Even a middling Path of Exile patch is still a cause for celebration when it arrives, as in the case of this past week’s Patch 3.23.1. “This patch contains a handful of improvements, another batch of Valdo’s Puzzle Box and Voidborn Reliquary yield options, as well as a number of bug fixes.”
Also, the update makes those rotting corpses less explody: “Increased the delay before corpses explode for the Detonate Dead skill used by monsters in the Viridian Wildwood.”
And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for a roundup of other smaller MMO news stories and videos from this past week in this edition of The MOP Up (and if you don’t see a news story that we should have covered, drop us a tip)!
Neverwinter put out a patch on the 9th with a whole lot of class adjustments — you might want to see how your own was affected.
EverQuest II delivered a patch with a host of fixes, one of which is good news to tradeskillers: “Those players who were unable to receive tradeskill rush orders or work orders should be able hail the writ giver in order to once again be able to receive writs.”
World War II Online rebuilt its training server: “This was necessary as it had been having some stability problems and was due for some upgrades.” Also there was a hotfix.
“Experience the next level of power in Closers with the Polish Skill 2nd Update! Elevate your skills, be more powerful than ever, and conquer the game with enhanced abilities.”
Aion welcomed the latest Daeva season (and a new pass, of course).
A Path of Exile patch landed with “an improvement to the Affliction League Wisp UI so that it persists after leaving the Viridian Wildwood, as well as some bug fixes and other improvements.”
Fallout TV show co-creator Jonathan Nolan said that the background for the series is “what happens when you outsource the survival of the human race.”
War Thunder drilled down on a bunch of small but needed fixes and improvements.
Hope you weren’t banking too hard on that Halo battle royale game being made, because it’s deader than dirt.