Path Of Exile 2: How Does The Passive Skill Tree Work?

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.

Rank 6: Geonor, The Putrid Wolf

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.

Rank 5: Jamanra, The Abomination

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.

Rank 4: Viper Napuatzi

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.

Rank 3: Doryani, Royal Thaumaturge

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.

Rank 2: Xesht, We That Are One

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.

Rank 1: The Arbiter Of Ash

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.

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.

How To Find The Arbiter Of Ash?

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:

• Ancient Crisis Fragment: Defeating Count Geonor in Iron Citadel
• Faded Crisis Fragment: Defeating Jamanra the Abomination in Copper Citadel
• Weathered Crisis Fragment: Defeating Doryani, Royal Thaumaturge in Stone Citadel

These three citadels emit different colors of light on Atlas:

• Stone Citadels: red
• Iron Citadels: blue
• Copper Citadels: orange

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.

How To Defeat The Arbiter Of Ash?

Prepare

First, let’s look at the weaknesses of The Arbiter of Ash:

• Light Fire Resistance
• Light Cold Resistance
• Light Lightning Resistance
• Light Armor

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:

• Movement Speed: Most of The Arbiter of Ash’s attacks can make a lot of damage, and will only leave you a very small safe area. You need to move there quickly.
• Life and Energy Shield: These can improve your survivability and increase the tolerance rate of this battle.
• Acrobatics: This passive skill allows you to evade all hits, and at the same time it will lower your Evasion Rating by 70%. This passive skill is very useful against The Arbiter of Ash’s large-scale skills.
• Dodge Roll Distance: Use items to increase your dodge distance, which can greatly increase your mobility.
• Maximum Fire Resistance: Most of the Arbiter of Ash’s attacks will deal fire damage to you, so you need to stack your fire resistance to the maximum. It is recommended that you use Exalted Orbs and Chaos Orbs to wash your equipment with fire resistance affixes.

Fighting The Arbiter of Ash

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.

Loot

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:

• Boots: Ab Aeterno Grand Cuisses
• Body Armor: Morior Invictus Grand Regalia
• Jewel: Prism of Belief Diamond
• Scepter: Sacred Flame Shrine Sceptre
• Gloves: Sine Aequo Grand Manchettes
• Helmet: Solus Ipse Grand Visage

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.

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!

Before You Start

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.

Softcore Characters

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.

1. Trading Websites

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.

2. Gambling For Items

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.

3. Reforging Bench

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.

4. Ground Loot

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.

5. Equip The Latest Flasks

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.

Characters That Complete 3 Acts

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!

Solo Self-Found Character

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!

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.

1. Unearth

• Increases 15% critical chance
• Raises bone spikes from the earth

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.

2. Skeletal Arsonist

• Summons bomb-throwing minions
• Make the summoned minions detonate more minions

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.

3. Skeletal Warrior

• Can summon Skeletal Warrior minions
• It consumes spirit during use

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.

4. Bone Cage

• Forms a circle of bone spikes around the enemy
• Bone spikes can cause damage to the enemy by pinning them

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.

5. Contagion

• Deals 1.8 chaos damage per second
• When an affected enemy dies, it debuffs all nearby enemies

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%.

6. Flame Wall

• Summons a wall of flames
• Deals flame damage to all enemies that come into contact with it

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!

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.

Hand Of Wisdom And Action Furtive Wraps

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:

• Dexterity increases by 15 to 25
• Intelligence increases by 15 to 25

What makes HoWA very important is its unique effects:

• Every 25 Dexterity increases the player’s attack speed by 3%
• Every 25 Intelligence increases the player’s lightning damage by 1 to 10

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.

How To Get HoWA?

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.

Breachstone

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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Orb Of Chance

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.

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.

Equipment

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.

Weapons

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.

Armor And Accessories

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.

Skills

In POE 2, players can learn skills at will. However, a powerful build requires a specific combination of some skills to exert greater power.

Skill Gems

• Skeletal Arsonists: Paired with Support Gems: Fire Infusion, Scattershot, and Immolate
• Flame Wall: Paired with Support Gems: Arcane Tempo, Fortress, and Spell Cascade
• Detonate Dead: Paired with Support Gems: Magnified Effect, Corpse Conservation, and Spell Echo
• Flammability: Paired with Support Gems: Burning Inscription, Impending Doom, and Magnified Effect
• Pain Offering: Paired with Support Gems: Font of Rage, Persistence, and Ablation
• Unearth: Paired with Support Gems: Corpse Conservation, Persistence, and Feeding Frenzy

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

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

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

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.

Ascendancy

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.