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Publish Date: Jan 27 ,2025
Although the core gameplay of Path of Exile 2 is very similar to that of Diablo 4, the difficulty of the two games is very different. Path of Exile 2 is much more difficult than Diablo 4, which is particularly evident in the boss battle.
Almost every boss in Path of Exile 2 can be called a challenge. If you play the game normally and don’t level up madly to crush the boss, then the difficulty of some bosses will make you feel you are playing Soul series.
The following content is a list of the 6 most tough bosses according to the normal progress of the player’s game. Because some bosses are only the most difficult when you first see them.
As the final boss encountered by the player in Act 1, Count Geonor can be called a real challenge. If the player rashly challenges him when the equipment level is not high, you will fall into an extremely long boss battle. In the first stage, Geonor is in human form. He will use a big sword to attack the player. When his health is reduced to a certain level, he will enter the second stage.
Count Geonor in wolf form is much more difficult to deal with than in human form. And it is very good at freezing attributes. Players will continue to receive freezing and slowing effects on the battlefield. If the player is not prepared to resist freezing, the whole boss’ battle will be very torturous.
To deal with Geonor, you not only need equipment that resists freezing but also need to listen to its voice. It has many dangerous moves that will have voice prompts before they are released.
When the player follows the footsteps of Count Geonor’s wife to the desert, after a series of trials, the player will eventually face the final boss of Act 2, Jamanra, The Abomination.
Jamanra is a boss who is very good at fire and lightning. Its own melee attack is not fatal. The real difficulty of this boss battle comes from the changes in the battlefield. Jamanra will summon a sandstorm in the first stage, and the player needs to hide behind Jamanra as soon as possible. Jamanra will summon many tornadoes in the second stage, which further compresses the player’s movement space.
As the health value decreases, Jamanra’s spell range will become larger and larger. You can lead him to a safe place before attacking him. Perhaps because of the desert environment, Jamanra is more afraid of cold, which is its only weakness. After defeating it, you may get Runes and POE 2 Exalted Orb.
The player will fight Viper Napuatzi in Utzaal. She is the boss that the player must fight in Act 3. At the beginning of the battle, Viper Napuatzi’s men will gather together to form a small boss room. Viper Napuatzi will apply poison to you at the beginning of the battle, and all your supplies will be quickly consumed.
And as time goes by, her soldiers will shrink the battle field little by little, leaving you no room to hide. You must get rid of Viper Napuatzi as soon as possible, but Viper Napuatzi is resistant to all three elements. It is best to use physical or chaos damage against Viper Napuatzi. In addition, it is best to prepare enough anti-poison items before this battle.
After you deal with Viper Napuatzi, you will obtain some random POE 2 items, such as uncut support gems and uncut skill gems. However, you will not have much time to pick and choose, because her troops will soon attack you.
Doryani is the gatekeeper of Act 3. Players will encounter this powerful boss in The Testing Pit. He is imprisoned in this place along with his great creations. He has two phases. In the first phase, players need to face Doryani directly. He will float around the battlefield and release lightning, laser, and fire attacks on you. At the same time, he will release red crystals around the battlefield, which will explode after a short delay.
In the second phase, Doryani will assemble a mechanical scorpion, which will not only cause lightning and fire damage but also cold damage. The most difficult thing in the second stage is its laser cannon, which will quickly sweep across the field. At the same time, its other attacks are also very threatening.
You need to prepare some equipment that resists lightning and fire for this battle. After you defeat it, it will drop some valuable currency and will definitely drop at least one rare item.
Xesht, We That Are One is the final boss of Breaches activity. Players need to collect 300 Breach Splinters to qualify to challenge Xesht, We That Are One.
On the way to Xesht, We That Are One, players must first face a lot of monsters. If players cannot deal with these enemies, you can’t even see Xesht. Players can use AOE skills to clear these monsters quickly. They are not weak, and some are even rare monsters. Players can use them to farm some currency.
When you break through the monsters and reach the end, you can really start to face Xesht, We That Are One.
It is resistant to all three elements, so you’re better off using Chaos and Physical damage to against it.
The Arbiter of Ash is the most powerful boss in the endgame, no doubt about that. Because the developers even made adjustments specifically for it. Players will not fail immediately when they die in the battle with The Arbiter of Ash, but will have several more chances to challenge him. If you exit the boss’ room directly, these chances will not be retained.
The Arbiter of Ash is a boss with powerful attacks and very agile movements. It is good at using fire. Many of its attacks can cover your entire screen. There is very little room for players to dodge. Even if the player stacks the fire resistance to the highest level, some of The Arbiter of Ash’s attacks can still kill the player directly.
There are not many good ways to defeat The Arbiter of Ash. Basically, you can only remember its moves and counter them. After defeating The Arbiter of Ash, you can get a lot of currency and some valuable unique items.
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The above is a simple ranking of the first bosses in Path of Exile 2. Players often fail many times when facing them, which is very normal. What you need to do is to adjust your build according to the boss’s weaknesses, and then find out how to move in the battle through repeated failures, make progress little by little, and finally defeat them. Challenging hard bosses will give players enough sense of accomplishment.
Publish Date: Jan 24 ,2025
When players of Path of Exile 2 enter the endgame from the first three acts, they will find out the real difficulty of this game. In the endgame, both bosses and monsters are much more difficult to deal with than the enemies in the first three acts, and they will die if they are not careful.
