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When starting a new patch or league in Path of Exile 2, choosing the right build is crucial if you want to progress quickly. Generally, powerful builds are recommended, but sometimes novelty and new changes must also be considered.

Taking the upcoming Fate of the Vaal league, launching on December 12th, as an example, you can play the new Druid class, so builds related to it are not to be missed. Furthermore, various changes to combat mechanics mean that old builds may gain new vitality.

Based on the above, we will recommend three builds worth crafting and playing first in the new patch.

The Wyvern Form-Focused Build

If you're keeping up with the latest PoE 2 news, you'll know from livestreams and announcements that Druid can transform into three forms: wolf, bear, and wyvern, by using new weapon Animal Talismans.

The wyvern is the last and most unique form announced. Transforming into a flying dragon and spewing flames with Flame Breath skill will undoubtedly feel incredibly cool.

While this is only one type of attack in wyvern form, it's the most important because its actual attack speed is very fast, with a base attack speed of up to 800%, and you can continuously channel it for 4 seconds to deal 750% fire damage.

If you want to extend the channeling time of Flame Breath, you can do so by consuming six Rage per second. Additionally, when using this skill, for every energy charge consumed, you gain a 50% lightning damage bonus and a 50% reduction in Rage consumption speed.

This means that only three Rage per second are needed to achieve all the effects mentioned above, and since the base Rage limit is 30 points, this means you can gain an additional 10 seconds of channeling time with the help of energy charges.

According to the developers' recommended playstyle, choose the wyvern form and its fire-breathing skills, along with Ascendancy class Shaman, and then buy PoE 2 currency to further enhance the appropriate gear, and you will become an invincible Druid.

The Modified Pathfinder

Pathfinder is one of Ascendancy classes of the base class Ranger, specializing in damaging enemies through mechanisms such as poisons and flask throwing.

If you find the overall movement speed of Druid Wyvern fire-breathing build too slow, then a Pathfinder-based build is worth trying: this Ascendancy class can reduce the movement speed penalty by 50% by unlocking specific nodes.

In addition, patch 0.4.0 also brought several Ascendancy passive skill options to Pathfinder, allowing you to leverage the strengths of other classes, including:

• Path of the Warrior: Allows you to allocate initial Warrior passive skill points.
• Path of the Sorceress: Allows you to allocate initial Sorceress passive skill points.

Each option rewards you with 4 passive skill points. Based on this, if you want to make your Pathfinder builds more elemental, you can choose Sorceress passive skills; if you value attack power more, you can start with Warrior.

In fact, although the nodes and passive skills between different Ascendancy classes are not interchangeable, theoretically, all active skills are universal across all classes due to the skill gem mechanism.

Therefore, after determining your passive skill style, you can incorporate Druid's wyvern fire skill, Flame Breath, into your Pathfinder builds, converting your damage type from physical damage to fire damage.

More importantly, Pathfinder also received some additional bonuses through Patch 0.4.0, with damage, global defenses, and cost efficiency all increased by 5%.

To this end, you can first allocate some energy shield talent nodes, and then a bunch of attribute nodes to gain a large amount of energy shield.

At this point, you will find that you can combine reduced movement speed penalties and energy shields to craft fast and sturdy Pathfinder builds. This is theoretically possible, but it is difficult in practice and requires time to explore.

Titan Bear Build

After combining Pathfinder and Druid wyvern, another cross-class build type worth trying is Titan bear.

Titan is Warrior's Ascendancy class, specializing in overwhelming physical power. As one of Druid's transformation forms, the bear has a certain tank style, capable of knocking down and stunning enemies, similar to Titan.

In the changes brought by Patch The Last of Druids, Titan gained a new Ascendancy talent node, Mountain Splitter. It allows every third slam skill you cast that doesn't create a fissure to generate an additional aftershock on each side of the initial area.

Correspondingly, the previous Surprising Strength node has been removed, and Crushing Impacts now deals 25% increased damage to heavily stunned enemies.

The skills available to Druid's bear form, such as Maul, Furious Slam, and more, mostly emphasize heavy hits and effects like Warcries, which synergize well with Titan skills.

For example, you can continuously slam the ground, generating a series of aftershocks, while simultaneously gaining 50% of the small passive node effects through Titan's class characteristics, as well as other AoE attack nodes.

Overall, the three builds introduced here are essentially based on the new Druid class. Thanks to skill gems, the addition of this new class to Path of Exile 2 also brings many build crafting possibilities to other classes.

Whether you are interested in these three builds or want to try more uses of Druid form after the new league officially starts, it's all possible. We hope your exploration goes smoothly and you have fun!

Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.4.0, Fate of the Vaal League, will launch on December 12th. To get ahead of the new league's content, you'll naturally need to create a new character and complete the campaign.

The entire campaign is essentially just a transition, and many players are eager to reach the endgame content. Below are some tips for quickly completing the campaign, allowing you to start farming faster.

Character Pick

If you start with a melee class but find it difficult at lower levels, you can create a Ranger character, defeat the first boss, and obtain a bow, quiver, and starting skill gems.

Store these items in Stash Tab, then switch back to your main character to retrieve and use them. This will make your start much smoother.

Initial Area Tips

After rescuing the wounded man and obtaining the class weapon, you can immediately pause the game and respawn at a checkpoint. This will reset the current area, but the weapon will re-drop, allowing for duplication. For example, if you are playing as a Warrior, you will immediately have two weapons.

In the initial area, do not try to kill all monsters. Run as fast as possible, ignoring lone enemies to save time.

Reach the checkpoint where Large Chest is located, open the chest to obtain a skill gem, but do not equip it. Respawn at the checkpoint again, return to the chest, and the skill gem will refresh. You can repeat this process to obtain multiple skill gems, equipping them when needed, and excess skill gems can be sold for gold.

How To Obtain Equipment?

After reaching Clearfell Encampment, you can find merchants to trade and change your equipment.

