Path of Exile 2 patch notes: What changes in the new update?

As a longtime Path of Exile enthusiast with countless hours spent slaying monsters and crafting magical items, I must say that this latest update is nothing short of breathtaking! The developers have truly outdone themselves with the sheer number of improvements, additions, and bug fixes they’ve implemented.

Grinding Gear Games has unveiled the patch notes for Path of Exile 2 version 0.1.0d, and we’re here to share all the details about them with you.

As a backer of Path of Exile 2, I’m excited to see the dedicated efforts of the development team as they diligently work on enhancing the game during its early access phase. They are tirelessly adding fresh features and fine-tuning the game to ensure it’s in top form for its future official launch.

Over the coming months, it’s likely we’ll see a lot of progress as things get busier on the development front.

At the moment, let’s concentrate on revising version 0.1.0d and the alterations that occurred in Path of Exile 2 after its launch. Continue reading to uncover the complete rundown of the patch notes.

PoE 2 patch notes: What changes in the new update?

In the latest update (version 0.1.0d) for Path of Exile 2, you’ll find numerous enhancements to gameplay, fine-tuned balances, and squashed bugs to make your gaming experience even better.

Notable adjustment: Enhancements in the way Trigger gem’s energy is acquired. The ‘Monster Power’ factor has been incorporated into this process, making it simpler than before to activate abilities from Unique Monsters.

Energy gain across the board has been rebalanced.

After making this update, the game will experience fewer crashes on all devices, which is great news. This is part of a long list of bug corrections and gameplay alterations included in the detailed patch notes for Path of Exile 2 version 0.1.0d that you can find below.

Full list of PoE 2 0.1.0d patch notes

The full list of PoE 2 0.1.0d patch notes is as follows (as per the official PoE forums):

0.1.0d Hotfix 1

Cast on Critical Strike now also cares about the Damage of the hit when determining how much energy to gain to prevent the use of high-crit low level skills, this should mean using lower hit frequency skills that hit harder are also now much stronger for this

General Improvements and Changes

Passive Block chance now applies to blockable hits from all directions, as opposed to just hits from in front
Player size is now set to Zero units while dodge rolling instead of One unit
Some smaller monsters can now be pushed while dodge rolling. This includes monsters such as the Adorned Beetles in Keth
Inscribed Ultimatums and Djinn Baryas now display whether you will obtain Ascendancy Skill Points upon completing the Trial of Chaos or Trial of the Sekhemas respectively
Removed World Map Pins for encounters that were not from specific locations in Areas ie From Monster drops
Improved attack in place behaviour
Rain of Arrows and Firestorm now have a hit-rate limit to prevent cases of them absolutely obliterating very large bosses. This will have little to no impact outside of boss fights with very large hitboxes
Leech has been buffed
Boneshatter now more reliably hits your target
The duration of Armour Break has been increased to 12 seconds (previously six)
To improve performance, Incinerate now creates circular areas of ignited ground instead of segments
Added CTRL+Click shortcut to open the Currency Exchange at the appropriate NPCs
Added a button to travel to the Trial of Chaos on the world map
Added art for Close Combat Support
Added 2D art for the Defiance of Destiny Unique Amulet
Added “Ascendancy Skill Points” as a keyword, which details how sets of Ascendancy Points are obtained
Added search functionality for Gemcutting and vendor inventories when using a controller. Keybinds for searching Stash on a controller have also been updated
Added Gemcutting restrictions option for Gamepad
Added suggested Supports for Time of Need
Added an option for opening the Trade website to the main menu for consoles
Runes now sell to vendors for more Gold
Auras and Curses that affect ally or enemy resistances now display values in the Skill popout panel
Tweaked the audio of the Kiwi Pets, Chimera Pet, and Baby Crowbell Pet to reduce their impact in town areas
Reduced the defenses provided to monsters by the Magma Barrier modifier
Walking Goliaths no longer use their suicide attack if they are Rare

