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It has to be said that the complexity of various gameplays and mechanisms in Path of Exile should be considered top 3 among all ARPGs, which is why only real hardcore players will be fascinated by it.

If you want to gradually familiarize yourself with the game as a POE novice, it is completely possible. After all, everyone has come from the novice stage, but the premise is that you must always understand the new content you encounter through the guide.

Since it was a league update that was delayed for more than half a year, 3.26 Mercenaries of Trarthus league attracted a lot of attention after it was launched, so you may have started playing this game at that time.

Based on this, this time we will introduce you to the farming guide of Delve, which is easily overlooked in all the first game play.

What Is Delve?

Delve first appeared in the game through Path of Exile: Delve in 2018. Its operation is essentially similar to other POE dungeons, but the difference is that it is almost infinite-as long as you can do it, you can go deeper.

Each Delve represents a nearly infinite Azurite Mine dungeon, where you follow a Voltaxic Sulphite-powered Crawler from mine to mine and reach the next checkpoint to complete the exploration. Entering a Delve requires your POE 3.26 character to be at least level 14.

How Does Delve Work?

Azurite Mine represented by Delve has countless nodes, each of which has 1 to 4 paths connected to it, leading to other nearby nodes. Each node has a checkpoint, and after clearing the checkpoint through combat, you can get rewards and teleport here freely.

To clear more nodes and earn rarer POE currency, each Delve exploration requires you to start from the checkpoint of a cleared node and continue to go deeper along an adjacent path, defeating or avoiding enemies along the way.

When you reach the next uncleared node, you will unlock an encounter at the checkpoint here. If you win, you will get rewards and clear the node. As you explore the mine, the difficulty and rewards will increase.

Best Delve Farming Guides

Although the dungeon is theoretically endless, the optimal exploration depth should be between 250 and 300 within the character’s ability to limit. As long as your strength and gear are good, this depth is enough for you to earn the required POE Divine Orbs.

Increase Movement And Combat Speed

If you don’t have to quit midway due to unexpected death, you can theoretically clear dozens or even hundreds of nodes in Delve at a time. If your movement and combat speed are fast enough, it will be more efficient.

Therefore, before entering Azurite Mine dungeon, you need to craft builds with fast speed as the core, and equip gear with speed bonus as much as possible.

In addition, during the exploration process, aim to clear the main nodes, don’t waste time killing extra enemies, or trying to find hidden nodes - they are far less valuable than the main nodes.

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Focus On Areas With Biomes

Different areas in Azurite Mine may have their own biomes, and different biomes have different appearances, monsters, encounters, and different fossil drops.

Sometimes you may also encounter a city biome and encounter a special boss. Clearing the node of this biome brings better loot, but the enemies and bosses are also more difficult.

• Mines: Metallic Fossil, Serrated Fossil, Pristine Fossil, Aetheric Fossil.
• Fungal Caverns: Dense Fossil, Aberrant Fossil, Opulent Fossil, Corroded Fossil, Gilded Fossil.
• Petrified Forest: Bound Fossil, Jagged Fossil, Corroded Fossil, Sanctified Fossil.
• Abyssal Depths: Aberrant Fossil, Bound Fossil, Gilded Fossil, Lucent Fossil.
• Frozen Hollow: Frigid Fossil, Serrated Fossil, Prismatic Fossil, Sanctified Fossil, Shuddering Fossil.
• Magma Fissure: Scorched Fossil, Prismatic Fossil, Pristine Fossil, Deft Fossil, Fundamental Fossil.
• Sulfur Vents: Metallic Fossil, Opulent Fossil, Aetheric Fossil, Fundamental Fossil.
• Vaal Outpost: Generates special boss Ahuatotli, the Blind.
• Abyssal City: Generates special boss Kurgal, the Blackblooded.
• Primeval Ruins: Generates special boss Aul, the Crystal King.

Utilize Available Consumable Items

Due to the darkness in the dungeon, you can only move forward through the light source brought by Crawler to see the surrounding nodes and possible enemies or items.

But the tricky thing is that there is a monster called Stalkers in Delves that will temporarily destroy your Crawler light source, so it is necessary to bring flares when entering the dungeon.

Flares, as a consumable item, can create a temporary lighting area for you, but it cannot specify a target, and you can only bring up to three at a time. In addition to Delves, flares can actually be used in any mine in POE 3.26.

