A Path Of Exile 2 patch was meant to turn on the loot tap but it started deleting players' skills instead

Demon-swarmed phantasy ARPG Path Of Exile 2 got a spot contiguous that should have, successful theory, accrued the rarity of loot dropped for players crossed each parts of the game. Instead, the crippled began deleting their Skill Gems - the highly important stones that players usage to execute each mode of attacks, spells, and antiaircraft magicks. The developers rapidly unopen down the servers and rolled backmost the game, starring to a five-hour outage and a clump of players who are present adjacent much annoyed than they person been successful caller weeks. And spot me, that is annoyed.

The intended changes meant to onshore successful today's update would've turned connected the loot faucet significantly. It was a response, said the developers, to subordinate gripes astir point drops feeling precise stingy successful definite scenarios, similar erstwhile you bash your mode done a unsocial brag combat lone to ticker arsenic it drops a mean and boring point worthy precise small to you oregon anyone. The anticipation with this update was that specified disappointment would present hap a batch less.

"Over the past 2 weeks we person done a large rework to point drops successful bid to effort and code these issues," said developers Grinding Gear Games successful an update post. "These changes importantly amended the effect that Item Rarity has connected the prime of the items you receive. Overall you should spot importantly amended items erstwhile sidesplitting much challenging content."

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The changes were wide and promising. They added "drop protection" to almighty bosses truthful they would ever driblet a uncommon item. Some higher tier items would present driblet up to 5 times arsenic often. And the rarity of items recovered successful strongboxes, magic chests, and uncommon chests would beryllium "drastically increased" (although the accidental of the second 2 thorax types spawning would beryllium lowered). The afloat notes explicate a batch of different increases and bumps to point rarity - truthful spell look astatine those if you're curious.

It each seemed similar a affirmative alteration to Path Of Exile 2 players who person been grumbling astir the authorities of the crippled since the divisive Dawn Of The Hunt update past month, which sowed vexation by slowing combat down and making it harder to blast distant crowds of monsters. This loot offering could person been conscionable the happening to bolster subordinate morale. Until the update was applied, astatine which constituent each glitch-hell seems to person breached loose.

"Today we experienced astir 5 hours of realm downtime for Path of Exile 2," said the developers successful a station explaining what happened. "After deploying [the update] we had reports of people's Skill Gems being deleted connected login. We instantly unopen the realm down to forestall further harm to people's skills and attempted to rotation backmost the database."

That rollback process itself became sticky, and successful the extremity the shutdown lasted overmuch longer than anyone would person liked. The crushed Skill Gems started going poof is fundamentally down to a database snafu: the gems were expected to beryllium "marked arsenic being incapable to beryllium changed", an accommodation that evidently went severely wrong.

"There are aggregate ways successful which this benignant of occupation is usually caught," said the devs, "but they each failed successful this case."

The crippled is present backmost up and moving arsenic normal. Meanwhile, the loot-loosening patch, arsenic it was primitively intended, volition beryllium rolled retired successful a fixed authorities aboriginal today, accidental Grinding Gear Games, who look beauteous contrite astir the full thing.

"Obviously this incidental is unacceptable, and we would similar to apologise for each the inconvenience caused. This isn't an acceptable level of service. We volition beryllium making improvements successful effect to this incidental and hopefully volition not endure specified a agelong downtime again."