Everything New in Path of Exile 2 1.0

By Cassio Cabral · Updated November 9, 2026 · 2 min read

The numbers, from 0.1 to 1.0

• Confirmed Campaign areas go from 50 to 100. Day 1, 3:05:33
• Confirmed Classes go from 6 to 10. Templar and Marauder come later, so 10 of the 12 promised classes ship. Day 1, 3:05:56
• Confirmed Skills go from 175 to 320, and uniques from 200 to 400 or more. Day 1, 3:05:33

Other figures shown alongside: bosses 40 to over 100, monster types 400 to over 800, base types 400 to over 600, plus 535 support gems, 26 ascendancies and 8 Atlas pinnacles. See the full list of open questions for what GGG left out.

Launch and price

1.0 is free to play and arrives December 11. The hour is unknown. Read the release date guide and is it free.

Campaign

• Confirmed The campaign is complete at six acts, and the interludes are gone. Acts 5 and 6 add 24 areas and 18 unique bosses. Day 1, 2:04:59

Act 5 returns you to Oriath. Act 6 is being kept hidden until launch.

New classes

Shadow uses daggers, traps and stealth. Duelist is a sword class, and its first ascendancy is Knight. Details in Shadow explained and Duelist and Knight explained.

• Confirmed The Shadow launches with the Assassin and Infiltrator ascendancies. Day 1, 2:26:14
• Confirmed The Knight is the Duelist's first ascendancy. The second, Master-at-Arms, has not been shown in play. Day 1, 2:27:35

The new league

Conquerors of Wraeclast is a strategy-flavoured league: you recruit troops, build a castle and fight battles. Everything is in Conquerors of Wraeclast explained.

• Confirmed You pick a faction, recruit an army and build a castle, then fight in battles. Day 1, 2:35:26

Items and the passive tree

• Confirmed About 70 uniques are reworked and 40 or more new ones join the core pool. Day 1, 2:53:49
• Reported Crit chance leaves the passive tree, based on hands-on reports from creators. Day 2, 5:51:25

Browse the uniques list and the currency page.

Endgame

• Confirmed The Atlas tree shrinks to about 70 much stronger nodes, and you can fill it by the time you beat the Arbiter of Divinity. Day 1, 3:02:38

Platforms and quality of life

Mac is "almost there", Linux works on Steam-supported distros, and you can swap between controller and keyboard. See Mac, Linux and controller.

• Confirmed A new death recap screen is added. Day 1, 2:18:00