Path Of Exile 2 Dawn Of The Hunt Impact On The Official Version And POE 1: What’s The Difference?

With the release of the first league Dawn Of The Hunt, POE 2 has once again reached a higher level of popularity, even though it is still in the early access stage. Among the impacts brought by this update, in addition to adding more game content to experience, the more important thing is that the game’s economic system has also been reset.

This means that if your Path of Exile 2 character wants to successfully complete all the pre-content and enter the endgame, you must accumulate resources from scratch, and then the game’s trading system will naturally usher in a wave of trading booms! After all, this is always easier than working hard to cultivate dungeons or events yourself.

In order to enable you to understand the current situation of POE 2 trading market as soon as possible, to arrange your currency inventory and trading plans reasonably, we will introduce you to the basic operation of the game’s trading system and the 7 most popular items at present.

How Does POE 2 Trading System Work?

The official trading website of Path of Exile 2 can be accessed directly in the game, or you can log in to the official website through a browser to access it. All players can trade here, and there are few restrictions on the items that can be traded. Gear, gems, special props and even rarer POE 2 Currency can become trading items.

The value of most items will fluctuate when they are first listed, and will stabilize after a period of time. In addition, most transactions are carried out through POE 2 Exalted or Divine Orbs, because they are both practical and common, suitable as a universal currency.

7. High Tier Waystones

This type of Waystone usually refers to level 15 Waystones. The main reason it is popular is that some level 15 Waystones may come with some very useful modifiers, such as increasing the number of enemies generated in the area.

In fact, besides direct transactions, if you want to re-roll modifiers for Waystones, you can also choose to buy POE 2 Currency, which is also a good way. If you are lucky, the currency consumed will be even less. Because the better the modifier effect, the more valuable the Waystone is in the trading market, but sometimes re-rolling it once may achieve the effect you want.

6. High Level Skill Gems

The feature of POE series of games is that the use of skills depends on the skill gems in the slots. The rarer and higher the level of the skill gems, the more benefits they provide in battle. Considering that it takes a lot of time and energy to upgrade these gems yourself, direct trading seems to be a more convenient option.

If the skill gems you sell on the trading market can meet the following conditions at the same time, you will definitely have a lot of people coming to you:

• Max level (20)
• Max quality (20%)
• Have five sockets
• Be corrupted with +1 to the skill level

5. Unique Relics

The reason why this type of item is popular is mainly because it can play a special role in Trial of the Sekhemas, because unique relics can allow you to obtain special gear after defeating the final trial boss Zarokh the Temporal, improving your combat efficiency.

The most valuable relic at present is Last Flame Incense Relic, which can make the boss drop the special item Temporalis. In addition, even the less popular relics are worth at least 10 Divine Orbs.

4. Precursor Tablets

The main purpose of Precursor Tablets is mapping in the endgame map, such as giving Atlas’ towers specific properties of the map within their range. The most popular tablets are those that increase the probability of endgame events, including Breaches, Rituals, Delirium, and Azmeri Wisps, which was added in patch 0.2.0.

Some of the rarer Precursor Tablets are often worth hundreds of POE 2 Divine Orbs, or even a few Mirrors of Kalandra. But if you look around the market, you may be able to trade fewer Divine Orbs for better Precursor Tablets!

3. Omens

As an endgame currency item, Omens can help you craft the best gear in ways that affect the results of crafting, such as allowing Alchemy Orbs to gain the maximum number of suffix modifiers or allowing you to restore flask charges when your health is low. As long as Omens is activated in your inventory, it will take effect when the conditions are met.

2. Named Uniques

There are special items in POE 2 that can help you defeat dangerous bosses and enemies by creating positive synergies with the builds you’re using. To get the high-level weapons that can do the same, you need more currency than you think, but a good special item usually only needs 500 Divine Orbs, and even the rarest ones only need 5-10 Mirrors of Kalandra.

1. High Roll Rare Gear

As you know, re-rolling modifiers for gear is the main purpose of POE 2 Currency, and the resulting modifiers can make the gear more valuable than some of the nice unique items if they are good enough. This is why rare gear is very popular on Path of Exile 2 trade market, and is usually worth 500 Divine Orbs or 1 Mirror of Kalandra.

If you are interested in the items we introduced, and have saved up some orbs since the release of Dawn Of The Hunt, then you can try to go to the market to get some items that you like. Good luck!

When you play Path of Exile 2 recently, do you stick to the class you are familiar with, or create a new character to experience the new class Huntress? I believe that for most ARPG players, the temptation of the freshness brought by the new class is always hard to resist, because the new class means you can use new skills and new builds.

