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We discussed our plans for 0.2.0h last week but wanted to give a more complete breakdown of what you can expect in this update.

Private Leagues

We plan to enable Private Leagues when 0.2.0h releases using the Path of Exile 1 website for now. There will be no extra mods available for these Private Leagues but we'll be expanding the functionality of them soon. We wanted to get the ability to create Private Leagues released sooner rather than later for those that want to start over in a fresh economy by themselves or with their friends.

Quick-Use Currency Buttons on Strongboxes and Essences

We've added Quick-Use buttons that appear below the labels of Strongboxes and Essences. For Strongboxes, the currency displayed is dyn

We're currently planning the 0.2.0h update for Path of Exile 2 which contains several quality of life features and will address certain aspects of Endgame content. We're planning to release this patch by the end of next week.

The main focus of the patch is to improve certain aspects of the Endgame. This includes the minimum experience of Breaches where far too few monsters spawn and the Breach doesn't last long enough. We will also reduce the number of small Breach splinter stacks dropping and instead have fewer, larger stacks dropping. We'll also be adding improvements to the visibility of Rogue Exiles, and will improve the behaviour of Azmerian Wisps when you activate two at once.

Another big focus is to add in some Quality of Life features. One example is that we'll be adding some U

Path of Exile 2: Dawn of the Hunt has been out for a while now, and we've gathered up some statistics from the first three weeks since release to share with you. Check them out below!

• The Arbiter of Ash has been slain 355,877 times.
• 3,406,779 Unique Maps have been cleared.
• 3.27 trillion gold has been dropped, which equates to 6.48 billion gold dropped per hour.
• 1.44 billion instances have been exited.
• 185,961,090 player character deaths in standard leagues.
• 291,112 player character deaths in hardcore leagues.

And h

0.2.0g Incident Report

Downtime

Today we experienced around 5 hours of realm downtime for Path of Exile 2. This was caused by several overlapping factors and we will be making changes in the future to attempt to mitigate these issues.

Incident

After deploying 0.2.0g we had reports of people's Skill Gems being deleted on login. We immediately shut the realm down to prevent further damage to people's skills and attempted to roll back the database.

Unfortunately, due to a change in configuration between the databases for Path of Exile 1 and Path of Exile 2, we discovered that the rollback procedure was going to take longer than 24 hours to complete.

In order to reduce the time, we decided to take our most recent database snapshot and roll it forwards to the correct time. This process still takes a lot of time, but was still going to be significantly shorter.

Unfortunately, the process failed on our Ladder database for reasons that we have not fully investigated yet. We

One of the things that we have had a lot of feedback about is item drops feeling unrewarding in various situations. Over the last two weeks we have done a major rework to item drops in order to try and address these issues. We are going to be deploying these changes in 0.2.0g today (we had to roll back 0.2.0g earlier after it caused some existing skill gems to be missing from your builds. We will re-deploy it on Thursday May 1st PDT. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.)

Item Rarity

In order to control the items that monsters drop, they primarily have two stats added to them. Monster Item Quantity is a stat that increases the number of items that are dropped. Monster Item Rarity on the other hand determines how good the items are that drop.

In order to prevent too much item s

With Patch 0.2.0f deployed, we're already planning the next wave of improvements we want to be making.

Our current plan is to try to get 0.2.0g ready as soon as we can. We are of course remaining flexible around this because of the Easter Holidays and ANZAC Day (A New Zealand public holiday) next week.

The main focus of 0.2.0g will be to address two highly sought after improvements as well as a flurry of other minor to moderate changes.

The first improvement is around Loot drops. The three main changes you can expect around this is to first mitigate unlucky streaks from bosses in the campaign by raising the floor of the quality of their drops. The second is to increase the quality of drops from bosses overall, and the third is to improve the drops from monsters possessed by Azmerian Wis

Xbox Game Share

We recently discovered that a group of bots were making use of the Xbox game share feature to obtain access to the Path of Exile 2 client. It was not our intention that you could play Path of Exile 2 on a separate Xbox account due to someone else on that same Xbox purchasing it.

As part of the 0.2.0f patch deployed today we made a change that requires your account to have purchased early access in order to use the Path of Exile 2 Xbox client.

After this patch was deployed, an issue came up where some legitimate Xbox players who had been provided a key to unlock Path of Exile 2 lost access to the game. We've fixed this issue, and the affected accounts should be able to login once again.

We recently announced some improvements to Path of Exile 2: Dawn of the Hunt. Many of these improvements, including Ascendancy respeccing will be coming in patch 0.2.0f, which we're planning to release later today. The following patch notes are still subject to change prior to the patch's deployment. This patch may take roughly 15 minutes to become available to download on PlayStation after it has been deployed.

0.2.0f Patch Notes

This patch adds support for respeccing ascendancy classes, atlas bookmarks, new stash tab affinites, changes to charms and totems, as well as many other improvements and bug fixes.

Respeccing Ascendancy Classes

• Redoing an Ascendancy Trial now allows you to respec which Ascendan

Complete the Path of Exile 2: Dawn of the Hunt quest on Discord to receive the exclusive Face of Corruption avatar! You can find more information here.

• Start: 10am April 11 PDT
• Finish: 4:59pm April 17 PDT

How do I participate?

