Archnemesis Recipe Hinting
There has been a little confusion about how to discover Archnemesis Recipes, so we have prepared a news post explaining how the hinting system works.
When designing Archnemesis, we realised there was a spectrum for how we could handle recipe discoverability. On one hand, recipes could be completely secret, not data-mineable, and would require weeks of community collaboration to discover them all. While we felt that this would have a cool sense of discovery, it didn't really fit with the fast pace of Path of Exile's league start, where players want to experience a lot of what a league offers in the first days.
On the other end of the spectrum, we could have zero secrets whatsoever, and just publish a full recipe list in the game client so that you immediately have full information. The problem with this approach is that it completely removes a sense of discovery for players who do actually enjoy expanding their knowledge of recipes as they play....
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