Jonathan Rogers, game director of Path of Exile 2, is eager for all the questions about when the game will leave early access to finally stop. Its next update, Return of the Ancients, reworks the entire post-campaign grind into a guided experience with quests and boss fights, a huge overhaul that Rogers says will be the last before PoE 2 hits 1.0 later this year. "We don't have a date for you," Rogers said during a recent press event, "but it will be a little bit after ExileCon, which is in November." (Image credit: Grinding Gear Games) In other words, PoE 2 won't feel like two games smashed together. Finishing the campaign in the current version of the game feels like playing a Call of Duty story before the multiplayer: You go from a linear, narrative-driven experience to a big sandbox of things to do. Return of the Ancients is the product of Grinding Gear Games spending several months figuring out how to give the game a satisfying endpoint for players who aren't interested in the infinite grind.…