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Early Access Announcements - Path of Exile 2 Content Update 0.2.0 More New Teasers - Forum - Path of Exile

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

www.pathofexile.com

Here are a few new teasers for what you can expect to see in Content Update 0.2.0. Check them out below!

We'll be adding a Quality of Life feature that lets you lock your main hand, off-hand or both, so that you can use the same item(s) between weapon sets 1 and 2!



We've mentioned before that we're adding a plethora of new Support Gems to give skills that lacked them more options! Here are a couple new ones you can expect to see: Battershout and Perfection!









We're continuing to improve the visual and audio fidelity of Path of Exile 2. Here's a sneak peek of the visual upgrade to Essences!

If you missed any of the previous teasers, you can check out all of them in our main teaser thread here. There's a lot more to come in this Content Update! Stay tuned for further announcements!

 

[Arsic]

If it isn’t a new class or more story? No thanks.

I already gave them 300 hours of beta testing in the first week or two, along with detailed write ups of issues on various spots they frequent for feedback.

I personally don’t see a bright future for this or OG PoE anymore with the departure of Chris Wilson.

I can only pray he has a non compete for a year or two then forms a new studio for a new ARPG franchise.

I hate being sour as PoE2 was one of my most anticipated and hyped projects for a long time but it missed the mark immensely.

There’s a good game here with another 2+ years of development… but if they had delayed it for another year to fix issues they already rooted out in PoE1 years ago then reintroduce them here? Yeah this team may be lost.

 

[Mephisto40]

Think I'll just go back to this when it's "finished"

I think it's a bit silly they are having community events and stuff for a game thats not even finished yet, it's almost as if they think the game is acceptable for release now

 

[DaleinCalgary]

I find it really frustrating that I went from a fairly powerful character in the main game on my monk who is my main now to being destroyed in the endgame trying to get my first hideout. And I'm losing hours of levelling experience each time I die! I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or they just want to fuck me. The losing experience is the end of my paying though, that shouldn't happen.

 

[MagiusNecros]

If it isn’t a new class or more story? No thanks.

Yeah I'm still waiting on Huntress.

 

[Hot5pur]

I suspect they will build out more endgame and add classes, and any more story content will be saved for the full release.

I got 150 hours out of PoE2 in a very short timespan and it was wildly fun, pretty sure it fucked up my dopamine circuits too lol.

However, I stopped at endgame as it felt tacked on, a lot of busy work, and ultimately not that rewarding. Progress was either a choice of grinding for many 10s or hours or just buying things in trade. So either painful unrewarding grind or trivializing progression altogether. No middle ground.

Looking back Last Epoch is the better ARPG overall, but PoE2 is more fun to play from an action point of view. Glad we have both getting updates soon, especially Last Epoch with a massive endgame overhaul and adding WASD.

 

[Rentahamster]

Huntress let's go

Early Access Announcements - Watch GGG Live on March 27th PDT - Everything You Need to Know about 0.2.0 - Forum - Path of Exile

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

www.pathofexile.com

GGG Live - Path of Exile 2 0.2.0
GGG Live will begin at 12PM on March 27th (PDT) or Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM (HST) in your local time at twitch.tv/pathofexile!

In the livestream you will learn everything you need to know about the upcoming 0.2.0 content update for Path of Exile 2. After the livestream Jonathan and Mark will answer your questions in a Q&A session with ZiggyD which we will follow up with the full 0.2.0 patch notes.

Twitch Drops will be enabled for the livestream with the reward announced soon. As always, co-streaming is welcomed!

Path of Exile 2 0.2.0 Launch Date
A new hunt dawns! You'll be able to play the 0.2.0 content update at 12PM on April 4th PDT on PC and Consoles.

We’re very excited to show you what we’ve been working on!

 

[MagiusNecros]

Huntress let's go

I can finally play the game

 

[Renoir]

Finally it has arrived. Excited for some solid news about the new class.
Wondering how far apart this amazon going to be from the Diablo amazon.

