Path of Exile 2 News

We've recently hired a new data analyst that some of you may recognise from the community, Lilylicious! Part of her work involves gathering information from game logs, which can provide some interesting stats. Check out a snapshot of fun stats below!

These stats are from the 18th-25th of February 2025, representing a week's worth of Early Access data:

• Total gold dropped - 899 billion (this works out to be about 1.5 million gold per second!)
  
• Total player deaths - 14.5 million
  
• Mean player level - 75
  
• Median player level - 89
  

As an extra little stat, the logs for the week accumulate to ~1.5TB of data. Pulling this info from the logs was quite time consuming, which is why we've just done a one week snapshot. We're keen to post more stats like these in the future, and are developing tools to let us do so more easily and comprehensively. Since writing this post, we've actually improved our system so that the same data takes only about 115GB to store while remaining easy to work with. Let us know if there's anything in particular you'd like to see!

Path of Exile 2 introduced some amazing bosses into the world of Wraeclast and we wondered… who would win in a clash between them? Today we’ve pitted the Mighty Silverfist against the savage Rathbreaker!

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Let us know who you would like to see next, perhaps we can find out who is the strongest of them all!

In today’s news post, we’re showing off some of the concept art that went into the making of Path of Exile 2. All of these models are currently in Early Access, how many of them do you recognise?

If you haven't had your fill, we’ll be including links to the Artstation pages of our artists so you can check more of them out.

[h2]Felipe Eckhardt - Character Artist[/h2]

[h3]Crested Behemoth[/h3]


[h3]Risen Tale-Woman[/h3]


[h3]Breach Monsters[/h3]


[h3]Arbiter of Ash[/h3]


[h2]YeeFoong Pang - Character Artist[/h2]

[h3]Tor Gul, The Defiler[/h3]


[h3]Doryani’s Triumph[/h3]

While the team are working hard on the 0.2.0 content update, which we expect to release in approximately one month, we'll be running a series of races in Path of Exile 2 starting from the 2nd of March PST that will be open to everyone. While the races are open, the purpose of them is to crown players that are willing to prove themselves against others. These races will be the first event in Path of Exile 2 that will introduce the new series of Demigod items as prizes.

In each of these events, players will compete to be the first to kill Doryani in Act 3 in a Standard Solo Self-Found fixed layout environment. While this is not a Hardcore Event, players will incur a penalty upon death where they will not be able to move until a one-minute period has lapsed.

We'll be posting the ladder links here so you'll be able to check who's leading in real-time during each race, or to check the best times after the race to see how you fare against the top.

In order to join, click the "Join" button for the race in the Character Select screen. You'll then be prompted to create a character. Once you've spawned in, you won't be able to move your character until the race starts.



These races will be open to PC and Console with a shared prize pool.

[h3]Event Times and Dates[/h3]

• Race 1: March 2 11AM PST
  
• Race 2: March 9 12PM PDT
  
• Race 3: March 16 12PM PDT
  

We suggest that you join the races early, as each race will start at the same time for all players.

[h3]Prizes[/h3]



The Demigod's Virtue Unique item will be up for grabs for the top placement of each class:

• Ranger
  
• Sorceress
  
• Witch
  
• Monk
  
• Warrior
  
• Mercenary
  

This means in each race, six Demigod's Virtues will be awarded. Future events will include other classes when they're added to Early Access.

As we do more race events in the future, we'll cycle through all the Demigod's items. They'll eventually represent an entire armour set including weaponry, so you might be able to collect the entire set if you're good enough!

Upon the conclusion of each race, a Remove-Only stash tab will be added in your core leagues where you can choose to remove the item from the tab to equip it, show it off, link it to others or keep it there as a trophy for the ages. Or you can trade it away if you don't care, your call!

If you want to use it as a cosmetic, you'll be able to convert it into a microtransaction using the /convertracereward command (once it has been implemented).

All future leagues will have this Remove-Only stash tab too, but they will only become available one month into the league.




Thanks to our friends at Alienware, a custom-decaled Alienware laptop will also be awarded to the fastest player in our final race which will be held on March 16th PDT.



Alienware m16 R2 Gaming Laptop
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 155H (24MB cache, 16 cores, 1.40 to 4.80 GHz P-Core Turbo)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 8GB GDDR6
1 TB, M.2, PCIe NVMe, SSD
32GB, 2x16GB, DDR5, 5600 MT/s
Windows 11 Home, English

[h3]Rules[/h3]
These races are free to participate in and anyone is welcome to join. Streaming your POV will not be mandatory for this event. There are no limitations to how many races you can join, which means you will be able to win multiple Demigod's Virtues if you're skilled enough!

Please note that the use of inappropriate character names (i.e. those that breach our Terms of Use) during your run will result in you being disqualified from participating in that event or future race events in the series. If you plan to stream your run, these rules will also apply to throw-away stream names for those that are streaming on alternate channels. Please also note that any character names that appear to be attempting to subtly skirt the rules or get around them while still being generally appropriate will count as a breach in this instance. If you want to play it safe, just use your regular stream/race names that people regularly know you by. If you're using an alt to obscure your strategy, that's okay but please keep the above rules in mind.

Grinding Gear Games staff will be excluded from winning prizes in these events. Any participants that have engaged in Alpha Testing that includes relevant content will also be excluded.

[h3]Where to Watch[/h3]
Each of these races will be hosted live on twitch.tv/pathofexile with shoutcasting by ZiggyD and RaizQT. Co-streaming is welcome!

Good luck to everyone who is planning to participate! We can't wait to see how your strategies will unfold.