As a new class launched with the first league Dawn of the Hunt in POE 2, the biggest feature and advantage of Huntress is that it has an outstanding performance in both melee and ranged combat. The combination of spear and round shield allows her to shuttle between enemy groups with a solid posture.

Although 20 of the more than 100 new skill gems added by patch 0.2.0 belong to Huntress, not all gems can make this class perform well in battle. That is to say, if you want your character to grow into a top Huntress, you need to choose the right skill gems to equip. Based on this, this time we will first introduce you to 8 of the better ones.

1. Whirling Slash

As the name of the skill suggests, when you use Whirling Slash, your character will transform into a human blender or whirlwind, which can instantly eliminate enemies in a small area, especially those that are in groups but have low health, and the skill can last for a period of time, causing continuous damage to any creature caught in the whirlwind.

In addition, Whirling Slash is also very flexible. It can be used to clean up enemies or prepare for you to use other more powerful skills. It absorbs any ground elements it touches as one of its resource reserves. On this basis, it is matched with movement speed bonus or support gems that can extend AOE effects, and you will be invincible.

2. Twister

From the external manifestation, this skill has some similarities with Whirling Slash. You can summon small tornadoes to chase enemies to cause continuous damage to them. The characteristic of Twister is that it does not destroy the enemy through a onetime fierce attack, but cooperates with Whirling Slash to release more tornadoes and play a role continuously.

Since the tornado will automatically chase down your enemies for you, you don’t need to be very precise when using Twister. This not only means that the skill is easy to use, but it also allows you to avoid attacks while attacking your enemies.

3. Explosive Spear

This is a very good skill to be a “show starter”. Creating an explosion with your spear will weaken your target before you enter melee range and launch a subsequent fierce attack. You can also buy POE 2 Currency for your gear to get affixes that can be used with the explosion effect, which will further enhance the combat value of the skill. In addition, AOE effect of Explosive Spear can be synergized with Frenzy Charge, destroying any enemy in an instant with an immediate explosion.

4. Lightning Spear

After activating this skill, you can fire a lightning bolt and attack enemies in a chain reaction - the lightning will jump from one enemy to another to damage them, which is not only lethal, but also beautiful to watch. From a practical point of view, this skill is suitable for dealing with scattered enemies in the arena. With chain or shock support gems, you can clear the field faster than you think.

Also Read: What Should You Know About Tame Beast In Path Of Exile 2?

5. Wind Serpent’s Fury

This skill allows you to attack with wind serpents while sprinting forward with a high-impact spear, and you can release more wind serpents by increasing Frenzy Charges. Wind serpents can further resonate with your sprint, not only repelling enemies, but also releasing shock waves when colliding with the surrounding environment.

Wind Serpent’s Fury is not only suitable for almost all enemy types, but also works well at any stage of the battle: it can be used as an opening attack or as a finishing move after charging.

6. Rake

The skill effect of Rake is that you can send out powerful slashes during a fast sprint, causing continuous bleeding damage to all enemies in the path, with strong high mobility and AOE damage characteristics. And the effect of Rake will increase as your sprint distance increases, so you can give full play to the strengths of the skill through reasonable positioning and movement.

Rake is great for both active and repositioning, and its large melee range and increased bleed make it particularly useful against groups of enemies while still remaining mobile.

7. Disengage

With Disengage, you can backflip out of danger while dealing damage, and you can also Frenzy Charge the blocked enemy. Or you can just work it into your combo flow: jump in with your main skill, then Disengage out before things get tough. So if you need to face a very dangerous boss, or a group of enemies that will surround you, Disengage can keep you mobile and alive.

8. Cull The Weak

If your POE 2 operation level is not very good, then Cull The Weak will be a good choice for you, because when the enemy’s health is below 10%, this skill can kill them directly, whether they are ordinary enemies or bosses. Additionally, each time you successfully cast this skill, you gain a Frenzy Charge, which turns your normal spear throws into elemental explosions, making any builds that include this skill even more powerful.

If the guide we provided was useful to you, why not log in to Path of Exile 2 to obtain and equip these skill gems and verify the power of them in actual combat!

Anyone who has crafted equipment in Path of Exile 2 must have a love-hate relationship with Chaos Orb. This currency always replaces the best affix of the base equipment with a garbage affix, turning your equipment into junk. Equipment with perfect affixes is the winner of countless gambles, but this situation can be changed in patch 0.2.0.

