Path Of Exile: Breach Breaches Live Servers Today

Path of Exile's latest content update, Breach, is set to hit live servers today at 3 PM EST / 12 PM PST. The core of the update is the Breach League, during which players will encounter "breaches," tears in reality that players can earn various rewards from, granted they kill enough monsters to keep them open long enough to see the rewards. They will also be able to challenge new boss monsters known as "Breachlords," which can't be killed in the wild, but will reward players based on how much damage they deal to them before they return to their domain, and enter the Breachlords' domains, where they will fight nearly endless waves of monsters on their way to defeat the Breachlords themselves.

The update also marks the release of several client updates. For the first time ever, Path of Exile has an official 64-bit client that makes use of DirectX 11.

Path of Exile: Breach's key features are as follows.

• Enter the Breach: Tears in the fabric of reality have formed throughout Wraeclast. Engage them to expose an alternate realm and reveal those who dwell there. Slay monsters inside the Breach to keep it open long enough to reap your bounty.
• Challenge the Breachlords: Deep in the Breach, you may draw the ire of horrific new bosses: Breachlords. The more damage you inflict on them, the more treasure they'll part with during their escape.
• Conquer a Breachlord's Domain: Among the riches found in the Breach, you may also encounter Splinters. Combine 100 Splinters of the same type together to create a Breachstone. When placed in the Map Device, a Breachstone allows travel into a Breachlord's Domain, the one place where they are truly vulnerable.
• Treasures of the Breach: Monsters from the Breach drop new unique items that are specific to their Domain. When slain in their Domain, Breachlords can drop Blessings that allow these new uniques to be upgraded.
• Performance Improvements: Content Update 2.5.0 includes the release of our new 64-bit Path of Exile client that uses DirectX 11. It's a lot faster than the previous version and includes technical improvements such as new fog and cloth physics systems.
• Breach Supporter Packs: To celebrate the Breach league, we're launching two new Supporter Packs. These exist alongside our current Atlas of Worlds Supporter Packs and feature points, forum titles, portrait frames, a weapon effect, a portal effect and an entirely new type of microtransaction: Cloaks.
• And Much, Much More! Alongside the Breach league and the new renderer, this update also includes many other changes such as piles of new Unique items, a new Channelling Support Gem, Unique Golem Jewels, a revamped Forsaken Master levelling experience (with many usability improvements) and graphical improvements to early Act One areas.

You can read more about the Breach update on the official website.