This comprehensive guide to Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) provides a structured overview of Game Rant's PoE 2 guide coverage. Launched into Early Access on December 6, 2024, PoE 2 is a complex Action RPG with a vast skill tree. This hub organizes guides to help players navigate the game's intricacies.
I. Getting Started & PoE 2 Beginner Tips: This section covers essential introductory information, including game mechanics, controls, and strategies for new players.
- Game Information: Addresses frequently asked questions, supporter packs, league changes, point acquisition, stash tab recommendations, estimated playtime, improvements over the original PoE, max level details, leveling milestones, level scaling, and claiming Twitch drops.
- Controls & Settings: Optimizes PC settings, explains dodging, weapon changes, skill binding, movement input adjustments, chat linking and hiding, and crossplay options.
- Beginner Tips: Offers ten essential tips, guidance on buying scrolls of wisdom, loot management, class selection for beginners, gold farming, playing with friends, and initial gold spending strategies.
II. PoE 2 Game Mechanics & Systems: This section delves into the core game mechanics, character stats, and gameplay systems.
- Character Stats & Skill Points: Explains character attributes, passive skill point acquisition and respeccing, passive skill filter usage, weapon set points, spirit resource management, increasing spirit and movement speed, maximizing mana, energy shield functionality, accuracy, and resistance upgrades.
- Gameplay Mechanics: Covers fast travel, free item identification, trading, ailments, instances, stunning enemies, skill aiming, armor break, crowd control effects, guild creation and joining, arcane surge, power charges, death penalties, and the mechanics of Herald of Ice and Thunder.
- Skills, Gems, Jewels, & Runes: Details equipping and obtaining support gems, rune usage, jewel sockets, obtaining uncut spirit gems, and acquiring raging spirits.
III. Classes, Ascendancies, & Builds: This section explores the game's classes, ascendancy systems, and build guides.
- PoE 2 Class Guides: Ranks the best classes, identifies the best solo class, explains mercenary ammo swapping, minion summoning, aftershock, and rage mechanics.
- Ascendancies: Covers all class ascendancies and nodes, and explains how to unlock ascension classes.
- PoE 2 Build Guides: Provides leveling build guides for Monk, Tempest Flurry Invoker, Mercenary, Sorceress, Rolling Slam Warrior, Warrior, and Witch.
IV. PoE 2 Currencies & Gear: This section focuses on the game's currency system and gear management.
- Upgrades & Improvements: Explains upgrading item rarity, potion upgrades and refills, adding sockets to gear, upgrading armor and weapon quality, and rerolling gear modifiers.
- PoE 2 Currencies: Details all currency items and effects, unlocking and using the salvage bench and currency exchange, finding current exchange rates, unlocking and using the reforging bench, and obtaining Orb of Chance, Divine Orb, and Greater Jeweler's Orb.
- Gear & Equipment: Covers early gear farming, obtaining unique items, the charm system, charm equipping and upgrading, stellar amulets, obtaining Ingenuity Utility Belt and Hand of Wisdom and Action.
V. Quest & Boss Walkthroughs: This section offers detailed walkthroughs for quests and boss encounters across the game's acts.
- All Main Quests and Acts: Provides an overview of all main quests and acts, along with permanent campaign bonuses.
- Act One: Includes walkthroughs for specific quests and boss fights (Devourer, Secrets in the Dark, Renly's Tools, Una's Lute, Draven, and Count Geonor).
- Act Two: Offers guides for Rathbreaker, Ancient Vows, Balbala, the King in the Mists, Golden Idols, Ascent to Power, and Sisters of Garukhan.
- Act Three: Covers using the Sacrificial Heart, Treasures of Utzaal, Mighty Silverfist, mushroom usage, and The Slithering Dead.
VI. PoE 2 Endgame Guides: This section provides guidance for the endgame content and mechanics.
- Endgame Tips & Mechanics: Explains unlocking Cruel difficulty and the endgame, advanced endgame tips, obtaining and upgrading waystones, sustaining waystones while mapping, optimal Atlas skill tree setup, unlocking the hideout, and finding more citadels.
- Endgame Features & Leagues: Covers the Atlas of Worlds, Realmgate, Breach, Delirium, Ritual, Expedition, Burning Monolith, Trial of Chaos, and Trial of the Sekhemas.
VII. Advanced PoE 2 Tips & Other Guides: This section offers advanced strategies and additional guides for experienced players.
- Advanced PoE 2 Guides: Covers fast XP gain, loot filter usage, obtaining console loot filters, Sidekick features and installation, FilterBlade usage, items to avoid buying and selling from merchants, and acquiring more character slots.
This guide hub serves as a central resource for all Path of Exile 2 gameplay aspects, constantly updated to reflect new content and Early Access developments.
