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, offers a wealth of information for players of all skill levels. Released into Early Access on December 6th, 2024, PoE 2 boasts revamped mechanics while retaining the core ARPG experience. This guide hub, constantly updated, covers everything from beginner tips to advanced endgame strategies.

Getting Started & PoE 2 Beginner Tips: This section provides essential information for newcomers, covering game mechanics, optimal settings, and crucial early-game strategies. Topics include:

• Game Information: Answers to frequently asked questions, details on supporter packs, character leagues, point acquisition, stash tabs, estimated playtime, improvements over the original, maximum level, leveling milestones, level scaling, and claiming Twitch drops.
• Controls & Settings: Optimizing PC settings, mastering dodging and blocking, weapon switching, skill binding, movement input customization, linking items to chat, hiding the chat, and enabling/disabling crossplay.
• Beginner Tips: Ten essential tips, wisdom scroll acquisition, loot management, best beginner classes, fast gold farming, playing with friends, and prioritizing gold spending.

PoE 2 Game Mechanics & Systems: A deep dive into the game's intricate mechanics. This section covers:

• Character Stats & Skill Points: Understanding character attributes, acquiring and respeccing passive skill points, using 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: 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 penalties, and Herald of Ice and Thunder mechanics.
• Skills, Gems, Jewels, & Runes: Equipping and acquiring support gems, rune usage, jewel sockets, obtaining uncut spirit gems, and acquiring raging spirits.

Classes, Ascendancies, & Builds: A detailed look at the game's classes and build customization.

• PoE 2 Class Guides: Rankings of the best classes, best solo class, mercenary ammo swapping, minion summoning, aftershock, and rage mechanics.
• Ascendancies: Information on all class ascendancies and nodes, and how to unlock ascension classes.
• PoE 2 Build Guides: Leveling build guides for Monk, Tempest Flurry Invoker, Mercenary, Sorceress, Rolling Slam Warrior, and Witch, along with general warrior and witch leveling guides.

PoE 2 Currencies & Gear: A guide to the game's economy and gear progression.

• Upgrades & Improvements: Upgrading item rarity, potion upgrades and refills, adding sockets to gear, upgrading armor and weapon quality, and rerolling gear modifiers.
• PoE 2 Currencies: Details on all currency items and effects, unlocking and using the salvage bench, currency exchange, currency exchange rate information, unlocking and using the reforging bench, and acquiring Orbs of Chance, Divine Orbs, and Greater Jeweler's Orbs.
• Gear & Equipment: Early gear farming, acquiring unique items, the charm system, equipping and upgrading charms, stellar amulets, obtaining the Ingenuity Utility Belt, and obtaining the Hand of Wisdom and Action.

Quest & Boss Walkthroughs: Comprehensive walkthroughs for quests and bosses across all three acts (currently available in Early Access). This includes all main quests and acts, permanent campaign bonuses, and detailed Act-specific guides.

PoE 2 Endgame Guides: Strategies for navigating the endgame content.

• Endgame Tips & Mechanics: Unlocking Cruel difficulty and the endgame, advanced endgame tips, acquiring and upgrading waystones, sustaining waystones while mapping, optimal Atlas skill tree setups, unlocking the hideout, and finding more citadels.
• Endgame Features & Leagues: The Atlas of Worlds guide, Realmgate explanations, Breach, Delirium, Ritual, and Expedition guides, Burning Monolith explanations, and Trial of Chaos and Sekhemas guides.

Advanced PoE 2 Tips & Other Guides: Further tips and tricks for experienced players.

• Advanced PoE 2 Guides: Fast XP acquisition, loot filter usage, obtaining loot filters on consoles, sidekick features and installation, FilterBlade usage, avoiding merchant scams, and acquiring more character slots.