# Path of Exile 2 Our Biggest Expansion Now Available

- Product: Path of Exile 2 (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/path-of-exile-2)
- Vendor: Grinding Gear Games
- Date: 2026-05-07
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- **added** — Six new Endgame storylines
- **added** — New Pinnacle Bosses
- **added** — New crafting systems
- **added** — New Ascendancy Classes for the Huntress and the Monk
- **added** — 40 new Unique Items with new mechanics and powerful skills
- **added** — New Challenge League called Runes of Aldur
- **added** — Ancient fortress with new areas, bosses, and map mechanics
- **added** — 300+ node Atlas Passive Tree completely redesigned
- **added** — Atlas Masters system that acts like Ascendancy classes for the Atlas Tree
- **added** — New Delirium content with grand mirrors, new dangers, horrific enemies, and new realms
- **added** — Distilled emotions crafting system for jewels
- **added** — New Breach encounters with Hiveborn, Sky Hives, and Breachlords
- **added** — Genesis Tree for growing exceptional items
- **added** — Wildwood endgame encounters with Bodach as a new pinnacle boss
- **added** — Kalguuran Runecrafting system with Runes, Uniques, and crafting options
- **added** — Verisium metal and Runic Ward defence type
- **added** — Kalguuran Skills mixing magic systems of Wraeclast and Kalguur
- **added** — 30 new maps on the Atlas with new bosses
- **changed** — Breach mechanic received a major upgrade
- **changed** — Campaign updated to make navigation easier with visual cues
- **changed** — Revised more than a dozen existing Unique Items
- **added** — Build guide system that allows downloading build files to the game client with Passive Tree nodes, Ascendancy points, and Skill Gems

Forgotten evils return in Path of Exile 2: Return of the Ancients! With six new Endgame storylines, new Pinnacle Bosses, new crafting systems, new Ascendancy Classes, and a ton of new Unique Items, this is our biggest update ever! Not only that, but we also have a new Challenge League. Battle deadly foes and learn the secrets of Kalguuran Runecrafting in the Runes of Aldur.

With Wraeclast laying in ruin after the devastating cataclysm, an ancient fortress has risen from the earth. Enter the fortress, discover its secrets, and its rewards.

The fortress contains many new areas, new bosses, and new map mechanics. Should you reach its center, a devastating challenge awaits.

Exploring the fortress will also unlock the new 300+ node Atlas Passive Tree, completely redesigned with new and powerful abilities.

The Masters of the Atlas are willing to teach you their skills, but only if you are willing to help them. Uncover powerful artefacts with Jado, hunt deadly monsters with Hilda, or cleanse the corruption with Doryani.

Atlas Masters act like Ascendancy classes for your Atlas Tree, allowing you to specialise further into what type of encounters you would like to face.

An ancient trickster god has been unleashed, spreading madness across Wraeclast. Do you dare to uncover his origins and confront your darkest fears?

The entity of Delirium, the Strange Voice, has grown stronger. Break the grand mirrors, encounter new dangers, face horrific enemies, and enter new realms that will test your sanity. Should you find the missing shard of his mirror, you may face the Trickster himself in his realm of madness.

The rewards are well worth overcoming your fears, use distilled emotions to craft jewels and find devastating new unique items to prepare you for what lies ahead within the fog.

The Hiveborn, grotesque creatures from a strange realm, seek to escape their world and overrun another. Ailith and the Keepers of the Flame have held them at bay, but their numbers are fading as the Hiveborn continue to grow, forcing Ailith to call on Exiles to take the fight to them.

The iconic Breach mechanic has received a major upgrade in this Content Update.

- Fight through hordes of Hiveborn in new, intensified Breach encounters.

- Discover massive Sky Hives and challenge Breachlords in their otherworldly domain.

- Reap a twisted harvest at the Genesis Tree, which will grow exceptional new items for you if fertilised properly.

Aoife is a spirit, seeking a champion to aid her. The King in the Mists has stolen her body, and now her spirit is trapped in the Wildwood. She believes retrieving her body will free her. While helping Aoife, discover a different threat entirely - a threat more ancient, lurking in the darkness below.

Head into the Wildwood to accept the Rite of the Nameless, a series of endgame encounters, each more difficult than the last. Become the champion by completing them all, and perform the final ritual in the Wildwood to face Bodach, a new pinnacle boss that embodies darkness itself.

In this Content Update, we are introducing a new Path of Exile 2 League, the Runes of Aldur!

Meet Farrow, a rune enthusiast from eastern Ezomyr. Each rune Farrow finds unlocks crafting options and further uncovers the connection between Ezomyte and Kalguuran runecraft. With the help of the Kingsmarch crew, discover ancient Kalguuran treasures, secrets, and horrors - some familiar, others strange and horrifying.

- Find mysterious Remnants across Wraeclast and awaken their ancient magic by inscribing runic symbols on them. Fight undead monsters empowered by this magic, and break the Remnants to receive your rewards.

- Use the power of Remnants to unlock many new crafting options including Runes, Uniques, and more.

- Discover Verisium, a metal that can be used to craft Kalguuran items, giving a new defence, Runic Ward.

- Harness the power of Kalguuran Runecrafting to create Kalguuran Skills. Mix the magic systems of Wraeclast and Kalguur to dev

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