# Version 3.16.0 <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ij0nzEu5tP4" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>   Please note that these may be changed prior to their deployment. ## Timeline  - Oct 14 - Announcement - Oct 18 - Challenges Rewards - Oct 19 - Expedition league end - Oct 20 - All New and Changed Gems - Oct 21 - Launch Day Information and Possible Torrent Link - Oct 22 - 3.16.0 Expansion launch - Oct 23 - New Mystery Box Revealed - Oct 27 - 3.16.0 Expansion Launch for Console ## Hard Mode - test drop/craft ratios, isolating league mechanics - testing ground for mid-league buff/nerf - PTR for certain features ## Game Balance - make the campaign (Acts Two through Ten) more challenging - nerf Fortify for melee characters - nerf Aurabots - modify Totem mechism due to [[Forbidden Rite]] Totem build ## Ailments make to players' sources of Ailment mitigation (not been locked) - Adding more Ailment mitigation or avoidance to skills. For example, adding appropriate mitigation to Purity of Fire, Purity of Ice and Purity of Lightning Auras with a more notable source on Purity of Elements. - Adding more powerful mitigation for various debuffs and effects to the Pantheon, ideally one for each ailment or immunity. For things like ignite and poison it would be more likely to provide a high reduced effect rather than immunity. - Adding new clusters to the passive skill tree to mitigate poison and bleed. - Adding bleed mitigation to [[Steelskin]] and potentially changing Bone Armour from the Necromancer Ascendancy. - Adding ignite mitigation to [[Molten Shell]]. - Adding additional corrupted implicits on various items with a focus on Jewels that provide ailment mitigation. - Changing Consecrated Ground to provide 50% reduced effect of Curses on those with the buff while moving the Curse Effect mitigation cluster to be more central and accessible. - Adding additional Jewel mods to the regular jewel mod pool that allow for mitigating ailments. Reviewing existing avoidance and mitigation mods to make sure they're in line with the current game. For example, buffing Abyss Jewel ailment avoidance mods from 20% up to around 35%. - Reviewing the crafting options available for mitigating ailments and ensuring there are enough options, particularly at lower levels. - Changing the Shield Ailment Avoidance mod to be available on all shields. - Adding crafting options for: Cannot be Shocked, Cannot be Chilled, Cannot be Ignited, Cannot be Poisoned, Take no extra damage from Bleed while Moving, Cannot be Frozen. ## Flasks - flasks has two mod pools: proactive(Utility) or reactive(Life and Mana) - new flask modifier tier - buff [[Enkindling Orb]] ## Guild - added Guild hideout - new Guild API ## Items - move Delve and the Pale Council recipe unlock to core - reduce Veiled modifiers unlock time ## Aspirational Content - Increasing the drop rate of [[Delirium Orb]]s and making 5x Delirium Orb encounters more rewarding. Make the 4x, 3x, 2x, and 1x Orb encounters more rewarding but to a lesser extent than the 5x Delirium Orb encounter. - Additional 5-10 waves to the end of the [[Simulacrum]]. - Making Delve a lot more rewarding at a much shallower depth so that around depth 1,000-1,500 it becomes much more rewarding but also much more difficult - Improve Delve's catch-up mechanic to Tier 16 maps without Delving - Uber [[Domain of Timeless Conflict]] - Uber Blighted Maps - More than ten waves in an Ultimatum - New tier of [[Breachstone]]s. ## Endgame Content - reduce the Atlas to four regions rather than eight - 100-ish maps to complete rather than 160 ## Splinters - [[Scroll of Wisdom]]s five times less often but drop in average stack sizes of five ## Reference - [Recent Topics from Community Podcasts](https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3174380) - [My Notes from the Ghazzy, Grimro, Tuna and Chris Cast - Catch up over the weekend!](https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/phb0qc/my_notes_from_the_ghazzy_grimro_tuna_and_chris/) - [Ziz & Mathil and Chris Cast](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DXEUrYeMEf-VXLNFZIlLwFCzsv0AjHzLru2shNcpuMs/preview?pru=AAABe7CyJwY*MunSkjpBtfIadwyEZSFJnw) - [Baeclast and Chris](https://pastebin.com/yUE01aTE)