Path of Exile 3.30 Covens of Umbra Release Date: When It Starts and What's New
Path of Exile 3.30, Covens of Umbra, launches at 11 AM PST on 13 November. Your local start time, the new league, the price and the endgame.
Path of Exile 3.30, Covens of Umbra, launches on 13 November (Pacific time), Grinding Gear Games confirmed at ExileCon 2026 on 6 November. It's free on PC and consoles. Here's what's confirmed, and what to plan around.
Update, 13 November: GGG has now confirmed the hour: servers go live on PC and console at 11 AM PST on 13 November (19:00 UTC), two hours earlier than the 1 PM estimate we gave before. The realms go down two hours earlier, at 9 AM PST, when patching starts. The local times below have been corrected.
When does Path of Exile 3.30 come out?
Covens of Umbra launches on 13 November PST. GGG first set the date in its 3.30 timeline post on 12 October and repeated it after the ExileCon reveal.
The "PST" matters if you live east of the Pacific: in India, Asia and Australia, the launch falls on 14 November.
What time does Covens of Umbra launch?
At 11 AM PST on 13 November, which is 19:00 UTC. GGG's launch-day post says the realms go down two hours before that, at 9 AM PST, and patching begins shortly after. That puts the launch at:
- Los Angeles: 11 AM on 13 November
- New York: 2 PM on 13 November
- London: 7 PM on 13 November
- Paris and Madrid: 8 PM on 13 November
- New Delhi: 12:30 AM on 14 November
- Sydney: 6 AM on 14 November
On PC you can get ahead with GGG's torrent of the game's GGPK file, which you copy into your install folder once patching starts, no earlier than three hours before launch. It doesn't work with the Steam or Epic clients or on macOS. GGG's Twitch Drops for the launch also start at 11 AM PST and run until 22 November.
When does Curse of the Allflame end?
GGG set the end of the Curse of the Allflame Challenge League for 1 PM PST on 9 November, four days before Covens of Umbra.
Is Covens of Umbra free?
Yes. GGG says you can play it for free on PC and consoles. Five new Core Supporter Packs are on sale, with exclusive cosmetics and store points, and merchandise in the higher tiers. They're optional.
What is the Covens Challenge League?
Coven members perform rites to summon their Queen, and you interrupt them. Each time you do, you pick a Fate for the area's boss, which makes that fight harder and its rewards better.
Beating an empowered boss drops Viscera, a trophy you attach to your own Wickerman to gain a piece of that boss's power. GGG says every campaign boss and every boss on an Atlas map has its own Viscera. Grim Fates extend the system to the hardest Atlas bosses, for Pinnacle Boss Viscera.
What's changing in the endgame?
- Scarabs are gone. Threads of Creation replace them: set in the Map device, a Thread applies a league mechanic of your choice and raises monster rarity and difficulty.
- New Atlas tree. The passive tree has a new layout and dozens of new wheels, stats and effects.
- Existing leagues. GGG says almost every endgame league mechanic has been changed in some way.
- Mirage joins the core game. Mirages can now spawn randomly in Maps and cover the whole map, and Saresh returns as a harder fight.
- Loot rework. Unidentified Magic and Rare items can drop with a tier at endgame, and rarity on Maps and monsters now improves every type of drop.
Is this Path of Exile 2?
No. Covens of Umbra is an expansion for the first Path of Exile. Path of Exile 2 gets its own launch a month later, with full release on 11 December.
