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On December 16th, ARC Raiders Cold Snap update will bring heavy snow and extreme cold to all maps, presenting raiders with harsh environmental challenges.

Players will need to relearn how to move, survive, and safely evacuate in this challenging environment. Only those who adapt will emerge victorious.

Date

ARC Raiders Cold Snap will launch globally and last for four weeks, ending on Tuesday, January 13th, 2026. Here are the updated times for key global time zones:

• North American West Coast: 1:30 AM PST
• 4:30 AM EST, North American East Coast
• 6:30 AM Brazil BRT
• 9:30 AM UK Time (Greenwich Mean Time)
• 10:30 AM Western European Time
• 6:30 PM Japan Time
• 8:30 PM Australia East Coast Time

Snowfall Mechanism

Outdoors

Snowfall, as a map event, will cover all areas of the map, including Rust Belt, Valley of Blue Gate, Abandoned Spaceport, and Red Lakes. Unlike standard raids, Cold Snap applies continuous environmental stress to raiders. Snowfall is not just a visual effect; it affects your combat, movement, and survival.

Prolonged exposure to the outdoors will cause raiders to suffer frostbite, resulting in continuous health loss. They must enter indoors or receive rapid healing to survive. Frostbite ignores armor, meaning even high-level gear is ineffective, but some instant-recovery items may be effective.

Because the map is covered in snow, gathering materials becomes much more difficult, so to combat frostbite, you should carry significantly more healing items than usual. Consider discarding some ammunition to make room for extra medical supplies.

Furthermore, the radar will malfunction after a few minutes, and the icy ground will make movement unsteady, both increasing the difficulty of combat and exploration. You can move short distances between buildings, but try to avoid lingering in open areas, as you'll leave footprints in the snow, making you vulnerable to being tracked by other players! Being suppressed by players outdoors will put you at a significant disadvantage.

Additionally, the different map layouts in Snowfall will have varying impacts on each map.

• Dam Battlegrounds: More open areas, limited shelters, requiring route planning and sufficient ARC Raiders items.
• Buried City: More indoor space, more frequent PvP battles.
• Spaceport and Blue Gate: A more balanced distribution of open areas and shelters, giving an advantage to players who can effectively manage movement between buildings.
• Stella Montis: Already a popular PvP map, Snowfall may further intensify PvP.

Shelter

Entering indoor areas will immediately stop frostbite. You can use items to restore health here. Buildings, underground spaces, and enclosed structures can all serve as safe zones during Snowfall event.

Of course, these safe zones will attract more other players than usual, and some squads may cluster together. You can cooperate for warmth or engage in combat to become the last survivor in the shelter.

If your map frequently sees PvP, the longer you stay in the shelter, the more dangerous it becomes. You should make full use of this time to rest and then venture out again.

Flickering Flames Event

Launching alongside Cold Snap is Flickering Flames event, a progress-based event. Players accumulate progress by gaining XP, with 1,000 XP equaling 10 Merits. However, new players must complete a total of five rounds of Arc Raiders to unlock the event, although this does not require successful extraction.

Flickering Flames has 25 tiers, rewarding players with gear, cosmetic items, and Raiders tokens. You're on a raid. You can progress using any source of XP, or you can avoid Snowfall map and accumulate progress on regular maps. You can gain XP by:

• Defeating large ARC enemies.
• Completing trials.
• Successfully extracting with valuable loot.

Candleberry Banquet Project

This update introduces a new project, Candleberry Banquet Project. Players need to collect Candleberries that spawn outdoors. The more Candleberries you successfully collect, the higher your Candleberry Banquet completion rate will be.

Candleberries can be used to craft candles, juice, tea, stews, perfume, and more, and these items may have mechanics that resist cold wave damage.

Furthermore, you'll earn Merits as you progress through Candleberry Banquet Project. This program is somewhat similar to a battle pass; as you progress, you'll earn rewards such as cosmetic items and Raider Tokens.

New Raider Deck

The release of the new Raider Deck has been slightly delayed, and it will be unlocked on December 26th and will be available to players for free.

The new Raider Deck features a Goalie-themed outfit inspired by old world clothing. It also includes a new raider tool skin, the hockey stick. This Raider Deck is permanent and won't disappear, so you can unlock it at any time. However, it's unconfirmed whether accumulated Raider Deck Points will carry over to the new deck.

Before the new Raider Deck update, this update also includes new portable, playable interactive items, an Acoustic Guitar, a gold-mask-style Mist Horn Set, futuristic Solar Panel Gadgets, and possibly even warming items to protect against the cold.

Snowfall transforms Arc Raiders into a true survival experience, where environmental awareness is just as important as combat skills. Use your tactics and items to adapt to winter warfare. The frozen wastelands of Speranza await your challenge, so Raiders, stay warm and survive!

Almost nothing disrupts Monopoly Go's daily schedule of new tournaments, unless a special tournament lasts longer than 24 hours. Participating in tournaments has become a daily routine for all Monopoly Go players.

Interestingly, since the launch of Bon Appétit album at the end of August this year, Monopoly Go has gradually phased out the mechanism of individually naming each tournament, mostly referring to them uniformly as Tycoon Class.

Although individual tournaments are occasionally named separately due to holidays or other reasons, this practice has largely continued until the current Harry Potter GO album.

To prevent the uniform naming from causing confusion about whether you've already participated in the current tournament and thus missing out on new rewards, we're bringing you the latest Tycoon Class schedule and participation guide.

Tycoon Class On December 16-17

The latest tournament started at 1 AM on December 16th and will last until the same time on the 17th. This means you have 24 hours to unlock the following main rewards by earning 36,000 points:

• 5,735 Free Dice Rolls in total - From 11 Milestones
• 515 Peg-E Tokens in total - From 11 Milestones
• 3 Pink Sticker Packs - Milestone 15
• 5 Minutes High Roller - Milestone 7
• 5 Minutes Cash Boost - Milestone 13
• 30 Minutes Mega Heist - Milestone 19

Peg-E tokens are necessary to play Peg-E Prize Drop event, which will also end on the 17th. If you can complete all the requirements of this event, you can get 8 sticker packs, which will greatly enrich your Monopoly Go sticker collection!