Usually when you explore Delves, if you encounter flare caches, you can find this item inside, or you can consume Azurite at Voltaxic Generator to exchange flares.

Another item worth getting is dynamite, which blows up the broken walls around you and deals a certain amount of damage to enemies in the blast radius. You can equip up to 2 at a time, and the way to get them is the same as flares (corresponding to dynamite caches).

What Is Azurite?

In addition to getting currency or item rewards by clearing major nodes and killing bosses, you can also farm Azurite in the following Azurite nodes:

• Azurite Cavity
• Azurite Vault
• Azurite Fissure

In addition, some Delve paths will have smaller Azurite veins, and opening prehistoric chests in Primeval Ruins may also bring you a lot of Azurite.

As we have already introduced, Azurite can be used to exchange the required flares or dynamites at Voltaxic Generator, reducing obstacles during exploration.

The above is the basic information you need to know about farming Delves in POE 3.26, as well as a reliable farming strategy. I hope it will help you with your league experience!

In POE 3.26, Rituals are still a very profitable endgame strategy, and players can still interact with Ritual Altars in the map and defeat monsters to get Tribute. So here, we will share how to run Rituals on T17 maps to get more benefits. Let’s take a look!

Skill Tree Setup

In this guide, we run Ritual in 30 T17 maps. In the passive skill tree, we need to unlock almost all Ritual nodes, including some Scarab nodes, as well as nodes that increase modifier effects on the map.

In addition to this, we also use two Ritual Scarab of Selectiveness. This Scarab allows us to reroll a total of five Rituals, of which the first four are free. Then, we get two Ritual Scarab of Abundance, so that we can get more items in the Ritual.

Finally, we used Blood-filled Vessel to get better rewards, more monsters, and more Tributes.

Ideally, we can also add special affixes to Blood-filled Vessel to get more Tributes, but this is not mandatory.

How To Run?

Defering Item

Please note that during Ritual, once any valuable item appears, we need to defer the item before claiming it.

This ensures the safety of the item and avoids losing it. Especially if the item has a red border, we must defer it, otherwise it will be almost difficult to see it again in the later stage.

Defering Item feature was introduced as part of the mechanism in the Ritual league. This feature allows you to immediately mark rare items that are currently unavailable for Tribute and make them reappear later. However, in order to defer the item, the player must pay 15% of the original price of the item.

So, we can defer a bunch of valuable items from Tier 17 maps, and then to claim them, we can use Scarab of Wisps and Immutable Dogma Keystones on Tier 16 maps, which will give us more Tributes.

Nameless Ritual

But the problem with using Immutable Dogma is that if you get a Nameless Ritual with Keystone active, you won’t be able to reroll Ritual and lose some nice gains.

Nameless Ritual is a special Ritual that has a chance to drop An Audience With The King on each reroll, which allows you to enter Crux of Nothingness and encounter The King in the Mists. Currently, it costs a little more than a POE Divine Orb.

On top of that, you can also get Ritual bases and corpses in these Nameless Rituals, which is usually where you make the big money.

Tribute Farming

For each map, it really depends on your situation. If you have unique monsters in both your Ritual and Blood-filled Vessel, you can get more Tributes.

I think 6000 Tributes should be enough to reroll and defer almost all quests, so just make sure you have at least 2500 Tributes left when you reroll for the last time. As long as you have all Ritual passives in Atlas passive tree, you can defer any quest with this much Tribute.

Investment & Profit

Now, we will talk about total investment and profit.

Regarding Ritual, I would say that your profit will vary greatly depending on the random number generator (RNG). Because Ritual mechanism is usually very unstable, but I think on Tier 17 map, as long as we invest moderately, we can guarantee a good profit, and have a chance to complete some important Ritual, or Nameless Ritual.

During this run, our total investment was 14 Divine Orbs. This number is for when I try to take everything into account, including Scarabs, Vessels, Maps, Chisels, T16 maps, and some Chaos Orbs for re-rolling T17 maps.

After all maps are done, we get a profit of 54.3 Divines. It is important to note that we only count items obtained from Ritual window, and do not consider items dropped from monsters, Uber Boss fragments, etc.