To face the endgame bosses, players not only need to prepare the top POE 2 items and the most perfect endgame builds, but more importantly, they need to understand the intelligence of these bosses.
The Arbiter of Ash is definitely the most difficult one among these bosses. Players need to complete many challenges to see The Arbiter of Ash, and the difficulty of these challenges is also not small. Players must spend a lot of time and energy to get to it finally, and then you have to taste an almighty boss with unpredictable actions and fast attack speed.
When you first come to the endgame and open the map, it is hard not to be attracted by a red stone tower with a bridge shining. This place is the lair of The Arbiter of Ash, but you can’t come to this place at the beginning. You still need to advance the progress of the game step by step.
This red stone tower is called Burning Monolith. To open it, you need to collect three fragments from the citadel on the map:
These three citadels emit different colors of light on Atlas:
In addition to some regular POE 2 Currency, the bosses’ loot in the citadel will definitely include fragments, and sometimes more than one will appear. But the citadel will appear randomly on the map, and it may take you some time to find them all.
After you collect all the fragments, you can come to the door of Burning Monolith and put in these three fragments, then face The Arbiter Of Ash.
First, let’s look at the weaknesses of The Arbiter of Ash:
The Arbiter of Ash is not only resistant to three elements but also has an amount of armor, so even physical attacks will not be very effective. And the boss even has 7 million health, how desperate the players are!
To challenge this boss, you need to adjust your status and build to the most perfect state. Here are some suggestions for you to deal with this boss:
At the beginning of the battle, Arbiter will shoot a beam of fire at the center of the circular platform. You can attack it from the flank to deal lots of damage. Then he will start to attack with various fire bombs.
Arbiter will summon fire bombs, which will slowly fall to the platform. You need to enter the circle under each fire bomb before they fall on the platform.
When The Arbiter of Ash’s health reaches about 55%, he will pull out his sword from the center of the platform and start the second phase.
The circle under the fire bomb is still a safe zone, but he will release a beam of fire towards this circle, and you must jump into the circle within a short period after it is released. After the fire bomb explodes, you better get out of the way quickly because Arbiter will attack the circle.
Arbiter unleashes a huge wave of fire, leaving a straight safe path in the center marked by two blue lines on either side. You must get into that path before the fire wave explodes, and he will use this move multiple times, changing the direction of the fire wave. You only have a short time to move to a safe area.
Once you successfully dodge these attacks, Arbiter will summon a blue orb and a purple orb. After Arbiter pierces the blue orb, the entire platform will be covered in frost. He will attack while you are frozen. You need to get close to the purple orb quickly because it will explode and disperse the ice on the platform.
Once you have successfully avoided all of The Arbiter of Ash’s attacks, then congratulations, it’s time to pick up your loot. You can find the following unique items from a pile of currency:
These items are dropped by chance. As long as you get one of them, all your efforts will not be in vain. Except for Sacred Flame Shrine Sceptre, which will increase your fire damage, the other items mainly increase your dodge, shield and other attributes, which you can use in your build.
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The above is a brief information about The Arbiter of Ash. I hope it can help your endgame experience. If you feel that The Arbiter of Ash is too difficult, you can also hire other players to help you, but the prerequisite is that you must have a few Divine Orbs.
Publish Date: Jan 20 ,2025
As we all know, Path of Exile is an MMO game with various currency items as the core, and the items in the inventory play a huge role in the player’s strength. And POE 2, as a sequel that inherits the core content of the original, of course retains this feature. Not to mention that the character skill power in POE 2 is largely affected by the item scaling of the equipment, so once your gear is updated, there will never be a feeling of “skill problem” again!
Therefore, here, we will talk about the simple ways to upgrade equipment that we have learned so far in POE 2 Early Access to help your campaign progress smoothly and fun! This should help you start your journey to playing like a professional in POE 2. Without further ado, let’s get straight to it!
Here we will consider 3 situations: the first is a Softcore character, the other is the second character who completes 3 Acts, and the last is a player who plays Solo Self-Found. Of these 3 scenarios, the second one is more interesting when leveling up, and we’ll explain why and how next.
In Path of Exile 2, you only need 4 things to complete all Acts like a pro. That is: gear, gems, flasks, and your build plan, which includes your passive tree. You should keep upgrading all of these as the game progresses. These 4 are very important, especially your life and mana flasks.
For Softcore characters, there are 5 ways to upgrade your gear. One is to check vendors when leveling up, the second is to gamble for items, the third is to craft your own gear, the fourth is to identify loot on the ground, and the last and easiest and most effective way is to get items directly from the official POE trading website.
If you’re not playing SSF, I strongly recommend that you spend POE 2 currency to get important items such as weapons from trading websites. Because just spending one or two Exalted Orbs to get a delightful piece of gear is much more cost-effective than crafting the same item. And most of them will help you complete several acts. But make sure not to forget to set the check box for the level requirement. It is very important.
If you are a big fan of POE series, you will know that in POE 1, you had several Vendor Recipes and a Crafting Bench, which made your progress much easier even for SSF players. But when you start your first character in POE 2, your stash barely has any gold or anything.
Therefore, the best option is to pick anything you find on the way and identify them, even white items, such as weapons, body armor, and boots. You should use Orbs of Transmutation and Augmentation for all your gear if these base types are relevant to your build. But don’t use Regal Orbs unless you get the 2 best possible mods. It will only make you lose more than you gain.
Also, it is worth noting that please use Exalted Orbs only in the first 3 acts when you play SSF. But if you find yourself unlucky when crafting, don’t throw it away! It will always be useful to keep it in your stash.
