Atlas map: node web over terrain, four Foretold tooltip labels

Path of Exile 2 · Campaign / World Map

Art style Realistic 3D

Path of Exile 2 - Atlas map: node web over terrain, four Foretold tooltip labels

About this game

Developer: Grinding Gear Games · Publisher: Grinding Gear Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

Path of Exile 2's endgame map refuses to be a menu: the Atlas is a landscape first and a graph second, its nodes sitting in the mountains and forests they represent, joined by dashed routes you read like a journey rather than a list. Information arrives as marginalia, when the trailer wants to explain the reworked Ritual system it does not open a panel, it pins purple serif labels beside the four nodes they describe ('Foretold Bounty: Mageblood'; three 'Foretold Proliferation' lines about Ritual Altars and Tribute), keyword underlined, and lets the map stay the screen. Node state needs no legend either: green and blue glows mark the live chain, plain plates wait their turn. Frame at 1:14.0 in the Return of the Ancients Official Trailer (manual extraction; the scene-change pass caught only UI-less cinematics from this trailer). Disclosed: the trailer caption 'RITUAL REWORKED' is burned into the bottom of the frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

node-map world-map data-overlay tooltip-labels

Components

Parts on screen.

Map

Screen inventory

  • the node web is drawn straight onto painted terrain, grey mountains, dark forest, pale desert at left, sea with island nodes at right, with small circular node plates joined by dashed route lines
  • node state is read by glow colour: a chain of green-lit nodes down the western desert, blue-lit nodes at centre-north, plain metal plates elsewhere
  • four floating labels in purple serif text, each pinned beside its node: 'Foretold Bounty: Mageblood', 'Foretold Proliferation: Rerolling Favours at Ritual Altars in your Maps costs 20% reduced Tribute', 'Foretold Proliferation: Monsters Sacrificed at Ritual Altars grant 25% increased Tribute', and 'Foretold Proliferation: Rerolling Favours at Ritual Altars has no Cost the first time', with 'Ritual Altars' underlined as a keyword in each
  • a small white cursor arrow at right of centre is the only other chrome on the map

Top 3 colors

#0d1011 22%#050a0d 22%#111819 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Grinding Gear Games, Path of Exile 2 screenshot: Return of the Ancients Official Trailer and Fate of the Vaal League Trailer (Steam), Grinding Gear Games, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Grinding Gear Games.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-24. verified 2026-10-24: manual extraction (manual-atlas-ritual-74_0.png @ 74.0s, MD5 1d1499efc13139ac4f50884ede1e142a) from the verified-clean curl-shim download of the Return of the Ancients Official Trailer (Steam), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); Atlas terrain, dashed node routes, green/blue node glows and all four Foretold labels legible, including 'Foretold Bounty: Mageblood'. Disclosed: the trailer caption 'RITUAL REWORKED' is burned into the bottom of the source frame

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