Of course, this does not mean that if you complete 30 T17 Ritual maps exactly as shown here, you will get the same results. As I said, the success or failure of Ritual depends on luck.

To be fair, I found two Nameless Rituals on 30 maps, which is very lucky, because each one gave us a profit of about 10 POE Divine Orbs. So, if you don’t want to include these, then subtract 20 Divines from the final profit.

Run Time

If you want to know how long this took, it really depends on how fast you finish T17 maps and how fast you map in Ritual maps. For reference, we averaged about 7 to 8 minutes to complete each T17 map, and about 1 to 2 minutes for each T16 map.

In T17 map, we chose Fortress Map and Sanctuary Map to layout. In T16 map, I chose to run City Square Map because we can get three Ritual drops from unique enemies in the boss battle here, and this layout is very suitable for Ritual.

Finally, I must emphasize that during Ritual run, if not necessary, please skip all items worth less than 10 Chaos Orbs, because it will actually just waste your time.

There are more profitable things waiting for you to explore on the map, some Omens, Fossils, Resonators, Gems, Maps, Unique Maps, Divination Cards are all valuable.

In addition, in POE 3.26 league, Archdemon Crown is also quite valuable. Currently, they are targeting 0.9 Divines, which is basically one Divine. Then there are Fractured bases, Synthesised bases, and generally rare items with good modifiers, which can bring you a good profit.

In short, after running 30 T17 Ritual maps, we can get at least close to 50 Divines, which may not be exactly what you expect, but it is indeed an easy and profitable way to make money.

Path Of Exile 3.26 adds recruitable mercenaries to the game. They can act as your followers, help you attract monsters’ hatred or act as DPS to clear monsters, provided that you can defeat them.

Although there are many mercenaries in the game, some of these mercenaries have auxiliary effect auras, and some have powerful output capabilities, but players can only recruit up to three of them, and can only choose one of them to fight with you, so choose the right mercenary for you. Players can change the equipment of these mercenaries and train them to upgrade them. After you reach the endgame, they can become your powerful helpers.

Manyshot

Stats: Dexterity

Skill Gems:

• Vaal Ice Shot
• Vaal Grace
• Frigid Fork Shot
• Mirror Arrow
• Grace
• Hatred

As a shooter, Manyshot mercenaries are not good at large-scale monster clearing, but they have two very useful auras, Grace and Hatred.

Hatred can retain 50% of the mana for each spell cast, and allows the player to convert part of the physical attack damage into cold damage. The latter additional effect may not be useful for all classes, and the former effect can allow you to release more skills.

Grace can increase the player’s dodge level, and since the monsters in Path of Exile are relatively powerful, this skill can improve the player’s survivability.

Bladecaster

Stats: Dexterity and Intelligence

Skill Gems:

• Clutches of the Damned
• Ethereal Knives
• Bladefall of Trarthus
• Blade Vortex
• Grace
• Aspect of the Spider

Bladecaster is a flexible mercenary with certain damage capabilities. He has two skills that can move slightly, and his Grace aura can increase the dodge level, so he can flexibly shuttle in the battlefield, dodge attacks and attack enemies.

If you have enough POE currency, you can give him some powerful equipment, and he will become your reliable damage dealer.

Cruel Mistress

Stats: Intelligence

Skill Gems:

• Despair
• Void Sphere
• Dark Pact
• Soulrend of Reaping
• Frostblink
• Zealotry

Cruel Mistress is both a powerful caster and a solid DPS buff. If your class is primarily based around Curse and Chaos, this mercenary is perfect for you.

Her Voltaxic Burst both deals with Lightning damage and slows enemies, while her Zealotry aura increases your spell power and spell critical chance, and her Despair aura reduces monster resistance to Chaos damage. In this type of game, reducing resistance is actually more effective than increasing your damage.

Fallen Reverend

Stats: Strength and Intelligence

Skill Gems:

• Absolution
• Raise Spectre Of Transience
• Desecrate
• Reinforce: Fallen Bishop
• Zealotry
• Wrath

Fallen Reverend has two useful auras, a minion summoning skill, and a taunting Warcry, making him a pretty good taunt tank.

This makes many unique items that players don’t want to use useful again. You can give your Fallen Reverend these unique items with certain negative effects. For example, Sign Of The Sin Eater, this unique item can prevent elemental ailments. Or, Brinerot Flag, when the mercenary releases a Warcry, it can increase your mana regeneration.

