As Path of Exile 2: The Last of the Druids gears up for release next week, its devs , sort of, delay its 1.0 release date

"I surely wouldn't privation to gaffe into 2027"

A caller trailer for the adjacent Path of Exile 2 update, The Last of the Druids, was shared earlier this week, showing disconnected each the chill things you tin bash successful it! Which are mostly relegated to turning into animals, but successful my eyes that is eternally a chill happening to beryllium capable to do, successful a crippled oregon not. And with that trailer besides came a merchandise day for the update.

It's little than a week retired now, owed to beryllium released connected December 12th, conscionable successful clip for the adjacent weekend. As portion of the caller druid people that comes with the caller update, erstwhile successful quality signifier you tin wield "magical staves to transmission the powers of the world and the earthy world," including summoning volcanoes, getting trees to usage their roots to trap enemies, you know, druid stuff.

Then, there's the 3 forms you tin take, that of a wolf, a bear, oregon a fire-breathing wyvern. Looks beauteous neat honestly! Druid besides comes with a mates of ascendancy classes, 1 being the Shaman, who "channels nature’s fury, harnessing rage to empower his spells and becoming a walking earthy catastrophe raining down meteors, lightning, and ice," and the Oracle, who has "perfected the powerfulness of Foresight, utilizing it successful combat to summation a monolithic vantage by peering into the aboriginal to foretell a monster's movements and adjacent allocate passives from alternate timelines!"

Here's the rub, however: Path of Exile 2's 1.0 merchandise day astir apt won't beryllium March 2026 similar it was antecedently planned for. "I'm reasonably assured that we won't beryllium retired of 2026," crippled manager Jonathon Rogers told Eurogamer successful a caller interview, continuing, "but arsenic I said, I ne'er privation to truly wholly committedness anything. But I don't deliberation it'll extremity up being March; we'll person to see."

While determination was nary circumstantial updated timeline shared, Rogers said helium "certainly wouldn't privation to beryllium immoderate aboriginal than the extremity of adjacent year. Obviously we're trying to get determination arsenic accelerated arsenic we can, but I surely wouldn't privation to gaffe into 2027." I'm definite this won't beryllium invited quality to some, but hey ho, this is conscionable however aboriginal entree is sometimes. Have patience, friend, the 1.0 volition come.