No date has been announced yet, but Path of Exile's community director confirmed that it's "definitely not happening this year" in a forum announcement POE currency trade .

"We have been focusing on keeping our leagues coming out as close to on time as possible, and this does mean some delays for the sequel. We are looking forward to our next announcement about its upcoming content, and we'll keep piling on any technology improvements we can make into the existing Path of Exile client."

Harvest, Path of Exile's latest expansion, arrived on June 19 after a short delay, and there are two more planned for this year. The delay, however, has thrown a spanner in the works, necessitating some schedule changes to make sure the final expansion in December isn't too close to the holidays, when staff will be taking time off.

The next league, then, will launch 12 weeks after Harvest, in September, and the team started work on it a month early. That should also mean that the December expansion will launch earlier. The dates could change, but both are expected out in the middle of their respective months.

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The latest of Path of Exile's free league updates is called Blight, and it adds tower defense to the action-RPG—a bit like the minigame in The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing. Tendrils of the fungal Blight lay down paths for enemies to follow, and you'll have to plant towers that fire off elemental effects to exploit their weaknesses. Of course while that's happening you still click on everything until it dies as per usual for the genre cheap POE currency .

There's new loot as well, including oils that can be combined by the NPC responsible for those towers, Sister Cassia, and applied to items. There's also an extra skill bar now, as well as various class tweaks and other changes.