Do players of Path of Exile 1 still remember Fracturing Orb? This currency can fix an affix of an item so that it cannot change, and then you can use other currencies to modify the item. Now that Fracturing Orb has been officially added to the game after patch 0.2.0, it will become an indispensable currency in advanced crafting.

What Is Fracturing Orb?

• Effect: Destroy a random explicit modifier on rare items with at least four modifiers, and lock this modifier so that it cannot be changed by other currencies.
• How to use: Right-click Fracturing Orb, then left-click a rare item to apply it.

Limitations:

• Item requirements: It can only be used on rare items with at least four explicit modifiers.
• Not applicable items: Fracturing Orb cannot be used on already Fractured items.

Modifiers locked by the Fracturing Orb cannot be modified by currency such as Chaos Orbs or Orbs of Annulment, nor can the values on the modifiers be modified by Divine Orbs. Therefore, before you use Fracturing Orb on an item, make sure that the affixes you want to lock do not need to be optimized.

Fracturing Orb can work very well with many currencies, and in the next patch, Fracturing Orb will become as valuable as Divine Orb. This currency cannot be obtained in the early game. If you want to use it in the early game, you need to buy POE 2 Currency for it.

How To Get Fracturing Orb?

In Path of Exile 1, Fracturing Orb was a very valuable currency, usually obtained from Harbingers or Harbinger-related rewards. Its rarity and usefulness made it a valuable item in Path of Exile 1.

Some players have tried farming Fracturing Orbs in POE 1 and found that the drop rate of this currency is very low. In Path of Exile 2, the drop rate of POE 2 Fracturing Orbs is slightly higher, but if you plan to farm Fracturing Orbs, it will still be a waste of time.

Fracturing Orbs are associated with Corrupted biome of Atlas, which is the red area you see on the endgame map. In the center of this area is Corrupted Nexus. You can trigger a special boss encounter here. As long as you kill the boss, the Corrupted biome will be purified and new monsters will spawn.

Monsters in cleansed biomes have a chance to drop a Fracturing Orb, but the chance is actually low. Remember to set your loot filters to avoid missing Fracturing Orb.

How To Use Fracturing Orb?

General Usage

The minimum requirement for using Fracturing Orb is a rare item. The item must have four or more explicit modifiers, not including implicit modifiers.

Since Fracturing Orb locks modifiers randomly, there is a three-quarter chance that Fracturing Orb will lock on a modifier you don’t want. As long as you try more, you will eventually succeed in locking on a good modifier.

Next, Chaos Orbs will come in handy. You can use POE 2 Chaos Orbs on the item repeatedly until a good affix is randomly generated, and then use Exalted Orb to add two additional affixes to it. If you still have extra Divine Orbs, then as long as you can randomly assign these affixes to a value that satisfies you, you will have crafted a top-level item.

Advanced Usage: Omen

Omen can assist many currencies, and when combined with Fracturing Orb, it will be even more effective.

Omen is very valuable in the game and is very rare. It is almost impossible to get a lot of Omen as a single player, so it is based on trading with other players.

Omen can affect the production results of currencies. For example, if you have an item with a bad prefix but a good suffix, you can use Omen to help you remove the unwanted prefix while keeping the suffix you want.

Omen of Dextral Annulment can interfere with POE 2 Orb of Annulment to only remove the suffix. If you have locked one suffix with Fracturing Orb in advance, Orb of Annulment has a greater chance of removing the suffix you don’t want.

Similarly, Omen of Sinistral Annulment can cause Orb of Annulment to only remove the prefix. As long as you restrict other currencies with Omen and Fracturing Orb, item modifications will be less random.

In Patch 0.2.0, the drop rate of Omen has doubled. The value of Omen will not change, however, and you will still only find it as a drop from level 80+ monsters.

Fracturing Orb will undoubtedly become an important part of high-level item crafting, but it will also be very valuable. Players who first master its use will benefit from it.

After the “decoration” of patch 0.2.0, the new POE 2 is waiting for you to experience and develop! Among them, the combat test of the new class Huntress, as well as the trial and exploration of her available builds, are the most attractive to you. After all, most people want to create a new character to experience the new class.

Considering that one of the available weapons for Huntress is a spear, and Dawn Of The Hunt has launched 20 available spear skill gems for Huntress around this feature, it is obvious that the creation and use of builds for this class should focus on spear skills, such as Lightning Spear Build.

