Path of Exile 2's 'biggest expansion ever' reworks its entire post-campaign grind for new and returning players alike

Promotional art for Path of Exile 2's Return of the Ancients expansion. A winged person holding a halberd stands atop fortress walls with the glare of the sun at their back.

Path of Exile 2 has one of the best action RPG campaigns out there, and it's not even finished yet. It wastes no time pushing you through each act as you gear up and watch the world of Wraeclast unravel. But when it's over, you're handed a gigantic world map filled with dozens of locations and no advice on where to start your endgame grind.

That wasn't good enough for developer Grinding Gear Games, which is why it spent the last several months tearing everything out and rebuilding it so that PoE 2's endgame won't be as obtuse. All of it will be reworked in its "biggest expansion ever", Return of the Ancients, on May 29.