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The Path of Exile 2 closed beta starts on June 7, 2024.

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By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.All Path of Exile 1 and 2 microtransactions will be usable in both games unless they're 'hyper-specific to POE currency trade the content of one of them'


Blizzard's plan to replace Overwatch with Overwatch 2 proved to be just as messy and confusing as it sounded, but it did at least do one thing right by ensuring that players could transfer over all their skins and cosmetic items to Overwatch 2. Today Path of Exile's developers made the surprise announcement that they're not replacing Path of Exile with its sequel, which was the plan when Path of Exile 2 was announced back in 2019. Path of Exile 2 is now going to be a wholly separate game, Grinding Gear announced at ExileCon today, but it's one-upping Blizzard by making cosmetics both forward- and backwards-compatible.

"Path of Exile 1 and 2 will be separate, with their own mechanics, balance, endgames, and leagues, but it's still a shared platform," Grinding Gear Games co-founder Jonathan Rogers explained during today's ExileCon keynote POE currency buy .

The "shared platform" means any microtransactions on your account will be available across both Path of Exile 1 and 2. That goes for stuff you've bought since 2013, and it also goes for stuff you buy in Path of Exile 2 a few years from now, with some exceptions.