In addition to participating in the tournament, completing the three Quick Wins tasks on the 16th will also earn you some Peg-E tokens:

• Pass Go 1 time: 15 Dice and 3 Peg-E Tokens
• Collect 1 sticker: Cash and 5 Peg-E Tokens
• Land on Community Chest 1 time: 30 Dice and 7 Peg-E Tokens

These tasks can be completed quickly without you even noticing while playing the game. Although the rewards aren't huge, don't miss out!

How To Play The Tournament?

During the tournament, all railroad tiles on the board will passively trigger a random mini-game when you land on them. You need to play the games and achieve valid results to earn event points, which will unlock more milestones and their rewards.

Shutdown

• Blocked - 2 Points
• Success - 4 Points

Bank Heist

• Small Heist - 4 Points
• Large Heist - 6 Points
• Bankrupt - 8 Points
• Mega Heist Gold Bars - 12 Points

If you're worried about not having enough points to unlock all the rewards, you can increase the multiplier (if you have enough dice) to move further on the board and trigger more mini-games at once.

All Milestone Rewards

These rewards become more substantial as your points and milestone levels increase. You can refer to the table below to plan your reward earning strategy:

Milestones 1-10

• Milestone 1: 10 Points; 8 Peg-E Tokens
• Milestone 2: 25 Points; 40 Free Dice Rolls
• Milestone 3: 40 Points; Cash Reward
• Milestone 4: 80 Points; 2x Green Sticker Pack
• Milestone 5: 120 Points; Cash Reward
• Milestone 6: 150 Points; 12 Peg-E Tokens
• Milestone 7: 100 Points; High Roller for 5 Minutes
• Milestone 8: 225 Points; 115 Free Dice Rolls
• Milestone 9: 200 Points; 15 Peg-E Tokens
• Milestone 10: 250 Points; 3x Yellow Sticker Pack

Milestones 11-20

• Milestone 11: 275 Points; 30 Peg-E Tokens
• Milestone 12: 425 Points; 180 Free Dice Rolls
• Milestone 13: 200 Points; Cash Boost for 5 Minutes
• Milestone 14: 300 Points; 35 Peg-E Tokens
• Milestone 15: 350 Points; 3x Pink Sticker Pack
• Milestone 16: 475 Points; 200 Free Dice Rolls
• Milestone 17: 350 Points; 40 Peg-E Tokens
• Milestone 18: 550 Points; 215 Free Dice Rolls
• Milestone 19: 250 Points; Mega Heist for 30 Minutes
• Milestone 20: 400 Points; 50 Peg-E Tokens

Milestone 21-30

• Milestone 21: 500 Points; Cash Reward
• Milestone 22: 775 Points; 265 Free Dice Rolls
• Milestone 23: 600 Points; 70 Peg-E Tokens
• Milestone 24: 1000 Points; 335 Free Dice Rolls
• Milestone 25: 800 Points; Cash Reward
• Milestone 26: 750 Points; 75 Peg-E Tokens
• Milestone 27: 850 Points; Cash Reward
• Milestone 28: 1200 Points; 360 Free Dice Rolls
• Milestone 29: 500 Points; Cash Boost for 10 Minutes
• Milestone 30: 800 Points; 80 Peg-E Tokens

Milestones 31-40

• Milestone 31: 900 Points; Cash Reward
• Milestone 32: 1750 Points; 500 Free Dice Rolls
• Milestone 33: 1200 Points; Cash Reward
• Milestone 34: 1000 Points; 100 Peg-E Tokens
• Milestone 35: 750 Points; Builder's Bash for 30 Minutes
• Milestone 36: 2350 Points; 600 Free Dice Rolls
• Milestone 37: 1500 Points; Cash Reward
• Milestone 38: 3500 Points; 800 Free Dice Rolls
• Milestone 39: 2000 Points; Cash Reward
• Milestone 40: 8500 Points; 2,125 Free Dice Rolls

All Leaderboard Rewards

The start of a new season means you'll be starting from scratch to earn Express Coins for the new Hogwarts Express. This special currency allows you to advance your express progress to unlock more rewards.

Therefore, you need to rank at least in the top fifty in the tournament to obtain these coins, as well as other equally rare rewards.

• Rank 1: 1,500 Free Dice Rolls, Purple Sticker Pack, 8 Express Coins
• Rank 2: 800 Free Dice Rolls, Blue Sticker Pack, 7 Express Coins
• Rank 3: 600 Free Dice Rolls, Blue Sticker Pack, 6 Express Coins
• Rank 4: 500 Free Dice Rolls, Blue Sticker Pack, 5 Express Coins
• Rank 5: 400 Free Dice Rolls, Pink Sticker Pack, 5 Express Coins
• Rank 6: 300 Free Dice Rolls, Pink Sticker Pack, 5 Express Coins
• Rank 7: 200 Free Dice Rolls, Pink Sticker Pack, 4 Express Coins
• Rank 8: 100 Free Dice Rolls, Yellow Sticker Pack, 4 Express Coins
• Rank 9: 100 Free Dice Rolls, Yellow Sticker Pack, 4 Express Coins
• Rank 10: 50 Free Dice Rolls, Yellow Sticker Pack, 4 Express Coins
• Ranks 11-15: 50 Free Dice Rolls, 3 Express Coins
• Ranks 16-18: 50 Free Dice Rolls, 2 Express Coins
• Ranks 19-50: Cash Reward, 1 Express Coin

The above is all the information about this event. We hope you can successfully complete this tournament and win all the rewards!

In Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, the most telling sign of a veteran player isn't their rank, but their weapon camouflage. The annoying thing is that unlocking camouflage in this game is quite tedious, and you have to unlock one camouflage before you can unlock the next.

Let's take a look at Black Ops 7's coolest and most troublesome camouflage, Infestation Mastery Camo, and how to unlock it as quickly as possible.

Base Camo Challenges

Most weapons' basic camouflage challenges are relatively straightforward, but with the right techniques, you can unlock Infestation Mastery Camo within a day. The most time-consuming part is completing 1000 Critical Kills for each weapon. Weapons like shotguns, melee weapons, and launchers might be faster, while pistols and sniper rifles are very slow.

Deadshot Daiquiri is the most important skill in the entire game. It automatically locks onto zombie heads, somewhat like aimbot, allowing you to easily complete challenges. Double Tap Perk speeds up challenges with relatively difficult weapons like sniper rifles and pistols.

To complete challenges quickly, focus on Survival and Directed modes. The recommended map for Survival is Diner. You can camp at the entrance and kill zombies, and enabling Rampage Inducer will speed up zombie spawning, further improving efficiency.