In fact, mercenaries make these unpopular unique items valuable again. Even if you don’t use these unique items, you can trade them for POE Divine Orbs.

Eruptor

Stats: Strength

Skill Gems:

• Infernal Cry
• Volcanic Fissure Of Snaking
• Consecrated Path
• Molten Shell
• Determination
• Flamelink

Eruptor is a pure power mercenary, and its violence is beyond words. He can cause flaming mountain damage and stun enemies. His two auras can increase your armor and fire resistance, and he comes with high armor.

If you are willing to train him, he can almost clear a map by himself, and you just need to pick up currency and weapons behind him. But if you want him to clear monsters on advanced maps, you’d better equip him with a high-output two-handed weapon.

Flaming Charlatan

Stats: Strength and Intelligence

Skill Gems:

• Purifying Flame
• Meteor
• Scorching Ray Totem
• Holy Mortar
• Anger
• Herald Of Ash

Flaming Charlatan is similar to Fallen Reverend, but he is more of a fire caster. His skills can deal fire damage to enemies in a large area, and he also has multiple auras to assist you.

Flaming Charlatan can be used as a DPS and clear monsters, but if your build is mainly flame damage, you can cooperate with him better.

Kineticist

Stats: Strength, Intelligence and Dexterity

Skill Gems:

• Elemental Weakness
• Flame Wall
• Kinetic Bolt
• Kinetic Blast
• Haste
• Frostblink

Kineticist and Sanguimancer can adapt to three attributes, but Kineticist has more skills and richer elements, and three attributes also mean that Kineticist can choose unique items more freely.

Besides dealing elemental damage, Kineticist’s Elemental Weakness skill can reduce the enemy’s elemental resistance. This is a very powerful skill because it is not limited to a single element, which allows any builds that use elemental damage to benefit from it. There are very few builds that do not have any elemental damage.

There are many mercenaries, so don’t just recruit them when you see a mercenary with the “Infamous” modifier. Before you choose a mercenary, check in advance whether his skills can support you, and the best mercenaries are those that can cooperate with you.

The content updated in Path of Exile 3.26 completely reshapes the previous build ranking. Players can now more easily get POE currency, which makes it easier for players to adjust their builds, but it is still very difficult to get top-level equipment.

So what builds can be played in POE 3.26, and where does the build you are playing rank, and what are its advantages and disadvantages? Since the build combination of Path of Exile is very free and complex, the following only ranks some more classic and popular builds.

Tier C

• Archmage Poison Spark Pathfinder Build: You can pass the level smoothly, but the gameplay is complicated and the equipment requirements are high.
• Ice Shot Mines Deadeye Build: Poor survivability, not flexible enough, and cannot deal with high-level monsters.
• Archmage Detonate Dead of Chain Pathfinder Build: Pathfinder has dragged down Archmage’s mana and recovery ability, and requires top-level equipment.
• Tri Stack Penance Brand Build: It is cumbersome in fast-paced battles.
• Icicle Mines Deadeye Build: It is good at farming maps, but it will be difficult to deal with bosses.
• Detonate Dead Scavenging Chieftain Build: Its survivability is not stable enough, and the farming speed is slow.

Tier C builds are not suitable for this version. Even if you use POE Divine Orb to exchange them for top-level equipment, they are not only still behind other builds, but also have various defects.

Tier B

• Righteous Fire Chieftain Build: It is quite versatile and good at defense, but it may be difficult to deal with bosses.
• Holy Relic Necromancer Build: It has low equipment requirements, fast farming speed, but lacks single burst, suitable for beginners.
• Shield Crush Champion Build: It has reliable defense, but the farming speed is not fast, suitable for hardcore players.
• Toxic Rain Pathfinder Build: It has high damage and clearing ability, but it is cumbersome when facing bosses.
• Penance Brand Inquisitor Build: High damage, but gear-dependent.

Tier B Build is enough for novice players to pass the game smoothly, and it is outstanding in some aspects, but the damage limit or farming speed is not at the top level.