As the name suggests, this build allows you to throw a spear at the enemy while using lightning power to further damage the enemy, giving you an advantage in battle. The reason this build is so effective is also inseparable from its complex construction and crafting methods, but don’t worry, we will introduce you to how to craft it next.

How To Choose And Match Passive Tree?

In general, Lightning Spear Build can adjust the damage output according to different dimensions, such as attack damage, projectile damage and penetration, etc., but if you want to fully demonstrate the advantages of this build, it is better to match your passive tree around attack speed and critical damage.

However, while increasing the attack power, in order to ensure that you can survive to the end, the choice of dodge nodes is also essential, such as the deceleration effect that can reduce the debuff or the ailment node represented by Shedding Skin. Or if you want to be a more defensive Huntress, you can also get both of the above defensive gains at the same time by sacrificing some attack speed or accuracy. If you feel a little difficult in the process, you can also adjust in time to focus on damage or defense according to your needs.

How To Match Gems?

Regarding the choice of skill gems, it is recommended that you replace and use them in the order of Explosive Spear, Lightning Spear, Storm Lance, and Primal Strikes. In addition, when you first get Storm Lance, you can replace Lightning Spear with it until you get Primal Strikes. If you want to shorten the campaign time through skills, it is also a good idea to use travel skills, such as Disengage and Thunderous Leap.

Here are the recommended skill gems and support gems for reference:

• Explosive Spear: Overabundance, Fire Infusion, Magnified Effect
• Spear Stab: Martial Infusion, Lightning Infusion, Rage
• Disengage: Rage
• Lightning Spear: Martial Tempo, Lightning Infusion, Conduction
• Storm Lance: Martial Tempo, Lightning Infusion
• Primal Strikes: Concentrated Effect, Pursuit, Primal Armament
• Thunderous Leap: Fist of War
• Wind Dancer: Clarity
• Combat Frenzy: Profusion
• Sniper’s Mark: Inspiration, Arcane Tempo, Ingenuity
• Ghost Dance: Precision, Fast Forward
• Herald of Thunder: Innervate, Persistence, Magnified Effect

Also Read: Developer Claims Improvements Will Be Made To Path Of Exile 2: Dawn Of The Hunt

Gear & Affixes

In this regard, there is no doubt that in addition to obtaining gear, you also need to buy POE 2 Currency to adjust their affixes in time. For Lightning Spear Huntress, affixes that increase physical or elemental damage percentage, as well as additional attributes such as accuracy, attack speed and critical damage bonus are the best. If possible, it is also recommended that you strive for a fixed damage increase for your rings and gloves, and give the gloves a random attack speed bonus.

• Weapon: Physical damage, Lightning damage, increased damage, accuracy, attack speed, critical damage bonus
• Chest: Spirit, Life, Resistance, Evasion
• Helmet: Life, Resistance, Evasion
• Gloves: Attack speed, critical damage bonus, flat damage added to attacks, Life, Resistance, Evasion
• Boots: Movement speed, Life, Resistance, Evasion
• Rings: Attributes, Resistances, Life, Evasion, flat damage added to attacks
• Amulet: Spirit, Life, Attributes
• Belt: Life, Resistance, charm slots

The choice of bases is not important for Lightning Spear, but you can also use Utility Belt and Emerald Ring bases if conditions permit, or use Resistance ring bases instead of the latter - this can improve your endgame combat experience.

Which Ascendancy Class Is Better?

As you know, this 0.2.0 patch brings two Ascendancy classes to Huntress, namely Ritualist and Amazon. The latter is more suitable for Lightning Spear Build because it is easier to get high critical hit rate through passive tree and gear. In addition, you can also get strong attack power and good recovery ability based on the selection of Predatory Instinct, Infused Avatar, Critical Strike and Elemental Infusion nodes.

How To Use This Build In Battle?

In terms of combat style, Lightning Spear Build will be more suitable for players who like streamlined builds without a lot of skill rotation, so if you are one of them, don’t miss it. In actual combat, you can first use the most important field clearing skill, Lightning Spear to apply a shock effect to the enemy to cause 20% additional damage. If you are facing a stronger boss-like enemy like Arbiter of Ash, you need to cast Primal Strikes three times in melee range and replace Lightning Spear with Lightning Exposure to increase your attack power.

As for the endgame events that are best suited for this build, those that require quick monster clearing should be good, such as Breach, Delirium, or Expedition.

The above is all the relevant information about Lightning Spear Huntress Build. If you find them useful, you might as well enter POE 2 and give it a try!