Directed mode is easy, because the zombies are weaker, move slower, and have round caps, making it more relaxed but monotonous. It's best suited for completing some challenging tasks.

You need always participate in T.E.D.D. Tasks, and even if you don't complete the task, the infinite spawning of extra zombies will speed up camouflage unlocking. Completing tasks also rewards Perks, Aether Tools, Salvage, and points needed to upgrade weapons.

The basic challenges for launchers and melee weapons only require killing enemies, making them quite simple in zombie mode. Of course, you can also farm these tasks in multiplayer and Warzone.

The basic camouflage challenges for shotguns require close-range kills. Deadshot Daiquiri has enhancements that increase close-range damage. You can stand on objects that zombies need to climb or jump onto, causing them to swarm towards you, making close-range kills easier.

Special Camo Challenges

Fireworks Ammo Mod

Fireworks Ammo Mod, when activated, kills all nearby zombies, and each kill adds to your camouflage progress, except for headshot challenges. This method works with all weapons and is the simplest way to complete camouflage challenges in the game.

Combined with Elemental Pop skill, even melee weapons become incredibly easy; you simply need to guide the zombies through the fireworks' blast radius. Note that when using the launcher, always equip PhD Flopper perks to prevent self-inflicted damage.

How To Complete Special Camo Challenges?

Some Special Camo Challenges are the most time-consuming, requiring you to equip different elemental ammo mods to complete them.

You need to gather zombies into hordes and intermittently fire at them. Your goal isn't to kill them, but simply to trigger the ammo mod's effect to gain kill progress. Elemental Pop increases the trigger frequency. Lower weapon power reduces the likelihood of accidentally killing zombies, making it easier to trigger the mod.

Additionally, equipping Vulture Aid skill and Suppressor Muzzle Attachment will cause zombies to drop more Salvage, allowing for faster unlocking and upgrading of ammo modules. Completing T.E.D.D. Tasks also yields a large number of parts.

Decoy Grenades are the best choice for completing "Kills Affected by Tactical Gear" challenges, as they attract zombies to cluster together. If you have Vulture Aid skill, zombies will also drop additional tactical gear you currently possess.

For challenges involving "Kills Affected by Field Upgrades," Tesla Storm is recommended. It immobilizes and weakens zombies, charges quickly, and lasts a long time. If unavailable, Frenzy Guard is a better choice. Speed Cola has an Augment that increases the charging speed of Field Upgrade.

Mastery Camo Challenges

Gold Dragon Camo

Unlocking this camouflage requires completing 10 quick kills, which is very easy in zombie mode and almost impossible to complete. The only potentially slightly difficult situations are when there are insufficient zombies in early rounds or in very high rounds.

Bloodstone Camouflage

This challenge requires unlocking Gold Dragon camouflage on all weapons in a category and achieving 200 kills without taking damage.

Currently, this challenge has a benign bug where you can complete it by getting 200 kills with each weapon, even while taking damage. Once fixed, it will require truly achieving kills without taking damage, which is easier to complete in Directed mode. You can use Fireworks Ammo mod to speed this up, as long as you don't take damage while holding the weapon.

Doom Steel Camouflage

You need to unlock Bloodstone camouflage on 30 weapons first. The challenge is to kill 10 elite zombies with each weapon; this is the final and most tedious part.

The fastest way to unlock this camouflage is by being in Ashes of the Damned in Single Player Directed mode. You need to follow the prompts until you turn on the power, reach the 7th round limit, and receive the quest to retrieve items from Uber Klaus.

When Uber Klaus first spawns, you can kill him, and this counts as one elite kill. After he dies, a special zombie will spawn. Do not kill it, and you can save and quit.

Then, reload the game. Uber Klaus will revive, but you cannot save and quit now. You need to clear all the zombies to reset round 7. When you can save and exit again, only kill Uber Klaus, then save and quit again.

Repeat this process until your weapon achieves 10 elite enemy kills. After completing one weapon, you can continue by using a mystery box or exchanging for a new weapon with a Wall Weapon. Make sure to pack-a-punching your weapon for faster kills. For weaker weapons, you can use other weapons to weaken Uber Klaus first, then switch to the weaker weapon to finish him off and gain progress.

Unlocking camouflage from scratch is a huge waste of time, and since it's in the early stages of the game, there's not much of an effective way to do it right now. You can use Double XP Tokens to speed things up a bit.

Almost every game available on multiple platforms is expected by players to offer cross-play functionality, as this means you can more easily play with friends and won't be restricted by device changes.

The demand for cross-play is even stronger for multiplayer online games, such as the recently popular ARC Raiders. Its PvPvE nature and support for two-player/three-player matchmaking highlight the importance and fun of playing with friends.

Fortunately, this game, available on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, fully supports cross-play! If you don't know how to enable cross-play, or are unsure whether you should enable it, don't worry, we'll provide you with a helpful guide!

Preparation Before Enabling Cross-Play Feature

First, it's important to note that ARC Raiders does not support cross-platform ownership in most cases. For example, if you want to play the game on both PC and PS5, you must own ARC Raiders on each platform, respectively.

The only exception is Microsoft Store. If you obtain ARC Raiders there, you can unlock both Xbox and PC versions directly.

In addition, you must ensure you have a fixed Embark ID and link that ID to your current device account on the new platform. This will ensure that your existing game account progress and all earned ARC Raiders items are synchronized to the new platform when you log in.

How To Enable Or Disable Cross-Play?

Cross-play is enabled by default when you play ARC Raiders on any platform. So, as soon as you enter the game and start matchmaking, you may encounter players using other devices, and you and your friends can team up without restrictions.

If you haven't added your friends to your friends list yet, you can find and add them by entering their ID in the relevant search box in the game. Then, find them on the list and invite them to team up.

If for various reasons, such as potential imbalances in the combat environment due to different devices, you want to disable cross-play, it's possible. The specific steps are as follows:

• 1. Find the main menu and open the settings menu located in the lower right corner.
• 2. Find and open Gameplay tab.
• 3. Find Online section.
• 4. Find Cross-play option and click to disable it.
• 5. To re-enable it later, simply follow the steps above again.

Pros And Cons Of Cross-Play Functionality

The most obvious benefit of this feature is the significant reduction in matchmaking wait times. For players busy with work or studies, every minute in a game is precious relaxation time.