• Una: Sells Magical Items, Flasks, and Scrolls of Wisdom.
• Finn: Sells Physical Class Gear.

You can type "i" in the search box to quickly filter items. Maximum Life is the most important survival attribute during the campaign. Use double quotes for exact matching. For example, typing "m li" will filter only gear with the "maximum life" affix.

It is recommended to filter gear for Quality Items, bonus damage, increased physical damage, movement speed, and maximum life.

You can sell skill gems obtained through duplication here to exchange for a good set of magical gear at the shop to increase your health.

Leveling Tips

POE 2 has an experience gain penalty system based on the difference between player and enemy levels.

• Before level 40: The range of experience gained is ±4 levels.
• After level 40: The experience gain range is ±6 levels.

This means that grinding in low-level areas is inefficient. You should move to areas matching your level (or slightly higher) as quickly as possible to gain more experience. Efficiency is important, but getting stuck is usually due to insufficient damage, so choosing the right skills is crucial.

Contagion is suitable for any class in the early game, and it's very effective, at least in the first 10 levels or the first chapter. It's a curse skill, and i an enemy dies while affected, the curse spreads to nearby enemies, dealing additional damage, which greatly increases your efficiency in clearing regular monsters.

Quests

Many quests in the campaign have different rewards, but completing them all would be quite time-consuming, so you need to complete them selectively.

Quests like Mud Burrow reward a support gem, while quests like Abandoned Stash in Mysterious Campsite reward an uncut skill gem. You can skip these if you don't need them.

The skull icons marked with a cross on the map are mandatory to complete, as they reward permanent stats.

How To Improve Your Character?

If you feel you're struggling or your gear is lacking, repeatedly farm the bosses you can defeat, because bosses and elite enemies have a higher drop rate for better equipment. After several resets, you're likely to obtain powerful rare gear, which greatly boosts your early-game combat power.

You can create a new instance of a zone at the zone entrance using Shift+click or Ctrl+click. All monsters and bosses will spawn in the new instance. To avoid looting junk, it's recommended to set up or download a loot filter to only display valuable items.

Passive Tree

Path of Exile 2's talent tree is very complex. If you're unsure how to allocate your talent points, remember to only choose talents that increase damage before level 80.

Starting from your character's starting point, proceed along the main road formed by attribute points. Prioritize the nearest talent cluster that provides damage bonuses. On the way to the next damage talent cluster, max out all damage nodes along the way, skipping nodes that don't directly provide damage.

Before entering high-tier maps, you can completely ignore pure defensive nodes like armor and evasion, unless they also provide damage.

Item And Currency Management

In story chapters, weapon base stats see significant improvements around levels 11 and 28. Later in a chapter, even if you obtain a low-tier base weapon with good affixes, it's not recommended to invest in PoE 2 currency, as you'll quickly find bases with much higher base damage.

Magic items are usually more valuable when sold after being identified with a Scroll of Wisdom than when unidentified. Rare items should be disenchanted into Regal Shards at NPCs for crafting Regal Orbs. Only consider selling them if you already have enough Regal Orbs.

If you have equipment with sockets, you can disenchant it at the salvaging bench to obtain Artificer's Shard. This can be combined with Artificer's Orb, used to add rune sockets to equipment. When you feel the pace of combat slowing down and the pressure of survival increasing, it's time to invest in upgrading your equipment.

These are the basic tips for completing the campaign in patch 0.4.0. You can also use a leveling build to increase your speed.

Although Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.4.0 livestream scheduled for 11:00 AM on December 4th hasn't started yet, some information about the new patch has already leaked, sparking various speculations within the community.

To help you gain a more complete understanding of this update, we've compiled this early guide from multiple sources. But you still need to watch the livestream later to learn more and earn Twitch Drops!

When Can You Play Patch 0.4.0?

The official name of this patch is The Last of the Druids. It will be released on all PoE 2 available platforms on December 12th, 2025 at 11:00 AM PST. Simply update the game to start playing.

Since the release of Patch 0.2.0 on April 4th of this year, the game has consistently released a new patch every 3-4 months. While this interval is longer than PoE 1 release league, it at least proves that PoE 2 is becoming more stable as an Early Access game.

It's worth noting that even if you don't own Path of Exile 2, you can play all the game's content for free for three days after Patch 0.4.0 is released, including this patch! This is a great opportunity for players who are still undecided about the game.

New Base Class Druid

In fact, the name of this patch itself suggests that the new class Druid will be the core of this update. At launch, Path of Exile 2 only had 6 basic classes; Huntress was added with patch 0.2.0.

Afterwards, there was various speculation within the game community about more new classes, until now, when Druid has finally been added to Path of Exile 2 as the eighth class.

While details are still unknown, based on Druids in other games, it can be inferred that this will be a hybrid of strength and intelligence, capable of transforming into creatures like bears or werewolves for melee or elemental magic combat.

Each class in Path of Exile series has its own Ascendancies, usually 2-3, and it is expected that the number of Ascendancies for Druid in Path of Exile 2 will remain within this range. In addition, other existing base classes may also gain new Ascendancies.

Players and curiosity are insatiable, and fortunately, the development team is constantly working on it. They've even begun to hint that the next new class might be Duelist, who wields sword-type weapons - of course, this is just a preliminary idea.

Endgame Reset Again

As the most important and challenging aspect of the game, the endgame should always maintain high replayability and challenge. Therefore, Path of Exile 2 (and POE 1) almost always resets this with each new patch release.

Patch 0.4.0 is expected to further enhance the integration of the endgame progression system with narrative elements, making the endgame structure more closely linked to the overall game.

In fact, this move is already evident in the currently ongoing 0.3.0 version released in August. For example, the scene where Tangmazu, the Delirium, is released during Act 4 exploration - this is closely related to Delirium mechanic.

