Temple mapping in Path of Exile 2 is the kind of thing you settle into, not the kind of thing you rush. You creep forward room by room, open a door, clear a pack, tag a checkpoint, repeat. It's slow, but it feels fair, especially when you're juggling loot decisions, builds, and even stuff like PoE 2 Currency planning between runs. The whole point is that progress sticks: die, respawn at the last secured spot, and keep pushing without losing an hour to a bad slam.

How it's meant to work

The temples are laid out like a chunky grid with just enough side paths to make you doubt your own memory. You'll clear something like an elite barracks, then hunt for the next switch or key room, and the fog peels back in tidy little squares. Checkpoints are supposed to be boring in the best way. You hit one, it's active, and it becomes your safety net. When you get clipped by a nasty combo or you misread a rare mod and drop, the game should pop you back at the last checkpoint you actually earned, close to where you were working.

The respawn bug that bends the map

Right now, though, there's a weird glitch where the game seems to forget where you are. You die in a room you've already cleaned out, and instead of respawning a few steps back, you wake up at a checkpoint you haven't even seen yet. Not "oh, it skipped a corridor." More like it punts you 15 to 17 rooms forward into territory that should be locked behind a whole chain of doors. One second you're grinding near the start; next second you're standing in an Automaton-style lab area like you just got fast-travelled by accident.

What you'll notice on the minimap

The minimap gives it away instantly, and it looks wrong in a way that's hard to ignore. Your explored path ends where you died, then there's this big slab of untouched darkness, and then—separate from everything—your new position is lit up like an island. The connecting rooms are still fogged, still closed, still full of whatever was waiting there. It's like the game drew a dotted line and then forgot to actually build the bridge.

Why it's not the worst thing in the world

Oddly enough, it doesn't usually brick the run. You can keep playing from the "free" checkpoint, and if you care about full clear or specific rewards, you can often work your way back through normal routes later. It's messy and it breaks the intended flow, but it's more shortcut than punishment, and people are already treating it like an accidental boost when they're trying to keep momentum. If you're deep in a session and just want the temple to move along, getting dropped near Fate of the Vaal HC Divine Orb farming zones earlier than planned can feel less like a disaster and more like the game quietly handing you a ladder when you expected a wall.