Divine Orbs are almost synonymous with Path of Exile 2 and its predecessor. They’re a fundamental part of the trading and crafting economy, to the point where they’re frequently used as a pillar by which many of its items and other currencies are measured. In the new PoE 2 0.5 update, Return of the Ancients, the drop rate for them is going up. According to developer GGG, there’s a very simple and slightly silly reason for this – although, in a moment of mischievousness, the team almost considered going dramatically in the opposite direction.
Path of Exile 2 is about to get more generous, but it almost went the opposite way: “This is going to sound ultra dumb”
25 May 20260

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