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Path of Exile 2 Sets December 12 Launch for 'The Last of the Druids' Update

Grinding Gear Games spotlights a shapeshifting Druid and a Vaal temple league with promised performance gains.

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Promotional key art of the Path of Exile 2 druid class. A man accompanied by wolves steps onto a rock in a forest. His body is covered in armor made of leaves and leather and his right arm has transformed into that of a bear.

Overview

  • Patch 0.4.0 introduces PoE2’s first Strength/Intelligence hybrid Druid that shifts between human spellcasting and bear, wolf, and wyvern forms.
  • The update adds two Druid ascendancies at launch—Shaman and Oracle—with Oracle unlocking more than 130 new passives and a third ascendancy planned later.
  • Fate of the Vaal debuts as a new league featuring a build‑your‑own temple map to reach Atziri, now positioned as a new Pinnacle Boss with unique rewards.
  • Rise of the Abyssal is folded into core endgame with Abyss Tablets for targeting, the removal of Abyss crafting and Instilling on Waystones, and buffed Tablet modifiers.
  • Developers claim CPU and multithreading optimizations will lift frame rates by roughly 25% in many scenarios, and animal forms now support dodge roll and sprint after player feedback.