Last month, Grinding Gear Games (GGG) announced the details of the upcoming Path of Exile: Legacy League, but it isn’t just any regular old challenge. While each league offers unique items, challenges, and buffs – this one lets you experience all 17 of them for a time. For players old and new, this event has gamers queuing up to play in the tens of thousands before servers were even up. Take a look at the video below for the Developer Introduction:

What else might Legacy offer aside from “The Ultimate Flashback”, you ask? Good question! As you make your merry way through the game slaughtering mobs, items called Leaguestones will drop! Three of them can be applied at one time, which will evolve the next area you venture into a “supercharged version of all those leagues”. Some of them may even have modifiers, making the gameplay more challenging, rewarding, or even downright ridiculous!

If you’ve ever wanted to fight a triple-Essence Avian Retch holding a Talisman while a Corrupting Tempest is active, now’s your chance.”

There will also be Buffed League Uniques that will show some of those old items some much needed spotlight. Highlighted on the Path of Exile blog are the Redblade Banner (Painted Tower Shield), Broken Faith (Archon Kit Shield), and Brinerot Flag (Tarnished Spirit Shield). Special items can be found throughout the game that will allow players to journey to a Reliquary and within them will contain a glowing chest with a unique Relic – “a special alternate-frame version of an iconic unique item from Path of Exile’s history, restored to its original balance values”. Here’s what else you can expect:

Challenges and Rewards

• 40 new challenges
• Once 12 have been complete, players will receive the Legacy Footprints Effect
• Upon 24 completions, players will receive the Legacy Weapon Effect
• Upon 36 completions, players will receive the Legacy Portal Effect
• These microtransactions are exclusively available in the Legacy league.
• From the 19th challenge onwards and for every third challenge after that, you receive pieces of a Legacy Totem Pole decoration to display in your hideout. The Totem Pole permanently showcases how many of the Legacy challenges you completed during this league.

Solo Self-Found Mode

• Many Path of Exile players enjoy playing with the challenging restriction of not partying or trading with other players. This self-enforced playstyle has become more popular over time, so we’re including an officially supported Solo Self-Found mode in Content Update 2.6.0. This mode is completely optional and you can opt-out at any time, enabling trading and partying on your character. Your progress of how far you got in this mode is recorded on a Solo Self-Found ladder for the league, letting you prove your ability to play without outside assistance. For more information, check out this article.

Balance Changes

• This content update also contains several balance changes, including: improvements to unpopular clusters on the passive tree, more support for cold and elemental builds near the Ranger on the passive tree, mana nodes behind the Mind over Matter keystone, improvements to the claw, staff and sword passive tree clusters, buffs to one-handed weapon base type damage across the board, buffs and modifications to weapon implicit modifiers, reworks for threshold Jewels, changes to how area of effect modifiers are handled, and many more minor changes. For details, please keep an eye out for a manifesto post and then the patch notes. All players will receive a one-off passive tree reset (including Ascendancy points) so that they can adjust their characters to these changes.

Additional New Content

• 10 new Threshold Jewels
• 16 powerful new unique weapons and armor
• New unique Strongbox
• Six new Rogue Exiles

Legacy League Support Packs

• The Classic Pack ($30)
  • 250 points
  • Cloak
  • Weapon Effect
  • Forum Title and Portrait Frame
• The Legacy Pack ($60)
  • Same set of effects as The Classic Pack
  • 550 points
  • Legacy armor set
  • Full character glow effect
  • Baby Devourer pet

Damn, that’s exciting! There’s so much to do, but will there be enough time? Will you be playing Path of Exile today? What are your thoughts on The Legacy League Challenge? Feel free to let us know in the comments section below or begin your own conversation on Don’t Feed the Gamers Disqus channel! To stay up to date on the latest news in the gaming world, follow us on Facebook and Twitter!