In addition to this, with Reforging Bench you can combine 3 items of the same type to get a brand new item! This is very useful since we don’t have Orb of Scouring or any Orb of Alteration in POE 2. So make sure to dump as many items as possible into your stash tab so you can combine them later.
Whether you rely on ground loot or not, don’t forget to get the latest loot filter. The loot filter helps you pick up items that can salvage for existing equipment slots. You know, slots are very OP even in upgraded equipment. And an excellent weapon can take us smoothly from Act 3 to Act 6, with an extra 40% physical damage and 20% quality and prefixes here.
Finally, you should make sure to always keep your flasks up to date, especially life recovery rate modifiers that can save your life in boss battles. So make sure to transform and enhance these items as well. It’s worth mentioning that the best Charm in the early acts is Stone Charm, which prevents you from being knocked out in awkward situations.
If you use a second character after completing the campaign, you can gamble in the early acts to get the equipment you need more easily, as long as you have enough POE 2 Gold.
There are several places in the game where you can farm gold and items. With Waypoints, you can reset area instances and collect the same loot by respawning at checkpoints over and over again. This is especially effective under Cruel Difficulty.
The best way to earn gold in POE 2 Acts is to pick up rare magic items that can fit into 4 squares. Because rare items are worth more gold, especially wand and staff items that can roll spell modifiers.
Also, it is recommended that you identify items for free by holding down Control key and clicking on Hooded One. Because most of them are garbage and not worth recasting. And these things are best sold for gold!
If you’re playing SSF, it’s a smart choice to use Essence to upgrade gear in the early game, as they are more deterministic, more available, and more useful in the endgame.
But if you use them, try to get a good base type with sockets and quality. Some implicits in POE 2 are very powerful for certain builds, for example, a Grenade build will greatly benefit from Bombard Crossbow. Choosing a good implicit can definitely get you twice the result with half the effort for your build.
This is how to craft and upgrade items in different situations. Especially in the late endgame, you can encounter more deterministic crafting items by farming Ritual, so knowing these tips ahead of time can greatly increase your efficiency. Good luck!
Publish Date: Jan 18 ,2025
It has been more than a month since the early access to POE 2 was launched, have you found your favorite or most suitable one among the 6 playable classes? If your answer is Witch, then this guide will be worth reading carefully.
When you play as a Witch in Path of Exile 2, the use of builds is very important, because if you can cooperate with powerful builds properly, you can effectively fight the high-level bosses you will encounter and get more POE 2 Currency from them.
In fact, the creation and use of builds are inseparable from skills, and all the skills you can use in POE 2 are provided by skill gems. So in order to let you get good builds as a Witch in the early stage of the game, we will recommend 6 early skill gems worth equipping for you.
You can unlock Unearth after getting the first uncut skill gem, because it is only level 1. The main effect of this gem is that in battle, bone spikes can be generated in the mud in front of you to cause damage to the enemy. What’s more unexpected is that Unearth can even revive corpses along the way as minions for you to drive.
These benefits are actually still valid when you enter the later stages of Path of Exile 2, and can help you deal with those more chaotic battle situations, because it can revive fallen enemies as your minions while causing AOE damage, allowing you to build an army to defeat powerful bosses.
After equipping this skill gem, you will summon bone minions that can throw explosive fireballs at the enemy, causing significant AOE damage to the enemy-in contrast, another skill gem similar to Skeletal Arsonist, Skeletal Snipers, is more suitable for dealing with single enemies.
It is worth mentioning that if you can have both Skeletal Arsonist and Unearth, the minions that throw fireballs can send self-destruct signals to other minions with low health, allowing you to kill enemies through large-scale explosions - the more minions you summon, the more damage you will cause through explosions, which will be more useful when you are facing groups of enemies.
The skills provided by this gem can provide you with excellent support in battle, because at the beginning of the game, based on the characteristics of Witch class, your character will be very fragile. At this time, although the minions brought by Skeletal Warrior have weak defense capabilities, they can ensure your survival in the early stage of the game through rapid resurrection.
It should be noted that the use of this skill requires spirit, so you must manage and plan your spirit well, especially if you are also using other skill gems that consume spirit. In addition, Skeletal Warrior can also be obtained by equipping gear, so you can add random affixes to your gear by consuming POE 2 Exalted Orbs, making them more powerful and further exerting the power of Skeletal Warrior.
As a level 3 skill gem, Bone Cage causes substantial damage to the enemy. When you use this skill in battle, you can summon a circle of bone spikes around the enemy, and the bone spikes will pin them when they are touched by the enemy, causing 15 to 22 points of physical damage to the enemy, and even a 15% chance of causing fatal damage.
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It is worth mentioning that when you use Bone Cage in combination with other skills that can summon minions, it will be more effective, especially when Bone Cage pins the enemy, because this will restrict their movement, making it easier for you to let other minions pounce on the enemy and cause damage to them.
Contagion lets you cast Chaos spells on enemies, dealing damage over time to them, and if you knock them down while they’re debuffed, the debuff can be combined with other chaos debuffs to further effect nearby enemies, resetting the duration of the debuff. It can even resurrect corpses of enemies that were infected before they died, allowing you to further spread the debuff when you hit them.
Like Skeletal Arsonist, Contagion is great with Unearth to deal with large groups of enemies. Or you can combine the support gem Magnified Effect with Contagion to increase your AOE damage by 40%.
