PoE 3.30 Covens of Umbra: release date, launch time and countdown
The next Path of Exile 1 league starts on 13 November 2026, Pacific time. Here is the date, the most likely start hour in your time zone and what GGG has confirmed so far, each fact with the day it was announced.
Countdown to the Covens of Umbra launch estimated
· 11:00 AM PST
Estimated hour. GGG has announced the date, 13 November (PST), not the time. Mirage and Curse of the Allflame both went live at 8:00 AM Auckland time, which on 13 November is 19:00 UTC. We switch to GGG's hour as soon as it is posted.
Covens of Umbra should be live now. If the servers are still down, GGG's launch post has the realm status.
Countdown to the ExileCon 2026 reveal time from GGG
· 12:30 PM PST
Broadcast start given by GGG in its 1 November announcement. Free on twitch.tv/pathofexile and YouTube (@playpathofexile).
The ExileCon broadcast has started; the reveal follows on the main stage. Our recap goes on the ExileCon 2026 page the same night. Open the ExileCon 2026 page
3.30 launch time in your time zone (estimate)
| City (zone) | Day | Local time |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles (PST) | Fri 13 Nov | 11:00 AM |
| Denver (MST) | Fri 13 Nov | 12:00 PM |
| Chicago (CST) | Fri 13 Nov | 1:00 PM |
| New York (EST) | Fri 13 Nov | 2:00 PM |
| São Paulo (BRT) | Fri 13 Nov | 4:00 PM |
| London (GMT) | Fri 13 Nov | 7:00 PM |
| Berlin, Paris (CET) | Fri 13 Nov | 8:00 PM |
| Athens, Kyiv (EET) | Fri 13 Nov | 9:00 PM |
| Moscow (MSK) | Fri 13 Nov | 10:00 PM |
| New Delhi (IST) | Sat 14 Nov | 12:30 AM |
| Singapore, Manila (UTC+8) | Sat 14 Nov | 3:00 AM |
| Tokyo, Seoul (UTC+9) | Sat 14 Nov | 4:00 AM |
| Sydney (AEDT) | Sat 14 Nov | 6:00 AM |
| Auckland (NZDT) | Sat 14 Nov | 8:00 AM |
Checked against GGG's announcements on 2 Nov 2026, 14:30 UTC.
Path of Exile 3.30, Covens of Umbra, launches on Friday 13 November 2026, Pacific time, free on PC and consoles. GGG has not announced the hour yet. Its last two leagues went live at 8:00 AM New Zealand time, which on 13 November is 11:00 AM PST, or 19:00 UTC: the countdown runs to that moment and switches to GGG's own hour as soon as it is posted. The league is revealed at ExileCon on 6 November at 12:30 PM PST.
Covens of Umbra at a glance
From the reveal to launch day
- Fri 6 Nov, 12:30 PM PST (20:30 UTC): GGG reveals Covens of Umbra on the ExileCon stage in Auckland.
- The same evening, expected: the full 3.30 patch notes. After the last two reveals they followed within three hours.
- The following days, expected: GGG's usual run-up posts on new and changed gems, item filters and challenge rewards.
- Mon 9 Nov, 1 PM PST (21:00 UTC): Curse of the Allflame ends and its characters move to Standard or Hardcore.
- Thu 12 Nov, expected: the launches soon post with the realm downtime and the exact start hour.
- Fri 13 Nov: Covens of Umbra goes live. Our countdown runs to 11 AM PST (19:00 UTC) until GGG confirms the hour.
- First days: hotfixes. Mirage got 15 of them in its first four days.
Follow the 3.30 launch
ExileCon 2026 reveal
When the 3.30 keynote airs in your time zone, where to watch it, and our recap of what GGG shows.
3.30 patch notes in short
When the notes are expected, and a short version of the changes the night GGG posts them.
About this fan site
Who writes PoE League News, where the dates come from and how estimates are marked.
When does PoE 3.30 come out?
Path of Exile starts a new challenge league roughly every four months, and each start date is set by Grinding Gear Games, the Auckland studio that makes the game. 3.30 is the next one.
GGG set the date on 12 October 2026: the next Path of Exile 1 expansion releases on 13 November, Pacific time (GGG, 3.30 expansion timeline). On 1 November GGG gave it a name, Covens of Umbra, and repeated the date: 13 November PST, free on PC and consoles (GGG, Covens of Umbra announcement).
13 November 2026 is a Friday. With the start hour we expect, 19:00 UTC, players in India, East Asia and Oceania get the league early on Saturday 14 November, local time.
What time does Covens of Umbra launch?
The hour is not announced yet. GGG usually confirms it the day before launch, in a short post that gives the realm downtime and the moment the servers go live.
For an estimate we checked GGG's last two Path of Exile 1 launches. Mirage, 3.28, went live on 6 March 2026 at 19:00 UTC (GGG, Mirage launches soon). Curse of the Allflame, 3.29, went live on 24 July 2026 at 20:00 UTC (GGG, Curse of the Allflame launches soon). In Pacific time that is 11 AM and 1 PM, which looks inconsistent until you check Auckland, where GGG is based: both launches were at 8:00 AM New Zealand time.
On 13 November New Zealand is on daylight time, UTC+13, so 8:00 AM there is 19:00 UTC, or 11:00 AM PST. The countdown and the time zone table use that hour. When GGG posts its own, we switch both and say so at the top of this page.
What is known about Covens of Umbra so far
Very little, on purpose: GGG keeps the league mechanic for the reveal. Confirmed so far are the name, the launch date, that the expansion is free on PC and consoles, and a one-line teaser on the announcement: “She comes for your realm.” Nothing has been announced about the mechanic, new skills or Atlas changes.
Anything you read about the mechanic before 6 November is a guess. We add facts to this page only after GGG states them.
What happens to your Curse of the Allflame characters
When a challenge league ends, its characters and their items move to the permanent leagues: softcore characters to Standard, hardcore characters to Hardcore. They are moved, not deleted. GGG usually adds a note on league-specific items: for Mirage it was posted on 13 July 2026, and the league ended on 20 July (GGG, what happens when Mirage ends).
Curse of the Allflame ends on Monday 9 November at 1 PM PST, 21:00 UTC (GGG, 3.30 expansion timeline). If you are finishing challenges, that is your deadline, four days before 3.30 starts.
What this site adds next, and when
The night of the reveal, 6 to 7 November: the ExileCon recap and a short version of the 3.30 patch notes. After launch: the 3.30 Atlas, its passive tree and farming strategies, and a guide to the 3.30 challenges.
This site covers the league itself: dates, the reveal, patch notes, the Atlas and challenges. Builds and trading are outside it.