 

[Rentahamster]

 

[clarky]

Looking forward to the stream tonight. Thoroughly enjoyed my time with this game but its been on the back burner waiting for the patch to drop.

Hopefully they bring the goods, fingers and toes crossed we get Act 4 and a new class or 2 at the very least. Can't wait to fire up a new toon and run through the campaign again.

 

[Rentahamster]

1 minute away from the livestream let's fucking go

 

[clarky]

Hour and a half they reckon this is on for.......

 

[clarky]

Gah no Act 4?

 

[Rentahamster]

Huntress has a mount? lol

 

[Rentahamster]

Javazon lightning fury wooo

 

[clarky]

Huntress has a mount? lol

Huntress looks sick.

 

[Rentahamster]

Huntress looks sick.

If Ingenuity stays the same, the 3rd ring ability is going to be very strong.

 

[Rentahamster]

Splitting your soul?

Horcrux??? lol

 

[Antwix]

damn 100+ support gems crazy

 

[Rentahamster]

damn 100+ support gems crazy

100 new uniques too! I hope that they're not crap though.

edit: that all 3 heralds unique would be OP but they're probably nerfing heralds.

 

[clarky]

Jesus information overload, Jonny boy is flying through this.

 

[Rentahamster]

lmfao those spirit things look like the spirits from D4 expansion. Hopefully they're at least useful.

 

[Rentahamster]

"epic changes" do eeet

 

[Rentahamster]

The possibilities for these corrupted essences are going to be crazy.

 

[Rentahamster]

"6 map portals remaining"

I saw that

 

[Rentahamster]

Man, I have to go out now. Guess I'll catch up on the rest of the stream later.

 

[Antwix]

damn recombine looks dope

 

[amigastar]

I only have about 8 hours in the game but i'm for sure gonna try the new update on April 4th.

 

[clarky]

No way this is coming out of EA within 8 months, more like 18 minimum.

And I'm fine with that, take you time GGG......... Still hurry up with the next act lol.

 

[clarky]

Path of Exile 2's full release has a 65% chance of arriving this year, says Grinding Gear Games, so what could go wrong?

Path of Exile 2 developer Grinding Gear Games has told Eurogamer there's an approximately 65 percent chance the game wi…

www.eurogamer.net

"It's worth understanding that, sure, there's a bunch of stuff going in 0.20, but also there's a giant team of people working on Act 4 that isn't represented here, so there's a lot of content going on in the background," he said. "And also, there's huge numbers of monsters and things like that - that we've done a lot of work on but aren't finished - that are sitting there waiting to come out. So there's more work there waiting in the wings that will make that accelerate. It isn't just the case that we've made three acts and now we need to start on the next three. A lot of work - much of the work - has been done for the remaining three acts.

 

[Rentahamster]

2026 launch sounds plausible. 2025? That's pushing it.

 

[Rentahamster]

IGN bought Maxroll



Ziz commented: I pretty openly dislike IGN, but hopefully not much will change, if it does im out. On a guide basis / What people are recieving its still gonna be the same people writing guides, same streamers giving you tips and helping the people that want help improve their gameplay. So for most people I don't think much will change - Maxroll is going to be a standalone thing with its former team.

 

[clarky]

Good article.

Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt Q&A - 'Throw Everything You Knew in the Bin'

Check out this interview with Jonathan Rogers, Game Director on Path of Exile 2, about the upcoming Dawn of the Hunt expansion.

wccftech.com

 

[DaleinCalgary]

Looks good but it all comes down to exp loss on death in endgame.

Get rid of it, I'm here for fun

 

[amigastar]

Looks good but it all comes down to exp loss on death in endgame.

Get rid of it, I'm here for fun

So true, exp loss on death is such an outdated concept, it's not even up for debate.

 

[sendit]

Looks good but it all comes down to exp loss on death in endgame.

