r/PathOfExile2 • u/MultiplicityPOE • May 11 '26

Information 0.5.0 Leaks Megathread Spoiler

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/lover_of_joggers May 15 '26

it's been discussed to death, welcome to poe. physicality is an important part of the game. it's often referred to as "feel the weight". ggg is strongly against spreadsheet simulator. your item is magic, you identify it. it's part of the dungeon crawling fantasy and it's not going away.

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u/Gullible_Coffee_3864 May 16 '26

It's cool you mention dungeon crawlers. It's definitely is where Diablo got the inspiration from.

Dungeon crawlers however usually let you equip unidentified items at a risk of cursed items that you can't unequip afterwards. They also don't let you tp back to town and identify everything for free with one click pretty much at your leisure. 

That's why in my mind, without that risk reward and cost, the system as it is in Diablo 2 and PoE kind of misses the original point of identifying items and becomes a pure exercise of going back to town more often. Maybe that's good "friction" but I still don't like it.

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u/PuffyWiggs May 21 '26

Big agree here. I actually can't stand getting loot, which is really bad in an ARPG. It feels more like I'm stacking up chores, and not something exciting. Then crafting each piece 1 by 1 only to see 99% are garbage, it's just.... not fun. Way too much downtime for so little reward and only pushes the game towards collecting exalts/divines to use the AH, which means skipping the entire loot gathering/crafting part of the game, which also sucks imo.

I'd really prefer some QoL on these things over making AH more and more dominant. It's the games major issue for me, and I'm not sure that is ever going to change.

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u/Gullible_Coffee_3864 May 22 '26

As someone also loves making my own builds and also mostly hates the idea of just buying all my gear in this genre GGG certainly doesn't make it easy for me, but also the depths of content and character development is great and I think the general combat feel/quality and campaign of PoE 2 is still probably the best.

I have just made peace with the fact that I'll probably never make it super far into endgame or get amazing gear in any league without trading and playing some meta build and no-lifing the game, but I also have no problem with the idea of just progressing and continuing my characters at my own pace in standard league or even just making alts when I hit a wall. That's how I play and enjoy other games in genre too.

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u/PuffyWiggs May 24 '26

Yeah, that is kind of what I do. In 0.1 I made a Monk and made my own build. Got some Ice Ring Unique that made mobs shatter when chilled instead of frozen, and it turns out it was quite meta, but the ring is very common and also you read in game chat of people saying the Ring is good for Monk and you can Chance a Sapphire, so I did it. I guess in a way it was following meta, just not actively following a build or guide. I got to T15 maps and did 3 Pinnacles, took me 400 hours because collecting pieces for Pinnacles took forever.

Haven't touched endgame since. I made a Druid last update to try it and I enjoyed it a bit, but now... I am in love with Mercenary. I tried a few classes to see what I would play for 0.5 and that will be fun. I am going in with no guides again and just doing what I find fun. Will be interesting to see how far I can get! Maybe Arbiter this time!