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 within a traditional ARPG framework. This guide hub, constantly updated, provides in-depth coverage of all aspects of the game.

Getting Started & PoE 2 Beginner Tips: This section equips newcomers with essential knowledge, including optimal PC settings, basic combat controls (dodging, weapon switching), chat management, and crossplay options. It also addresses key questions about the game's scope, progression, and microtransactions. Beginner-focused tips help players establish a strong foundation.

• Game Information: Addresses frequently asked questions, details supporter packs and rewards, explains character league changes, 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 optimal PC settings, dodging and blocking techniques, weapon changes during combat, skill binding, movement input customization, item linking to chat, chat hiding, and crossplay enable/disable options.
• Beginner Tips for PoE 2: Offers ten essential beginner tips, guidance on purchasing Scrolls of Wisdom, loot management, ranking beginner-friendly classes, fast gold acquisition, playing with friends, and prioritizing early gold spending.

PoE 2 Game Mechanics & Systems: This section delves into the game's intricate mechanics.

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

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

• PoE 2 Class Guides: Ranks the best classes, identifies the best solo class, explains mercenary ammo swapping, minion summoning, aftershock, and rage mechanics.
• Ascendancies: Lists 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, and Witch, along with a general Warrior leveling guide.

PoE 2 Currencies & Gear: This section focuses on the game's currency system and gear upgrades.

• Upgrades & Improvements: Covers 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 their effects, unlocking and using the salvage bench, currency exchange, determining current exchange rates, unlocking and using the reforging bench, and acquiring Orbs of Chance, Divine Orbs, and Greater Jeweler's Orbs.
• Gear & Equipment: Explains 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 the game's Acts.

• All Main Quests and Acts: Provides an overview.
• All Permanent Bonuses from the Campaign: Provides an overview.
• Act One, Act Two, Act Three: Offers detailed walkthroughs for individual quests and boss fights within each act.

PoE 2 Endgame Guides: This section covers endgame mechanics and activities.

• 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 setups, unlocking hideouts, and finding more citadels.
• Endgame Features & Leagues: Covers the Atlas of Worlds (maps, events), Realmgates, Breach (passives, rewards), Delirium (fog mechanics, passives, rewards), Ritual (passives, tributes, favors), Expedition (passives, artifacts, rewards), Burning Monoliths, Trial of Chaos, and Trial of the Sekhemas.

Advanced PoE 2 Tips & Other Guides: This final section offers advanced strategies and additional guidance.

• Advanced PoE 2 Guides: Covers fast XP acquisition, loot filter usage (including console acquisition), Sidekick features and installation, FilterBlade usage, items to avoid buying and selling from merchants, and obtaining additional character slots.