However, this means that powerful enemies that previously only existed in the story may become real opponents. If you encounter this situation, be sure to buy PoE 2 currency to re-roll your gear affixes so that boosting your character's combat power before starting.

Another important endgame component is Atlas Tree, which unlocks various talents and bonus nodes to improve your character's abilities or gain more loot buffs.

However, the current PoE 2 Atlas Tree is considered by players to lack depth and autonomy, so this may be adjusted and optimized in Patch 0.4.0.

More Ascension Trials

Ascendancy classes we've already mentioned won't be unlocked initially through character level progression; instead, they must be completed through relevant trials. Currently available trials include Trial of the Sekhemas and Trialmaster's Challenge.

In patch 0.3.0, Act 4 Eye of Hinekora area, you should have already noticed hints about the new Trial of the Ancestors. At that time, this content was not yet fully developed, but it is expected to be more complete and exciting in 0.4.0.

Abyss Mechanic Will Be Retained

This mechanic is the core of the current Rise of the Abyssal league, and the good news for those who enjoy it is that it will be permanently retained in Path of Exile 2!

In fact, this practice of retaining the core mechanics of the previous league has been a common practice in the first game, which is why PoE 1 was so complex and difficult for newcomers to learn.

However, considering the addition of new content, the operation of Abyss mechanic will inevitably undergo some minor changes and adjustments, but you should still be able to earn rewards by clearing Abyssal monsters.

What Will The Core Mechanic Be?

Regarding this most important topic, unfortunately, the developers are keeping it a secret, dedicated to maintaining the final mystery of Patch 0.4.0 until it is revealed to you during the live stream.

But based on the past few patch updates, you'll find that their core mechanics are essentially updates or reworks of the various league mechanics in the first game. Therefore, possible themed mechanics for Patch 0.4.0 include:

• Betrayal
• Beyond
• Bestiary
• Blight
• Delve
• Heist
• Harbinger
• Harvest
• Incursion
• Legion
• Settlers

Based on existing storylines and map exploration, players believe a remake of Delve is the most likely possibility, but more specifics will only be known after the livestream.

That concludes this introduction. We anticipate providing a more in-depth Patch 0.4.0 guide after the livestream on December 4th, but we hope this information has been helpful! Thank you for reading!

Path of Exile 2 0.4.0 patch The Last of the Druids will arrive in December 12th, and the new class has undoubtedly excited many players. However, even with the new class, many players still prefer to stay in Path of Exile 1 leagues.

This is not only because Path of Exile 2 lacks a complete storyline, but also because its endgame content is still not good enough. This is evident in the fact that the official league updates consistently adjust the endgame content.

Many players hope that patch 0.4.0 will continue to improve Atlas tree, replicating some of the strengths of Path of Exile 1, but they don't want Path of Exile 2 to completely copy it, and they want it to have its own unique features to avoid the two games becoming identical.

Characteristics Of PoE 2 Atlas Tree

Path of Exile 2 consists of a main tree and multiple independent League mechanic trees, and the main tree provides general bonuses such as map quantity, item rarity, Precursor Tablets, and pack size, as well as non-league mechanics like shrines, strongboxes, essences, and rogue exiles. Players unlock points by completing nexus of corruptions.

The league mechanic trees, on the other hand, provide bonuses for specific league mechanics, such as Breach, Expedition, Delirium, and Ritual, each with its own points.

The advantage of this is that you don't have to really specialize in anything. You can max out all mechanics simultaneously without respecning, which is very beginner-friendly.

If you want to play Delirium today and Expedition tomorrow, you can directly access the full benefits of the mechanic, which is very convenient. Even if you randomly encounter any league mechanic on the map, you'll still get decent rewards and won't feel like you're wasting your time.

Characteristics Of PoE 1 Atlas Tree

Path of Exile 1 Atlas tree is a large and complex unified tree, with the main tree content and league mechanic nodes all on the same tree.

This also allows players to focus extremely highly on a specific farming strategy. For example, if a player likes Ritual, they can invest almost all their points into related nodes, significantly increasing its rewards and ensuring its appearance on every map, and the same applies to other playstyles. PoE 1 Atlas tree provides players with a highly customized experience,

but this large Atlas tree is obviously somewhat bloated and complex. For new or casual players, they need to take a lot of time studying the effects of each branch and may not even be able to find a truly effective path.

On the other hand, if a player's tree doesn't incorporate a particular mechanic, such as Delirium or Expedition, then when players randomly encounter these mechanics on the map, they'll likely ignore them since these mechanics rarely drop valuable currency or items, leading players to focus solely on their preferred gameplay.

How To Improve PoE 2 Atlas Tree?

The direction for improving Path of Exile 2 Atlas tree doesn't need to be as extreme as in Path of Exile 1, but the current system needs more depth and player agency.

Enhancing Node Influence

Currently, nodes in the main Atlas tree, especially non-core ones like Rogue Exiles and Essences, have too weak an influence. Even if they're reset, players might not notice, so everyone ends up choosing the same allocations, such as increasing map quantity, item rarity, and the drop rate of Precursor Tablets, because other options are not worthwhile.

The developers could enhance the effectiveness of these peripheral nodes, making them valuable and attractive enough to foster diverse point allocation strategies.

Balancing Node Value

Currently, item rarity has a significant impact on PoE 2 currency drops, making related nodes essential.

If the developers adjust the mechanics so that item rarity no longer affects currency drops, players will be more inclined to allocate more points to mechanics like shrines or strongboxes based on their preferred strategies.

However, players will undoubtedly complain about the disappearance of currency rarity nodes. A recommended solution is to distribute these nodes at the top of various mechanisms, guiding players to choose their preferred league mechanisms.

Increasing Node Customization Depth

Path of Exile 2's separate League mechanic trees are clear and easy to understand, and this structure can remain unchanged.

However, existing nodes can be enhanced to make each node within a mechanic tree more interesting and powerful, with a greater focus on supporting specific farming strategies.

