Path of Exile: Bestiary Coming in March By Rebecca Smith, 22 Feb 2018 CommentsGrinding Gears Games has revealed that they will soon be bringing new content to their online action RPG Path of Exile in the form of the Bestiary update. The main highlight of the update is that it will include the new Bestiary Challenge League. Here, players will be need to hunt and capture nearly 300 dangerous animals that can be found throughout Wraeclast. The benefit to catching all of these animals is that they can be used to create new items to help with your quests. The features of the Bestiary update include:The Bestiary Challenge League: With a fresh economy and brand-new mechanics, the Bestiary Challenge League is ideal for existing, returning, and brand new players to experience the award-winning gameplay Path of Exile has to offer.Capture Dangerous Beasts: Track Wraeclast's most dangerous animals, weaken them, and capture them to make them your own. There are around 250 regular beasts and 40 legendary beasts to capture.Complete your Bestiary: As you capture beasts from across Wraeclast, they are marked in your Bestiary, a permanent record of your progress through this league.Populate your Menagerie: Visit and observe the beasts you've captured whenever you want, then use them to fuel your Beastcrafting.Beastcrafting: Perform the ritual of Sacrifice by Combat at the Blood Altar to create and augment potent items. There are dozens of powerful recipes that require the sacrifice of different combinations of beasts that you have collected.New End-Game Foes: Capturing and crafting with the right set of beasts may grant you entrance to difficult spirit boss encounters with powerful unique item rewards.Bestiary Sets: The Bestiary League contains four new sets of items based on the powerful spirit beasts. Mix and match them with other items and discover potent new builds.The Story Continues: High-level players will be able to challenge The Elder and The Shaper simultaneously, deep in the center of the Atlas of Worlds - the toughest boss encounter in Path of Exile yet!New Unique Items: Harness the power of 29 new Unique Items and completing new Prophecies to transform your items to one of 30 new Fated Unique Items.New Gems: Discover and build around three new gems including the new skill Spectral Shield Throw and the new support gem Summon Phantasm on Kill.Ascendancy Class Revamp: Explore countless new build options with each of our extensively rebalanced Ascendancy Classes.And much more: We've also added a new quest to Act Ten and have made many other small changes including ongoing performance improvements.Check out the new content in the trailer below: The Bestiary update will be released on PC on March 2nd.More Path of Exile stories: Path of Exile 3.3.1 Adds New Incursion Rooms Path of Exile Trailer Shows Off Bestiary Challenge Rewards Path of Exile Previews Experimental Graphics Improvements Harbinger Supporter Packs Now Available for Path of Exile Path of Exile Well-Dressed Exile Competition Game PatchScreenshotsVideoWindows Written by Rebecca SmithRebecca is the Newshound Manager at TrueSteamAchievements, TrueAchievements and TrueTrophies. She has been contributing articles since 2010, especially those that involve intimidatingly long lists. When not writing news, she can usually be found sharpening her very, VERY, pointy grammar stick in anticipation of its imminent use. Outside of TSA, TA and TT, she works in an independent game shop so that she can spend all day talking about games too. At home, with a variety of PCs and consoles on hand from which to choose, starting with a ZX Spectrum, games are never far away there either. However, as you're not supposed to have an unhealthy obsession with just a single subject, she also likes to read and dream about owning her own tribe of minions. She'll occasionally go outside.