Path of Exile 2 is about to bring its biggest patch to players: Dawn of The Hunt. In addition to adding new classes, numerous new items will be added to the new patch. These include new skill gems and more than 100 unique items and more than 100 new support gems.

Skill Gems

Path of Exile 2 Dawn Of The Hunt patch can be regarded as a new season. All players entering the new season need to start from scratch and cannot carry any items, including currency. Due to the addition of new classes, the game will add new skill gems in the next update. The developer revealed some of the new skill gems in the live broadcast.

The Summon Rhoa Mount

This skill allows you to summon a mount, allowing you to shoot long-range while moving. This skill can make up for the movement speed penalty suffered by the character when performing long-range attacks. But if you take a lot of damage on the mount, you will be knocked off the mount and stunned. It can be seen that this skill is designed specifically for Huntress.

Raise Spectre

Raise Spectre is another skill mentioned in the live broadcast. It can turn any monster you defeat into your servant. However, the stronger the monster, the more Spirit it consumes. This skill should be prepared for Ascendancy class Lich in Witch.

Unique Items

In Dawn Of The Hunt patch, the game will add new weapon types, and therefore many unique items will be added to the game. These new unique items include weapons, amulets, and gems. You can encounter these new unique items in the mid-game and endgame.

However, all players must also know that there is a saying of “unique trap” in POE 2. Many unique items are not necessarily better than the best rare items in your backpack, especially when you get unique items in the early game. So it is a good habit that exchange unique items which you don’t need in your backpack with other players for currency.

Let’s take a look at what unique items are in the 0.2.0 patch.

Chernobog’s Pillar

• Shield
• Requires Level 65, Strength 118, 86 Dex
• Grants Skill: Raise shield
• +126% Increased Armor
• +38 Fire Resistance
• +37 Chaos Resistance
• +167 Stun Threshold
• The more times this shield blocks, the more you can set your enemies on fire

This unique shield first appeared in Path of Exile 1, and now it returns in Path of Exile 2 with an upgraded art. This unique weapon not only increases the wearer’s resistance but also increases the wearer’s ability to deal fire damage, which may work well with Warrior Ascendancy class Smith of Kitava.

The Coming Calamity

• Heroic Armor
• Requires: Level 84, Strength86, Dex 86
• Grants Skill: Level 19 Herald of Ice, Level 19 Herald of Thunder, Level 19 Herald of Ash
• +74 to maximum life
• +37% to all elemental resistances
• Enemies in front of you lose elemental resistances

This is a very powerful body armor. If your class relies mainly on elemental attacks, then you almost have to equip this unique armor in the endgame. However, this unique armor has high stat and level requirements, and may be best used by monks. It can be predicted that in Dawn Of The Hunt patch, there will be players willing to trade many POE 2 Divine Orbs for this unique item.

Calgyra’s Arc

• Bucker
• Requires: Level 52, Dex 95
• Grants Skill: Parry
• 82% increased Evasion rating
• +80 maximum mana
• +15 Intelligent
• Blocks projectiles from any distance
• Increases the duration of Parry by 50%

This unique item is perfect for a Huntress who needs to equip a small round shield in the off-hand. Although Dex requirement of this unique item is high, the ability to block projectiles completely is good enough to make me willing to buy POE 2 Currency for it. This unique item can be very effective against certain bosses.

Beira’s Anguish

• Charm
• Requires: Level 32
• Makes your character immune to the Ignited effect
• Gives a charge when killing an Ignited enemy
• Ignites the enemy in the explosion and deals a percentage of your maximum life to it

This unique item is suitable for Witch or Mercenary, and is very suitable for creating chain explosions in places with many monsters, greatly improving the efficiency of farming currency.

Waistgate

• Heavy Belt
• Requires: Level 32
• +23% stun threshold
• +75 max life
• +61 max mana
• Increases the recovery rate of life flasks by 23%
• Increases the recovery rate of mana flasks by 25%
• Mana flasks and life flasks can be equipped in either slot

A more general belt that can help classes that rely on flask recovery.

Saitha’s Spear

• Spear
• Requires: Level 33, Dex 60, Strength 25
• Increases physical damage by 22 to 27
• Increases fire damage by 27 to 36
• Increases the chance of bleeding on hit by 20%
• Combines bleeding and fire to intensify the burning effect
• 10% chance of intensifying the bleeding effect on hit
• Cannot use projectile attacks

Spear is the weapon of Huntress. This unique weapon requires a level of 33, so it is more suitable for use in the third act.