Universal skill points can also be introduced, allowing players to gain a small number of points on top of their existing fixed points, which can be freely allocated to any League mechanic tree.

This way, if a player decides to focus on Ritual this league, they can invest these universal points into Ritual tree to maximize its benefits, achieving an effect similar to Path of Exile 1, but without depriving other mechanics of their baseline benefits.

Overall, Path of Exile 2 Atlas tree is still somewhat rudimentary. Patch 0.4.0 can make Atlas tree more impactful and give players more player agency, allowing them to play the game in many different, equally effective ways, rather than everyone following a single meta choice.

Nearly a month after the release of Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.3.0: The Third Edict, the first patch is finally here. Officials announced their change plan on September 25th, and Patch 0.3.1 is expected to be released between September 29th and October 5th.

The primary focus of these changes is the endgame, and it‘s Based on player feedback. The developers have streamlined the endgame to reduce negative user experiences while maintaining benefits. Let's take a look at the specific changes in this update.

Tablets And Towers

Since players don't like the idea of ​​finding Towers on the map to enhance it, especially finding multiple overlapping Towers for optimal benefits, we've made some optimizations to this area.

Precursor Tablets will no longer rely on Towers on the map, but will be used directly in Map Device. Each time you use a Precursor Tablet, its use count decreases, and when it reaches 0, it will be destroyed.

You can use up to three tablets on a single map, but the number of available slots depends on the number of affixes in the map. A six-affix map will have all three slots open. This obviously isn't as good as stacking multiple tablets together, but we've made some adjustments to compensate for this.

To compensate for the lower stacking limit, the effects of modifiers on tablets have been increased by approximately 2-3 times, and some new affixes (such as extra shrines and strongboxes) have been added.

To compensate for the lower content limit per map, the effects of affixes on tablets have been significantly increased by 2-3 times. Here are some clear examples:

• Collector: Item rarity increased from 7-10% to 10-30%.
• Teeming: The number of magic monsters increased from 15-25% to 25-70%.
• Of Strongboxes: The chance of containing a strongbox increased from 30-50% to 50-100%.

Tablets will also receive several new affixes:

• Of the Devoted: Contains an additional Shrine on the map.
• Of the Antiquarian: Contains an additional Strongbox on the map.
• Crystallized: Contains an additional Essence on the map.
• Exiled: Contains an additional Rogue Exile on the map.
• Azmeri: Contains an additional Azmeri Spirit on the map.
• Summoner: Contains an additional Summoning Circle on the map.
• of the Summoning: Contains a 25-50% chance of a Summoning Circle in the map.

While their role has been reduced, Towers still exist, primarily for unlocking Atlas vision and rewarding a Precursor Tablet.

Maps And Bosses

The fact that only some maps had bosses, while others required clearing all rare monsters, made the map farming experience less enjoyable. Clearing rare monsters in particular became a monotonous task of following minimap icons. We've made adjustments to address this issue.

Bosses

After patch 0.3.1, all Endgame maps will contain a map boss. Players only need to defeat the map boss to complete the map, eliminating the need to clear rare monsters. You can freely choose how many small monsters to clear.

As for map icons that previously indicated a boss, patch 0.3.1 now indicates that the boss in that map will be more challenging and offer greater rewards.

Map Randomness

To increase fun and earn more PoE 2 Currency, each map will automatically have one to three random extra items (Breach, Expedition, Ritual, Delirium, etc.) added to it upon generation.

Previously, these random items displayed icons on the map. However, starting with patch 0.3.1, these icons will be removed from Atlas. All non-player-added items will be randomly generated, while the system will avoid duplication with player-added items. If you add a Ritual activity to a map, additional items will be randomly generated.

Map Size And Monster Density

To reduce the farming time per map, we've adjusted the map size and monster density. In Tier 1 maps, the number of monsters and monster hordes has been reduced by 30%. As the map level increases, the number of monsters will gradually increase, returning to current levels by Tier 15.

Open maps will have slightly lower monster density than enclosed indoor maps to prevent overwhelmed monsters in open areas.

Fifteen maps will be reduced in size:

• Augury
• Bastille
• Blooming Field
• Channel
• Epitaph
• Fortress
• Grimhaven
• Hidden Grotto
• Oasis
• Penitentiary
• Rupture
• Savannah
• Slick
• Vaal City
• Wetlands

Other Miscellaneous Changes

Due to the introduction of tiered currency, the value of PoE 2 Orb of Alchemy PoE 2 decreased. It can now be used on magic items, upgrading them to rare and rerolling four affixes. This function is somewhat similar to a hybrid of Chao Orbs and Orbs of Alchemy.

To accommodate these changes, Atlas talent tree has been adjusted to accommodate the relevant talent nodes, but the goal is to keep the benefits largely unchanged.

Summary

Overall, most of the changes are excellent and meet player expectations. Officially stated, it's intended to pave the way for 0.4.0, and while these changes will clearly make the next season even better, it also makes PoE 2 feel more and more like PoE 1 Plus.

The changes to reduce monster density in Tier 1 through Tier 14 maps are clearly intended to help struggling new players, while this is bad news for players who are fully geared up, making farming low-level maps less rewarding and less fun. This may be the only controversial aspect of this change.

With the influx of new players entering Path of Exile 2, patch 0.3.0 aims to further simplify and reduce the difficulty of the endgame to help new players adapt. However, with the extremely demanding POE 2, building a polished build still requires considerable effort for new players.

Good gear can significantly improve the endgame experience and increase farming speed, creating a positive feedback loop. If you want to farm more efficiently in the endgame, you can buy PoE 2 Currency on IGGM.com and obtain the gear you need most.

Nearly a month after the release of Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.3.0, The Third Edict, Path of Exile 2 plans to participate in Tokyo Game Show 2025 (TGS 2025) from September 25th to 28th to further promote the game and the update.