Furthermore, it not only provides convenience for teaming up with friends but also allows you to more flexibly choose your gaming device according to your needs, without being limited to either a controller or keyboard and mouse.

On the other hand, players using different devices often have certain overall tendencies, such as being more aggressive or more friendly. Cross-play means you might be matched with any type of teammate or enemy, increasing the excitement of the game.

However, because of this, the probability of encountering cheaters will become higher when cross-play is enabled, especially if you are a PS5 or Xbox player, as there are more cheaters on PC.

From an operational experience perspective, both the visual design and controller usage habits of ARC Raiders are more friendly to PC players. Therefore, if your opponents are from PC and you are not, you will inevitably feel a subtle unfairness.

Should You Enable Cross-Play?

Based on our analysis of the pros and cons of this feature, you can decide whether to enable cross-play based on your preferred gaming device and skill level.

If you are a PC player, you can keep this feature enabled by default, because generally speaking, console players are less likely to disrupt the game environment or cheat, and playing with more players of different styles can help improve your skills faster.

If you are a PS5 or Xbox Series X|S player, we recommend that you only enable cross-play when you are very familiar with the mechanics and controls of ARC Raiders, or when you need to team up with friends using different devices.

However, it's important to note that disabling cross-play will inevitably reduce the number of online players, which will increase matchmaking wait times, especially during off-peak hours. Therefore, if you want to avoid this, it's best to always keep this feature enabled.

Will ARC Raiders Be Available On More Platforms?

Considering the multiplayer online PvP elements of ARC Raiders, it is clearly not suitable for handheld devices like Switch, but playing on mobile devices should be feasible, as several shooting game series like PUBG and Call of Duty already have mobile versions.

However, considering that ARC Raiders is a relatively new game, even if there are plans to expand to new platforms, it will likely be a long time before they are implemented. The current focus of the game is still on perfecting its core content.

It's worth noting, however, that compared with many other online multiplayer games that still haven't implemented full cross-play, or whose cross-play features are buggy, ARC Raiders has done a great job from the start.

That's all the information for today. Later today, ARC Raiders will release Cold Snap update, allowing you to play with friends on other devices in new map variations and participate in new events! Stay tuned!

Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.4.0 introduces the new Druid class, which features three transformation forms, each with its own unique skills and combat style. You can switch between these forms at any time during combat.

Of these three forms, the bear form excels at utilizing Rage resource to increase damage output and create synergistic effects between multiple skills. This form also possesses tank-like characteristics, allowing it to withstand damage.

Based on this, we will introduce a build that focuses on transforming into a bear and creating fissures to damage enemies in combat - Raging Fissure Bear Build.

Raging Fissure Bear Build Overview

The bear form of Druid is characterized by its slow speed but extremely high defense and survivability, making it suitable for melee combat. Although it's not as fast as the wolf or wyvern forms, with the right build, it can clear groups of enemies with AoE damage.

For example, Raging Fissure Bear Build is crafted based on one of the key bear form skills, Fury of the Mountain.

Fissure Warrior playstyle has always been quite powerful in PoE 2, but now the bear form combined with this skill can achieve similar, or even better, results.

This skill unlocks at Tier 5 and requires equipping Animal Talismans. You will transform into a bear and repeatedly pound the ground to create lava fissures.

These fissures convert 80 physical damage into fire damage, granting 3 Rage for each enemy hit and creating another fissure, with a maximum of 12 fissures active simultaneously.

Due to the accumulation of Rage, this makes your attacks much more powerful than normal attacks in bear form, as the multiple fissures allow you to create three branching fissures with each ground pound, and Rage generated by the fissures triggers totems.

Other Bear Form Skills

While Fury of the Mountain is the foundation, it needs to be used in conjunction with other bear form skills to meet your damage output needs. These mainly include:

• Maul: As the main attack method in bear form, it performs a powerful sweeping attack, accumulating Rage with each enemy hit.
• Furious Slam: Creates a shockwave by slamming the ground, and can consume Rage to increase the shockwave's power, leaving behind jagged ground. This ground can interact with other skills to deal additional damage.
• Rampage: This skill guides you forward, continuously slamming the ground, suitable for clearing groups of enemies and for quick movement. Consuming Rage can also extend its duration.
• Ferocious Roar: As a Warcry skill, it instantly generates Rage when there are enemies nearby and empowers subsequent attacks to break through enemy armor. It can also be triggered in human form by equipping a supporting gem.
• Walking Calamity: As the ultimate skill in bear form, it triggers when your Rage reaches its maximum, summoning a meteor shower that deals fire damage to enemies and restores Rage over its duration.

Overall, Raging Fissure Bear Build relies on slam and fissure damage. Therefore, in each battle, you should use Fury of the Mountain at least once or twice, then sequentially cast Maul and Furious Slam as a combo.

Properly Combining Human Form Skills

After transforming into a bear, you can still use your human form Druid skills, and they are an important part of crafting any Druid build. For Raging Fissure Bear Build, the essential human skill is Volcano.

The skill's damage itself isn't impressive, but after using Fury of the Mountain or Rampage, Volcano can help accumulate damage and ignite enemies, making them more susceptible to your sustained damage.

More importantly, if you later unlock Invigorating Hate passive node, it transforms Volcano into a healing skill, restoring your health by consuming Rage, 1% for every point of Rage consumed.

Considering that you will constantly accumulate Rage, either actively or passively, while using this build, this passive node will significantly enhance your survivability and self-healing capabilities as a bear, allowing you to survive even in boss battles.

How To Choose Your Ascendancy Class?

Druid has two Ascendancy Classes: Shaman and Oracle. Here, we recommend unlocking the former, because Shaman has two passive abilities that are very important for accumulating and using Rage: Druidic Champion and Furious Wellspring.

As we've emphasized multiple times in the previous sections, Raging Fissure Bear Build is a build that relies on Rage. Druidic Champion can increase your spell damage by accumulating Rage, and Furious Wellspring helps restore the consumed Rage.

It's worth noting that to fully utilize the advantage of increased spell damage, we recommend equipping Tornado skill gem.

This skill creates a tornado that continuously damages surrounding enemies. You can also utilize projectiles to collide with the tornado as it moves forward to deal even more damage.

If the tornado covers elemental ground, it will absorb nearby debuffs for 4 seconds and apply that effect to enemies within the tornado. This is also expected to work very well in conjunction with the wyvern form.

