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Path of Exile 2: What's in the Return of the Ancients Mystery Box?

Summary

  • The Return of the Ancients Mystery Box features a collection of spooky and eerie cosmetic microtransactions.
  • Each mystery box costs 50 points, guarantees a cosmetic item of equal or greater value, and prevents duplicate variations.
  • The collection includes new armour sets, back attachments, weapon skins, hideouts, tracking tools, and specialized map devices.
  • All items are purely cosmetic and do not impact character power or gameplay progression.

Mystery Box Mechanics

  • Each box costs 50 points.
  • Items are purely cosmetic; they provide no gameplay advantage.
  • The system guarantees one item per box, and you will not receive duplicate copies of variations you already own.
  • While each item type has an equal probability of appearing, some specific variations are rarer than others.

Armour Sets and Attachments

  • Eldritch-touched Set: Features two variations, both characterized by a writhing mass of tentacles on one arm. Includes matching back attachments (the Eldritch Overlord) and weapon skins that secure weapons with tentacles.
  • Wendigo Set: Offers a base set and a feathered, necromantic variation featuring a bird of prey’s visage. Matching bone-and-sinew back attachments and weapon skins are available.
  • Corpsebearer Back Attachment: Functions as an energy source that saps power from corpses when flasks are used.

Utility and Tracking Items

  • Tracking Scroll: Records currency earnings from the Currency Exchange and merchant stash tabs.
  • Fleabag Finnigan: A new merchant NPC available to manage your shop.
  • Spirit Pets: Playful spirits that reside in decorative pots.

Hideouts

  • Blank Hideouts: New, empty environments, including a jungle theme and a volcanic cave theme.
  • Apex Hideouts (Pre-decorated):
    • Overgrown: Features local jungle wildlife, including toucans, napping quadrillas, and climbing monkeys.
    • Val Zallot: A site dedicated to Atziri, featuring a fountain of sacrifice and a counter to track your devotion.

Portals, Effects, and Customizations

  • Thematic Sets: New portal effects, weapon effects, charge skins, and dodge roll skins themed around Abyssal, Runic, and Azmeri aesthetics.
  • Azmeri Variants: The Azmeri collection includes Wild, Vivid, Primal, and Sacred tiers.
  • Finisher Effects:
    • Death Bloom: Bursts from the corpses of slain rare enemies.
    • Stygian Chains: Ignites corpses upon death.
    • Glacial Black Hole: Strips the flesh from unique enemies, leaving a frozen husk.

Map Devices and Stash Skins

  • League-Themed Map Devices:
    • Nameless Shrine: Tracks tribute gained during Ritual encounters.
    • Splinted Reflection: Tracks monsters slain during Delirium encounters.
    • Calgurian Detonator: Tracks resources unearthed via dynamite.
    • Note: These devices include mini-leaderboards to save your five best records.
  • Affinity Stash Skins: New skins for Essence, Breach, and Augment stash tabs that automatically open to the relevant affinity tab.

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