Path of Exile 3.24 Necropolis League: Key Changes and New Features

Exiles, there’s a new threat hanging over Wraeclast - evil spirits possessing all manner of creatures. You must become the gravediggers and help the Undertaker Arimor get rid of this menace. Here we’ll be going over  Path of Exile Necropolis League and everything it's going to bring to our game. 

PoE patch 3.24 is bringing some exciting changes, especially in the endgame. There new possessed monsters, new tier 17 maps, lots of QoL improvements and the lagune’s mechanic with the Lantern of Arimor. We’ll talk more about all PoE 3.24 League Mechanics in greater detail, but before we do that, there are some more good news for you!

At the start of the league, it’s always good to have a large amount of Divine Orbs so you can reroll the affixes and their values on crucial items for your builds. Later on, when you get to the Atlas of Worlds, Divine Orbs act more as a currency for trading. The good news is you can buy Divine Orbs boosting service and receive any desired amount without the need to farm them yourself. SkyCoach is the most reliable boosting service provider used by gamers around the world to solve their in-game problems.

 

Necropolis Challenge League Features

In the Necropolis League, you will meet a strange character called Undertaker Arimor, a man who is gathering up all those wandering spirits from the Eternal Empire for some mysterious end goal. These wandering spirits are haunting the monsters across Wraeclast, empowering them with ancient fury and sorrow. 

Everytime you spawn on the map in the Path of Exile 3.24 update, you can use the Lantern to see the list of spirits posessing monsters. This allows you to discern details about the haunted monsters and adjust which affixes affect them. Taking time to make decisions is prudent, as the spirits are unforgiving. Additionally, the Lantern provides insights into the monster packs in the area, distinguishing between common and rare creatures like Rhoas and Water Elementals, respectively.

Strategic use of the Lantern enables you to intelligently adjust the difficulty in the Necropolis league. Spirits manifest in various forms, each representing the danger they pose.

For instance, Servant-Haunted spirits may slightly increase monster damage, while Noble-Haunted spirits significantly amplify it. As you progress to higher-level areas, expect to encounter more and stronger haunted monsters.

This system is made in such a way that if you remember where each pack of monsters spawns, you can essentially surpass the Path of Exile Necropolis Challenges more easily. Understanding the composition of monster packs informs which mods are easier to handle. For example, mods affecting damage per monster killed have no impact on single-monster packs like Devourers. Conversely, avoiding spirits that boost the strongest monster's damage is wise when facing Devourers.

The Lantern also provides valuable information on monster abilities and damage types, aiding you in understanding your adversaries. If a campaign area seems too challenging, just hold on a few moments and look through the Lantern again to observe any changes in the haunting spirits' configuration.

Devoted Monsters

Speaking of new content in Path of Exile Necropolis, not all spirits are malevolent. In some cases, monsters found on the maps are not possessed, but rather Devoted, which is a different type of affliction. These guys offer up sweet rewards like extra experience or the chance to summon the Nameless Seer—a dude who hands out unique items after you clear all the packs of mobs affected by that specific spirit. The more haunted monsters you take down in the previous area before busting out the Lantern, the better your chances of encountering devoted monsters in the next one. BLOG20

On top of that, if you're dealing with monsters haunted by higher-tier spirits, your odds of encountering devoted monsters shoot up even more. This motivates you to potentially increase the difficulty by applying the most challenging modifiers to very common monsters for greater rewards.

Burying Monsters

You can also reap rewards from monsters with Unresolved Anguish. Once slain, their corpses require special attention from Undertaker Arimor, who offers to take them back to his Necropolis and store them in the morgue. 

You can then go to the morgue, review collected monsters and then choose them to be buried in Arimor's cemetery. Through Arimor's mysterious soul experiments, these buried monsters can yield powerful items. For example, burying a Kitava’s Herald may result in the creation of a pair of boots imbued with the healing glow of Lunaris.

One notable aspect is the crafting effects associated with collected corpses, which can be exorcised in the cemetery to create powerful items. Burying multiple corpses adjacent to each other allows their crafting effects to combine, offering versatility in crafting projects. You can strategically select corpses to bias crafting outcomes towards specific modifiers or item types, enhancing customization.

Some monsters will have the so-called meta crafting modifiers which means that they provide upgraded crafting effects when used for creation of items. These modifiers can amplify crafting effects or provide additional crafting outcomes, adding depth to the crafting process. Crafting exclusive unique PoE Necropolis League Rewards is also possible, particularly by burying entire families of famous Eternal Empire lineage.

