Quote (apholis @ Oct 4 2011 08:31pm)
pretty sure developers said that the current characters will be wiped.
there is no different league. and they also said before the beta to expect characters to be reset many times during the beta.
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Brand new ladder for competition
In order to get clean feedback on the balance of 0.9.3, we’re moving all old characters to their own “Legacy” leagues (one for hardcore, one for non-hardcore) where they can continue to be played. Players may make new characters in the Legacy leagues if they would like to.
We only want to hear balance feedback from the new Normal/Hardcore league. The purpose of the Legacy leagues is so that people can still play the characters they have become attached to (as opposed to us just deleting all the characters). Because many of the items will now be dramatically overpowered, we have to be very careful when dealing with balance feedback from the Legacy leagues.
Legacy characters will of course get a full passive skill refund because of the new layout. Their passives will need to be allocated again before they can use their items. They will find that many of their items cannot be equipped because requirements have changed. Some gems have changed colour. Many mods will have been rerolled or removed. In general, the Legacy league will be a bit of a mess for a while, but will at least allow people to keep their old characters through the changes we made.
The new leagues will have an entirely new economy, disjoint from the Legacy league. It’s a new opportunity to race up the ladder and prove that you’re faster at levelling than the other testers!
http://www.pathofexile.com/news/2011-09-30/dev-diary-patch-0-9-3