Path of Exile 2 will not only showcase and promote the game, but will also host a Boss Rush Event for attendees. The better your performance, the higher your chances of winning exclusive merchandise!

So how will you play this event, and what other exciting activities will Path of Exile 2 bring to the show? We'll explain.

POE 2 In Tokyo Game Show 2025

First and foremost, Tokyo Game Show, or TGS for short, is a classic, world-renowned video game convention, first held in 1996. The show was held twice annually from 1996 to 2002, and has been held once annually in September since then.

The show typically lasts four days, with the first two days open to industry professionals and the last two days open to the public. TGS primarily showcases Japanese games, but international video game developers also participate.

This year's Tokyo Game Show will take place from September 25-28, 2025, at Makuhari Messe, and Path of Exile 2 will be located in Hall 2 Booth S03. The game is expected to use the show to showcase additional post-patch 0.3.0 content.

In addition to promoting the game and hosting a Boss Rush Event (more on this later), Path of Exile 2 will also be hosting social media abilities during TGS 2025.

For example, you can take a selfie in Vaal Orb photo booth, set it as your profile picture, and post it on social media with the hashtag "#PoE2TGS" for a chance to win an exclusive key-cap or badge set.

How To Participate In Boss Rush Event?

Path of Exile 2 booth will host this event during the show, and anyone interested can participate (though there may be a wait due to crowds).

Boss Rush Event features 15 powerful bosses from various Path of Exile 2 acts, one after another. Your challenge is to defeat as many of them as possible within a 20-minute time limit.

A live leaderboard will be displayed above the booth throughout the event. The more bosses you kill and the less time you consume on the event, the higher your ranking will be.

Not only will you enjoy the glory of being a top player, but you'll also receive exclusive game merchandise, with the number of prizes depending on how many bosses you defeat. Even if you just watch, you'll have a chance to draw a prize!

To participate in Boss Rush Event, you'll need to choose one of seven pre-selected characters (one for each class) to enter the game. The bosses will then appear one by one.

It's worth noting that before attacking the boss, you'll need to defeat several groups of monsters ahead of them to test your skill. After that, you can unleash your attacks on the boss until it's defeated.

Defeating the current boss will open the portal to the next arena, and the level of all subsequent bosses will increase. Furthermore, many of the 15 bosses are from the recent The Third Edict update. So it's difficult to defeat them all if you haven't started playing in the new league yet.

While participating in this event won't bring rewards to your game account, it will be fun and exciting, allowing you to hone your game skills. This will give you the opportunity to earn more POE 2 currency later in-game.

How To Prepare For This Event?

If you're confident in your abilities and want to test your skills in Boss Rush Event at this expo, it's recommended that you practice playing the game beforehand, or at least learn more about the bosses you might encounter.

The specific 15 bosses that will appear in Boss Rush Event are still unknown, but most will be from the newly added Act 4. If you've been playing PoE 2, you're likely already familiar with the bosses from Acts 1-3.

Act 4's new bosses include:

• The Prisoner
• Scourge of the Skies
• Great White One
• Diamora, Song of Death
• Captain Hartlin
• Blind Beast
• Krutog
• Yama the White
• Torvian
• Benedictus
• Tavakai, the Chieftain

As for the bosses from Acts 1-3 that may appear in Boss Rush Event, it's expected that a selection of the following will be chosen as your opponents. If you're not familiar with all the boss mechanics, prioritize the more difficult or well-known ones.

Act 1:

• The Bloated Miller
• Beira of the Rotten Pack
• The Devourer
• The Rust King
• The Bramblehast
• Asia Praetor Consort
• Draven Eternal Praetor
• Lachlann of Endless Lament
• The Executioner
• The Crowbell
• Candlemass the Living Rite
• The King in the Mists
• Count Geonor
• The Rotten Druid

Act 2:

• Rathbreaker
• Balbala the Traitor
• L'im the Impaler
• Jamanra the Risen King
• Tor Gul the Defiler
• Deathlord of Blackrib Pit & Ekbab Ancient Steed
• Rudja Dread Engineer
• Zalmarath the Colossus
• Constrictor Queen Kabala

Act 3:

• Rootdredge
• Mighty Silverfist
• Blackjaw the Remnant
• Xyclucian, the Chimera
• Zicoatl, Warden of the Core
• Ignagduk, the Bog Witch
• Mektul, the Forgemaster
• Queen of Filth
• Ketzuli, High Priest of the Sun
• Doryani

In fact, Path of Exile 2 has previously held Boss Rush Events and similar offline challenges at other trade shows, so you can also learn more and prepare by searching and watching videos of past events.

That's all for this introduction. TGS 2025 is just around the corner. If you've already arrived in the host city, be sure to prepare for the upcoming Boss Rush Event! We look forward to your success and the prizes!

As one of the key main classes in PoE 2, Witch is an intelligence-based class focused on summoning minions and using dark magic to kill enemies. Its reliable damage output and low difficulty of mastering make it ideal for beginners.

Of course, just because it's easy to master doesn't mean you can easily tackle more advanced Path of Exile 2 content by playing as a Witch, especially since the release of patch 0.3.0, when the game's mechanics became richer and more complex.

With this in mind, this article will introduce a Bleed Witch build crafting guide that will help you complete most of Rise of the Abyssal league content and successfully enter the endgame.

Bleed Witch Build Crafting Overview

While Lightning Spear is a skill more suited to Amazons, this build also allows you to deal bleed damage to enemies and create more explosions with Lightning Spear.

In addition, you'll want to utilize Armor Break mechanic to increase enemy damage in subsequent encounters. To achieve this, you can either use Armor Break skill directly (if you have it) or add specific support gems, such as:

• Splinter: Breaks enemy armor by linking it to an attack skill.
• Corrosion: Reduces the effectiveness of enemy armor through poison or gas effects.
• Armor Explosion: Deals damage in an area when an enemy's armor is completely destroyed.

