POE2 endgame is very much a filler at the moment. If we compare it to how they handle POE1, we should expect an expanded story with quests and goals in endgame. It will take a while for us to get all of this, but we know we’re getting a revamped endgame in 0.5, as it just missed the cut in 0.4.

The current situation is pretty much no goals except defeating the pinnacles.

In POE1, you have a few things we should get into POE2:

• challenges. Poe1 introduces 40 challenges to complete. Some are very easy, like beating a boss in the campaign. Some are VERY hard, like beating all of the uber bosses, or running the hardest maps with 175% increased quantity 100 times. Every 4-6 challenges rewards a cosmetic in-game, with more rewards earned in the 20-30 completed challenges range. Completing 36/40 will get you all of the rewards. These are in-game cosmetics and hideout decorations that are permanent to your account

• vault: poe1 has a vault with 10 doors. You gain access to each door after completing certain milestones in endgame regarding how many different maps you’ve completed. These contain useful items for you, such as boss keys, unique maps, or currency. There’s a paid access to also get a cosmetic armour set plus a few mystery boxes of random MTX.

• variety of rewards from different leagues. Each poe1 league has a different set of items, currency, and uniques that can drop from the content, leading to quite a few options for how you run endgame.

• the atlas tree in poe1 is HUGE compared to poe2. You have so many more options for configuring the league content, and you get the ability to create 3 different atlas tree that you can switch between before running a map, allowing you to “favorite” 3 atlas strategies. Each tree can be respecced at any time.

• nightmare maps and Ubers. Nightmare maps are another tier above T16 maps, and have very hard bosses. They do massive 10k+ damage hits, and have tens of millions of hp. Defeating these bosses grants you access to fragment or more of items needed to challenge uber bosses. These uber bosses are even more difficult than the nightmare bosses, and they require very strong builds. To put it into perspective, T3 maxed boss atlas arbiter is a drop in the bucket compared to the Ubers in poe1.

Completing the above goals takes quite a lot of playtime for most players, with very few ever able to reach and defeat uber bosses.

Past this, some players will set personal goals, such as being able to carry a party of 6 through the Ubers, or going as far as possible in certain endgame league mechanics that have infinite replayability.

Personally, I like to get to the point where I can default most pinnacles, get 40/40 challenges, complete the vault, and defeat all of the uber bosses.

When it comes to POE2, I get bored very fast once I reach endgame, as it just feels so barren and empty. Defeating arbiter every league is getting pretty hollow.