Path of Exile 2's massive Return of the Ancients expansion will be its last major update before it leaves early access later this year: 'I want to get this game finished, I really, really do'

Key art of a new huntress ascendancy in Path of Exile 2's Return of the Ancients expansion. A woman holds a spear and is accompanied by a spirit bear and elk in a forest.

Jonathan Rogers, game director of Path of Exile 2, is eager for all the questions about when the game will leave early access to finally stop. Its next update, Return of the Ancients, reworks the entire post-campaign grind into a guided experience with quests and boss fights, a huge overhaul that Rogers says will be the last before PoE 2 hits 1.0 later this year.

"We don't have a date for you," Rogers said during a recent press event, "but it will be a little bit after ExileCon, which is in November."