This comprehensive guide to Path of Exile 2, a standalone sequel to the original Path of Exile, covers everything from beginner tips to advanced endgame strategies. Released into Early Access on December 6th, 2024, PoE 2 offers a revamped ARPG experience with evolved mechanics. This guide hub, constantly updated, details Game Rant's PoE 2 coverage.

Getting Started & PoE 2 Beginner Tips: Learn essential game information, optimize your PC settings, master basic combat, and pick up crucial beginner tips to ensure a smooth start. This section covers topics ranging from understanding the max level and playtime to claiming Twitch drops and choosing the best stash tabs.

• Game Information: Addresses frequently asked questions, details supporter packs and rewards, explains league switching, and more.
• Controls & Settings: Guides you through optimal PC settings, dodging, weapon changes, skill binding, movement input, chat management, and crossplay.
• Beginner Tips: Provides ten essential beginner tips, advice on using scrolls of wisdom, managing loot, selecting beginner-friendly classes, acquiring gold quickly, playing with friends, and prioritizing gold spending.

PoE 2 Game Mechanics & Systems: Master the complexities of PoE 2's intricate systems. This section explains character stats, core gameplay mechanics, and the new skill and socket systems.

• Character Stats & Skill Points: Provides detailed explanations of character attributes, passive skill point acquisition and respeccing, passive skill filters, weapon set points, spirit resource management, movement speed, mana, energy shields, accuracy, and resistances.
• Gameplay Mechanics: Covers fast travel, free item identification, trading, ailments, instances, stunning enemies, skill aiming, armor break, crowd control, guild creation and joining, arcane surge, power charges, death penalties, and herald effects.
• Skills, Gems, Jewels, & Runes: Explains support gem equipping, acquisition, rune usage, jewel sockets, uncut spirit gems, and raging spirits.

Classes, Ascendancies, & Builds: Choose your class wisely! This section offers class guides, ascendancy information, and build guides to help you create a powerful character.

• PoE 2 Class Guides: Ranks the best classes, identifies the best solo class, explains mercenary ammo swapping, minion summoning, aftershock, and rage mechanics.
• Ascendancies: Details all class ascendancies and nodes, and explains how to unlock ascension classes.
• PoE 2 Build Guides: Provides leveling build guides for Monk, Tempest Flurry Invoker, Mercenary, Sorceress, Rolling Slam Warrior, and Witch.

PoE 2 Currencies & Gear: Learn to upgrade and improve your gear using PoE 2's currency system.

• Upgrades & Improvements: Explains how to upgrade item rarity, upgrade and refill potions, add sockets to gear, upgrade armor and weapon quality, and reroll gear modifiers.
• PoE 2 Currencies: Details all currency items and effects, and explains how to unlock and use the salvage bench, currency exchange, and reforging bench, as well as how to acquire specific orbs.
• Gear & Equipment: Covers early-game gear farming, unique item acquisition, the charm system, charm equipping and upgrading, stellar amulets, and acquiring specific utility items.

Quest & Boss Walkthroughs: Complete the campaign with ease! This section provides walkthroughs for all main quests and acts, along with permanent campaign bonuses.

• Act One: Includes walkthroughs for specific quests and boss fights.
• Act Two: Offers guides for quests and boss encounters.
• Act Three: Provides walkthroughs for specific quests and boss fights.

PoE 2 Endgame Guides: Conquer the endgame! This section covers endgame tips, mechanics, features, and leagues.

• Endgame Tips & Mechanics: Explains how to unlock Cruel difficulty and the endgame, provides advanced endgame tips, details Waystone acquisition and upgrading, Waystone sustainability, Atlas skill tree setup, hideout unlocking, and citadel location.
• Endgame Features & Leagues: Covers the Atlas of Worlds, Realmgates, Breaches, Delirium, Rituals, Expeditions, Burning Monoliths, and Trials.

Advanced PoE 2 Tips & Other Guides: Maximize your PoE 2 experience! This section covers advanced techniques and additional guides.

• Advanced PoE 2 Guides: Explains how to gain XP quickly, use and acquire loot filters, utilize FilterBlade, and manage merchant interactions. Also covers sidekick features, character slots, and more.