Path of Exile
Steam News 17 March 20262mo ago

3.28.0c Patch Note Preview

Later today we plan to release 3.28.0c which contains a number of Improvements and Changes for Path of Exile: Mirage, including new Wish options, Atlas UI/UX improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes. Check them ou…

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addedLater today we plan to release 3.28.0c which contains a number of Improvements and Changes for Path of Exile: Mirage, including new Wish options, Atlas UI/UX improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes. Check them out!
fixedThe Mirage Challenge LeagueFixed a bug where Mirages were unable to extend into the Moon Temple boss arena.
changedThe Mirage Challenge LeagueThe Wish for Rust and Wish for Terror now cause the enemies they spawn to spawn when breaking the Astral Chain instead of spawning alongside Final Map Bosses in the Mirage Area. This also now allows these Wishes to appear at any Mirage of sufficient area level, instead of just Mirages within range of a Map Boss.
fixedThe Mirage Challenge LeagueFixed a bug where Wish for Rust was twice as common in Ruthless.
removedThe Mirage Challenge LeagueThe granted skill to return to the portal in a Mirage is no longer considered a Spell.
addedThe Mirage Challenge LeagueEmpowered Mirage Map items now have special art.

Later today we plan to release 3.28.0c which contains a number of Improvements and Changes for Path of Exile: Mirage, including new Wish options, Atlas UI/UX improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes. Check them out!

The following patch notes are still subject to change prior to the patch's deployment.

The Mirage Challenge League

  • Fixed a bug where Mirages were unable to extend into the Moon Temple boss arena.

  • The Wish for Rust and Wish for Terror now cause the enemies they spawn to spawn when breaking the Astral Chain instead of spawning alongside Final Map Bosses in the Mirage Area. This also now allows these Wishes to appear at any Mirage of sufficient area level, instead of just Mirages within range of a Map Boss.

  • Fixed a bug where Wish for Rust was twice as common in Ruthless.

  • The granted skill to return to the portal in a Mirage is no longer considered a Spell.

  • Empowered Mirage Map items now have special art.

  • Fixed a bug where the mortar projectile spell used by the Astral Instrument monster did no damage.

  • Added the Wish for Flame which grants a Coin of Power on breaking the Astral Chain.

  • Added the Wish for Tides which grants a Coin of Knowledge on breaking the Astral Chain.

  • Added the Wish for Sands which grants a Coin of Skill on breaking the Astral Chain.

General Improvements and Changes

  • Shortened the display text for subsequent notifications of Faustus having sold your items. Toast notifications are no longer displayed over the top of the inventory panel.

  • Shrines which attach ongoing secondary effects to the player, such as Shocking Shrine, now have a limit on how many of these effects they can continue to attach through getting many copies of these shrines active at once.

  • All Lost Shipment chests except for the central one are now destructible with damage.

  • The central chest in Lost Shipments also has a more distinctive label now.

  • At the Map Device, hovering a Map or Fragment in your inventory will now highlight the Map Device slots the item can go in.

  • At the Map Device, while in the controller mode players can now select Unique Maps or Boss Fragments from their inventory to navigate to those locations on the Atlas and insert the item into the Map Device.

  • The Map Stash now has 6 subtabs available for each of the Conqueror and Elder Guardian map types.

  • Added a new Harvest Crafting Option to change a stack of League-Specific Astrolabes into a different type of League-Specific Astrolabe.

  • Ailith can now be interacted with from farther away in the Monastery of the Keepers.

  • Hovering a Volatile Vaal Orb over an item now shows the modified range of individual stat values.

  • Vagan's crafting bench to complete Incubators now has a more descriptive label for what interacting with the crafting bench will do.

  • Holy Flame Totems now have an enemy targeting range that matches Spell Totems (for real this time).

  • Added the "Currency" stash tab affinity to the following items: Refracting Fog, Volatile Vaal Orb, Crystallised Rancour, Coin of Restoration, Coin of Desecration, Coin of Knowledge, Coin of Power, Coin of Skill.

  • Added the "Essence" stash tab affinity to the Essence of Desolation.

  • Unstable Breaches that have extra time before collapse (due to the Clawed Open Atlas Notable) will now display a second progress bar when using that extra time.

  • Visually adjusted the fog of war on the Atlas such that it is easier to tell what is explored and what is not yet explored.

  • Re-enabled Magus Tome Hip

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Steam News / 17 March 2026

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