Path of Exile 2 0.1.0e Skill, Support & Item Balance: The First Large Overhaul

Alongside the quality-of-life changes, the 0.1.0e beat also delivered the first large balance overhaul across skills, supports and items. Many launch-day numbers that had defined early builds were moved toward a more considered baseline.

This page is the total-entry history of that 0.1.0e balance pass: what it changed across skills, supports and items, why it mattered for early builds, and which balance decisions still resemble the current client versus what later patches rebuilt.

• 0.1.0e carried both QoL and a large balance overhaul
• Broad skill and support tuning reshaped early builds
• Several items were adjusted alongside the skills

The headline was breadth: rather than a single hotfix, 0.1.0e touched a wide set of skills and their supports at once, pulling outliers toward a more considered baseline and lifting underperformers so early builds had more viable options.

Items moved alongside the skills. Several launch-day items were adjusted so that gear progression kept pace with the skill changes, keeping the early economy and power curve coherent.

• Wide skill and support tuning in one pass
• Outliers pulled down, underperformers lifted
• Items adjusted alongside skills