Atlas Passive Tree: gear-work node web, gold allocated path

About this game

Developer: Grinding Gear Games · Publisher: Grinding Gear Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Focus / Tech Trees

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What to study

The Atlas gets its own passive tree, and it is drawn as machinery: wheels inside wheels, rectangular frames and a golden star-wheel hub at the centre, all of it riveted into dark stone. Where the character passive tree is famously organic, this one is engineered, symmetric clusters you read as mechanisms, each wheel a themed subsystem of the endgame. State is pure light: the path you have bought burns gold around the central ring and out along the lower-right links, while everything unspent stays silver-blue, so your whole endgame strategy is visible as one lit circuit with no numbers on screen. Frame at 3:06.0 in the Return of the Ancients Official Trailer (manual extraction; the scene-change pass never fired inside the tree sequence). Disclosed: the trailer caption 'NEW ATLAS PASSIVE TREE' is burned into the lower third of the frame, and the tree continues below the caption, this is a mid-zoom view, not the whole tree.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

node-web skill-tree radial-clusters allocated-path

Components

Parts on screen.

Tree / web Clock

Screen inventory

• a symmetric gear-work architecture: node clusters arranged as interlocking wheels and rectangular frames over dark machined stone, like the inside of a clock
• the centre is a golden star-wheel hub with a dark circular core; a vertical spine of nodes runs from it up to a second dense wheel cluster at top centre
• the allocated path glows gold-orange, a ring around the central hub and links running down and right, against unallocated nodes in silver and blue
• node icons are tiny coloured pictograms (blue, red, teal, gold); a node's type is carried entirely by its icon and colour, there is no text anywhere on the tree

Top 3 colors

#0a0908 24%#0f0e0d 18%#0e0a09 17%

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-tree-186_0.png @ 186.0s, MD5 ec8cfa3643b60d8e74ee784767567c11) from the verified-clean curl-shim download of the Return of the Ancients Official Trailer (Steam), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); central gold star-wheel hub, wheel clusters, gold allocated ring/path and silver-blue unallocated nodes all legible. Disclosed: the trailer caption 'NEW ATLAS PASSIVE TREE' is burned into the lower third of the source frame

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