The pillars of the expansion — a new league, an overhauled Atlas, two new Ascendancies.
Delirium, Breach, Ritual, Fate of the Vaal, Abyss and Expedition — each receives a new storyline, hub area or atlas tree.
Notable passive reworks across the ascendancy ladder, plus two new ascendancies — the Martial Artist and the Spirit Walker.
Active skill rebalancing — every documented numerical change with arrows showing direction.
Combo enablers, banners, seal mechanics, augury — the supports that shift entire archetypes.
New clusters added, keystones reworked, dozens of notable rebalances — including a sweeping Energy Shield Recharge nerf.
Forty-two new uniques added; existing legends reworked, renamed, or rebalanced.
A redesigned Atlas with fixed points of interest, Fortress maps, Masters of the Atlas, and a tablet system overhaul.
Divines flow more freely. Transmutation grows scarce. Three new crafting systems open up.
Culling threshold raised. Leech resistance softened. Several elite monster tweaks.
Density reductions, directional cues for veterans, controller and accessibility wins.
Sometimes the strongest design choice is subtraction.
A patch this large is impossible to render without some compression — here is what to verify.
All quoted text in this codex comes from the official Path of Exile 2 Content Update 0.5.0 forum post. If anything on this page conflicts with that thread, trust the thread.
Skill, support, ascendancy, class and unique icons all come from poe2db.tw. PoE1 ancestor links point to poewiki.net. League banners, ascendancy splash art, the hero key art and footer logo are taken from the official Grinding Gear Games press kits for Path of Exile 2.
This page was generated automatically from the patch summary; numbers, colours, classifications and the launch countdown were all derived programmatically. Use it as a quick overview, not a source of truth — for any change you plan to act on, open the linked official thread, poe2db or poewiki page and confirm.