Get rid of it, I'm here for fun

That's like saying remove permanent death on Hardcore mode......

 

[DavidGzz]

Definitely trying the Huntress. No new act kind of sucks. I wish they would go to the way Diablo allows you to use any name because the hardest part of the new league will be hunting down a name that doesn't suck.

 

[amigastar]

That's like saying remove permanent death on Hardcore mode......

Perma Death in Hardcore is an essential ingredient in this mode whereas Exp Loss is an optional design.

 

[sendit]

Perma Death in Hardcore is an essential ingredient in this mode whereas Exp Loss is an optional design.

I see your point and I agreee. With that said, they should also remove the optional design of HP loss on player hit.

 

[amigastar]

I see your point and I agreee. With that said, they should also remove the optional design of HP loss on player hit.

 

[Rentahamster]

Good analysis from Ruetoo

 

[Arsic]

Excited to play again next week. Plenty of improvements and as a Diablo 2 javazon main, huntress is looking mint.

Good times!

 

[clarky]

Looks good but it all comes down to exp loss on death in endgame.

Get rid of it, I'm here for fun

Pretty sure in the Q&A afterwards they talked about changes to that mechanic. I'll see if I can find the bit.

 

[Arsic]

Pretty sure in the Q&A afterwards they talked about changes to that mechanic. I'll see if I can find the bit.

The change is if you die in an end game boss you don’t lose exp. Think that was the only change, right? That way you can attempt them without losing your progress.

 

[clarky]

Excited to play again next week. Plenty of improvements and as a Diablo 2 javazon main, huntress is looking mint.

Good times!

I can't keep up lol, thought you were cold on the game.

Hope the update hits for you, it was your hype thread that sold me on early access lol. Thanks btw, loved it so far.

 

[clarky]

The change is if you die in an end game boss you don’t lose exp. Think that was the only change, right? That way you can attempt them without losing your progress.

Not sure, ill have a scan through it again at work today.

 

[Arsic]

I can't keep up lol, thought you were cold on the game.

Hope the update hits for you, it was your hype thread that sold me on early access lol. Thanks btw, loved it so far.

I think it’s a two fold ticket:
-One I had very high expectations for PoE2 because of my love and time with PoE1. So seeing them miss the mark by a LOT and repeating mistakes they solved already in PoE1 to then redo it in PoE2 is just worrisome. Take into account that Chris Wilson has left the studio and it makes me think he has a non compete for a year or two then will make a new game studio for a new arpg. Maybe the direction of poe2 completely soured him and his vision for what it was supposed to be. The scope for poe2 changed a lot over time and early access seemed extremely rushed especially end game. This studio has a great track record so again, very worrisome for what their direction is now.

-I’m growing older and far more of a hard ass to impress. I try to get out of my own head and not be such an overly critical Jack ass of this hobby but it’s hard to fight this. Inner turmoil. I find it much harder to enjoy most games.

—-

That all said this was a lot of improvements and one thing I didn’t expect - one of the classes I wanted to play THE most other than Druid. The gameplay should be very different from PoE1&2 offerings which is what I’m after.

 

[Rentahamster]

Take into account that Chris Wilson has left the studio and it makes me think he has a non compete for a year or two then will make a new game studio for a new arpg.

Maybe this is my personal bias talking, but my most likely assumption is just that he's tired AF, wants to take the money and chill out for a while.

Wouldn't we all?

 

[Arsic]

Maybe this is my personal bias talking, but my most likely assumption is just that he's tired AF, wants to take the money and chill out for a while.

Wouldn't we all?

Idk man you see creatives like Kojima and Todd old as dirt and still wanting to keep making games.

Chris when he speaks doesn’t strike me as a get the bag and retire material. He seems very passionate about game creation and has a level of understanding of why this genre in particular is so amazing especially when he speaks of Diablo 2.

More power to him if that’s the case but I can’t help but think the tencent acquisition and having to report to suits may have drove him out to take that capital and just start fresh.