This skill gem belongs to the elemental type and is characterized by its ability to deal fire damage. After launching Flame Wall, a wall of flames will appear in front of you, causing burn damage to all enemies that come into contact with it. If you or your teammates fire projectiles that can pass through the wall, these projectiles will also be added with fire damage, further hurting the enemy.
Flame Wall can last for 4.5 seconds after being released, and can cause 4.2 basic damage to the enemy per second, so when you need a gap to adjust in battle, you can also release this skill once. Maybe the rest opportunity it provides you can turn the situation around in the subsequent occupation.
In fact, besides the above 6 skill gems, you can also find more skill gems suitable for Witch class in Path of Exile 2 by exploring on your own, making your combat options more abundant. I wish you have fun!
Publish Date: Jan 16 ,2025
When players come to the endgame in POE 2, they can find lots of good equipment here. These equipment can greatly improve the power of your build. The best equipment is undoubtedly the equipment that the exiles get by defeating the bosses of the four activities in the endgame.
Hand of Wisdom and Action Furtive Wraps is one of the most valuable unique items in Path of Exile 2. This glove has shown its value in many builds. Hand of Wisdom and Action Furtive Wraps is called HoWA for short. It is not an easy task to get it. This unique item is very rare. Players who want to get this HoWA will inevitably spend some effort.
First, let’s take a look at why this glove is powerful. HoWA is a unique equipment. There are certain level requirements and attribute requirements for equipping HoWA. Players need to reach level 52 and have 46 Dexterity and 46 Intelligence.
It can bring direct attribute improvements to players:
What makes HoWA very important is its unique effects:
It can be seen that this glove allows the player’s character to attack faster and with lightning damage. So what build will use these two points? Generally speaking, Sorceress will need lightning damage, and HoWA can also provide her with intelligence, but she is not the most suitable.
HoWA will be more suitable for the build of the two classes of Monk and Ranger. If these two classes are built with lightning damage as the core, then HoWA is simply the best choice. These two classes are very dependent on attack speed, and all the bonus provided by HoWA are very useful for them. Monk and Ranger are currently the two most powerful classes in POE 2, which may be one of the reasons why HoWA is so popular.
Hand Of Wisdom And Action Furtive Wraps are boss drops in the endgame. Players need to defeat the boss of Breach activity, Xesht, We That Are One, to have a chance to get this unique glove. Fortunately, Xesht, We That Are One will drop HoWA on the most common difficulty, so you don’t need to play higher difficulties.
Players can encounter this Xesht in Twisted Domain. To enter Twisted Domain, you need to use Breachstone to pass through Realmgate on Atlas.
Of course, players can also exchange HoWA with other players on some official POE 2 websites, but even HoWA with ordinary affixes requires a lot of Divine Orbs, so you have to be mentally prepared before exchanging.
To get HoWA through normal methods, players have to get Breachstone first. There are two ways to get Breachstone:
The first is to kill monsters on Breach. Monsters do have the possibility of dropping Breachstone, but the probability is relatively low. For players, it is more common to get Breach Splinter. As long as the player obtains 300 Breach Splinters and stacks them in the backpack, a Breachstone can be synthesized.
The second way is to go to Currency Exchange. This is the means of exchanging POE 2 Currency in the game. Players can talk to Alva, open Currency Exchange menu, and exchange Breachstones with other players. It usually takes 50-60 POE 2 Exalted Orbs to exchange a Breachstone. The specific amount will fluctuate, and players can wait until they are satisfied before exchanging.
If you already have a Breachstone, but can’t handle the boss, Xesht, We That Are One, you can find some high-level players to help you pass this boss. Of course, this also requires you to use 1 to 2 Divine Orbs.
A perfect Hand of Wisdom and Action can bring players more attack speed bonuses, lightning damage bonuses, and two rune slots. The only way to get it is to corrupt Hand of Wisdom and Action Furtive Wraps through Vaal Orb. This is a certain risk because the changes of Vaal Orb are completely random. The chance of getting a perfect HoWA upgrade is perhaps only one in six or even lower. Unless you are a player who is extremely pursuing the upper limit of the build, it is not recommended to try.
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It needs to be said here that although Orb of Chance can convert ordinary items into unique items, HoWA cannot be obtained through conversion because HoWA is one of the unique drops of Boss. You will not get a HoWA if you use Orb of Chance to convert White Furtive Wrap.
That’s all about Hand of Wisdom and Action Furtive Wraps. This glove is not very versatile, but it can definitely play a big role in the right build. Especially for Lightning Monk players, after obtaining this glove, they will be even more powerful and can output more in a short time. Players who need to use lightning attack and agility amplification can try to integrate this HoWA into your build.
Publish Date: Jan 08 ,2025
Witch in Path of Exile 2 is a very interesting class. She can be called strong in the early stage. With the protection of summons, she can face the monster group without pressure. However, Witch in the later stage seems to be a little powerless, because Witch’s summons cannot face the powerful boss, which causes Witch to face the boss alone. The survivability of a witch without summons is not high, so players who want to play a powerful witch need to have the correct Ascendancy, weapons and skills.
DPS of Witch is a little lower than other characters in Path of Exile 2, so Witch cannot rashly re-enter the boss field and instill your damage to the boss. This will not have much effect, and you will die. So the following recommends an extremely powerful Flame Witch build.
Witch is very dependent on minions, and it takes a lot of Spirit to summon more minions. Therefore, Witch’s equipment should be matched by Spirit. The more Spirit you have, the more summons you can drive.
