News Tag: POE 2 Dawn Of The Hunt

When playing POE series, I believe you can never don’t want to have too much loot! Because the currency, gear and items contained in it can help your character grow smoothly until it is powerful enough to deal with enemies of all levels. To do this, the game must set up enough battles as a source of loot.

Based on the first game, although Path of Exile 2 early access has done a good job in the loot pool overall, there is still a problem with the low drop rate of some special items. Fortunately, the game will bring a series of new content in POE 2 0.2.0 patch Dawn Of The Hunt released on April 4, including Rogue Exiles and Azmerian Wisps that can provide you with more loot!

Rogue Exiles

After entering the endgame stage, you will encounter various random events and enemies in the map, and Rogue Exiles is one of them. Although they are game NPCs, the name indicates that they are essentially the same group as you, the exile, and you have the same skills and moves.

During the battle, Rogue Exiles can avoid your attacks through dodge rolls, smart pathfinding, smart aiming, and more dynamic gameplay, and can even equip and use some items you may also have. What’s more amazing is that each Rogue Exile belongs to a specific class, for example, a Rogue Exile holding a hammer can use Warrior class skills to attack you.

However, it is precisely because of this special and interesting new mechanism that your battle with Rogue Exiles is in PVE form, but the experience will be closer to PVP mode, which is definitely a thorough innovation for POE series of games.

How To Find Rogue Exiles?

It is expected that in Dawn Of The Hunt, Rogue Exiles will not be set in a specific map, but randomly scattered on various endgame maps. To find them, you need to fully explore Atlas of Worlds - it is the core of POE 2 endgame, where you can select maps, place Waystones, and plan routes to difficult boss encounters.

It is worth noting that when you explore Atlas map, there are some landmarks that can speed up your exploration progress or increase the difficulty of the map to increase the rewards available. It is expected that they may also play a similar role in your Rogue Exiles farming. These landmarks are:

• Realmgate
• Lost Towers
• Hideouts
• Burning Monolith
• Citadels

However, when you increase the challenge difficulty of the map through a certain landmark, you’d better buy POE 2 Currency to bring more positive modifier effects to your weapons and gear, otherwise you may not be able to resist the stronger Rogue Exiles.

What Rewards Can You Get For Defeating Rogue Exiles?

Each Rogue Exile has a special piece of gear. After entering Atlas map, you can hover over Rogue Exiles to highlight the description of Rogue Exile and the gear they hold. You can then carry out targeted gear farming as needed.

Azmerian Wisps

As a new species that will appear in Wraeclast, Azmerian Wisps are more like a special buff for inherent POE 2 enemies than an enemy. You will start to encounter them in Grelwood after entering Act 1. When you approach them, these Wisps that look like glowing balls will flee, and all monsters that come into contact with it on the way will be injected with special effects and become more powerful.

The tricky thing is that Wisps will also find more rare or unique monsters on their own, giving them powerful new abilities. The buffs the enemy gets depend on the type of Wisps that possess it. Path of Exile 2 Dawn Of The Hunt is expected to bring 4 Azmerian Wisps, and they and their effects are as follows:

• Bear: When this Wisp is attached to an enemy, it increases the enemy’s health and the stun effect it can cause. In addition, it will periodically summon a phantom bear to damage you by slamming the ground.
• Winter Owl: Winter Owl can enhance the host’s cold damage output and provide it with an energy shield, and summon a tornado that can protect the host, and a wind vortex when the host dies - they will destroy everything in range.
• Wild Cat: All monsters affected by Wild Cat will deal with more critical hits to you and increase the dodge rate they have. It also summons Feline Spirits to suppress you.
• Cunning Fox: This fox can convert the host to the next rarity level, such as converting normal to magic, magic to rare, and rare to boss, making it more powerful.

Interestingly, you can also modify the behavior and skills of Azmerian Wisps in the game through Atlas Tree and Tablets to make their behavior more in line with your combat habits. Considering that the in-game economy will be reset after Dawn Of The Hunt goes online, if you accidentally adjust Azmerian Wisps to be more difficult, it is recommended that you complete other tasks in time to gain more currency to strengthen your character.

Rewards From Azmerian Wisps

If you can defeat enemies possessed by Azmerian Wisps, you will be able to obtain special amulets that can be inserted into specific items with slots, thereby expanding the possibilities of POE 2 builds you can use.

The above is the specific information we brought to you about the two new mechanisms that will be released in patch 0.2.0. I hope they can help you!

As the most anticipated game of 2024, Path of Exile 2 has finally arrived amid the attention of many players. It has lived up to the expectations of the original fans. After Early Access was released, it set a feat of more than 500,000 concurrent online players on Steam, which is twice the same indicator of POE 1!

