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 revamped mechanics within a traditional ARPG framework. This guide hub, constantly updated, will help you navigate the game's complexities.
I. Getting Started & PoE 2 Beginner Tips: This section provides essential information for new players, covering game mechanics, settings, and early-game strategies.
- Game Information: Addresses frequently asked questions, details supporter packs and rewards, explains character leagues, point acquisition, optimal stash tabs, estimated playtime, improvements over the original, max level and leveling milestones, level scaling, and claiming Twitch drops.
- Controls & Settings: Guides you through optimizing PC settings, mastering combat controls (dodging, blocking, weapon changes), skill binding, movement input adjustments, chat linking and hiding, and crossplay enable/disable options.
- Beginner Tips: Offers ten essential tips, advice on buying scrolls of wisdom, handling excess loot, ranking beginner-friendly classes, acquiring gold quickly, playing with friends, and prioritizing gold spending.
II. PoE 2 Game Mechanics & Systems: Delves into the intricate mechanics that define PoE 2 gameplay.
- Character Stats & Skill Points: Explains character attributes, acquiring and respeccing passive skill points, utilizing the passive skill filter, weapon set points, spirit resource management, increasing spirit and movement speed, maximizing mana, energy shield mechanics, accuracy, and 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 Herald of Ice and Thunder mechanics.
- Skills, Gems, Jewels, & Runes: Details equipping and acquiring support gems, rune usage, jewel sockets, obtaining uncut spirit gems, and acquiring raging spirits.
III. Classes, Ascendancies, & Builds: Explores the diverse classes, ascendancy systems, and build options.
- PoE 2 Class Guides: Ranks the best classes, identifies the best solo class, explains mercenary ammo swapping, minion summoning, aftershock, and rage mechanics.
- Ascendancies: Provides a comprehensive overview of 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, along with a general Warrior leveling guide.
IV. PoE 2 Currencies & Gear: Covers the currency system and gear progression.
- Upgrades & Improvements: Explains how to upgrade item rarity, upgrade and refill potions, add sockets to gear, upgrade armor and weapon quality, and reroll gear modifiers.
- PoE 2 Currencies: Details all currency items and effects, unlocking and using the salvage bench and currency exchange, finding current exchange rates, unlocking and using the reforging bench, acquiring Orbs of Chance and Divine Orbs, and obtaining Greater Jeweler's Orbs.
- Gear & Equipment: Covers early-game gear farming, obtaining unique items, the charm system, equipping and upgrading charms, stellar amulets, acquiring the Ingenuity Utility Belt, and obtaining the Hand of Wisdom and Action.
V. Quest & Boss Walkthroughs: Provides detailed walkthroughs for quests and boss encounters.
- All Main Quests and Acts: A complete overview of all main quests and acts.
- All Permanent Bonuses from the Campaign: Details all permanent bonuses earned throughout the campaign.
- Act One, Two, and Three: Offers comprehensive walkthroughs for each act, including specific quest and boss guides.
VI. PoE 2 Endgame Guides: Explores endgame mechanics and activities.
- Endgame Tips & Mechanics: Explains unlocking Cruel difficulty and the endgame, advanced endgame tips, obtaining and upgrading Waystones, sustaining Waystones while mapping, optimizing the Atlas skill tree, unlocking the hideout, and finding more citadels.
- Endgame Features & Leagues: Provides guides on the Atlas of Worlds (maps, events), Realmgates, Breaches, Delirium, Rituals, Expeditions, Burning Monoliths, Trials of Chaos, and Trials of the Sekhemas.
VII. Advanced PoE 2 Tips & Other Guides: Offers advanced strategies and additional guides.
- Advanced PoE 2 Guides: Covers methods for fast XP gain, loot filter usage and acquisition (including console), Sidekick features and installation, FilterBlade usage, items to avoid buying and selling from merchants, and acquiring more character slots.
