This weekend, 0.4.0C Hotfix 13 for Path of Exile 2 has been released, focusing mainly on the Vaal Temples. The developers are ruining the dungeons of many players with their adjustments.
Why is the hotfix coming? 0.4.0C Hotfix 13 brings several changes for the Vaal Temples. At the heart is the central feature of the current league of Path of Exile 2: Players can create their own path through the temple with rooms, creating a unique dungeon challenge.
The problem: Some players found extremely rewarding room combinations that allowed them to farm highly valuable resources and gear in no time. This negatively affected the economy of the game. Additionally, there were room combinations that could cause performance issues and crashes. The developers had to respond.
What does the hotfix change?
- A new diminishing return effect kicks in after a certain number of rooms of a type, reducing the impact of the associated modifiers. This aims to mitigate the performance issues and crashes.
- Juatalotlis Medallion can now only be placed on rooms of level III.
- The rooms whose bonuses are increased by Golem Workshops or Spy Master room types have been swapped.
- A bug has been fixed that was introduced in a hotfix after 0.4.0, which caused temples to spawn more magic and rare monsters than intended, especially at lower levels.
You can find the official patch notes on pathofexile.com.
“Are you kidding me?”
How does the hotfix affect the game? Overall, many room combinations now yield significantly less loot. The swap of the room types and the new restriction on the medallion affects many player dungeons.
Specifically affected are players who were still working on their temple variant. The hardcore part of the community, who have been farming finished temples for quite some time, should still be able to continue doing so.
How poorly the hotfix is received is underscored by the over 1,400 comments in this discussion on Reddit, as well as the 346 pages (!) of comments under the patch notes in the forum. Many of the recent reviews on Steam are also negative.
- tresborn#1254 writes on pathofexile.com: “I spent 3 days building my temple and now I’m screwed, I’m withdrawing until the next season.”
- Sankara93#3487 is also visibly frustrated: “I literally finished my temple after 5 damn days of hard work, and now you’ve destroyed all my work, even though players had two weeks to print divine. What the hell, man? Are you kidding me?”
- Daxxien asks in disbelief on Reddit: “Wait a minute, doesn’t that mean my temple is now completely destroyed since the room types were swapped?”
Both on Reddit and in the forum, players are urging the developers to revert the new restriction on Juatalotlis Medallion. The reason: “A small percentage of players with fully constructed temples can still benefit from them, while for everyone else, it’s no longer possible to build such a temple.”
By the way: In Path of Exile 2, a player defeated the game’s final boss without any equipment or weapons, and did so in under a minute. The community is amazed, but the player himself sees it differently: Player from Path of Exile 2 defeats the final boss completely without equipment in just one minute, says: “It wasn’t hard”
