In a live broadcast on Twitch today, New Zealand developer Grinding Gear Games announced the next expansion of "Path of Exile", "Echoes of Atlas." The release of POE Currency is quite fast, and it will be launched on the PC on the 15th next week, and the host player will wait until the 20th.

"World Atlas" was introduced as a progress guide for the last expansion. In this new expansion, there are new bosses to fight, new maps to explore, and a new NPC (called The Envoy) to guide you forward. Maven is the focus of the new expansion. She will give you a beacon for you to summon her to watch during battle. After showing her the ability to kill, she will bring you a special challenge: the cloned boss you have fought steadily develops from four bosses to an amazing ten bosses, and finally fights The Maven.

A new Atlas passive skill tree was also announced, which is separate from the extremely complex skill tree of Way of Exile. Passive skills are not directly related to the power of the character, but can help players get more benefits from marginal activities, such as the mechanism of Harvest League. According to GGG's Chris Wilson, this allows players to essentially choose the game they want to play and keep improving.

On par with the Atlas is a new challenge alliance called the Etiquette Alliance. This new alliance is stumbling on altars all over the world. Kill the monsters near the altar and reactivate the altar itself to resurrect the enemy in a more powerful version-and deal with the power of the altar itself in the process.

Buy POE Currency can unlock more powerful rituals and unlock tributes. These points can be used for etiquette rewards, such as Nexus gloves that can reduce mana, but there is a chance to refund the mana you spent on skills.

The live broadcast embedded below will introduce in more detail what players can expect from the Echoes of the Ritual Alliance and Atlas. The latest expansion of Path of Exile will be released next week, landing on PC on January 15th and PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on January 20th.