The most direct way to increase your Spirit is to rely on equipment. Some scepters will directly provide you with Spirit, and you can also use POE 2 Chaos orbs to replace some of your equipment affix with affix that increase Spirit, which is even better.
Many scepters can directly provide you with a large amount of Spirit, and among them, Rattling Scepter is the most suitable scepter for witches. This scepter not only provides 100 Spirit for witches, but also allows you to summon some minions.
These minions are not too strong, but they can perfectly contain the enemy and put you in a safe position to attack without worry.
You can choose to place Shield or Focus in the off-hand position to improve your survivability, or if you are confident enough, you can also equip a wand in the main hand and a scepter in the off-hand, abandoning the ability to defend and turn all to offense.
Some flame wands can make the enemy suffer from burning, such as the Volatile Wand, which can turn the corpse into a fireball that chases the enemy. Leaving the corpse can also be used to summon minions, and Focus is very useful at this time. How you want to use the corpse depends on whether you need flame or minions.
For armor and accessories, the first choice is still items that can increase Spirit. The second is items that enhance summons. Spirit is the key to determining how many summons a witch can control, which is crucial.
There are not many armor and accessories that enhance Spirit. You can try to get Alpha’s Howl Armored Cap and Ventor’s Gamble Gold Ring, which are both equipment that can enhance your Spirit.
You can also choose to use currency to exchange more POE 2 items that enhance Spirit with other players.
In POE 2, players can learn skills at will. However, a powerful build requires a specific combination of some skills to exert greater power.
The core of Flame Witch’s skill set is flame and minions. You need to allocate your skill gems and support gems mainly to these skills.
Skeletal Arsonists allow you to summon skeleton hurlers that throw flaming projectiles. Yes, they are ranged characters. Rattling Scepters allow you to summon warriors. Put warriors and hurlers together and you have an army.
The key is that the flames thrown by Skeletal Arsonists can be combined with your other flame skills, which allows these poor skeletons to do more damage.
Flame Wall creates a Flame Wall in front of you, and enemies that enter it will be set on fire and receive continuous damage.
With the support gem equipped for this skill, you can create three Flame Wall, which can effectively prevent enemies from getting in front of you.
The support gem Fortress can double all your flame skills, and your flame wall will be greatly amplified.
The remaining Pain Offering and Unearth focus on increasing the damage of minions, while Detonate Dead and Flammability make your enemies suffer from flames.
Passive skills are still built along the lines of increasing flame damage and minion damage, but fortunately there aren’t many passive skills in POE 2 that increase fire skills, so you only need to focus on increasing minion damage.
When Witch chooses Ascendancy, we still have two options: Infernalist and Bloodmage. Among them, Infernalist is Ascendancy that controls hellfire and hell minions, which is very suitable for a flame witch.
The first skill you need to unlock is Hellhound, which will be another minion you summon. After you complete the remaining two trials, you will continue to gain Ascendancy, and you need to add Pyromantic Pact and Bringer of Flame.
Pyromantic Pact will allow Infernal Flame to replace your mana, and when Infernal Flame is sufficient, Bringer of Flame skill will allow all attacks of you and your minions to set the enemy on fire.
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The above is an introduction to POE 2 Flame Witch build. As the only summoner in POE 2, this class is very interesting to play. However, it may require a lot of currency to fully build her. Interested players can try this build.
Publish Date: Jan 04 ,2025
There are 6 different classes in Path of Exile 2 Early Access, each with its own weaknesses and strengths, some with strong survivability, and others that can deal a lot of damage. Deadeye is a class with both weaknesses and strengths. She has very strong output capabilities, but weak survivability. However, this is not a problem. For Deadeye, just kill all the enemies. No living monsters will not pose a threat to her survival.
So, can Deadeye do this? Without a doubt, yes. Deadeye is one of the most brutal classes in the game that make damage, and Lightning Arrow build can destroy the enemy with great force. If you haven’t completed the campaign yet, or want to try a new class, then you can try Lightning Arrow Deadeye.
Lightning Arrow Deadeye is one of the most basic but powerful builds in Path of Exile 2. The important spells required for this build can be learned in the prologue, and the rest of the skills are just supplements to make your build more powerful.
Lightning Arrow Deadeye’s basic idea of dealing damage is to combine Lightning Arrow and Lightning Rod. When fighting, first throw a few Lightning Rods on the battlefield, and then use the powerful Lightning Arrow. In this case, both the boss and the ordinary enemy will be stunned for a few seconds, and you can take advantage of this time to pour your damage on the enemy.
In addition, Deadeye class is not completely unable to resist the enemy’s attacks. In fact, she is very flexible on the battlefield. You only need to increase the dodge and resistance of Deadeye class, and you can make it shuttle quickly on the battlefield, and the enemy can’t touch her at all.
When you combine Deadeye’s attack and dodge, you will find that you can handle most situations. Even some bosses cannot survive to the second phases under your attack. At the same time, this construction can easily destroy monster groups, which is convenient for you to farm the map and collect Exalted Orbs.
Players can obtain two key skills, Lightning Arrow and Lightning Rod, in the first act. All you need to do in the first act is to enhance these two skills, and the method is to use support gems.
Lightning Infusion lets you continuously inflict lightning damage when attacking, while reducing fire and cold damage.
Martial Tempo can speed up your attack speed.
