Path of Exile 3.28.0h Hotfix 1 Patch Notes (16th May 2026)
Path of Exile's first hotfix for 3.28.0h is live today, bringing a fresh round of fixes to the current league.
Grinding Gear Games has pushed 3.28.0h Hotfix 1 for Path of Exile today, a small but targeted patch aimed at ironing out issues that surfaced in the current build. Hotfixes at this stage of a league cycle tend to be narrow in scope, and this one looks to follow that pattern.
GGG has a solid track record of moving fast when something breaks mid-league, and I'll give them credit for that consistently. A hotfix landing within days of the last update is exactly the kind of responsive patching that keeps a live-service game feeling maintained rather than abandoned. Whether the specific fixes here address what the community has been loudest about is another matter, but the turnaround is fast.
Everything in the update is listed below.
Full Patch Notes
Path of Exile director Jonathan Rogers says he's never worried that much about the timing of other game releases—particularly other seasonal action RPGs—when it comes to scheduling major updates for his own game. But this year, Path of Exile 2's 1.0 release will likely be within a few weeks of the one game that has him reconsidering this approach: Grand Theft Auto 6...
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