PoE 2 Hub: Essential Guides for Mastering the Game

This comprehensive guide to Path of Exile 2, a standalone sequel to the original Path of Exile, provides a detailed overview of the game's mechanics, systems, and progression. Updated regularly, it covers everything from beginner tips to advanced endgame strategies.

Getting Started & PoE 2 Beginner Tips: This section offers essential information for new players, covering game mechanics, controls, and optimal settings for a smooth experience. Guides include:

• Game Information: Addresses frequently asked questions, details supporter packs and rewards, explains character leagues, and provides insights into optimal stash tab purchases, estimated playtime, and key improvements over the original game.
• Controls & Settings: Guides on PC settings optimization, combat mechanics (dodging, blocking, weapon changes), skill binding, movement input customization, chat management, and crossplay options.
• Beginner Tips: Provides ten crucial tips for new players, advice on resource management (Scrolls of Wisdom, loot), class recommendations, gold acquisition strategies, multiplayer options, and early-game spending priorities.

PoE 2 Game Mechanics & Systems: A deep dive into the core game mechanics, including:

• Character Stats & Skill Points: Explains character attributes, passive skill point acquisition and respeccing, passive skill filter usage, weapon set points, spirit resource management, movement speed increase, mana and energy shield optimization, accuracy, and resistance upgrades.
• Gameplay Mechanics: Covers fast travel, free item identification, trading, ailments, instances, stunning enemies, skill aiming, armor break, crowd control, guild creation and joining, arcane surge, power charges, death penalties, and Herald of Ice and Thunder mechanics.
• Skills, Gems, Jewels, & Runes: Guides on equipping and acquiring support gems, rune usage, jewel sockets, uncut spirit gems, and raging spirits.

Classes, Ascendancies, & Builds: This section focuses on character classes, ascendancy systems, and build guides.

• PoE 2 Class Guides: Provides rankings of the best classes, recommendations for solo play, and guides on 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: Offers leveling build guides for various classes (Monk, Invoker, Mercenary, Sorceress, Warrior, Witch).

PoE 2 Currencies & Gear: Explores the game's currency system and gear progression.

• Upgrades & Improvements: Guides on upgrading item rarity, potion management, socket addition, armor and weapon quality upgrades, and gear modifier rerolling.
• PoE 2 Currencies: Details all currency items and effects, and provides instructions on using the salvage bench, currency exchange, reforging bench, and acquiring specific orbs (Orb of Chance, Divine Orb, Greater Jeweler's Orb).
• Gear & Equipment: Covers early-game gear farming, unique item acquisition, the charm system, charm equipping and upgrading, stellar amulets, and obtaining specific items (Ingenuity Utility Belt, Hand of Wisdom and Action).

Quest & Boss Walkthroughs: Provides detailed walkthroughs for quests and boss encounters across all three acts currently available in Early Access.

PoE 2 Endgame Guides: Covers endgame mechanics and activities, including:

• Endgame Tips & Mechanics: Explains how to unlock Cruel difficulty and the endgame, provides advanced endgame tips, details on waystones, atlas skill tree setup, hideout unlocking, and citadel location strategies.
• Endgame Features & Leagues: Offers guides on the Atlas of Worlds, Realmgates, Breaches, Delirium, Rituals, Expeditions, Burning Monoliths, and Trials (Trial of Chaos, Trial of the Sekhemas).

Advanced PoE 2 Tips & Other Guides: Provides additional advanced tips and guides for experienced players.

• Advanced PoE 2 Guides: Covers XP farming, loot filter usage (including console acquisition), Sidekick features, FilterBlade usage, merchant interaction strategies, and acquiring additional character slots.

This hub serves as a central resource for all Path of Exile 2 gameplay information. Remember to check back frequently for updates as new content is added.