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This is a copy of Eternal and Diamond Supporter Newsletter #37, published by Grinding Gear Games.

Hey Diamond, Eternal and Unique Item Creator Supporters,

Over the weekend I was playing in the Nemesis league.

I have been playing a Marauder called Qoelacanth (because EverythingThatRisesMustConverge is too unwieldy). I killed Dominus and am now fighting my way through Act 1 Cruel.

It has been excellent to see the increase in players since release.

Rory is receiving a huge number of emails from item designing supporters at the moment, and is having a hard time keeping up with them! He'll get to all of them eventually and priority is currently being placed on Diamond Supporters who still haven't had an item released, or items that are very easy to get in and will synergize with upcoming content.

1.0.1 Uniques

The next content update should contain four unique items, including a helmet, a flask and a map.

The helmet is a Solaris Circlet that opens up gear and passive choices for intelligence based weapon users. It also has some awesome gruesome art.

Insider Info

Campbell Crawford started work at Grinding Gear Games in August 2013.

He has been working on weapons and other items for Diamond and Eternal supporters, and producing concept design for some yet to be released Act 4 content.

Cam graduated from CPIT School of Art & Design with a Bachelor of Design, majoring in animation.

He has worked mainly in the casual/mobile game space, being involved in brands such as Hasbro, Transformers Prime, Pixar, Rise of the Guardians and various indie games within New Zealand.

Cam has said he is positively “stoked” to be working on Path of Exile, a dark, gritty PC game, and can't wait to help further develop the world of Wraeclast.

You can see a portion of Cam's at work here: http://ccnz.daportfolio.com/

Cam wants me to point out he hasn't updated that site in three years, and has done even cooler art since.

Cam can be seen here: http://i.imgur.com/tMiRgON.jpg

Some quick notes from Erik:

There is a new audio track coming for the Act 2 Darkness Event.

The animators are working on more varied and satisfying death animations for various monsters in the game.