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Publish Date: Mar 03 ,2025
It’s been nearly three months since the initial release of POE 2’s early access, which should be enough time for you to find a good skill combination or even the best builds for your character’s chosen class for early stage development. But as the game progresses, more content is gradually added and balanced, and you need to rearrange your class skills - unlike most ARPGs, POE 2’s skills are realized through skill gems, which are more free to choose.
Among the 6 classes in early access, Warrior is a strength-based melee class that excels in melee combat with large weapons. Although it is a bit difficult to get started, it is very suitable for tank-like face-to-face combat with enemies. However, if you feel that you are hindered when playing Warrior recently, it means that you should adjust your Warrior skill selection in time according to the changes in POE 2. Based on this, we will recommend the top 8 Warrior skill gems for you from high to low.
This gem doesn’t do a lot of damage on its own, but the earth spikes it creates can be detonated by other heavy attacks, creating a chain of attacks. This is actually thanks to the support gem Upheaval, which creates more cracks by reducing the base damage of the skill, allowing you to detonate more spikes at the same time for another heavy attack.
Upheaval can currently only be obtained by killing higher-level enemies and bosses. Although the process may be a bit difficult, you can not only become stronger with this gem but also earn POE 2 Currency at the same time, which can be said to be killing two birds with one stone.
Although this skill is very basic, its role cannot be ignored. It will stun and repel the enemy through the initial heavy attack, and then continue to output higher damage of heavy attacks, and the attack direction can be controlled by you at will.
More importantly, before you get Leap Slam in Path of Exile 2, Rolling Slam can enhance your mobility. In addition, the accumulated stun caused by this skill can not only stun the enemy but also produce a heavy stun shock wave that can cause AOE damage by combining with Boneshatter.
As a powerful melee slam skill, Sunder mainly creates rolling cracks and continuously hits the area, causing relatively high AOE damage to the enemy while moving. Sometimes it can also cause some enemies hit by the cracks to cause damage to other nearby enemies by releasing shock waves.
However, you need to pay attention that since the cracks will roll, you will not get “rewards” immediately after outputting this skill. It takes a while to hit distant enemies, which also means that it is not suitable for dealing with long-range enemies that move, but it is still very effective at close range.
Boneshatter is very suitable for helping you become a Warrior who focuses on stuns. It can cause area damage and clear monsters. When the enemy has accumulated enough stun effects from your other Warrior skills, Boneshatter will officially start to work.
When an enemy is hit by Boneshatter, they are severely stunned and send a shockwave to their allies, allowing you to deal 250% of your base damage in a limited area, not only stunning a single target but also spreading the damage to multiple enemies, increasing your efficiency in getting POE 2 Divine Orbs by killing enemies.
This skill can be considered one of Warrior’s most powerful moves. Although the 24-second cooldown time may make you worry about whether it is reliable, the huge 1441% base damage multiplier can completely dispel your concerns!
When this skill is activated, a huge hammer will appear above the target area, and the hammer will fall down for a short period to deal huge AOE damage to enemies. However, due to the long activation delay, enemies may be able to move out of the target area, so you must grasp the timing of using this skill.
After you defeat King in the Mists in Act I, you gain at least 30 spirit points, which you can use to activate Warrior’s persistent buffs, and the most helpful of these is Herald Of Ash - it can even help you create a Warrior build centered around fire damage.
If an enemy takes extra damage equal to at least 20% of their maximum health when hit, Herald Of Ash can deal fire damage to them in an area that ignites them. As you know, Warriors are better at dealing high damage to a single target, so this skill can help you spread damage and elemental diseases.
As another combo slam skill, Volcanic Fissure works similarly to Earthshatter, but it focuses more on fire damage. During combat, this skill will create a winding crack in the ground, dealing fire damage to enemies in range as it moves. During the entire skill, these cracks will stay on the ground for 12 seconds. If you slam again, aftershocks will occur, which will spread to other connected cracks, causing regional damage that can form a chain reaction.
This is a type of skill that most ARPG classes similar to POE 2 Warrior may have. Its use is as simple as you think. Jump to the target area and slam the ground to cause area damage and repel enemies. However, damage output is not the main function of Leap Slam, extra mobility is its real strength.
After understanding the above 8 skill gems, are you eager to enter the game to adjust your Warrior character? Then act quickly!
Publish Date: Feb 24 ,2025
As a complex and difficult ARPG, POE 2 will require a lot from you, so if you want to make it through the endgame, you need to farm XP as quickly as possible to make your character strong enough in time.
To do this, you need to know not only how to gain some experience points while resting during the game, but also the best places and ways to clear the map at relevant levels - you can even use this method to collect more POE 2 Currency and special loot!
The best maps for you to collect XP or other items at the moment are mainly those with easy-to-navigate layouts, high monster density, and even better if there is a unique small boss that is easy to approach. Based on this, we will recommend 8 best XP farming locations for you.
Although Act 1 may be the easiest part of the entire POE 2, because of the high difficulty of the game itself, if you are not level enough and your gear is not powerful enough, you may still encounter a lot of obstacles when encountering Boss Geonor and transitioning from Act 1 to Act 2. If you do encounter such a dilemma, it is recommended to go to Ogham Village immediately to farm XP for the end of Act 1.
Although it looks messy here, the map navigation is relatively clear, and Executioner battle here can provide XP and possible POE 2 Divine Orbs drops. If you have the energy to spare, you can try to kill Crowbell in Hunting Grounds at least once to get two additional passive skill points to further enhance your character.
After entering Act 2, the map clearing difficulty gradually increases, and you will encounter some more difficult mob enemies in several maps. To do this, you need to get more XP and some reliable defensive skills before you can move on.
Based on this, you first consider choosing Keth as your first Act 2 farming map, because the optional boss Kabala the Constrictor Queen is relatively easy to defeat. In addition, Keth also comes with an optional map Lost City, which contains Keth’s ninth treasure optional boss, which can provide you with a lot of XP.
Entering Act 3 means that you are not far from the endgame, so the overall challenge difficulty will rise to a level. Based on this, Jungle Ruins is a good place to prepare before the start of this act. The optional boss Mighty Silverfist, as well as several other small bosses and elite enemies can provide you with a lot of XP.
As for Utzaal, it is actually the last large map you need to clear before encountering the final boss. If you can complete the battle with Viper Napuatzi in it fairly easily, this map is a good place for you to gain XP because of the large open area and high monster density.
Not only are trials a great place to earn passive points for your Ascendancy subclasses, they also allow you to rerun them to earn XP and other loot. If you’re primarily looking to farm XP, Trial of Chaos is a better choice than Trial of the Sekhemas, since the latter prioritizes avoiding damage, which somewhat hinders combat and is not conducive to earning XP. Also, the good news is that starting from Act 3, you can rerun Trial of Chaos at any time.
By the time you reach the endgame of Path of Exile 2, you may still need to grind quite a bit to continue to perfect your character, and in fact this is one of the purposes of POE 2’s progression curve setting - to allow you to focus on improving your character after completing builds and before entering higher-level maps. Based on this, the early endgame maps provide you with this opportunity.
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While doing basic farming, you can also use currency to upgrade Waystones with magic and rare modifiers, allowing these endgame maps to spawn more monsters or loot. The best modifiers are prefixes, such as increasing monster density or increasing elite enemies by 20%, giving you the opportunity to earn more XP per map.
Once you enter the endgame, you will encounter a variety of different endgame events that will give you different loot. Of these events, it is recommended that you complete Expeditions on the map first, and to do this you must first find the NPC Dannig, as only he can give you access to Expeditions.
Expeditions will give you some big dig points where you can place 20 explosives to link Remnants and Runic monsters together, killing large groups of enemies at once and getting more XP and loot.
As one of the popular endgame farming events, the swarms of monsters spawned in Breaches can also bring you a lot of XP, as well as a lot of currency and loot. And just like farming endgame maps, you can also increase the monster density in Breaches through Waystone modifier to increase the XP you can get.
Similar to Breaches and Expeditions, Simulacrums are another endgame activity that allows you to work for XP, with waves of enemies spawning and you can earn a lot of XP by clearing them.
However, it should be noted that Simulacrums farming tends to focus more on generating Simulacrum Splinters and other loot for you rather than XP, so it may be more suitable for you to use to help you improve your builds.
These are the 8 best locations for XP farming in Path of Exile 2 at the moment. If you are leveling up and urgently need a lot of XP, then make sure to go to these locations first. Have fun!
