Path of Exile 2: Return of the Ancients – GGG outlines fixes and changes coming in the next week

Grinding Gear Games has posted a rundown of what's being fixed and changed following Path of Exile 2: Return of the Ancients' opening weekend. The most critical issues were progression-blocking bugs in endgame quests — GGG says almost all known blockers are now patched via hotfixes, and players who got stuck should try again, though some cases will require replaying certain content. Crash fixes are also ongoing, with the studio saying it's made solid progress but still has more to address.

On the balance and systems side, the Ritual mechanic is getting several changes: the Rite of the Nameless will lock in map choices to close an exploit that let players see more mods than intended, ritual reroll cost reduction is being capped at 90%, and knockback is being removed from Blood Waves. In Breach, Vruun will now spawn after you defeat the rare monsters in Stabilised Breaches rather than replacing them, so your investment into rare monster modifiers isn't wasted. Runes of Aldur Pinnacle boss uniques crafted from Ore are currently dropping at the wrong item level, making their skills lower than intended — that's getting fixed. The passive tree is gaining new Elemental Damage Clusters near Jewel slots to make elemental conversion jewels more viable, and Atziri is getting a new rare Lineage support that lets reservation gems use Life instead of Spirit. The atlas tree is also expanding with new nodes tied to specific biomes; players who've already completed those maps will receive the points automatically.

The campaign is seeing a wave of quality-of-life improvements: Farrow will now mark his quest objectives on the map, the Singing Caverns siren direction mechanic will be made clearer, Journey's End gets a portal from the boss back to the NPC, and Machinarium will no longer force players to wait through the slow power restoration after a checkpoint. Controller players get a revamped trade UI with buttons to swap currency pairs, copy active trades, open Sale History, and a restored text search at the top level.

GGG is clear that this list covers only the initial wave of changes it expects to ship within the next week — more fixes are in the pipeline beyond what's listed here.