Affliction League Hotfixes 1-8

Since Affliction League launched, Grinding Gear Games released 8 hotfixes, including bug fixes and balance adjustments. We'll go over the patch notes for each, along with some key takeaways.

Key Takeaways

Here are a few key takeaways from Path of Exile Patch 3.23 hotfixes 1 through 8. Hotfix 8 brings balance changes to the Affliction League mechanic and is especially important!

• Several client and instance crashes have been fixed since league launch.
• Poisonous Concoction can correctly hit enemies again.
• Temporarily disabled the ability to sacrifice gems at the Divine Font to gain experience for your character.
• Borealwood Tincture and Blood Sap Tincture can now be obtained.
• Fixed the range of the Sawblade Ethereal Knives MTX to match the range of Ethereal Knives.
• Reduced the damage output of Empowered Monsters.

Hotfixes

Here's a look at the improvements to Path of Exile 3.23 Affliction League. There have been a lot of crashes fixed, and a few mechanical adjustments to the Affliction League mechanic.

Hotfix 1

• Fixed a common client crash.

Hotfix 2

• Fixed a bug where Player Minions could be affected by Wisps dispersed into the environment.
• Fixed a bug where Poisonous Concoction was not hitting enemies.
• Fixed two instance crashes.

Hotfix 3

• Fixed two instance crashes.
• Fixed a client crash.

Hotfix 4

• Temporarily disabled the Labyrinth crafting option that sacrifices a Gem to gain a percentage of the gem's total experience stored as your own experience. It will function differently when we re-enable this at a later date, due to some unfortunate outcomes that could occur currently.

Hotfix 5

• Fixed a bug where the Borealwood Tincture and Blood Sap Tincture were unable to be obtained.
• Fixed a bug where ailment effect icons on monsters were occluded by their modifier text.
• Fixed an instance crash.
• Fixed a client crash.

Hotfix 6

• Fixed the client logs missing "To" and "From" on whisper messages.
• Fixed an instance crash.

Hotfix 7

• Fixed a bug with the Sawblade Ethereal Knives Effect having more range than the base skill. This will still display this way until a later patch, but not do damage at the unintended range.
• Fixed a crash that could occur with the Tumbling Orb Pets.

Hotfix 8

• Significantly reduced the amount of damage dealt by Wisp Empowered monsters.
• Reduced the Attack, Cast, and Movement Speeds of Vivid Wisp Empowered Monsters.
• Decreased the amount of Wisps dropped from Empowered Non-Unique Monsters in the Viridian Wildwood by 30-40% depending on their rarity.

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Written by: Tenkiei

Reviewed by: Dredscythe