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

This comprehensive guide to Path of Exile 2, a critically acclaimed Action RPG from Grinding Gear Games, covers everything from beginner tips to advanced endgame strategies. Released into Early Access on December 6th, 2024, PoE 2 offers a revamped ARPG experience with evolved mechanics while retaining its core appeal. This guide hub, constantly updated, will help you navigate the complexities of PoE 2.

I. Getting Started & PoE 2 Beginner Tips:

This section provides essential information for new players, covering game basics, optimal settings, and crucial early-game strategies.

• Game Information: Addresses frequently asked questions, details on supporter packs, league switching, point acquisition, stash tab recommendations, estimated playtime, improvements over the original PoE, max level, leveling milestones, level scaling, and claiming Twitch drops.
• Controls & Settings: Guides on achieving optimal PC settings, mastering dodging and blocking, weapon switching, skill binding, movement input customization, linking items to chat, chat hiding, and crossplay enabling/disabling.
• Beginner Tips: Offers ten essential tips, advice on buying Scrolls of Wisdom, managing excess loot, ranking beginner-friendly classes, strategies for rapid gold acquisition, playing with friends, and prioritizing gold spending.

II. PoE 2 Game Mechanics & Systems:

Understanding PoE 2's intricate mechanics is crucial for success. This section delves into character stats, core gameplay, and the new skill system.

• Character Stats & Skill Points: Explains character attributes, acquiring passive skill points, respeccing points, using the passive skill filter, weapon set points, the spirit resource, increasing spirit and movement speed, maximizing mana, understanding energy shields, accuracy, and prioritizing resistance upgrades.
• Gameplay Mechanics: Covers fast travel, free item identification, trading, ailments, instances, stunning enemies, skill aiming, armor break, crowd control effects, guild creation/joining, arcane surge, power charges, death penalties, and the mechanics of Herald of Ice and Thunder.
• Skills, Gems, Jewels, & Runes: Guides on equipping and obtaining support gems, equipping and using runes, understanding jewel sockets, and acquiring uncut spirit gems and raging spirits.

III. Classes, Ascendancies, & Builds:

Classes are fundamental in PoE 2, shaping your build's foundation. This section provides comprehensive class guides and build recommendations.

• PoE 2 Class Guides: Ranks the best classes, identifies the best solo class, explains mercenary ammo swapping, summoning more minions, the mechanics of aftershock and rage.
• 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 a general Warrior leveling guide.

IV. PoE 2 Currencies & Gear:

Gear and currency are essential for progression. This section covers upgrading, crafting, and farming strategies.

• 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 effects, unlocking and using the salvage and currency exchange benches, finding current exchange rates, unlocking and using the reforging bench, and obtaining Orbs of Chance, Divine Orbs, and Greater Jeweler's Orbs.
• Gear & Equipment: Covers 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.

V. Quest & Boss Walkthroughs:

This section provides detailed walkthroughs for quests and boss encounters across all three Acts currently available in Early Access. This will expand with future updates.

• All Main Quests and Acts: A comprehensive overview of all main quests and acts.
• All Permanent Bonuses from the Campaign: Details on all permanent bonuses earned during the campaign.
• Act One, Act Two, Act Three: Individual walkthroughs for each act, including specific quest and boss guides.

VI. PoE 2 Endgame Guides:

Once you conquer the main campaign, the endgame awaits. This section covers endgame mechanics, activities, and advanced strategies.

• 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: Guides on the Atlas of Worlds (maps, events), Realmgates, Breach (passives, rewards), Delirium (fog mechanics, passives, rewards), Ritual (passives, tributes, favors), Expedition (passives, artifacts, rewards), Burning Monoliths, Trial of Chaos, and Trial of the Sekhemas.

VII. Advanced PoE 2 Tips & Other Guides:

This section provides advanced tips and tricks to maximize your PoE 2 experience.

• Advanced PoE 2 Guides: Covers rapid XP gain, using and obtaining loot filters (including console methods), Sidekick features and installation, FilterBlade usage, avoiding merchant scams (buying and selling), and acquiring more character slots.

This guide will continue to evolve as Path of Exile 2 develops, ensuring you're always equipped with the latest information.