How To Choose Gear?

Since the skill switching and usage suggestions are already quite complex and comprehensive, this build doesn't have very high gear requirements, especially in the early stages of the league.

Of course, if you have the time to farm rarer gear, or any PoE 2 currency that allows you to modify gear affixes, we recommend choosing gear according to the following guidelines:

• Weapons: Prioritize Talismans with fixed damage and attack speed bonuses.
• Armor: While striving to stack defensive attributes, also consider your elemental weaknesses. Having energy shields would be even better.
• Other: Anything that increases damage output or elemental resistance is good.

That's all the information about Raging Fissure Bear Build that we have for you today. If the bear form is your preferred playstyle, then why not try Raging Fissure Bear Build using our guide? You're sure to gain something from it!

Diablo 4 development team claimed they would surprise players at 2025 TGA, and they truly delivered. They not only announced the next DLC, Lord of Hatred, at TGA, but also introduced a new class for Season 11: Paladin.

Each DLC release brings significant changes to Diablo 4's gameplay. The official information regarding Lord of Hatred will be revealed gradually over the next few months, but let's first take a look at what this expansion pack brings.

Benefits Of Pre-ordering Lord Of Hatred

Lord of Hatred is currently available for pre-order. Only players who unlock it can play as Paladin in Season 11, and this will also directly unlock the 2024 DLC, Vessel of Hatred. This means that if you pre-order Lord of Hatred, you can experience 7 classes in Season 11!

Story Recap

Looking at the content of the past few seasons, the war between angels and demons in Sanctuary has intensified. The root of all this lies with Lilith and Inarius, the creators of Sanctuary, and each harbors a twisted plan.

Lilith's goal extends beyond granting power to humans, and her true intention is to devour her own father, Mephisto, Lord of Hatred, to seize his power. At the time, Mephisto was being reborn in Hell, weakened. The key to thwarting Lilith's plot is a wanderer who has drunk demon blood - the player-controlled protagonist.

Mephisto, too, has his own schemes. He sends his messenger to help Wanderer stop Lilith. Although the team tries to avoid making a deal with the devil, they are ultimately forced to accept.

Wanderer ultimately defeats Lilith, and Neyrelle, a member of the team, decides to seize the opportunity to bury Lord of Hatred completely. However, acting alone, she is quickly corrupted by Mephisto's corruption. Fortunately, Wanderer finds her and helps her resist the corruption.

Together, they find Tomb of Akara, the final resting place of the holy prophet. This was originally a prison from which Mephisto might never escape. Although Wanderer defeats Mephisto's messenger, Mephisto himself escapes and enters a new vessel - the body of the prophet Akarat (Vessel of Hatred storyline).

Thus, Lord of Hatred walks the lands of Sanctuary as the false prophet, and the upcoming storyline will culminate in Lord of Hatred DLC.

Confirmed Content

Lord of Hatred expansion introduces the new Paladin class, whose skill tree offers three enhancements to each skill, potentially indicating the direction for skill reworks in other classes. The official announcement also confirms that the expansion includes two new classes, with the next class to be released in April along with the expansion pack.

New Area

A new two-minute trailer has been released, showcasing some of the updated content. The expansion will also add a new area called Skovos Isles and a new campaign. This new area is Lilith and Inarius, the birthplace of human civilization.

This area was originally planned for Diablo III, but due to its art style being somewhat similar to Titan Quest, the decision was shelved. However, the development team has revived this area in Diablo IV.

Skovos Isles are currently ruled by a prophet and an Amazon Queen. If the new class in the DLC is related to this region, it might be a class like Hunter or Amazon.

New Features

The highly requested Horadric Cube will return in Lord of Hatred. First appearing in Diablo 2, it has many uses, including crafting equipment and resetting item affixes. While its role in Diablo 4 is currently unknown, it will likely be integrated with the current crafting system.

Additionally, the developers have confirmed the addition of loot filters to help players more efficiently locate target equipment from the massive loot drops, complementing the crafting system and collecting common quality base items.

New Skill Tree

The current skill tree in Diablo 4 is rather rudimentary, with only two upgrade paths per skill, but Paladins have three. This is the direction the developers intend to take for the skill tree rework.

Lord of Hatred will bring a completely new skill tree, with each skill offering more diverse upgrade paths, creating a vast array of build combinations. Additionally, skill enhancements may include transformation options that fundamentally change skills, such as Sorcerer's Ball Lightning potentially transforming into a Fireball. The current Enhancement system and passives may be integrated into the new skill tree.

The development team hopes to shift the core definition of build crafting toward the skill tree rather than legendary and unique Diablo 4 items, allowing gear to play a more supportive rather than essential role, thus providing more flexible and diverse deck-building possibilities.

Talisman System

A new Talisman system will be added, possibly similar to Idol system in Last Epoch or Charm system in Diablo II, to provide additional set bonuses or ability combinations.

Endgame Content

A new endgame system called War Plans will be added, perhaps somewhat similar to Atlas tree in PoE series, allowing users to customize the endgame events they want to participate in. Each event is expected to have its own smaller skill trees for customizing and enhancing gameplay.

Another new mode is being added called Echoing Hatred. This is likely a bullet hell endless mode, possibly inspired by Echoing Nightmares in Diablo 3. Mechanically, it may involve fighting increasingly powerful waves of monsters and includes an overwhelm mechanic, and failure to clear monsters quickly will result in failure.

Finally, and most importantly, fishing will be available in the waters of Sanctuary. This is not only relaxing but may also yield some particularly valuable items.

Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred is highly anticipated for both its story and new content, and it may bring about a complete transformation for Diablo 4.

Druid, a new class introduced in Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.4.0, boasts one of the most flexible and sustainable combat cycles in the game, encouraging players to be creative and experiment with new build layouts. However, as a new class, many players are not yet fully familiar with Druid, and blindly starting a league journey with an unfamiliar build carries considerable risk.

If you want to know if Druid is advantageous in the late game and worth trying, this guide might provide the answers. We're sharing some unique Druid build playstyles here, hoping to bring you more exciting new inspiration in POE 2!

Tornado Shaman Druid Build

First, we'll mention Tornado Shaman build. This Shaman utilizes Advancing Storm Support and Ground Surfaces debuffs to transform tornadoes into devastating whirlwinds.

