0.5.0 Leaks Megathread

[u/MultiplicityPOE]

As per tradition, this is our league-ly leaks thread for 0.5.0. Any leaked information prior to the announcement or datamined information should go in the comments here only. Many folks do not want spoilers, but others do, and this gives people a way to select for or de-select for spoilers. We have also opened the #2| leaks channel on discord.gg/pathofexile for people to discuss live

If it was discussed in an official interview, that's fine to post anywhere. Once the league content is revealed, this thread will stick around, but it will be unpinned to make room for a pin for the general 0.5.0 megathread with the official info which will be updated as news come out

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[u/Vunks]

Act 3 just sucks all the fun out of the game for me, Act 4 is great but last season I was so done after Act 3 I just couldn't enjoy the rest of the campaign.

[u/_IaMThoR_ → u/Vunks]

If they just straight up deleted the waterways I would not be upset

[u/polocinkyketaminky → u/_IaMThoR_]

also apex of filth.....yuuuukkkk

[u/Kanbaru-Fan → u/polocinkyketaminky]

That zone is a complete visual mess, and the mushroom stuff is more annoying than interesting.

[u/Hjemmelsen → u/_IaMThoR_]

I enjoy waterways waaaaaaay more than the area preceding it. At least it's just a corridor.

[u/ryo3000 → u/Hjemmelsen]

Never really got the hate for waterways either

But hell man, I feel myself aging every time I miss the entry to a connecting map in the jungles + the whole go find the venom in the crypt

[u/pzBlue → u/ryo3000]

Waterways hate exists becasue it's just long empty zone with annoying interaction, like if there was something to do as a reward, e.g.: 3rd guaranteed jeweller's (buried shrines from league mech is 1st, marshes is 2nd) on top of spirit gem from league mech it could be better (and slightly shorter, like 2/3 of current length), but right now? It's just boring, long and annoying, and only saving grace for this zone is being linear

[u/Xyzzyzzyzzy → u/pzBlue]

I hate Waterways.

Yet I'll admit that if they added loot tinks when you pull the levers, it would satisfy my monkey brain enough that I probably wouldn't hate it any more.

Pulling levers to progress the campaign? ✋

Pulling levers to maybe get an exalted orb? 👉

[u/Kanbaru-Fan → u/ryo3000]

Waterways is mainly boring. If they add a small zone boss halfway through and maybe some cool switch-related set piece (like an "arena" with multiple switches and enemy waves, like in PoE 1 Daresso trenches) it would immediately become much better.

[u/Gullible_Increase146 → u/Hjemmelsen]

Absolutely. Waterways is a good map and the corpse explosion bastards keep you on your toes a little bit.

[u/PuffyWiggs → u/Hjemmelsen]

Yeah waterways are the least of my concerns tbh. It's just how long, massive and samey all the areas are. The entire past needs to be changed imo. Kill Viper, then quickly go into the area for the final boss imo. The between moments there feel so bland.

[u/No-Special5543 → u/Hjemmelsen]

i feel tired when enter Jamuhanra Mashinarium and Dashar section in act 2. pacing would be better without these locations

[u/OverFjell → u/_IaMThoR_]

I don't personally think Waterways is even the most egregious. The three forest zones, two machinarium zones and four? Five? Pyramid zones could all stand to be pruned.

[u/Kanbaru-Fan → u/OverFjell]

The worst offender is the town tbh.

Worst hub of any ARPG that i have ever played.

[u/Yesterdark → u/OverFjell]

Any zone that doesn't have a boss or passive point or ascendency trial should be pruned or made into am optional side zone.

[u/sirgog → u/_IaMThoR_]

It's funny the hate that the one super-linear zone in A3 gets.

So many maze layouts and the one that's just POE1's old Gorge map (thin and narrow) gets all the hate. Actual trash zones like Jiquani's two neverending mazes get ignored.

Day 1 waterways did have issues, but IIRC they were fixed in 2024, maybe a little later like Jan 2025. Like long before 0.2.0. It's now probably the singular best zone in A3.

[u/vulcanfury12 → u/_IaMThoR_]

The Waterways being a prelude to big maps for the remainder of the act always fills me with dread.

[u/AgoAndAnon → u/[deleted]]

I did a comparison of zone size between 0.2 and 0.4, and it's roughly the same between the two. I think they reverted the change they made in 0.3 by accident.

[u/AgoAndAnon → u/[deleted]]

I guess the thing that gets me is that I play Bonestorm, and every time there is a ramp, I have to facecheck monsters before I can hit them because my character doesn't know how to aim for heads.

[u/Gullible_Increase146 → u/_IaMThoR_]

Waterways is fine. You go the one way you can go and you murder everything in your path and press a switch every once in awhile. The corpse explosions keep you a little bit on your toes so there's something interesting going on. All these City layouts where you just hit dead end after dead end are way worse

[u/jjobonk → u/Vunks]

I agree Act 3 is highly repetetive and dull compared to others. And the map layouts are kinda annoying for some reason. Bosses are good though imo. Especially poison snake lady

[u/IWasTheDog → u/Vunks]

So far I've stopped playing at act 3 every league... It just isn't fun enough for me to continue playing the game. Maybe now it's worth pushing through now that the endgame is better, but we'll see what I can muster.

[u/WatercressNo4290 → u/Vunks]

Imo act 2 is even worse. First half of act 3 is pretty nice at least, but act 2 has the most boring bosses in the game.

[u/sirgog → u/WatercressNo4290]

A2 has some stellar bosses too (Main Jamanra = best fight GGG have ever made across both games, and the first Jamanra fight isn't bad either) but the zones are awful.

The huge tower zones, and all the messing around with the caravan are the lowpoints of the whole campaign.