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 in Early Access on December 6th, 2024, PoE 2 boasts revamped mechanics within a traditional ARPG framework. This guide hub, constantly updated, offers a wealth of information to navigate the game's complexities.
I. Getting Started & PoE 2 Beginner Tips:
This section provides essential information for new players, covering game mechanics, optimal settings, and crucial early-game strategies. Topics include:
- Game Information: Addresses frequently asked questions, details on supporter packs and rewards, league switching, point acquisition, stash tab selection, estimated playtime, improvements over the original, max level and leveling milestones, level scaling, and claiming Twitch drops.
- Controls & Settings: Guides on optimizing PC settings, dodging, weapon switching, skill binding, movement input customization, linking items to chat, chat hiding, and crossplay enabling/disabling.
- Beginner Tips: Offers ten essential tips, advice on purchasing scrolls of wisdom, loot management, best beginner classes, fast gold acquisition, playing with friends, and prioritizing gold spending.
II. PoE 2 Game Mechanics & Systems:
This section delves into the intricate mechanics of PoE 2, crucial for maximizing build potential. It covers:
- Character Stats & Skill Points: Explains character attributes, acquiring and respeccing passive skill points, utilizing the passive skill filter, weapon set points, the spirit resource, increasing spirit and movement speed, maximizing mana, understanding energy shields, accuracy, and resistance upgrades.
- Gameplay Mechanics: Guides on 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: Covers equipping support gems, acquiring more support gems, equipping and using runes, jewel sockets, obtaining uncut spirit gems, and acquiring raging spirits.
III. Classes, Ascendancies, & Builds:
This section focuses on character classes, ascendancies, and build strategies. It includes:
- PoE 2 Class Guides: Provides rankings of the best classes, identifies the best solo class, and offers guidance on mercenary ammo swapping, minion summoning, aftershock, and rage mechanics.
- Ascendancies: Details all class ascendancies and 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, as well as a general Warrior leveling guide.
IV. PoE 2 Currencies & Gear:
This section covers the crucial aspects of currency and gear management in PoE 2. It includes:
- Upgrades & Improvements: Guides on upgrading item rarity, upgrading and refilling potions, adding sockets to gear, upgrading armor and weapon quality, and rerolling gear modifiers.
- PoE 2 Currencies: Details all currency items and their effects, unlocking and using the salvage bench and currency exchange, finding current exchange rates, unlocking and using the reforging bench, and acquiring Orbs of Chance, Divine Orbs, and Greater Jeweler's Orbs.
- Gear & Equipment: Covers early-game gear farming, obtaining unique items, the charm system, equipping and upgrading charms, stellar amulets, and acquiring the Ingenuity Utility Belt and Hand of Wisdom and Action.
V. Quest & Boss Walkthroughs:
This section provides detailed walkthroughs for quests and boss encounters across the three Acts currently available in Early Access. It covers:
- All Main Quests and Acts
- All Permanent Bonuses from the Campaign
- Act One: Walkthroughs for specific quests and boss fights.
- Act Two: Walkthroughs for specific quests and boss fights.
- Act Three: Walkthroughs for specific quests and boss fights.
VI. PoE 2 Endgame Guides:
This section guides players through the endgame content, including:
- Endgame Tips & Mechanics: Covers unlocking Cruel difficulty and the endgame, advanced endgame tips, obtaining and upgrading waystones, sustaining waystones while mapping, optimal Atlas skill tree setups, unlocking hideouts, and finding more citadels.
- Endgame Features & Leagues: Provides guides on the Atlas of Worlds, Realmgates, Breaches, Delirium, Rituals, Expeditions, Burning Monoliths, Trials of Chaos, and Trials of the Sekhemas.
VII. Advanced PoE 2 Tips & Other Guides:
This section offers advanced strategies and additional guidance for experienced players:
- Advanced PoE 2 Guides: Covers methods for fast XP gain, loot filter usage, obtaining loot filters on consoles, Sidekick features and installation, FilterBlade usage, items to avoid buying from merchants, items to avoid selling to merchants, and acquiring more character slots.