If you have more uncut support gems, it is recommended to equip Lightning Rod with the two support skills Scattershot and Concentrated Effect. They can increase the number of projectiles and make the area damage caused by lightning stronger.
After you defeat King of the Mists, you will get an uncut spirit gem. Use this gem to unlock the spirit skill Wind Dancer, which will increase your dodge rate and enhance survival.
There isn’t much to do in Act 2 except completing Trial of Sekhemas and ascending to Deadeye. However, if you can, unlock two more skills: Orb of Storms and Voltaic Mark. Both of these skills will cause lightning damage to enemies.
Orb of Storms creates a lightning ball that causes chain damage to enemies. This skill can quickly trigger Lightning Rods. The support skills Unleash and Chain allow you to release more Lightning Balls and cause more chain damage.
Voltaic Mark marks enemies as being damaged by lightning. Enemies with this mark will explode when they die. The support skill Magnified Effect can expand the range of the explosion.
The construction in Act III will gradually take shape. You need a lot of POE 2 Currency to build your class at this stage. You need to use Lesser Jeweler’s Orb to open a third hole for your Lightning Arrow and Lightning Rod, and then add a support gem to them.
Lightning Arrow needs Heft to increase the maximum physical damage, and Lightning Rod needs Lightning Penetration to penetrate the enemy’s lightning resistance.
At the same time, your Orb of Storms also needs to add another slot support gem slot and put Overabundance in it.
Herald of Thunder allows you to deal continuous lightning damage to nearby enemies after you kill them. This spirit gem needs to be unlocked after you defeat Ignaduk the Bog Witch.
In subsequent maps, you will need to continue collecting Greater Jeweler’s Orbs to open a fourth socket for your Lightning Arrow and put in the support skill Primal Armament. It allows you to make more elemental damage.
You will also need to add some intelligence and unlock Cast on Shock and Ball Lightning. Then combine Cast on Shock and Ball Lightning, and put the two support skills Deceleration and Impetus, after Cast on Shock.
Lightning Arrow Deadeye requires a lot of passive skills to complete. Because it needs to increase dodge level, agility, attack speed, attack damage, lightning damage and other attributes. Here are some recommended passive skills:
To equip Lightning Arrow Deadeye needs quite a few things, the most important of which is Double String Bow. Double String Bow allows you to shoot two arrows at the same time, greatly increasing your damage. You also need to use Chaos Orb to convert some affixes that increase dodge and agility for your armor. You also need a lot of spirit to ensure that all your spirit skills can be used.
After you become Deadeye in the second act, allocate sublimation points to these skills:
The above is the basic build of Lightning Arrow Deadeye. To be honest, this is a build that relies extremely on lightning damage, but it works. Players still need some skills to avoid the boss’s attacks when using this build, because although this build is powerful, it is not invincible.
Publish Date: Dec 25 ,2024
Build diversity is one of the core charms of Path of Exile 2. By collecting gear, leveling up skills, and planning in the passive skill tree, players can increase their character’s abilities to amazing levels.
If you’re looking for a way to play with both survivability and powerful damage, try Fireball Blood Mage build. Here is a detailed Fireball Blood Mage build guide to help you upgrade efficiently and ultimately master this build.
Witch class has two Ascendancies for players to choose from, and Blood Mage is one of them. Relying solely on the basic abilities of the Blood Mage is not enough to deal with powerful enemies in the late game.
To fully realize the potential of Blood Mage, players need to cleverly combine skills and passive abilities to increase its output damage and improve survivability at the same time. This strategy requires players to combine Blood Mage with sorcery skills.
For example, players can combine powerful spells such as Fireball, Frost Wall, and Comet with skills such as Sanguimancy and Vitality Syphon. Such a combination not only deals a lot of damage but also restores health to a certain extent, thus maintaining a long-lasting combat effectiveness in fierce battles.
In the early stages of Blood Mage, if you don’t have enough POE 2 Currency support, it may be a bit challenging due to resource constraints, especially in the acquisition of gems and mana. Therefore, it is crucial to plan the order of skill unlocking properly. First, you need to prioritize unlocking Flame Wall, which is your chief means of damage output in the early stage.
Subsequently, unlocking Frost Bomb and Spark is also very important. Frost Bomb can provide area control and additional damage, while Spark is extremely useful for dealing with basic enemies and boss battles. Next, you should consider pairing Flame Wall with Fortress and Arcane Tempo. Finally, don’t forget to insert Magnified Effect for Frost Bomb.
You will start to shape your end-game build. First, you need to focus on Hypothermia, because it can significantly enhance the damage of your Cold spells. But before that you need to upgrade your character to level 30.
Once you reach level 31, you’ll get Uncut Skill Gem level nine and unlock Fireball and Frost Wall. Next, you’ll want to spend some time farming until you get two Uncut Skill Gem level nine for each of these two skills.
For Fireball, you can use any uncut support gem to unlock Scattershot and Unleash for Fireball. For Frost Wall, you’ll want access to Spell Cascade and Concentrated Effect .
You need to start thinking about how you’re going to complete your build in the long term. First, unlock Comet to quickly clear maps. Even though Cast on Freeze was nerfed at launch, you’ll still want to use it in conjunction with Comet.
Then unlock Eye of Winter for better control and damage output. Finally, make sure you unlock Grim Feast and use various Orbs to unlock additional slots for Fireball, Cast on Freeze, and Frost Wall. Finally, ditch Spark and replace Arcane Tempo on Flame Wall with Fire Mastery.