Building on this, you can make Lightning Spear even more powerful, inflicting a more intense bleed effect. For boss encounters, you can utilize Curse and Rake debuffs and Blood Hunt skill to completely decimate the enemy.

In addition, if you plan to use this build, it's best to choose Blood Mage as Ascendancy class. This will unlock Blood Barbs skill, which deals Aggravated bleed to cursed targets and also grants bleeding magnitude with elemental damage.

Note that as you progress, this build will require you to continually acquire new gems and replace old skills with new ones. If you can't unlock new skills quickly, consuming specific PoE 2 currency to enhance gear is another option.

Step 1: Become A Witch (And Blood Mage)

As we've explained, you must first become a Witch and then select Blood Mage after unlocking Ascendancy class mechanic before you can begin crafting this build.

When you arrive in the major zone Clearfell in Act 1, find Renly and obtain a spear from him. After that, unlock Explosive Spear, Contagion, and Frost Bomb skills and equip them.

How To Utilize Related Skills?

After unlocking the necessary skills, first throw your spear forward at an enemy, then cast Contagion to cause it to explode, spreading the debuff to the remaining enemies and killing them. If you use Frost Bomb against a boss, you'll gain additional elemental exposure.

By continuously casting the skills in this order, Explosive Spear, Frost Bomb, and Contagion, you can continuously control enemies and cause them to take damage. To achieve this, you'll need to consistently cast Explosive Spear and Contagion.

After casting Explosive Spear twice, the first spear will explode with the second, and Contagion will spread again, destroying enemies until you defeat the boss, The Rust King.

This will unlock your first Tier 3 gem, allowing you to equip Lightning Spear, replacing Explosive Spear in your rotation to deal lightning and fire damage.

How To Choose The Offhand Weapon?

Until the end of Act 3, your ideal offhand gear is Rattling Scepter, which grants you bonus Spirit. However, unlocking Herald of Thunder buff will be even better.

This skill ensures that after killing a stunned enemy, your Lightning Spear will always stun them, dealing bonus damage. As you progress, don't hesitate to choose Storm Lance when you unlock your first Tier 5 gem.

Fire three Storm Lance spells at the ground followed by an Explosive Spear to create a massive explosion for massive damage. Also, don't forget to utilize Elemental Armorman and the support gem Living Lightning.

How To Choose Passives?

In early-game combat, you need to absorb all the damage from enemy attacks while also dealing extra damage to them. Adding the necessary passives for bonus attack damage is crucial.

When you use Lightning Spear to quickly pierce through a group of enemies and apply bleeds, rare monsters will accumulate some bleed. You can use Blood Hunt to blast them, managing critical and inevitable critical to allow the bleed to deal true damage.

Note that from this point on, Frost Bomb will be replaced by Elemental Weakness, which requires a strong reveal effect and a longer duration. Therefore, your passive should further increase your attack damage against full-health enemies.

To this end, it's best to give Lightning Spear a larger blade on the first attack to deal more damage against rare and unique enemies and gain a significant attack damage bonus.

To achieve this, you'll need to maximize attack damage, creating a consistent damage output, and then gradually increase the bleeding effect - since all elemental damage is a bleeding magnitude.

While this guide is designed to help you utilize this build through the early stages of Patch 0.3.0, you can still choose this build after Act 3 and even the endgame, provided you've upgraded it to further enhance it.

We hope this guide is helpful as you play Path of Exile 2. We wish you all the best during your time in Rise of the Abyssal League!

POE 2 Patch 0.3.0 has begun, and besides returning veteran players, this update has also attracted a number of new players. A new league means a new economy. Before the season begins, besides finding the right builds, another important step is to farm PoE 2 currency.

POE 2 offers a wide variety of currencies, but their drop rates are low, so consistently farming a single currency requires a certain investment. Because of the changes in Patch 0.3.0, we recommend choosing Essence as it's currently in high demand, relatively easy to farm, and relatively low in investment.

What Is Essence?

Essence is a currency that adds specific prefixes or suffixes to your weapons or equipment. It comes in four different qualities:

• Lesser: Only worth using in story mode
• Normal: partially worth using
• Greater: Primarily used in the endgame

The above three essences are used on magic items to transform them into rare items and add a guaranteed affix.

• Perfect: Replaces a random affix on a rare item with the guaranteed affix of the perfect essence

Essence Value

Path of Exile 2 market is dynamic, and it's not the case that higher-quality Essences are equal to more PoE 2 Divine Orbs or Exalted Orbs (although this is generally accepted).

The value of Essences is determined by current market demand and factors like Divine Orbs inflation. Therefore, Essences obviously don't maintain a fixed value. Therefore, the following will show which Essences are worth farming and which nobody care. Note that this is only a guide, as the currency market fluctuates rapidly. It's best to check which Essences are currently in high demand before farming.

Low-Value Essences

• Greater Battle
• Greater Infinite
• Greater Mind
• Greater Body
• Greater Flame
• Greater Ice
• Greater Sorcery
• Greater Enhancement
• Greater Command
• Greater Seeking
• Greater Alacrity
• Greater Electricity
• Perfect Grounding
• Perfect Alacrity
• Perfect Infinite
• Essence of the Abyss
• Essence of Insanity
• Perfect Body
• Perfect Flame
• Perfect Insulation
• Perfect Ice
• Perfect Thawing
• Perfect Mind
• Perfect Enhancement
• Perfect Seeking

Medium Value Essences

• Greater Insulation
• Greater Thawing
• Greater Grounding
• Greater Abrasion
• Essence of Delirium
• Perfect Ruin
• Perfect Command
• Perfect Opulence
• Perfect Abrasion
• Perfect Electricity

High Value Essences

• Greater Haste
• Greater Ruin Greater Opulence
• Perfect Sorcery
• Perfect Haste
• Perfect Battle
• Essence of Horror
• Essence of Hysteria

Farming Strategy

This strategy relies on gambling with Vaal Orbs, upgrading or converting low-value Essences into higher-value Essences. To earn PoE 2 Divine Orbs this way, you'll need to farm Essence monsters and also prepare a number of Vaal Orbs.

