Path of Exile Legacy of Phrecia Event F.A.Q.
Frequently Asked Questions
Since they revealed their plans for the Legacy of Phrecia event in Path of Exile 1, they have seen lots of questions from the community regarding the event. they are answering the most common ones below.
When is the event?
Start Date: 12PM February 20th PST (Feb 20, 2025 8:00 PM GMT)
End Date: 1PM March 23rd PDT (Mar 23, 2025 8:00 PM GMT)
How powerful are the Idols? What is the expected amount of juicing compared to the Atlas Tree?
Idols can be found as magic or rare items, and while they are unmodifiable, each modifier typically provides two to three times the power of a corresponding Atlas tree node. However, not all stats reflect this scaling equally. For instance, if you had a 100% chance for Strongboxes to be re-openable, you’d just be opening the same Strongbox repeatedly. As a result, some stats are more conservative, while others offer significant boosts, like allowing more Ritual rerolls or even making rerolls free. It’s tough to directly compare the power of this system to the Atlas Tree, but with a fully optimized set of Idols, you could easily experience over three times the variety or power for a specific type of content.
How do the Idols drop and how often are we expected to find an Idol?
Idols are part of the core drop pool and will begin dropping at the Endgame. They fully scale with juicing, and to reduce randomness, there is a guaranteed 50% chance for them to drop from the final Map boss in Maps. The intention is not for you to rely purely on randomness to find them, as they are key to unlocking fun and variety. As you progress deeper into the Endgame and juice your maps
Are the Idols system replacing the Atlas Tree?
This system is only available during this event. It’s an old, discarded idea that we initially didn’t think would be strong enough to replace the Atlas Tree. For this event, however, we wanted to create an “alternate reality Wraeclast” vibe and thought it would be interesting to experience alongside the new Ascendancy class concepts. After the event, we’ll be adding the alternate Ascendancy Classes and the alternate Endgame (Idols) to the Private League options, allowing players to run leagues featuring just one or the other whenever they choose!
The Idol mechanic seems to be one that is lacking Quality of Life features, given the feedback are you considering improving this, or would you consider adding it during the event?
Yes. The original intention was to be able to deliver an event quickly to give something new and fresh to play to help fill the time until we can deliver an expansion. Given the popularity and feedback for this event we’ve decided to develop these ideas further so we are currently (literally at the time of writing this) now implementing a loadout like system for the Idols, hopefully this will be ready in time but if not it will be shortly into the event starting.
Is there a meta-system to the Idol mechanic?
Yes, initially there are locked slots (similar to Relics from Sanctum), you can unlock these slots by completing the same content that unlocks Favoured Map Slots. This will allow you to use the entire inventory and maximize your juice. You initially have access to 20 slots and can eventually unlock 12 to get a total of 32 slots.
Are there any rewards for participation in this event?
Yes! We will release a video for an armour set you will be able to earn by achieving level thresholds in this event. Currently we’re aiming for Level 80 to attain all four pieces of the Armour Set.
Is this content being used as a testing grounds for future expansions or Path of Exile 2?
Not at all, as mentioned this was a throw-away development idea from the past, we have no current plans to use it for anything outside of being a future private league modifier.
There are concerns that one month isn’t long enough, would you consider running this event or some deviation of it again? Or perhaps extending the duration?
We’re completely open to running additional events in the future using these based on your feedback. We are also open to extending the duration to give players more time to experiment and find all the broken builds with the Ascendancy classes and give more opportunity to earn the armour set mentioned above. The intention here was to help fill the time until we can deliver the much desired and deserved expansion so we can extend events and run more to fill that time until 3.26.0 is ready so it depends on that!
Atlas nodes close to the tree origin bias hard toward map sustain. Will there be anything similar in Legacy of Phrecia, such as low ilvl Idols biasing hard toward map sustain?
We’ve just added Implicit modifiers to the Idols that grant x% increased chance to drop Maps. This should mean even if you find an Idol that isn’t ideal for your strategy you can still use it to sustain more Maps.
Will the effect of Atlas Blocker nodes (such as Black Thumb – your maps cannot contain Harvests and cannot drop Harvest scarabs) be available?
These are available in the form of Unique Idols.
Will Legacy of Phrecia be parented to the Settlers league, to Standard, or something else?
Settlers League. When your characters are migrated out of the league their Ascendancy points are respecced and you’ll be assigned one of the core Ascendancy classes.
Given that this is using Settlers League as a base, doing all the town upgrading again is becoming tiring, can there be a way to make this more efficient?
Yes, we will be making early upgrades in particular cheaper in Settlers leagues (including this event and the core league) to streamline this process.
How will the Forbidden Flame and Flesh jewels work with these Ascendancy Classes?
They grant the original Ascendancy nodes for that base class. So if you are a Harbinger you can get Occultist/Elementalist/Necromancer notables through Forbidden Flesh and Flame jewels.
Will the ongoing Necro Settlers event end with the start of the Legacy of Phrecia?
Yes, the Necro Settlers event will end when the Legacy of Phrecia begins.