Moreover, Embers of the Allflame introduces another dynamic element to the league. These things can be unleashed onto the map to completely change pre-determined packs of mobs by replacing them with something else or giving them new qualities. You have to be careful and keep in mind such a quality as pack density before using Embers. Additionally, Embers drop in various forms, including Breach and Legion monsters, Untainted packs, and even simple creatures like Frogs, each offering unique benefits. Check out the list of Embers of the Allflame:

Furthermore, you can raise Ember monsters as specters, adding another layer of gameplay depth. Overall, the Necropolis league presents a rich array of crafting and gameplay possibilities, encouraging strategic decision-making and exploration throughout Wraeclast.

 

League Mechanics in Endgame

In the Endgame Maps of the Necropolis League, you can manipulate each map using the Lantern through the map device UI. Unlike in regular areas where the haunting spirits cycle randomly every few minutes, in endgame maps, the haunting configuration is fixed to that specific map. Once you view the map through the Lantern, they cannot remove it from the map device. This prevents players from trading away Necropolis league challenges and maps they find too challenging or containing undesirable monsters, such as Porcupines.

The league mechanics span across the Atlas Passive Tree as well. You unlock a whole bunch of new passives and customize your maps to your heart's content. One notable addition is Prospero's Wager Keystone, which fundamentally alters crafting mechanics. With this Keystone, all monsters with Unresolved Anguish generate a random craft when buried. This means you must adapt your crafting strategies on the fly to achieve optimal results, as opposed to pre-planning crafts. BLOG20

Endgame Changes in 3.24

 

Atlas Adjustments in Necropolis League is a huge deal for. They introduce new bosses, adding another tier of maps, and streamlining the Atlas. 

Its no secret that the most hardcore experience in the game comes from encountering and defeating two of the most notorious bosses:

• The Maven
• Searing Exarch

For more Atlas updates in Path of Exile, in the past, you could only fight them if you used specific keystones.

The problem arose because the rewards and access to the regular variants were priced too closely to the rewards of the Uber fights, resulting in players finding it unproductive to run the regular variants instead of selling them. Moreover, the notable difficulty spike between the regular Pinnacle and Uber Pinnacle content caused many players to become frustrated and give up on their characters before reaching the Uber Pinnacle bosses.

No longer do Keystones grant access to the Uber Pinnacle bosses from the Atlas tree; instead, a fresh set of fragments now unlocks this content. These fragments are obtained from the new Tier 17 maps, which not only open the doors to the Uber Pinnacle content but also present novel challenges for your characters.

These maps showcase a fresh lineup of bosses, Uber monsters, and an additional tier of modifiers available for map rolling.

There are five new Tier 17 Maps in total, with some surprising boss fights at the end. Three of them have been revealed during the announcement of the league:

1. Citadel Map - travel to Kalguuran citade and fight monsters from the Expedition league. Face the Uber Uhtred as the final boss of the map. This is the Expedition-version of the boss that also has a few aces up his sleeve - he can call reinforcements in the form of other bosses!
2. Fortress Map - in this one, you’ll be fighting the Heist league mobs. In the end, you will encounter an Uber version of The Unbreakable.
3. Sanctuary Map - within its confines lies a sanctuary shrouded in mystery and power.

Each of the Tier 17 Map bosses has a chance to drop a Unique Item, allowing for some target farming. However, these aren't entirely new Unique Items. These are uniques that got removed from the core drop pool and rebalanced to fit here. For Instance:

• Reworked Wraithlord with four Abyss Sockets - allows you to summon an additional Spectre for each Ghastly Eye Jewel socketed into it.
• Manastorm - grants a lot more damage than before, alongside some more impactful mana stats if you can get lucky rolls.
• Ravenous Passion Zealot Helmet - Augments strength and fortification, harnessing the potential of Rage through mana expenditure. Its transformative influence redirects the essence of battle, empowering it with newfound velocity and arcane potency.

Besides these massive changes, there’s much more. Uber Pinnacle bosses now boast entirely separate Unique Item drop pools compared to their non-Uber counterparts. This means there is a reason to farm both versions. 

Shaper vs the Uber Shaper

The Shaper will drop these Uniques:

1. Voidwalker
2. Shaper's Touch
3. Solstice Vigil
4. Dying Sun

Whereas the Uber Shaper will drop these:

1. Echoes of Creation
2. Sublime Vision
3. Entropic Devastation
4. Starforge
5. The Tides of Time - a new Unique Belt

Another couple of examples of new uniques are the helmet from the Uber Eater of Worlds: Ravenous Passion and gloves from the Uber Searing Exarch: The Celestial Brace.

Less Complex Map Running & Reworked Scarabs

According to the PoE 3.24 patch notes, new unique items have been added into the drop pools of all uber pinnacle bosses.

Every league used to add more complexity to running maps. In Necropolis, the complexity has been made simpler while retaining the same depth. The two main systems that have been removed are 

1. Sextants
2. Master Mission selector

The reworked scarabs not only include these removed mechanics but also offer tons of new stuff in terms of customizability.