Notably, tornadoes absorb any elemental Ground effects they encounter, enhancing the tornado's power and dealing extra damage. Since Druid's Wolf form can easily freeze enemies, this means we can use this support skill to create Chilled Ground, freezing enemies standing in it, reducing their movement speed for a default duration of 6 seconds.

Furthermore, we've also set up a curse skill to create Burning Ground, and equipped a unique pair of boots that generate Shocked Ground, fully utilizing these Ground debuffs.

For Shaman Ascendancy passive, we chose Wisdom of the Maji node, which unlocks new affixes for runes and idols, gaining additional bound affix bonuses. Additionally, it synergizes well with the new Idol item: Idol of Maxarius, increasing our storm cap for maximum damage.

Flame Breath Wyvern Druid Build

If you don't like the tornado playstyle, Wyvern's Flame Breath might offer you ideal damage and the most spectacular visual effects.

Flame Breath, as the ultimate skill of Wyvern form, is incredibly powerful, especially for ignite builds. This is because it has a unique mechanism: each attack stacks the ignite effect, and the ignite damage increases rapidly over time. 

Flame Breath boasts a base attack speed of 800% and a Magnitude of Ignite of 750%, making it a devastating DoT (Damage over Time) skill. Once Ignite is fully stacked, it can deal hundreds of times your attack damage per second.

However, Flame Breath is a Rage-dependent skill, so we need sufficient Rage to sustain flight and unleash our fury.

To accelerate Rage generation, we utilize the new Persistent Buff Skill Support Gem, Eternal Rage. When linked to a skill, it significantly increases Rage regeneration, allowing Druid players to continuously cast devastating skills such as shapeshifting and channeling.

We also use Primal Hunger Passive, which restores one Rage per second for every four Rage consumed in the past 4 seconds, while also increasing our maximum Rage by 100%.

Additionally, don't forget to unlock all Ignite and Rage nodes in the skill tree's Jewel area. With all of this, we can simply take to the skies, ready to unleash flames and destroy all enemies.

Plants Spellcaster Druid Build

The next build setup revolves around Oracle Ascendancy, utilizing plant power as the primary means of output, and using spell totems to generate automated plant explosion effects.

The core of this build is Wildsurge Incantation keystone, which allows all storm and plant spells to deal higher damage and consume fewer resources, but at the cost of significantly shorter spell duration. However, since we are automating the process, duration isn't a major issue.

In addition, the new unique item Voll's Protector is an indispensable key element in this plant-based build, ensuring we always have enough energy charges to summon totems. Once we generate the initial charges, the totems can sustain themselves.

If we place Entangle skill on a spell totem, we can also create roots to trap enemies in place. Combined with Accelerated Growth and Thrashing Vines, this can create a true plant-based catastrophe, allowing you to escape even the toughest monsters and bosses.

Wolf Druid Build

If you're not interested in plant power and prefer to destroy enemies with a pack of minion friends, then this Wolf Druid build is a good starting point. To support a large army of wolf minions, you can choose Lord of the Wilds keystone, allowing you to equip a scepter while using Animal Talismans. This will empower your minions and provide you with a powerful pack of eight wolves. As they leap across the map, they deal enough damage to shred enemies and attract even more wolves to join the pack.

Additionally, Lunar Assault helps clear and freeze enemies, and empowers your wolves, resulting in higher damage.

This build also utilizes rage in several ways. It uses Commanding Rage to allow your rage stacks to affect your wolf pack's damage. Rage also extends the duration of Lunar Blessing, a skill that provides more frost damage to the entire party and creates devastating moonlight beams with each attack.

In short, these are all Druid endgame builds worth trying right now, with even more details waiting for you to explore. As you can see, Druid class in PoE 2 0.4.0 offers many options, whether you're sweeping across the map with storms, raining down deadly fire from the heavens, unleashing the destructive power of plants, or rampaging across the continent of Wraeclast with your loyal wolf companions, there's a build to suit your primal combat style.

You can seamlessly switch between various playstyles such as tanking, burst damage, or ranged attacks, complemented by powerful elemental skills, allowing for deep customization and creating builds that could potentially disrupt the game balance, making it a highly anticipated and exciting build!

Grow A Garden has released the second part of its Christmas event, but the update time has been slightly delayed, from the usual 8 AM to 11 AM on Saturday (December 13th).

However, this update has not revitalized the game, and instead, it has led to a significant player churn. You may have noticed some friends are not logging in as scheduled. This is because recent changes to the game have caused them to lose faith in its future. So why is this happening?

Admin Abuse Events

Admin abuse events typically occur on the day of a major game update, which is Saturday. Game developers use admin privileges to generate special weather and give players various items, including seeds and Grow A Garden pets, and each event lasts about an hour.

However, the December 13th admin abuse event was the worst Grow A Garden event to date. There were almost no restocked shop items, and admin packs awarded yielded very poor-quality seeds. Only common seeds like grapes were available, and the best reward was a rare egg.

The first half of the event was the worst. In the first 30 minutes, the administrator only performed about 10 events, with limited content, even worse than the first Admin Abuse event at Grow A Garden.

The situation improved in the second half when another administrator took over. With another developer in charge, the event quality improved. Some new content appeared, such as a mini-game. The developer also leaked some information, and a Santa Claus event eventually occurred. However, according to a poll, only 11% of players liked Admin Abuse event.

Christmas Event Part 2 Updates

However, Admin Abuse event was merely the trigger for player attrition. Recent updates haven't been very good. Let's take a look at the recently updated Christmas Event Part 2.

This update mainly added a time-limited gift submission system. Players can submit Christmas mutated plants to receive gifts, but can only submit once every 10 minutes. This has caused considerable dissatisfaction among many players, as it turns the game into an AFK simulator, completely deviating from the original spirit of Grow Garden.

Reward System Issues

On the other hand, this also makes obtaining rewards extremely difficult. Christmas egg reward requires a 10-minute wait before it can be obtained, and the probability of hatching the desired pet is very low, with a 51% chance of hatching a non-bird pet. The best rainbow gift has a drop rate of only 2%, meaning that many updates are inaccessible to most players due to the extremely low probability.

Additionally, there is a problem with insufficient inventory space. Developers should prioritize addressing these fundamental experience issues rather than simply adding more difficult-to-obtain content.

