PoE 2 Comprehensive Hub: Unveiling Strategies, Builds, Quests & Epic Encounters

This comprehensive guide to Path of Exile 2, a standalone sequel to the original Path of Exile, covers everything from beginner tips to advanced endgame strategies. Released into Early Access on December 6th, 2024, PoE 2 boasts revamped mechanics and gameplay within the traditional ARPG framework. This guide hub, constantly updated, provides detailed coverage of all aspects of the game.

Getting Started & PoE 2 Beginner Tips: This section equips new players with essential knowledge, including optimal PC settings, combat controls (dodging, weapon switching), chat management, and crossplay options. It also features crucial beginner tips, advice on managing loot and gold, and guidance on choosing a starting class.

• Game Information: Addresses frequently asked questions, details on supporter packs and rewards, league switching, point acquisition, stash tab selection, estimated playtime, improvements over the original, max level and leveling milestones, level scaling, and claiming Twitch drops.
• Controls & Settings: Covers best PC settings, dodging and blocking techniques, weapon changes during combat, skill binding, movement input customization, linking items to chat, chat hiding, and crossplay enabling/disabling.
• Beginner Tips for PoE 2: Offers ten essential beginner tips, guidance on purchasing Scrolls of Wisdom, loot management, class selection for beginners, strategies for fast gold acquisition, playing with friends, and prioritizing gold spending.

PoE 2 Game Mechanics & Systems: This section delves into the intricate mechanics of PoE 2, explaining character stats, core gameplay mechanics (both combat and non-combat), and the new skill and socket systems.

• Character Stats & Skill Points: Explains character attributes, acquiring and respeccing passive skill points, using the passive skill filter, weapon set points, the spirit resource, increasing spirit and movement speed, maximizing mana, understanding energy shields, accuracy, and optimizing resistances.
• 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: Explains equipping and obtaining support gems, equipping and using runes, jewel sockets, acquiring uncut spirit gems, and obtaining raging spirits.

Classes, Ascendancies, & Builds: This section explores the game's classes, ascendancy system, and build guides.

• PoE 2 Class Guides: Provides rankings of the best classes, recommendations for solo play, guidance on mercenary ammo swapping, summoning minions, aftershock mechanics, and rage mechanics.
• Ascendancies: Details all class ascendancies and nodes, and explains how to unlock ascension classes.
• PoE 2 Build Guides: Offers leveling build guides for Monk, Tempest Flurry Invoker, Mercenary, Sorceress, Rolling Slam Warrior, and Witch, along with general Warrior and Witch leveling guides.

PoE 2 Currencies & Gear: This section focuses on gear upgrades, crafting, currencies, and farming strategies.

• Upgrades & Improvements: Explains upgrading item rarity, upgrading and refilling potions, adding sockets to gear, upgrading armor and weapon quality, and rerolling gear modifiers.
• PoE 2 Currencies: Details all currency items and their effects, unlocking and using the salvage bench and currency exchange, finding current exchange rates, unlocking and using the reforging bench, and obtaining Orbs of Chance, Divine Orbs, and Greater Jeweler's Orbs.
• Gear & Equipment: Covers early-game gear farming, obtaining unique items, the charm system, equipping and upgrading charms, stellar amulets, and acquiring the Ingenuity Utility Belt and Hand of Wisdom and Action.

Quest & Boss Walkthroughs: This section provides detailed walkthroughs for quests and boss encounters across all three acts currently available in Early Access. It includes information on permanent campaign bonuses. Act-specific guides cover key quests and boss strategies.

PoE 2 Endgame Guides: This section covers endgame mechanics, including unlocking Cruel difficulty, advanced endgame tips, waystones, Atlas skill tree setup, hideout unlocking, finding citadels, and detailed guides on endgame features like the Atlas of Worlds, Realmgates, Breaches, Delirium, Rituals, Expeditions, Burning Monoliths, and Trials of Chaos and Sekhemas.

Advanced PoE 2 Tips & Other Guides: This final section offers advanced strategies for experienced players, including maximizing XP gain, using and obtaining loot filters (including console instructions), utilizing FilterBlade, understanding merchant transactions, and increasing character slots. It also includes a guide on Sidekick features and installation.