This comprehensive Path of Exile 2 guide hub organizes Game Rant's PoE 2 coverage, encompassing beginner tips, in-depth game mechanics explanations, quest and boss walkthroughs, and advanced strategies. The guide is continuously updated to reflect Early Access and future content.
I. Getting Started & PoE 2 Beginner Tips: Master the fundamentals before embarking on your journey. This section covers essential game information, optimal settings, and crucial beginner strategies.
- Game Information: Addresses frequently asked questions, details supporter packs and rewards, explains league changes, point acquisition, stash tab selection, estimated playtime, improvements over the original, max level milestones, level scaling, and Twitch drop claiming.
- Controls & Settings: Optimizes your PC settings, teaches dodging, weapon switching, skill binding, movement input customization, chat linking and hiding, and crossplay enabling/disabling.
- Beginner Tips: Provides ten essential beginner tips, guidance on buying Scrolls of Wisdom, loot management, best beginner classes, fast gold acquisition, playing with friends, and initial gold spending priorities.
II. PoE 2 Game Mechanics & Systems: Unravel the complexities of PoE 2's intricate systems. This section delves into character stats, core gameplay mechanics, and the revamped skill and socket systems.
- Character Stats & Skill Points: Explains character attributes, passive skill point acquisition and respeccing, passive skill filter usage, 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, ailment explanations, instances, stunning enemies, skill aiming, armor break, crowd control effects, guild creation and joining, arcane surge, power charges, death penalty, and Herald of Ice and Thunder mechanics.
- Skills, Gems, Jewels, & Runes: Explains support gem equipping and acquisition, rune equipping and usage, jewel sockets, uncut spirit gem acquisition, and raging spirit acquisition.
III. Classes, Ascendancies, & Builds: Choose your path and build your character. This section provides comprehensive guides on the available classes, the Ascendancy system, and build recommendations.
- PoE 2 Class Guides: Ranks the best classes, identifies the best solo class, explains 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, along with general Warrior and Witch leveling guides.
IV. PoE 2 Currencies & Gear: Upgrade your equipment and master the currency system. This section covers gear upgrades, currency types, and farming strategies.
- Upgrades & Improvements: Explains item rarity upgrades, potion upgrades and refills, socket addition, armor and weapon quality upgrades, and gear modifier rerolling.
- PoE 2 Currencies: Details all currency items and effects, unlocking and using the salvage and currency exchange benches, determining 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 gear farming, acquiring unique items, the charm system, charm equipping and upgrading, stellar amulets, and acquiring the Ingenuity Utility Belt and Hand of Wisdom and Action.
V. Quest & Boss Walkthroughs: Conquer the challenges of each act. This section provides detailed walkthroughs for quests and bosses across all three acts currently available.
- All Main Quests and Acts: Provides an overview of all main quests and acts.
- All Permanent Bonuses from the Campaign: Lists all permanent bonuses obtainable during the campaign.
- Act One, Act Two, Act Three: Offers detailed walkthroughs for specific quests and boss strategies within each act.
VI. PoE 2 Endgame Guides: Prepare for the endgame challenges. This section covers endgame mechanics, the Atlas system, and various endgame activities.
- Endgame Tips & Mechanics: Explains unlocking Cruel difficulty and the endgame, provides advanced endgame tips, covers Waystone acquisition and upgrading, Waystone sustain during mapping, optimal Atlas skill tree setups, hideout unlocking, and citadel location.
- Endgame Features & Leagues: Provides guides on the Atlas of Worlds, Realmgates, Breaches, Delirium, Rituals, Expeditions, Burning Monoliths, Trial of Chaos, and Trial of the Sekhemas.
VII. Advanced PoE 2 Tips & Other Guides: Maximize your PoE 2 experience. This section offers advanced tips and strategies for experienced players.
- Advanced PoE 2 Guides: Covers fast XP acquisition, loot filter usage and acquisition on console, Sidekick features and installation, FilterBlade usage, items to avoid buying and selling from merchants, and acquiring more character slots.