A Vaal Orb can perform one of 5 effects on a group of Essences:

• No effect: Waste a Vaal Orb.
• Add a random Essence.
• Re-roll all Essences (changing types within the same level).
• Increase the quality of Essences or convert Perfect Essences into Corrupted Essences.
• Instantly release Essence Monsters.

As long as Essence you see isn't one of the top-tier, valuable Essences like Perfect Essence of Battle, it's worth a gamble with a Vaal Orb.

For low-value Essences, it's definitely worth the gamble; even if you lose, it won't be too much, and if it improves, you win a lot. For mid-value Essences, you can either gamble or keep it for your own use.

High-value Perfect Essences can also be gambled with a Vaal Orb, as there's a chance they can be transformed into a more valuable Corrupted Essence.

If you encounter a group of multiple high-value Essences, it's best not to gamble; simply take the money and walk away, and using a Vaal Orb might result in a loss.

If you encounter a group of multiple low-value Perfect Essences, absolutely use a Vaal Orb, as the potential reward from upgrading to a Corrupted Essence is extremely high, potentially earning you several Divine Orbs.

Processing Essences

For low-value Essences with absolutely no market demand, you can use the in-game 3:1 exchange feature to exchange three low-level Essences of the same type for one random higher-level Essence. This is inherently a gamble, and there's a chance you'll get something more valuable.

Atlas Talent Tree

The core talent in Atlas talent tree is Crystal Realm, which grants the area containing the map boss an additional Essence.

Other talent nodes that increase the chance of Essence appearing are useful, but don't need to be maxed out past 100%. Universal talent nodes that grant random bonuses may also contain Essence and are worth considering.

You can also use additional Essence-enhancing Tablets, which are worth around 50 PoE 2 Exalted Orbs, which is a negligible amount compared to the currency earned.

The rarity and number of maps do not affect the amount of Essence, but do affect the quantity and quality of other items dropped by Essence monsters after killing them.

While this has no effect on Essence itself, it's still recommended to run maps with more affixes, as the bosses themselves will drop more valuable rare items, which can help cover the consume of the map and increase overall returns.

This is a rough guide to farming Essence. Some players might consider gambling with Vaal orbs risky, but this game is full of gambling. Furthermore, this method is relatively easy to implement, allowing you to integrate it into other gameplay strategies like Breach and Delirium, rather than focusing solely on farming Essence.

With the release of patch 0.3.0, The Third Edict, on August 29th, Path of Exile 2 has added a host of new content, enriching gameplay while also providing you with more farmable resources and corresponding farming methods.

To quickly advance your character in the new leagues, you'll need to take advantage of these new items and mechanics to earn more POE 2 currency to enhance your character and gear.

One of the most noteworthy items is Desecrated items. These items can enhance your gear or Waystones in unique ways, but for them to work, you must first visit Well of Souls.

This article explains the specific relationship between these two items and other related information.

What Are Desecrated Items?

These items, newly introduced by The Third Edict, provide powerful new modifiers for your gear or enhance Waystones, giving you additional benefits while exploring the map and other league content during the new leagues.

How To Get This Item?

Desecrated items are obtained in two steps. First, you need to farm Abyssal Fissures to obtain Abyssal Currencies, which typically take the form of bones from various Abyssal enemies.

Next, you need to apply this special currency to your regular rare items, converting them into Desecrated items to obtain a hidden modifier. The currently available currencies and their functions are:

• Gnawed Jawbone: Desecrates a Rare Weapon or Quiver
• Preserved Jawbone: Desecrates a Rare Weapon or Quiver
• Ancient Jawbone: Desecrates a Rare Weapon or Quiver
• Gnawed Rib: Desecrates a Rare Armor
• Preserved Rib: Desecrates a Rare Armor
• Ancient Rib: Desecrates a Rare Armor
• Gnawed Collarbone: Desecrates a Rare Amulet, Ring or Belt
• Preserved Collarbone: Desecrates a Rare Amulet, Ring or Belt
• Ancient Collarbone: Desecrates a Rare Amulet, Ring or Belt
• Preserved Cranium: Desecrates a Rare Jewel
• Preserved Vertebrae: Desecrates a Rare Waystone

Note that this newly added modifier is initially inactive. You must visit Well of Souls, infuse acquired bones into gear or Waystones, and then reveal them through Well of Souls to activate the modifier's effect.

While Abyssal Currencies offer a limited variety of options, they uniquely reduce the randomness of re-rolling modifiers for gear, allowing you to more directly enhance your gear without consuming additional base currency.

How To Find Well Of Souls?

After creating your Rise of the Abyssal League character, you'll need to complete Act 1 in the main campaign, then progress to recreating Horn of the Vastiri as you explore Act 2.

Next, continue on to Mastodon Badlands and strive to find Lightless Passage. To do this, carefully explore the edges of the map and locate a hidden, downward-sloping path, typically located in the southwest of the area.

When you see a distinctive archway marked by a giant tusk, you can pass through it and enter the dark path leading to Lightless Passage, where you'll enter a dungeon.

This dungeon is extremely dangerous, with countless monster hordes and dangerous, rare enemies lurking in the darkness. While clearing all monsters will yield currency and other resource drops, remember that your goal is to find Well of Souls.

So don't get hung up on it; simply keep pushing forward, protecting yourself, until you see the entrance to Well of Souls.

After completing your initial exploration, the waypoints in this area will be permanently unlocked, allowing you to easily travel back and forth to Well of Souls via the map.

What Should You Do After Entering Here?

Once you enter Well of Souls, you'll encounter Lurking Creature. Interacting with it will trigger a story involving a character called The Hooded One, who will help you understand Lurking Creature's language and communicate with it.