Currently, Early Access is still ongoing, and there are still a few months before the full version will be launched in May this year as previously stated by Grinding Gear Games. However, if you are an old player of POE 1, you know that Early Access of the original game lasted much longer than 6 months. In fact, they lasted for more than a year before launching the full version 1.0. Therefore, considering that its sequel may also take the same time to debut, we speculate that POE 2 is likely to miss their original Early Access deadline in May.

Speculations are speculations, after all, it is indisputable that POE 2 Early Access will continue for a while. Of course, GGG doesn’t want to let players idle. In addition to a series of new race activities for players to compete with each other and win loot, more importantly, in the upcoming Patch 0.2.0, the new season of POE 2 has also quietly arrived!

POE 2 New Season Release Date Prediction

So when will this new season be released? I believe this is what everyone cares about first. To be honest, GGG has not yet announced the release date of the first season of POE 2, but according to speculation, it will be around March 22, 2025.

This is not an illogical prediction. First of all, Grinding Gear Games has a tradition of updating seasons every 3-4 months, and Early Access has lasted for 4 months. It’s time to release a new season to change the rhythm of the game for players. In the meantime, the launch of the new season will help to better connect the economic system in POE 2 with the season mechanism, providing a better direction for the next season update.

In addition, Path of Exile 2 development team has postponed POE 3.26 league update for more than seven months in order to maintain the endgame content. This is a serious mistake! At present, many players have chosen to return to POE 1, which also proves that the update of the next league must be put on the agenda. If POE 3.26 is scheduled to return in April-May, then the new season of POE 2 will start in mid-to-late March as scheduled, which is also in line with the normal cycle of alternating between the old and new leagues. Players don’t have to worry about being overwhelmed in both games.

Path Of Exile 2: Dawn Of The Hunt Release Date Revealed!

GGG has finally released a trailer for the upcoming Path Of Exile 2 patch 0.2.0, the first season of POE 2, called Dawn of the Hunt. The update will be released on PC and Consoles at 12:00 PM PDT on April 4. Until then, don't forget to follow GGG Live on March 27 at 12:00 PM PDT or March 27 at 7:00 PM GMT to learn all about the upcoming 0.2.0 content update. Let's look forward to what explosive content this update will bring!

How Will POE 2 Season Work?

To be honest, GGG has been seeking breakthroughs, trying to get players out of the stereotype that POE series of games has always maintained the inherent style of ARPG, but the results are not obvious. Okay, this new season update is also a change that the developers have made. However, some players are worried that POE’s season mechanism will follow the old path of Diablo 4, forcing people to play seasons and restart every few months to play new content?

What we want to know is, when the new season starts, is it like Diablo, you have to create a brand new character to participate? Or are these new contents designed for character builds that we have already invested time in?

To answer this question, we may have to go back to the original game. Leagues in PoE 1 were always centered around a major new game mechanic, and did require you to make new, season-exclusive characters. Once a league ended, these characters would move into the permanent game along with all the other characters from the previous league.

So, you can still play these characters, but you can’t use them in any subsequent leagues. However, please note that in this permanent league, even the most basic items will cost hundreds of POE 2 Chaos Orbs. Of course, you can create a new character in the current league and fill your available character slot.

Therefore, we guess that this may be the case in PoE 2 as well, as this mode is so popular and successful.

So will PoE 2 force you to play seasons to play new content like D4? Honestly, I think they will have seasonal content, but you won’t be forced to do so. Because GGG places a top priority on maintaining the integrity of the standard leagues so that your characters will remain valid and over time. Therefore, this will actually be much more powerful than anything you created in the previous season.

What Content Will Be Added In The First Season?

The first season in Path of Exile 2 will still be in Early Access, but will reset everything for everyone who wants to participate. This season is expected to last for a few months and introduce new things for players, including new POE 2 currency, classes, acts, mechanics, and more.

New Classes

Honestly, we think that the remaining classes and Ascendancies of POE 2 may be released gradually over time, rather than launching all six remaining classes and their respective Ascendancies at once when the game leaves Early Access. Therefore, we guess that in the first season, another base class may be released, along with its signature weapon and two Ascendancies.

New Acts

Also, just like a new class with its Ascendancies and associated weapons, it is not impossible that the remaining few Acts of Path of Exile 2 campaign will appear in the new season. However, referring to the original Act 4, which was released a few years after the initial release of that game, and POE 2 is now much larger, there is still a lot of work to be done on the new Acts, so players should not have too high expectations.

Endgame & Balance

Just like the previous PoE 2 patch nerfed OP skills, there will probably be more balance updates coming to the game in this new season. Also, the same is true for Path of Exile 2’s endgame, which will probably make some adjustments to certain Waystones and monster affixes, as well as quality of life improvements.

In short, the release of Path of Exile 2’s first season is getting closer, but the jury is still out, and we’re looking forward to the key missing pieces of the puzzle that we can reveal soon. Let’s wait and see!