help, you need to duel with them and win; or if you think that one person is enough, you can also take one item from their inventory and leave after winning the duel.

It is worth noting that if you particularly hate some mercenaries, you can also temporarily prevent them from appearing in 3.26 mercenary pool again by winning the exile battle.

However, once you add a mercenary to your team, it will actually increase the difficulty of the battles you will face later and the richness of the rewards. In addition, if you want to hire them, in addition to winning the duel, you also need to consume gold.

Fortunately, 3.26 league has added the relevant gameplay of the previous league to the main game, so the content and resources including gold for hiring will be automatically provided to you after you enter Secrets of the Atlas endgame.

Features Inherited From 3.25

In 3.25 league, the core gameplay is to help Kalguuran pioneers build the town of Kingsmarch and establish trade between Wraeclast and their homeland. To do this, you need to defeat those destructive enemies while engaging in fun gameplay such as trade and mining.

Although the main gameplay of the game will change after the expansion update, several important features in the Settlers Challenge League have been retained. In addition to the gold just mentioned, there are also currency exchange tools for trading crafting materials, and a black market that allows you to gamble on items.

Even more conveniently, these three features will also be available in other towns after 3.26 league is launched, and you will be able to continue to utilize the transportation mechanism in the game to conduct many gear, currency and other transactions. Of course, if you want to utilize all these features, you must complete the campaign and unlock the corresponding progress points.

But unlike 3.25, 3.26 expansion will allow you to obtain the newly introduced passive skill Tattoos by completing Trial of the Ancestors at Karui ports, or exchange with Kalguur to obtain new tools Runegrafts that are similar to Tattoos.

Runegrafts are mainly utilized to replace mastery nodes on the passive skill tree, and their specific functions include simply changing the type of bonus items and providing Runegraft of Time bonuses. Tattoos have a chance to refresh the cooldown of skills immediately.

New Maps Brought By New Plots

As you know, mapping is one of the most important contents of the endgame of POE series of games, which can provide you with a lot of loot in the difficult endgame stage.

As the official name of 3.26 represents, after this plot update, many rifts caused by the twisted Threads of Consciousness appeared in Atlas, and master cartographer Zana was trapped in it. You need to cooperate with the new character Eagon to enter it and find her.

These rifts are actually a series of maps, and the specific map presentation depends on how your Atlas tree, scarabs, fragments, etc. are combined. Once you enter the map, you will find that the enemies in it are surrounded by a special effect called memory petals, which can be absorbed by defeating the enemies.

Once you have absorbed them, you will find that the relevant new skills will appear in the mini bar next to your common skills, and the skills provided by different map monsters are also different.

These skills are not only powerful, but also stack as your mapping progresses. If you defeat the boss of the current map, you will also encounter a special altar that will apply a modifier to the remaining maps - the more bosses you defeat, the more these modifier stacks.

New Pinnacle Fights

When you follow Threads of Consciousness to the final map, you will face dangerous bosses. After defeating all of these bosses, you will get special map fragments to further unlock new pinnacle boss fights.

Although the pinnacle bosses may not be as difficult as Uber bosses, the rewards they provide cannot be underestimated. Whether it’s Starcaller axe or Wine of the Prophet flask, they can provide reliable assistance for your 3.26 endgame battle.

In fact, in addition to these major endgame content updates, the new league also brings a lot of effective optimizations to enhance your Path of Exile experience. Let’s look forward to it together!