Act

Acts divide Path of Exile's storyline into sections. Each act has its own quests, town, NPCs and an act boss at the end.

Since The Fall of Oriath expansion, there have been ten acts broken into two parts, each part spanning a large arc within the storyline. New acts were generally added to the game with every major expansion until the release of the ten-act system.

Current acts
See Wraeclast for more information
 * Act 1
 * Act 2
 * Act 3
 * Act 4
 * Act 5
 * Act 6
 * Act 7
 * Act 8
 * Act 9
 * Act 10
 * Epilogue

Trivia

 * New players will take around 3–5 hours to play through each act
 * Experienced players can complete all the acts in around 8–10 hours by speedrunning them
 * Each act takes about 12 months to develop depending on available development resources

Version history

 * Added Acts Five through Ten.
 * Removed the Cruel and Merciless difficulty levels. Path of Exile is now a single ten-act playthrough.


 * The Awakening introduces Path of Exile's fourth act, which is set in and around the mining town of Highgate, north of Sarn.
 * Act Four contains 14 new areas to explore, 40 new monster varieties to fight, 6 new quests to complete and 9 new bosses to defeat!
 * Highgate contains a cast of new NPCs that have full voice acting.

(Editor's note: the zones Imperial Gardens, Hedge Maze, The Library, The Archives, The Sceptre of God, The upper Sceptre of God and the boss Dominus were added to Act 3 expanding it)
 * Added six new world areas (in all three difficulty levels) across three new tilesets. There are three new quests.
 * Added a grand finale boss fight.


 * The City of Sarn, Path of Exile's third act, is now available! It includes 21 areas based on 8 new tilesets, 18 completely new monster types and over 90 monster variations.


 * Act 2 was added some time during the alpha for which patch notes are missing
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