fallingfruit

It's sad that GGG doesn't currently invest nearly any resources to create mid-league events/races, other than minimal support to the community in the form of mtx prizes here and there. I really wish GGG would hire a few more people to try to bolster race events, they are IMO the most exciting PoE content on twitch. Absolutely loved all the races over the last few weeks and looking forward to the race tomorrow. Sadly GGG has absolutely double triple quadrupled down on "4 seasons predictably per year is the best business decision!!!!!!". Can't we get a little bit on the side too?

There has always been a lot of interest in racing in games on twitch and I honestly don't understand why they aren't trying to do more.

We actually did hire someone to help work on races but because our border is closed we can’t get them into NZ.

It's not final yet but it's likely to be around 15 to 20.

It's not possible to trigger slams... yet. This idea was popular with our team. We don't know if it's feasible (certainly not for 3.11) but we will explore it.

shug_was_taken

Thats awesome. Does GGG have a place I can check out their artists' portfolios?

I don't have a compiled list of all of the artists portfolios but you can find more of Jowie's work here.

Clyp30

cyclone cast on crit earthquake? that doesn't sound balanced

what about cast on crit consecrated path? that would be fun, for about 30 seconds

We're not talking cast on crit - more specifically about the suggestion that a slam triggers with Leap Slam's use.

shug_was_taken

Is she full time GGG staff? I've got to say all these rewards look amazing and I'm considering doing 36 for the first time.

Yep.

ALittleInappropriate

The team members who designed that portal deserve some serious kudos, its very appealing.

The artist who made the concept for it also did many of the concepts for the Glimmerwood microtransactions as well as many of our most popular microtransaction designs. Shout out to Jowie! Her work is consistently great.
Edit: I just found out these concepts were shared between Jowie and another one of our artists, Paul Shut!

ripskins123

bex what build are you playing?

I’m feeling pretty compelled to try Earthquake with Fist of War and Brain Rattler. I don’t know how good it will be but the small amount of play testing I’ve done with Earthquake and Fist of War has been really satisfying.

azantyri

So does you posting this today mean there's something else on Monday/Sunday?

Yep, we post news five days a week! We haven't missed a day in the better part of a decade so we won't start now :P

EarthBounder

Didn't that happen literally once (Rigwalds)? Is this a meme?

We did this several times but Talisman was the last league where this happened. We changed it because say you only complete half of your challenges, you'd only end up with boots and gloves which is pretty dissatisfying. Now we only use 'whole' microtransactions as rewards so that there is something usable for each stage of challenge completion.

Paciula

Bex, when we will finally get the rewards for 40 challanges? Unique armour set or something like that? 40 challanges is really hard to finish. We need some motivation.

This one is tricky because we want to leave room for people to choose not to do some challenges if they don't want to. If we add a reward then people feel like they 'have' to do them all.

Rejolt

That doesn't fit his narrative of always complaining about free rewards tho...

One of the tricky things about challenge rewards is that tastes aren't universal so we do always aim for something that we hope the greatest number of people will enjoy. It's understandable that some people have negative feedback, it's the nature of things. We don't mind that too much. What I do mind is the amount of times people say "GGG suck because they did this and I'm mad about it!" when that thing didn't happen. Constructive feedback about real events whether people enjoyed them or not is always welcome.

Felepole

Is this the major news of the day or is there something else?

Very tired european asking

This is the main post but there are teasers coming. Go to sleep, though!

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This is the second time in three years that footprints have been a challenge reward. It's definitely not 'always'.

Chewu

I have some bad news for you.

Oh no! Hopefully my good news can make up for it.

Samwise210

Bex I'm afraid. Can you confirm PH is dead?

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squidyj

I'm slightly confused about the wording and the emphasis on using other skills to proc Earthshatter spikes. If I attack with Earthshatter and then attack with Earthshatter again do the spikes from my first attack pop?

Earthquake's fissures can't trigger the spike explosion, but explosions from other Earthshatter spikes can.