This comprehensive guide to Path of Exile 2, a standalone sequel to the original Path of Exile, covers everything from beginner tips to advanced endgame strategies. Released into Early Access on December 6th, 2024, PoE 2 boasts an overhauled ARPG experience with evolved mechanics and a massive skill tree. This guide hub, constantly updated, provides in-depth coverage of all aspects of the game.
Getting Started & PoE 2 Beginner Tips: This section offers crucial introductory information, including answers to frequently asked questions, details on supporter packs and rewards, and essential beginner tips to help new players navigate the game. It also covers in-game controls, settings optimization for PC, and combat mechanics.
- Game Information: Addresses common questions, explains league switching, point acquisition, optimal stash tab purchases, estimated playtime, improvements over the original, max level details, leveling milestones, level scaling, and how to claim Twitch drops.
- Controls & Settings: Provides guidance on achieving optimal PC settings, dodging, blocking, weapon switching, skill binding, movement input customization, linking items to chat, chat hiding, and crossplay enabling/disabling.
- Beginner Tips for PoE 2: Offers ten essential beginner tips, advice on purchasing scrolls of wisdom, managing excess loot, ranking the best beginner classes, fast gold acquisition strategies, playing with friends, and prioritizing gold spending.
PoE 2 Game Mechanics & Systems: This section delves into the intricate mechanics of PoE 2, explaining character stats, core gameplay mechanics (both in and out of combat), and the new skill and socket systems.
- Character Stats & Skill Points: Explains character attributes, acquiring passive skill points, respeccing passive skill points, utilizing the passive skill filter, weapon set points, the spirit resource, increasing spirit and movement speed, maximizing mana, energy shield mechanics, accuracy, and optimal resistance upgrades.
- Gameplay Mechanics: Covers fast travel, free item identification, trading, ailments, instances, stunning enemies, skill aiming, armor break, crowd control effects, guild creation and joining, arcane surge, power charges, death penalties, and the mechanics of Herald of Ice and Thunder.
- Skills, Gems, Jewels, & Runes: Explains equipping support gems, acquiring more support gems, equipping and using runes, jewel sockets, obtaining uncut spirit gems, and acquiring raging spirits.
Classes, Ascendancies, & Builds: This section focuses on the game's classes, the Ascendancy system, and build guides.
- PoE 2 Class Guides: Ranks the best classes, identifies the best solo class, explains mercenary ammo swapping, summoning more minions, aftershock mechanics, and rage mechanics.
- Ascendancies: Provides a complete list of class ascendancies and ascendancy nodes, and explains how to unlock ascension classes.
- PoE 2 Build Guides: Offers leveling build guides for Monk, Tempest Flurry Invoker, Mercenary, Sorceress, Rolling Slam Warrior, and Witch, along with a general Warrior leveling guide.
PoE 2 Currencies & Gear: This section covers gear upgrades, crafting, currencies, and farming strategies.
- Upgrades & Improvements: Explains upgrading item rarity, upgrading and refilling potions, adding sockets to gear, upgrading armor and weapon quality, and rerolling gear modifiers.
- PoE 2 Currencies: Lists all currency items and their effects, and explains how to unlock and use the salvage bench, currency exchange, and reforging bench. It also details how to obtain Orbs of Chance, Divine Orbs, and Greater Jeweler's Orbs.
- Gear & Equipment: Provides early game gear farming strategies, explains how to obtain unique items, the charm system, equipping and upgrading charms, stellar amulets, and how to acquire the Ingenuity Utility Belt and Hand of Wisdom and Action.
Quest & Boss Walkthroughs: This section provides detailed walkthroughs for quests and boss encounters across all three acts currently available in Early Access. It includes information on permanent campaign bonuses and strategies for key bosses and quests.
PoE 2 Endgame Guides: This section covers endgame mechanics, including unlocking Cruel difficulty, advanced endgame tips, waystones, Atlas skill tree setups, hideout unlocking, and finding citadels. It also details endgame features and leagues, such as the Atlas of Worlds, Realmgates, Breaches, Delirium, Rituals, Expeditions, Burning Monoliths, and Trials.
Advanced PoE 2 Tips & Other Guides: This final section offers advanced tips and guides for experienced players, covering topics such as fast XP gain, loot filter usage, console loot filter acquisition, Sidekick features, FilterBlade usage, merchant buying and selling strategies, and acquiring more character slots.
