Path of Exile 2 Guide Hub: Tips, Builds, Quests, Bosses, & More

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 while retaining the core ARPG experience. This guide hub, constantly updated, will help you navigate the game's complexities.

Getting Started & PoE 2 Beginner Tips: Learn essential game information, optimize your PC settings, master controls, and pick up crucial beginner tips for a smooth start. This section covers topics like max level, playtime estimates, microtransactions, and more.

• Game Information: Addresses frequently asked questions, details supporter packs and rewards, explains league changes, point acquisition, stash tab selection, and more.
• Controls & Settings: Provides guidance on optimal PC settings, combat mechanics (dodging, blocking, weapon switching), skill binding, movement input customization, chat management, and crossplay options.
• Beginner Tips: Offers ten essential tips, advice on scroll acquisition, loot management, class selection, gold farming, multiplayer, and initial gold spending strategies.

PoE 2 Game Mechanics & Systems: Understand the intricate mechanics of PoE 2 to maximize your build's potential. This section details character stats, core gameplay mechanics, and the new skill and socket systems.

• Character Stats & Skill Points: Explains character attributes, passive skill point acquisition and respeccing, passive skill filters, weapon set points, spirit resource management, movement speed increases, mana management, energy shields, accuracy, and resistance upgrades.
• Gameplay Mechanics: Covers fast travel, free item identification, trading, ailments, instances, stunning enemies, skill aiming, armor break, crowd control, guild creation and joining, arcane surge, power charges, death penalties, and herald effects.
• Skills, Gems, Jewels, & Runes: Details support gem equipping and acquisition, rune usage, jewel sockets, uncut spirit gem acquisition, and raging spirit acquisition.

Classes, Ascendancies, & Builds: Master the class system and ascendancy mechanics to create powerful builds. This section provides class guides, ascendancy information, and build guides for various classes.

• PoE 2 Class Guides: Offers rankings of the best classes, recommendations for solo play, and guidance on mercenary ammo, minion summoning, aftershock, and rage mechanics.
• Ascendancies: Provides a complete list of class ascendancies and nodes, along with instructions on unlocking ascension classes.
• PoE 2 Build Guides: Includes leveling build guides for Monk, Tempest Flurry Invoker, Mercenary, Sorceress, Rolling Slam Warrior, Warrior, and Witch.

PoE 2 Currencies & Gear: Learn how to craft, upgrade, and acquire powerful gear using PoE 2's currency system. This section explains gear upgrades, currency types, and methods for farming and obtaining unique items.

• Upgrades & Improvements: Covers 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 their effects, along with instructions on unlocking and using the salvage bench, currency exchange, reforging bench, and methods for obtaining specific orbs.
• Gear & Equipment: Provides tips on early-game gear farming, acquiring unique items, the charm system, charm equipping and upgrades, stellar amulets, and obtaining specific utility items.

Quest & Boss Walkthroughs: Navigate the game's three acts (currently available in Early Access) with detailed walkthroughs for quests and boss battles.

• Act One: Offers walkthroughs for various quests, including finding the Devourer, Secrets in the Dark, Renly's tools, Una's Lute, and boss battles against Draven and Count Geonor.
• Act Two: Provides guides for quests and boss battles, including Rathbreaker, Ancient Vows, Balbala, the King in the Mists, Golden Idols, Ascent to Power, and Sisters of Garukhan.
• Act Three: Includes walkthroughs for using the Sacrificial Heart, Treasures of Utzaal, finding and defeating Mighty Silverfist, dealing with mushrooms, and The Slithering Dead quest.

PoE 2 Endgame Guides: Master the endgame mechanics and activities to continue progressing after completing the campaign.

• Endgame Tips & Mechanics: Explains unlocking Cruel difficulty and the endgame, advanced endgame tips, Waystone acquisition and upgrades, Waystone sustain during mapping, Atlas skill tree setup, hideout unlocking, and citadel location.
• Endgame Features & Leagues: Provides guides on the Atlas of Worlds, Realmgate, Breach, Delirium, Ritual, Expedition, Burning Monolith, Trial of Chaos, and Trial of the Sekhemas.

Advanced PoE 2 Tips & Other Guides: Take your PoE 2 experience to the next level with these advanced tips and guides.

• Advanced PoE 2 Guides: Covers XP farming, loot filter usage and acquisition (including console), Sidekick features and installation, FilterBlade usage, merchant buying and selling strategies, and acquiring additional character slots.