The meaning behind Synthesis is two-fold from taoaxue's blog

The meaning behind Synthesis is two-fold, though, as players will also even more freedom when it comes to crafting items. You can read more of the nitty-gritty details on Path of Exile's website, but the gist is that you can now find items with mods that are locked in place and cannot be changed and use them to create new variants of items with random implicit mods. If you're not a Path of Exile scholar, it just means that there's a good chance you might be able to make some very powerful POE currency trade , never-seen-before items.

The release of Synthesis will also see the Betrayal expansion integrated into the core game, with Jun Ortoi becoming a Forsaken Master who appears in the Maraketh Desert beginning in Act Nine. The content has been rebalanced so that it will occur less often than it did during Betrayal, but there will be more Immortal Syndicate activity to deal with when you do encounter it.

Synthesis will also incorporate a whole-game rebalancing of spells that Grinding Gears hopes will bring them all into power level equivalence, and that will put an increased emphasis on manual spellcasting, six new primary damage spells for two new character archetypes—the Chaos Spellcaster and the Holy Spellcaster—and a pair of new support gems.

Path of Exile: Synthesis is set to come to PC on March 8, followed by the Xbox One release on March 11 and the PS4 in the not-yet-specific mid-March. Grinding Gear said that it plans to release three more Path of Exile expansions in 2019, expected in June, September, and December. Details about the Synthesis expansion are up at pathofexile.com.

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