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 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 talk to Balbala or The Trialmaster to Refund Passive Points.
• Trials of Chaos that have 7 chambers and thus grant up to 4 Ascendancy Passive Skill Points now can be attempted from level 55, down from 60.
• Trials of Chaos that have 10 chambers and thus grant up to 6 Ascendancy Passive Skill Points can now be attempted from level 65, down from 75.

Charm Changes

• Belts level 30 and above now have implicit modifiers with 1-2 Charm Slots, whi

0.2.0f Hotfix 3

• Reverted rendering changes in 0.2.0f that could result in other cases of black screens or missing lighting.

This fix is client-side and require restarting your client to receive the fix.

0.2.0f Hotfix 2

• Fixed a bug introduced in patch 0.2.0f where monsters had higher chance to Light Stun players, rather than lower chance as described by the 0.2.0f patch notes.
• Added a Trialmaster NPC to the boss arena after Trialmaster has been defeated to let you refund passive points.

0.2.0f Hotfix

• Fixed a bug with Dynamic Resolution that could cause the game to just show a black screen for players with AMD GPUs.
• Fixed a bug where the Atlas Map was only displaying one objective on Map Nodes.

These fixes are client-side and require restarting your client to receive the fixes.

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

0.2.0e Hotfix 4

• The maximum number of Volatility stacks is now 200. This is additive with the Passive Skill Tree Notable 'Controlled Chaos'. This is a stop-gap fix to temporarily prevent abuse cases that were infinitely stacking Volatility to gain absurd amounts of damage, we will be doing a more final fix at a later time.
• Fixed a bug where ongoing life-per-second costs didn't realise you couldn't pay them when the Lich's Eternal Life notable prevented life from changing.

0.2.0e Hotfix 3

• In Endgame Maps with Bosses, if you now die after defeating the boss it will no longer create a new area and remove all the other content. It will instead respawn you at the previous checkpoint within the same area.

0.2.0e Hotfix 2

• Fixed a bug where some Vines, like those used by Brambleghast, were able to be bound as a spectre.

0.2.0e Hotfix

• Fixed an issue where the Queen of Filth was not present in the Apex of Filth.

0.2.0e Patch Notes

This patch contains many of the changes discussed in our recent news posts, including changes to Act 3, player balance changes and new Runes for attributes, as well as other improvements and bug fixes.

Changes to Act 3 Areas

• Removed the dead end in The Drowned City as well as the part of the level that leads up to it. This reduces the overall size of the area quite a lot, but more importantly prevents the frustrating situation where you go the wrong way and have to backtrack.
• Utzaal had the exact same problem as the Drowned City and we are doing exactly the same fix, but in addition has had a second dead end removed where the entrance to the Treasure Vault is located in the Present version of this area.
• The Apex of Filth has had the layout updated to resemble more of a linear flow, like Aggorat, making it smaller and faster to navigate.
• The Azak Bog is now more rectangular, and slightly smaller.
• The Infested Barrens now has a bottleneck

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!

0.2.0d Hotfix 2

• During party play in campaign areas, "Respawn at Checkpoint" now automatically respawns all players together into the new Instance of the area.
• During party play in campaign areas, "Respawn at Checkpoint" is now only allowed if either the game is paused or all other players are dead.
• The game now automatically pauses while a respawn is in progress.
• Being dead no longer prevents party members from pausing.

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

0.2.0d Hotfix

• At higher tiers of Maps, the amount of Waystone chance increase required to guarantee Map drops from Final Rares or Map Bosses is now lower. You now need less Waystone chance to ensure a Map drops from these conditions at Tier12+ Maps, notably changing at Tier14+. This results in easier sustain at the top tiers of Endgame.
• Temporarily disabled the Treant Foulspawn as a Spectre.
• Fixed a bug where Skeletal Clerics would fail to follow the player.
• Fixed a client crash related to the Ancestral Warrior Totem.
• Fixed a client crash related to using Storm Lance while in a party.
• Fixed another client crash that could happen while in a party.

You will need to restart your client to receive some of the client changes in this hotfix

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