Path of Exile 2 News

Welcome to Build Showcase, a video series where we look at amazing builds from the Path of Exile 2 community that have caught our attention.

The first build we're looking at in this series is a Warrior put together by Struth Gaming. It forgoes the typical melee playstyle in favour of crossbow attacks - and somehow manages to explode entire screens with a single volley! Check it out in the video below.

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For more information on this build, check out Struth Gaming's written guide here or the video guide here.

We'd also like to take this opportunity to remind you that the first Path of Exile 2 Race Event starts soon, at 11am on March 2nd (PST). Check out the full details of the event here.

We have to keep the big changes coming to Path of Exile 2 under wraps for now, but here's a few new teasers for what you can expect to see in Content Update 0.2.0. Check them out below!

Content Update 0.2.0 will have some new Ascendancy Classes! Here's the illustration for one. I wonder what this guy specialises in…

Countless wars have left you with skills somewhat resembling a decent officer...

These two new Unique items coming in 0.2.0 will be sure to raise your spirits while outing your enemies as the low-lifes they really are. Check out Prism Guardian and The Deepest Tower!

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Content Update 0.2.0 has a lot of improvements to the Endgame coming, including improvements and new choices for the Atlas Passive Skill Tree.



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.

The first official Path of Exile 2 act 3 Boss Kill race has concluded. Congratulations to all winners and thank you to everyone who participated! All winners have been granted the Demigod's Virtue Unique. Below you can see the fastest of each class but you can check out the full ladder here.

Warrior: Angormus - 02 hours 28 minutes
Witch: GuyThatDies - 03 hours 18 minutes
Mercenary: wholenewsociety - 03 hours 19 minutes
Ranger: donkatzu - 03 hours 27 minutes
Sorceress: lightspeedcake - 04 hours 03 minutes

If you would like to claim your very own Demigod’s Virtue Unique, you have just under 1 week to prepare for the second race on March 9th at 12pm PDT.

If you weren't able to tune in live, you can check out the VOD provided by ZiggyD.

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Thank you to everyone who tuned into the livestream and to those who participated. Good luck next week, Exiles!

In the lead up to Early Access for Path of Exile 2, we put together an artbook showcasing a collection of works from our amazing artists that they made during the development of the game. Check out some pages from "The Art of Path of Exile 2" below!


You can get your own copy of "The Art of Path of Exile 2" for a limited time by purchasing the Liberator of Wraeclast Supporter Pack.

Thanks for your support!

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!