You'll often come across Scarabs that provide access to various content, like one that spawns Beyond Demons when you slay monsters in your maps or another that adds a Delirium Mirror. Each Scarab type now comes in multiple versions, allowing you to fully immerse yourself in a specific type of content if you wish.

Here’s a suite of Ultimatum Scarabs: 

• Ultimatum Scarab adds an Ultimatum Encounter to a map.
• Ultimatum Scarab of Bribing then causes the Ultimatum encounter to grant better rewards and its monsters to yield more experience.
• Ultimatum Scarab of Dueling will cause that Ultimatum Encounter to always guarantee the Trialmaster Boss Fight at the end, assuming you can survive through all the rounds!
• Ultimatum Scarab of Catalysing will cause all rewards from that Ultimatum to be Catalysts instead of other rewards.
• Ultimatum Scarab of Inscription will cause all Catalyst rewards from that Ultimatum to be Inscribed Ultimatums instead.

For Divination Card farming, you might want to use these:

• Divination Scarab of Curation causes more Divination Cards to drop for each different favoured Map you have selected, but it also causes whatever map you're running to drop only Divination Cards from those Favoured Maps.
• Divination Scarab of Completion causes your Divination Cards to have a 20% chance to drop as a Full Stack instead, for maximum dopamine!

Basically, there are now just a lot of Scarabs, and they no longer have tiers. BLOG20

Scarabs have been added to the world drop, meaning they can drop from literally anything and anywhere. There are rare ones that will be harder to come by, but you’ll still be able to collect and use some pretty unique combinations. Betrayal content includes most of them now.

Atlas Passive Tree Updates

You are now able to reliably get different leagues from just your Atlas passives. Regarding Master missions - content such as Incursion, Delve, Betrayal, and Bestiary, these too are now accessible with Scarabs, and have more reliable investment options on the Tree. Not only this, you can now get Jun, Einhar, Alva and Niko to appear together in the same map!

Some Keystones such as:

• Wandering Path
• Grand Design
• Growing Hordes

Have been removed, but new ones were added. For example: 

• Unwavering Vision
• Back to Basics
• Thorough Exploration
• Remarkable Relics - allows you to try find better variants of Scarabs.
• Mounting Modifiers - increases the values of modifiers on your Maps by 2% for each explicit modifier.
• Tainted Carapaces - allow you to target farm specific types of Scarabs.

This should make the preparations and customization part of endgame much more comfortable, manageable and less time-consuming.

Atlas Tree Presets

One of the arguably coolest things you can now do in 3.24 is create Atlass Tree presets. It means that you can upgrade that tree in several ways and then switch between them before visiting the next map. So far, the are 3 presets available in total, 2 of which need to be unlocked. And, you can also rename them however you want!

Campaign Changes

The developers have actually refreshed the main campaign acts by adding secret mechanics, and new mysterious objects to interact with. Although the core elements of the campaign remain unchanged, there are new and engaging encounters and hidden treasures scattered throughout Wraeclast. Notably, 

• Dweller of the Deep has been ensnared, altering the landscape of your adventures. 
• Ritual Shrines now dot the Northern Forest, offering mysterious Omens that pique curiosity. 

You may also stumble upon a curious device, seemingly safe to experiment with on your items. Expect to uncover even more encounters as you journey onward, with future releases promising additional surprises. Stay vigilant and prepared—the journey through Wraeclast holds many secrets yet to be discovered.

More Transfigured Skill Gems

In the previous expansion, 3.23, a new type of gems was added - Transfigured Skill Gems. Adding another reason to make a new Transfigured Gems guide, these are alternate versions of existing skill gems that function in very different ways, allowing for more build and gameplay variety. Here are some of those added in 3.24:

• Ice Shot of Penetration
• Incinerate
• Artillery Ballista of Focus Fire
• Tornado of Elemental Turbulence
• Elemental Hit
• Kinetic Blast
• Poisonous Concoction
• Summon Holy Relic

More Transfigured Gems in PoE are on the way and the existing ones will be futher rebalanced. Actually, the developers have confessed that they made promises to deliver more of these gems than they could make in tim for the next league. So, by the looks of it, this just a fraction of what was once promised. However, a lot of attention has also been paid to existing gems. 

For instance, one of the main ones that is being looked at is Kinetic Bolt of Fragmentation. More Skill gem changes in 3.24 means that the new support gem called Sacred Wisps is added, causing supported skills to create two attached Wisps for a duration of time. These Wisps also have a chance to use the same skill whenever you attack and if you have enemies in your presence.