Tier A

• Flicker Strike Slayer Build: High operation difficulty, but the farming map and clearance speed are very fast.
• Cyclone Shockwave Slayer Build: DPS is not the highest, but its powerful life stealing and close combat capabilities allow you to fight smoothly.
• Explosive Trap Trickster Build: Farming speed and leveling are very quick, and it also has certain survivability, but it is still far from S Tier.
• Power Siphon Archmage Totem Build: It will be powerful after the critical hit bonus, good at clearing the map and dealing with bosses, but a bit bulky.
• Exsanguinate Mines Trickster Build: It has a wonderful ability to create DoT damage, but you need to know how to play it.
• Lightning Arrow Deadeye Build: Good for farming and dealing with bosses, but a bit fragile.
• Retaliation Bleed Gladiator Build: Very good survivability, but slow.
• Explosive Arrow Ballista Golementalist Build: Very good for solo players, and it can deal with bosses and farm maps safely, but not fast enough.
• Boneshatter Berserker Build: High damage limit, can self-heal, but requires good timing and equipment.
• Storm Burst Totems Build: Needs some time to stack damage, and it is good for farming and dealing with bosses.
• Summon Raging Spirits Necromancer Build: Suitable for casual players, summons are durable and deadly, and can also deal with bosses.
• Blink Arrow Guardian Build: Can deal with bosses safely, but not mainstream and the damage is a bit behind S Tier.
• Lightning Strike Slayer Build: High damage, but equipment-dependent.

A Tier builds can already meet the needs of most players. As long as you don’t pursue high damage and clearance speed, there is not much difference between Tier A and S for you. If you can use POE currency to exchange for top-level equipment for equipment-dependent builds, they will not be inferior to S Tier builds at all.

Tier S

• Ground Slam Slayer Build: With incredible combo ability and life stealing ability, it may be the best melee build in the current version.
• Poison Concoction Slayer Build: Low equipment requirements, strong survivability, and fast farming speed.
• Smite Of Divine Judgement Slayer Build: The character can not only hit the tank heavily, but also does not rely on equipment and can continuously output.
• Explosive Concoction Slayer Build: Toxins provide high burst and clearing capabilities, and can survive in high-difficulty games.
• Poison Concoction Bouncing Pathfinder Build: One of the strongest builds in endgame, its damage can melt bosses.
• Archmage Vortex Hierophant Build: Tank with high damage output
• Volcanic Fissure Berserker Build: As a Berserker, it has high burst damage, but also can be a tank.

S Tier builds are the best builds in Path of Exile 3.26. They are not dependent on equipment, have high burst and excellent survivability. If you want to farm more efficiently in the endgame, then S Tier builds are your best choice.

There are more builds in Path of Exile 3.26, of course. If you have any builds that have the potential to reach S Tier, or if you think which builds should be adjusted up or down, you can also share your views.

POE 3.26 brings us new and crazy unique items. You know that there are so many unique items in this game, and only some of them can play a role in the endgame, so which new unique items in 3.26 are the most powerful and valuable unique items?

Path Of Exile 3.26 New Unique Items

• Azadi Crest Lacquered Buckler
• Betrayal’s Sting Steel Ring
• Binds of Bloody Vengeance Vanguard Belt
• Bound By Destiny Prismatic Jewel
• Cadigan’s Authority Platinum Sceptre
• Coiling Whisper Amethyst Ring
• Enmity’s Embrace Vermillion Ring
• Hand of Heresy Martyr Gloves
• Howlcrack Ezomyte Burgonet
• Legacy of the Rose Judgment Staff
• Mystic Refractor Pagan Wand
• Prospero’s Protection Iron Ring
• Scornflux Satin Slippers
• Servant of Decay Torturer Garb
• Seven Teachings Waxed Garb
• Spinehail Vile Arrow Quiver
• Squirming Terror Unset Ring
• Starcaller Abyssal Axe
• The Arkhon’s Tools Cloth Belt
• The Dark Monarch Lich’s Circlet
• Venarius’ Astrolabe Astrolabe Amulet
• Whispers of Infinity Seaglass Amulet
• Wine Of The Prophet Gold Flask

Since the unique items required by different classes are different, these unique items are not ranked, and each of them is worth dozens or even hundreds of POE Divine Orbs.

