Poe 3.13 was originally scheduled to be released in December 2020, but the release time was delayed due to Cyberpunk 2077. Today Poe 3.13 extension is finally released, and now players can enter this new extension.

Before the release of this extension, Grinding Gear Games had already introduced this extension through live broadcast:

After Path of Exile players reaches the current version of the game’s endgame, some of the new Echoes of the Atlas systems will kick in. A mysterious entity known as The Maven demands to watch players battle bosses in various arenas, making the fights more difficult with her presence.

Maven sounds like a particularly tricky new task as she’ll require you to defeat several other bosses before hiking off to her realm to fight them again—simultaneously this time. After that, she’ll finally deign to fight you herself.

There’s also the new Ritual challenge league, which plops ritual altars around the world. You’ll have to kill the baddies protecting them and then activate the altars for an additional challenge: killing even more monsters that show up to attack it to earn rewards from the altar.

Depending on the Ritual, players will earn a new Poe currency called Tribute. Players can spend Tribute to buy new items from the defeated Ritual. Players lose their Tribute when they leave an area, so it’s impossible to amass it. If players find a desirable item they can’t afford, they can make a partial payment to defer the item. This ensures the desired item will reappear, cheaper, in a later Ritual.

After we enter this new league, we need to create an initial build of our own. A good character will certainly help us gain greater enjoyment in the game.