Completing this interaction grants you permanent access to Well of Souls' features. It will then become a dedicated crafting station, similar to a hideout, allowing you to quickly access it when you need to modify new gear.

What Does Well Of Souls Do?

Here, you can reveal and apply Desecrated modifiers, earned through Abyssal Currency, to rare gear.

These modifiers are initially hidden on the item in unreadable green text. Placing an item in a Well of Souls container will trigger a ritual offering three different modifier options, which you can choose from.

Note that once you select and confirm a modifier, Abyssal Currency can no longer be used on that item, making the buffs granted to the gear permanent and unchangeable.

Selecting a modifier allows you to add general modifiers to gear, allowing you to upgrade faster through combat and making it easier to acquire gear with specific stat rolls.

Adding modifiers to Waystones, on the other hand, allows you to infuse new Waystones with new modifiers in the endgame, increasing the challenge level and earning more rewards.

In short, Desecrated items are new items that enhance your gear in Rise of the Abyssal League. To function, they must be activated and selected through a ritual in Well of Souls.

That concludes our introduction. We hope this helps you become stronger in Patch 0.3.0! We wish you the best of luck in your League adventures!

After nearly five months, Path of Exile 2 finally received another major update. While no new classes were added this time, the story has finally advanced to Act 4.

As one of the highlights of 0.3.0, it is undoubted that players are very excited about it. So, what is the main story of Act 4, and how does it compare to the previous three acts?

Act 4 Plot

The story of Path of Exile 2 takes place 20 years after the events of the original game, but the protagonists are completely different.

In the first three acts, you are an exile sentenced to death by Count, but luckily escape (this is the screen where you choose your class). Investigating Seed of Corruption, you eventually battle Count, discovering that he has been bewitched by Oriana. However, she has already escaped with The Beast. (Act 1)

Tracing Oriana's footsteps, you arrive in Vastiri Desert and defeat her resurrected champion, who harnesses the power of the beast, but she escapes once again. (Act 2)

In the ruins of Utzaal Jungle, you encounter the people of Kingsmarch and gain access to the lore of Vaal Empire. After defeating the final boss, Doryani, a brilliant inventor from Vaal Empire, he finally agrees to help you assemble a weapon to fight The Beast. (Act 3)

Act 4 picks up where Act 3 left off, as you continue your hunt for Oriana and The Beast. In addition to The Hooded One, Doryani will also join you on your journey to find The Third Edict, an ancient weapon powerful enough to defeat The Beast.

This legendary relic is said to have shattered long ago, its fragments scattered across Ngamakanui Archipelago. You'll need to charter a boat from Kingsmarch to reach this area.

New Areas

Unlike the linear storyline of the first three acts, Act 4 is a semi-open world, allowing you to explore any of the areas you choose. The following areas are related to Act 4:

• Kingsmarch (Town)
• Kedge Bay, Journey's End
• Ngatoto Island, Hinekora's Passage
• Shrike Island
• Singing Caverns
• Shiplash Seastead
• The Enclave of the Twilight Order
• Isle of Decay
• Ngakanu
• Precursor Forge - Precursor Ruins
• Twilight Enclave
• Shrike Island: Monster Level 46 (Boss, Scourge of the Skies)
• Journey's End: Monster Level 45 (Boss, Captain Hartlin)
• Ngatoto Island: Monster Level 45 (Boss, Diamora, Song of Death)
• Isle of Kin: Monster Level 45 (Boss, Krutog, the Lord of Kin)
• Izaro's Prison (Eternal Prison): Monster Level 45 (Boss, The Prisoner)
  

If you're not leveling high enough, you can level in these areas, but don't try to farm currency there. This time is wasted until you reach the endgame, so don't waste too much time there.

New Bosses

In addition to defeating 100 new monsters in Act 4, you'll also face 12 new bosses. It's currently unknown which boss will be the final one, but it's likely that the final boss in Act 4 will depend on the path you choose. Defeating these bosses will reward you with equipment and some PoE 2 currency. Here are some of the bosses in Act 4:

• Krutog, Lord of Kin (Giant Goblin Boss)
• The Blind Beast
• Yama the White
• Captain Hartlin
• The Prisoner
• Diamora, Song of Death
• Scourge of the Skies
• Hoko, of the Tukohoma Tribe

Krutog, Lord Of Kin

Krutog, Lord of Kin is an unstunnable boss with high resistance to physical damage. It consumes Sulphite in the area and vomits it towards you. This skill is an AoE ability, dealing Chaos damage if hit. It also uses attacks like Trample and Projectiles, but its movement speed is moderate, making it easily kited by classes like Huntresses and Rangers.

Captain Hartlin

Captain Hartlin is an undead boss with high physical and cold resistance. It deals physical and fire damage primarily. Besides its ability to use projectiles like mortars, its summoned ghost crew members can also fire beams at you.

Its movement speed is very slow, making it easier for agile classes to deal with it, but be wary of its various ranged attacks. Furthermore, many of its skills convert physical damage into fire damage, so be sure to increase your fire resistance.

Diamora, Song Of Death

Diamora, Song of Death is a demon boss with a movement speed similar to Krutog, Lord of Kin. It has high cold resistance but is weak to lightning. It is a spellcaster dealing primarily cold damage. Aside from being careful with her AoE abilities and increasing your cold resistance, this boss is quite easy to defeat.

Scourge Of The Skies

Scourge of the Skies is a beastly boss that can fly and doesn't have any particularly strong resistances. Besides approaching and attacking you, its primary attack is to summon minions. Therefore, having an AoE ability that can quickly clear monster builds makes it much easier to deal with them.

As for main bosses, they're not particularly difficult and can be defeated with the right gear and level. If you're repeatedly defeated, you can increase your level or use PoE 2 currency to rebuild your gear might be a better option.

This is a general overview of Path of Exile 2 Act 4. I hope this information will help you more easily complete Act 4 and reach the endgame.