Coiling Whisper Amethyst Ring

• Increases your Chaos Resistance by 17–20 %
• Hex Skills have a range reduced by 25–50 %
• The target is not affected by your Hexes
• When your Hex duration reaches 90% of the enemy, each point of enemy strength increases, and 1 soul is consumed

Rings in Path of Exile are always very powerful. Coiling Whisper Amethyst Ring is the new 3.26 Boss, The Incarnation Of Fear, and its value is around 500 Chaos Orbs.

It can create amazing soul stacks in this version, and if you consume a soul every 4 seconds, you can maintain the 45 soul cap.

Also, in terms of modifiers, note that it only works on Hex curses, not Mark curses.

Betrayal’s Sting Steel Ring

• Adds additional base physical damage to attacks
• Increases Dexterity by 20–35
• Reduces all your elemental resistances
• Increases your Chaos Resistance by 20–30
• Increases your movement speed by 5%
• When applying poison to the same target, there is a certain chance to apply poison additionally

This unique ring has both advantages and disadvantages, and if you are using a poison build, it can bring an enormous increase to your DPS. But you have to use other equipment or potions to make up for the elemental resistance reduction caused by it.

Enmity’s Embrace Vermillion Ring

• Increases your maximum health by (5–7)%
• Increases strength by 30–50
• Increases your fire damage by 10–20%
• Reduces your fire resistance by 65–75%
• You take fire damage when using skills
• Your damage penetrates fire resistance equal to your excess fire resistance, up to 200%

This unique item is also a risk and opportunity, but for builds that use fire, its unique effect is definitely what they dream of. The player’s damage can penetrate the enemy’s fire resistance, and when used with skills that stack fire resistance, it can greatly increase the player’s fire damage.

Prospero’s Protection Iron Ring

• Adds physical damage to attacks
• Chance to block attack damage
• Increases Strength by 15–35
• Increases maximum health
• Double armor when equipped with a shield
• No armor value when equipped with a body armor

The usage ring is pretty simple, which it basically lets you use a shield instead of a chest plate, giving you more freedom in choosing your chest plate.

Venarius’ Astrolabe Astrolabe Amulet

• Implicit modifiers cannot be changed,
• Has the influence of Elder, Shaper, and All Conquerors
• If you have 6 influence types in other gear items, the stars align
• If the stars are aligned, you have Elemental Conflux
• If the stars are aligned, + (1–3) the level of all elemental skill gems
• If the stars are aligned, + (1–3) the level of all elemental support gems

The real draw of Venarius’ Astrolabe Astrolabe Amulet is that it can increase the level of your support gems. Although you need to have 6 Influence types, you actually need to wear 3 dual influence items to trigger the buff.

Unlike the above items, this is a more versatile unique item. If you need it, you can buy POE currency and then go to the market to exchange with other players.

Legacy Of The Rose Judgement Staff

• When using the staff, there is a chance to block attack damage
• Grants level 20 Summon Shaper Memory
• Grants level 20 Shaper’s Despair, which requires Shaper Memory to use
• Grants level 20 random Shaper skill, which will be used by Shaper Memory
• Greatly increases physical damage (by 200%-300%)
• Increases your casting speed
• All spell skill gem levels increased

When no Shaper Memory Summoned, consume 200 Energy Shield to gain 1 Memory: Up to 1 Memory can be stacked on a single skill use, even if 400+ Energy Shield is consumed. Energy Shield consumed does not count towards consumption.

This is a somewhat complex Staff, but you can do terrible damage with it. This unique weapon comes from the boss, not randomly dropped.

Most of the unique items added in this 3.26 are very valuable. Although some seem to have negative effects, they are not worth mentioning compared to their positive effects. If you get one of them, you can first see if it is suitable for you. If you don’t need it, you can sell it to other players for a large amount of currency.

POE 3.26 brought back a lot of players, and the new leagues made everyone start over. Choosing a good starting build can save you a lot of time. But POE 1 and POE 2 are very similar, the item drop rate is too low compared to other similar games, so players need a build that does not rely on unique items and POE 1 currency, and is good to farm speed and boss damage.

Such requirements seem too high, but POE 1’s class system is designed to be very complex and therefore can meet the various needs of players. Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist is a very useful build from the beginning of the season to the endgame.

