Mirror of Kalandra, a Path of Exile item so elusive you would be forgiven if you didn’t know it even existed, has long been a bit of a mystery. And now that the Lake of Kalandra expansion for Grinding Gear Games’ action-RPG is live, we can finally learn more about Kalandra while enjoying some fresh challenges, skills, items, and balance adjustments.
Path of Exile: Lake of Kalandra
You may recognise Kalandra from the infamous Mirror of Kalandra, Path of Exile’s most valuable item. The Lake of Kalandra expansion explores the identity of this iconic character and allows you a taste of her power.
Our August expansion contains the Kalandra challenge league, improvements to the Atlas endgame, four new gems, 14 new unique items, 100+ buffed existing uniques, revamps to Harvest, Beyond and Archnemesis, a variety of balance changes and much more!
Reflections of Wraeclast
In the Kalandra Challenge League, you’ll travel to the mirrored lake that granted Kalandra her powers of duplication. The lake manifests reflections of Wraeclast itself, which emerge from its misty surface as you approach. Fight through these dangerous encounters to uncover Kalandra’s mysteries and earn true power.
Influence the Lake
As you travel throughout Wraeclast, you’ll occasionally discover a Mirrored Tablet. Build up this Tablet by placing reflections of dangerous encounters at specific locations. Be careful though, some of these reflections contain immense challenges.
Once you have assigned a reflection to every empty location on your Tablet, you may open a portal to the Lake of Kalandra, which will manifest your creation for you to experience.
Control Your Destiny
The farther away from the Lake’s entrance an encounter is, the greater its difficulty and rewards are. You’ll occasionally be offered choices to customise your Mirrored Tablet by swapping the layout around, perfecting your set of encounters and their rewards.
As you progress through the league, you’ll unlock special abilities to skip, reroll and exile choices you are offered, letting you refine your Tablets more efficiently. In the endgame, you’ll also be able to itemise your completed Tablets to save them for later or trade them away.
Reflect Rare Jewellery
Alongside rewards from each encounter, the Lake can manifest new ways to create rare items. The Reflecting Mist will create a pair of rings or amulets, exact reflections of one other. On one item, half the properties are magnified in intensity, with the other half negated to hinder you. The other item has the opposite set of mods negated. You may only pick one of these reflections to take with you.
In the league’s late endgame, you may bring your own rings and amulets to the Mist. It will magnify, distort and reflect them in a similar way, providing access to previously-unattainable power on rare items.
Experience Atlas Memories
Atlas Memories offer a way to explore endgame content and earn very valuable rewards without having to specialise your Atlas Tree for it. In high-level maps, you’ll very rarely find a Memory item, which represents a set of memories that Alva, Niko, Einhar or Kirac has. They will provide a sequence of maps for you to explore as you relive the events of their past. These highly challenging and rewarding Memories can either be applied to your Atlas or traded to other players.
Harness New Gems
This expansion introduces three new skill gems and one new support gem. Three of these are themed around lightning damage and shock.
Equip Exceptional Power
In this expansion, we’ve added 14 new unique items including a league-exclusive ring, a new pinnacle boss reward, a supporter unique, six new Grand Spectrum jewels and even some levelling uniques. We’ve also improved over 100 unique items, including both levelling uniques and endgame ones. Finding a unique item is now more likely to be an exciting moment, especially during the campaign.
We’re introducing another unique map, The Tower of Ordeals. In this map, you may challenge the Trialmaster and potentially earn unique items from the Ultimatum league. You can create this map by completing endgame Vaal content.
Explore Modernised Leagues
We’ve overhauled rare and magic monsters throughout Path of Exile, revisited the difficulty and rewards of Archnemesis mods, revamped Beyond and have made large changes to Harvest.
Past league content now spawns a more consistent and less overwhelming quantity of rare monsters. Defeating monsters with multiple Archnemesis mods is now far more rewarding. Powerful monster mods now convert your item drops in a way that stacks with rewards from other mods and player item rarity or quantity bonuses. The Beyond league has been updated with the monsters and bosses from Scourge, and has been given a balance revamp. Harvest crafting has been overhauled to use a tradeable currency, and can now be done in your own time, at the horticrafting station in your hideout.
Master New Balance Changes
We’ve made many changes to Path of Exile’s balance, including an overhaul of the Trickster Ascendancy Class and Minion Itemisation. We’ve reworked the Trickster Ascendancy, with a focus on establishing thematically-appropriate defences and ways to manipulate speed. Check out its new Ascendancy skills in the screenshots on this panel.
With plenty of new itemisation opportunities, minion builds are now as rewarded for finding good items as other archetypes are. There are several new minion-focused base types that players can find and craft to improve the damage and survivability of their minions. Check out the patch notes for more information about these and other changes.
Join Us at ExileCon 2023
In 2019, we hosted our first ever convention, ExileCon, to announce Path of Exile 2 and Path of Exile Mobile. Since then, we have been hard at work on both games. Now that we are getting close to release, we will finally be ready to announce the date the closed beta starts at ExileCon 2023. Tickets will go on sale in late August.
We’re holding ExileCon 2023 in Auckland, New Zealand, on the weekend of July 29-30, 2023. We’ll also be announcing everything there is to know about new game systems, character classes, items, and so on. Attendees will be able to play Path of Exile 2 and Path of Exile Mobile, see all the presentations live, meet our development team, hang out with their favourite streamers and much more. Keep an eye on the news for more information.
New Kirac’s Vault Pass
Kirac’s Vault returns for the Kalandra League with a brand new set of exclusive unique item skins. Purchasing access to Kirac’s Vault allows you to claim these exclusive rewards as you complete map objectives in the Kalandra League. These exclusive skins apply to popular unique items that can be found in Path of Exile’s endgame and each has a special cosmetic gameplay effect.
You can purchase the pass at any point in your progression, retroactively unlocking any skins you have earned. This also applies to the Sentinel Pass, which is still for sale in the store right now! For more information, visit pathofexile.com/vault
Show Your Support
We’re launching two new sets of Supporter Packs to celebrate the release of Lake of Kalandra: the Knight and Rogue packs. There are three price points available for each and they feature masses of points and several exclusive microtransactions that visually interact with gameplay in new ways.
Path of Exile: Lake of Kalandra will launch on August 19th (PDT) for PC and Mac, and on August 24th for Xbox and PlayStation.