Support Gems

Some support gems will be added in Dawn Of The Hunt:

• Haemocrystals: Supports the formation of bleeding. Converts continuous damage (DoT) into explosive Varu crystals.
• Alignment: Supports bow attacks. Skills can increase projectile damage by more than 30% when attacking in the indicated direction.
• Caltrops: Spawn Caltrops on the battlefield and throws spears to pierce the enemy formation, slowing them down.
• Enormity: Enhances the damage of minions.

The above are the new items known in the 0.2.0 patch. They are all quite valuable, and I am willing to exchange them with my currency to enhance my build. There are more new items and new features waiting for players to try, and you must be impatient.

Whenever you explore the vast open world provided by major ARPGs, you will definitely think that it would be great if you could fight with friends! Although the game sometimes provides you with built-in partners through systems such as pets or mercenaries, they are not comparable to real people after all.

In the past, in POE 1, you could form a team of 2-6 people by yourself by creating your own party or joining someone else’s party to start your multiplayer journey. However, cross-play and co-op functions have not been added and improved, which is obviously not conducive to the development of the game.

Therefore, under the influence of market trends and the requirements of players, Path of Exile 2 early access finally added these features to provide you with a better multiplayer and cross-play experience. Based on this, we will introduce you one by one how to experience these features in POE 2.

How To Add Friends?

To add friends in POE, you only need to know their username and tag number, and since POE 2 is now a completely cross-platform game, you will not be restricted by the system or platform when adding friends. The specific operation is as follows:

• Find the “Social” tab on the game screen and continue to find and open the “Friends” tab.
• In the “Friend Invite” box, enter the username of the friend you want to invite, as well as the number after the “#” symbol after the other party’s name.
• After making sure that everything you entered is correct, click “Send”. Your friend will receive your request in his “Social” tab and complete the friend addition after agreeing.

If the other party has not agreed, you can check whether your request was sent successfully in the “Friends” tab under the “Received Invitations” box. In addition, you can also view all online and offline friends from here. If someone else has sent you a friend request, you can also find these requests in your “Social” tab and choose to agree or reject them as needed.

It should be noted that although the appearance of the “Social” tab of POE 2 will change slightly depending on the gaming device you are using, the menu operates in the same way.

How To Form A Party?

After adding enough friends, it’s time to form a party to fight as a team! But before that, you need to know that all POE 2 Divine Orbs or other orbs obtained in a team situation needs to be distributed before it can be obtained. If you can accept this, please follow the steps below to form a party:

• Find and click the “Create a Party” tab on the social menu, and choose to create a party or join someone else’s party as needed.
• If you want to create a party, select the corresponding option and invite any online friends to join.
• You can then set restrictions for the party as needed, such as fully public or only open to friends and invitees.
• You will receive a notification when someone joins the party so that everyone can gather in the same place to complete the team.
• To join a friend’s party, click on their name on your friends list, and if their party is open to friends, you can join. But if your friend’s party is set to be open to invitees only, you need their invitation to join the party.

It is worth noting that if you have joined a guild in POE 2 before, you can view all the online people in the guild and send them a private message to invite them to the party. If you’re not already a member of a guild, you can also join one and then view or send invites. Also, remember that everything related to friends and parties in POE 2 is done through the social menu.

How To Play Co-op?

All above are available in Path of Exile 1, but co-op is a feature that is only available in the second game, allowing you to play with another person from the same system as you. Here’s how:

• Connect two controllers to your system and create two different characters.
• Go to the character selection screen and find the settings option in the top left corner, then go to the input menu and make sure your input is set to “controller”.
• Back in the character selection screen, select a character with the corresponding controller: player 1 will be on the left side of the screen, player 2 will be on the right.

If you find that creating a second character fails, this may mean that your second controller is not connected or not working properly, so just follow the steps again. Once you have both characters up and running, your screen will split in two and you can play with your friend! However, it is worth noting that co-op is the same as normal team play, whether you and your friends get POE 2 Currency or other more precious loot together, you must distribute them.

Can Cross-Play Be Disabled?

Although this feature is one of the new features of POE 2, you may only want to meet players from a specific system in the game due to other needs or personal preferences. However, the trouble is that the game currently seems to have no way to disable cross-play on all devices: if you are using Xbox Series X|S or PS5, you can disable it through the settings of the host, if you are a PC player, you can’t do this for the time being. However, this situation may change after the official version of the game is launched.

The above is all the possibilities of multiplayer play in Path of Exile 2 that we provide for you, as well as the corresponding operation methods. I hope it can help you! I wish you a happy game!