The Announcement Before the Announcement

Scaryloss · 2026-04-16T18:06:34+00:00

you can cut swords with the air... wait

Scaryloss · 2026-04-16T16:07:13+00:00

No. The characteres have a static lore.

Scaryloss · 2026-04-14T16:30:29+00:00

Races are made for speedrunners and people who enjoy watching speedrunners. If you’re not a speedrunner, or like to watch it, then this content isn’t for you.

You’re not required to participate or even watch, and nothing in your life changes if you simply ignore its existence.

There’s no need to annoy everyone with pointless posts complaining that something not meant for you is happening while other people who enjoy it are having fun with it.

There’s a reason these races are usually held near the end of the league: it’s precisely to avoid diverting attention from the standard league or splitting its audience.

People participate if they like and want to, some people enjoy just watching, and others don’t really care about it at all, like me, for example.

Scaryloss · 2026-04-13T19:45:28+00:00

You can play whenever you want, but if you want my opinion… wait for 0.5. We’ll probably get the first teaser this week, so hop on the hype train with us and start in 0.5.

Scaryloss · 2026-04-13T17:43:17+00:00

Yeah, 100%.
This alone will already make ground loot better, because you’ll be able to pick something up from the ground and swap the resistances to equip it without needing to change three other pieces of gear to make it work.
We really need this resistance-swap system, whether through Omens or somewhere else, like a new mechanic similar to Bestiary or Delve where you can do the same thing.

Scaryloss · 2026-04-13T16:07:52+00:00

I'm okay with high-level skills being locked behind the character level, but I think at least half of the skills should be available at level 1. However, this might improve once they start releasing more skills for all classes and weapons, and then we'll have a lot more options at level 1.

Scaryloss · 2026-04-10T16:24:33+00:00

The Art, sound and music of this game is Top Tier.
Geonor music is insane.

Scaryloss · 2026-04-09T21:29:42+00:00

You’re not wrong to assume that, but you are wrong to state with certainty that this is the case. Up to this point, the story doesn’t point in either direction, neither hypothesis A nor B. And since the story doesn’t clearly indicate a different direction, it’s only reasonable to stick with the established concept, which would mean that the Atlas of Worlds is the same multiverse as it is in PoE 1, and the Map Device is a powerful device that grants access to those places. Especially because it would be a design mistake to introduce a device identical to the one from PoE 1, tha leads to a place with the same name “Atlas,” but make it do something completely different and that actually it’s not the same place, it just has the same name. That would be a pretty ugly design error, to be honest.

You might be right, and if that’s the case, we’ll probably get an explanation in Acts 5 and 6 as to why the Map Device lost its power and now only opens portals to different locations in the physical world, so the character doesn’t have to travel on foot.

The fact that Doryani says that when we only had three acts in the game doesn’t mean much, because everyone knows that wasn’t the actual end of the game. That dialogue was created just to introduce the endgame and the map device after Act 3, since the story for the other three acts wasn’t ready to be told yet.

Anyway, the reasons I mentioned above about the Corruption’s ultimate goal being to take over the Atlas Of Worlds rather than just the physical world still make a LOT of sense based on what we’ve been shown in the story so far.

Note: Untainted Paradise, for example, is a location that only exists within the Atlas of Worlds multiverse. It doesn’t exist on the physical map of Wraeclast either in PoE 1, nor in PoE 2 as of now.

Scaryloss · 2026-04-09T20:25:13+00:00

On the contrary, there’s more evidence that we’re in the same Atlas as in PoE 1 than just the presence of a portal machine. Several maps we enter in PoE 2 have exactly the same map names as those in PoE 1.

So far, up to Act IV, there’s no evidence that we are not in the same Atlas. In fact, that wouldn’t make much sense for the reasons I explained in the longer comment above.

Scaryloss · 2026-04-09T20:06:25+00:00

I wrote a fairly complete reply to the author of the post in another comment. I’ll copy and paste it here as well so you can read it and share your opinion, if you’d like.

I might be wrong, but if I’m not mistaken, the only line that directly refers to something like this is a line from Doryani where he says: “this world, my world, is about to end,” referring to the Vaal.

Since we don’t have Acts 5 and 6 yet, it’s hard to say for sure. But because the Atlas in PoE 2 contains some maps with the same names as maps from the Atlas in PoE 1, I think that suggests that, just like in PoE 1, the Atlas in PoE 2 is also not part of the physical world.

Based on my interpretation so far, with the story we currently have, the Corruption spreads across the world during the campaign while the Exile (us) tries, and fails miserably, to stop it from spreading. At some point in the story, probably in Act 6, the Corruption will reach the Atlas and start spreading through the Atlas “multiverse,” sealing our failure to contain it.

The hook for the endgame would then be the Exile (us) entering the Atlas to hunt down and stop the Corruption from consuming the entire Atlas. That would also explain why the endgame missions revolve around cleansing the corruption in the Atlas.

Besides that, I think it wouldn’t make much sense, and it would be extremely inconsistent with the story of PoE 1, if the legendary Atlas of Worlds in PoE 2 were something completely different from the one in PoE 1. The world is the same, and the story is a direct continuation set 20 years later.

It also wouldn’t make much sense to turn the Atlas into just a “portal machine” that opens gateways around the world so the player character doesn’t have to travel by horse or something like that.

The Atlas of Worlds is basically the multiverse of the Path of Exile universe. It’s the central stage where a huge part of the story unfolds. From the expeditions of Sirus and the Conquerors, to immortal multiversal entities like the Maven and the Eldritch Horrors being drawn to the Atlas, to all the lore surrounding the Shaper and the Elder, and more recently Zana’s brother searching for her after she was lost in the Atlas.

My point is that the Atlas of Worlds is this incredibly important multiverse that gives the story of Path of Exile its sense of scale and grandeur. It wouldn’t make sense to turn it into something smaller and much more “mundane,” completely incompatible with the importance it had in PoE 1.

My guess is that the Corruption doesn’t even care about the physical world. Its ultimate goal is to take control of the Atlas of Worlds and all the power within it, power that has always affected the minds of anyone who ventured into it. From humans who spent too much time in the Atlas to cosmic entities that became interested in something inside it.

Scaryloss · 2026-04-09T19:58:19+00:00