Player vs. Player Arenas:
- We've added support for PvP arenas.
- Initially there are both 1 vs. 1 and 3 vs. 3 matches available.
- You can either play Level 28 Capped PvP in Normal difficulty or Open PvP in Merciless difficulty (with resistance penalties).
- Level 28 Capped PvP requires that you haven't entered Cruel difficulty and are not higher than level 28.
- To enter PvP, talk to Greust and click "Join PvP". If you're in a party, then your whole party will be placed in a queue. If any member of your party cancels then the whole party is removed from the queue.
- Once there are enough players to form teams of the right sizes, you'll be transported to a random arena. 3v3 arenas are generally larger.
- During the match, up to nine rounds are played. The first team to win five rounds will be declared the match winner.
- In 1v1 matches, a round is declared a draw after 90 seconds.
- In 3v3 matches, the time limit is 120 seconds, but draws are only awarded if the teams have equal numbers of players alive.
- Because of the best-of-nine effect, every two draws will reduce the number of wins a team needs by one.
- Teams are coloured Red and Blue and are given a coloured aura effect.
- There are dead monster corpses in the arenas that can be raised as minions.
- Traps, mines, totems, auras, buffs and minions are destroyed between rounds.
- Like any other spell, casting your auras is part of the PvP fight and can't be done beforehand.
- Flasks are replenished by a few charges between PvP rounds. It's important to manage flasks properly - if you use them all too fast then you'll be at a big disadvantage in later rounds.
- Hardcore deaths in PvP arenas are currently not permanent. We'll be adding permadeath hardcore PvP options soon.
- Different login gateways have different PvP queues, for latency reasons. For example, if you're on the American gateway and want to play PvP with your - European friends, you'll have to change over to the other gateway and join the queue there. This will of course be at a higher latency as you'll be playing on European servers.
- If you're dead in a 3v3 match, your view will spectate another team member.

IncGamers: Looking ahead to after the open beta phase you’ll obviously be wanting to keep players engaged with PoE, so what are your plans post release? Can players expect new content periodically? What are your plans?

Chris Wilson: We’re planning three different cycles of patches. Large-scale expansions will be deployed (for free) every year or so, adding large amounts of game content, such as new acts. Content patches will arrive every month or two, adding additional item variety, mods, monster behaviour, and so on. Finally, small micropatches will be deployed several times a week like we currently do, to address problems as they arise and solve balance issues in an incremental manner. It’s very possible that these small patches will continue to introduce new game features.

Luckily modern games are not just about the grind: some games are mainly about character building and theorycrafting (Path of Exile! Play now!) and others are about immersion and story (Skyrim, GW2) or pvp competition (LoL). Still others just ignore all of the above and therefore fall on their face (D3).

Swoja droga kolejny element 'best in genre' w PoE... art i jakosc 2d artworkow itemow.

Też mam jeden jak coś.