PC

• Accept the quest in the Discord client here.
• Play Path of Exile 2 for 15 minutes with the Discord client open.
• Receive your exclusive Face of Corruption Avatar!

Console

• Select Console when accepting the quest in the Discord client here.
• Sign into your PlayStation or Xbox account and link it to Discord. You can find instructions for PlayStation [here](https:

As the week wraps up, we've pulled together a list of changes we're targeting for deployment in a patch mid next week. We've been busy making improvements to Path of Exile 2---here's what's on the way.

One of the most requested features we have had is the ability to respec Ascendancy classes. However, something that was important to us is to make sure that while it can be done, it does require some level of effort.

We have implemented it in the following way:

• Redoing an Ascendancy Trial allows you to respec which Ascendancy Class you have chosen at the Ascension device, but only if the Trial would grant you the number of points you already have.
• In order to respec your Ascendancy class, you must have zero points allocated in it, but you can now open the Respec window

We've just released the first ever sets of Skill Effects for Path of Exile 2! With new Breachlord, Faridun, Thaumaturge and Demonfire effects, your spells and attacks will look flashier than ever! There's also the Honour Guard Armour Set, Spear and Buckler Skins, as well as a miscellaneous smattering of other goodies like Skin Transfers and Vanishing Dyes! Check out some of the videos below, or get yours by pressing M while in-game to access the store!

Yesterday we listed a bunch of changes that we are making to improve the game. 0.2.0E will be deployed tomorrow at around 3PM PDT or (Apr 11, 2025 1:00 AM (GMT+3) in your local time), it will contain all the changes we have posted about from the last few days as well as some other things we have been working on today.

This following list of the changes are just the changes that have been made so far, these are not the only changes we are investigating and they do not represent a full list of what players are reporting to us.

Monster Speed Changes

Many players have been reported being overwhelmed by monsters. The cause of this is a variety of factors and we are addressing them on a case by case basis. We have listed monster changes act by act below, but we also made the fol

We've just released the Dawn of the Hunt Mystery Box in Path of Exile 2, a new mystery box without duplicate microtransactions! Each of the cosmetic effects in this mystery box has visual behaviour that interacts with your gameplay. Check out the contents of the box in the video below!

Please note that currently the Dawn of the Hunt Mystery Box is available only in Path of Exile 2.

There are 55 microtransactions (including variations) that you can find in the Dawn of the Hunt Mystery Box. Each of these microtransactions has a varying number of thematic variations, and you'll never receive a duplicate copy of a variation that you have already opened. For example, if you open one variant of a microtransaction, you may la

Today we are continuing to work on changes based on player feedback and this is a list of the updates that we have finished internally. We will be deploying the following changes over the next few days.

This is just a list of the changes that have been made so far. These are not the only changes we are investigating and they do not represent a full list of what players are reporting to us.

Player Balance Changes

Now that we have a lot of the nerfs out of the way, we can concentrate on buffing things that are not performing well.

Sorceress Specific Changes

• Arc now does a lightning explosion when it hits a shocked enemy but can no longer shock. It does not consume the shock.
• Eye of Winter now gains bonus elemental damage when passing through other elemental orbs like S

In our update post yesterday we said we would be checking to see if there were any outliers in the area clear times during the campaign. Now that we have done the first pass of our assessment, we can talk about some of the changes that we are making to improve things.

Our focus this time is on Act 3 areas since this act has a somewhat overall longer completion time.

The Drowned City

This area had a very large dead end that was intended to contain an entrance to an area that was temporarily cut to ship Early Access. Unfortunately this means that in the live version, this leads up to an inaccessible door with no checkpoint. We are removing that part of the level and the part that leads up to it which will reduce the overall

Many people are reporting that gameplay is feeling too slow. Sometimes this comes in the form of people saying that monster life is too high, or player damage is too low, or areas are taking too long. In this post we will talk about some of the things we have already done, and more of the changes we are planning on making.

Huntress Specific Concerns

One of the major concerns that we have seen for the Huntress is that a lot of the power of the class is locked behind the Parry mechanic, and some players do not wish to Parry. Getting Frenzy charges without Parry is an option available to the class later on, but there are no other early game options that don't involve Parrying.

We want to give early game players an option to get Frenzy charges without Parry, but we have to be very careful no

Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.

Path of Exile 2: Dawn of the hunt will launch on PC and Console soon! In this news post, we've gathered all the information you need to know about what happens on launch day and how to start downloading early.

The PC realms will go down and patching begins at: Apr 04, 2025 5:00 PM (GMT)

The servers go live for PC and Console at: Apr 04, 2025 7:00 PM (GMT)

The above times are displayed in your local time zone. You'll need to be logged into your account to see these. To change your local time, go to "My Account", "Manage Account" and "Edit Preferences".

If the timezone is displaying incorrectly for you, please disregard the above timer and refer to the countdown on the front page. Three hours before the end of the countdown, the realm will go down and patching will begin shortly a

We're thrilled to announce Dawn of the Hunt, our first major content update for Path of Exile 2! In this news post we've put together links to the announcements made during the livestream. We'll be updating this news post for your reference as the livestream progresses.

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We’re beyond excited to finally tell you everything about Path of Exile 2 in Early Access! In this news post we’ve put together links to the announcements made during the livestream. We'll be updating this news post for your reference as the livestream progresses.