In POE 2, equipment selection is crucial to character building. First, you need a powerful weapon, such as a wand or staff, which should have the property of providing damage boost to all spells. In addition, any property that can increase your maximum mana and help mana regeneration is also necessary.
Whenever you find a piece of equipment with potential, just use POE 2 Exalted Orb, Orb of Augmentation and Regal Orb to help you improve the equipment’s properties and make it more powerful. It is recommended that you start using them from the early stage of the game.
Blood Mage needs to equip equipment with defensive skills to resist various elemental damage and improve health and mana regeneration. In addition, you also need to obtain Blueflame Bracers, which will help your Fireball freeze enemies and make it easier to trigger Comet from Cast on Freeze.
Blood Mage also needs an armor that provides Energy Shield to synergize with one of Ascendancy nodes, Crimson Power. In addition, you also need to obtain Atziri’s Disdain helmet to convert your health into Energy Shield. This synergizes with Eldritch Battery, which converts Energy Shield into mana.
In POE 2, the best Ascendancy choice for a Witch is Blood Mage, a class that focuses on improving survivability and strengthening sustained output in combat. Every time you cast a spell or defeat an enemy, you regain vitality.
During the early campaign, you will gain four Ascendancy nodes. As you enter the more difficult Cruel Mode, there will be 8 Ascendancy nodes to unlock, helping you further refine your build.
Blood Mage build needs to use passive skills to enhance spells, focusing primarily on Fire and Cold damage. Here are the spells you should consider when unlocking the passive skill tree:
By making good use of all available resources and skills, Fireball Blood Mage build will become a powerful weapon in your quest to conquer Path of Exile 2, helping you easily meet challenges at every stage of the game.
Publish Date: Dec 21 ,2024
In Path of Exile 2, fighting monsters is not only about dealing damage but also about Crowd Control effects. In some cases, it can be even more critical than dealing damage directly. The success of many powerful combinations depends on the correct application of these control effects, so understanding the mechanics of Crowd Control and how to deal with them is as important as understanding Ailments.
This article will take a thorough analysis of Crowd Control effects in PoE 2 and their importance, helping players better understand how to use these effects to shape your character.
A Crowd Control effect is any mechanism that can hinder or completely prevent an entity from performing an action. In PoE 2, these effects are not only very useful in daily combat but also particularly important when facing powerful enemies that are difficult to defeat, such as rare monsters with tough modifiers, or unique bosses like Mighty Silverfist.
This guide lists several currently known Crowd Control effects in Path of Exile 2:
Stun is an important Crowd Control effect that can temporarily interrupt the target’s actions, usually for a short period. However, if the target is stunned multiple times, especially in a short period, it will usually cause the enemy to die, increasing Path Of Exile 2 Currency drop. It is worth noting that Stun effect can also affect the player, so the player needs to be vigilant at all times to avoid being hit by the enemy and unable to fight back.
The generation of Stun is usually related to the accuracy of the attacker. Physical hits have a certain chance to cause Stun, especially when the attacker’s accuracy is high. In addition, A Heavy Stun is another more powerful Stun effect.
A Heavy Stun not only temporarily completely prohibits all actions of the target but also lasts for a long time. When Heavy Stun Meter located below the enemy’s health bar is filled, the target will enter Heavy Stunned. When the target recovers, Stun Buildup will gradually decrease over a short period, which may provide the player with an additional attack window.
In order to effectively use Heavy Stun, players can use some specific skills and passives to enhance Stun effect. For example, Seismic Cry Mace Skill and Surprising Strength Titan passive can significantly enhance the stun effect, especially the control ability of the enemy, thus creating more output opportunities for players.
Pin is a control effect that restricts the target’s movement, but does not prevent the target from attacking, as the enemy can still attack. However, it can be very valuable for certain character builds that rely on delayed damage, long cast times, or continuous area damage skills.
For example, a spellcaster or ranged character can use Pin to pin an enemy in place, ensuring that skills can hit the target accurately, especially if the enemy is difficult to reach or leaping.
Knockback, on the other hand, has a completely different effect. It pushes the target out of its current location, creating more space, which is especially useful for spellcasters. Knockback can help players get away from enemies and avoid being attacked by enemies in close range or interrupting spells. Although there are fewer mechanics around Knockback, it can be very important in certain situations, especially when fighting enemies with area attacks.
Cold damage is a powerful effect that freezes the target. Hitting an enemy with Cold damage can slow their movement speed until they are completely frozen and unable to take any actions. This effect is very useful against fast-moving or high-damage enemies.
When a target takes Cold damage, a freeze icon will appear next to its health bar, showing the enemy’s current freeze progress. When the freeze reaches 100%, the target is completely frozen and cannot make any actions, including attacking or casting skills.
Frozen state is very disadvantageous to enemies because they are exposed to more attacks after being frozen, especially some skills can be more powerful specifically against frozen targets.
For example, Cold Snap from Elemental tree can use the enemy’s frozen state to cause AoE damage. In addition, Fragmentation Rounds from Crossbow tree for Mercenary builds will also consume the target’s frozen state, releasing range attacks to cause AoE damage.
In POE 2, certain skills or skills enhanced by Support Gems can trigger Electrocute, which is similar to Stun, but it mainly interrupts the enemy’s actions through Lightning damage and temporarily locks it in place, usually for five seconds, restricting the enemy’s actions.
Electrocute not only interrupts enemy attacks, but is also often triggered with Shock effect, which causes enemies affected by Electrocute to take an additional 20% more damage.
