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These leagues contain 32 challenges, and for each eight you complete you get a piece of Rigwald's armour set. You also collect pieces of the challenge Hideout Totem.

The eight new skill gems include three bow skills (Shrapnel Shot, Blast Rain, and Siege Ballista), two physical damage spells (Blade Vortex, and Bladefall), and three chaos damage spells (Contagion, Essence Drain, and Wither). You can probably guess what the spells do from their names, but check out the full post for more info on those and the ways the new support gems work POE currency trade .

The update will be available on December 11, and more patch notes are on their way, as well as details of the next major expansion for Path of Exile, due in early next year.

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Hot...well, lukewarm on the heels of Path of Exile's Sacrifice of the Vaal "mini-expansion" back in March , Grinding Gear Games has announced another one. It's named Forsaken Masters, and it's not about your MA in Media Studies but rather a bunch of legendary trainers/quest-givers who, too, have been exiled to PoE's monster-filled rock. The details are here , but basically: seven new skill trainers, the inclusion of hideouts, upgradeable crafting benches, more.

Whenever you're tempted to think that all free-to-play games are wretched abominations, remember the extraordinarily generous Path of Exile. In addition to a fulsome main game, devs Grinding Gear are releasing regular free updates cheap POE currency . First there was Sacrifice of the Vaal; now there's Forsaken Maasters, although sadly I had to add that extra 'a' myself. What's in it? Seven masters, who will do things like train you and give you missions, and—if they trust you enough—take you back to their secret hideout (essentially your own little personalised town). New modding options, items and challenge leagues await in the expansion too. I particularly like this sexy image of some modded gloves: