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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.

What Is 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.

How To Get More Spirit?

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.

Spirit In The Acts

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.

Gear Comes With Extra Spirit

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.

Spirit-Increasing Ascendancy Classes

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.