It is worth noting that, unlike Stun, Electrocute can only be triggered if the skill itself supports it or through a specific Support Gem. Therefore, when building a character, players need to evaluate whether it is worth using additional gem slots to trigger Electrocute. In particular, Monks or Sorceresses are very powerful against bosses through a dual Lightning ailment build, which can greatly increase your efficiency in farming PoE 2 Exalted Orbs.
Some monsters have CC effects that can cause players to cannot apply themselves. For example, Drowning effect caused by the water globes cast by River Hags will distort the player’s vision and significantly slow down the player’s movement speed. If the player is drowned for about two seconds, they will die directly.
Besides drowning, monsters that cause elemental damage often have special control effects, such as Freeze or Electrocute. Additionally, Stun is another crowd control effect that all players, especially melee players, must be wary of.
Overall, mastering these crowd control effects and learning to exploit their synergy with skills and passives is key to successfully building a character and taking on high-difficulty challenges.
Publish Date: Dec 10 ,2024
Path of Exile 2 is known for its deep character building and nearly endless skill combinations, and has a very high reputation among the player community. Although Path of Exile 2 is currently only in early access, it already provides a complete and rich endgame experience, including a challenging ultimate level, powerful boss battles, and rich rewards.
Players need to manage three key resources while exploring and fighting: Life, Mana, and Spirit. Among them, life represents the current health of the character, and mana is used to enhance abilities. These two resources are relatively familiar game mechanics for most players. Spirit is a new resource introduced in PoE 2, and it works differently from the other two resources. Read this guide to learn more details about Spirit.
Spirit is around the player’s mana orb, and is specifically used to activate various passive character effects, including but not limited to powerful buffs such as auras, self-reviving minions, meta gems, etc.
Spirit is used to enhance long-term or permanent abilities, such as permanent minion summons, permanent self-buffs, etc. It is not a resource that automatically regenerates over time after consumption. When a player uses a skill that grants a persistent effect, that skill reserves a certain amount of spirit to prevent it from being used by other skills until the player manually turns off the effect.
The player’s maximum spirit effectively limits the number of passive effects they can have active at once. For example, if your maximum spirit is 100 and you have Skeletal Warrior skill active, and this skill reserves 60 spirit to create a skeletal minion that can be revived upon death, you will only have 40 spirit left to use for any other passive effects.
Even if the skeletal minion is defeated in combat, the 60 spirit originally reserved for it will still be locked until the player actively deactivates the skeletal minion, as its ability to self-revive is considered part of the effect. The Spirit cost of passive effects can be modified by inserting Support Gems.
Spirit is an important resource for some builds, especially those that use Spirit to create permanently summoned minions. Despite the relatively scarce sources of Spirit, there are several ways to increase your maximum Spirit. First, defeating the bosses in a specific act is an important way to increase Spirit. Second, specific equipment can also provide players with additional Spirit. Finally, a character’s Ascendancy Class can also increase maximum Spirit.
In PoE 2’s campaign, each act features a powerful boss. After successfully defeating these bosses, the player will be rewarded with a gem-encrusted skull, which can permanently increase the player’s maximum Spirit by 30 points. During early access, these rewards will still drop when the player passes the Acts at Cruel difficulty for the second time. If the player finds all the rewards, they will obtain 180 Spirit.
The game provides a convenient hint feature on World screen: just hover over each Boss icon with a + to see if you can obtain an item with a Spirit reward by finding and defeating that boss. In addition, sometimes defeating certain bosses will also drop PoE 2 Exalted Orbs, which can be collected and used to unlock the spirit-providing gear mentioned below.
Some equipment comes with extra Spirit, especially scepters, which can increase the player’s maximum spirit by 100 points when equipped, which is almost essential for Minion Witch builds. In addition, some special scepters can also grant players passive effects that do not require any spirit to be retained, such as a free minion or aura effect. Therefore, it is necessary to use POE2 Currency to unlock these scepters as much as possible.
Sun Amulets are also an option to increase spirit. Although the range of spirit values they provide is smaller, usually between 10 and 15 points, these small increases are also very important for players pursuing extreme optimization. In addition, some magic and rare items in the game may come with random roll prefix modifiers, which can increase the spirit provided by the item as a percentage.
There are two Ascendancy Classes that offer unique ways to increase spirit: the witch’s Infernalist and the monk’s Invoker.
Infernalist Ascendancy offers Beidat’s Will node, which will retain 25% of the player’s health. However, this node also has the significant benefit of providing 1 point of maximum spirit for every 25 maximum life.
In addition, Altered Flesh can help Infernalists offset this vulnerability. When Infernalists take cold, lightning, and physical damage, a portion of that damage will be converted into fire and chaos damage. Regardless of whether they choose the Beidat’s Will node, Infernalists may wish to invest in maximum life or life recovery. This is because their Demon Form or Infernal Flame mechanics may cause damage to themselves.
Invoker Ascendancy offers Lead Me Through Grace... node, which prevents the player from gaining spirit by re-equipping. However, for every 6 Evasion and 15 Energy Shield activations, the player’s body armor will provide 1 Spirit. This can be a source of Spirit for monks. Additionally, Lead Me Through Grace... forms a useful synergy with Protect me from Harm. Protect me from Harm allows the player to utilize Evasion to provide Physical Damage Reduction.
In summary, there are multiple ways to help you increase your maximum Spirit. Understanding and mastering Spirit management is essential to success in PoE 2.