New Items And Pets

• Sleigh: A new item introduced in this update, directly tradable from the shop. Used for a ritual.
• Red-Nosed Reindeer: Obtained through Sleigh Ritual. Requires players to collect 8 Reindeer pets at level 100 to craft it with a Sleigh.

Red-Nosed Reindeer, which used to be very powerful, providing 2,000 XP to a random non-deer pet every few minutes and causing plants to mutate every 10 minutes, has been nerfed in this update; it now mutates every 15 minutes.

Missing Content

A certain currency shown in the update preview video has disappeared from the official update. It may have been used to obtain free Christmas Gifts.

Similarly, a promised global milestone reward, North Pole weather mutation machine, did not appear in this update and may be delayed until next week.

Current Game Status

Currently, the peak number of concurrent players has dropped significantly. Grow A Garden's online player count is likely about half of what it was before last week's update. This is not solely due to Admin Abuse event; the recent update direction is the main factor contributing to player attrition. While the game is not dead, it is in a decline phase, with daily active players only around 200,000.

The current updates and game mechanics are too time-consuming but the rewards are disproportionately small, making the game feel more like a chore and preventing players from relaxing.

Furthermore, the pay-to-win aspect of Grow A Garden is becoming increasingly problematic. Many features that could previously be obtained infinitely through in-game Shekels or by exploiting bugs now require Robux. Features like updating shop items, skipping quests, and repeating gifts all consume Robux.

This is particularly evident in acquiring gingerbread blossoms. If a player's consecutive login streak is interrupted, they must consume Robux or tokens to resume. The developers previously seemed to have planned to add a free resumption method, but it was ultimately not implemented.

While the developers continue to strive to improve the game's content and quality, the updates, while good, are difficult for ordinary players to experience. Overly focusing on adding monetization features instead of improving the basic gameplay experience will only accelerate player churn.

Judging from recent updates, the developers are increasingly neglecting the game. If they want to save it, they need to seriously listen to the player community's complaints and make changes in the right direction.

In ARC Raiders, a third-person extraction shooter, players participate in intense 30-minute timed raid missions, scavenging for loot, battling hostile ARC robots and other players, and racing against the clock to extract before time runs out.

This requires players to survive in harsh environments and face challenging situations, including dealing with dynamically changing map environments, managing equipment risks effectively, acting stealthily, and developing optimal extraction strategies.

To successfully complete each raid within the limited time, you must avoid certain mistakes. So here we'll discuss some mistakes you might unknowingly make, seemingly insignificant tips that can completely change your gameplay and give you more advantages during raids. Let's get straight to the point.

1. Being Distracted By Other Major Events

First, we need to mention that raids, unlike other mechanics in ARC Raiders, only last about 30 minutes. Therefore, during a raid, do not let yourself be distracted by other events, especially the weekly challenge trials and the intermittently available Hidden Bunker.

Yes, Hidden Bunker gives players 40 minutes to complete the objective, longer than the standard raid mission time, giving players more time to scavenge for resources and download terminal data on Spaceport map after activating the four antennas to unlock it.

This is supposed to be a good thing, giving players more time to complete the objective, but many players find this time setting misleading, as Hidden Bunker is often looted by other teams, or raids fail because of time errors. Therefore, despite the ample time, players still feel frustrated.

2. Ignoring Barricade Kits

Next, we want to talk about Barricade Kits. To be honest, they haven't received much attention before. But they are crucial when healing teammates; for example, when someone is cornering you, you can place one down to get a free moment of rest. This applies to both solo and raid combat. You can even use them to directly block a corridor during a raid, preventing enemies from passing through, and almost without making any sound. 

Even in a truly open raid environment, when we're under fire, we can use Barricade Kit to set up a decent cover area, both to deal with constantly spawning ARC drones and to protect ourselves from attacks. Therefore, using this tool effectively during a raid can greatly increase your survivability.

3. Underestimating Ziplines

The next item on the list is the severely underestimated zipline. As the game progresses, I feel their powerful utility truly changes the game, allowing you to fight on rooftops and surprise enemies.

In addition, you can use ziplines to enter any area with open windows, including rooms that are usually locked. You can also perform some cool tricks with ziplines, such as shooting while sliding, although the accuracy isn't great.

It's worth noting that ziplines also allow you to turn 180 degrees, meaning you can jump from a great height, then grab the zipline to completely avoid fall damage. However, be aware that once your momentum reaches its limit, you need to activate the zipline early to truly avoid damage. The flexible use of ziplines allows you to always gain an unexpected advantage during a raid.

4. Focus On High-Value Equipment

Regarding equipment, you don't need to chase after high-end gear like Aphelion or Hullcracker. Instead, consumables like Herbal Bandages, Shield Rechargers, and Adrenaline Shots, as well as weapons like Light Impact Grenade and Li'l Smoke Grenade, are the most frequently used items during raids. They are resources with very low crafting and usage costs, allowing you to easily maintain high damage output during combat.

Note that Light Impact Grenade is almost essential equipment to carry during a raid. It allows you to easily force enemies out from behind cover, interrupt their charging or prevent them from continuing to defend, and successfully launch an attack. Obviously, this concept also applies to other grenades. But if you don't want to invest more ARC Raiders coins in grenades, just choose Light Impact Grenade, as it costs almost nothing.

As for Li'l Smoke Grenade, they are crucial. Whether protecting yourself during an escape or obscuring the environment and covering teammates so they can get up and leave, this grenade is incredibly useful.

They are very inexpensive and easy to carry on every raid. Trust me, these items can truly help you change the tide of battle at critical moments. 

5. Neglecting Climbing Techniques

Since ARC Raiders is a PvPvE extraction shooter, the core gameplay focuses more on stealth, positioning, and survival rather than fast-paced vertical movement. Therefore, vertical movement is less important than in other shooter games.

However, mastering relatively simple climbing techniques can often enable quick escapes and prevent fall damage. Yes, it can be used for some clever flanking maneuvers, such as climbing a ladder to the top of an outbuilding and then jumping to a central location, using climbing to avoid fall damage.

In addition, we can also use climbing to jump from high rooftops onto cars below, escaping difficult situations, repositioning ourselves, catching enemies off guard, and taking them down.

Note that if you fall for too long, you will no longer be able to climb onto any objects, and you must ensure you are facing the object you want to grab.

6. Blindly Allocating Ammunition

Finally, for a shooter game, the amount of ammunition you carry is crucial to your ability to consistently inflict damage and survive; otherwise, even if you carry a Torrente, it's just a useless piece of metal.