Trigger Gems and Energy Gain

Trigger gem energy gain was not in the right place and it was far too easy to use ailments to trigger spells. One problem with the previous system is that if we balanced it to make triggering happen in boss fights then the triggering would happen far too often during clearing
In order to address this we are now making “Monster Power” part of the calculation for energy gain. This means that it’s far easier to trigger skills from Unique Monsters than it is from normal monsters, but you also hit many more normal monsters when fighting
Another issue was using low level skills with unconditional ailment applications such as Flame Wall to ignite enemies for triggering. In order to make the source of the ignite matter we are making the energy gain be dependent on the strength of the ignite
We have also rebalanced all energy gain across the board

Ultimatum Changes

Generally improved balance across the board with Ultimatum monsters, bosses and modifiers. Mostly targeting outliers that were too difficult and bringing them in line
The monster density of Ultimatum encounters has been made more consistent
Stormcaller Runes, Blood Globules, Heart Tethers and Impending Doom rings no longer spawn while a player is on a lift or near the altars in the Vaal Soul Core room
Fixed a bug where Player Minions could get stuck at the top of the lift in the Trials of Chaos

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug which caused enemies to be Primed for Stun or Electrocute earlier than intended while in a party
Fixed a bug where Gemling Legionnaires with the Integrated Efficiency Ascendancy Passive Skill allocated could lose their three additional Skill Slots if they were empty when entering a new area
Fixed a bug with party member reviving when using WASD input where you could revive party members from too far away
Fixed a bug where “Waystones found have a chance to be a tier higher” on the Atlas Passive Tree wasn’t working
Fixed a bug where the Audio Mix setting was not being remembered when restarting the game
Fixed a bug where one of the small Passive Skills in the Fleshcrafter cluster was not connected to the Notable Passive Skill. It is possible for your Passive Skill Tree to be reset if you had this cluster allocated, apologies!
Fixed a bug where you could not open a portal in The Riverbank in Cruel difficulty
Fixed a bug where some of Zalmarath, the Colossus’ skills could persist after their death
Fixed a bug where opening a full-screen panel while disenchanting could prevent you from performing any actions until you relogged
Fixed a bug where some fire spells, such as Volatile Dead and Incinerate, were not functioning correctly with Raging Spirits
Fixed a bug where “Buffs on you expire Slower” from the Prolonged Assault Notable Passive Skill and other Chronomancer Ascendancy Passive Skills was applying to Debuffs and other effects as well as Buffs
Fixed a bug where non-reviving Minions were spawning a Remnant from the Grim Feast Buff when dying in your presence
Fixed a bug Infernalists with the Pyromantic Pact Ascendancy Passive Skill allocated were considered to be on Low Infernal Flame if they were at 50 per cent of Maximum Infernal Flame or lower, instead of 35 per cent
Fixed a bug where the world map icon for Candlemass in Cruel was not updating correctly
Fixed a bug where you could be unable to upgrade Gems despite satisfying the Attribute Requirement by having the Adaptive Capability Gemling Legionnaire Ascendancy Passive Skill allocated
Fixed a bug where Fiery Death Support was not dealing damage correctly
Fixed Infusion Support Gems on Herald skills applying the gain damage as extra elemental damage to all attacks instead of just the damage from the Herald skill
Fixed a bug where Expedition encounters could fail to generate in the Decay Map
Fixed a bug where Quality on the Sacrifice Skill was causing Minions to Revive 0-5 per cent more slowly, instead of more quickly
Fixed a bug where the exit portal for the final boss in Trial of the Sekhemas did not visually display upon killing the boss
Fixed a bug where socketed Skills you didn’t meet the requirements for were missing their name in the Skills menu when using a controller
Fixed a bug where the Elemental Storm skill granted by the Stormweaver’s Tempest Caller Ascendancy Passive Skill could sometimes place the storm underneath you
Fixed a snapshotting bug with the “Loads an Additional Bolt” Crossbow modifier
Fixed a bug where the Contagion Skill was not spreading Poison
Fixed a bug where Tempest Bell could become invisible
Fixed a bug where NPCs were missing their name labels in Hideouts when using a controller
Fixed a bug where signing into a guest account on PlayStation 5 could delete your friends list in-game
Fixed a bug where you could sometimes be unable to enter your hideout on PlayStation 5
Fixed eight instance crashes
Fixed six client crashes
Fixed a client crash that could occur on Xbox
Fixed three client crashes that could occur on PlayStation 5

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