Path of Exile 2 News

In this episode of our Developer Interviews series, Eben talked to Zaccie, a Game Designer at Grinding Gear Games whose work focuses on monster balance. Check out the interview below!

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This August, Path of Exile 2 will once again be going to Gamescom in Cologne, Germany! This time, we wanted to do something a bit special, so we are now introducing the Path of Exile 2 Boss Rush Event. Kill as many bosses as you can in 20 minutes, and win some cool prizes.

In the past all our demos at events have been playing slices of the game, but since we are in Early Access now, we knew we wanted to make something that existing players would also enjoy trying out, and that is where the idea for the Boss Rush was born.



Choose between 7 preconstructed character builds, one for each class, then see how many bosses you can kill. Before each boss are a few packs of monsters so you can test out your skills, before getting to the main event. Then throw yourself at the boss for as many attempts as it takes to bring it down.

After you kill the boss, a portal will open up to the next arena, and the level of all subsequent bosses will increase. There are 15 bosses in all, many of which have not appeared in the game yet. We highly doubt you can kill them all!

Above the booth will be a live leaderboard featuring the top Exiles able to kill the most bosses in the shortest period of time.

If you’re planning to attend the exhibition, make sure to check out our booth! All visitors will have the chance to earn Path of Exile 2 merchandise prizes depending on how many bosses you can kill.

Gamescom

• When - 20th - 24th of August
  
• Where - Hall 6.1 C071 / A070
  

We hope you have lots of fun!

Xesht may be One, but is One enough to defeat Fear Manifest itself? What if Fear Manifested a hundred times? Find out in today's Boss VS Boss!

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Let us know who you'd like to see battle it out next!

We’ve just released patch 0.2.1b for Path of Exile 2. With this update, all the microtransactions released in Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas will also be available in Path of Exile 2.

Microtransactions included in this patch are:

• Watcher's Wrath Armour Set
  
• Archon of the Atlas Armor Set
  
• Skull of Undeath
  
• Syndicate's Demise Unique Finisher Effect
  
• The Originator's Portal Effect
  
• Rose Charges
  

This patch also enables the Mercenaries Supporter Packs for Path of Exile 2. There are two series of Mercenaries Supporter Packs; the Phrecian Magistrate series and the Cryptkeeper series. Each of the two series has different exclusive cosmetic contents, like the armour sets shown below.

To see the full contents of these packs or to get yours now, visit the Path of Exile 2 shop by pressing M in-game.

If you have already purchased any pack from either of the Mercenaries Supporter Pack series in Path of Exile 1, these microtransactions will be immediately available to you in Path of Exile 2.

Thank you for your support!

Now that Path of Exile 1 has had its league, it’s time to talk about our plans for when the next Path of Exile 2 Content Update will be released! Path of Exile 2 has a lot of new players, so we thought it would be a good idea to explain how our updates work.

Major updates for Path of Exile 2 are released every 4 months. Since 0.2.0 was in April, that means the next one will be in August, and the one after that will be in December.

Our big updates, including the one coming in August include a new League. Leagues are a fresh economy for you to experience the new content update in, but they also have exclusive content that is only available in the league.

Leagues usually contain a new combat mechanic, new rewards, new crafting options and new bosses.

During the league, the new content will usually appear in every area, giving you a new experience while playing through the game. After the league ends, we then have a chance to work out how we will integrate the content from the league into the base game, meaning it’s a great way to introduce new things while still giving us a chance to fix any problems before they are in the game forever.

After the league is finished, all your characters and items will transfer to the Standard leagues where you can continue to play them, but most players usually want to play in the next league.

Of course, our content updates always contain a lot of new stuff for the base game as well. As Path of Exile 2 is still in Early Access, we have a lot of content that we haven't finished yet, and there is certainly a lot of new stuff coming!

Now for the date. 0.3.0 will be released on August 29th (PDT). It’s a little later in the month than we had hoped, but this is a big update, and there were a few other constraints we had to work around. We will be announcing the content of the release around one week beforehand. We look forward to showing you guys what we have been cooking up!