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 complexities of this expansive game.

Getting Started & PoE 2 Beginner Tips: This section provides essential information for new players, including game overview, optimal settings, and crucial early-game advice. Topics covered include:

• Game Information: Addresses frequently asked questions, details supporter packs, explains league changes, and guides you through acquiring points and stash tabs. It also covers playtime estimates, improvements over the original, max level, level scaling, and claiming Twitch drops.
• Controls & Settings: Optimizes your PC experience with graphics settings, teaches you combat basics (dodging, blocking, weapon changes), skill binding, movement input, chat management, and crossplay options.
• Beginner Tips: Offers ten essential tips, guidance on buying scrolls of wisdom, managing loot, selecting beginner-friendly classes, acquiring gold quickly, playing with friends, and prioritizing early gold spending.

PoE 2 Game Mechanics & Systems: Unravel the intricacies of PoE 2's mechanics, from character stats to core gameplay. This section includes:

• Character Stats & Skill Points: Explains character attributes, acquiring and respeccing passive skill points, using the passive skill filter, understanding weapon set points and the spirit resource, increasing spirit and movement speed, managing mana, 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, arcane surge, power charges, death penalties, and the mechanics of Herald of Ice and Thunder.
• Skills, Gems, Jewels, & Runes: Guides you through equipping support gems, acquiring more, using runes, understanding jewel sockets, obtaining uncut spirit gems, and acquiring raging spirits.

Classes, Ascendancies, & Builds: Master the class system and build crafting with this in-depth section:

• 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: Provides 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: Learn the crafting system and gear management:

• 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: Details all currency items and their effects, and guides you through unlocking and using the salvage bench, currency exchange, and reforging bench. It also shows you how to obtain Orb of Chance, Divine Orb, and Greater Jeweller's Orb.
• Gear & Equipment: Explains early-game gear farming, obtaining unique items, the charm system, equipping and upgrading charms, stellar amulets, and obtaining the Ingenuity Utility Belt and Hand of Wisdom and Action.

Quest & Boss Walkthroughs: Conquer the campaign with these detailed walkthroughs:

• All Main Quests and Acts: Provides a complete overview.
• Act One, Act Two, and Act Three: Offers detailed walkthroughs for all quests and boss fights within each act.

PoE 2 Endgame Guides: Dominate the endgame with these advanced strategies:

• Endgame Tips & Mechanics: Covers unlocking Cruel difficulty and the endgame, advanced endgame tips, obtaining and upgrading waystones, sustaining waystones while mapping, optimizing the Atlas skill tree, unlocking your hideout, and finding more citadels.
• Endgame Features & Leagues: Provides guides for 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: Master the game's nuances with these expert tips:

• Advanced PoE 2 Guides: Covers methods for fast XP gain, using and obtaining loot filters (including console users), sidekick features and installation, using FilterBlade, identifying items to avoid buying or selling from merchants, and acquiring more character slots.