Path of Exile 2 is trimming the busywork around loot and Atlas planning
Return of the Ancients lands on Friday, May 29 with a live Atlas search, a trade-market price check, and a huge new Fragment tab.
Path of Exile 2 is tightening up two of the game’s messier chores when Return of the Ancients arrives on Friday, May 29. Grinding Gear Games is adding a live Atlas search, a faster trade-market price check, and a much larger Fragment tab, all aimed at cutting down the time players spend fighting menus instead of monsters.
The new Atlas tools sit inside the wider endgame rework, and they sound straightforward enough in practice. Type in a map name, biome, boss type, or modifier, and the search field dims everything else while pulling the matches forward. That should pair nicely with in-game build guides integration, which gives players a way to import plans instead of rebuilding them by hand.
Trading gets a quicker check, too. Hold Shift and Alt while left-clicking an item in your inventory to see whether it has any real market value, then use the updated search options to ignore individual modifiers when the base item is a little different from the exact version you want to compare against. That lets you judge a drop without bouncing between tabs and third-party tools.
The Fragment tab is the biggest storage addition in the update. It opens with room for endgame boss fragments, then adds tablet storage with six pages for every league-mechanic type, bringing the total to 54 pages. It also includes dedicated space for Djinn Baryas and Inscribed Ultimatums, while the Socketables tab gains separate pages for standard Runes, Kalguuran Runes, Soul Cores, Idols, and Ancient Augments.
That tab is a premium purchase, although early access buyers already have some points to spend, and owners of the original Path of Exile version will carry the tab over. Before jumping in, GGG has pointed players to the official patch notes at its forum thread, where it flagged a tweak to Ancestral Bond for Totems and a bug fix that will effectively raise minion damage.
Players can try the game for free from the start of the new league through Monday, June 1, with progress carrying over if they buy it later. Jonathan Rogers has also said GGG is treating update 0.5 as the last early access league, with Path of Exile 2 1.0 planned for the end of 2026 after ExileCon on November 7-8.
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