Pros And Cons

Pros

• High damage with a small amount of gear
• Safe playstyle
• Solo Self-Found friendly

Cons

• Defenses may be breached
• Damage has some delay

Skills

The following skills represent all the skill gems and support gems included in this build once it is fully built:

• Explosive Arrow: Ballista Totem Support, Ignite Proliferation Support, Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks Support, Awakened Burning Damage Support, Awakened Deadly Ailments Support
• Summon Chaos Golem: Summon Stone Golem, Summon Flame Golem, Summon Lightning Golem.
• Arcanist Brand: Flammability, Flame Surge, Flame Wall
• Cast when Damage Taken Support: Molten Shell
• Precision: Determination
• Grace: Enlighten Support, Flame Dash, Arcane Surge Support
• Frenzy: No
• Blood Rage: No

In the early stages of the game, you play as a witch in the same way as a normal witch. But after you get Fixture of Fate, you need to go to Library and find Gem Vendor to get the following gems for backup:

• Explosive Arrow
• Ballista Totem Support
• Faster Attacks Support
• Grace
• Haste
• Blood Rage
• Frenzy

You will need to embed these gems into your weapons later.

When you reach Act 4, you need to go to Oyun and get your Golems. You can get them from Vendor in the town. Each Golem requires 1 Chance Orb. Here are Golems you need:

• Summon Flame Golem
• Summon Lightning Golem
• Summon Stone Golem
• Summon Chaos Golem

Although these Golems can’t take much damage, you will enjoy the benefits of these Golems after you get Liege of the Primordial. They can provide resistance and health regeneration.

But remember to reactivate them every time you change equipment or socket out.

Equipment

The advantage of Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist build is that it is not very dependent on equipment, because the game’s drop mechanism does not always drop the equipment you need. If the equipment is better, then change it.

However, since the survivability of this build is relatively weak, you need to pay attention to stacking more resistances when adjusting equipment, and your goal is to stack all resistances to 75%.

You can equip Sapphire Ring and Ruby Ring after level 20 to increase your resistance to the maximum.

Besides resistance, you can pay attention to the following affixes when choosing equipment:

• Increase attack speed
• Increase casting speed
• Increase dodge
• Increase accuracy (make sure to reach 100%)
• Increase maximum speed

In addition, you need to avoid some misyakes:

• 1. First, this build needs to use a bow, but you need to avoid using slow bows, and they will seriously reduce your DPS.
• 2. Secondly, avoid making the number of projectiles an even number, because this may cause your arrows to split and miss the boss.
• 3. Finally, you must pay attention to Accuracy. Although Explosive Arrow is your skill, it is the same as your normal attack. If Accuracy is not high enough, your arrows will not hit the enemy. Especially in the later stages of the game, stronger enemies will make it more difficult for you to hit, so it is best to let Accuracy reach 98 to 100.

After you have cleared all the campaigns, you can start to really build your weapons and armor. At this time, all your unused POE Divine Orb, Chaos Orb, etc. will come in handy. You don’t have to buy POE 1 currency anymore. Find a normal or rare equipment as a base and try to reroll the affixes you need most.

Since the survivability of Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist is relatively weak, you also need Flasks to provide you with additional resistance in battle. You can use currency to change the affixes of each Flask. Below are the Flasks and affixes you need.

• Eternal Life Flask: Immune to Bleeding or Corruption Bleeding while Flask is in effect
• Quartz Flask: Increases evasion while Flask is in effect
• Quicksilver Flask: Increases armor while Flask is in effect
• Granite Flask: Increases movement speed while Flask is in effect
• Jade Flask: Reduces curse effects while Flask is in effect

This build may have some damage deficiencies after you enter the endgame, you can convert it to other builds to increase damage. You can also continue to improve various aspects of this build, which can also bring good damage.

The above are the equipment and skills required for Explosive Arrow Ballista Elementalist builds. This is a build used for leveling and early transitions, so there is a lot of flexibility in the choice of skills and equipment, and you can adjust it according to the currency and equipment you have.

After nearly ten months of waiting, Path of Exile will finally launch a new league on June 13 this year! According to the regular schedule, 3.26 league should have been launched around October last year, but the development of POE 2 obviously delayed this process.

In fact, until the first trailer of 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas, there were still opinions in the game community that the launch of the new league might be postponed indefinitely, but fortunately this situation is finally coming to an end.

