Why this lesson matters
The campaign's layout and quests don't change in 3.30. What changes is what drops and a few new spawns. This page covers the things you'll actually notice from Act 1 to Act 10.
Tiered items from Act 6
- From Act 6 on, magic and rare items can drop with an Item Tier from 2 to 5.
- A higher tier means better modifier tiers when you identify the item. It also raises the chance of a higher-level base (weapons and armour), quality, and more sockets and links.
- Item Rarity on monsters raises the chance for items to have a tier. Your own Item Rarity is now weaker at finding magic, rare and unique items, and raises the chance to find tiered magic and rare items instead.
- GGG's Covens page says the tier shows on unidentified items, so you can tell which ones are worth picking up and identifying.
- Ruthless has no Item Tiers.
Item Rarity now picks your drops
Before 3.30, a monster's Item Rarity mostly decided whether an item was normal, magic, rare or unique. If the drop was a scroll or currency, that Rarity was mostly wasted.
Now Item Rarity decides which kinds of drop are possible:
- Scrolls of Wisdom and Portal Scrolls only come from the "normal" roll, so monsters with more Rarity drop fewer of them.
- Currency is split: magic currency (Transmutation, Alteration, Jeweller's) only comes from the "magic" roll, and rare currency (Alchemy, Chaos, Divine and up) only from the "rare" roll.
- The result: the more Item Rarity a monster has, the better its currency, and much of the valuable currency now comes from rare and unique monsters.
Vaal side areas
Chests in Vaal side areas now drop items with more Rarity, so they're more worth a quick detour. (They no longer appear in maps.)
New spawns in Acts 7 and 9
- Act 7: the Northern Forest and the Dread Thicket can spawn the Viridian Wildwood.
- Act 9: the Vastiri Desert and the Oasis can spawn a Mirage.
- Neither happens in Ruthless.
Our PoE 1 campaign checklists flag these on the right steps, and Run mode shows them as you play.
The Covens league in the campaign
GGG's Covens page says every boss in the campaign has its own Viscera to collect, if you pick its Fates before you kill it. See the Covens of Umbra lesson.