More Quality of Life Features

There are a lot of quality-of-life improvements:

• Automation and Call to Arms Skill Gems added, allowing for instant skill and Warcry triggers without binding them to left click.
• Ctrl + Left Click now enables the automatic application of certain currency orbs until desired results are achieved or resources are depleted.
• Ctrl + Shift + Clicking currency in a trade window moves all selected currencies at once from your inventory.
• Detonate Dead now features clearer telegraphing effects.
• During Harvest crafting, the current item hover remains visible, eliminating the need to switch back and forth to view crafting results.
• Using a Vaal Orb on a map no longer risks it becoming unidentified; instead, it adds new Implicits, which are special modifiers inherent to the item.
• Corrupted and Mirrored Items are now identifiable.
• Breach Hands open upon approach, removing the need for clicking.
• You can finally apply Pantheon Power upgrades to all of your characters, instead of having to unlock them on each one separately.
• Divine Vessels no longer require grinding for each new character.
• Harvest Crafting allows for the rerolling of Uber Elder Fragments.
• Shaper and Elder fragments cannot be rerolled into each other.
• Aisling’s Crafting Bench reward has been replaced by Veiled Orbs, which removes a mod and replaces it with a Veiled mod. These orbs now drop from Catarina instead of being a world drop.
• Flasks can now be corrupted by Vaal Orbs, granting random -10 to +10 quality.
• The capability to add extra Quality to Weapons, Armours, and Flasks has been deleted from Betrayal.
• The Betrayal Bench craft for converting an amulet to a Talisman has been moved to Bestiary and is now tradeable.
• Maven Invitations no longer drop; instead, completing the requirements to access Maven's arena allows Kirac to provide an already prepared invitation via the map device window.
• Valdo's Maps, which once granted invitations, now yield Scarabs.

An this isn’t even the complete list of all improvements that have been added in Necropolis league, but you get the point. The developers are looking into things that make player’s experience miserable or take a lot of time. As we’ve already learned some of the unnecessary complexity of the endgame map running has also been fixed with the mechanics retained and relocated to other gameplay systems (scarabs).

Conclusion

The Necropolis league is an important way but not in terms of grand changes or brand-new and complex mechanics. Instead, this league seems to address the issues that have been plaguing the game for the past few leagues, especially related to the endgame. The developers understand the headaches that players get when interacting with some of the systems that should be removed completely. Instead of removing them altogether, however, the devs are moving their functionality to other systems that already exist. That way, they essentially kill two birds with one stone, which is the best way to address these issues.

Overall, the new league mechanic and improved endgame make this league one of the best in recent years. Every league is quite impressive, but those that address some major, pressing issues are always more appreciated.

F.A.Q.

What Is PoE Necropolis League?

The Path of Exile Necropolis League introduces Undertaker Arimor's quest to purge Wraeclast of evil spirits, empowering monsters with ancient fury and sorrow. Players wield the Lantern of Arimor to illuminate and interact with haunting spirits, strategically adjusting monster modifiers for enhanced challenge and rewards.

Is Ultimatum in PoE 3.24?

Yes, Ultimatum is included in the Path of Exile 3.24 update, offering various scarab options that replace previously complex map-running mechanics such as Sextants and Master Mission selectors.

Are There New Uniques in PoE Necropolis?

Indeed, the Necropolis League presents revamped versions of existing uniques, such as Wraithlord with four Abyss Sockets and the more impactful Manastorm, alongside new additions like the Ravenous Passion Zealot Helmet, augmenting strength and fortification with enhanced rage mechanics.

What Are Transfigured Gems in PoE Necropolis League?

Transfigured Gems are alternate versions of existing skill gems introduced in the Necropolis League, offering diverse build and gameplay possibilities. Notable examples include Ice Shot of Penetration and Elemental Hit, with further rebalancing and additions planned for future updates.

How To Find Transfigured Gems?

Transfigured Gems can be found as drops or rewards throughout the Necropolis League. Players may encounter them in various content, including endgame maps, Devoted monsters, and specific encounters related to Undertaker Arimor's questline.

Is There a New Tier of Maps in Path of Exile Necropolis League?

Yes, the Necropolis League introduces Tier 17 maps, offering challenging encounters with revamped bosses and unique rewards. Notable examples include the Citadel Map, featuring an ancient Kalguuran citadel overrun by Expedition monsters, and the Fortress Map, guarded by Heist league monsters and hosting an Uber version of The Unbreakable.

What Changed in Atlas in PoE Necropolis?

The Atlas in the Necropolis League undergoes significant adjustments, including the removal of Keystones granting access to Uber Pinnacle bosses from the Atlas Passive Tree. Instead, new fragments from Tier 17 maps provide access to this content, accompanied by distinct unique item drop pools for Uber bosses. Additionally, Scarabs are reworked to simplify map running while retaining depth, offering various options to enhance gameplay and target specific content.