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Lincoln Carpenter

Path of Exile 2 devs respond to the cries of the loot-starved masses, buffing drops and promising more fixes in upcoming patches

Path of Exile 2 showing the Warbringer ascendancy class bludgeoning his way through a pack of hyenas.

If there's one point of feedback I've heard most from the roughly 300,000 people who, at any given moment, have been playing Path of Exile 2 since its early access launch, it's that we simply need more drops. That sprawling passive skill tree is only so satisfying to meddle with if you aren't getting the gear to make your build sing, and meager loot has left some PoE 2 players swinging the same sad club for upwards of a dozen levels. Luckily, Grinding Gear Games says it'll be loosening the loot tap, promising increased drops in an upcoming patch alongside tweaks to dodging and map checkpoints.

In a post on the PoE forums addressing feedback from the PoE 2 launch, GGG acknowledged that "one of the major problems that players have been experiencing is feeling that the game is not rewarding enough." To address the problem, the studio's making adjustments in "a few key areas."

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