Incursion league

"Built at the height of the long-dead Vaal Empire, the Temple of Atzoatl holds stores of untold wealth and the population of a small city. But in the wake of a cataclysmic event, the temple and its secrets were swallowed by the jungle, forgotten by the world... until now.

In Incursion, explorer Alva Valai is searching for the ancient Vaal treasure temple of Atzoatl. Travel back in time to discover the location of the temple and change its history to maximise your reward."

- Description on the official Path of Exile website

The Incursion league and Hardcore Incursion league were past challenge leagues. They launched on June 1, 2018.

In this league, players will run across Alva Valai, who creates an incursion that takes the player 2000 years back to the Temple of Atzoatl. While in an incursion, the player can open passages and kill architects to change or upgrade the room, which affects the Temple's layout in the future. After 11 incursions, the Temple in present time can be raided for loot and special altars which modify items.

All characters and stashes were moved to Standard league and Hardcore league respectively when the leagues ended. Characters that died in the Hardcore Incursion league were immediately moved to the permanent Standard league.

Since version 3.5.0, the league mechanics of the Incursion leagues have been reworked as a core mechanic of the game. Alva, the NPC of the Incursion league, has become one of the Master of the game.

Challenges and rewards
The Incursion leagues include 40 optional challenges. Completing them awards the following microtransactions:

Modifiers
All areas have:

Minimap
These new icons are introduced to the minimap:

Items
These items were exclusive to the Incursion leagues, which the league mechanics are now part of the Master system:

Incursion Items
These items are dropped either in temporal incursions or in The Temple of Atzoatl:

Currency
These items are exclusive to The Vaal Omnitect, the boss of The Temple of Atzoatl.

Unique items
These items are exclusive to The Vaal Omnitect, the boss of The Temple of Atzoatl.

These items are exclusive to specific room of The Temple of Atzoatl:

These upgraded items are obtainable by using vial, base unique items and the Altar of Sacrifice in the Apex of Ascension incursion room:

Item modifiers
The league also added the following modifiers as exclusive drop. After the league end there are additional ways to acquire items with these incursion mod, such as vaal side area (with mod), Blight encounter, etc:


 * Citaqualotl's or "Of Citaqualotl" (Hybridisation Chamber incursion room or from the league boss)
 * Guatelitzi's or "Of Guatelitzi" (Sanctum of Immortality incursion room or from the league boss)
 * Matatl's or "Of Matatl" (Defense Research Lab incursion room or from the league boss)
 * Of Puhuarte (Crucible of Flame incursion room or from the league boss)
 * Tacati's or "Of Tacati" (Toxic Grove incursion room or from the league boss)
 * Topotante's (Storm of Corruption incursion room or from the league boss)
 * Xopec's (Conduit of Lightning incursion room or from the league boss)

Version history

 * Item with Incursion mod and Incursion monsters can be found in map version of vaal side area.


 * Alva Valai is now a master. You can first meet her in Act 7. She will send you on incursions into the Temple of Atzoatl during its construction in order to help her find its location in the present day.


 * Introduced to the game.
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