With Torrente becoming increasingly popular, many people are starting to use it, so we'll use it as an example here. In its level 2, its default magazine capacity is 70 rounds, plus one extra magazine, bringing the total to 78 rounds.

Although in standard mode, when we pick up Medium Ammo, it doesn't automatically fill the magazine in the equipment interface. However, once we enter a raid, these 80 rounds of ammunition are automatically loaded into the gun. This means that 78 of the 80 rounds will be loaded into the magazine, leaving us with only one reload opportunity during this raid, and the ammunition will quickly run out, which is obviously not ideal.

Therefore, if you are using a weapon with a larger magazine capacity, or a shotgun, it's best to carry more ammunition. Especially for some more difficult raids, if you want to reload, you need at least two sets of ammunition as backup.

In short, avoiding mistakes is crucial during ARC Raiders raids, as you need to face not only deadly ARC robots but also other players who are constantly ambushing you. Any mistake can lead to quick elimination, loss of valuable equipment, or even failure of the raid. Therefore, proper equipment management and a thorough understanding of the environment are key to survival in raids.

Hi players, Christmas is just around the corner again, and Murder Mystery 2 brings you 2025 Christmas update.

This is another major update, including new artifacts, new quests, and new items. Let's take a look at the important content this update brings.

Lobby

The game's lobby has been completely redesigned with a Christmas theme. It's a cozy and inviting winter snow scene with a central lodge.

Two new real-time leaderboards have been added outdoors, displaying the players who have collected the most Gifts and Tokens. Currently, some players are competing for the top spots. Indoors, there are elements such as a fireplace and a Gingerbread Man, which you can find on the first and second floors.

Additionally, the developers have hidden a secret room in the map every year. You need to find five snowmen and take their carrot noses. After placing the five carrots into the grooves on the secret door, the door will open.

The door closes after you enter the room, and the only way to leave is to reset your character or wait for someone outside to reopen the door. There's a box of coal in the room. There's also an Easter egg from Murder Mystery 2 Workshop Map.

Quests

The quests are located outdoors. You can find a skier NPC with a Quest sign pointing to him. Talk to him to accept the quest.

• Daily Quests: Refresh daily, maximum of 3 can be completed per day.
• Event Quests: Progress is accumulated by completing daily quests.

Completing Daily Quests earns Snow Tokens, with a maximum of 3 progress points accumulated per day. Event Quest rewards include:

• Common Penguin Weapon (15 progress points)
• Common Velvet Cake (30 progress points)
• Christmas Glow effect (45 progress points)

Battlepass

Interacting with the quest NPCs allows you to view the updated Battlepass, which contains a large number of Murder Mystery 2 items. Players with Mega Bundle unlock all levels immediately. Key rewards include:

• Level 1 Santa's Plushie: A free huggable toy, different from the 2024 version.
• Level 2 Stickers Knife: A snowball-themed knife with skier stickers.
• Level 3 Snow Key
• Level 4 Snowball Gun: A snowball-themed gun with a white muzzle.
• Level 5 Snow Key
• Level 6 Candle: A decorative light source that can be placed on the ground.
• Level 7 Snow Key
• Level 8 Lights Knife: The blade is wrapped in Christmas lights.
• Level 9 Snow Key
• Level 10 Peppermint Gun: Clean and sleek red and white color scheme.
• Level 11 Snow Key
• Level 12 Confetti Effect: Triggers a falling red and white confetti effect.
• Level 13 Snow Key
• Level 14 Sweater Knife: A sweater-themed knife with pixelated Christmas patterns.
• Level 15 Snow Key
• Level 16 Gingerbread Gun: The gun body is printed with a cute gingerbread man pattern.
• Level 17 Snow Key
• Level 18 Polar Bear Knife: A design with a polar bear sticker standing on the handle.
• Level 19 Snow Key
• Level 20 Sparemint Gun: A unique green and white gun.
• Level 21 Snow Key
• Level 22 Snowball Effect: Adds a visual effect of falling snowball stickers to the weapon.
• Level 23 Snow Key
• Level 24 Bell: Shakeable with a flashing effect.
• Level 25 Snow Key
• Level 26 Rare Gingercookie Knife: A Gingercookie-themed knife with excellent visual appeal.
• Level 27 Snow Key
• Level 28 Legendary Frost Effect: A cool frozen effect with star elements.
• Level 29 Legendary Frozen Gun: A clean blue-themed legendary weapon.

The final reward of the battle pass is Snowball Cannon, a uniquely designed gun with a transparent barrel that reveals the snowball. It features a new reload animation and sound effects, and there's a chance to obtain a Chroma Version each time you claim it.

New Map: Ski Village

The new map is a cozy, maze-like village with a frozen river that players can walk on, and there are "photos" of the development team inside the houses.

You'll also find a special Christmas tree adorned with decorative balls paying homage to the creators of the renowned Murder Mystery 2. Hidden tunnels connect the houses, allowing you to peek through holes in the ice. There's also a trap door and a secret passage.

You can also find a Jewelry Shop displaying items like crowns from MM2. In the map background, you'll see an area displaying Snowball Fight in progress. Snowball Fight is a 6v6 team battle mode where players use melee weapons for thrusting and throwing.

2025 Christmas Box

2025 Christmas Box contains skins for weapons from the battle pass. You can open it with a Snow Key, and you have a chance to obtain Godly Snow Dagger. It's small, easy to throw, and can be paired with Snowball Cannon to form a set. There's also a chance to obtain a Chroma version.

Crafting

Crafting mechanic returns in this update, allowing players to collect weapon skins of specific rarities to craft exclusive effects.

• All Common items can be crafted into Coal effect.
• All Uncommon items can be crafted into Bokeh effect.
• All Rare items can be crafted into Lights effect.
• Any Legendary Frost series knife can be crafted into Night Sky effect.

Gifting

Gifting 100 Gifts during this event will earn you an exclusive weapon. The 2025 reward, Ornament knife, can be paired with Bobble gun obtained last year to form a set.

Additionally, this year, artifacts obtained through gifting will only be available from the new Christmas chest, making the chance to obtain the high-value Snow Dagger and its Chroma version even more valuable. Artifacts obtained through gifting also have a chance to be Chroma version.

That concludes the overview of Murder Mystery 2 Christmas update. We hope you enjoy Christmas and the game!