However, it is precisely because 3.26 came too late that you may have almost forgotten how to utilize those unique mechanics in the first game. Based on this, we will utilize heist as an example to introduce you to how to earn POE currency as soon as possible in the 3.26 patch.

What Is Heist?

First of all, you need to review how heist works - after all, there seems to be no similar gameplay in POE 2. The heist in POE is in Rogue Harbor. To enter here, you need to collect Rogue’s Marker by completing daily tasks, and then click it in your backpack to travel to Rogue Harbor.

Each heist requires you to sign a contract and cooperate with up to one rogue, who must have reached a certain level of his job. Find Adiyah, the Wayfinder in Rogue Harbor and deliver the heist contract and other required materials to her to reach to the official heist location. The rogues that can be recruited and their jobs are:

• Karst, the Lockpick: Lock-picking, Perception, Agility
• Tibbs, the Giant: Brute force, Demolition
• Isla, the Engineer: Engineering, Trap disarmament
• Tullina, the Catburglar: Agility, Lock picking, Trap disarmament
• Niles, the Interrogator: Counter-thaumaturgy, Deception
• Nenet, the Scout: Perception, Counter-thaumaturgy
• Vinderi, the Dismantler: Demolition, Trap disarmament, Engineering
• Gianna, the Master of Disguise: Deception, Counter-thaumaturgy, Perception
• Huck, the Soldier: Lock-picking, Brute force, Demolition, Engineering

After a successful heist, in addition to the regular monetary rewards, you may get most types of game items as dropped loot. If you defeat a specific boss in the process, you may also get rare gear or jewels.

3.26 Best Heist Plan For The League

Although the heist offers a wide variety of rewards, it is still mainly based on currency. Therefore, if you want to utilize this mechanism to accumulate currency as soon as possible after the launch of Secrets of the Atlas, it is important to first choose the right rogue.

Based on the different jobs, each rogue has different perks and functions. To accumulate enough currency in the early stages of the league, it is recommended that you choose Vinderi, Gianna, and Tullina. The bonuses they bring are as follows:

• Vinderi: Increases the chance of Heist chests copying their contents by 6-14%, and increases alert level by 14-30%
• Gianna: Reduces Blueprint revealing consumption by 10-30%, discovers a blueprint reveal upon completion of a heist contract mission
• Tullina: Increases your chance of finding additional heist targets in secret reward rooms by 10-26%, and reduces alert level by 6-14%

These three rogues can maximize the blueprints and reveal you get, and then you can view as many unlockable rooms as possible by uploading blueprints to ensure that the rooms that can bring you more rewards are unlocked first.

Or after 3.26 is launched, you can farm specific rooms according to your character’s situation. Generally speaking, it is best to prioritize currency and divination cards in the early stages of the league, and go straight to the ultimate reward room in the later stages.

Specific Operation Process

After understanding the basic information, the first step is to determine the rogue you want to recruit, as well as the plan and blueprint. Then enter Rogue Harbor to start grabbing heists and enter the rooms you find to search for rewards according to the contracts you need to execute.

When you find and decide to take the currency treasure chest and divination card treasure chest, don’t rush, pay attention to the escape route in the room (indicated by a small ladder), you need to open it before reaching the last room to leave in time.

If you are running grand heists, you will come to Curio Display after reaching the end, which has many additional high-value rewards, including POE Divine Orbs, one of the available currencies.

It is worth noting that if your character dies in battle during the heist, you will lose all the contraband you picked up, so be sure to treat every battle carefully. When you and your rogue complete all the tasks, you can return to Rogue Harbor through the escape route to settle the loot.

In addition, when 3.26 league is launched, if you enter the middle and late stages and think that your character can stably complete each heist, you can find Whakano, the Barber, one of the support NPCs, before starting the heist and exchange more demolition contracts with him.

This type of contract has a high probability of giving you an extra random chest when the loot is settled, and opening the chest will get at least one Chaos Orb. So you can definitely accumulate extra currency in the early stages of 3.26 league in this way.

To be honest, this classic mechanism combines resource farming, fun and strategy very well, which is probably why it has been preserved since it was launched. Maybe POE 2 should also try to develop a similar mechanism.

The above is our plan for effective heist in the upcoming POE 3.26. I hope it will be helpful to you!